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The chip could be read. At least that's what German IT news site Golem claims.

This is what happened after China acquired AMD license to produce x64 chips in China, and acquired VIA's x86 license which VIA got from acquiring Cyrix.

The CPU license pool is cracked opened. Soon CPUs in China will be 1/4 the price of Intel/AMD but has better performance.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardw...

Zhaoxin launched KX-5000 quad/octa-core x86 processors on Dec 28, 2017 in Shanghai, China: image, report, translation.

Zhaoxin revealed KX-6000 & KX-7000 roadmap: image, report, translation.

Other reports: golem.de, pcgameshardware.de, bitsandchips.it, phoronix

KX-5000:

Full SOC design (integrated southbridge)
28nm process by HLMC, 2.1 billion transistors
4-core / 8-core SKUs, no SMT
2.0-2.2GHz base clock, 2.4GHz max turbo
IMC supports dual channel DDR4-2400
PCIe 3.0 lanes
iGPU
integrated audio codec
ZX-200 I/O extension (chipset): SATA3.0, USB 3.1 Gen2, Gigabit Ethernet
OEM: Lenovo desktop M6200

KX-6000: 16nm tick-tock

KX-7000: new uArch, DDR5, PCIe 4.0

Related info:

About VIA & Zhaoxin: wikipedia and wikichip.

KX-5000 preview: image, report

KaiXian KX-5000 series was listed in PCI-SIG integrators list on Nov 10, 2017.

Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-5640 in SiSoftware database.

Zhaoxin ZX-C, KX-5000 series on exhibition on Nov 21, 2017 in Ukraine: report, translation.

KX-5000 CPU arch: block diagram, report, translation.

While differences between men and women might play a part in this they can't wholly explain it. In Germany the percentage of female CS students has been rising for years.. Still only at about quarter but higher than in the US, so culture does seem to play a part.

The linked article has zero information regarding this attack and instead focuses on eBay's attack history; once more, it also links to it's own eBay page so +1 for that.

The one hint it does include is a picture and in the picture you can see that the JavaScript is being inserted into the title of the listing (not sure if that's the actual vulnerability or not though). However, as a security researcher, showing a PoC against a large company requires more than a simple alert(1) and instead should use something such as alert(document.domain). The reason for document.domain is because it will show what hostname the JavaScript is executing under - which means everything when it comes to security.

If this is really an XSS hole and eBay comes back with "it's not that bad", there's a good chance that the JavaScript is executing in an iframe on a separate domain which means attackers would not have important access such as a user's cookies / etc. Instead, they'll only be able to execute arbitrary JavaScript (which is bad, but nothing worse than setting up a bad domain and using SEO tricks to drive traffic to it).

Can anyone find a more relevant article that spills out the actual details of this, or maybe one that includes the actual PoC this researcher has created?

My phone just erased everything it had in it and rebooted. One of the sickest feelings I've ever had in my life!!! ~ Lebron James via Twitter. He later erased the tweet.

Anyone know if this was how NBA player, Lebron James, Samsung was wiped? Its been covered on CNBC's SqwakonStreet today. For those that had not heard, King James basically tweeted the quote above, yesterday(3/12) at 5:03PM, and later erased the tweet. Guessed he realized as a "Famous Samsung Endorser", that might not look great.

End result, his phone was restored...when they announced this I was wondering when his last backup was taken and how many daysold it might have been.

From a German Twitter user, Shibumi @Sh1bumi #Backdoor in #Samsung Smartphones http://www.golem.de/news/samsu... poster, (thank you Google Translate):

Because the modems are always connected basically with a mobile network operator , the backdoor can be used virtually any time . As a possible attack options Kocialkowski lists, in addition to accessing the device memory, the switch on the microphone, activating the GPS module and the access to the camera.

My phone just erased everything it had in it and rebooted. One of the sickest feelings I've ever had in my life!!! ~ Lebron James via Twitter. He later erased the tweet.

Anyone know if this was how NBA player, Lebron James, Samsung was wiped? Its been covered on CNBC's SqwakonStreet today. For those that had not heard, King James basically tweeted the quote above, yesterday(3/12) at 5:03PM, and later erased the tweet. Guessed he realized as a "Famous Samsung Endorser", that might not look great.

