Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Goodbye, Internet Explorer ☹”.
Quick you’re about to die of thirst in the desert and a genie: appears. (, magical, music ). What do you ask for Tech, news of course., (, drum riffs, ), [, Riley, ], Yes Or you’re as good as dead. [, Riley ]? I mean anything else would be dumb. [ James ] Microsoft has finally ended. Official support for Internet Explorer the web browser that would eventually become the primary way for millions of people to use the web, because it was the only one that was included with Windows and not because it was particularly good or innovative.. You know the way it’s supposed to be. [, Riley, ] Tradition. Nevertheless, IE persisted even as the web was eventually taken over by Google Chrome, Apple, Safari and IE’s own successor, Edge., Which we’re still waiting for to be canceled..
Ie is still being used by a number of people who I’m sure have psychologically interesting, yet self-destructive tendencies.. Sadly, Microsoft will continue to support IE for businesses paying to keep their Windows 7. 8.1, 10 and server infrastructure on life support., But for everyone else, you’ll have to say your goodbyes. [ Riley ].
No Microsoft tried to prepare us for this day, but that don’t fix the hurt.. Can I get some frickin’ F’s in the chat? [ Riley ]? I’M crying right: now., Very sad., ( James groans, ) Intel and AMD’s CPUs are vulnerable yet again to side channel attack discovered by security researchers, and you know what that means., A cool name and logo. [ Riley ] Yay The exploit is called Hertzbleed.
( James laughs, ), It’s called Hertzbleed because it involves monitoring a CPU’s clock frequency adjustments as it executes a cryptographic workload and converting it into timing data that can be used to steal the processors cryptographic. Keys. Got it So the Hertz is “ bleeding” into the- [ Riley ]. It’S a stretch. Environment.
[, Riley ]. We should stop this. [ James ], While Hertzbleed doesn’t require physical access to the PC. Intel doesn’t think the attack is practical outside of a lab environment since collecting the required power data would take hours to days..
These people got a lot of time at Intel., But just in case you can also defend against the attack by disabling. Your CPU’s boost functionality. You’ll loose a lot of performance, but you might also feel like a ninja going in stealth-mode. [ Riley ] Ooh.
( swords, clanking ). You know sloth-life., There’s pros and cons. [ Riley ]. No one can have me., There’s mold growing on me.
(, Riley, chuckles, ) [, James ], And the cryptocurrency world is not in a great place right now, as prices of everything from Bitcoin to Dogecoin are crashing., Which means for the firs time in years. It’S actually less profitable to mine, both Ethereum and Bitcoin than it is to just buy it directly., At least at the time of writing. – [ Riley ]: That’s not a instruction.! Don’T listen to us Diamond hands! Baby ( James blows raspberry )! That’S due to both the crash in crypto-prices and rise in energy costs, as inflation does number on the world economy., The crash has caused major crypto exchange Coinbase to lay off 18 % of it’s staff or 1,100 workers. Four months after it paid $ 14 million to Run a Superbowl ad-, (, Riley, laughs, ) of a QR code bouncing around the screen DVD player-style.
(, Riley, sighs, ), Hey! It made people happy for a little while, okay [ Riley ] Yeah.. What else can we hope for Hey, Riley, (, Riley exclaims? Surprisingly, ) Now it’s time for Quick Bits brought to you by the OnePlus 10 Pro 5G coming June 15th, with 12 gigs of RAM and 256 gigs of storage.. That’S plenty of space for photos, videos, apps, music and really any type of digital file that people may want to keep on their mobile device. GIFs.
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Intel has, as promised, officially launched it’s Arc. 380 budget desktop graphics card in China. A day after MSI accidentally leaked some benchmarks in Chinese ads for its version of the GPU.. The leaked numbers seemingly confirm that the A380, which I believe is also an airplane, is expected to perform about, as well as a Nvidia GTX 1650 Super or a Radeon RX 6400.
[ Riley ], Also airplanes., So no.. It can’t compete with the upcoming RTX 4090 TI. But and here’s the thing everyone forgets: neither can you. [ Riley ] Yeah.. What have you done? [ Riley ] Sit down., Be humble., [, Riley, ], Yeah, chill. Elon’s done a lot for us.. Microsoft has released a patch for the Follina vulnerability that has pledged office. Apps since early May., So you should probably update your Windows installation, especially if you have habit of opening every Word file that shows up in your email.. I can’t resist the FOMO. Sure you don’t know the sender., Don’t you wan na know what’s inside What? If it’s a cute picture of a kitty, [ Riley ], I love those ( James, sighs, ).
Every one of them. Bless, them., Augmented, Realty, glasses, maker Nreal has announced the company’s Nreal. Air headset will be available to stream Steam games from a PC to a virtual screen..
The beta will go live at the end of June, which is soon providing another option for users looking for the most complicated way to enjoy games.. The more work you put into setting up the more you appreciate: it. [, Riley ] Yeah, Worth it [ Riley ] Right David.
Now we’re gaming, A Kentucky woman has been charged with hacking after swapping the barcodes of two items at a Walmart before running the cheaper code through the self-checkout scanner. [ Riley ] Hacker ( James bows, raspberry ), Black cat.. She was initially found guilty of accessing a computer without permission, a Class C Felony with a sentence of five to 10 years: before- [ Riley ].
What, Before a judge, overturned the verdict because yeah she had permission to use the self-checkout., But now Kentucky’s Attorney General wants to reinstate the guilty. Verdict. Turns out. There are a ton of hackers in places where old people don’t know anything about computers. [, Riley ]. That’S where they’re all hiding out. In Kentucky. America’s priorities., And you may remember the Floppotron, a patchwork of floppy drives and similar devices that were used to play music. Well, Pawel Zadrozniak, not trying that again has unveiled. The latest version. Floppotron 3.0, composed of 512 floppy disk, drives 16 hard drives and 4 scanners, which frankly gives professionally performed John William’s scores a run for their money.
( Riley scoffs ) [, Riley ], Who needs it, Go, give a listen and bask in the floppiness. ( Riley hums ), I’m loose baby., (, Riley, imitates zapping ) And make sure you come back on Wednesday to bask in more floppy tech news, goodness., (, Riley, giggles ), I’m somewhat of a floppy-basker myself. [ Riley ]. What’S the point in basking, if you ain’t gon na flop, it ( Riley, laughs, ) We’re going from six to midnight.
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