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of non-sexual transmission are being ignored. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
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Clinical trial of a cellulose sulphate vaginal gel as a protective measure
against HIV infection has failed. The international trial organised by CONRAD,
a reproductive-health research group based in Virgina, USA>, ended
when the gel was found not only to be ineffective, but also to increase the risk of HIV infection [1]. This
is the third large-scale clinical trial of a microbicidal
gel aimed at protecting against HIV infection and AIDS to fail so far.
Activists, particularly
in the United States,
have been heavily promoting the concept of microbicide
gels that might allow women to protect themselves from HIV infection through
sexual intercourse.
Dozens of candidate micobicides are being tested in labs around the world. But
things have to change, according to the mainstream HIV research community.
Hard choices have to be made on which candidate gels should go on to phase
III trials because these trials are expensive and time-consuming [2]. They
are also risky for trial subjects, as often turns out.
The microbicides
tested in phase II trials all belong to first generation products that aim
to make the vagina less hospitable to HIV, but don't target the virus directly.
None of these has worked so far. One, Saffy gel,
simply failed to protect against infection; the other two, cellulose sulphate
and the spermicide nonoxynol-9, led to higher HIV
infection rates than controls. Meanwhile three other products are undergoing
phase III trials.
Most researchers see more
promise in new microbicides under development that
contain gel formulations of antiretroviral drugs, and many are in the pipelines.
The question now is whether all the products should automatically be pushed
into phase III trials.
It is difficult to choose the best candidates without doing
large human studies because different research groups use different preclinical
testing methods, and there is no agreement on which of these tests best predicts
how a microbicide will act in patients.
These problems beset all medical interventions aimed at prevention or therapy,
as there is no agreement over the mechanisms whereby HIV is supposed to cause
AIDS [3, 4] (On Quitting
HIV and Beyond
the HIV-Causes-AIDS Model, this series).
Each research group is investing in its own product and so
will be reluctant to step aside for others. The field may need a guiding hand
from an impartial body, which does not exist now. It has been suggested that
a working group on microbicides currently being
set up by the US National Institutes of Health's Office of AIDS Research may
serve this role [2].
It is between the devil and the deep blue sea for the drug
developers. They may end up jettisoning useful products in avoiding redundancy,
or else waste a lot of financial resources and endangering trial subjects
in large clinical trials.
The question no one in the microbicide
development community is asking is why so much effort is dedicated to preventing
sexual transmission, which is disproportionate to the low probability of that
happening. The male to female HIV transmission probability varies from 0.0001
– 0.004, increasing with viral load in semen, and further increases when the
male partners are acutely infected [5].
The research community is
cheered by two pieces of good news despite the failure of microbicide
gels. First, drug treatment against the herpes simplex 2 virus (HSV-2) cuts
the levels of HIV RNA in the blood and genitals of women infected with both
viruses [6], raising hopes that it may contribute to controlling the disease.
Epidemiological evidence has suggested that infection with HSV-2 is associated
with increased genital shedding of HIV-1 RNA and HIV-transmission. Second,
the US National Institutes of Health has put a premature stop to two large
controlled trials on male circumcision in Uganda and Kenya that it funded
[7], because the effects of the procedure were already clear. As in a previous
study in South Africa, also terminated early, the results showed that circumcision
reduced a man's risk of HIV infection by 50 to 60 percent. Further studies
are in progress to see if circumcision could reduce transmission of HIV to
women sexual partners.
However, there is considerable doubt over whether sexual transmission of HIV
alone could account for the rapid spread of AIDS, given the acknowledged low
rate of heterosexual HIV transmission in Africa as elsewhere [3] (On
Quitting HIV, this series). Thus, concentrating efforts exclusively on reducing
sexual transmission at the expense of non-sexual transmission can seriously
backfire, even if we ignore the inherent racism involved in stigmatising black
Africans as sexually promiscuous and irresponsible [3, 8] ("Let
Us Live and Let Them Die", this series).
In fact, remarkable proportions
of self-reported virgins and adolescents in eastern and southern Africa are
infected with HIV, but non-sexual routes of transmission have yet to be properly
investigated in these populations [9].
