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Spain's defence ministry is investigating after one of its fighter jets accidentally fired a missile over Estonia during a training mission. The incident happened on Tuesday afternoon "in an area of southwest Estonia authorised for this type of exercise", the ministry said. It added that the air-to-air missile did not cause damage and was designed to self-destruct. But Estonia's military says it is looking for the remains of the missile. "A Spanish Eurofighter based in Lithuania accidentally fired a missile without causing any harm," Spain's defence ministry said in a statement. "The air-to-air missile has not hit any aircraft. [We] have opened an investigation to clarify the exact cause of the incident." The missile was reportedly carrying up to 10kg (22lb) of explosives and is thought to have landed 24 miles (40km) north of the Estonian city of Tartu. Two Spanish jets and two French jets were taking part in an exercise as part of Nato's Baltic Air Policing mission when the incident happened. On Wednesday, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg offered his full support to Estonian Prime Minister Jüri Ratas. "Nato is committed to the defence of all allies and we will continue to safeguard the airspace... in the Baltic region," a spokesperson said in a statement. Mr Ratas earlier described the incident as "startling" and "extremely regrettable" in a Facebook post. "This is a serious case, and we are very concerned about this. Thank God, no one was known to be injured as a result of the incident," he wrote. He added: "I am sure that the Estonian defence forces will... make every effort to make sure that nothing like this happens again."

Intel’s new SSD 600p NVMe SSD marks the arrival of the first consumer drive with QLC flash. The new flash technology brings along the promise of lower prices and more capacious storage devices in the future, but it already looks good today. The SSD 660p communicates over a fast PCIe 3.0 x4 link to deliver solid performance numbers of up to 1.8 GB/s of throughput and offers surprisingly good performance in random workloads. If that wasn’t enough, the 660P comes with a five-year warranty and an MSRP below $0.20-per-GB, which is cheaper than many budget SATA SSDs with three-year warranties. We tested the 1TB model, which has an MSRP of $199, but the 512GB $99 model is all that’s available at launch, and what you’ll find in our buy buttons below. VERDICT The Intel SSD 660p offers high capacity, solid performance in real-world workloads, and impressive power efficiency. With prices at just $0.20-per-GB, nothing on the market comes close to it in value, but our recommendation comes with a caveat. You should select a drive with higher endurance if you commonly use productivity applications or have heavy workloads. We put the Intel SSD 660p to the test and found that it offers a surprising amount of performance given its low price point. If your workload trends towards mundane daily tasks, like content consumption, office work, and web browsing, the 660p is a great solution with plenty of performance and endurance for most users. While this all sounds too good to be true, it’s not. Intel has a strong track record for developing new and innovative storage technology. The company was the first to bring NVMe SSDs to market three years ago with the Intel SSD 750 series, and it also developed the exotic 3D XPoint memory that it uses in the Optane products. Intel’s 64-layer 3D QLC flash technology is the next step to boosting flash storage capacity. MLC flash stores two bits per cell and TLC flash stores three, but QLC crams four bits into each cell. The 33% increase in density ultimately equates to more storage capacity for less money. Intel's QLC flash enables up to one 1-terabit (125GB) of storage capacity in a single die. SSD vendors can pack up to 16 die into a single package, which means QLC enables up to 2TB per package. Just like Intel's other flash technology, QLC flash leverages the tried-and-true vertical floating gate flash cell design. Competing flash from other foundries, which are also well underway with QLC development, use charge trap designs. WD and its partner Toshiba recently announced they are sampling a higher-capacity 1.33-terabit QLC chips marketed as BiCS4, but the companies haven't announced end products yet. Like any unproven technology, there are skeptics. High-capacity and inexpensive flash is music to everyone’s ears, but QLC has an Achilles heel. Well, two. QLC NAND has lower write performance and less endurance than MLC or TLC flash because it stores 16 different charge levels per cell to represent four bits of data. Due to the physical characteristics of flash, it's a challenge to store and modify 16 charge levels at the nanometer scale, especially as the flash ages. Cell-to-cell interference complicates the task. Intel claims the 3D floating gate design helps isolate the cells to reduce interference. In either case, sophisticated error correction algorithms, such as LDPC, are a key ingredient to boosting endurance. Intel sidesteps many of the performance challenges associated with QLC flash by tweaking the firmware and using intelligent idle time performance adjustments. Intel's Intelligent Dynamic SLC-Caching, which uses a pool