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1. Upgrade your Graphics Drivers for an immediate FPS boost Your graphics card is the centerpiece of your gaming experience (more on that below), but it can’t unfold its true performance without the proper software installed on your PC or laptop. Going from the driver that came either with your PC or with your graphics card to the latest version can make a large performance difference. Just look at nVidias latest graphics drivers, for example: *GeForce GTX SLI scaling improvements graph Nvidia GeForce owners: Go to http://www.geforce.com/drivers. Next, select your graphics card and your Windows version from the list and hit the “Start Search” button. My tip: Always go for the driver marked as “BETA”. This isn’t quite a finished driver, but they all run as stable and good as the final release these days and will likely give you even more performance! ATI Radeon owners: ATI fans go to http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/downloads.aspx and select the appropriate device. This will give you access to the latest official driver which you can download and install. To get the beta driver with more performance improvements or features, head over to http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx. For Intel HD Graphics owners: Mostly found on ultrabooks or tablets, the Intel graphics chipsets are the weakest of the bunch. I wouldn’t recommend doing any sort of gaming on the older integrated Intel HD chipsets (such as the HD 3000 or earlier) – unless you’re heavily into slideshows instead of smooth gameplay – but their latest graphics chipsets are powerful enough to play even recent titles, albeit not at the highest possible resolution or with all the bells and whistles turned on.To get updated drivers go to the Graphics driver page of the Intel Download Center. Wait, how do I even know what graphics card I own? Not a problem: To find out the maker and exact serial number, all you need to do is follow these steps. First, go to “Control Panel” and head to “Hardware and Sound”. From here, click on “Device Manager”: This will bring up a list of all the built-in devices of your system. Head over to where it says “Display adapters”: In these cases, you’ll see an Alienware X51 gaming rig with two graphic chips (the nVidia is usually always the faster one) and a laptop with a GeForce GT 650M. At any rate, make sure you’re using the latest drivers! 2. Upgrade to an SSD SSDs are much faster than mechanical hard disks and while this most certainly doesn’t boost your game’s frame rate, it will definitely reduce load time in game. My recommendation is to go at least with an SSD with more than 250 GB as most games these days take up between 8-20 Gigabytes. My Steam folder, for example, clocks in at a massive 60 Gigabyte and all I bought was Age of Empires III, Evil Within 2, Grand Theft Auto V, and the new Tomb Raider. Add to that Windows (another 30 GB), your personal data and some applications. You’re approaching the 256 GB quickly. I tried the Samsung 960 Evo which offers a fantastic value (250 GB for 126$). However, I went for the 480 GB SanDisk 480 GB Extreme which boosts an incredible 540 MB/s of sequential read and 460 MB/s of sequential write, for my Alienware gaming rig which – before – featured a stock 7200rpm drive. The performance difference is mindboggling: As you can see it has slashed my load times, meaning I spent more time playing and less time waiting! 3. Disable SuperFetch and Prefetch Both SuperFetch and Prefetch are Windows features that are supposed to boost Windows and applications startup times. For games, however, I noticed that loading times and background activity actually increases when these features are enabled. That’s why I recommend turning them both off if you’re an avid gamer. Here’s how: To do this, go to “Control Panel”, “System and Security”, “Administrative Tools”, and “Services”. Scroll down until you see the “SuperFetch” entry, double-click on it, and choose “Disabled”from the list. Hit “OK” and close all windows. Next, open up the registry; click on the Start orb and type in “regedit”. Hit Enter, and go to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory ManagementPrefetchParameters”. Double-click on “EnablePrefetcher” and enter “0” (default value is “3”) to disable the Prefetcher. Note: Please follow the above instructions precisely as deleting or changing the wrong values in the registry may cause problems with your PC. 4. Defrag or TRIM Your Disk As data is written or deleted from your hard disk, files become fragmented and will physically spread out all over the disk drive. This will lead to a significant performance hit, especially with games, as the hard disk will first need to collect all of these portions in order to be able to fully process the entire file. As both your games and their files usually take up several GBs, it is vital that all of these files can be read in a continuous manner. To defrag the disk, fire up the Start menu, and go to “All Programs”, “Accessories”, “System Tools” and “Disk Defragmenter”. Select your Windows disk, and hit “Defragment disk”. Note, if you have an SSD, you should not defrag. Instead, use the TRIM command to optimize them. In Windows 8, Microsoft integrated the TRIM command into the Disk Defragmenter—so, simply hit “Optimize”. Windows 7 doesn’t offer this, so be sure the TRIM command gets executed regularly. To see if TRIM is enabled, open up a command prompt by clicking on the Start orb and typing “cmd” into the search bar. Right-click on the first result (“cmd”), and click “Run as administrator”. Next, type in the command “Fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify”, and hit Enter. If this returns the result “= 0″, you’re good to go! Otherwise, TRIM isn’t supported and needs to be enabled. Try entering the command “fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0″. If that doesn’t help, a firmware upgrade might be necessary to enable TRIM.

