This is one of the best times of the year to build or buy a new PC, whether it’s a desktop configuration or a banging laptop. That’s because Black Friday is in full swing. It’s a particularly strategic time to buy a premium system, as Black Friday discounts can take the sting out of their premium price tags. As such, you can hop over to Dell
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Monthly Archives: November 2019
Hacker Stole Unreleased Music and Then Tried To Frame Someone Else
US authorities charged a Texas man this week for hacking into the cloud accounts of two music companies and the social media account of a high-profile music producer, from where he stole unreleased songs that he later published online for free on public internet forums. From a report: When the man realized he could be caught, he contacted one of the hacked companies and tried to pin the blame on another individual. According to court documents published on Monday by the Department of Justice, the suspect is a 27-year-old named Christian Erazo, from Austin, Texas. US authorities say that Erazo worked with three other co-conspirators on a series of hacks that took place between late 2016 and April 2017. The group’s primary targets were two music management companies, one located in New York, and the second in Los Angeles. According to investigators, the four hackers obtained and used employee credentials to access the companies’ cloud storage accounts, from where they downloaded more than 100 unreleased songs. Most of the data came from the New York-based music label, from where the Erazo and co-conspirators stole more than 50 GBs of music. Erazo’s indictment claims the group accessed the company’s cloud storage account more than 2,300 times across several months.
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Source: Slashdot – Hacker Stole Unreleased Music and Then Tried To Frame Someone Else
Engadget readers can save on a DJI drone and Segway scooters
Over the last week, we’ve done our best to try and find the most compelling Black Friday deals to try and save you time and money during your holiday shopping. With this post, we’re doing something different. We’ve partnered with Wellbots to offer En…
Source: Engadget – Engadget readers can save on a DJI drone and Segway scooters
Stadia vs. xCloud: How these game-streaming services stack up
Cloud gaming has finally arrived in a playable, frustration-free form (mostly, anyway), courtesy of two tech giants with the network infrastructures to actually make streaming happen: Google and Microsoft. However, both companies are diving int…
Source: Engadget – Stadia vs. xCloud: How these game-streaming services stack up
17 great green gifts you can make in batches
From preserved lemons and scrap scarves to flavored salts and bath melts, these handmade gifts can be made en masse for everyone on your list.
Source: TreeHugger – 17 great green gifts you can make in batches
VirtIO-GPU Working Towards Vulkan Support, Other Features For Graphics In VMs
As we’ve known for a long time, VirtIO-GPU / Virgl Vulkan support to allow accelerated Vulkan within virtual machines is in the works but still has a long road ahead. A number of other VirtIO-GPU features are also in the works or at least planning stages…
Source: Phoronix – VirtIO-GPU Working Towards Vulkan Support, Other Features For Graphics In VMs
XWayland Multi-Buffering Lands To Avoid Stuttering / Tearing
When X.Org Server 1.21 finally lands those relying upon XWayland for running various Linux games should find less (or ideally, none at all) stuttering or tearing…
Source: Phoronix – XWayland Multi-Buffering Lands To Avoid Stuttering / Tearing
Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2
Update: It’s the day after Thanksgiving in the US, meaning most Ars staffers are on the lookout for deals rather than potential stories. With folks off for the holiday, we’re resurfacing this consumer tech classic from the archives—a look at why we’re not all trying to buy an IBM PS/10 today and updating to OS/12, perhaps. This story first ran in November 2013, and it appears unchanged below
It was a cloudy Seattle day in late 1980, and Bill Gates, the young chairman of a tiny company called Microsoft, had an appointment with IBM that would shape the destiny of the industry for decades to come.
He went into a room full of IBM lawyers, all dressed in immaculately tailored suits. Bill’s suit was rumpled and ill-fitting, but it didn’t matter. He wasn’t here to win a fashion competition.
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Source: Ars Technica – Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2
There Is Just A Few Days Left To Go Premium For Black Friday / Cyber Monday
Just a friendly reminder that our Black Friday / US Thanksgiving / Cyber Monday promotion ends on Tuesday. Show your support for Linux hardware benchmarking and daily open-source news coverage…
Source: Phoronix – There Is Just A Few Days Left To Go Premium For Black Friday / Cyber Monday
The Linux Kernel Disabling HPET For More Platforms – Including Ice Lake
Reported on earlier this month is the decision by Linux kernel developers to disable HPET for Intel Coffee Lake systems. The High Precision Event Timer was being disabled since on some Coffee Lake systems at least this timer skews when entering the PC10 power state and that makes the time-stamp counter unstable…
Source: Phoronix – The Linux Kernel Disabling HPET For More Platforms – Including Ice Lake
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core CPU Black Friday Deal Rips $230 Off MSRP
Anyone looking to build up a new PC and wanting to do so with a higher-end AMD processor will want to check this deal out. For Black Friday, Amazon has a big discount on the second-generation Ryzen Threadripper 2950X processor. The normal retail price on the Threadripper 2950X is $899. Amazon, however, is offering the processor with a $229.01
Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core CPU Black Friday Deal Rips 0 Off MSRP
Dealmaster: All the best Black Friday 2019 tech deals we can find
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Greetings, Arsians! The Dealmaster is back with another round of discounts to share—and, well, it’s the big one. While the holiday sales have been steadily trickling out over the past few weeks, it’s now Black Friday, which means the floodgates are officially open for tech deals across the Web.
