Thursday, June 25, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 6/26/2015





WB suspends sales of Arkham Knight for the PC
Things just keep getting worse for Batman: Arkham Knight. After a slew of player complaints and a sort of tone-deaf suggested settings post issued earlier today, developer Rocksteady and publisher WB Interactive have apparently had enough for the moment. In another official forum post made this evening, WB Interactive announced that it's suspending sales of the PC version of the game while the numerous wrinkles are ironed out.
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New EVGA Supernova P2 PSUs offer 80 Plus Platinum power
EVGA shrank its Supernova G2 PSUs to more reasonable power levels a little while back, and the company is now turning its shrink ray onto its Supernova P2 80+ Platinum PSUs. Until today, the P2 family consisted of 1-kW, 1.2-kW, and 1.6-kW units, but more sane builders can now avail themselves of 850W, 750W, and 650W units, as well.
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Arkham Knight developer issues recommended settings for PCs
As we reported yesterday, Batman: Arkham Knight players are running into trouble in Gotham City on the PC. Developer Rocksteady has issued some recommended settings for the game that might alleviate some of the graphical hiccups, at least for those whose hardware meets the game's minimum and recommended specs. Testing for the ultra tier is ongoing, apparently.
Here are the recommended settings for those whose PCs resemble the game's minimum system requirements. It should be noted ...
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Hackers are exploiting a new Flash vulnerability
Another day, another Flash vulnerability. A team of researchers at security company FireEye has discovered that a security flaw in Adobe Flash is being actively exploited as part of a large-scale e-mail phishing campaign.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2015-3113 , and it can allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code. All ...
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Samsung's PC updating software disables Windows Update
A researcher named Patrick Barker has discovered a piece of preinstalled Samsung software that silently disables Windows Update on the company's PCs, potentially rendering the computer vulnerable to security issues.
Mr. Barker was helping a user in his forum when their troubleshooting revealed that something was randomly turning off Windows Update. After some digging, the ...
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AMD's Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card reviewed
The Fury X is here. At long last, after lots of hype, we can show you how AMD's new high-end GPU performs aboard the firm's snazzy new liquid-cooled graphics card. We've tested in a range of games using our famous frame-time-based metrics, and we have a full set of results to share with you. Let's get to it.

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