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The bulletin identified CVE-2021-31854 and CVE-2022-0166, two high severity attack vectors that can leave any asset with McAfee ePO Agents deployed vulnerable to attack. Per the McAfee’s guidance, any implementations with Agents earlier than version 5.7.5 deployed should update the Agent or risk further exposure. The security brief provides a detailed explanation of each CVE and cross-references the exploits against MITRE and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) CVE reports....

Dave Patrick Underwood was shot and killed outside a federal building and courthouse in Oakland, California, in May 2020. His sister, Angela Underwood Jacobs, filed a complaint in Alameda County Superior Court that claims the shooting “was not a random act of violence” but a “culmination of an extremist plot hatched and planned on Facebook by two men who Meta connected through Facebook’s groups infrastructure and its use of algorithms designed and intended to increase user engagement....

Using medium quality settings at 1680x1050 we see that the GeForce GTX 660 averaged 60fps, which is roughly the same result turned in by the old GTX 480. AMD required the Radeon HD 7870 to break the 60fps barrier though it did so easily with 68fps. Going beyond the GTX 660 or 7870 on these settings can be considered overkill. Below these cards we have the Radeon HD 7850 with 56fps and the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost with 54fps, which was the same frame rate produced by the old Radeon HD 6970....

Redmond said the move to remote and hybrid work has weakened social capital, impacted cross-group collaboration and affected employee retention. According to the Work Trend Index, more than 40 percent of leaders view building relationships as the toughest challenge in remote and hybrid environments. The Games for Work app from Microsoft Casual Games (an Xbox Games Studio) includes a selection of titles that are easy to play and emphasize different elements of team building....

A new report from cybersecurity giant Kaspersky examines cyberthreat-related data shared by its users, narrowing the scope to PC and mobile games. The researchers looked at the prevalence of malicious files and unwanted software related to certain titles, along with the number of users attacked by these files. The game with both the largest number of unique malicious files and impacted users was Minecraft. Kaspersky found 23,239 malicious files associated with the world’s best-selling game, and 131,005 users were impacted during the year-long period....

The PlayStation 5 is vastly different than any other PlayStation to date. It’s white, which we haven’t seen since the miniaturized PS one, and of course, it’s much more powerful. It is also comparatively colossal in size. But one thing has remained consistent since the PS2. Users can orient it horizontally or vertically — or so they were told. Sony’s stand that comes in the package and their marketing materials display the PS5 in both orientations, so it’s more than safe to assume either mounting position is acceptable....

According to a new leak, MSI might soon release the MAG B660M Mortar Max WiFi DDR4 motherboard with an external clock generator made by Renesas. A few months ago, der8auer discovered that motherboards with an external clock generator unlock BCLK overclocking of Intel’s non-K (locked multiplier) Alder Lake CPUs. With the right settings, even a Celeron G6900 could be overclocked from 3.4 GHz to over 5.3 GHz. The problem is that, up until now, all motherboards equipped with such a chip supported only DDR5 memory, which is still far too expensive to pair with a budget CPU....

First in line is a quick check of SATA and LAN performance and as you can see everything appears to be in order. The PCmark Vantage hard drive performance reveals typical performance, as did the CrystalDiskMark test. Finally the SiSoftware Sandra 2009 network performance test also shows the X58 Pro-E delivering strong performance, with a throughput of at least 77MB/s.

What’s ironic is that Netflix is largely responsible for the current state of streaming. Years ago, the industry was far more consolidated as several studios simply licensed their content to Netflix for digital distribution. Then, Netflix decided to get into the original content game, but with no track record, they had to overpay to win bids for high-profile shows. “That was the cost of entry, the cost of doing business,” Bela Bajaria, the head of global TV for Netflix, said in a recent interview....

Stalker 2 was first announced back in 2018, almost a decade after the last game in the series, Stalker: Call of Pripyat, arrived. While fans of the excellent original games were pleased, there was plenty of outcry last year following news that the game would incorporate NFTs—non-fungible tokens were still seen as the next big (money-making) thing in gaming back then. Thankfully, the backlash led to a U-turn by the studio; it later confirmed that Stalker 2 wouldn’t have anything NFT-related....

