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NVIDIA's official GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card performance benchmarks have leaked out by Videocardz. As per the numbers, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti looks to perform better than the Turing based GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER in all regards which would make it a pretty nice 1080p and even 1440p gaming option. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Official Gaming Performance Benchmarks Show It Ahead of The RTX 2080 SUPER The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is going to be the first sub-$500 US graphics card within the RTX 30 series family. It's also going to be the first mainstream performance variant from any two GPU vendors (AMD/NVIDIA) who are currently focused on their higher-end lineups. On paper, the RTX 3060 Ti aims to be a successor to the RTX 2060 SUPER while offering performance on par or faster than the RTX 2080 SUPER. In the performance tests which were measured at 1440p resolution on an Intel Core i9-10900K CPU based platform, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti delivered an average 5.5% performance uplift over the RTX 2080 SUPER and an average 43.5% performance uplift over the RTX 2060 SUPER in the trio of AAA titles that were tested. In ray tracing, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti scored a 44.75% performance uplift over the RTX 2060 SUPER and a 9.5% uplift over the RTX 2080 SUPER. The ray-tracing uplift is pretty strong on Ampere GPUs considering they pack the 2nd Gen RT cores and the RTX 3060 Ti in fact packs less RT cores than the RTX 2080 SUPER but still ends up being faster as per the results. Moving over to content creation and rendering performance, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti does score a bigger win with a 67.8% uplift over the RTX 2060 SUPER and a 36.3% uplift over the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER. Now, these are definitely some huge gains for the RTX 2060 SUPER successor but we have to wait for actual reviews to validate whether NVIDIA's results match our own.NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Graphics Card Specifications The specifications for the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti feature the GA104 GPU which confirms that this is the second GPU to feature the said chip. There's no specific variant or SKU number mentioned but previous reports have hinted at the GA104-200 SKU for the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. The GA104-200 GPU on the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti graphics card features 4864 CUDA Cores, 80 ROPs, clock speeds 1410 MHz base, and 1665 MHz boost. Based on the specs, the card should deliver an effective compute horsepower of 16.2 TFLOPsFor memory, the graphics card will feature 8 GB of GDDR6 memory which will be running across a 256-bit bus interface. The memory clock for the GDDR6 memory would be maintained at 1750 MHz or 14 Gbps effective which rounds up a total bandwidth of 448 GB/s. The pixel and texture fillrate are both reported at 133.2 GPixel/s & 674.3 GTexel/s, respectively. We expect the RTX 3060 Ti to land around $399 US in terms of pricing.The NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti is planned for launch on 2nd December and will be available in several custom variants at launch.

President-elect Joe Biden played a central role as vice president during the Obama administration, pulling together a task force that is widely credited with saving General Motors and the then-Chrysler, along with as many as 1 million American automotive jobs. Looking forward, the fast-evolving transportation industry is expected to play a central role in Biden's plan for economic recovery. Biden has already signaled his goal of addressing a number of issues central to the auto industry — including trade, infrastructure, and electric and autonomous vehicles — that will reshape the transportation world in the years ahead. One of his key campaign promises calls for the creation of 1 million new jobs, in everything from new and improved roads to EV charging stations. Biden’s win could especially benefit companies who focus on green and emission-free technologies. "Traditional automakers with largely union workforces would likely be among the biggest winners from tax incentives that would further stimulate the production and consumption of EVs," Garrett Nelson, a senior automotive analyst with CFRA Research, wrote in a research note. Electrified vehicles will play an increasingly critical role in the industry, with dozens of new all-electric models, from the Ford Mustang Mach-E to the Tesla Cybertruck, due out over the next two years. Biden’s support for clean energy and, in particular, electrified vehicles, is one area in which he and President Donald Trump have most sharply disagreed. The Trump administration has been indifferent, at most, to cleaner vehicles, rejecting mostly Democratic calls to expand the $7,500 federal EV incentives and even suggesting the current program should be eliminated. Biden supports an expansion, something Nelson sees as “the most impactful part of his (transportation) plan.” Biden also wants to create a nationwide charging infrastructure to address so-called “range anxiety,” one of the key obstacles to widespread public acceptance of plug-based vehicles. There currently are 27,021 charging stations, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, largely along the coasts. Biden envisions 500,000, spread across every part of the country. Biden has indicated his intentions of rejoining the Paris climate accord, which Trump dropped, and is expected to reverse other moves made under the soon-ending administration. That includes a rollback of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards set in place under Obama. Clean energy was central to Biden’s campaign and his promise to fund renewable sources like solar and wind would make charging stations more likely to deliver zero-emission energy. Underscoring his environmental stand, Mary Nichols is reportedly under consideration to be Biden's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. She currently heads the California Air Resources Board that has pushed through tough emissions standards and rules calling for rapid growth in EV sales. Recommended

An international research team found that certain lifestyle choices may have a big impact on mood. That includes having a better-quality diet, getting more physical activity and not smoking. Australian researchers analyzed UK Biobank data from 85,000 people to determine impact of lifestyle on depression. They found physical activity, a healthy diet and getting between seven and nine hours of sleep nightly was associated with less frequency of depressed mood. Screen time and tobacco smoking were significantly associated with higher frequency of depression. "The research is the first assessment of such a broad range of lifestyle factors and its effect on depression symptoms using the large UK Biobank lifestyle and mood dataset," said lead co-author Jerome Sarris, a professor at Western Sydney University's NICM Health Research Institute. "While people usually know that physical activity is important for mood, we now have additional data showing that adequate sleep and less screen time is also critical to reduce depression," he said in a university news release. A person's diet pattern may be partly responsible for exacerbating a depressed mood, according to the study. Surprisingly, more frequent alcohol consumption was associated with reduced frequency of depression in people with depression, according to the study. One reason may be that people with depression are self-medicating with alcohol to manage their moods. "The results may inform public health policy by further highlighting the important relationship between people being encouraged and supported to engage in a range of health-promoting activities. In particular, maintaining optimal sleep and lessening screen time [which is often an issue in youth], while having adequate physical activity and good dietary quality, may reduce the symptoms of depression," Sarris said. More information Visit the Mayo Clinic's website to learn more about depression. SOURCE: Western Sydney University, NICM Health Research Institute, news release, Nov. 11, 2020 Copyright © 2020 HealthDay. All rights reserved.