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A team of researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in the Republic of Korea have taken a step toward the development of moving target defense techniques in software-defined networks. This is a demanding cybersecurity research topic, scientists said. This collaboration grew out of efforts of ARL researchers Dr. Jin-Hee Cho (now at Virginia Tech in the Department of Computer Science), Dr. Terrence J. Moore and Dr. Frederica Nelson reaching out to researchers in Asia Pacific regions through the international collaborative program administrated by the U.S. Army International Technology Center-Pacific. Cyberattacks on computer systems are becoming more common. Any company with information on a computer system connected to the internet might become a victim from someone or some group who wants to steal or destroy the company's data for their own use, or for ransom. This is possible because of the way the Internet is set up, researchers said. In order to access content on a website, a computer needs to know where to ask for the information. Websites have an address, what is known as an internet protocol, or IP, address; however, these are not just used for websites. Every computer connected to the internet has an IP address. Cyber attackers have time to discover the IP addresses of the computers they think might have valuable information and attack them using code that is more commonly known as computer viruses or worms. If the computer or system being attacked has a security system, such as a firewall or anti-virus software, it might be able to recognize some code as being bad and prevent itself from being infected. What cyber attackers do is slightly modify their bad code so it is not recognized until the computer's security system is updated or patched. Essentially, the typical defensive response to these attacks is passive, the researchers said. The attackers have time to prepare, plan and execute their attacks, whereas the potential victims are left reacting only after an intruder breaks into a computer system. Recently, a new proactive type of defense is being considered to protect important information in computer systems. This approach is known as moving target defense, or MTD. "The concept of MTD has been introduced with the aim of increasing the adversary's confusion or uncertainty by dynamically changing the attack surface, which consists of the reachable and exploitable vulnerabilities," Cho said. "MTD can lead to making the adversary's intelligence gained from previous monitoring no longer useful and accordingly results in poor attack decisions." The basic idea as it applies to IP addresses on computer networks is this: Change the IP address of the computer frequently enough so the attacker loses sight of where his victim is; however, this can be expensive, so the approach taken by the researchers in the collaboration here uses something known as software-defined networking. This lets computers keep their real IP addresses fixed, but masks them from the rest of the internet with virtual IP addresses that are frequently changing. Moore added that as the adage suggests, it is harder to hit a moving target. "MTD increases uncertainty and confuses the adversary, as time is no longer an advantage," Moore said. "The adversary has to expend more resources, such as time and/or computational power, to discover vulnerabilities of a target system, but will experience more difficulty in exploiting any vulnerabilities found in the past since their location or accessibility is constantly changing." According to Professor Hyuk Lim at GIST in the Republic of Korea, this proactive defense approach provides defense services before attackers get into a target system. "Taking actions proactively requires extra overhead to add another layer of defense strength," Kim said. "Hence, deploying the proactive defense and security mechanisms is not for free, but brings a cost because the system needs to constantly change the attack surface such as IP addresses. This cost can be mitigated to some extent by leveraging the technology called 'Software-Defined Networking'. The SDN technology provides highly efficient programmatic and dynamic management of the network policy by removing the network control from individual devices in a network to a centralized controller. The network configuration can be defined by the SDN controller, enabling more reliable and responsive network operations under variable conditions." Nelson explained the reason why these SDN-based MTD techniques are critical to supporting the vision of the Army and warfighters. "The key technology of SDN-based MTD techniques, under development by the research team, is highly relevant to support the warfighters' mission execution by proactively thwarting potential attacks, which can protect the defense system so that the warfighters can properly execute the mission in the presence of highly dynamic, hostile and innovative adversaries within contested tactical environments," Nelson said. The UC team in New Zealand led the effort of developing