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India vows to fix cash crunch as ATMs run empty — again

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India vows to fix cash crunch as ATMs run empty — again.
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  • Less than 18 months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a ban on high-denomination banknotes, India's government was forced into damage limitation mode on Tuesday after reports emerged that some ATMs in the country were running dry.
  • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said late Tuesday that regional shortages of cash were likely "largely due to logistical issues of replenishing ATMs frequently."
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Intel is offloading virus scanning to its GPUs

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Intel’s Threat Detection Technology will be available on 6th, 7th, and 8th generation Intel processors, allowing a variety of machines to take advantage of moving some virus scanning activity to the GPU instead of the CPU. Virus scanners currently use the CPU to detect against memory-based attacks, but a machine takes a performance hit as a result. Intel hopes by moving this way from the CPU that performance and power consumption will improve, as typical machines do not fully utilize onboard graphics cards most of the time. “Early benchmarking on Intel test systems show CPU utilization dropped from 20 percent to as little as 2 percent.”

MICROSOFT IS THE FIRST TO SUPPORT INTEL’S NEW CHANGES

Intel is partnering with Microsoft to support this initially, with the change coming to Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) this month. Intel is also working with other antivirus vendors so others can take advantage of this silicon-level change.

Intel is offloading virus scanning to its GPUs to improve performance and battery life
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Purchased WD SSD and Hard Drive enclosure

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nulll said:
Congratulations.. and nice performance numbers comparison.. I find using non-SSD laptops frustrating due to their slow boot up & any major copy/search operations.
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Yes Bro, laptop boots in few seconds and almost all application opens instantly.
Hard disk drives are very slow and it becomes extremely slow if there is any major background task is going on such as installing updates or copy / paste but, SSD doesn't slow down.
HDD is best for storing files.

nulll said:
You plan to use it just as a portable drive OR want to plug it into your computer/laptop as a fixed drive permanently?
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I replaced my laptop internal HDD with SSD. And using HDD as external hard drive.
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Breaking Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium

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Sony is putting a 5.8-inch 4K display in the XZ2 Premium, an improvement over the 5.7-inch Full HD+ (1080 x 2160) screen on the regular XZ2. Both of them support HDR video. When you’re watching videos, listening to music, or playing games, you’ll notice the new vibration system that debuted in the XZ2; it’s meant to provide rumble feedback to match whatever’s happening on screen, but felt somewhat gimmicky in my hands-on time with the standard model.


Sony’s Xperia XZ2 Premium has a 4K display and cameras built for ‘extreme’ low-light shooting
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Munna Bhai' Caught at AIIMS

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Delhi Police have arrested a 19-year-old medical aspirant who was impersonating as an AIIMS doctor for the past five months. The accused, Adnan Khurram, used his fake identity to make friends across departments and among medical students. He even participated in events meant for doctors – from strikes to marathon, said the AIIMS resident doctors’ association. When police arrested him on Saturday, they were surprised by his ‘knowledge’ of medicines, the names of doctors and department heads at AIIMS. The accused also had accessed a diary issued to the doctors

Delhi man pretends to be doctor in AIIMS for 5 months, police say surprised by his knowledge of medicines | delhi news | Hindustan Times
'Munna Bhai' Caught at AIIMS: Man With No Medical Education Poses as Doctor at India's Top Medical Facility for 5 Months, Identified and Handed to Police | LatestLY
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System firmware Can Be Erased or Corrupted After Boot

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Intel has issued new guidance relating to SPI controllers inside multiple Intel chipsets. The configuration of the system firmware device (SPI flash) could allow an attacker to block BIOS/UEFI updates, or to selectively erase or corrupt portions of the firmware. This would most likely result in a visible malfunction, but could in rare circumstances result in arbitrary code execution.

Severity: High

Scope of Impact: Industry-wide

CVE Identifier: CVE-2017-5703

Affected products:
Platforms based on:

8th generation Intel® Core™ Processors
7th generation Intel® Core™ Processors
6th generation Intel® Core™ Processors
5th generation Intel® Core™ Processors
Intel® Pentium® and Celeron® Processor N3520, N2920, and N28XX
Intel® Atom™ Processor x7-Z8XXX, x5-8XXX Processor Family
Intel® Pentium™ Processor J3710 and N37XX
Intel® Celeron™ Processor J3XXX
Intel® Atom™ x5-E8000 Processor
Intel® Pentium® Processor J4205 and N4200
Intel® Celeron® Processor J3455, J3355, N3350, and N3450
Intel® Atom™ Processor x7-E39XX Processor
Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors
Intel® Xeon® Processor E3 v6 Family
Intel® Xeon® Processor E3 v5 Family
Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 v4 Family
Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 v3 Family
Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 v2 Family
Intel® Xeon® Phi™ Processor x200
Intel® Xeon® Processor D Family
Intel® Atom™ Processor C Series

Mitigation Strategy for Customers (what you should do to protect yourself):
update to the appropriate BIOS/UEFI version with the Intel recommended changes for your model

Intel® Product Security Center

For lenovo computer instruction is here
System firmware Can Be Erased or Corrupted After Boot

For other manufacturer check your computer manufacturer website for BIOS update
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