The first reviews and benchmarks have arrived for the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition—the first graphics card based on AMD's Vega architecture—and the results are mixed to say the least. In professional application benchmarks like SPECviewperf and Cinebench R15 OpenGL, the £1000/$1000 Vega FE (buy here) comes out ahead of Nvidia's flagship Titan Xp. In games, it's often barely faster than a GTX 1070.
The gaming results have caused some consternation amongst AMD fans, with many expecting far better performance from what is currently the company's best graphics card. As it stands, Vega FE is between 25 to 45 percent faster than the R9 Fury X (according to PC Perspective), and 13 percent slower than a GTX 1080. Both the GTX 1080 Ti and Titan Xp are substantially faster and draw less power at stock speeds.
Gamers Nexus also found issues with Vega FE's overclocking performance, noting that it was unable to overclock the GPU without the memory clock speed being cut in half. The Vega FE only went on sale Friday (buy here), so its drivers will likely remain flaky until AMD irons out any issues.
Samsung already offer a virtual reality headset in the form of the Samsung Gear VR. But that headset is basically a high-tech holder for a Samsung smartphone, which supplies the display and processing power. The company’s been working on a standalone headset that doesn’t require you to dock and undock your phone every time you […]
Samsung already offer a virtual reality headset in the form of the Samsung Gear VR. But that headset is basically a high-tech holder for a Samsung smartphone, which supplies the display and processing power. The company’s been working on a standalone headset that doesn’t require you to dock and undock your phone every time you […]
Netflix Deutschland probiert derzeit aus, wie die Kunden auf eine Preiserhöhung reagieren. Der Test soll heute beendet werden. In Australien wurde genau so eine Preiserhöhung im Mai vorbereitet und jetzt umgesetzt. (Netflix, Streaming)
Netflix Deutschland probiert derzeit aus, wie die Kunden auf eine Preiserhöhung reagieren. Der Test soll heute beendet werden. In Australien wurde genau so eine Preiserhöhung im Mai vorbereitet und jetzt umgesetzt. (Netflix, Streaming)
Like many a holiday weekend stateside, July 4 is for racing. And although Daytona snagged the headlines, it's far from the only motorsports showdown taking place given the many weekend warriors on the grassroots circuits. Our Jonathan Gitlin is one such driver, and we're resurfacing his tale of getting behind the wheel this holiday. His piece originally ran on October 3, 2014.
BRAINERD, Minnesota—With 15 minutes to go, I put on my helmet and retreated inside it, focusing on what to do next. My heart rate had been steadily climbing all morning in anticipation of racing in anger for the first time in 2014. One of my team mates, Scott, has been out on the soaking wet track for the last two hours, but he’ll soon be visiting the pit lane for a fuel stop and to hand the car over to the next driver; the next driver being me. Way back in 2011, I wrote a piece asking (and answering) the question of whether it was possible to learn how to race cars just by playing video games. It was my first real foray on a track after nearly 20 years of wanting to get into motorsport, and I’ve not looked back since. No games this time. Rather, as someone who simply races for a hobby, I’d been curious about quantifying the physical workload involved.
Even though I’ve accumulated a respectable amount of racing hours in the intervening years, I still spend the hours between waking up on race day and getting in the car questioning why I'm actually doing all this. "So what if one time I drove here and came back to the pits on three wheels? Didn't we fix that and come in fourth the following day?" I've felt much better about my pre-race stage fright after hearing Felix Baumgartner discuss his own problem during the Red Bull Stratos jump, and I gave myself a similar pep talk. “The car will be good. You’ve done this before, you know what you need to do. Build up to speed. Concentrate. Focus on your driving, ignore the lap times.” As Scott brings the car into the pit lane, I wait atop the pit wall, seat insert in hand (I’m short and need a booster seat). Only four people are allowed over the wall if the car's gas cap is open; the fueler, someone wielding a fire extinguisher, the driver, and one other person who can help, strapping in—or pulling out—the driver.