For example, a survey by
blood tests carried out in rural northeast Tanzania in 1995 found 4.5 percent
of self-reported virgins ages 15 to 24 were HIV positive. Similar studies
over the past 10 years found HIV prevalence in virgins between 0.1 – 6.5 percent
in Ethiopia, 6.4 percent in Kenya, 2.2 percent in Malawi, 0.7 –5.5 percent
in South Africa, 6.5 percent in Zambia and 0.5 percent in Uganda. In recent
prospective cohort studies in Malawi and Zimbabwe, the annual incidence of
HIV infection in persons reporting no sexual exposure during study intervals
was 1.2 to 2.4 percent. For decades, researchers, journalists and community
members (including children) in sub-Saharan Africa have recognized the potential
for HIV transmission through circumcision. Most circumcisions are done by
traditional practitioners outside formal healthcare settings, and typically
in large numbers in rapid succession. If someone circumcised is HIV infected,
then transmission may occur to those subsequently circumcised. Transmission
can also happen in formal healthcare settings through unhygienic practices
and blood-contaminated surgical instruments, or contaminated needles for injection.
The research team led by
Interdisciplinary Scientific Research in Seattle, Washington, in the United
States decided to conduct a study assessing the relationship between male
and female circumcision and prevalence of HIV infection among virgins and
adolescents in Kenya, Lesotho and Tanzania [9]. The results confirmed what
they had surmised.
Circumcised male and female
virgins were substantially more likely to be HIV-infected than uncircumcised
virgins in every sample. Circumcision was common among Kenyan (75 percent)
and Tanzanian (63 percent) male virgins, but comparatively uncommon among
Kenyan females (18 percent) and Lesothoan male virgins
(21 percent). For Kenyan females, the prevalence was 3.2 percent among the
circumcised versus 1.4 percent among the uncircumcised, an odds ratio (OR)
of 2.38; for Kenyan males, 1.8 percent versus 0 percent; For Lesothoan males, 6.1 percent versus 1.9 percent, OR 3.36;
Tanzanian males: 2.9 percent versus 1.0 percent, OR 2.99.
Among adolescents, regardless
of sexual experience, circumcision was just as strongly associated with prevalent
HIV infection. However, this association changes direction dramatically with
age: from a moderate to strong positive association in adolescents (age <
18 years) to the lack of circumcision associated with HIV infection in early
adulthood, and remains so for older age groups; uncircumcised adults were
more likely to be HIV positive than circumcised adults.
Self-reported sexual experience
was independently related to HIV infection only among adolescent females in
Kenya, but not among all adolescent males in Kenya, Lesotho and Tanzania.
Circumcision does not exhaust
the non-sexual modes of HIV transmission, as some uncircumcised virgins and
adolescents were infected.
The authors warn [9] that
before promoting male circumcision as an
HIV preventive intervention, large and sustained investments and improvements
in the safety of care in all settings must be made. Otherwise, "such initiatives
may well facilitate transmission of HIV and other blood-borne pathogens."
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My name is yaKKo911 and I am relatively new to chess.com; this website is awesome! I decided that I am going to focus more of my attention on analyzing my games. Will the forum lurkers of chess.com please teach me the ways of the jedi. I am looking forward to hearing your insights regarding this game. May the force be with you!
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You should never have let his pawn advance to d6. The correct plan was to ockade it with the knight, depriving his pieces of proper squares. Ready My system by Nimozowitch
Hi Wardexe, My System is sitting on my book shelf right now. I may go and give it a read! I believe the pawn advance that you are refering to was 19.e6. Can you tell me the possible lines that you thought I should have pursued. How would you blockade it with the knight?
good! dutch is an excellent underrated weapon (as long as you don't stonewall it's fine).
Yes Sir! The dutch is an under rated weapon. The stonewall can also be very strong when white plays Nc3 in the opening preventing c4. I think in this situation the stonewall is the best form of the dutch defense and gives excellent kingside attacking chances as often blacks heavy and minor pieces are trapped on the queenside. This is when ...Ne4 for black is also really strong.
Pellik, Thank you for your insight. 14...e5 15. d5 maybe next activate the night with 15...Nd7 with plans of maybe ...Nf6 soon. How would you play the position after 15.d5? What would be your strategies, your tactical ideas. Anyone else who sees this post feel free to help analyze this line.
