Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “No Mac Is Safe…”.
There’Re only two things, I’m afraid of. One Goombas from “ Super Mario.”. What are they Are? They sentient? Am I a murderer And the other not having the tech. News.
Ooh. Owners of AMD 500-series motherboards are reporting that USB devices are randomly disconnecting on both X570 and B550-based motherboards.. These boards have been around since 2019, but it looks like the issue started popping up when the Ryzen 5000-series CPUs came to market.
Although some boards with older processors, seem to be experiencing the problem as well. As if trying to plug in a USB after flipping it one way and then the other 10 times isn’t annoying enough., It’s another thing to add to my Afraid Of list. I guess. AMD claims that the bug is only affecting a small number of users and has reached out to people on Reddit to better understand and isolate the problem.. In the meantime, some affected users are reporting that setting your PCI Express mode to 3.0. Instead of Auto fixed the problem, so try that workaround, if you don’t the maximum bandwidth for moving around tons of high-res pictures of Linus in LTT, Store-branded boxer-briefs.
[ James ] You’re on to me, If you do do that, we understand. Who needs USB ports anyway, you Know In other Ryzen 5000 CPU news supply is relatively tight, but one way you might be able to get your hands on one for a bit cheaper than expected is to order a pre-built, PC. Yeah. It looks like Dell is offering PCs with a Ryzen.
7 5800 non-X, so you’ll still get 8 cores and 16 threads, but the chip has just a bit less power than what X version could go. An’, give it to ya. At the time of this writing. The PC in question is the Alienware Aurora R10 and is only available in Canada..
Wait. We got something: first, Yes [ James ] Other than winter. Apparently this hasn’t happened since we invented hockey Jon claims so- [ James ]. We invented basketball. That yeah Wait a second Anyway. The non-X system saves you a whole 150 Canadian rubles off the X edition..
Hopefully an OEM as large as Dell starting to sell additional SKUs means that we’ll have more supply in the near future.. Realistically, though, that’s not what that means at all. [ James ] Dell is a scalper. Basically.
( James chuckles, ) “. Oh, so you want this chip eh. Why don’t you buy a whole PC with it inside ?”? There’S a weird bit of malware out there.
That’S running on around 30,000 Mac computers in 153 countries, but no one really seems to know what it does.. Apparently, the malware called Silver Sparrow, ( birds, chirping ) check in with a command server every hour to see what it’s supposed to do. But there have been no reports of the malware actually harming systems. Yet. [, James ], It’s just so Mac people know they’re vulnerable. “, I’m sending a message.”. This thing could be bad, but I’m also getting Batman.
Vibes.. The mysterious vigilante runs on both the new M1 chips and Intel-based. Macs and Apple has already deployed measures to contain the virus, including revoking certificates of certain dev accounts that signed off on the packages that contain the malware.. However, Silver Sparrow could remain a threat as it uses well-built CDNs like Akamai and AWS.. We also don’t know its secret identity or, if it has a sidekick, dressed in extremely bright colors and no pants. [ James ]. This is exactly like Skynet actually., Basically yeah., No pants. Skynet doesn’t wear pants..
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So remember to vote with your wallet if you’re affected., If you’re lucky enough to even have another ISP to switch to because the internet isn’t a utility (, giggling ) Come on it’s a luxury product guys. Come on ( laughs, ) Apple finally beat out one of Its major Android rivals Samsung, you mighta heard of’em by a wide margin in the final quarter of last year, selling nearly 80 million iPhones against Samsung’s 62 million … Samsung phones. [ James ], Whatever those are., It’s the first time since 2016, that Apple beat Samsung head To head, although the report this data came from also shows that basically no one bought the iPhone 12 Mini and now Jon wrote a joke about size, not mattering, uh huh-huh, moving on., If you’re a Spotify user be on the lookout later this year for its new Spotify HiFi offering which offers lossless CD-quality audio.
Spotify Premium as it stands, only offers 320-kilobit streaming so you’re, probably gon na want this fancy subscription. So you can hear every tiny detail in the new podcast hosted by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen. ( James ululates shrilly ). That’S what they sound like.! That’S a little detail.. Remember that tabletop RPG-lookin’ box that the Core i9-9-9-90K came in Stupid Intel. Come on.
Well, it looks like Team Blue is giving us another fancy package for its new top-end 11th-gen i9, which is called what the i9-9-11-90K Kill. Me., The box has a zigzag, look with translucent windows, which I’m sure will make. You feel much better about buying this one instead of a Ryzen CPU. And guys if you’re, doin’, Zoom meetings, please check your privacy settings first.. An entire school board in California has resigned after a Zoom meeting in which they were complaining in a less-than-nice way about parents was accidentally set to public..
Needless to say, the parents were none too happy, especially because not a single participant was pretending to be a cat. [ James ]. Those parents are a bunch of Karens.
And Kevins. And I’m afraid this episode is over.. Come back on Wednesday for more tech news. Unless you scared. ( cackles, ) You’re, so …, What Ha ha .