of fast SLC flash to boost performance for incoming write data, takes a two-step approach. First, the 660p has a static SLC cache that is 6GB, 12GB, or 24GB, depending upon SSD capacity. The static cache capacity never changes, but the SSD has a larger dynamic SLC cache pool that boosts performance further. The dynamic cache capacity adjusts bi-directionally based upon the amount of data stored on the SSD. In other words, the cache shrinks as you fill up the drive but expands as you delete items. Higher-capacity 660p's have larger dynamic SLC caches, as outlined in the chart above. The SLC pool flushes to the QLC flash during idle periods, but Intel has a new on-demand performance boost option if you need your SLC performance back right away after bombarding the drive with writes. The feature allows you to flush the SLC cache to the QLC flash manually. Intel added this feature to its SSD optimizer in SSD Toolbox version 3.5.3. Only the 512GB model will be available at launch, but the 1TB and 2TB models will be available soon after through the normal distribution channels. Intel rates the 1TB and 2TB models for 1.8 GB/s of sequential read/write throughput, but the 512GB model steps back to 1.5/1 GB/s read/write. The write specification is based on the 660p’s dynamic SLC cache, however, so the drive could slow during extended write workloads when the workload spills over to the native QLC flash. We simulated the condition with a worst-case test, and the 1TB model fell to ~100 MB/s after writing 130GB of data from an empty state. Given the size of the 660p's SLC caches, you will likely never encounter this condition. The 2TB Intel SSD 660p provides up to 220,000/200,000 random read/write IOPS, but the smaller models have slower random read performance. Our 1TB model provides up to 150,00 random read IOPS. Intel rates the 660p’s endurance as 100TBW per 512GB, or just over 0.1 drive write per day over the five-year warranty period. The 660p’s endurance is (on average) 33 percent lower than other PCIe based SSDs and roughly half that of budget SATA SSDs. Two hundred terabytes of write endurance might not seem like a lot, but Intel says it should be enough for most light, bursty workloads in desktop PCs. If your workloads are more intense, like frequent large file transfers, video processing, or workstation-class applications, other more endurant SSDs are a better choice. The 660p features AES-256 encryption with Pyrite 1.0 and 2.0 support, which is a nice addition for the security conscious. The Intel SSD 660p is a PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD that comes in an M.2 2280 single-sided form factor. It communicates with the host system via the NVMe 1.3 protocol and weighs in at just 5.5g. There are two 512GB 64-layer QLC flash emplacements on the PCB. The 660p comes with SMI's 2263 SSD controller and Intel's proprietary firmware. A single 256MB NANYA DDR3L DRAM chip flanks the controller. Most SSDs have a 1MB of DRAM to 1GB of flash ratio, but the Intel 660p has 1MB of DRAM per 4GB of flash. Intel could be compressing the LBA map or might have implemented the Host Memory Buffer (HMB) feature, which stores a portion of the LBA map in system memory.

US President Donald Trump has issued a strong warning to anyone trading with Iran, following his re-imposition of sanctions on the country. "Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States," the president tweeted. Some re-imposed sanctions took effect overnight and tougher ones relating to oil exports will begin in November. Iran's president said the measures were "psychological warfare" which aimed to "sow division among Iranians". The sanctions follow the US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as the Iran nuclear deal, earlier this year. The deal, negotiated during the presidency of Barack Obama, saw Iran limit its controversial nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. Mr Trump has called the deal "one-sided", "disastrous" and the "worst I've ever seen". He believes renewed economic pressure will force Iran to agree to a new deal. The European Union, which remains committed to the original agreement. has spoken out against the sanctions, vowing to protect firms doing "legitimate business". On Monday he had said that Iran faced a choice to "either change its threatening, destabilising behaviour and reintegrate with the global economy, or continue down a path of economic isolation". "I remain open to reaching a more comprehensive deal that addresses the full range of the regime's malign activities, including its ballistic missile programme and its support for terrorism," he said. What are the sanctions? Mr Trump signed an executive order that brought sanctions back into place at 00:01 EDT (04:01 GMT) on Tuesday. They target: The purchase or acquisition of US banknotes by Iran's government Iran's trade in gold and other precious metals Graphite, aluminium, steel, coal and software used in industrial processes Transactions related to the Iranian rial currency Activities relating to Iran's issuance of sovereign debt Iran's automotive sector A second phase is planned to come back into effect on 5 November which will have implications for Iran's energy and shipping sectors, petroleum trading and transactions by foreign financial institutions with the Central Bank of Iran. What has the reaction been? Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the US government had "turned their back on diplomacy". "They want to launch psychological warfare against the Iranian nation." he said. "Negotiations with sanctions doesn't make sense. We are always in favour of diplomacy and talks... but talks need honesty," He also accused the Trump administration of using Iran as domestic political leverage ahead of November's midterm elections in the United States. The foreign ministers of Germany, the UK and France released a statement on Monday that said the nuclear deal remained "crucial" to global security. They also unveiled a "blocking statute" which is intended to protect European firms doing business with Iran despite the new US sanctions. Alistair Burt, the UK's minister of state for the Middle East, told the BBC: "If a company fears legal action taken against it and enforcement action taken against it by an entity in response to American sanctions, then that company can be protected as far as EU legislation is concerned." He said Iran would simply "batten down the hatches" until the next US election. However, German car and lorry maker Daimler, which announced a joint venture in Iran last year, confirmed this week that it has now ceased activities in the country. One anonymous senior US official said that the administration was "not particularly concerned" by EU protection efforts. How will Iran's economy be affected? Iran has seen unrest since last December over a poorly-performing economy. Rising food prices, unemployment and even poor water supplies have led to protests in a number of cities. Demonstrations in Tehran in June were said to be the capital's biggest since 2012. How much they are tied to the new US sanctions policy is hard to determine, but one definite link is the effect on Iran's currency. It has lost around half of its value since Mr Trump announced the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal. Iran is easing its foreign exchange rules to try to bolster the rial, and the currency's fall has been stabilised this month. Iranians have been hoarding gold as a safeguard, pushing it to a record high in Tehran. The sanctions may bite hardest in November, when the US blocks Iranian oil sales. This could halt about half of Iran's exports of some two million barrels a day, although Iran may look to China and Russia to keep its industry afloat. The International Monetary Fund said in March that Iran's net official reserves could decline this year to $97.8bn, which would finance about 13 months of imports. And analysts at BMI Research say Iran's economy could contract by 4.3% in 2019. However, Barbara Slavin, of the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council, told the Wall Street Journal that when sanctions hit hard, it often means ordinary people become "totally dependent" on their government and so sanctions do not tend to topple regimes.

The idea of a $300 board being mainstream might sound ludicrous, but entry-level X299 boards cost around $200, and Intel’s high-end desktop series is designed for big spenders. Mid-level might be a better term for this price, and the Asus ROG Strix X299-E Gaming (which sells for at or just under $300 when we wrote this) gets there with a combination of dual USB 3.1 Gen2 controllers, a 867Mb/s Wi-Fi module, enhanced overclocking and competitive RGB lighting features. Unlike many mid-level boards though, the ROG Strix X299-E Gaming requires a 44-lane CPU to effectively use its third x16-length PCIe slot. Although it's a solid-enough board to encourage a few buyers, that limitation is a big hindrance to our overall recommendations. The Strix X299-E Gaming has two antenna connections for Realtek’s 2T2R 802.11ac module and two ports (Type-C and Type A) for ASMedia’s PCIe 3.0 x2 USB 3.1 Gen2 controller on its I/O panel. There's also a USB BIOS Flashback button, which uses a special ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) to enable flashing firmware without the need for a compatible CPU or DRAM. Other I/O panel features include four USB 3.0 (aka USB 3.1 Gen1), two USB 2.0, digital optical audio output and five analog audio jacks. Zooming out shows the extremes Asus went to for the board to represent the ROG brand aesthetically, from the lighted sliver on the I/O connector hood, to the machined aluminum voltage regulator sink, the M.2 heat spreader integrated into the PCH sink cover and ROG lightbox badge at the motherboard's center. Two open-ended PCIe x4 slots add to the three x16 slots to boost enablement of serious connectivity. Given the board’s support for everything from 44-lane to 16-lane processors, you’d expect to see the double-row of eight two-lane PCIe switches under its top slot. The surprise comes in the other three switches to the side of that group, as the lower PCIe x4 slot steals all four HSIO resources (Intel’s flexible SATA/USB3/SATA pathways) from SATA ports 5-8. And if you were thinking of using the PCIe x1 slot instead, note that doing so will switch off the front-panel USB 3.1 Gen2 connector. Given that you’ll probably have a graphics card covering the x1 slot, you might be un-enthused to learn that the upper PCIe x4 slot has only one pathway. Compromises on the smaller slots are understandable