Samsung’s security failures leave 600 million Android users vulnerable to simple keyboard hack

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A critical new vulnerability has been discovered on Samsung Galaxy S5 and S6 devices, but the state of the Android ecosystem means there’s nothing end-users can do about it (except avoid unsecured WiFi, anyway).

How AMD’s E3 event, Eve Valkyrie sold me on VR

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After seeing Eve: Valkyrie’s demo at AMD’s E3 event, I’m sold on the idea of VR for gaming — provided game developers are willing to put the work in on the front end to make it happen.

AMD releases specs, pricing on Radeon Fury, showcases Project Quantum platform

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At E3 this week, AMD revealed the formal specs on Fiji, its price points, and demonstrated form factors and its new concept system, dubbed Project Quantum.

AMD Radeon Fury cards debut, from the tiny R9 Nano to the water-cooled R9 Fury X

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AMD announced multiple new GPUS yesterday, including upcoming dual-core models, a water-cooled single-GPU solution, and the tiny Radeon Nano — all of which promise dramatic performance and power consumption improvements over previous generation cards.

Secrets of the vault: Backblaze open-sources key sections of its data preservation software

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Backblaze has open-sourced a key component of its Backblaze Vault file system design: The Reed-Solomon implementation (done, in this case, in Java).