I might have played 5...d5 because after 5...O-O White can try 6.Bxf6 Bxf6 7.e4. This is usually the hardest Dutch to set up because it's really slow. There is also some dangerous gambit but I don't think any White players will know it.
14...e5 looks good. You can get your knight to c5, double rooks on the f-file, put your bishop on c8 and just attack White.
Also, I loved the Animaniacs.
Also, I loved the Animaniacs.
Hello Anthony,
So you prefer 5...d5.Correct me if I am wrong but, 5...O-O is played quite often in this position. Personally I am not a big fan of 5...d5 after c4 from white has been played due to c5 that will usually follow taking away the bishops square on e6 which is where the bishop usually goes in a stonewall. 5...d5 attempts to set up a stonewall but I am not sure if this is the best option at this point. Black is going to be extremely cramped after c5 and Ne5.
After 5...O-O 6. Bxf6 Bxf6 7. e4 then black can simply play 7...fxe4 8.Nxe4 Be7 and the position is equal. Thats what I meant in my game annotation in which I stated that Bg5 looked dangerous but in reality was not much of a threat at all. By the way, I do think 5...d5 is playable but I am not a huge fan of the game that will arise. I am sure, as I play a lot of dutch defense games, that 5...O-O is probably the strongest move. 5...h6 is also playable making the bishop decide on his path in the game.
Thank you for your insight Andrew. The animaniacs are awesome! I would like it if you could research that gambit you had mentioned and maybe post a little information about it. Also, can you please explain why you would place the knight on c5 regarding the 14...e5 variation.
That was a really informative post. Thank you for being an insomniac and spending time on this position. It seems games are often won or lost in these types of position depending upon how the line is continued. I looked over the line you mention and it looks legit. I will store that to memory and hopefully it will manifest itself in one of my games.
I was checking out your page and couldnt help but notice your insane blitz rating. That is amazing. Your thought process works extremely quickly. It takes me a lot more time to analyze a position. Hopefully with practice this will improve.
I have another idea in this position that may be of some interest. Will you let me know what you think of 14...Qf6 attacking. Skewering d4 and b2. This move also seems strong. Maybe stronger than playing a pawn move at all. What do you think? You are absolutely right though; since white is down a piece backs options are plentiful.
The problem with 4.Bg5 is that if White doesn't take, then there's no point in it being there. It's not really a good move anyway so I figured that by stoping e4 the bishop would be there for no reason. I don't think White ever plays c5 in the stonewall because Black can just play b6 and take the b-file.
I'm not sure if you need 5...h6 either because if the bishop runs then White is just wasting a turn so he has to take.
After 14...e5 the knight goes to c5 to stay out of the way of the doubled rooks on the f-file. It can't really do anything over there right now.
The line I was talking about isn't a gambit. (I was thinking about something else.) It's just annoying:
Nice trap in the end.
Thank you TeraHammer.
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Tagged: gaming, battlefield 1
It won't just be flamethrowers and HMG emplacements in Battlefield 1, you can expect shotguns, sniper rifles, submachine guns, LMGs and semi-automatic along with a variety of melee weapons to inflict pain with. According to the information Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN garnered from the Q&A sessions that the developer hosted, bullet velocity will also be increased; not in a CoD way but to travel at speeds somewhat closer to reality. There will also be tools for snipping barbed wire and possibly to damage light vehicles if the inference is correct ... and not referring to a horse. Follow the link for an extremely short video of two weapons in action.
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Subject: General Tech | June 8, 2016 - 01:44 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: hack, iphone, Android
It is more of a bootloader, in that a custom 3D printed iPhone case hides a device based around LG Nexus 5 which plugs into the iPhone and allows you to launch Marshmallow 6.0.1 on your iPhone. Once you unplug the lighting cable connection between the iPhone and the case your phone reverts to iOS, thus avoiding having to flash the protected innards of the phone. The interface is described as somewhat laggy but it has a functional USB port, HDMI out and room for a microSD card. This is the same fellow who managed to get Win95 running on an Apple Watch so we may read more about his rule breaking modifications at The Inquirer.
"ANDROID RUNNING on an iPhone? Really? It's true. Sort of. The latest episode in our ongoing series of things running on other things is a doozy, the Holy Grail."