to those familiar with Intel’s chipset limitations, particularly given the market’s focus on x16 slots. While a 44-lane CPU can shoot an x16/x16/x8 configuration and x16 processors spit an x8/x8/x1 configuration by borrowing a lane from the chipset, options for 28-lane processors teeter on the edge of infuriating: Asus says the top slot is locked at x16 mode with those processors, the middle slot gets eight CPU pathways, and the lower slot still gets only a single pathway from the chipset. Asus gives no excuses or explanations for why it couldn’t do a three-by-eight configuration for three-way SLI on 28-lane processors, nor does it say why the CPU’s other four lanes are ignored. Layout is fairly good in spite of configuration limitations that are peculiar to the installation of a 28-lane CPU. All of the ports in front of the slots (eight SATA and one dual-port USB 3.0 header) point forward to allow installation of extra long cards. There are two case fan headers near the back of the board for easier reach to the back panel, and two CPU fan headers are just above the rear banks of memory to ease installation. A perpendicular M.2 storage slot is found south of the 24-pin power connector, and there's a front-panel USB 3.1 interface just south of that. The USB interface gets a controller to itself, though that controller shares its pathway with--and is disabled by--the PCIe x1 slot. Similarly, the M.2 slot features four PCIe lanes for NVMe, but users of SATA M.2 drives are forced to sacrifice SATA port to when using that connection. A bracket within the installation kit allows builders to lock down their M.2 module. The bottom of the ROG Strix X299-E Gaming has a front-panel audio header, one (of two) RGB LED cable connectors, an old-fashioned 9-pin Serial Port breakout plate header, a two-digit diagnostics code display, a power button, a special header for Asus’ aftermarket Fan Extension card, a second USB 3.0 front-panel header that can’t be used when a graphics card is installed in the bottom slot, two (of seven) four-pin fan headers, an addressable LED strip header and a standard Intel front-panel switch/LED group (9-pins) with adjacent connections for a beep-code speaker and legacy spaced (3-pin) power LED. The Intel VROC (virtual RAID on CPU) module header, which adds a RAID firmware module for NVMe drives connected to the CPU-based PCIe controller via the board’s x16 slots, is above the lower-front-corner connectors. The ROG Strix X299-E Gaming includes a driver and application disc in the box, along with a manual, I/O shield, a riser bracket for the perpendicular M.2 slot, a two-channel Wi-Fi antenna, a high-bandwidth SLI Bridge for two cards, a pack of cable ties, four SATA cables (two with a right angle end), an Asus Q-connector bundling block for front panel power/LED leads, a thermistor lead, an RGB extension cable, an addressable LED strip extension cable, a sheet of adhesive cable labels, an Asus special offer card for cablemod.com, an ROG sticker sheet and a “Do Not Enter” door handle card.

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Saudi Arabia has said it is freezing all new trade and investment with Canada over its "interference" in the Gulf Kingdom's internal affairs. In a series of tweets, the Saudi foreign ministry said it was expelling the Canadian ambassador and recalling its own envoy in Canada. The move comes after Canada said it was "gravely concerned" about the arrest of several human rights activists. Among those arrested was Saudi-American women's rights campaigner Samar Badawi. Ms Badawi had been calling for an end to Saudi Arabia's male guardianship system. What did Saudi Arabia say? The foreign ministry said it "will not accept any form of interfering" in its internal affairs. It referred to last week's statement by the Canadian foreign ministry, which urged Riyadh to "immediately release" civil society and women's rights activists. The Saudi ministry described Canada's position as "an attack" on the kingdom, saying it would now: Freeze all new trade and investment transactions between the two countries Consider the Canadian ambassador persona non grata and order the envoy to leave within 24 hours Recall the Saudi envoy in Canada Reserve the right to take further action Canada's government has so far made no public comments on Saudi Arabia's diplomatic measures. The arrests are at odds with the progressive image the government has projected this year under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He drew widespread praise last year when they announced that the decades-old ban on women driving would end on 24 June. Saudi women's rights activists, including those who have been imprisoned for defying the ban, had celebrated the decision. But they also vowed to continue campaigning for the end of other laws they consider discriminatory. Women must adhere to a strict dress code, be separated from unrelated men, and be accompanied by or receive written permission from a male guardian - usually a father, husband or brother - if they want to travel, work or access healthcare. The Saudi crown prince has also spearheaded a sweeping anti-corruption drive which resulted in dozens of princes, government ministers and businessmen being detained in November and generated an estimated $107bn ($80bn) in settlements.

