The WPA3 security standard is formally finished and ready for introduction according to the Wi-Fi Alliance, which developed the protocol. The new follow-up to WPA and WPA2 is intended to replace them with a standard that, well, hasn’t been cracked yet. There’s more to say on the topic, but that’s what the announcement boils down to. WPA has been breached enough that it’s now considered generally insecure, and some high-profile attacks and the ability to predict the Group Temporal Key have breached WPA2 as well. It’s time for a new, (temporarily) secure standard. One of the major features of WPA3 is its resistance to offline dictionary attacks.
Beloved Facebook subsidiary Oculus has announced that going forward, the Oculus Rift will only support Windows 10 systems once the Rift Core 2.0 update drops. While this isn’t expected to lead to any near-term loss of features or capabilities on Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, the firm’s messaging is clear: Update now. Here’s what the company : Windows 7 and 8.1 users are still supported for the Rift features they know and love today, but they may not be able to use many new and upcoming features and apps. We encourage everyone who isn’t already running Windows 10 to upgrade now to avoid missing out on what’s next… Windows 10 is now the minimum and recommended operating system spec for Rift.
Astronomers around the world were positively tickled last year when we inside the solar system. The object was named ‘Oumuamua, a term of Hawaiian origin meaning “a messenger from afar arriving first.” Telescopes around the world turned to watch as our visitor rocketed off into oblivion, and scientists eventually decided it was an asteroid. However, some new data calls that assessment into question. ‘Oumuamua . The scientific community has long expected an interstellar visitor to show up, and ‘Oumuamua was undeniably from another star. It shot past us with such haste there was no way it could have started in our solar system — even a gravity boost from Jupiter wouldn’t have given a local object matching speed and trajectory.
Last week, the head of OpenBSD development, Theo de Raadt, told the press that the OS project he leads would no longer enable Hyper-Threading on Intel processors because of security issues. A full paper is due to be released in August at the Black Hat security conference. All de Raadt has said is that the issue is related to simultaneous multi-threading and that it impacted Intel CPUs. “In particular, it is ill-advised to run different security domains (address spaces) on a pair of hyperthread CPUs,” . “Maybe there are other ways to resolve this problem, but Intel isn’t sharing solutions with us.
Corporate espionage is an extremely serious charge in the American technology market. There have been several prominent occasions in which AMD and Intel or AMD and Nvidia have cooperated when an employee was suspected to have engaged in IP theft, precisely because the consequences of bringing a product to market that’s tainted by another company’s IP rights could be so catastrophic. But in China, there’s a very different system in place — and the way this has played out could be driving China’s investigation of Micron and Samsung’s DRAM pricing. Here’s what we know. Micron alleges that the United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), a Taiwanese foundry, cooperated with Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company to steal Micron secrets.
Charter has announced that it has extended gigabit ethernet availability to another four million customers in what the company calls its “Summer of Gig.” The service actually offers speeds of up to 940Mbps, but hey, who’s counting? The new announcement for Spectrum Internet Gig covers markets in Cleveland; Erie, Pennsylvania; Orlando, Florida; and Toledo, Ohio. Overall, more than 27 million people now have access to gigabit service via Charter. The company writes: Overall, Spectrum Internet Gig is now offered to more than 27 million homes. That’s more than halfway to our goal of making gigabit connections available to virtually our entire 41-state footprint.
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It has been several years since Google’s last big makeover for Maps, though the company announced a new version at I/O back in May. The updated app popped up intermittently over the last few weeks, but . There are a few new features in store, but the thing you’ll notice first is the updated Material Design interface. Material Design came about back in the days of Android Lollipop as a replacement for the aging Holo design language. Material Design presented a layered, flat approach to making apps, and introduced concepts like the floating action button and navigation drawer.
Over the last few years, as Intel has launched one successive generation of Core after the other, the meaning of the word “generation” has begun to slip. With gains often being marginal from one generation to the next, the relative impact of each upgrade has been fairly small. PCWorld has put some mobile systems through their paces and that they generally conform to the expected pattern we’ve seen from their desktop counterparts. Putting additional CPU cores inside these systems has resulted in dramatic performance improvements, provided, of course, that your workloads can scale to meet them. These results are in line with what we would’ve expected.