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E3 Demos Versus Released Games
Subject: General Tech | June 8, 2016 - 07:39 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: E3
With E3 coming up, JohnGR pointed out a video in the comments of one of our E3 trailer posts that compares Ubisoft's demos with their released games. I tend to be relatively forgiving of these issues, personally, but the video is quite well done from an editing standpoint. It has quite a few moments of dry irony, especially with the contrast between the demo's busy audio sequences and the game section's silence.
We'll be seeing a lot of demos over the next handful of days. It's good to keep in mind that they are promotional snippets, either video or playable, that represent what the developer or publisher wants their game to be viewed as. Sometimes, it's just an overly optimistic view of what they can accomplish.
Mirror's Edge: Catalyst DRM Rumors Are Wrong
Subject: General Tech | June 7, 2016 - 08:42 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: ea, dice, DRM, origin
GamersNexus wrote a piece that claimed Mirror's Edge: Catalyst has DRM that limits the number of hardware changes to four. According to an email from EA's press contact, it turns out that GamersNexus' article is not accurate. According to EA PR, if Origin detects five activations in a single day, the user will need to wait until 24 hours after their first activation to attempt again.
So you can change your hardware as many times as you want over the life of the game, just not more than four times in a single day, on a single account at least.
Image Credit: GamersNexus
This message didn't seem to say what they were implying it did. Turns out, it doesn't.
I decided to ask EA when I read the error message that GamersNexus posted -- the article's interpretation didn't seem right. The wording was as follows: "Too many computers have accessed this account's version of Mirror's Edge(TM) Catalyst recently. Please try again later." It seemed very odd to me that the wording "recently" and "Please try again later" would be attached to a permanent bricking of the game.
Again, it turns out that this is not the case, unless our press contact was not up to date about this specific title. As much as I dislike DRM, being a proponent of art preservation and archival, this part of Mirror's Edge's DRM should not affect the vast majority of users. This is something that should only affect people who are literally benchmarking a half-dozen (or so) graphics cards.
In short, it sounds like this is a non-issue after all.
The Vives are coming
Subject: General Tech | June 7, 2016 - 02:18 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: htc, vive, VR
As of today if you order an HTC Vive VR Headset you should receive it mere days after you place your order, no longer is it a preorder process where you would need to wait an indeterminate amount of time. The package will cost you $799US or $1,149CAN so it is not quite an impulse buy but it certainly is very tempting. You can order online or drop by a Microsoft Store, Gamestop or Micro Center if such things exist in your neighbourhood. Al took a look at some of the technology in the Vive in this article, which is interesting to look at even if you can't quite afford one yet.
"HTC ViveTM can now be purchased through www.vive.com in 24 countries, shipping within 2-3 business days of purchase. In addition to online availability from HTC, individuals can now buy the revolutionary Vive virtual reality system in select Microsoft Stores, GameStop and Micro Center locations. Pre-orders placed through these retailers will be fulfilled beginning this week."
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Subject: General Tech | June 7, 2016 - 07:15 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: skyrim, morrowind, elder scrolls, bethesda
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Either way, it will be free if you own both titles, and it looks like an interesting total conversion.
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Subject: General Tech | June 6, 2016 - 03:46 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: windows, pc gaming, osx, linux
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Subject: General Tech | June 6, 2016 - 07:46 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: steam, pc gaming, linux
According to Phoronix, gaming on Linux has experienced exponential growth in recent times. Over the course of the last two years, Steam's catalog on the platform expanded from 500 games up to over 2200. This is a little over a 4.4x increase over two years. If I'm doing my high-school math correctly, and I seriously hope I am, this corresponds to an average increase of just under 2.1x year-over-year.
In other words, this is litearlly the trend, minus half-life. Snicker snicker snicker.
The quantity of Linux's games catalog is a very different argument from its quality, of course. Still, you can find many interesting titles there. Valve has been porting their catalog to the OS, as have other, high-end titles, like Tomb Raider, Trine, Civilization V, Civilization: Beyond Earth, XCOM, and a couple Borderlands versions. If interested in specifics, and you enjoy a sense of humor like you would see on our PC Perspective Podcast, check out LinuxGameCast for their reviews of specific titles.