Cooler Master brings the RGB light show to a CPU near you with their new MasterLiquid ML240R RGB AIO cooler. Facing a stalwart market of closed-loop liquid coolers, the ML240R RGB offers enough value, performance and visual appeal to carve itself a respectable spot among other AIOs, both within and even above its class. Features With a concrete performance showing for the 240mm AIO class, we were surprised to actually see the MasterLiquid ML240R RGB also provides better thermal numbers (spoiler: by just 0.1 degree Celsius) than the larger, Raijintek Orcus 360 AIO in direct comparison. When you pause and consider the ML240R RGB cost $300 less and has a smaller footprint, while besting bigger, pricier solutions, it's easy for us to come away impressed. With mounting hardware included for most Intel and AMD processor sockets, the MasterLiquid ML240R RGB offers support for just about every modern desktop CPU, save Threadripper. With PWM fan and pump controls, Cooler Master have opted to rely on motherboard fan curves and user control rather than to supply their own software for managing all aspects of this AIO. Users can choose to either plug the cooler into the motherboard's 4-pin RGB headers, or the included Cooler Master RGB lighting controller for light show controls. Connectivity of the RGB controller internally to a motherboard using 9-pin header or via USB male adapter is physically possible. But the included documentation doesn't offer any information about what software you'd use if you went that route. The top of the MasterLiquid ML240R RGB pump is a removable, matte black domed cap, which shows an opaque outline of the Cooler Master logo. The cap can be rotated to reflect the installed orientation. Coolant tubing enters and leaves the housing via 90 degree swivel fittings, and the entire length of hose is sheathed within black nylon braid and sealed with heat shrink. The base of the ML240R makes use of a laterally milled copper cold plate, recessed into the pump housing. Integrated mounting tabs allow the installer to swap out proper hold-down plates to provide relatively proportional tension all the way around. The 12-tube aluminum, 240mm radiator is cooled by dual addressable RGB MF120R ARGB fans, which use an individual IC per LED for individually controlled modules to allow ‘waves’, ‘cycles’ and other effects, rather than all operating in unison (check the previous link for an animated demo. The 120mm fans are rated up to 2000 RPM and have both 4-pin PWM and RGB cabling. Control of 16.7 million colors (actually, 16,777,216 to be precise) can be done only from motherboard RGB integration. However, those of us without a compatible board can still use the included controller to summon pre-set displays and lighting patterns. Be careful when installing, though: While some of the extension cables have pins molded into them, most of the connections between the control unit and to the fan leads themselves were rather loose and just the weight of the extension cables themselves would cause them to pull free of the connection. Most RGB connectors we’ve seen used for CPU coolers make use of thin wiring (due to very low current used) and offer more robust terminal contact. Mounted to the top panel of our Corsair Graphite 760T, the Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240R RGB provides unified RGB lighting of both the fans and the LED ring within the rounded face of the pump unit. Having the detachable faceplate allows the pump to be mounted with the best orientation for the installer, while still allowing the Cooler Master logo to be displayed as you choose. This is such an elegantly simple solution for multiple mounting possibilities, we’re shocked this isn’t more commonplace. Until manufacturers begin creating full-face interactive LCD displays for AIO coolers, this is the next best way to ensure a logo is properly displayed.

North Korea says a heatwave is threatening a "natural disaster" and has called on its citizens to help protect crops from drought. The Korean peninsula is experiencing record temperatures and South Korea has reported 28 deaths from the heat. In the North, which has previously suffered bouts of famine, state media warned that key crops such rice and corn were under threat. It called on citizens to "join the struggle" to safeguard harvests. "This year's high temperature is an unprecedented natural disaster but it is not an insurmountable difficulty," it said. "Officials and working people in all fields and units... should turn out as one and devotedly work out of patriotism in the campaign to prevent damage by high temperature and drought," an editorial in the state-run newspaper Rodong said. "All people should fully display their patriotic zeal in the ongoing campaign." State news agency KCNA said irrigation equipment was being urgently repaired and new wells and reservoirs created. "Myriads of water carriers, tractors, trucks and other vehicles have been involved in irrigating croplands together with all the available watering equipment and devices," it said. Temperatures in the capital Pyongyang hit a record high of 37.8C (100F) on Wednesday. The South's capital, Seoul, also recently recorded its hottest ever temperature at 39C. Earlier this year, the head of the UN's World Food Programme made a rare visit to North Korea and said the country was working hard to meet nutritional standards. David Beasley spent two days in the capital, Pyongyang, and two outside it, accompanied by government minders. He said levels of hunger were not as high as in the 1990s. Hundreds of thousands of people are believed to have died in a widespread famine in the North between 1994 and 1998. "I didn't see starvation like you had in the famine back in the 1990s, that's the good news. But is there a hunger issue, is there under-nutrition? There's no question about it," he told the BBC. After a drought in 2017, the UN said seven in 10 North Koreans were relying on food aid, while four in 10 were malnourished. North Korea is under strict UN sanctions over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, despite a recent diplomatic rapprochement with the US. Decades of state mismanagement and a lack of infrastructure have left the country vulnerable to natural disasters such as floods and drought.

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