Now, as is often the case with major shopping events like this, the majority of the offers retailers are pushing don’t totally hold up. Sometimes the prices aren’t much lower than you’ll see at other points in the year, other times the products aren’t worth buying in the first place. (If there’s a product you’re interested in but don’t see below, we recommend using a price-tracking site to ensure you’re not overpaying.) But with lots of consumer tech, Black Friday and Cyber Monday often do result in the lowest prices of the year. With that in mind, the Dealmaster has been burning the midnight oil to find the Black Friday tech deals that are most worth considering. You can find the fruits of his labor below.
There are simply too many notable deals going on now to give a quick recap here, but we’ve called out a few of our favorite offers based on testing the Dealmaster and the rest of the Ars team has done in the past. There’s a truckload of discounts on video games, PC gear, headphones, TVs, streaming devices, and more alongside that. We’ll do our best to update this roundup as deals expire and new ones become available, but for now, let’s try to make your holiday shopping a little less hectic.
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Source: Ars Technica – Dealmaster: All the best Black Friday 2019 tech deals we can find
Google Is Sending Out $10 Store Credits To Lucky Customers
Google is looking for ways to entice shoppers to come to its online store and purchase plenty of loot on Black Friday. In keeping with this efforts, a message has reportedly gone out to some from the official Google Pixelbook address, and buried inside that email some users are finding promotional store credits. The email reads in part, “Your
Source: Hot Hardware – Google Is Sending Out Store Credits To Lucky Customers
Everything in our holiday gift guide that you can buy for $50 or less
Depending on your budget and how many people are on your gift list this year, you might only have a modest amount to spend on each person. Even if you instill a cap of fifty bucks, though, you still have plenty of options. In Engadget’s 2019 holiday…
Source: Engadget – Everything in our holiday gift guide that you can buy for or less
The Morning After: Black Friday has begun
We hope you had a great Thanksgiving and are making informed decisions on any Black Friday sales. This morning (and throughout the week), you could save substantially on a new smartphone, wireless headphones, streaming devices and Alexa-powered Amazo…
Source: Engadget – The Morning After: Black Friday has begun
Beloved Anime Character Finally Gets His Own Store In Tokyo
Doraemon, a blue robotic cat from the future, now has his own store in Tokyo’s Odaiba—the first of its kind for the character, apparently. The shop, called Doraemon Future Department Store, features an array of Doraemon related goods.
Source: Kotaku – Beloved Anime Character Finally Gets His Own Store In Tokyo
Rocket Report: Cornwall locals protest spaceport, China’s toxic rocket problem
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Welcome to Edition 2.24 of the Rocket Report! We have a shorter report this week due to the American holiday of Thanksgiving. But don’t worry, there is still plenty of interesting news from the world of lift—from strong anti-spaceport protests in England to continued problem with toxic rocket stages falling on people in China.
As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don’t want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.
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Source: Ars Technica – Rocket Report: Cornwall locals protest spaceport, China’s toxic rocket problem
Common Causes of Blurry Vision
Does everything suddenly look blurry? Before you panic, rest assured that blurred vision is more common than you may think- in fact, it is the most common eyesight problem, and it often isn’t anything to worry about. If you are experiencing blurry vision, there is likely a good explanation for it, as well as a […]
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Source: TG Daily – Common Causes of Blurry Vision
Freshen Up Your Board Game Collection With Catan, Pandemic, 7 Wonders, and More During This One-Day Amazon Sale
The Great<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.ORG Heist
Sam Klein: Ethos Capital, a new commercial investment firm founded in the past few months in Boston, has 2 staff and only one major investment: a deal to acquire the 501c3 non-profit that currently runs the .org domain (valued at a few $B), for an undisclosed sum. This was initiated immediately after ICANN decided in May, over almost universal opposition, to remove the price cap on .org registrations with no meaningful price protections for existing or future registrants. This seems to violate a range of ethical, ICANN, ISOC, and non-profit guidelines. It is certainly the privatisation of a not-for-profit monopoly into a for-profit one, which will benefit ISOC and a few individuals by inconveniencing millions of others. I have questions:
1. Do affected parties have recourse?
2. Other than polite letters, is anything being done? (Maybe: Official complaints have been filed, but don’t expect results.)
3. Georgia Tech’s Internet Governance Project has pointed ideas for ICANN. (You can .. join ISOC as a member to take part in future decisions.)
4. Has anyone currently at ICANN + ISOC made substantive comment? (Yes: Richard Barnes, ISOC trustee and netizen, explains why he voted to sell .org.) Vint Cerf said: ‘Hard to imagine $60/year would be a deal breaker for even small non-profits.’)
5. How did we reach the point of Net pioneers embracing 95% profit margins? Tim Berners-Lee adds, “I’m very concerned about the sale of .org to a private company. If the Public Interest Registry ends up not being required to act in the public interest, it would be a travesty. We need an urgent explanation.”
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Source: Slashdot – The Great<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.ORG Heist