A Potentially More Harmful Coil Whine Issue
Subject: General Tech | June 5, 2016 - 02:18 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: security, Cyber Security, coil whine
As new hardware launches, many readers ask whether they produce any noticeable form of coil whine. For instance, this is an issue for graphics cards that are outputting a very high frame rate. The electronics create sound from the current oscillating as it flows through them. It can also be an issue for motherboards or power supplies as well. You can check out this fairly old video from LinusTechTips for a demonstration.
Image Credit: ACM
It turns out that, because this whine is related to the signal flowing through the oscillating circuit, security researchers are looking into the types of information that can be inferred from the whine. In particular, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) published a paper called Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs. It discusses several methods of attacking a device, such as reading minor fluctuations in its grounding plug or monitoring induced radiation with an antenna. Its headlining method is "Acoustic" though, which listens to coil whine sound produced by the computer, as it decrypts RSA messages that are sent to it, to gather the RSA secret key from it.
While they have successfully demonstrated the attack using a parabolic microphone at 33ft away, and a second demonstration using a mobile phone at 1ft away, the news should be taken with a grain of salt. Mostly, it's just interesting to realize that there's nothing really special about a computer. All it does is stores and processes data on whatever physical state we have available in the world. Currently, that's almost always radio-frequency radiation flowing through semiconductors. Whatever we use will have consequences. For instance, as transistors get smaller, to push more complex signals through a given surface area and power, we'll eventually run out of atoms.
This is just another, often forgotten side-effect: electric signals induce the transfer of energy. It could be electromagnetic, acoustic, or even thermal. In the realm of security, this could, itself, carry some of the data that we attached to our world's state, and allow others to access it (or sometimes modify it) without our knowledge or consent.
DigitalFoundry Records The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine at 4K
Subject: General Tech | June 5, 2016 - 03:44 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: pc gaming, The Witcher 3
The Witcher 3 is one of the best looking games available, and its final DLC, Blood and Wine, intended to raise that graphical bar slightly. Near the base game's initial launch, in early 2015, there was a bit of a controversy surrounding the image quality and how it sort-of rolled back. Righting this issue was apparently one of the design goals for this final DLC, leaving users with fonder memories of the title before CD Projekt Red moves onto newer projects. Granted, the memories weren't all that bad to begin with, but it was nice to address regardless.
As you can see, this environment is bright, vibrant, and heavily saturated with color. The medieval city is alive with colored cobblestone, flowers, banners, and buildings all under a bright, blue sky. There was quite a bit of texture pop-in that I saw, even at 1080p, but it wasn't too distracting. This, again, is supposed to be the last time that CD Projekt adds substantial content to The Witcher franchise for the foreseeable future, but I hope that the mod community will keep the title alive.
Adobe XD Will Apparently Be a UWP Application
Subject: General Tech | June 4, 2016 - 10:55 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: windows 10, uwp, Adobe
So a company, who refuses to port its applications to Linux, is experimenting with UWP for future products. Adobe's Experience Design (XD) CC is going to arrive on Windows later this year, and a representative from Adobe claimed on Twitter that it will use Microsoft's UWP platform. Granted, we're not talking about something like Photoshop or After Effects, but rather a UX mock-up tool, sort-of along the lines of Pencil Project.
It's unclear whether UWP will be a choice.
The logo looks like it's laughing at us with its tongue out.
I still find UWP a concern as Microsoft, while responding to some feedback, still has some key restrictions in play that limit free sharing. Until it becomes technically (or legally) unfeasible for Microsoft to lock down the platform, there will always be the concern that they could, for instance, revoke people's ability to develop software or remove (or prevent installation) of existing software. Even if they don't want to do it themselves, someone with authority over them may just compel it, such as a government who is against encryption.
If you build it, someone will abuse it. The only thing preventing Microsoft from realizing their Windows RT vision, if they still choose to, is the popularity of Win32 applications and how incompatible they are with that framework. We, as a society, want them to remain popular enough that Microsoft cannot afford to abandon it. They want to. They hate the stigma that Windows is where viruses are. That's reasonable, but they're not just throwing out the bathwater.
As an aside: they also want a platform that is less reliant upon x86, and could be recompiled for other hardware if Intel doesn't go where Microsoft wants to be. This is kind-of ironic if you think about it.
