Monthly Archives: August 2016

Senate Committee Expected To OK Autonomous Car Bills in Michigan

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Michael Wayland, and Melissa Burden, reporting for The Detroit News: Michigan legislators could vote as early as next week on sweeping autonomous vehicle bills that would allow self-driving cars on any Michigan road without a human driver behind the wheel. The Senate’s Economic Development and International Investment Committee is holding a public hearing on the bills at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Nexteer Automotive, 3900 E. Holland, in Buena Vista Township in Saginaw County. The seven-member committee is expected to send the bills to the Senate floor for a vote as early as Tuesday. If approved, the bills would need approval of the House before heading to Gov. Rick Snyder’s desk. “We’re very, very sure that this is going to move out of committee tomorrow,” Sen. Mike Kowall, R-White Lake Township, who introduced the legislation, told The Detroit News on Tuesday. “We’ve aired out just about everything over the sun.”

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Source: Slashdot – Senate Committee Expected To OK Autonomous Car Bills in Michigan

Stop Preordering Videogames

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While many of you have already ditched the practice of preordering games, there are tons people us that still do. If you are still preordering games, why? What games are you more likely to preorder? Which game are you unwilling to preorder? Is price a factor?

If you’ve ever preordered a videogame and felt disappointed by your purchase later, let me suggest a great thing to try: Stop preordering videogames. Again, if $60 is the sort of cash you might find between your couch cushions, then go nuts. But if there’s even the slightest chance you’ll feel burned, you have an option: just wait.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Stop Preordering Videogames

New RX 400 Series Cards Outed By AMD?

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It looks like AMD has inadvertently outed a handful of unreleased RX 400 series video cards. If you hit this link and then click the ‘Eligible AMD Computer Systems + Manufacturers’ button you will see a host of new cards listed. Probably the most interesting to you guys will be the R9 490 card but there are GPUs ranging from a R5 420 all the way up to a R7 455 as well. I posted the list below in case AMD takes down this page. Thanks to cageymaru for the heads up.



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Source: [H]ardOCP – New RX 400 Series Cards Outed By AMD?

World Of Warcraft: Legion's Order Halls Are A Good Reason To Play All The Classes

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The Druids. Nobody knows who they were, or what they were doing. In World of Warcraft: Legion what they’re doing is spending a lot of time in their lush and vibrant Order Hall, the latest expansion’s answer to one of Warlords of Draenor’s more contentious features.

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Source: Kotaku – World Of Warcraft: Legion’s Order Halls Are A Good Reason To Play All The Classes

New attack steals private crypto keys by corrupting data in computer memory

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The world has seen the most unsettling attack yet resulting from the so-called Rowhammer exploit, which flips individual bits in computer memory. It’s a technique that’s so surgical and controlled that it allows one machine to effectively steal the cryptographic keys of another machine hosted in the same cloud environment.

Until now, Rowhammer has been a somewhat clumsy and unpredictable attack tool because it was hard to control exactly where data-corrupting bit flips happened. While previous research demonstrated that it could be used to elevate user privileges and break security sandboxes, most people studying Rowhammer said there was little immediate danger of it being exploited maliciously to hijack the security of computers that use vulnerable chips. The odds of crucial data being stored in a susceptible memory location made such hacks largely a matter of chance that was stacked against the attacker. In effect, Rowhammer was more a glitch than an exploit.

Now, computer scientists have developed a significantly more refined Rowhammer technique they call Flip Feng Shui. It manipulates deduplication operations that many cloud hosts use to save memory resources by sharing identical chunks of data used by two or more virtual machines. Just as traditional Feng Shui aims to create alignment or harmony in a home or office, Flip Feng Shui can massage physical memory in a way that causes crypto keys and other sensitive data to be stored in locations known to be susceptible to Rowhammer.