End result, his phone was restored...when they announced this I was wondering when his last backup was taken and how many daysold it might have been.

From a German Twitter user, Shibumi @Sh1bumi #Backdoor in #Samsung Smartphones http://www.golem.de/news/samsu... poster, (thank you Google Translate):

Because the modems are always connected basically with a mobile network operator , the backdoor can be used virtually any time . As a possible attack options Kocialkowski lists, in addition to accessing the device memory, the switch on the microphone, activating the GPS module and the access to the camera.

It seems that the law firm got the IP addresses by running ads on RedTube
There's an ongoing investigation and criminal complaint against the responsible lawyer Daniel Sebastian.

According to more recent reports (German) the Court was fooled by this alleged law firm. They've presented the incident to the court as peer to peer file-sharing of copyright protected data, the Court ruled accordingly.

Actually, its "several millions" in Germany alone. The worldwide estimate is more like half a billion, according to this Golem.de article (in German).

There are examinations ongoing if the Telekom is using its market leader position for unfair practices, pecisely because of this.

Nice try. The head of the Federal Network Agency has recently been replaced by a party shill. Same guy who has now to explain a thing or two about how he secured a job for the ex-lover of one of Germany's top politicians of the Christian right.

Upgrading the CPU. Replacing the battery. Adding more RAM. All these will be possible with the modular phone.

http://rhombus-tech.net/
http://aseigo.blogspot.nl/2013/04/the-luminosity-of-free-software-episode.html
http://www.golem.de/news/aaron-seigo-vivaldi-tablet-mit-austauschbarer-open-hardware-1304-98707.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq0Dx04PcHk

reviews in German language/with screenshots: http://heise.de/-1699388 http://www.golem.de/news/opensuse-12-2-verspaetet-und-deshalb-stabil-1209-94353.html

Given the shitty performance of, well, all of Adobe's software, I don't want their programmers anywhere near WebKit. "I come to bury HTML5, not to praise it."

Too bad, Adobe already contributed quite a large amount of code to WebKit, eg. that: http://video.golem.de/handy/3973/adobe-flexible-textlayouts-mit-webkit.html
Mozilla Gecko (Firefox,...) also contain code from Adobe: The NanoJIT part of the JavaScript interpreter.

So if you dislike Adobe code in general, you better use neither products.

Limux is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with KDE 3.5 on top. They do maintain a personalised version of OpenOffice and are keeping Thunderbird and Firefox up to date. source in german (http://www.golem.de/1108/85823.html)

According to what i understand: The leak is confirmed (1) independently and also by one of the WL partners (4), which claimes it was in relation to Daniel Domscheids Bergs (DDB) return of this data and a human error on the side of wikileaks which resulted in a password and the data being published. It has been known to insiders for some time, claims a known german tech Journalist who wrote (3) in a comment to (1), direct link to his commen (6). Several of these suggest that the handling of the data which was returned by DDB to Wikileaks and the uncontrolled release of the data an password were the reasons for DDB to destroy the remaining WL data instead of returning it. Other sources claim he is wrong.

(1) http://netzpolitik.org/2011/leck-bei-wikileaks-bestatigt/

(2) https://netzpolitik.org/2011/leck-bei-wikileaks/

(3) http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34398/1.html

(4) http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,782923,00.html

(5) http://www.golem.de/1108/85993.html

(6) http://netzpolitik.org/2011/leck-bei-wikileaks-bestatigt/#comment-434548

Turns out this is just a repainted version of Relakks... (see http://www.golem.de/0907/68539.html (german))

So what?
http://www.golem.de/0809/62185.html

here's a demo disc image:
http://scr3.golem.de/?d=0706/ecodisc&a=52735&s=5

The warning on that one is much clearer. The plain 'english' still leaves a bit to be desired, but the graphics are quite clear.

the (german) news-site golem.de reported problems with EcoDiscs and Slot-In drives 4.5 months ago...
http://www.golem.de/0707/53797.html

Yes, this was discussed in an earlier Slashdot story, " RIAA Argues That MP3s From CDs Are Unauthorized", and in a bunch of other places:

* Boing Boing p2pnet reddit Heise Online (German) Truemors BlogRunner/Digital Rights Hugh Casey IDG (Polish) Geek News Central CE Pro Gizmodo TechDirt Read/Write Web Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection TDPRI WhatReallyHappened.com Slyck Root.cz (Czech) Craigslist Forums Hard OCP Wired.com Uneasy Silence Overclock.net Wake World SpaceBattles.com Hydrogen Audio BrickFilms.com Hockey Zombie iLounge Zune Scene AllmanBrothersBand.com Golem (German) PC Magazin (German) Tweakers (Dutch) Mackauf (German) Wake Space Kino-eye.com Digital Copyright Canada Northwest Progressive Institute Louisville Music News Frant

Music industry is pleased with Vorratsdatenspeicherung German article

The Bundesrat demands that the data saved for six months should be available to courts in trials about civil law (e.g. copyright infringement). This, of course, pleases the German version of the RIAA.

Switched on cell phones are banned from the whole school compound. If you have something very important to tell your parents, you have to ask a teacher for permission.

But about your other point: Here's an (unfortunately German) article with experts saying there should be an access restriction system to internet sites with those games. God knows what they have planned *shudders*

According to german internet news site "golem.de", it is "Internet Dienstleistungen Kliemen". The page is offline now (it was hosted by arcor.de and had freecity.de redirect ads in a frame, so I guess it was free hosting). The redirect page listed Michael Kliemen (webmaster@kliemen.de) as the author. The onsite contact information was: Internet Dienstleistungen Raimar Kliemen, Hauptstr. 99, 67126 Hochdorf, mail: info@kliemen.de, phone: 0151/10372291 (that's +49-151-10372291 internationally).

To answer myself: PS3 seems to have analog triggers in style of the Gamecube or XBox:

http://scr3.golem.de/screenshots/0605/ps3/controll er_up_black.jpg

This screenshot seems to indicate SUSE has copied the concept of the "phenomenally confusing start menu" from Windows XP. That new start menu in XP is the first thing I turn off. How is it possible that the folks at Novell decided to just chase Microsoft, bad ideas and all, "in the name of user familiarity" rather than make good design decisions on their own? This is one aspect I hope stays in the dumpster. Meanwhile, I'm happy with SUSE 9.2, which runs well on my PIII 555 Mhz Compaq (bought in 2000), so it's just academic to me anyway.

http://scr3.golem.de/?d=0603/Novell_Next_Generatio n_Desktop&a=43914

A linux version of spss was introduced already in 2003 (sorry, page in german). It's a server version, might be no GUI.

have look here. it's a WASD keyboard from Wolf Claw. quite interesting..

Mirror of image

And in case THAT goes down, too, it looks like the layout is roughly like this:


ABCD.^.NOPQ
EFGH.<>.RSTU
IJKLM.v.VWXYZ


Color me not impressed. It looks like a crappy "infant's first keyboard" that Sesame Street would put on a toy computer that barks when you press the "Dog" key.

... because thanks to a german consumer association, if you have bought a retail box of HL2, you no more have to pay Valve the infamous "$10 resell tax". Strangely, this move from Valve has made little publicity.

But if you only have a Steam version of HL2, well you are out of luck. You need to realise you haven't bought any game, but merely pay some subscription fees to access an overhyped content on some buggy and restrictive online service. So technically, you have pretty much nothing to resell. Did you say the advertisement was unclear?

best ...ever? Like Duke is best FPS?
It has never been and will never be released.
If you can read / understand german, just one click away:
http://www.golem.de/0408/32930.html

Damage Studios Reconstruktion.

Best MMORPG ever.

There's a (German) interview with Intel's boss here, just from today:
http://www.golem.de/0511/41748.html

Among other things he says that they are going to invest even more than before in Itanic, that there are vendors out there using it and that it's the only alternative to IBM's Power mainframes.

Well, I'm not buying ;)

here's a closer view of a single cabinet, apparently almost completely assembled.

This one shows the overall design concept for the installation. Here again in a much sexier view

And here is a bluish picture of Gene Simmons which popped up also.