Production is set to reach 20,000/month by December 2017.
Enlarge (credit: Yuriko Nakao/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
God bless Elon Musk's twitter feed. Free of embargo (and occasionally filter), it's a snapshot into the mind of this driven billionaire and the companies he runs. And thanks to some late Sunday night (or early Monday morning) Twitter action, we now know that Tesla Model 3 electric vehicle is just about to go into production. The fact that the car is, if anything, slightly ahead of schedule should serve as a rebuttal to those who have criticized Musk for an inability to meet deadlines.
Model 3 passed all regulatory requirements for production two weeks ahead of schedule. Expecting to complete SN1 on Friday
Musk says that production volume will grow exponentially, raising the frightening thought of having to abandon what's left of Planet Earth once all its raw materials have been used to turn into electric cars:
Handover party for first 30 customer Model 3's on the 28th! Production grows exponentially, so Aug should be 100 cars and Sept above 1500.
A man who ran a commercial business buying Android boxes from China and installing them with Kodi and pirate addons has escaped jail. Despite making £370K from the business, the 28-year-old received only a suspended sentence. There was no fine either but he must pay towards prosecution costs.
In the UK there are two broad views on copyright infringement, one covering a type that’s usually small and personal and another of varying scales done in the course of a business.
For the purpose of punishments, the latter is much more serious and copyright holders often warn that commercial scale pirates risk significant custodial sentences. Indeed, over the years that has often been the case.
However, a case being reported in Wales this morning is of interest in a number of ways, not least since it involves the current piracy hot topic – set-top devices loaded with Kodi and infriging third-party addons – and large sums of money.
Between June 2014 and March 2016 a man called Daniel Brown was involved in selling piracy-configured set-top devices to the public. He brought the base Android units in from China and filled them with this own ‘pirate’ Kodi build. However, according to Wales Online, this attracted the attention of BSkyB who complained to local police.
Meanwhile, Brown continued selling his devices via his legitimate company, Maiz Limited, which is still active today. Searches of Companies House reveals that Brown is still a director of the company, whose nature of business is listed as “Ready-made interactive leisure and entertainment software development.”
For many in the Kodi scene, the name MAiZ name may ring a bell. For some time, the so-called MAiZ BOX was a device often discussed on forums and Facebook as doing a good job of receiving free TV. However, that was also accompanied by criticizm of its steep £125 price tag.
MAiZ Box sales information
While success in shifting large numbers of units isn’t referenced in the small company accounts filed by Maiz Limited, it was clearly doing well. Swansea Crown Court heard that between 2014 and 2016 the company generated £371,000, which is a lot even when divided by unit sales of £125 each.
At his trial, Judge Peter Heywood said Brown was “industrious but misguided in some ways” and was “clearly skilled in the use of computer technology”. But despite the large sums of money involved, no custodial sentence was handed down.
Brown was given an 18 months sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to complete 180 hours of unpaid work. This means that Brown will spend no time in jail provided he meets the terms of his sentencing.
The entrepreneur won’t get away completely though. Brown agreeed to pay almost £20,000 towards his prosecution, at a repayment rate of £800 per month. But somewhat unusually in such cases, no Proceeds of Crime Act orders were made, which suggests that there will be no attempt to recover money made through the business.
Brown’s lenient sentence further undermines the ridiculous claims still circulating in the UK press that Kodi users face up to 10 years in jail for using the devices to stream content in their own homes.
Brown did not immediately respond to TorrentFreak’s requests for comment.
Certificate Transparency and OCSP Must-Staple can’t get here fast enough.
Enlarge/ Damn computer hackers, always trying to steal all my stuff. (credit: Getty Images / C.J. Burton)
This article was originally published on Scott Helme's blog and is reprinted here with his permission.
We have a little problem on the web right now and I can only see it becoming a larger concern as time goes by: more and more sites are obtaining certificates, vitally important documents needed to deploy HTTPS, but we have no way of protecting ourselves when things go wrong.