A second COVID-19 vaccine now also appears highly effective in preventing illness following exposure to the virus that causes the diseaseThe biotech company Moderna Inc. said Monday that its experimental vaccine was 94.5% effective in preventing disease, according to an analysis of its clinical trial. The news comes a week after Pfizer and BioNTech said their vaccine was more than 90% effective. The results for both vaccines come from interim analyses of large clinical studies. In the Moderna study there were 30,000 volunteers. Half got two doses of the vaccine 28 days apart; half got two shots of a placebo on the same schedule. There were 95 instances of COVID-19 illness among the study participants; only five of those cases were in the vaccinated group. Ninety were in the group receiving the placebo. Of these, there were 11 cases of severe disease. The results indicate the vaccine was inducing the kind of immune response that protects people if they were exposed to the coronavirus. "This positive interim analysis from our Phase 3 study has given us the first clinical validation that our vaccine can prevent COVID-19 disease, including severe disease," Stéphane Bancel, chief executive officer of Moderna, said in a statement. Both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines use the same technology to make their vaccines. It's based on a molecule known as mRNA, or messenger RNA. That molecule contains genetic instructions for making proteins inside cells.For the vaccine, researchers created an mRNA with the code for making the coronavirus spike protein. The protein is the key to the virus infecting cells. It's also what can trigger someone's immune system to make antibodies against the virus, but without causing infection since the rest of the virus is missing. That two mRNA vaccines appear to be working is remarkable, since the technology is new and there hasn't been an mRNA vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration made to date. The Moderna and Pfizer studies were conducted using slightly different protocols. To be counted as a COVID-19 case, participants in the Moderna study had to have at least two symptoms of disease in addition to a positive test for the virus. The Pfizer study required only one symptom. Also, Moderna waited 14 days following the second injection to begin counting cases; Pfizer's study started counting at seven days. The vaccines also differ in their storage requirements. Moderna says its vaccine can be safely stored in freezers at about 25 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 4 degrees Celsius), a temperature easily reached by a home refrigerator freezer. Pfizer's vaccine required storage in specialized ultracold freezers capable of cooling below minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 70 degrees Celsius). Moderna also says its vaccine will remain potent for up to 30 days at normal refrigerated temperatures, which should ease distribution. Both companies' vaccine studies managed to recruit a reasonably diverse group of people. Moderna reports 6,000 enrollees who identified as Hispanic or Latinx and more than 3,000 participants who identified as Black or African American, as well as 7,000 people older than 65, and 5,000 with high-risk chronic diseases. Pfizer and Moderna are still gathering safety data the Food and Drug Administration has said is necessary for consideration of an emergency use authorization that would allow the companies to distribute the vaccine during the pandemic. Side effects seen for the Moderna vaccine at the interim analysis included pain at the injection site, fatigue and aching muscles and joints. The data safety and monitoring board didn't identify "any significant safety concerns." Moderna said it intends to file "in the coming weeks" with the FDA for authorization of the company's vaccine for emergency use. The federal Operation Warp Speed project to hasten development of COVID-19 vaccines awarded Moderna a $1.5 billion contract in August to ramp up manufacturing and deliver 100 million vaccine doses, enough for 50 million people. The government has an option to buy up to 400 million more doses. Moderna said Monday that it expects to be able to ship about 20 million vaccine doses in the U.S. by the end of 2020. Next year, the company said it expects to be able to make 500 million to 1 billion doses worldwide. The research and development of the Moderna vaccine was aided by $955 million in federal funding from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Moderna has also been developing this vaccine alongside the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which in July told NPR it expects to spend about $410 million on the effort.

