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  1. Looks like Foxconn/Apple found another place to exploit workers to save a few bucks. Heaven forbid they might actually produce them in the USA instead.
    3 points
  2. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    Quick fix for you. Leave your Vienna sausage covered when starting a video conference app.
    3 points
  3. Eugh, too many mechanics, it seems. Ruined Doom Eternal.
    2 points
  4. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    Depends, the light can be part of the physical circuit, and if it's on so is the light. It could also be software controlled, independent of the physical circuit. Both versions exist.
    2 points
  5. Wonder if anyone will boycott apple 🍎 and their modern-day slavery?
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  6. The move to India is piggybacking on cheap labor available.
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  7. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    Well, there's your daily dose of jibberish!
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  8. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    "you're covering it wrong"
    2 points
  9. Dopamine

    Hello everyone! Dopamine 2.0.3 has just been released! This is the change log: – [Added] The “Songs” screen now remembers your sorting preferences! – [Fixed] Fixed a crash that occurs when using WinDock – [Fixed] The order of artists is not respected on now playing screens (Remove and re-add collection folders to apply this fix) – [Changed] Updated the Bulgarian translation – [Changed] Updated the Chinese translation – [Changed] Updated the Indonesian translation – [Changed] Updated the Portuguese (Brazil) translation – [Changed] Updated the Russian translation – [Changed] Updated the Serbian (Cyrillic) – [Changed] Updated the Serbian (Latin) – [Changed] Updated the Spanish translation – [Changed] Updated the Swedish translation – [Changed] Updated the Ukranian translation Download here
    2 points
  10. You had to be logged in at the time the show started, it shouldn't be hard to find out who was and who wasn't. I had logged in when it was still the pre-show and just let it run in the background.
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  12. Impossible to login to Uplay
    1 point
  13. Well done review OP. All the best.
    1 point
  14. AnyDesk 6.0.5

    I use Portable AnyDesk.
    1 point
  15. WYSIWYG Web Builder 15.4.4

    Updated, thanks!
    1 point
  16. LG Velvet unboxing and first impressions

    Can't these companies make phones that don't need a case? They all look like they are going to break if you breathe on them wrong. I miss the old phones when there was less scamming to make more money.
    1 point
  17. I get that AMD's mobile processors are damn good and where Intel needs to be headed. However, the myths of the Intel being 'bad' at thermals and power consumption is just that, more of a myth that based in reality. Intel's mobile processors are still very efficient and deliver a lot of processing power compared to any technology other than AMD in existence. Seriously, compare a 9th or 10th generation Intel mobile CPU in battery life, heat, and performance - these are good numbers compared to the past and also compared to their desktop processors. They are also GOOD compared to AMD's 3000 (Zen 2) desktop processors. A performance Intel i7/i9 can hold +4ghz all core speeds indefinitely, and with 'average' cooling keep thermals in the mid 80s. This makes the Intel mobile processors faster than the 7th and 8th generation desktop Intel CPUs - which is really good - even if the comparison is just Intel to Intel and Generation to Generation. AMD's mobile are really good, but that doesn't make what Intel is doing bad. Intel has done 'ok' with their mobile CPUs, even if their desktop CPUs haven't progressed as much. It's not a myth. AMD processors are far more power-efficient (at least the ones on 7nm are). https://www.techspot.com/review/2003-amd-ryzen-4000/ "On an AMD vs Intel front, it’s also highly favorable for AMD. Not quite the same margins as we saw in Cinebench, but we still see a 23% performance advantage of the 4900HS over the 9880H, and a 45% advantage over the 9750H. Frankly, these are massive deltas for a laptop form factor that often receives single digit gen-on-gen improvements. For Intel to match the 4900HS with its 8-core offering, it needs to blow its power target out the window and instead use a 90W TDP, which is possible on some gaming laptops with a ‘Turbo’ mode or similar. The difference in power draw at the wall for these two systems is incredible: the G14 with the 4900HS ran comfortably at around 66W long term, compared to 150W for the power boosted 9880H in our HP Omen 15 test system. That just goes to show how much more efficient AMD’s Zen 2 design is at these long term workloads."
    1 point
  18. Dell XPS 15 (9500) unboxing and first impressions: This thing is sweet

    Apple's been doing the exhaust thing forever, seems to work fine for them. Um, Apple isn't a good source to cite on how to properly do thermals or cooling.
    1 point
  19. Definite Doom/Rage 2 vibes... I’m okay with that!!
    1 point
  20. Get good? nah Doom Eternal is loads of fun when you master the mechanics. Except for the intra-combat platforming, that always sucks
    1 point
  21. Or comprehension, as the purpose of his lawyers comments was not to gain your or my sympathy.
    1 point
  22. I'm sorry, but reading it doesn't increase my sympathy level. 🙄🤪
    1 point
  23. F9: Starlink v1.0 Launch 9 + BlackSky 5&6

