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Amaya Toman Hiding hard drive specifications also applies to Seagate (and Toshiba)
In the news summary two days ago, we wrote about the fact that it was discovered that the company Western Digital cheats his clients, or sells hard drives for professional use misleading specifications. You can read more about this case <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1932/8043/files/200721_ODSTOUPENI_BEZ_UDANI_DUVODU__EN.pdf?v=1595428404" data-gt-href-en="https://en.notsofunnyany.com/">here</a>, following it, however, it was discovered that the second (of the three largest) hard disk manufacturers behaves exactly the same way - company Seagate. It is also used in some of its model lines of hard drives SMR data recording technology and without any mention of it in the specifications. In the case of drives from Seagate, these are mainly drives from the Barracuda series, specifically models with capacity 5 to 8 TB, which are intended for the commercial sphere. Seagate also uses SMR technology for its regular series of hard drives for classic users, but they are not "ashamed" of it, and this information is included in the specification table. Toshiba has also signed up to use SMR, which uses this (modified) technology in some of its models. However, in their case, this information is not kept secret.
AMD is donating nearly $15 million to support the fight against the coronavirus
SOCIETY AMD announced her change strategy in the fight against the coronavirus and decided to donate hardware in total value 15 million dollars, which will be used for research of a new type of the coronavirus vaccines. AMD will mainly release its professional hardware for these needs, i.e. several computing clusters containing processors from the EPYC series and AMD Radeon Instinct professional computing accelerators. AMD claims in its statement that individual computing stations will be ready for immediate shipment to interested parties and subsequent use. Companies involved in research into a potential vaccine are eligible for computing hardware.
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Vratislav Holub Gmail blocks up to 18 million fraudulent emails related to the coronavirus every day
Google blocks around 100 million fraudsters worldwide every day Phishing emails. A fifth but of them he is currently abusing the current one global pandemic. In such fraudulent e-mails, which usually pretend to be a serious message from a respected organization (WHO, Red Cross, various national authorities, institutions, etc.), there is usually a file or a link, the aim of which is to lure sensitive information from the victim, such as for example, bank account credentials and a variety of other sensitive data. According to the statement Google their internal AI mechanisms can detect up to 99,9% of such email. Unfortunately, some of them pass through the network and reach users in their e-mail boxes.
SpaceX will make its first test flight with a human on board on May 27
NASA i SpaceX se they agreed on the date of the first test flight the Dragon module, which will have a human crew on board. This will happen on May 27, and after more than nine years, American astronauts will go into space aboard an American spaceship. The SpaceX Dragon module that will launch into orbit F, the test will be piloted by two NASA astronauts, namely Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken. As part of the test flight, there will be a connection with International Space Station (ISS), on which the astronauts will spend their several-month mission. The start will take place at 22:32 our time. As we are used to from the past, the livestream will be available on YouTube and the official website of SpaceX.
So is AMD giving 380 million or 15 million? I somehow suspect that the first number is converted to crowns for the WOW effect, and then it is given in USD in the text. It's embarrassing, we're not really in a flash, are we?
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