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Sapphire's upcoming Radeon RX 6800 & RX 6800 XT Nitro+ series graphics cards have been listed online by a retailer based in Finland. Along with the Sapphire Nitro+ models, XFX (via Videocardz) has provided a better look at its triple-fan 'Speedster Merc 319' Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card which was teased earlier this week. Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 & RX 6800 XT Nitro+ Graphics Cards Listed Online For Pre-Order, SE Variant For Around $1000 US The Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 Nitro+ series graphics cards were listed by Multitronic which is a retailer based in Finland. All three models which were unveiled by Sapphire last week have been listed which include the Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 XT Nitro+ OC SE, RX 6800 XT Nitro+ OC Gaming, and the RX 6800 Nitro+ Gaming OC. The prices for the graphics cards are 863.90 Euros for the fastest Radeon RX 6800 XT Nitro+ OC SE Gaming graphics card which is around $1020 US. The Radeon RX 6800 XT Nitro+ OC Gaming comes with a pre-order price of 838.90 Euros which equals around $990 US while the RX 6800 (Non-XT) OC Gaming is listed for 732.90 Euros which equals around $870 US. Now, these prices include the hefty VAT which is expected of the EU region and are also preliminary prices. The graphics cards can be pre-ordered but the delivery time is not mentioned. The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards are expected to launch a week or two after launch so it's best to wait for the final pricing to appear before ordering one from this particular retailer. Sapphire RX 6800 XT & RX 6800 Nitro+ Series Graphics Cards The Radeon RX 6800 XT Nitro+ from Sapphire is shown to be a massive triple-fan cooled graphics card. Two of the fans feature 9 blades each while the one at the end features 12 fan blades and as such, we can expect them to push lots of airflow towards the central heatsink assembly.The card features a massive metal backplate and it does extend beyond the length of the PCB. There's a cutout at the backside to let air pass through the aluminum fins. You can also spot an RGB Nitro+ logo which looks great with the whole aesthetics of the card. The card is said to feature a 2.7 slot design and from the looks of it, features a large aluminum heatsink beneath the shroud which features 6 massive heat pipes. Details such as final clocks & PCB design remain unknown at the moment but we expect them to be shared prior to the launch on the 18th of November. Sapphire RX 6800 XT Nitro+ SE 'Special Edition' Graphics Card The main difference between the Sapphire RX 6800 XT Nitro+ SE and the Nitro+ variants seems to be the fans that feature RGB LEDs integrated within them. 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All Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 series graphics card variants feature a dual 8-pin power connector configuration so a good PSU around 700-800W would be recommended for these cards. XFX Radeon RX 6800 XT 'Speedster Merc 319' Custom Graphics Card XFX has also provided a better look at its own triple-fan custom design for the Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6800 graphics cards, known as the Speedster Merc 319. The graphics card takes a lot of inspiration from the THICC III variant we saw on the RX 5700 series cards and takes it up one notch by offering a sleeker design.The Radeon RX 6800 XL which is the non-XT variant is shown in the teaser but we will definitely get an XT variant with the same design from XFX too. The back of the card features a very solid back-plate design that comes with cut-outs in XFX naming and a larger exhaust vent on the back which the rear fan can blow air out of. 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Quarante ans plus tard, la montre Heuer Monaco que portait à son poignet droit Steve McQueen lors du tournage du film « Le Mans » sera proposée aux enchères le 12 décembre à New York par Philipps Watches en association avec Bacs & Russo. La montre a été offerte au mécanicien en chef du film et au mécanicien personnel de McQueen, Haig Alltounian, à la fin du tournage. Le fond de la montre comporte la gravure « To Haig Le Mans 1970 ». Lorsque l’acteur a remis la montre à Haig, il lui a dit merci de m’avoir gardé en vie durant ces derniers mois. On se souvient que le tournage au Mans, long et chaotique, avait été jalonné d’accidents. Le pilote David Piper avait perdu une partie de sa jambe droite. La Monaco que l’acteur portait lorsqu’il pilotait une Porsche 917 à plus de 300 km/h dans la ligne droite des Hunaudières est considérée comme l’un des deux derniers exemplaires de la Heuer Monaco conservés puis offertes par Steve McQueen (Michael Delaney). Il s’agit de l’une des premières montres bracelets chronographes à remontage automatique au monde.

It is a double whammy for Sushil on Diwali. A Type-II diabetic, Sushil can’t even taste sweets, but this Diwali, he is feeling the sickest. His temperature shot up to 103 degrees Fahrenheit. This was not seasonal, but recently Sushil was tested coronavirus positive. “I was already tensed with my high blood sugar level. Didn’t taste sweets of late and then here I’m isolated, stuck to the bed,” said Sushil. A few days back, he lost an elderly diabetic member of the family to Covid-19. “We are afraid,” said Sushil’s wife. Experts say until the vaccine is found, precautions are the only way out to avoid the Covid and for the diabetic patients, the responsibility gets bigger as they not only have to maintain social distancing and wear masks but ensure a healthy lifestyle, followed by the norm of regular check-ups to stay out of the danger zone.In fact, primary health care workers must be trained and equipped to conduct adequate health checks, including blood pressure and blood sugar of all visiting patients, feel experts. A few days ago, the medical fraternity had called to raise awareness about the lifestyle disease on Diwali as the festival of light and “sweets” coincide with World Diabetes Day this year, more so with the impact of the coronavirus. Diabetes is a medical condition, which happens due to insufficient production and secretion of insulin, responsible for controlling glucose levels in the blood, from the pancreas. The disease can be controlled at the initial level by making lifestyle changes but cannot be cured completely and lasts a lifetime. In that case, if one gets affected by the coronavirus, the risk of life increases. Dr Vinit Bandekar, MD Physician, Jr ESI in Delhi, explains to ANI, “Anyone with diabetes who notices symptoms of the Covid-19 should contact a doctor as soon as possible. When the body is trying to fight off an illness, the stored glucose is released into the bloodstream to give energy. In individuals with diabetes, this can be problematic as their body cannot produce enough insulin to deal with the release of glucose and their blood sugar levels might spike. These severe highs and lows in their blood sugar level can lead to complications like diabetic ketoacidosis or hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state, and pneumonia.” According to research, India is infamous as the diabetes capital of the world. One in five is diagnosed with diabetes and the shocking fact is India will remain one of the most afflicted countries till 2030, or even until 2045.Senior doctors claim people do not realise the high sugar levels or constant sugar fluctuations on account of the disease takes a toll on their body by inviting serious comorbidities of the heart, kidney and liver, besides sapping their energy levels.”Although the Covid-19 virus has toned down its virulence, treating patients with diabetes is still a challenge. Diabetic patients are prone to cytokine storms, which is an excessive inflammatory reaction to the body,” says Dr Shuchin Bajaj, Founder and Director of Ujala Cygnus Group of Hospitals. Describing the concerns, Amritah Sandhu, Founder and Director of NGO Care India, says the widespread unawareness regarding the disease is one of the major hurdles. “There is a need to evolve a comprehensive diabetes management strategy, also entailing knowledge dissemination and exercise in terms of following a healthy lifestyle.”The disease considered as a “breeding ground” for extra health complications has proven to be vulnerable and an oppressive challenge in the Covid pandemic. (This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text.)