    I'd rather they be careful than come down with launch fever.
    1 point
  24. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    This is stupid. Everyone knows that laptops are meant to hold files. You're supposed to be able to take a stack of papers, bind them with a big metal clip, lay them on the keyboard, and then fold the lid and shove it in your bag. That's how all the pros do it. Apple is simply covering for the fact that they forgot about laptop-as-a-folder use-cases and made the tolerances too tight.
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  25. Unlikely, this is Apple after all lol. If anything, moving to India makes economic sense considering wages in India are much lower than in China, even China is moving much of its labour out of China to India and Africa because wages are rising as China rises.
    1 point
  26. If only Nintendo wasn't such an arse and allow that lol.
    1 point
  27. This is what Apple does. They work on the thing long and hard and only release it when it's ready. These are the technologies that change the world. The iPhone, the glass multitouch keyboard, the touchscreen, the Apple Watch, AirPods, and the soon to be released and amazing ARM/Apple Silicon Macs that and thing and light, have amazing battery life and run all the Apple Apps that you already know and love from your iPhone and iPad.
    1 point
  28. Android without Google services? I'd be more likely to buy it.
    1 point
  29. It's secured by the T2 security chip which has a FULL 100% jailbreak published on the internet to gain unrestricted access to it, so no, it provides absolutely nil security. "It's secured by the T2 security chip which has a FULL 100% jailbreak published on the internet to gain unrestricted access to it" Nope. This is 100% safe.
    1 point
  30. Foxconn will invest $1 billion in India to boost manufacturing for Apple

    Let's hope this investment works out better than Foxconn's investment in Wisconsin.
    1 point
  31. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    Excuse me? I'm gonna need to see evidence of that tall claim. https://www.wsj.com/articles/w...ho-spied-on-me-11549559728" rel="external nofollow">https://www.wsj.com/articles/w...who-spied-on-me-11549559728 https://www.digitalspy.com/tec...ptop-or-smartphone-camera/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.digitalspy.com/tec...aptop-or-smartphone-camera/ https://uk.norton.com/internet...alware-webcam-hacking.html" rel="external nofollow">https://uk.norton.com/internet...malware-webcam-hacking.html I said evidence, not link to random stuff you didn't even read. There is a big difference between tangible stats about a certain criminal act, with one tabloid thinking it is possible.
    1 point
  32. Sounds good to me. If I send an extra few hundred, would you consider including some wheels? for a few hundred I can offer you one wheel and maybe free shipping, maybe.
    1 point
  33. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    Contrary to what seems logical, it comes down to the software security. PERIOD. Even if the Camera turns on a light when the camera gets power, there are ways around this. Some hardware can be manipulated to invoke the camera while keeping the light and internal status of the camera to an off state. There are also other tricks: Strobing the light at a specific rate, which kills the bulb. Pulsing the device so that the light doesn't turn on, pulsing the device or adjusting the power, so that the camera responds while keeping the light dim enough that it cannot be seen in daylight or at all, etc. (There are literally dozens of ways beyond what I mention here, each getting more technical and almost unbelievable.) If software fails, there are always ways to access hardware and do things that would surprise people. As I have mentioned before, especially with a simple/generic interface (like is normally used in the *nix model) to hardware devices can be used to manipulate hardware in amazing ways. One specific example... Read voltage from printer heads created by vibrations in the room to record sound, which can even be used in combination with any sound making mechanism to also create a visual 3D map of the room from the sound reflection recorded. (What made this hard or impossible 10-30 years ago, was the lack of computing power to handle and interpret the information from the I/O stream. We now have tiny bits of ML code that can do this on tiny/old processors.) This is also assuming hardware always works as designed. Everyone thinks computer hardware is precise and specific, but most would be surprised to see code that has to pump values in registers on some CPUs to get the value to stick, and these are some of the most important and specific components of computing, and this is one tiny example of tricks software has to do, to function on 'properly working' aspects of hardware. If malicious software has access to hardware, especially a generic I/O interface, it is no longer secure. (This one reason a lot of hardware device drivers and interfaces in Windows were moved inside WinRT/UWP, as it has 4 or 5 layers of security and isolation over traditional drivers.) Show me one single case of this on a Mac anywhere, that is not subject to the iSight flaw found in 2013 that does not exist on modern machines. I will wait here.
    1 point
  34. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    I doubt tape is what they are referring to since it ships with a covering over the keyboard with the clamshell closed. They are instead just lumping all coverings together since tape may not damage but may cause the other issues, while plastic housings won’t have the clearance.
    1 point
  35. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    That meme is so, so tired. Seriously. 2010. 10 years ago.
    1 point
  36. Contrary to what seems logical, it comes down to the software security. PERIOD. Even if the Camera turns on a light when the camera gets power, there are ways around this. Some hardware can be manipulated to invoke the camera while keeping the light and internal status of the camera to an off state. There are also other tricks: Strobing the light at a specific rate, which kills the bulb. Pulsing the device so that the light doesn't turn on, pulsing the device or adjusting the power, so that the camera responds while keeping the light dim enough that it cannot be seen in daylight or at all, etc. (There are literally dozens of ways beyond what I mention here, each getting more technical and almost unbelievable.) If software fails, there are always ways to access hardware and do things that would surprise people. As I have mentioned before, especially with a simple/generic interface (like is normally used in the *nix model) to hardware devices can be used to manipulate hardware in amazing ways. One specific example... Read voltage from printer heads created by vibrations in the room to record sound, which can even be used in combination with any sound making mechanism to also create a visual 3D map of the room from the sound reflection recorded. (What made this hard or impossible 10-30 years ago, was the lack of computing power to handle and interpret the information from the I/O stream. We now have tiny bits of ML code that can do this on tiny/old processors.) This is also assuming hardware always works as designed. Everyone thinks computer hardware is precise and specific, but most would be surprised to see code that has to pump values in registers on some CPUs to get the value to stick, and these are some of the most important and specific components of computing, and this is one tiny example of tricks software has to do, to function on 'properly working' aspects of hardware. If malicious software has access to hardware, especially a generic I/O interface, it is no longer secure. (This one reason a lot of hardware device drivers and interfaces in Windows were moved inside WinRT/UWP, as it has 4 or 5 layers of security and isolation over traditional drivers.) That sounds like a conspiracy theory... ALL theory and no evidence. Any actualy chip/hardware/circuits of that to happen?
    1 point
  37. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    And this article doesn't suggest they do. True, but reality does suggest so, as there are endless examples. Mentioning it once again in this article for the willfully ignorant would be excessively redundant. :)
    1 point
  38. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    The diode on a macbook pro is part of the power line for the webcam, it dies - then webcam fails to function. Then what happens depends on whether you get it repaired or not.
    1 point
  39. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    And this article doesn't suggest they do.
    1 point
  40. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    But is it though? Which chip controls the camera and/or the camera light? How secure is its code? It’s to do with how the hardware is powered. The light is not controlled by any chip/firmware. It’s that if the camera device is powered, so is the light. Not saying all are like that but other vendors have done the same thing. I recall Microsoft saying that was the reason they didn’t include a cover on theirs.
    1 point
  41. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    Two things here. Firstly Why are people surprised about damage when there is very little clearance when it is closed. Also, isn’t the physical camera hardware designed in such a way that it’s physically impossible for the camera to be active without the status light on? So you’d know if the camera was activated or not anyway.
    1 point
  42. Providing a phone to employees is soooo 2005! In 2020 even touching a phone that doesn’t belong to you is ridiculous.
    1 point
  43. Has anyone actually read the article? This isn’t about some wealthy actor complaining; it’s a court defence surrounding his outgoings.
    1 point
  44. EU wants the U.S. to come back to the table on digital taxes