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Source: Ars Technica – New attack steals private crypto keys by corrupting data in computer memory

Democrats want FBI to investigate any Trump link to cyberattacks

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You may have been laughing when Donald Trump responded to word of possible Russian involvement in DNC hacks by joking that the country should hack Hillary Clinton’s email server, but some House Democrats are taking it very seriously. Representatives…

Source: Engadget – Democrats want FBI to investigate any Trump link to cyberattacks

My God: Little Girl Boxes Tree With Lightning Speed

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This is a video of young Evnika beating the shit out of a tree to the point that the bark starts to split and break off. She kind of reminds me of a cross between Eleven from Stranger Things and Yolandi Visser from Die Antwoord. Those are some serious fists of fury. I could see that tree trying to run away but it just wasn’t fast enough. I heard that Ent might even have to go to the hospital for limb surgery. Limb surgery, LOL, just tell her to come finish me off.

Hit the jump for the video, which was released by the makers of this fighting training system. Let’s all do it and start a fight club!

Source: Geekologie – My God: Little Girl Boxes Tree With Lightning Speed

FDA Finds Flaws In Theranos' Zika Tests

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: This past week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration mandated testing for the Zika virus at all U.S. blood centers. That juices demand for Zika-testing technology, but one company that isn’t welcome to provide it yet is Theranos. The beleaguered blood analysis startup has run afoul of the FDA, yet again, The Wall Street Journal reports (Warning: may be paywalled). Specifically, regulators found that in developing and testing a new Zika-diagnostic technology, Theranos failed to use proper patient safety protocols, the type approved by an institutional review board. Such protocols are critical in ensuring the ethical treatment of patients involved in studies, and their safety. Theranos had sought the same FDA authorization, but voluntarily withdrew its request once regulators called the startup out, this time, on the safety protocols issue.

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Source: Slashdot – FDA Finds Flaws In Theranos’ Zika Tests

Did Tesla Quietly Remove A Safety Feature From The Model X's Falcon Doors?

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Much of the attention around the Tesla Model X
has focused on its unique vertically-opening Falcon doors. They are dramatic and exciting
, but they’re also a pain to build
. Now, in an attempt to make the doors work better, it appears Tesla may have quietly made them less safe.

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Source: Gizmodo – Did Tesla Quietly Remove A Safety Feature From The Model X’s Falcon Doors?

AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.8.3

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AMD has released brand new Crimson Edition 16.8.3 drivers for all you Radeon owners out there. According to AMD, these drivers offer support for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Battlefield 1 Beta and a 10% performance improvement in Rise of the Tomb Raider versus the 16.7.2 drivers on RX 480 cards. Here’s a list of known issues as well as resolved issues:
Fixed Issues
A random blank or colored screen may be experienced intermittently on some Radeon RX 400 series products while gaming.

Known Issues
A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved “In Game Overlay”.
Radeon Software may intermittently fail to install or hang on some AMD CrossFire configurations. If this happens users can reboot and re-install without issue as a workaround.
Grand Theft Auto V™ may experience an application hang on Radeon RX 400 Series Graphics when playing at 4K resolution in story mode.
A small number of 144hz non-FreeSync enabled displays may exhibit flickering during gaming or on desktop.
Ark Survival Evolved™ may experience an error message when trying to launch the game in some configurations.
DOTA2™ may experience an application hang when using the Vulkan™ API and changing resolution or game/quality settings.
Corruption may be experienced in Rise of the Tomb Raider using the DirectX®12 API on some Hybrid Graphics configurations when performing a task switch.
Shader Cache may remain be enabled when set to “off” in Radeon Settings on some Hybrid Graphics configurations.
Radeon RX 480 graphics may experience intermittent stuttering in The Division™ when high game settings are used and vsync is enabled.
Battlefield™ 4 may experience intermittent crashes when using Mantle. As a work around users are suggested to switch to DirectX®11.
Radeon Pro Duo may experience a black screen in Total War™: Warhammer with the games API set to DirectX®12 and V-Sync enabled.
World of Tanks™ may experience stuttering after performing a task switch in AMD CrossFire mode.
Rocket League™ may experience flickering when in AMD CrossFire mode.
Ashes of the Singularity™ may experience an application crash with “crazy” in game settings and Multi-GPU enabled.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.8.3

I'm Marc Guggenheim, Writer and Executive Producer of Arrow, and This Is How I Work

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Marc Guggenheim is an accomplished showrunner and television producer, but he is, more than anything, a writer. His work spans many media—from television to film to novels and comic books. He’s even written for video games.

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Source: LifeHacker – I’m Marc Guggenheim, Writer and Executive Producer of Arrow, and This Is How I Work