No, she doesn't state that explicity, but she does specifically mention workign with "other commercial entities." Google would probably definitely be on that list ... perhaps even their could be a Google-branded version of Firefox? Integration between a Google-branded Thunderbird and Gmail? Whatever it is, after reading Mitchell's blog, I'm convinced that it's big. Very big. IE-killer big.

Here are two links:

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/19650
http://www.golem.de/0307/26462.html

Both in german, however, because the lawsuits were in Germany and probably not big news in english speaking countries.

This tax was already applied to CD/DVD-burners and blank media.
http://www.golem.de/0301/23447.html(german)
(google tranlation)
The GEMA is/was also trying to get the tax on printers, IIRC ...

The GEZ seldom operates roving vans. Instead, they just knock at your door and require to see either their recipe, or they call the police to forcibly enter your home.

Here, you're reproducing a common German conspiracy theory. Please stop spreading this myth, it lacks any factual basis. The GEZ man is not allowed to enter your home and check. If you let him in, it's your fault. There are cases where the GEZ man threatened to call in the police, but as far as I know, they never actually did. After all, what is the police supposed to do? "Forcibly enter your home"? Is there any documented case where the police forcibly entered anyone's home without their permission on suspicion of not paying the GEZ fee? After all, you can sue even the GEZ man for "Hausfriedensbruch" (literally, breaking the peace of your home, i.e. trespassing) if he enters your home without your permission.

Under German law, the police is not allowed to enter your home without a warrant. A warrant has to be given by a judge upon evidence or strong suspicion of a crime. Note that by not paying the GEZ fee, under German law you are not committing a crime. German penal law distinguishes between crimes ("Straftaten") and minor offenses ("Ordnungswidrigkeiten"). Not paying the GEZ fee is a minor offense, and warrants aren't issued on a minor offense, let alone the mere suspicion of it. I don't remember even seeing a case where the police got called at all, let alone where they forcibly entered people's homes on a GEZ suspicion. There are cases where the GEZ man entered without being allowed, but then he was in break of law, and the victim could have sued him. (Note that in this particular situation [and only there], the evidence obtained by the GEZ man while under break of law is actually considered valid, even when he's sued, but if he's sued, he will not be employed by the GEZ again, as he's a convict in this case.)

If you kindly tell the GEZ man that you have neither a computer nor a TV set, what's he supposed to do? There are all these myths that they go through your garbage to see if you read TV journals, that they rent the flat opposite your own to spy on you and so on, but they usually lack any supportive evidence. According to 4, paragraph 5 of the Rundfunkgebührenstaatsvertrag (the "law" that regulates public broadcasting), they have an "Auskunftsrecht", but this does not pertain to searching your home, just to asking you for a truthful statement on whether you have a TV set. If you have one while stating that you don't, you obviously are in break of law. The GEZ is a bother, and some of their data is obtained by a questionable treatment of government data, but they are not a secret police of some sort, and if you don't believe this, you've never been out of that peaceful German shell where the GEZ man is the biggest of all troubles. They are allowed to go around and ask if you have a TV, and to look through your door and through your window from outside if you actually have one. This is all they're allowed to do, and even for this they need a special law in place.

If you have a TV, while you claim that you don't have any for the purpose of not paying, you are committing a minor offense, like it or not. If your TV or your PC is visible from the street or from the door when you open it to the GEZ man, you are admitting to this minor offense. I mean, under German law you are required to pay this fee if you have a TV, like it or not. This is all of the "big trouble" you're in. If you don't like it, join one of the various petitions, but in the meantime, you are still obliged to pay it, whether you watch ARD or not.

If you're German

Hi! Your post was about the look of a gaming machine- You must be new to these, I can tell. Let me show you around.

Nonslashdotted link (in German, though)

Sure look Here

the magazines i read regulary in austria (schwarzenegger) are c't, iX and the online-mag telepolis. on telepolis there're english articles too and an interessting column named WTC Conspiracy, with the first article about 9/11 posted on 9/13! other good literature is: linux magazine, freeX and of course SPIEGEL. on the web good places are golem, ORF, n-tv. unfortunately are the english magazines quite expensive (wired or hustler, both over EUR 10|-!). grtngs

Of course the Greens are mostly anti-technological progress.