    I liked it better when you only had to pay sales tax on online purchases if the vendor had a physical presence in your State.
    1 point
  45. Surface 5 still not available for download.
    1 point
  46. I think we could say the same about most people, I know I'd be lucky if I made 7.5 million this year.
    1 point
  47. PlayStation Store leaks Far Cry 6, release slated for February 2021 [UPDATE]

    Yeah FC4 wasn't bad, but overall it was weaker than FC3. I think because they stuck in a much larger map, but didn't really work on expanding the story mechanics. I would recommend getting FC5 - some very nice visuals, good bad guys and tightened up gameplay. It's often available on sale, so grab the Gold edition with all of the DLC if you can. If I was to rank the games - and ignoring the first one, since it doesn't really fit in with the overall gameplay of subsequent titles, it would be (worst to best) FC4 - FC2 - FC5 - FC3 And of course the mighty Blood Dragon stands on its own, because it's so balls out crazy & great.
    1 point
  48. Worldwide PC shipments grew in Q2, 2020 despite coronavirus

    finally people starts to understand that phone and tablet are not enough
    1 point
  49. Worst car company initial quality, reckless customer-base thinking they can take naps already in these things, and an arrogant CEO trying to inflate stock price. The only thing good to come out of Musk was SpaceX, outside of that.. Tesla's business practices are complete garbage and they enable drivers to put their lives and others at risk by being beta testers in their cars. No thanks.
    1 point
  50. Internet, Network, and Security How-To's and FAQs

    This topic is for the placement of links to how-to articles, tips, FAQs, or helpful information related to internet, network, and security. Please post links to the actual articles. Internet Basics Test Your connection speed! Alternate connection speed test Networking Basics What is a good network configuration? Security Basics http://www.us-cert.gov/ http://osvdb.org/ http://www.sans.org/ http://nvd.nist.gov/ http://cve.mitre.org/ Security Tools http://nmap.org/ http://www.tenable.com/products/nessus http://ettercap.github.io/ettercap/ http://www.wireshark.org/ Security Tools for basic users: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/security/cc184924.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39273 FAQ's
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