Ageless Thanet Social Enterprise Kent is delighted to announce that the Ageless Thanet programme has been awarded an extension from the National Lottery Community Fund to continue working with local older people to alleviate loneliness and social isolation. The project is part of a national programme called Ageing Better, designed to improve the lives of people over 50, by reducing loneliness and social isolation, and improving mental and physical wellbeing. Almost 150,000 people have been involved in the programme across 14 locations, including Torbay, Middlesbrough, Birmingham, and the Isle of Wight. The Ageless Thanet project was planned to finish at the end of March 2021, but has now been extended until December 2021 in order to alleviate the difficulties faced by so many due to COVID-19. Rebecca Smith, Ageless Thanet Programme Manager, said: “We are thrilled to have been given the opportunity to continue our work here at Ageless Thanet. This has and continues to be an incredibly isolating time for many people, so it has never been more important that projects such as Ageless Thanet are able to support those who are lonely. In the last five years since the project began, over 10,000 people have benefitted from our work, whether that is attending wellbeing activities, the Life Planning service, or receiving a free reward card that entitles them to discounts in local businesses. We thank the National Lottery Community Fund for their continued support, and of course National Lottery players without whom projects like Ageless Thanet would not exist.” For more information about the Ageless Thanet project, please visit www.agelessthanet.org.uk, or call 01843 210005. M and M Personal Assistants We here at M and M Personal Assistants are giving away two hampers worth a whopping £100 pounds each and one runner up of two free cinema tickets to the Vue cinema. Prizes will be drawn live on December 16 and given personally on December 19 by one of our clients dressed as Santa and his two little helpers. You must be okay with a few pictures taken upon receiving prizes. We have a condition, in our line of work we look after young adults with learning disabilities, we would like the prize to go to a family with a member with learning disabilities. We believe times have been hard enough to test anyone, especially to someone that can’t comprehend what’s been going on, and we want to spread a bit of happiness during these times. All you have to do to enter is share our post, like our page and tag someone else in the comments that meets the criteria. Find the post here Thanet Lions Club This year has been difficult for us and other charities because the pandemic has hindered our fundraising events such as car boot sales, summer fete and quiz nights. We have used social media and word of mouth to generate donations from the public and friends. By this means and using some cash reserves we are again able to help needy families this coming December. Normally we pack some 260 food hampers but as this is not possible instead we are purchasing food vouchers. The vouchers will be distributed with help from organisations such as Children Centres and schools. In Birchington the “Birchington Advent Calendar Trail” has named Thanet Lions Club as the supported charity. For next year we do hope our fundraising can return as our main source of income to help the community. In addition we have been selected by the Coop Community Fund as one of the charities to be supported, so if as a Coop member you nominate Thanet Lions the Fund will donate a percentage to us to help us help those in need. Foreland Fields Charity is calling on supporters to nominate the charity to win a £1,000 festive financial boost as part of Ecclesiastical Insurance’s annual 12 days of giving Christmas campaign. The specialist insurer will be giving 120 different charities an early Christmas gift of a £1,000 donation, with 10 winners announced each weekday from 7th to 22nd December. It’s quick and easy to nominate Foreland Fields Charity online. Nominations are open from 9th November to 21st December and you can vote for Foreland Fields Charity at www.movementforgood.com/12days You only need to vote once. Winners will be drawn at random and the more times Foreland Fields Charity is nominated, the more chance it has of being selected. Foreland Fields Charity is a small charity that relies on donations and fundraising to support its on-going work with young people aged 3 – 19, living in Thanet and surrounding areas with profound, severe, and complex needs including learning disabilities and sensory impairments. Fundraiser for the charity, Hilary Plowman, said: “Winning £1000 would make a huge difference to the charity at the present time. This year has been hard for everyone with the pandemic affecting so much, and Foreland Fields Charity has seen a major drop in income over this year with so many fundraising activities having been cancelled. “If we won, it would allow the charity to continue its work supporting the mental health and physical wellbeing of the young people we work with and their families. Foreland Fields Charity has previously funded 2 fully inclusive playgrounds at Foreland Fields School. The specialist equipment is now enjoyed by the students on a daily basis and it is fantastic to