Really? Who is pushing alternate energies, wind power, solar technology etc.? Whose electorate is the most likely to be "online" (78 percent)? Or do you mean their hostility towards a 60s technology that turned out to have incalculable risks and where still no one knows where to put the highly radioactive waste with a half-life of ten thousands of years? That cost US government and population at least half a trillion dollars?

Or is it their refusal to allow corporations like Monsanto insane profits (from bio-patents) from increased use of pesticides (by e.g. marketing herbicide-resistant genetically engineered maize, and plants that produce pesticides themselves)?

Nearly every piece of software I use looks like that. Really. There is a massive tidal wave of uncalled-for overreaction by the Mac zealots here -- all of which are rapidly being moderated up to +5, Insightful in what is fast becoming yet another infomercial for Apple on a "supposed" open-source site. I would have thought that there would be less reactionary name-calling and product-promoting, and more balanced thinking and unbiased discussion, but of course I was wrong.

What happened to "standing on the shoulders of giants?" Does Ferrari attack BMW for "stealing" their idea of having nice rounded edges, or putting their engine in the same place, or having the dashboards designed very similarly? No, because that would be moronic. Certain aesthetic designs are just naturally good. Efficient. Nice. Natural. Self-evident. And they SHOULD be copied. That's how we progress. We take the good from other designs, add more good to it, and that forces others to improve on our designs in order to compete. Not that I'm saying the Linspire apps are any good or not, I haven't used them, and I refuse to use their stuff on ethical grounds, but what's even more disgusting than Linspire still being allowed to live is the absolute selfish egotistical zealotry of the mac faithful who actually are so deluded to compare Apple's apps with these rookie Linspire apps and demand a boycott based on some bizarre notion of "cool design theft".

Look at screenshots of iTunes, iPhoto, then these Linspire apps side by side. Do you REALLY think these apps look the same? Be honest. The Linspire apps have SOME SHARED BASIC CHARACTERISTICS -- AS SHOULD ALL APPS WHICH DO THE SAME THING, but are different in other ways as well. Should Apple get in trouble for stealing their GarageBand Interface from the other music creation apps out there, such as ACID? (very old version screenshot) NO! Software is a TOOL, and every tool that is intended to do the same thing MUST share characteristics if it is to be useful.

Think about it in simpler, more universal terms: Do you think if Apple invented a tool such as the fork they'd expect everyone else to eat with their hands forever because they were the first ones to pick up a piece of wood and put food on it? No. If someone else tries to make a fork with tines, should Apple be able to prevent them from doing this, thus ensuring a monopoly? No. Society is about working TOGETHER to a degree, building off other's work; it's part of competition. Competition cannot happen if one group can demand that other groups stop advancement because their forks are too similar, WHEN THAT DESIGN IS SELF-APPARENT. And Apple WASN'T the first ones to have designs like this. They took the originals and improved on it (see my GarageBand example above). But they shouldn't be restricted from using tracks for a music sequencer just because the other guys did it first. You can't claim ownership of things at that low of a level.

How about this? It's an ancient Windows program. It seems to have all the same features that make a photo program useful, but it's laid out in reverse (less logical order for Western society, where we tend to read from left to right).

Left side = main category, right side = subcategory, etc. Other MP3 software looks like that, the Agent Newsreader I use every day is even MORE similar, popular

Nearly every piece of software I use looks like that. Really. There is a massive tidal wave of uncalled-for overreaction by the Mac zealots here -- all of which are rapidly being moderated up to +5, Insightful in what is fast becoming yet another infomercial for Apple on a "supposed" open-source site. I would have thought that there would be less reactionary name-calling and product-promoting, and more balanced thinking and unbiased discussion, but of course I was wrong.

What happened to "standing on the shoulders of giants?" Does Ferrari attack BMW for "stealing" their idea of having nice rounded edges, or putting their engine in the same place, or having the dashboards designed very similarly? No, because that would be moronic. Certain aesthetic designs are just naturally good. Efficient. Nice. Natural. Self-evident. And they SHOULD be copied. That's how we progress. We take the good from other designs, add more good to it, and that forces others to improve on our designs in order to compete. Not that I'm saying the Linspire apps are any good or not, I haven't used them, and I refuse to use their stuff on ethical grounds, but what's even more disgusting than Linspire still being allowed to live is the absolute selfish egotistical zealotry of the mac faithful who actually are so deluded to compare Apple's apps with these rookie Linspire apps and demand a boycott based on some bizarre notion of "cool design theft".