LWJGL 3.0.0 Released
Subject: General Tech | June 4, 2016 - 09:29 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Java, lwjgl, vulkan
Don't be confused by the date on the LWJGL post -- its release date was June 3rd, as mentioned later in the thread, not February 27th. It looks like they disabled edit timestamps. Regardless, Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) 3.0.0 was just released, which is a library that binds Java code to APIs that are, normally, not directly accessible through that platform.
To be clear: LWJGL is not a library like, say, Qt, which simplifies common tasks into classes. Its goal is to connect you to whatever API you need, and otherwise leave you alone. Unless you're the type who wants full control over everything, or you're actually making a framework yourself, you will want to use existing frameworks, engines, and/or middleware for your projects. The advantage, of course, is that these frameworks, engines, and middleware now have access to newer APIs, and can justify deprecating old features.
This release adds Vulkan support, which will provide a high-performance (and high-efficiency) base to abstract many other graphics and GPU compute tasks on. DirectX 12 and Vulkan are still being worked on, as an industry, but its mechanism is theoretically better, especially with multiple threads (and multiple graphics devices). They basically add a graphics layer to a GPU compute-style API, basing everything on lists of commands that start and end wherever the host code desires.
While Java has been taking a massive hit in public opinion lately, it is still a good platform for some applications. Gaming seems to having a resurgence of native APIs, especially with "AAA" engines becoming available to the general public, but more frameworks isn't a bad thing.
The Wit.nes Runs in an NES Emulator
Subject: General Tech | June 4, 2016 - 03:24 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: nes, the witness, the wit.nes, pc gaming
The Witness, from Thekla Inc. and Jonathan Blow, caught the attention of a few of us at PC Perspective... mostly Allyn. Anywho, it's based on an island that you explore and solve puzzles along the way. I'm not talking about puzzles in the "Space Quest", point-and-click adventure sense, but like, puzzles that you would expect to find in a newspaper, which unlock doors and turn on machinery when solved.
If that sort of game is for you, then you might want to check out a "demake" of it, called The Wit.nes. It is created by an indie developer who goes by the name Dustmop, for NES emulators. Being a game that's based on the NES platform, the entire virtual ROM is currently 40KB. (NES titles varied between ~8kB and ~1MB). It plays from a top-down perspective in its exploration mode, rather than first-person for what should be obvious reasons, but the puzzles are apparently quite faithful to the original style.
It's free and small, so check it out at their Itch.io page if you're interested.
Just say no to Accelerator support applications; yet another Lenovo vulnerability
Subject: General Tech | June 3, 2016 - 04:10 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Lenovo, security, idiots, superfish
At some point they may learn but obviously not yet as Lenovo's Accelerator support application opens two vulnerabilities for systems with the application installed. As it uses unencrypted transmissions during the update process and does not verify the application you receive you are vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. There are 6 notebooks and 25 desktop lines with this issue, although ThinkPads and ThinkStations are not on the list. If you have the software you should remove it immediately. More over at The Register.
"Duo Security researcher Mikhail Davidov reported the holes that would allow eavesdropping attackers to tap into Accelerator's unencrypted update channels to compromise users."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Computex 2016 Live Coverage Day 3 @ Tech ARP
- There's a Stuxnet Copycat, and We Have No Idea Where It Came From @ Slashdot
- Cisco warns IPv6 ping-of-death vuln is everyone's problem @ The Register
- Microsoft releases HoloLens AR versions of Outlook and Calendar apps @ The Inquirer
- Unicode 9 update brings home the bacon with 72 new emojis @ The Inquirer
Podcast #402 - GTX 1070 Review, i7-6950X Review, AMD Radeon RX480, Aftermarket GTX 1080's, Tiny SSDs, Computex 2016, and more!
Subject: General Tech | June 3, 2016 - 11:11 AM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: zenfone 3, ssd, Samsung, rx480, ROG Rampage V Edition 10, podcast, PM971-NVMe, i7-6950X, gtx1080, GTX1070, computex 2016, Broadwell, Bristol Ridge, BGA, avalon, 1080, 1070
PC Perspective Podcast #402 - 06/03/2016
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One serving of Micron 3D TLC NAND, hold the NVMe
Subject: General Tech | June 2, 2016 - 12:26 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: micron, 3d nand, tlc, mlc, DEVSLP
Micron have unveiled their new line of 3D NAND, the SATA 6Gbps TLC 1100 and the NVMe MLC 2100, although they only shared details of the former. The 1100 will introduce DEVSLP mode, where the drives power draw will dip to less than 2mW on the smaller drives, 4mW for the 1TB with the 2TB model requiring 25mW. The TLC used in the drive is rather impressive, the advertised speeds come very close to what their MLC based M600 drives are capable of. Check out the full specs and more over at The Register.