watch them exploring, learning, and becoming more confident. “We are now about to fund the installation of Sensory audio and lighting to the existing hydrotherapy pool situated within Foreland Fields School. Up until the pandemic, the pool was being used on a daily basis to provide hydrotherapy to over 250 users over the school year. There are many recognised benefits associated with hydrotherapy and the addition of Sensory audio and lighting can really help to increase these. One of the students at the school, who is confined to a wheelchair, once told me after a hydrotherapy session ‘The water makes me feel free’ The smile on her face when she said it was beaming. The project has been funded by means of fundraising and donations received and we are particularly grateful to the Thanet Fisherman’s Association, North Foreland Golf Club Ladies Team, The Ramsgate Mayor’s Charity Fund, and Premier Coatings (Kent) Ltd. Via FB Coales (No.4) Family Trust.” Foreland Fields Charity is encouraging everyone to use their social media channels to ask people to vote for them to give the charity the best possible chance of winning. There are links on the Ecclesiastical voting website to make it easier to share. Hilary Plowman added: “Foreland Fields Charity are now directing a campaign to fundraise for the conversion of an unused field behind Foreland Fields School into a sports field with inclusive pavilion, horticulture, and forest school area. It is the charities vision to create a central hub for disability sport and leisure, for use by Foreland Fields School and a wide range of partners who meet the needs of the local community. We have recently received donations totalling just over £6,000 but have a long way to go to reach our total target.” If you would like to find out more about the charity and its current projects, please contact Hilary Plowman at fundraising@foreland.kent.sch.uk If you are able to help the charity, please consider one of the following: To donate directly please follow this link: https://donate.giveasyoulive.com/donate?cid=226171&utm_campaign=CTDonateButton&utm_content=226171&utm_source=charitytoolkit&utm_medium=charitydonatebutton&wl=1&br=22&bc=e61f68 Shop though Amazon Smile and support Foreland Fields Charity (1178764): https://smile.amazon.co.uk/ch/1178764-0 Mark Hews, Group CEO of Ecclesiastical, said: “As a commercial company with a charitable purpose, giving back is at the heart of our business. Our annual 12 days of giving Christmas campaign will help charities change lives for the better and we know that for many charities, £1,000 can make a real difference. 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Source code allegedly belonging to commercial penetration testing software Cobalt Strike has been published on GitHub, potentially providing a new path for hackers to attack companies. Penetration testing, usually abbreviated as pen testing, has legitimate uses as a security tool to test security but can also be used by bad actors to attack a company. Ethical pen testing involves simulated attacks on a computer system to evaluate the security of the given system. In the hands of hackers, the same pen testing software can be used to identify security issues that can be exploited. Cobalt Strike, which pitches itself as a legitimate pen testing solution, has been controversial for years thanks to its use by hacking groups, though they had to pay $3,500 per year for a license to use the software or use a pirated copy. Malpedia has a page dedicated to Cobalt Strike, noting that it allows an attacker to deploy an agent named “Beacon” on the victim’s machine. The alleged code could potentially allow more hackers to use the software for nefarious purposes or develop new versions of the product. Whether the code is actually Cobalt Strike’s or not is subject to dispute. Bleeping Computer reported today that the code appears to be the Java code from the software that has been manually decompiled and then edited to fix any dependencies and remove the license check so it could be compiled. “Even though it is not the original source code, it is enough to be of serious concern to security professionals,” the report noted. The code said to have appeared on GitHub 12 days ago and has already been forked 172 times. The timing may be relevant, since a major attack involving Cobalt Strike and targeting Microsoft Teams was reported Nov. 10. Another attack that took advantage of unpatched Oracle WebLogic servers involving Cobalt Strike was reported Nov. 5. “While the allegations that the Cobalt Strike source code was posted to GitHub are unconfirmed, it certainly appears to at least be derivative of Cobalt Strike’s product,” Chester Wisniewski, principal research scientist at cybersecurity company Sophos Group plc, told SiliconANGLE. “This is unlikely to have any short-term consequence regarding criminal usage of Cobalt Strike as they are simply using stolen copies to begin with.” Where the risk lies, he said, is in the ability to update such a powerful tool with newly discovered vulnerabilities. “Only time will tell if this has an impact, but I suspect it will be business as usual for criminals for now,” he said. “This is, however, even more reason for organizations to ensure they are patching their systems as quickly as possible.”