Look at screenshots of iTunes, iPhoto, then these Linspire apps side by side. Do you REALLY think these apps look the same? Be honest. The Linspire apps have SOME SHARED BASIC CHARACTERISTICS -- AS SHOULD ALL APPS WHICH DO THE SAME THING, but are different in other ways as well. Should Apple get in trouble for stealing their GarageBand Interface from the other music creation apps out there, such as ACID? (very old version screenshot) NO! Software is a TOOL, and every tool that is intended to do the same thing MUST share characteristics if it is to be useful.

Think about it in simpler, more universal terms: Do you think if Apple invented a tool such as the fork they'd expect everyone else to eat with their hands forever because they were the first ones to pick up a piece of wood and put food on it? No. If someone else tries to make a fork with tines, should Apple be able to prevent them from doing this, thus ensuring a monopoly? No. Society is about working TOGETHER to a degree, building off other's work; it's part of competition. Competition cannot happen if one group can demand that other groups stop advancement because their forks are too similar, WHEN THAT DESIGN IS SELF-APPARENT. And Apple WASN'T the first ones to have designs like this. They took the originals and improved on it (see my GarageBand example above). But they shouldn't be restricted from using tracks for a music sequencer just because the other guys did it first. You can't claim ownership of things at that low of a level.

How about this? It's an ancient Windows program. It seems to have all the same features that make a photo program useful, but it's laid out in reverse (less logical order for Western society, where we tend to read from left to right).

Left side = main category, right side = subcategory, etc. Other MP3 software looks like that, the Agent Newsreader I use every day is even MORE similar, popular

To be honest, I've not been actively reading gaming mags, so I can't say exactly how poorly gamers view the N-Gage.

However, one German IT site reviewed it in November and gave it a failing grade because it wasn't good at either gaming or a cell phone.

They also report that a German discount chain sold the N-Gage starting April 1 for 159 EUR, without contract binding. It sounds like Nokia is trying to clear out their stock to make way for the new, cheaper version that has fixed a number of flaws that the previous version had: sidetalking, 4k colors, etc.

I don't think that it's much of a liability that there's no MP3 player included: the comments on the original article pointed out that there is one available.

Now, on a more offbeat note, if it indeed were the case that N-Gages were popular among child molesters, it would mean that N-Gages are popular among young people. It would not necessarily mean that such creeps like it for themselves. At any rate, I doubt a headline like that would ever make it to press, because there would be enough positive headlines to fend off a stupid attack like that. Come to think of it, I suppose 9 out of 10 child molesters agree that computers are an absolute necessity. And the internet, too. But that doesn't make either computers or the internet unpopular. But we do know how often people like that get caught by undercover police officers.

All in all, I think that Nokia is doing the right thing with this revision and that they have a chance to make right what they messed up last time.

To be honest, I've not been actively reading gaming mags, so I can't say exactly how poorly gamers view the N-Gage.

However, one German IT site reviewed it in November and gave it a failing grade because it wasn't good at either gaming or a cell phone.

They also report that a German discount chain sold the N-Gage starting April 1 for 159 EUR, without contract binding. It sounds like Nokia is trying to clear out their stock to make way for the new, cheaper version that has fixed a number of flaws that the previous version had: sidetalking, 4k colors, etc.

I don't think that it's much of a liability that there's no MP3 player included: the comments on the original article pointed out that there is one available.

Now, on a more offbeat note, if it indeed were the case that N-Gages were popular among child molesters, it would mean that N-Gages are popular among young people. It would not necessarily mean that such creeps like it for themselves. At any rate, I doubt a headline like that would ever make it to press, because there would be enough positive headlines to fend off a stupid attack like that. Come to think of it, I suppose 9 out of 10 child molesters agree that computers are an absolute necessity. And the internet, too. But that doesn't make either computers or the internet unpopular. But we do know how often people like that get caught by undercover police officers.

All in all, I think that Nokia is doing the right thing with this revision and that they have a chance to make right what they messed up last time.