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Wednesday, 6-June-2018 14:56:46 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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A major data breach has exposed the personal info of lots of Australian job-seekers. The company has a long list of major Australian companies as clients, with the ABC confirming Target, Telstra, Reserve Bank of Australia, Medibank, Officeworks, Kmart, NAB, Aldi, Linfox, Coles, Australia Post and Lindt as clients of the company. Some companies used PageUp's software only for recruitment, while others used the technology for more expansive human resources information like salary information, bank details, tax numbers and other sensitive personal data.
The head of NBN Co has apparently blamed gamers for slow NBN speeds. At a parliamentary hearing in Sydney this afternoon, NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow said that the heavy users likely targeted by a fair use policy were "gamers predominantly". However in the wake of considerable gamer ire and bandwidth usage facts, they have clarified the earlier statement. NBN Co is insisting its CEO Bill Morrow only singled out online gamers as an "example" of heavy users that contributed to overloading the system in periods of peak demand, rather than "blaming" them for congestion. Discussion here.
This month marks the 100th birthday of a crucial electronic component: the flip-flop. The second half of the 20th century saw the basic principles of the Eccles-Jordan trigger modified and updated dramatically. Transistors replaced the triodes, various flavors (JK-, SR-, D-, and T-types) were developed, and everything was miniaturized onto integrated circuits. But no matter how small the circuit, the same basic topology of cross-connected inverting amplifiers is still at the heart of it all.
Intel have announced a limited edition anniversary CPU, the 5GHz i7-8086K, to mark 40 years since the original 8086 appeared. This new 8th-gen Core chip maxes out at a dizzying 5GHz turbo frequency, with a default 4GHz clock speed out of the box. Intel is releasing the new Core i7 part on June 8th, the exact anniversary of the 8086’s release. Being a K-series processor, the Core i7-8086K also has its multiplier unlocked and is ready for overclocking to even more extreme speeds, should you feel the need. More info here, here and here, thanks adz.
AMD meanwhile have revealed the Threadripper 2 at Computex. AMD’s Zeppelin silicon has 8 cores, and the first generation Threadripper uses two of them to get to the top-SKU of 16-cores. Inside the CPU however, there are four pieces of silicon: two active and two inactive. For this second generation of Threadripper, called Threadripper 2 or the Threadripper 2000-series, AMD is going to make these inactive dies into active ones, and substantially increase the core count for the high-end desktop and workstation user.
Lots more from Computex on TechARP: Day 1 and Day 2 live coverage, Jensen Huang's nVidia press conference (and a later private briefing) and Intel's accouncements.
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