Deepcool's new single 140mm air cooler, the AS500, resembles half of the company's Assassin III large tower cooler. If the nickel-plated cooling heatpipes and black accent trim on the AS500 attributes to its proper, tuxedo-like appearance, consider the lighted accent top plate the dynamic aRGB bow tie. The Deepcool AS500 will be available in UK (£54.99) and European markets around October 20, 2020, arriving sometime in November in the US, for $59.99. With simple installation and support for most current Intel and AMD CPUs (sorry, no Threadripper), the AS500 shines as an intermediate option between budget and large air cooling options. Deepcool ships the AS500 with an assortment of nickel-plated mounting hardware and a universal backplate which provides mounting compatibility with most current Intel and AMD CPU sockets, although AMD Threadripper does not make the list. Spring clips are provided for those wishing to run an additional fan on their AS500 for push/pull operation, while a syringe of thermal paste and an aRGB control module round out the accessory package. Deepcool covers the AS500 with a 3-year warranty.The AS500 features a set of five nickelplated heatpipes which converge at the base of the cooler between the mounting plate and a milled baseplate. Tension screws are fixed within the mounting plate bracket, providing simplified installation.Deepcool provides a 140mm TF140S PWM fan rated at 70.8 CFM at 1200 RPM. The trailing edges of the fan blades are trimmed with fins for directional airflow through the fan chassis and into the cooling tower. The fan itself is not aRGB capable, but it does come equipped with rubberized fan mounts for minimizing vibration noise.Deepcool makes use of offset heatpipes within the aluminum cooling tower to increase airflow around each thermal conduit. The top bezel of the AS500 is trimmed with an aRGB opaque diffuser and topped with a black top piece. Cabling for the aRGB lighting module runs down a vertical channel cut into the cooling tower to prevent interference of the cabling with the 140mm fan.In checking the milling of the baseplate, we can see just a slight bit of convexity, which meets the CPU integrated heat spreader (IHS). This should not be an issue for most installations but could amplify a problem with improper installation or seating of the cooler atop the CPU.Our installation resulted in an even distribution of thermal compound across the entire IHS face of our Core i9-10850K CPU. This is precisely what we like to see following a cooler install.Since the Deepcool AS500 is a single tower cooler, it is centered over the CPU and allows for wider compatibility with memory DIMMs which might feature tall heat spreaders, like our Corsair Dominator DDR4-3600 modules, but some installations might still bump into this problem, depending on your configuration and motherboard.The installation of the AS500 is quite simple, making use of mounting crossbars and the fixed tension springs on the mounting plate which try to automatically align the cooler correctly over the mounting brace.While not completely immune to memory interference, the AS500 does a better job than most 140mm coolers. This is nearly always an issue with CPU air cooling solutions featuring large fans, so make sure to do a bit of research and shop accordingly.

PlayStation 5 backwards compatibility can bring some stunning improvements to PlayStation 4 games, as the likes of Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima demonstrate. However, one thing we learned with Rocket League this week, is that developers need to port their games to Sony’s next-gen console in order to get them running at 120 frames-per-second. Here’s what Psyonix’s senior communications manager Stephanie Thoensen told us about its vehicular multiplayer smash: “Enabling 120Hz on Xbox Series S|X is a minor patch, but enabling it on PS5 requires a full native port due to how backwards compatibility is implemented on the console, and unfortunately wasn’t possible due to our focus elsewhere.” That same situation appears to have occurred with Call of Duty: Warzone, which has been quietly updated to run at 120 frames-per-second on Xbox Series S|X, but is locked at 60 frames-per-second on PS5. That’s despite the rest of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War offering an excellent 120 frames-per-second mode on Sony’s new console. So, why is this? Well, despite being included as part of Cold War’s install, Warzone is actually running within the framework of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare [Are you keeping up? - Ed], and thus is technically a backwards compatible title within a next-gen game. Thus, due to the way PS4 games work on PS5, there’s no 120 frames-per-second option. To be fair, an early Digital Foundry analysis shows that Warzone doesn’t appear to be running all that smoothly at 120 frames-per-second on Xbox Series S|X anyway – and remember, you’ll need a television that supports the feature to take advantage of it in the first place. These new consoles are crazy complicated, aren’t they?

It’s the support for wallpapers, a feature that Apple has already released with the latest iOS update for CarPlay users and which Google is now working on for a future Android Auto version. By the looks of things, the Mountain View-based search giant wants to use an approach similar to the one Apple has already embraced for CarPlay: users won’t be allowed to set their own photos as Android Auto backgrounds, so they would instead have to stick with a series of pre-loaded photos coming bundled with the application. Version 5.8 provides us with an early look at these new photos, and a recently conducted APK teardown revealed the wallpapers are called Black, Blobs, Mountains, Droplets, Dusk, Warp, and Wave. As you can see in the gallery here, Google has decided to go for an abstract design in almost all cases, and at some level, this makes perfect sense since the purpose is to bring a touch of color to the Android Auto experience, but at the same time also keep icons and everything else on the screen as visible as possible. For now, it’s not exactly clear when Google is projected to release the wallpaper feature for all users, but there’s a chance the company keeps them for version 6.0, which is supposed to land in early 2021. As per Google’s typical Android Auto release calendar, one version update is published every month. With Android Auto version 5.8 already live, the next in the queue is build 5.9, which should get the go-ahead in December. Android Auto 6.0 is thus expected in the first month of 2021. For now, Google has remained tight-lipped on this new feature, so expect more refinements to be added in the coming updates before it gets the go-ahead for everybody.