"Intel, its flash foundry partner, introduced its own 3D SSDs, MLC (2bits/cell) ones, in March with the DC P3320 and P3520, with maximum capacity of 2TB. These had an NVME interface whereas Micron's 1100 has the slower 6Gbit/s SATA interface."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- 5 Takeaways From The Intel Computex 2016 Keynote @ TechARP
- Computex 2016 Live Coverage Day 2 @ TechARP
- Windows 7, Server 2008 'Convenience' update is anything but – it breaks VMware networking @ The Register
- Noble Chairs Epic Real Leather gaming chair @ Kitguru
- FOBO Tire Plus All Bluetooth Smart Tire Pressure Monitoring System Review @ NikKTech
Epic Games Releases Unreal Engine 4.12
Subject: General Tech | June 1, 2016 - 06:26 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: unreal engine, ue4, unreal engine 4, epic, epic games
Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 4.12, which adds quite a bit, especially cinematic tools. Those who created games or mods in Unreal Engine 3 or 4 will know about Matinee, the interface to animate objects in a scene. It has finally been replaced with Sequencer, which is designed to feel more like Adobe After Effects or Adobe Premiere. They also add a bunch of features to DirectX 12 and Vulkan, but both are still in experimental preview. Vulkan, for instance, only implements rendering features for mobile, not desktop.
Beyond Sequencer, mentioned above, Epic has also added a bunch of new rendering technologies for high-end graphics. This includes High Quality Reflections, Planar Reflections, Grass and Foliage Scalability, and Twist Corrective Animation Node. These are quite interesting for someone like me, who has been getting back into pre-rendered animation recently, but finds that typical, production renderers (such as Cycles) are quite heavy, slowing me down. Epic was interested in bringing Unreal Engine into a video production workflow, even back in Unreal Engine 3, and it's good to see a lot of attention in this area. It might be enough to move me over at some point, especially for animations that don't have a hyper-realistic style. Even better -- this level of visual quality should land in some games, too.
Unreal Engine 4.12 is now available on Epic's Launcher.
Great, everyones bloatware is making your new system vulnerable
Subject: General Tech | June 1, 2016 - 01:08 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: security, Lenovo, hp, dell, crapware, asus, acer
We take a quick break from telling you about all the shiny new things you can't have yet to inform you about problems with things you do have. Bloatware is awful but continues to be popular for sellers of prebuilt systems, both mobile and desktop. It is not just the pop ups telling you to buy the full version of whatever was installed on your system before you bought it, nor the CPU cycles these programs take up; the issue is security. Lenovo and the Superfish issue were in the news recently and now it seems that vulnerabilities have been found in systems sold by Acer, ASUS and Dell as well. 10 devices were tested by Duo Security, all of which had vulnerabilities. Dell and Lenovo had a single problem each, ones which we are already familiar with sadly while Acer and HP both have a pair. You can read about what the vulnerabilities are over at The Inquirer, something to do while you reimage your new machine.