the MTD technology called the Flexible Random Virtual IP Multiplexing, namely FRVM. "In FRVM, while the real IP address of a server-host remains unchanged but stays hidden, a virtual IP address of the server-host keeps being randomly and periodically changed where the IP mapping/remapping (i.e., called multiplexing/demultiplexing) is performed by an SDN controller," said Dilli P. Sharma, a doctoral student in Prof. DongSeong Kim's cybersecurity research group at UC, New Zealand. "This effectively forces the adversary to play the equivalent of an honest shell game. However, instead of guessing among three shells (IP addresses) to find a pea (a running network service), the adversary must guess among 65,536 shells, given address space2^16. This MTD protocol is novel because it provides high flexibility to have multiple, random, time-variant IP addresses in a host, which implies the adversary will require more time to discover an IP address of the target host." In this research, the team formulated the architecture and communication protocols for the proposed IP (de)multiplexing-based MTD to be applied in SDN environments. The team also validated the effectiveness of the FRVM under various degrees of scanning attacks in terms of the attack success probability. The preliminary results evaluating the FRVM were presented at the 17th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, or TrustCom'18, held in New York in August. "Our next step is to study the trade-off in the FRVM between the dual conflicting goals of system security and performance, as proactive defense may introduce adverse effects when running MTD techniques while achieving enhanced security," Kim said. DP Sharma, D-S Kim, S Yoon, H Lim, J-H Cho, TJ Moore, "FRVM: Flexible random virtual ip multiplexing in software-defined networks," 2018 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications, New York City, July 31- August 3, 2018, p. 579-587. Sharma DP, Kim DS, Yoon S, Lim H, Cho JH, Moore TJ. FRVM: Flexible Random Virtual IP Multiplexing in Software-Defined Networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.09343. 2018 Jul 18.

Intel Core i9 9900k Ashes Of The Singularity Gaming Benchmarks Leaked – Compared To 8700k For reasons unbeknownst to me, Ashes of the Singularity benchmark remains a po[CENSORED]r prototype benchmarking tool for testers all around the world. Fortunately for us, this means we can take a look at the performance of CPUs and GPUs before they are actually released. While the sneak peeks definitely help, it is also useful to keep in mind that most of these benchmarks are done on engineering samples and/or with preliminary drivers & bios – so should always be taken with a grain of salt as they may not be indicative of final performance. Intel Core i9-9900k scores 11.5% higher against the older 8700k in preliminary Ashes of the Singularity CPU Benchmark For Intel’s upcoming Core i9-9900K CPU, TUMAPISAK – a well-known leaker, decided to let out some hidden benchmarks from the AoTs metaverse. I was not able to find these in the public directory so they have either been removed or were never in the public directory, to begin with (there are ways to crawl benchmarks that have not been publicly posted). The benchmarks pit the Core i9-9900k against the last generation mainstream flagship – the Core i7-8700k. It’s important to mention here that to gauge the actual CPU performance difference you should be looking at the “CPU framerate” and not the generic framerate. The former is a better indicator of performance differences while the latter is what you can usually realistically expect in real life gaming scenarios (in which even an 8400 would suffice for most AAA games). The preset used is the Crazy 4k preset which is not exactly ideal since it will make the GPU the bottleneck (the lower the resolution, the easier it is for the GPU to churn out frames and the harder it gets for the CPU to catch up) but thankfully we have CPU framerates to make a good comparison. The biggest difference can be seen in the Heavy Batch, with the Core i9-9900k scoring a CPU framerate of 67.4 while the Core i7-8700k clocks in at a much lower 55.2 fps. A similar story exists in the Normal batch with the Core i9-9900k scoring 94.2 fps and the 8700k following behind at a decent 85.6 fps. Overall, the Core i9-9900k scores an average 77.2 fps while the 8700k scores an average 69.2 fps. This is a pretty impressive gaming performance differential considering higher CPU throughput rarely translates into an increased gaming FPS. The Core i9-9900k is the flagship part of Intel’s upcoming 9th generation lineup and will feature 8 cores with hyperthreading enabled (8 cores / 16 threads). The real fun comparison will be between the core i9-9900k and the Core i7-9700K which also has 8 cores but with no hyperthreading (8 cores / 8 threads). Supposedly the Core i9-9900k can boost to an absolutely massive 5 GHz clock on air when dealing with single core/dual core turbos and up to 4.7GHz on all 8 cores. All 9th generation parts are fabbed on the 14nm++ process and MSRP has already leaked out.