Editor's Note: The author is a writer and teacher in Los Angeles. She is at work on a young adult novel and is on Twitter @LLcoolquinn. Nobody warns you about turning 35. Turning 30, you hear all about: It's the end of your youth! First gray hairs! The whole year I was 29, I felt 30 approaching like a pair of headlights on a semi. When 30 actually arrived, though, I felt better than ever. Finding a partner felt possible, probable. It would happen when I least expected it, everyone told me. But again and again, I found myself dating someone who couldn't or wouldn't commit. Even though I longed for true partnership and a family, something about the yearning and distance of unavailable men kept drawing me in. With them, I didn't have to risk the real intimacy I desperately craved. Then 35 crept up like a mountain lion: a rustling in the grass, a flash of fur, a vague sense of foreboding I couldn't quite pin down. Even strangers felt the need to weigh in with warnings. "These are critical years," a seatmate on a Southwest flight told me after we got to talking. "I had a friend who spent years dating a guy who wouldn't commit. All of a sudden she was 42 and it was too late." She had newscaster hair, a Tiffany's tennis bracelet and her own failing marriage. "I'll pray for you," she told me as she hugged me at the Burbank luggage carousel. Her words echoed. A few weeks later, I broke it off with the latest guy. Which left me 35 and single. I could feel that mountain lion circling. Call it my biological clock or the death of my youthful optimism. Call it whatever you want, but it was poised to pounce. Things got bleak. I tried practicing acceptance. Maybe this is it, I thought — living in my studio, teaching high school, going on hikes with friends. Perhaps I could live a fulfilling, contented life that didn't include a family. I could volunteer. I could get a cat. Embracing this lonely vision of my future felt less painful than holding out hope for something more. In my heart though there remained a longing that all the heartbreaks hadn't stamped out. I wanted love, a family, a baby. That's when the decision came to me. It started with an Instagram post written by someone who also had found herself single at 35 and having a child on her own. She hadn't waited for some guy to give her what she wanted. She'd gone out and gotten the life she wanted. Soon after, I caught my fingers Googling, "Having a baby on your own." And then I was reading accounts of women who had become single mothers by choice. "I have the rest of my life to work on my intimacy issues," one woman said. "I have a couple years to have a kid." It was like a bell ringing. Someplace deep inside me, deeper than the disappointment and expectation and hurt, recognized myself in those words. Becoming a single mom by choice seemed insane though. I was a public schoolteacher, not a lawyer. I didn't even have paid maternity leave. How could I afford day care, diapers and doctors' appointments? I expected people to think I was crazy, but they were supportive. "It's so inspiring," my eyebrow waxer said. "You're gonna be a good mom," my nieces said. "I wish I'd done what you're doing," a childless mentor, 15 years my senior, said. My dad was among the most supportive. "I saw so many women of my generation throw their lives away on loser guys because they didn't think they could do it on their own." He and my mom came into a modest sum of money and decided to give it to me. "There's nothing we'd rather use this money for than helping you have a baby." My brother wanted me to move home to the Bay Area, where he and my retired parents could help. He and his wife had recently sold their house in San Francisco and moved into a more spacious one in Oakland. "You can stay with us," they said. An acquaintance who had recently conceived through a sperm donor began messaging tips. Friends reviewed baby photos of sperm donors with me. One performed fertility reiki on me (hey, it's still L.A.). Everywhere I turned, people were rising up to help me. There was more love in my life than I'd ever realized. I had been like Dorothy, searching for something that had been with me the whole time. It may not have been the romantic love I craved for so long, but it was love, make no mistake. I gave myself a year to save and strategize. In that time, what the hell, I'd keep going on dates. I was done holding out hope. I just wanted to put on a pretty dress, eat good food and smooch while I still could. When the topic of children came up on these dates, I was straightforward about my plans. Having given up on finding romantic love, I no longer had any use for dating rules about playing it cool. The men responded with encouragement and questions but never called for a second date. Fair enough. our first date at Joy in Highland Park. I felt it only fair to inform him as well: "I'm planning on having a baby by myself." After dinner, we exchanged a brief but tender kiss outside the restaurant. And then I drove home. I was surprised to receive a text later that evening. He said he'd had a great time and wanted to see me again. Btw when you were driving, I noticed you have a taillight out. Lol it's been out forever! I responded. Three days later, he showed up at my apartment with a new taillight. He installed it on the curb outside, admitting he'd YouTubed the process for my make and model, just to be sure he had all the right parts. I watched in bemused disbelief as it took him five minutes to fix something I'd lived with for so long I'd forgotten it was even broken. Earlier this year our baby girl, Asha Plum, was born. Today we're getting married in a socially distant micro-ceremony on a bluff in Santa Barbara. Our daughter and parents will be present, and about 200 friends and relatives will be watching on Zoom. It's the final step in consecrating a love and a life I'd given up on finding — and that somehow, amazingly, have become mine.

