A new network security issue is causing headaches for the victims of DDoS attacks. According to security firm Netscout, several DDoS services have found a way to use Plex Media Servers to amplify the junk traffic they fire off toward targets during attacks. The researchers claim that a Plex server, properly utilized, can increase the size of DDoS packets by almost five times, . There’s not much Plex users can do about it right now, either. Plex is a media management and streaming program you can install on a computer or NAS box. It catalogs, organizes, and streams your video and audio collection.
The 20th century was notable for numerous reasons, not least of which that humanity split the atom. In the remnants of atomic explosions, scientists found never-before-seen elements like einsteinium. Now, almost 70 years after its discovery, scientists have collected enough einsteinium to . Scientists understood that something should exist on the periodic table where einsteinium sits (atomic number 99), but the material had never been identified before 1952, which is when the United States set off the “Ivy Mike” thermonuclear bomb in the Marshall Islands (see above). However, einsteinium is extremely unstable, and it decayed before we could learn much about it.
Google is rolling out a new set of health monitoring features to Pixel phones, and they could come to more Android devices soon. That’s because Google’s new respiration and heart rate scanning tech is not based on a specialized sensor — it relies on your smartphone’s existing cameras. Like many of Google’s machine learning projects, this one is , and more phones will probably get it down the line. According to Google, doctors often use simple visual analysis to estimate a patient’s respiration. Its new health feature works the same way, except it’s an algorithm on your phone that’s doing the calculation.
The weather outside is frightful, so why not stay warm inside and flex your creative skills this winter. As we all continue to stay safer at home due to the , now is the perfect time to hone your creative muscle. So if you’d like to get even more inventive and create things while using Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, Capture One, Clip Studio Paint, Comic Studio, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, After Effects, DaVinci, Audition, and more, we have a gadget you’ve got to grab. The lets you easily navigate these types of software, making creating easier than ever. If you’re a Windows lover or a macOS user, it’s compatible with both Windows and macOS as it serves as an extension of your hand.
Rumors of an Apple-designed AR/VR product have rumbled around for years now, with nary a launch to show for it. New data, however, shed more information on the hardware than we’ve seen before. Apple is developing a mixed-reality system that can track hand movements and show video of the real world to people wearing the device, to The Information. It supposedly includes multiple 8K displays, advanced hand and eye-tracking, and more than a dozen cameras. The price? A low, low, $3,000, as compared to the HoloLens 2, at $3,500. The scuttlebutt is that Apple is positioning this product more as a competitor to Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 as opposed to a consumer-facing product.
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Huawei only got to enjoy a few months at the top of the smartphone heap before the US government knocked it down a peg. Following the Commerce Department’s actions against the Chinese megafirm, Huawei has been unable to use Google services on its new phones. The company’s solution was to develop HarmonyOS, a new operating system that would , according to Huawei. Now that we’ve gotten our first real look at HarmonyOS, one thing is clear: . As long as Huawei is on the Commerce Department’s “Entity List,” it cannot do business with any US company unless it has been granted a special license by the government.
Yesterday, we news from Mercury Research showing that Intel had regained market share from AMD in both desktop and mobile. The news, however, wasn’t all bad for AMD. According to Dean McCarron, president of Mercury Research, AMD shipped nearly a million Ryzen 5000 CPUs in Q4 of 2020. AMD ramped up sales of the Ryzen 5000 family so rapidly, it beat its own record by more than 2x. “The Ryzen 5000 supply ramp was record-breaking for AMD by a very wide margin,” McCarron . The reason AMD CPUs are hard to find right now isn’t because of yield problems at TSMC.