Expected Price: ₹ 85 Lakhs Expected Launch: October 2018 / 2019 Porsche New Cayenne is not launched in India yet. Porsche New Cayenne Preview : Porsche Cayenne entered into its third generation last year at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show. Developed ground-up, the new Cayenne received a new platform, evolutionary design, updated interior, revised powertrain and a whole new equipment list. Porsche’s first SUV also debuts the rear-wheel steering for the first time. The new gen Cayenne seems to have adopted the design language set down by its younger sibling, the Macan. The headlamps are new and get Porsche’s new four-point LED signature. The front bumper consists of horizontal slats with bigger air-intake vents. The silhouette is noticeably sharper with a raked D-pillar to lend the SUV a sportier stance. The length measures at 4,918 mm which is 63 mm longer than the outgoing model. The width has increased by 44mm now measuring 1,983mm. However, the height has been reduced by 9mm to lend a sportier appearance. The wheelbase remains the same at 2,895 mm. At the rear, the bulbous tail lights are replaced by a new sleek LED taillight design which runs across the rear. Overall, the new Cayenne looks sleeker, sportier, better proportioned and more handsome as compared to the outgoing car. The new gen Cayenne is based on the new MLB Evo platform of the Volkswagen Group. The bodyshell is made up of alloy, steel and aluminium. The battery is lightweight too. Thus, the SUV sheds 65kg of weight over the previous model tipping the scale at 1985kg. On the inside, the cabin is fresh with a lot of influence from the Panamera. The offroader also gets the new Porsche Advanced Cockpit integrated with the revised dashboard. The centre console is dominated by a large 12.3-inch infotainment touchscreen borrowed from the Panamera as well. The instrument cluster is an analogue tachometer flanked by a seven-inch digital screen on either side. The cabin comes loaded with all the connected features Porsche has on offer. There is a plethora of driving aids as well while the boot space has increased to 770 litres. Under the hood, there are two turbocharged 3.0-litre V6 petrol engines on offer at the moment. The standard Cayenne is powered by the 340bhp/450Nm variant. Meanwhile, the Cayenne S has a 2.9-litre turbocharged V6 under the hood. It generates 440bhp and 550Nm which is 20bhp more than its predecessor. Transmission is an eight-speed Tiptronic S with shorter response times and sportier ratios in the lower gears. There are no diesel or plug-in hybrid variants yet but will join the line-up soon, along with the range-topping performance variants. The new Cayenne is already on sale in Germany. The Stuttgart-based carmaker will debut the new-gen Cayenne in India shortly, given the overwhelming sales record the SUV garnered in India. It will continue to rival against the likes of the BMW X5, Mercedes-Benz GLE, Audi Q7 and the newly launched Range Rover Velar.