’d describe myself as a realist. In the past, friends have described me as a pessimist, probably because I tend to err on the side of the very worst thing happening. When it’s come to 2020, my realism has been working very hard, and my friends have joined me in that. They don’t call me a pessimist any more, because actually there’s been very little to be optimistic about. It has been one thing after another. So many little hits of pain and disappointment.When it came to the US election, though, I was hopeful. The part of me that has always adjusted to expecting and preparing myself for the worst was dormant. I even surprised myself. We’ve all had such a hard time, and so consistently, that bad news had become predictable. Some part of me knew that we had to have one positive outcome from this year (or maybe even two, with the possible new vaccine breakthrough). And I think that some part of all of us, whether or not we live in the US, or have friends or family there, pinned on it a sense of life, on the whole, getting better. In some way, perhaps the US election ended up symbolising the light at the end of a tunnel we never thought we’d emerge from.… just when we need it the most. Millions of readers around the world are flocking to the Guardian in search of honest, authoritative, fact-based reporting that can help them understand the biggest challenge we have faced in our lifetime. But at this crucial moment, news organisations are facing a cruel financial double blow: with fewer people able to leave their homes, and fewer news vendors in operation, we’re seeing a reduction in newspaper sales across the UK. Advertising revenue continues to fall steeply meanwhile as businesses feel the pinch. We need you to help fill the gap.We believe every one of us deserves equal access to vital public service journalism. So, unlike many others, we made a different choice: to keep Guardian journalism open for all, regardless of where they live or what they can afford to pay. This would not be possible without financial contributions from those who can afford to pay, who now support our work from 180 countries around the world. Reader financial support has meant we can keep investigating, disentangling and interrogating. It has protected our independence, which has never been so critical. We are so grateful. We need your support so we can keep delivering quality journalism that’s open and independent. And that is here for the long term. Every reader contribution, however big or small, is so valuable. Support

Developing a piece of software and releasing it to users is just the first step. Software development is never a one-time thing;instead, it is a continuous process. You have to keep the software up to date, add new features, refine existing ones, and create security patches whenever a bug or a security hole is discovered. Updates are pushed more frequently now that they are produced in shorter sprints. Gone are the days of developing large updates over the course of a couple of months. Most development teams rely on 2-week sprints to make sure that apps and software remain up to date and exciting for the users. The shorter sprints, however, are not without their risks. Frequent updates can easily turn into a disaster when a significant error gets pushed to the users. It is not uncommon for an app to crash when started just because an incorrect code gets accidentally pushed with the most recent update. How can we avoid this? How can we make sure that the next software update is not a massive disaster? Coding Best Practices One of the most fundamental things to do when trying to keep updates a positive experience for users is making sure that codes are written in accordance to a strict standard. Coding standards and best practices are your first line of defence from catastrophic errors and incorrect patches. For starters, codes need to be commented to allow for easy checking. Code quality standards are also useful for preventing and eliminating errors that could jeopardise the security of the app. Bad coding practices are often exploited by attackers, and eliminating them is the first step towards ensuring the safety of your users. There are tools that can help you check your codes against known code quality standards. User Feedback The next thing you want to take into account is feedback from users. There is no such thing as updating an app for the sake of pushing an update. If it is not broken, don’t fix it. Users are the focus of the story here, so you have to make sure that every update is based on feedback from them. At the very least, you need to make sure that the most recent update solves user problems. Pushing an update that introduces new features but doesn’t solve existing bugs or errors is asking for trouble. Not only will you be dealing with user complaints, you risk putting them off just because they get tired of the errors. Appealing new features will not get the attention that they deserve either, since users will be too busy with their complaints. Regression Testing Make sure the update you are pushing to users doesn’t decrease the value of the app. In other words, you want to be extra certain that the latest update does not break any existing feature or introduce new bugs. This is where performing multiple regression tests comes in handy, particularly before a major release. Global App Testing has a very interesting article about regression tests and the benefits they offer. As a leadingfunctional testing solution, Global App Testing presents a lot of insights that will be valuable to your development cycle. You can read a copy of the article on the company’s website, plus you can learn more about how to do effective regression testing. Selective Deployment Segmentation is another safety measure to utilise when you are trying to push updates in a safe way. Updates don’t have to be released to the whole userbase. In fact, they shouldn’t. Rather than pushing the update to the entire user, you can test new functionalities on a handful of users and learn their feedback before staging a massive deployment. This is a practice that even the biggest development teams still use. Instagram, for instance, regularly tests new features to select users. When they first introduced the non-chronological timeline, they listened to complaints from a variety of user groups before finally releasing the feature to all users on the platform. Add Notes Documentation is a key ingredient in preventing update disasters. You want to be clear about the features that get updates and how the update itself affects user experience. Simply resorting to writing ‘bug fixes’ in the release note just doesn’t work anymore. Users are smarter and they want to know what kind of updates they are downloading. Some software companies use their release notes to communicate with their users. Instead of a formal one, today’s best release notes read like a short story or a comedy bit, all while delivering valuable information about the latest release. Users love this format too and they are more likely to share about your software updates when the release notes are fun to read. Have Contingencies Even with rigorous testing and all preparations in place, you still need one extra measure in place to make sure that the latest update doesn’t turn into a disaster. That extra measure is rollback. You want to be certain that you can roll the latest update back if there are issues that cannot be solved immediately. Don’t let users wait until the end of another development cycle to get the problems they face fixed. If the update doesn’t work, roll it back immediately and fix the problems later. With more apps competing for the same user segments, you cannot afford to lose the attention and affection of your users. Do It Well All of these measures will stop your software updates from turning into a disaster, and they are all very easy to deploy. You just need to plan for updates better and really listen to the issues faced by users. Perform thorough functional testing and run selective tests if you are updating certain parts of the app. With all measures in place, you also get one additional benefit: the ability to trace new bugs immediately. With the codes following coding best practices and development documentations in order, fixing new bugs and keeping the software usable will be as easy as pushing the new update at the end of your development cycle.