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AMD New EPYC Lineup Smashes Intel
by grarpamp 10 Aug '19

10 Aug '19

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14694/amd-rome-epyc-2nd-gen https://www.anandtech.com/show/14568/an-interview-with-amds-forrest-norrod-… DYOR... https://www.anandtech.com/show/13124/the-amd-threadripper-2990wx-and-2950x-… And few reviews ever mention that all AMD processors support ECC ram, unlike Intel's Xeon only segmentation and highbrow pricing.

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Forbes: Google Warning: Tens Of Millions Of Android Phones Come Preloaded With Dangerous Malware
by jim bell 10 Aug '19

10 Aug '19

Forbes: Google Warning: Tens Of Millions Of Android Phones Come Preloaded With Dangerous Malware. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/08/10/google-warning-tens-of-m…

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Apple Bounty: $1M+ for iOS MacOS Exploits [You vs Exploits, Spies, Govts, Zerodium, Cellebrite, Grayshift]
by grarpamp 10 Aug '19

10 Aug '19

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/08/08/apple-confirms-1-mil… The full $1 million will go to researchers who can find a hack of the kernel the core of iOS with zero clicks required by the iPhone owner. Another $500,000 will be given to those who can find a network attack requiring no user interaction. There's also a 50% bonus for hackers who can find weaknesses in software before it's released. https://www.zerodium.com/ https://www.cellebrite.com/ https://www.grayshift.com/ Ivan Krstic https://www.blackhat.com/us-19/briefings/schedule/#behind-the-scenes-of-ios… https://developer.apple.com/security/ https://www.apple.com/macos/security/ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/Security

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FBI can't access Dayton gunman's phone because it's locked
by jim bell 10 Aug '19

10 Aug '19

FBI can't access Dayton gunman's phone because it's locked https://mol.im/a/7341479 via http://dailym.ai/android

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Huawei HarmonyOS - Phones, TV, IoT, Screens
by grarpamp 10 Aug '19

10 Aug '19

On 8/9/19, Razer <g2s(a)riseup.net> wrote: > More: https://www.rt.com/business/466133-huawei-launches-own-os/ "Among its features, HarmonyOS can adapt to any device to create a seamless cross-device experience to build the basis for a shared developer ecosystem, according to Huawei. The tech giant also stresses that the new platform will officially be open source, which could be a part of the firms efforts to fend off US spying allegations." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_OS https://www.xda-developers.com/harmony-os-huawei-announce/ https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/09/huawei-harmony-os-hongmeng-android/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/09/harmonyos-huawei-release/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n99C4QIRobc Opensource, no blobs, cross and better platform for developers, microkernel, some formal verification, security... if true, could much better than iOS and Android. Also consider the jurisdictional walls and different motivations regarding spyware, advertising, etc with Facebook Apple Amazon Google and the rest including FVEY+ ... vs China, Russia, India, Asia, etc. Users may see those as valuable offsets and worth buying into. One Huawei effort is here... https://github.com/LiteOS The HDC 2019 Executive Keynote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTmuW5l9jf4 https://twitter.com/HuaweiMobile https://developer.huawei.com/en/ China Badger doesn't give a fuck.

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Re: Most of the World’s Problems are Caused by a Lack of Racism - [PEACE]
by Michael Motes 10 Aug '19

10 Aug '19

Without a race, there will be no individuals of that race, optimal biological partners are third and fourth cousins, see "An Association Between the Kinship and Fertility of Human Couples", they have the most healthy babies. Outbreeding is breeding without one's "race" which could be defined to be really 6th cousins and beyond, and it's a thing that can be as genetically dangerous as inbreeding which is breeding with siblings and 1st cousins. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/319/5864/813 I think the idea it is possible to blend all races successfully without simply causing mass unfitness and mass defects in anything less than ten thousand years is mere imperial delusions of grandeur spurred on by madmen's pride. nuntius interficere non, fortes fortuna iuvat

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Researchers Have Found A Way To Bypass Face ID Using A Pair Of Glasses And Tape
by jim bell 10 Aug '19

10 Aug '19

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0MYQyLJ2?s=a3&pd=02bR0aZz Researchers Have Found A Way To Bypass Face ID Using A Pair Of Glasses And Tape Ubergizmo However, despite how strong Face ID appears to be, it is not invulnerable. In a report from Threatpost, it seems that researchers from Tencent have managed to come up with what seems to be a possible way to bypass Face ID, and this can be done by using a pair of glasses and a tape. Shared from News Break

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Critical Infrastructure As Weapon: Kashmir Telecom Blackout
by grarpamp 10 Aug '19

