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Device searches at U.S. borders are at an all-time high, according to latest data.
by their very nature, smartphones *are* surveillance devices. if a government declares that they have the right to the data on your smartphone, you need to think carefully about what that means to you.
After Valve announced its upcoming Steam Machine living room box earlier this month, some analysts suggested to Ars that Valve could and should aggressively subsidize that hardware with “loss leader” pricing that leads to more revenue from improved Steam software sales. In a new interview with YouTube channel Skill Up, though, Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais ruled out that kind of console-style pricing model, saying that the Steam Machine will be “more in line with what you might expect from the current PC market.”
Griffais said the AMD Zen 4 CPU and RDNA3 GPU in the Steam Machine were designed to outperform the bottom 70 percent of machines that opt-in to Valve’s regular hardware survey. And Steam Machine owners should expect to pay roughly what they would for desktop hardware with similar specs, he added.
“If you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that’s the general price window that we aim to be at,” Griffais said.
I'm waiting to see the initial reviews, but I'm interested even if this costs as much as a comparable PC from Dell.
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What people don't understand is that the PS5 costs much higher in the long run once you factor in cost of games. Steam machine will cost considerably less if you factor in about 10 games that are AAA titles and even better if you can get them during sales.
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Some Dell and HP laptop owners have been befuddled by their machines’ inability to play HEVC/H.265 content in web browsers, despite their machines’ processors having integrated decoding support.
Laptops with sixth-generation Intel Core and later processors have built-in hardware support for HEVC decoding and encoding. AMD has made laptop chips supporting the codec since 2015. However, both Dell and HP have disabled this feature on some of their popular business notebooks.
HP discloses this in the data sheets for its affected laptops, which include the HP ProBook 460 G11 [PDF], ProBook 465 G11 [PDF], and EliteBook 665 G11 [PDF].
This is a ridiculous squabble over an imaginary concept called 'Intellectual Property' and licensing. The hardware has features, but the person who bought the hardware can't utilize those features.
He points out that the core of the Windows platform works well for gaming, development, and business, thanks to features like DirectX and Active Directory.
This story should get a lot of attention. Microsoft's ruined Windows for anyone who wants control of their own computing experience.
A Reddit moderator known as “KlammereFyr” was recently convicted by a Danish court after clipping and posting hundreds of nude scenes that actresses filmed for movies and TV shows but apparently never expected to be shared out of context.
As TorrentFreak reported, dozens of actresses had complained about the mod’s sub-reddit, “SeDetForPlottet” (WatchItForthePlot), with some feeling “molested or abused.”
Demanding Danish police put an end to the forum, the Rights Alliance—representing the Danish Actors’ Association, two broadcasters, and other rightsholders—pushed for a criminal probe.
Got to admit that I don't understand the 'crime' here. A person willingly appears in a movie, knowing that it will be seen by millions.
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