"Duo Security identified 12 vulnerabilities across the vendors' machines. We have approached all of them to see whether they are happy to talk about the problems, which Duo described as significant."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- AMD 7th Gen Bristol Ridge & Stoney Ridge Announcement @ [H]ard|OCP
- Samsung: Don't install Windows 10. REALLY @ The Register
- Windows 10: less than 15 per cent of those who can upgrade have bothered @ The Inquirer
- Don't buy Azure in US dollars – it's cheaper in many other currencies @ The Register
- Microsoft Removes 260-Character Path Length Limit In Windows 10 Redstone @ Slashdot
- Panasonic To Stop Making LCD Panels For TVs @ Slashdot
- Oracle and HP face off in court as $3bn Itanium legal battle kicks off @ The Inquirer
- Free Radio On My Phone @ Hack a Day
- Massive Backlash Building Over Windows 10 Upgrades @ Slashdot
- Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default @ Slashdot
- ARM's Cortex-A73 chip and Mali-G71 CPU set for 2017's VR-ready smartphones @ The Inquirer
- Anonabox Tunneler & Pro: Helping You Stay Anonymous Online @ Phoronix
- Intel boosts the high-end desktop with its Broadwell-E CPUs @ Tech Tech Report
- Computex 2016 Live Coverage Day 1 @ TechARP
- NETGEAR Nighthawk X8 - AC5300 Tri-Band Quad-Stream Wi-Fi Router @ MissingRemote
- Netgear Nighthawk X4S D7800 4x4 802.11ac Router @ Kitguru
- Tech ARP 2016 Power Bank Giveaway #4
You met the Couchmaster, now meet the Corsair Lapdog
Subject: General Tech | May 27, 2016 - 01:33 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: corsair, lapdog
You may remember the Nerdytec COUCHMASTER Ryan tested back in 2013? Kitguru received a similar device recently, the Corsair Lapdog for use with K70 and K65 keyboards and with enough space on the side for mousing. Unfortunately the setup is only comfortable for right handed users, lefties will have to hope a sinister model comes out. It has a built in 4-powered port USB 3.0 hub, not just for your peripherals as it supports quick charging for your portable devices. Check out their video review to see if you might want to upgrade from what you currently use when sitting on your couch.
"The Corsair Lapdog is grandly described as a 'Gaming Control Centre', however that doesn't explain things very well as Lapdog is unlike anything we have seen before."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- From ATI to AMD back to ATI? A Journey in Futility @ [H]ard|OCP
- Facebook starts tracking non-users to shove ads in their face @ The Inquirer
- HP Inc-eption: Our new 3D printers print themselves, says CEO @ The Register
- Foxconn to obtain 66.67% stake in Canada-based Smart Technologies @ DigiTimes
- Dropbox wants access to PC and Mac kernels despite developer outrage @ The Inquirer
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Men, Stop Pretending You're the Only Ones Scared of Parenthood
Babies are universally terrifying, okay?
This month, the Atlantic published a solid article by Liza Mundy that makes the case for paternity leave, but as we know from a Wall Street Journal article published over the summer, men really aren't that interested in taking it.
Why are men so reluctant to take part in office policy that would allow women to be more involved in the workplace, give men the time to bond with their children and be more involved at home, and in general, better workplace culture for all? Well, there's a fear of social stigma, and there's also the fear of getting left behind on the job. But fellow Atlantic writer and pro-paternity-leave dad Alexis Madrigal has a possible reason: Really, it's the fear of babies. Men are terrified of the small creatures they co-created.
He writes: "We are scared of these creatures for good reason. Babies are tiny things that don't talk. They're fragile. Their hold on life is tenuous. And no one ever taught us what to do with them."
Madrigal, who took a substantial paternity leave, describes how rewarding the experience can be. But by watching his friends freak out about it to varying degrees, he realizes that many men just don't know what to do with a kid at first. He posits that when a baby cries, women have "the Boob," the all-powerful tool for soothing and connecting with their child. Men, being bosomless, are often rendered useless during the early months of the babe's life and, in turn, head for the hills (or the corner office) until the kid is of speaking age. Perhaps, he writes, if men were better prepared, or learned how to actually take care of a child, they'd be more apt to take long stretches of paternity leave.
Yet last I checked, there wasn't some secret, women's-only pre-baby class that teaches mothers how to parent. Men can read the same baby prep tomes that expectant mothers read and they will be equally at a loss with what to do when confronted with a squalling infant that needs total life assistance.
Thanks to Madrigal for an honest exploration of what some men might go through, but every time a man comes forward "bravely" expecting a pat on the back and a hall pass for admitting his limitations as a father, it doesn't help. This conversation is just reinforcing some dangerous stereotypes for both genders. First, that women are the more natural caregivers (and not just because they have "the Boob") but the less important players in the workplace. But also, that men are these bumbling, beleaguered, clueless idiots when it comes to being able to care for their own children — who wants that definition of fatherhood?
Fear is never a good excuse for getting out of doing things — especially parenting. Tiny, fragile, dependent life forms are universally terrifying; it's not just a "man thing." While discussions of paternity leave are great, let's take this as a moment to recognize that career goals and parenting goals really aren't so gender disparate, so the amount of leave allotted to new parents shouldn't be either.