Extra Torrent shuts down
The abrupt decision was announced a few minutes ago in a brief message posted on the site’s homepage.
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Oculus Research to Present Focal Surface Display Discovery at SIGGRAPH
Today Oculus’s innovative research on focal surface displays have potentially far-reaching implications for improved visual fidelity in VR.
Seattle restored ISP privacy rules in the first local blow to Trump’s rollback
Seattle’s not the only government taking action against the privacy rule rollback: A bill that would provide similar privacy protections for state residents passed the lower body of the Washington legislature this week.
Lawmaker calls on ISPs to stop customers being hit by viruses
That might mean poking some new exceptions into privacy laws against information sharing among government and businesses.
Linux Kernel 4.11 Officially Released, Adds Support for Intel Gemini Lake SoCs
It also improves the AMDGPU power management
Intel patches remote execution hole that’s been hidden in biz, server chips since 2008
Vuln reported in March, now fix is coming… slowly
A database of thousands of credit cards was left exposed on the open internet
A database of thousands of credit cards was left exposed on the open internet
nomx Passes Security Tests After Blogger Claims to Have Penetrated nomx
UK blogger makes false claims he can access nomx remotely
Debian 9.0 “Stretch” Might Not Have UEFI Secure Boot Support
Debian 9.0 “Stretch” has seen UEFI Secure Boot support no longer being considered a release blocker but is now just a stretch goal for this upcoming release.
A Trillion Edge Graph on a Single Accelerated Node
There are many paths to processing trillions of edges efficiently and with high performance as demonstrated by companies like Facebook with its distributed trillion-edge scaling effort across 200 nodes in 2015 and Microsoft with a similar feat as well.