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- Random: Elden Ring Just Dethroned Mario Odyssey At The Top Of OpenCritic's 'Best Game' List - Nintendo Life
- Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake chips for thinner and lighter laptops have arrived - The Verge
- Over 100 million Samsung smartphones shipped with a fatal security flaw - SamMobile
| Posted: 23 Feb 2022 10:45 AM PST  Elden Ring isn't on Switch, and that's a shame because it's shaping up to be one of 2022's most acclaimed titles if early reviews are anything to go by. OpenCritic – which, like rival Metacritic, aggregates review scores – has just confirmed that an hour or so after the review embargo ended, Elden Ring has topped its 'best game of all time' list, overtaking Super Mario Odyssey and Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (which are 2nd and 3rd respectively). However, over at Metacritic, Elden Ring is (at the time of writing) ranked as the 13th greatest game of all time; Ocarina of Time is still in the top spot, with a Metascore of 99. Our pals over at Push Square have posted a 'review in progress', but have this to say:
Are you planning on picking up Elden Ring on another system this week? There's no shame in admitting it! Let us know with a comment below. |
| Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake chips for thinner and lighter laptops have arrived - The Verge Posted: 23 Feb 2022 08:00 AM PST  Intel launched the first wave of its 12th Gen Alder Lake chips at CES 2022 — but only for its H-series lineup of chips, destined for the most powerful and power-hungry laptops. And now, it's rolling out the rest of its Alder Lake laptop lineup: the P-series and U-series models it briefly showed off in January, which are set to power the thinner, lighter, and cheaper laptops of 2022. In total, there are a whopping 20 chips fit for a wide range of hardware across the P-series, U-series (15W), and U-series (9W) categories, with the first laptops powered by the new processors set to arrive in March. Like their more powerful H-series cousins (and the Alder Lake desktop chips that Intel launched in late 2021 and at CES 2022), the new P-series and U-series chips have a lot more cores than 2020's 11th Gen models, with a hybrid architecture approach that combines performance and efficiency cores to maximize both power and battery life. And Intel is promising some big improvements focused around those boosted core counts, touting up to 70 percent better multi-thread performance than previous 11th Gen (and AMD) hardware. The company also says that it wins out in benchmarks against chips like Apple's M1 and M1 Pro (although not the M1 Max), and AMD's Ryzen R7 5800U in tasks like web browsing and photo editing — although we'll have to see how that performance holds up ourselves when the first chips arrive next month. Intel is rethinking how it labels its ultraportable line of chips this year, with the 28W models (previously under the U-series umbrella) getting broken out into its own P-series brand. The P-series chips, while drawing less power than their H-series counterparts, are similar in a lot of respects, including core count: the top-tier Core i7-1280P has the same 14-core (six performance, eight efficient) breakdown as the top i9 and i7 models on the H-series lineup, although with (obviously) lower clock speeds and overall performance. The U-series models, meanwhile, will feature fewer cores than the P-series, with all the U-series models only offering two performance cores, regardless of which chip your laptop has or how much wattage it uses. Total core count (between six and 10) will depend on how many efficient cores each model has. The new chips also feature Intel's integrated Iris Xe graphics (while manufacturers can, in theory, add discrete GPUs, including Intel's upcoming Arc graphics, it'll be a rare addition on the new models). There's support for a variety of modern laptop standards, including Wi-Fi 6E, Thunderbolt 4, and PCIe 4.0 (although, notably, not HDMI 2.1). In her review of the first Alder Lake laptop, the ultra-premium MSI GE76 Raider, The Verge's Monica Chin noted the H-series versions of the chips largely held up to Intel's big performance claims, although she noted concerns over battery life — which will certainly be something to keep an eye on when the first P-series and U-series laptops debut in March. The new P-series and U-series chips will also be part of Intel's third-generation Evo standard, which adds new "intelligent collaboration" requirements that include at least a 1080p webcam and Wi-Fi 6E networking, along with the existing battery, fast charging, and other requirements. |
| Over 100 million Samsung smartphones shipped with a fatal security flaw - SamMobile Posted: 23 Feb 2022 02:06 AM PST  Samsung is pretty adept at delivering security updates to its vast repertoire of devices, very often before Google gets around to it. However, many Samsung smartphones sold over the past few years shipped with an embarrassing security flaw that could let hackers extract sensitive information from the devices. Multiple generations of Samsung phones were afflictedResearchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel found that several Galaxy S8, Galaxy S9, Galaxy S10, Galaxy S20, and Galaxy S21 phones models didn't store their cryptographic keys properly, effectively allowing hackers to extract the information stored in them, which could include sensitive data such as passwords. The entire report, which can be read here walks through how the researchers bypassed security measures on Samsung devices. Most of it is tech jargon and will make little sense to anyone without a security background. That leaves us with one important question, though. Should you be worried about it? The answer to that is no, primarily because the aforementioned issues have already been patched by Samsung, which was notified of the problem promptly after it was discovered. The first fix started rolling out with the August 2021 security patch and a subsequent vulnerability was addressed with the October 2021 patch. However, you might want to consider updating your Samsung phone if it on an older security patch. If Samsung has stopped supporting your device, you may have to rely on third-party custom ROMs with updated security. |
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