“The USG has imposed a new license requirement, effective immediately, for any future export to China (including Hong Kong) and Russia of the Company’s A100 and forthcoming H100 integrated circuits,” said Nvidia in an SEC filing. The restriction is designed to prevent the US companies’ high-end hardware from being used by or diverted to military users in China or Russia, though Nvidia points out that it doesn’t sell products in Russia....

Nvidia released Nvidia Broadcast 1.4 this week with a few new beta features to improve video appearances, and one of them tries to solve an old video conferencing problem. The company’s new Eye Contact feature estimates and changes the directional gaze of a video subject’s eyes to make it seem as if they’re looking into the camera. The effect should let viewers more easily maintain eye contact with the speaker in the video....

The GeForce GTS 450 averaged 33fps at 1680x1050 making it 18% faster than the Radeon HD 5770 and just 6% slower than the Radeon HD 5830. The overclocked Palit GTS 450 Sonic Platinum was able to beat the Radeon HD 5830 as it offered a 15% fps increment. The GeForce GTS 450 SLI was 85% faster than the single card setup and with 61fps rendered on average it was also the fastest configuration tested....

When testing Battlefront at 1440p, the GTX 1070 matched the Titan X’s 79 FPS, making it 22% slower than the 1080. That said, it was still 55% faster than the 970 and 18% faster than the Fury X. Again, the GTX 1070 matched the Titan X, this time in Far Cry Primal. Interestingly, its results here were neck-and-neck with those for the the Fury X, Fury, Nano and 980 Ti....

Even with the Core i7-7700K clocked at 4.9 GHz we start to run into another CPU bottleneck, this time in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare at 1080p. That said when looking at the minimum frame rate the 1080 Ti still produced 22% more performance than the standard 1080. It also looked very mighty at 1440p with an average of 117 fps while frame rates never dipped below 100 fps....

Follow up story: Nvidia allegedly hacked its hackers, stole its data back Follow up #2: Nvidia attackers threaten to leak mining-limiter bypass algorithm An Nvidia spokesperson told The Telegraph this week that the company is investigating an “incident” and didn’t have any more information to reveal. However, The Telegraph’s sources warn of something more serious. Over the last two days, Nvidia has suffered outages in its internal email and developer tools....

Nvidia in a statement said it had continued to maintain its office in Russia after suspending shipments to support employees and their families, but recent developments mean it can no longer operate effectively in the country. “All employees will be given the option of continuing their jobs in other countries,” the company said. Those recent developments Nvidia cites doubtlessly refer to the recent escalation in the Russia/Ukraine war. With the invasion not going the way Putin expected, Russia’s president has called for the country’s first draft since the second world war, a move that has proved more unpopular than the conflict itself....

The Arc 100 240GB averaged 242MB/s when copying our single large file, putting it on par with OCZ’s Vertex 460 and Vector 150 drives, but 18% behind the Crucial MX100. When testing with our program data, OCZ’s newcomer provided a bandwidth of 194MB/s, which was again comparable to the Vector 150, and while the Arc 100 was much faster than the Vertex 460, it was still 13% slower than the MX100....

OCZ promptly addressed this issue, but even today the Trion 100 series comes at a slightly higher cost per gigabyte than Samsung’s TLC series. It’s also significantly slower and based on what we’ve read online its reliability is also questionable. With the Trion 100 series floundering about, OCZ is looking to replace it with a slightly cheaper revision that should improve performance and hopefully reliability as well. I say revision, because other than a shiny new white enclosure, the only substantial change is OCZ moving away from Toshiba’s A19nm TLC NAND in favor of its newer 15nm TLC NAND....

The OCZ Vector 256GB performed well in our single large file test with a throughput of 304.7MB/s, making it a whopping 48% faster than the Vertex 4. In fact the only SSD to best the Vector was the recently released Samsung SSD 840 Pro which managed 330MB/s, making the Vector 8% slower. Still when compared to other high-end SSDs the Vector did exceptionally well, beating the Crucial m4 by a 34% margin and the old Samsung SSD 830 by a 45% margin....