Month: May 2020
OnePlus McLaren phones are officially cancelled
The rumors were true: a McLaren official has confirmed that there won’t be another OnePlus McLaren edition. The luxury automaker recently dropped the OnePlus logo from its Partners page, leading to speculation that the refined and pricey OnePlus McLaren editions had been cancelled. The car company finally confirmed that there…
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Here’s What You Can Say On Facebook That You Can’t Say On Twitter
This evening, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg contrasted his platform’s approach to President Donald Trump to Twitter’s, writing “our position is that we should enable as much expression as possible unless it will cause imminent risk of specific harms or dangers spelled out in clear policies.” That came after Zuckerberg took…
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Despite Calling Trump’s Post On Minneapolis “Divisive And Inflammatory,” Mark Zuckerberg Says It Will Still Be Allowed On Facebook
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday that the social network won’t take down a post by President Donald Trump on the Minneapolis protests, despite his own personal feeling that it contained “divisive and inflammatory rhetoric.” In a 599-word Facebook update, Zuckerberg explained that a Thursday post from Trump’s personal account…
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Sony exec touts PS5 exclusive games while Xbox pushes ‘choice, value’
A new console generation is just around the corner, and with it comes a new battle over whose strategy is better, and which one better serves gamers. Earlier, Sony announced an event next week where it will show off “the future of gaming on PlayStati… Source
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Little-known Japanese CPU threatens to make Nvidia, Intel and AMD obsolete in HPC market
[embedded content] Sandia National Laboratories has announced it will be the first Department of Energy labs in the US to deploy the Fujitsu A64FX, the only ARM-based processor designed from ground up for HPC projects and supercomputers. Fujitsu is known primarily for its business laptops, tablets and desktops, but is…
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A popular encryption algorithm is being killed because it is too weak
The developers of two open source code libraries for Secure Shell, which is the protocol used by millions of computers to create encrypted connections, have decided to no longer support the Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) due to growing security concerns. As reported by Ars Technica, developers using the OpenSSH…
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