10 Aug '19

https://www.totaltele.com/503591/Kashmirs-telecoms-blackout-When-critical-i… Kashmir Telecom Blackout When critical infrastructure becomes a weapon. Large parts of the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir were subjected to a total telecommunications blackout this week, as the Indian government passed new legislation to reduce the region’s political autonomy Kashmir’s mobile and fixed line telecoms networks fell silent this week, as the Indian government implemented a telecommunications blackout following escalating tensions in the troubled province. On Sunday evening, the Indian government cut telecommunication lines in the region, leaving Kashmiris without mobile phone or fixed line communication services. The move came as the Indian government announced that it would be revoking Article 370 – a special decree that gives Kashmir a greater degree of political autonomy than any other Indian state. In doing so, it has sparked huge unrest in the province and ramped up the already fractious dialogue between India and neighbouring Pakistan. Kashmir has been a flashpoint for separatist violence since India was granted full independence from British rule in 1947, with religious and ethnic tensions flaring between those who favour Indian, Pakistani and even independent rule. The current escalation in tensions shows how critical telecommunications infrastructure is to people's everyday lives. If you want to render a militant group or insurgency movement inert, the first thing you do is to shut down the region's mobile phone networks. It works - but in the process you are also grinding the day to day lives of your citizens to a halt and causing potentially life-threatening isolation. The situation in Kashmir raises so many questions: To what extent should the government be able to revoke access to connectivity? Have we reached a point where people are entitled to demand connectivity as a fundamental human right? When do the interests of national security trump the rights of millions of people? For everyday Kashmiris, the telecommunications blackout is having a profound effect on their ability to do business and provide basic services. Worse still, it is already affecting key services such as healthcare. “We are managing for now,” a senior hospital official in the region’s main city of Srinagar told journalists from Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-kashmir/second-day-of-telecoms-bla… adding that conditions were worsening. Shop keepers in the region also warned of imminent food shortages, unless the telecommunications blackout was lifted soon. “No provisions are left in my shop, and no fresh supplies are coming,” grocery store owner, Jehangir Ahmad, told Reuters. As the Indian government struggles to suppress the growing resentment on the streets of Kashmir, the State’s telecoms blackout could end up being a catalyst for dissent, as people rail against the disruption to their lives. Indian Telcos haemorrhaging money at a time when they can least afford it In addition to the bevvy of practical and philosophical questions the telecommunications blackout raises, there is also the very real question of who will be expected to bare the financial cost. Indian mobile network operators are already surviving on starvation rations, with the average ARPU for the industry hovering somewhere between $1.50. All this at a time when they are expected to be investing multiple billions of dollars in capex for their 5G networks, due to launch next year. A report in the Business Standard https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/telcos-to-lose-rs… said that the enforced blackout could end up costing Indian telcos as much as $40-$50 million per day in lost revenues (4-5 crore rupees). The report shows that Bharti Airtel stood to lose the most, with 5.64 million subscribers in Jammu and Kashmir. Next up was Reliance Jio with 3.31 million, whilst the newly merged Vodafone Idea had 1.34 million and state owned BNSL another 1.21 million. None of those operators will relish the prospect of having to reimburse customers for failing to provide services – especially given that the current situation is way beyond their control. As the crisis in Kashmir continues, civilians and MNOs alike will be hoping that critical telecoms services can be restored as soon as possible.

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Soon you will all have Huawei phones and live in Harmony, Capitalist Running Dogs
by Razer 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

"Huawei has rolled out its long-rumored Hongmeng operating system (OS), known as the HarmonyOS. The company says it can switch to the new system at any time, including on phones, if it is unable to use Android. The Chinese tech giant officially unveiled the new platform on Friday. The operating system can be used on various smart devices and will be launched on “smart screen products,” such as televisions, later this year. After the launch in China, the OS can become available on global markets, Huawei announced." More: https://www.rt.com/business/466133-huawei-launches-own-os/ Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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Life Extension Research
by grarpamp 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_extension https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/11/-sp-live-forever-extend-lif… https://newatlas.com/alkahest-young-blood-plasma-alzheimers-cognitive-decli… https://www.calicolabs.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetics_research_organizations https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/26/worlds-first-gene-edited-ba… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Genomics_Institute https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2012/10/China-Gene… The basic science and technology needed to start investigating large areas of the problem space has been coming online over the last decade or so. Another ten should start to see much larger research efforts and distributed througout the world. The same as it chooses to eat and stitch up its wounds to live, Humans are wired to forever seek fixes to death where it can. And it now knows that much much more lies beyond its former magic and methods of bronze age scalpels and space age nuclear radiation, that the entire field of bioscience and bioengineering is still completely unexplored, that any given year's brick walls therein are likely penetrable. Thus it will do so, more and more now, at speed.

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