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AMD earnings call indicates a rough 2016 ahead
Posted on Wednesday, 27 January 2016
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AMD as a corporate entity is facing some rough times. As of their last earnings call we saw that they are still losing money and really do not have a product ready to combat this. The Rage Fury line of…
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AMD talks up VR and the R9 Fury X dual-GPU card at VRLA
Posted on Monday, 25 January 2016
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AMD says it’s a VR thing now. Well ok, not really, but AMD is leveraging the increased memory bandwidth in their high-end R9 Fury cards to push both 4k and VR. They showed off the R9 Fury X dual-GPU reference…
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The Brewie auotmated brewing machine is a standout connected device for 2016
Posted on Saturday, 23 January 2016
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Sean Kalinich
2016 is going to be a year where the connected device really explodes. We thought that IoT (Internet of Things) was bad in 2015, well that is just peanuts compared to what we are going to see in 2016. Everything…
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California Lawmakers push to ban the sale of encrypted smartphones
Posted on Friday, 22 January 2016
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You would think that in 2016 the people in power would either understand technology, or would have been replaced by someone that does. Sadly, this is not the case in… well just about every place there is an elected official.…
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AMD is delaying the launch of Zen until the end of 2016
Posted on Friday, 22 January 2016
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AMD is delaying the launch of their new Zen based CPUs until the end of 2016. The news comes on the heels of a rather subdued, if optimistic, earnings report in which Lisa Su, AMD CEO, focused on AMD’s commitment…
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CES 2016 sees connected Sex Toys on display in Sin City
Posted on Tuesday, 05 January 2016
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Sean Kalinich
CES 2016 has not really started yet, but there are already multiple member of the press on the ground and the vendors are arriving in droves. Along with these arrivals are the oppress releases and news updates. Our in boxes…
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Hive-CM8 Screener Dump goes offline...
Posted on Tuesday, 29 December 2015
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Remember the Hive-CM8 group we told you about the other day? Well it seems that they have pulled their dump servers down. The reason is not clear, but it could be related to information that has gotten out to the…
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Firefall Developer Red5 Misses Holiday Payroll
Posted on Tuesday, 29 December 2015
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Sean Kalinich
You know things are bad when you cannot afford to pay employees, but to miss payroll over the holidays seems just that much worse. However, that is what has happened to Red5 the developers behind Firefall. As is usually the…
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191 Million US Voter Records out on the open web
Posted on Tuesday, 29 December 2015
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Sean Kalinich
You have to love how easy it is to find information out in the wilds of the internet. In the last couple of weeks a number of cloud-databases have been found to be leaking data to the interment due to…
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Is seven seconds worth having your data stolen, some retailers think it is
Posted on Monday, 28 December 2015
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There is a report that over the holidays several retailers disabled the EMV (Chip and Pin) functionality of their card readers. The reason for this? They did not want to deal with the extra time it takes for a transaction.…
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Screener Season Kicks off with a Bang thanks to the Hive-CM8
Posted on Monday, 28 December 2015
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As 2015 comes to a close the advanced copies of movies are in transit to different groups and agencies. Many of these are for awards or accolades of some sort and almost without exception, copies of these (called screeners) end…
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Things just got interesting in the NVIDIA V Samsung Patent Battle
Posted on Monday, 28 December 2015
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Remember that little patent squabble that NVIDIA and Samsung got into last year? Well some things have happened and they are not all that good for NVIDIA. If you have already forgotten about this incident (we do not blame you)…
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Dotcom loses the first round of the extradition battle
Posted on Wednesday, 23 December 2015
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After a long and complicated battle Kim Dotcom and the other Megaupload employees (Mathias Ortmann, Finn Batato, and Bram van der Kolk) might have lost an important battle. A district judge, Judge Nevin Dawson, has ruled that the US can…
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Hello Kitty User Database found open on the Internet
Posted on Tuesday, 22 December 2015
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Sean Kalinich
The push into the cloud has been a concerning one as has to the glut of devices, games, services and other that rely on the cloud to exist. One of our main areas of concern is with the storage of…
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Juniper Admits to backdoors in their ScreenOS code as far back as 2012
Posted on Monday, 21 December 2015
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Juniper has acknowledged that “unauthorized code” was somehow inserted into their ScreenOS. The code appears to have been around since at least 2012 which means that it went unnoticed during multiple code updates, patches and even full version updates. Although…
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In IoT security is less of a concern than locking out your competitors…
Posted on Wednesday, 16 December 2015
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It seems that Phillips does not want you to use their hue application with just anyone. If you are not aware, hue is a system that allows you to control special light bulbs. You can turn them on and off,…
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