Certificates
We're currently seeing a bit of a gold rush for certificates on the Web as more and more sites deploy HTTPS. Beyond the obvious security and privacy benefits of HTTPS, there are quite a few reasons you might want to consider moving to a secure connection that I outline in my article Still think you don't need HTTPS?. Commonly referred to as "SSL certificates" or "HTTPS certificates", the wider Internet is obtaining them at a rate we've never seen before in the history of the web. Every day I crawl the top one million sites on the Web and analyze various aspects of their security and every 6 months I publish a report. You can see the reports here, but the main result to focus on right now is the adoption of HTTPS.
Not only are we continuing to deploy HTTPS, the rate at which we're doing so is increasing, too. This is what real progress looks like. The process of obtaining a certificate has become more and more simple over time and now, thanks to the amazing Let's Encrypt, it's also free to get them. Put simply, we send a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to the Certificate Authority (CA) and the CA will challenge us to prove our ownership of the domain. This is usually done by setting a DNS TXT record or hosting a challenge code somewhere on a random path on our domain. Once this challenge has been satisfied the CA it issues the certificate and we can then present it to visitors' browsers and get the green padlock and "HTTPS" in the address bar.
Amazon’s Fire TV devices may run a modified version of Google Android, but they don’t have Google’s Android TV user interface, access to the Google Play Store, or ability to stream videos from Google Play Movies. But it turns out you can add all of those features… plus support for USB TV tuners, the Android […]
Amazon’s Fire TV devices may run a modified version of Google Android, but they don’t have Google’s Android TV user interface, access to the Google Play Store, or ability to stream videos from Google Play Movies. But it turns out you can add all of those features… plus support for USB TV tuners, the Android […]
This is a post-UK broadcast review of Doctor Who: The Doctor Falls. River Song always warned the Doctor against spoilers, so be sure to watch the episode first. Doctor Who, season 10, airs on Saturdays at 6:30pm UK time on BBC One, and 9pm EDT on BBC America.
Bookends are a common theme in the final episode of season 10 of Doctor Who—the reading material in between places Missy and the Master in the same time stream, and the 12th Doctor and, tantalisingly, the first Doctor also collide in the final moments of The Doctor Falls.
And the seed was there from the very beginning of Steven Moffat's swansong season at the helm of Doctor Who. "Never underestimate a crush," the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) tells Bill (Pearl Mackie) in The Pilot, after he manages to see off the ever-advancing, drippy goth monster Heather (Stephanie Hyam). In The Doctor Falls, Heather returns to bring Bill back to life and mend her broken heart. All the while, Bill is oblivious to the fact the Time Lord is still alive, albeit fatally wounded.
Die Linux-Unterstützung für die Thunderbolt-Security ist zwar noch nicht fertig, ein Red-Hat-Angestellter hält aber schon jetzt wenig von der Technik. Denn ein sinnvolles UI-Design, das Nutzer wirklich schützt, ist damit kaum umsetzbar. (Linux, Intel)
Die Linux-Unterstützung für die Thunderbolt-Security ist zwar noch nicht fertig, ein Red-Hat-Angestellter hält aber schon jetzt wenig von der Technik. Denn ein sinnvolles UI-Design, das Nutzer wirklich schützt, ist damit kaum umsetzbar. (Linux, Intel)
Netflix Deutschland probiert derzeit aus, wie die Kunden auf eine Preiserhöhung reagieren. Der Test soll heute beendet werden. In Australien wurde genau so eine Preiserhöhung im Mai vorbereitet und jetzt umgesetzt. (
Die Linux-Unterstützung für die Thunderbolt-Security ist zwar noch nicht fertig, ein Red-Hat-Angestellter hält aber schon jetzt wenig von der Technik. Denn ein sinnvolles UI-Design, das Nutzer wirklich schützt, ist damit kaum umsetzbar. (
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