What You Need to Know. It’s that time of year when Intel, the largest maker of laptop and desktop processors in the world, announces the guts of your future PC. These CPUs are always a little faster and a a little more battery efficient. This year Intel is launching it’s latest processor on the same day as the first major solar eclipse in North America in four decades. Kaby Lake R is the 8th generation Core processor from Intel. It’s fast, efficient, and it’s going to be coming to a lot of very thin laptops later this year. This is the third iteration of the Skylake microarchitecture Intel introduced back in 2. It is still a 1. 4 nanometers, and as with its predecessors, Skylake and Kaby Lake, Kaby Lake R is still focused on speed and battery life improvements. Yet, while Intel’s claiming big gains in both those areas, Kaby Lake R isn’t a major headline grabbing processor family like Skylake, or AMD’s new Ryzen were. It’s just.. faster. How much faster? While we haven’t had the opportunity to benchmark Kaby Lake Rprocessors against their Kaby Lake predecessors or the sweet Ryzen chips from AMD, we do have lots and lots of bold speed claims from Intel itself. These claims revolve around the 1. Kaby Lake Rprocessors—those are the ones you’re likely to find in super thin and light laptops: Think the Dell XPS 1. Razer Stealth (though no companies have announced support for these processors yet). According to Intel, Kaby Lake R is an average of 4. Kaby Lake when it comes to crunching numbers in Excel. Intel also claims it can process photographs in Adobe Lightroom up to 2. The biggest speed claims come when Intel compared Kaby Lake R to processors from five years ago. According to the CPU maker, a 4. K video can be rendered in just three minutes when it would have taken 4. This kind of speed comparison is Intel’s way of enticing old computer owners into an upgrade. What about battery life? In the case of the first processors from the new Kaby Lake R family, Intel is claiming up to 1. K content. In the same tests on Kaby Lake last year Intel averaged around 7 hours of battery life. That’s a whole lot more Defenders you can watch on your laptop in one sitting. Is there anything else special about it? There is one very cool thing about Intel’s latest processors. The company is packing more cores onto the processor itself. So the 1. 5- watt processors that are the focus of today’s announcement have four cores on them. In previous generations there were just two. More cores means the processor has the ability to process more data more efficiently. People who perform processor intensive tasks, like rendering video or images, will see the best performance upgrade from the additional cores. When can I buy these things? If you’re hoping you can just go out and snag a Kaby Lake Rprocessor today and jam it in your PC you are out of luck. The biggest speed claims come when Intel compared Kaby Lake R to processors from five years ago. According to the CPU maker, a 4K video can be rendered in just three. Intel has only announced it’s 1. U- Series” processors today. Those are the ones appearing in laptops and 2- in- 1s. Which means acquiring them depends on which companies, like Dell and Asus, actually release products with this brand of Intel inside. Other Kaby Lake R processors, such as desktop processors and those intended for ultra lower power computing devices like the Apple Macbook, will be announced over the coming months. For now there are just four processors available: If you’re hoping to buy a laptop with Kaby Lake R inside keep a close watch on what’s announced at Gamescon this week in Cologne and IFA in Berlin next week. Update 8/3. 1: This post originally referred to Kaby Lake R as Coffee Lake.
That is inaccurate and the two microarchitectures are different. We regret the error. Google Removes 3. Apps Used to Launch DDo. S Attacks From Play Store. Google has removed roughly 3. Play Store after security researchers from several internet infrastructure companies discovered that the seemingly harmless apps—offering video players and ringtones, among other features—were secretly hijacking Android devices to provide traffic for large- scale distributed denial of service (DDo. S) attacks. The botnet, nicknamed Wire. X, caught the attention of security researchers at the content delivery network Akamai when it was used to attack one of its clients earlier this month. Akamai’s client, a multinational hospitality company, was hit with traffic from hundreds of thousands of IP addresses. We identified approximately 3. Play Store, and we’re in the process of removing them from all affected devices,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement. The researchers’ findings, combined with our own analysis, have enabled us to better protect Android users, everywhere.” The nefarious apps provided a variety of apparently legitimate services, with malware hidden underneath that could use an Android device to quietly participate in a DDo. S attack, so long as the device was powered on. It’s not clear how many devices were infected—one Akamai researcher told journalist Brian Krebs that that number could be around 7. After noticing the attack on one of its customers, Akamai brought in researchers from a handful of tech companies including Cloudflare, Flashpoint, Google, Oracle Dyn, Risk. IQ, and Team Cymru. The group believes that the infected devices are spread throughout 1. In one instance, a Wire. X attack was accompanied by a ransom email, Cloudflare’s head of trust and safety Justin Paine told Gizmodo. Once the larger collaborative effort began, the investigation began to unfold rapidly starting with the investigation of historic log information, which revealed a connection between the attacking IPs and something malicious, possibly running on top of the Android operating system,” the researchers wrote in a joint blog post. The best thing that organizations can do when under a DDo. S attack is to share detailed metrics related to the attack. With this information, those of us who are empowered to dismantle these schemes can learn much more about them than would otherwise be possible.”This is just the latest example of apps containing malware making their way into the Google Play Store. Earlier this month, Google booted several apps that contained hidden surveillance software. Just last week, researchers found banking malware in the Play Store. With all these apps sneaking into Play, it’s up to you to protect yourself and your Android device. If you’re ever in doubt about whether an app is safe, do some research on the developer and check out what permissions the app wants on your phone. You’ve spotted an app, site, or service you like the look of, it’s completely free to use, and so…Read more [Akamai, Krebs on Security].
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