Many people spend their 20s getting some unhealthy behaviours out of their system — like sleeping until 2pm on Saturdays and spending all their disposable cash on new kicks. But your 30s are an ideal time to cement the habits that will help you achieve personal and professional fulfilment for the rest of your life. To give you a head start, we sifted through recent Quora threads on this critical life transition and highlighted the most compelling responses. Here are 10 lifestyle tweaks you can make in your 30s to lay the foundation for lifelong success: 1. Stop smoking. If you've started smoking, stop immediately, suggests Quora user Cyndi Perlman Fink. While you can't undo the damage you may have already incurred from smoking, research suggests that those who quit before age 40 have a 90% lower mortality risk than those who continue. 2. Start going to sleep and waking up at the same time every day. It might be tempting to use the weekends to recoup your sleep debt, but Nan Waldman recommends you hit the hay and wake up around the same time every single day. If you oversleep for even a few days, experts say you risk resetting your body clock to a different cycle, so you'll start getting tired later in the day. Avoid a lifetime of sleep issues by sticking to bedtime and wakeup routines whenever you can. 3. Start exercising regularly. “Try to move yourself as much as possible,” says Alistair Longman. “It doesn't matter if it's walking, cycling, running, weightlifting, hiking, swimming — as long as it involves some movement.”In the later half of your 30s, you start losing muscle mass, so it's especially important to exercise at this time. But remember to choose physical activities you really love, since you're less likely to continue exercising if you dislike your workouts. 4. Start keeping a journal. “Journal your life! Your written records will entertain and endear in your future,” writes Mark Crawley. Even if you'd prefer to keep your musings to yourself, putting your thoughts and feelings on paper can help you deal with stressful events. 5. Start saving money. “Building the habit of saving early means you'll continue it further down the line,” says Cliff Gilley. It might seem like your golden years are a lifetime away, but the earlier you start saving, the more time your money has to accrue interest. 6. Start pursuing a life dream. “Don't delay pursuing your life goals,” writes Bill Karwin. “Want to buy a house? Have kids? Write a book? Pick one of those life goals and get started. What can you do between now and the end of the year to embark on one of them?” 7. Start learning to be happy with what you have. “If you are content with what you have, you will have a happier life,” says Robert Walker. It's really about gratitude: Research suggests that appreciating what you have can increase happiness and decrease negative feelings. Perhaps that's why Oprah Winfrey kept a daily gratitude journal for years. 8. Stop thinking you need to satisfy everyone. “After I reached 30, I stopped feeling the need to please everyone. You can choose your friends and contacts more carefully,” says Kevin Teo. In particular, Teo realised he wasn't obligated to be nice to people who were unfriendly toward him. Whether you decide to whittle down your Facebook friends to a mere 500 or simply hang out more with the people who make you happy, it's important to invest your time and energy wisely. 9. Stop comparing yourself to others. “If you are unable to do some things in life compared to your siblings and friends, then please be at peace with yourself,” advises Mahesh Kay. “Don't be harsh on yourself.” As one psychotherapist writes, constantly peering over your shoulder to see what others are doing doesn't help you accomplish your goals. You'd be better off spending time thinking about what you want to achieve and evaluating your progress on those fronts. 10. Start forgiving yourself for your mistakes. “Forgive yourself your mistakes. We all make plenty of them. Don't dwell on the errors of the past — learn from them, let them go, and move ahead,” writes Liz Palmer. One social psychologist says that self-compassion (the ability to forgive yourself and learn from your mistakes) is the key driver of success. That's likely because people who practice self-compassion see their weaknesses as changeable and try to avoid making the same errors in the future.

Strong aftershocks have continued to hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, where a major quake and tsunami killed at least 384 people and injured 500. Dozens remain missing, some thought to be trapped in the debris of collapsed buildings in the city of Palu. Bodies have been lying in city streets and the injured are being treated in tents because of damage to hospitals. An air traffic controller at Palu airport died ensuring a plane took off safely after Friday's quake. The scale of casualties and damage beyond the city is still unclear. In pictures: Indonesia earthquake and tsunami Anxious survivors in Palu bedded down in the open air on Saturday night, heeding advice by officials not to return to their homes as a precaution. Some buildings were completely flattened. Indonesia is prone to earthquakes because it lies on the Ring of Fire - the line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions that circles virtually the entire Pacific rim. In 2004, a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed 226,000 people across the Indian Ocean, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia.

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