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BitTorrent tracker blocks Windows 10 users Summary:   If you use BitTorrent a lot, you may want to re-think moving to Windows 10.  BitTorrent sites are starting to block Windows 10 users.Windows 10 is quickly gaining fans. Some of them, however, are growing distrustful of Windows 10's privacy settings. Some BitTorrent sites don't trust Windows 10 at all. So, at least one BitTorrent tracker, iTS, has blocked Windows 10 users from accessing torrents from their site. Others are considering banning Windows 10 users. In a YouTube video, iTS proclaimed that " Windows 10 is nothing more than a spy tool that will keep track of every action, email, conversation, video, picture, or anything else that you do on your computer." iTS based its position largely on Microsoft's new unified services and privacy agreements , specifically the clause which states that, "We may automatically check your version of the software and download sof...

Intel's radical Optane next-gen SSD ​Intel teased their new Optane SSD this week, saying it's 7x faster than flash SSDs, with much longer life, using a radical new memory they call 3D Xpoint.  A couple of weeks ago Intel and Micron jointly announced their Xpoint - pronounced "cross point" - memory. Offering few details they claimed 3D XPoint technology combines the performance, density, power, non-volatility and cost advantages of all available memory technologies on the market today. The technology is up to 1,000 times faster and has up to 1,000 times greater endurance than NAND, and is 10 times denser than conventional memory. 3D Xpoint is the technology inside the Optane drive. At last week's Flash Memory Summit , semiconductor analysts Jim Handy and Dave Eggleston , whose work I respect, offered their educated guesses on the Xpoint technology. I'm stealing freely from both. What is it? Xpoint is a form of res...

Microsoft's third Windows 10 cumulative update said to fix Store issues Summary:   Microsoft officials say the latest Windows 10 cumulative update fixes problems some users were having with Windows Store. What else is in it? We have no idea.Microsoft rolled out late on August 14 the third cumulative update for Windows 10 since the product began rolling out to users on July 29. The newest cumulative update is KB3081438 . The Microsoft Support page says nothing about the specific features and fixes that are new to this update beyond "This update includes improvements to enhance the functionality of Windows 10." But a Microsoft spokesperson did let me know that the new update is designed to fix the Windows 10 Store issues which had been affecting a number of us Windows 10 users for the past week. A number of us were unable to access the Store, obtain app updates and/or download new apps. In some cases, Windows Store apps like Mail...

Samsung to supply AMOLED panels to Huawei Summary:    Samsung Display is reportedly said to be providing AMOLED panels to Chinese smartphone maker Huawei in a bid to diversify its customer base. Samsung Display, one of the world's largest producers of OLED displays, is looking for new clients on the back of the fading glory of South Korean brands. After several Chinese smartphone brands, including Meizu and Oppo, have already adopted the AMOLED panels into their handset products, the Korean panel company is now eyeing even bigger fish in China, and has began sending AMOLED panel samples to Huawei, according to a Chinese report on Tuesday. Shipment numbers remain small at the moment, but are expected to climb in the following months after Huawei finishes testing of the first-batch products, according to the report. Teaming up with Huawei is a major step for Samsung Display given that t...

News, entertainment sites hotbed for serving malware ads, from statistics Summary:   More than half of "malvertising" attacks come from news and entertainment sites.Hackers and malicious actors are increasingly targeting online ad networks as a means to infect users, a new report says. A new report by Bromium, a Cupertino, Calif.-based firm with a commercial stake in the security space and a research unit, says more than half of these "malvertising" attacks originate from news and entertainment sites that inadvertently display infected online ads. Bromium has created technology called micro-virtualization, which is designed to sandbox various threats and malicious code. The company is venture backed and counts Andreessen Horowitz and Intel Capital among its investors. NBCSports.com, Weather.com, and CBSNews.com were named in the report as "attractive" targets for hackers. "In a classic malvertisement attack, ...