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The following are three articles/news stories worth knowing:

 

Microsoft’s security software causes some Windows PCs to no longer boot
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/microsoft%E2%80%99s-security-software-causes-some-windows-pcs-to-no-longer-boot.html
And it's related to a false positive. Windows Defender and Microsoft Security Essentials cause some Windows computers to produce a failed boot. The software falsely identifies the bootloader of open-source encryption software DiskCryptor as malware.

DiskCryptor is falsely detected as a positive, and is identified as BadRabbit ransomware reports myce. BadRabbit currently makes the rounds, mainly in Russia, Ukraine but it has also been detected in Turkey and Germany.

To encrypt data, BadRabbit uses DiskCryptor, which is likely why Microsoft’s security applications mistakenly deleted legitimate installations of DiskCryptor.

Even worse, both applications deleted the legitimate DiskCryptor bootloader making it impossible to boot to Windows.

>>And stupid mistakes like these are the reason Windows 10 forcing updates is a very bad idea. I mean, it would be bad if it were in hands of a reliable company, but in hands of MSoft it becomes such a terrible thing... Anyway, to know more about BadRabbit and a way to prevent it, check this Wccftech article.

 

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti: Custom Models and Overclocking
https://videocardz.com/73742/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-ti-custom-models-and-overclocking
A rumor about locked frequency was slightly inaccurate. As it turns out frequency is indeed locked, but only for board partners. They simply cannot modify BIOSes to ship with higher clock speeds, something that was a normal thing for every GeForce launch so far.

NVIDIA officially claims GTX 1070 Ti to be an overclocking monster:

We designed the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti to be an overclocking monster with plenty of headroom for gamers to crank up the clock speeds. And our partners have built cards with thermals and power supplies that allow gamers to push performance way past stock specifications.

While it sounds great, nothing explains why ‘partners’ were not allowed to modify BIOSes the way they used to and force customers to do it manually. This is a step backward, putting many board partners in a tough spot.

>>WTF?!

 

PCI-SIG Finalizes and Releases PCIe 4.0, Version 1 Specification: 2x PCIe Bandwidth and More
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11967/pcisig-finalizes-and-releasees-pcie-40-spec
This week, PCI-standards consortium PCI-SIG (Special Interest Group) has ratified and released specifications for PCIe 4.0 Specification Version 1, uploading the documents to their PCI-SIG Specification Library. This marks the full release of PCIe 4.0, following up on June’s revision 0.9 specification publication. Doubling PCIe 3.0’s 8 GT/s (~1 GB/s) of bandwidth per lane, PCIe 4.0 offers a transfer rate of 16 GT/s with flexible lane width configurations, providing significant I/O performance benefits useful for storage, networking, and AI applications. At the same time, PCI-SIG has targeted Q2 2019 for releasing the finalized PCIe 5.0 specification, so PCIe 4.0 won't be quite as long-lived as PCIe 3.0 has been.

>>We'll see if Intel or AMD launch any PCIe 4.0 product, or they go straight to 5.0