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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- August 9, 2016

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AMD's Budget-Friendly Radeon RX 460 Makes It Easier to Get in the Game
Nucleus Home Intercom Gets Alexa Advantage
Is the Internet Turning Donald Trump - and You - Into an Idiot?
Apple to Enlist the Aid of a Few Good Hackers
Alexa Takes On Smart Home Security Responsibilities
Linux Botnets on a Rampage

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AMD's Budget-Friendly Radeon RX 460 Makes It Easier to Get in the Game
AMD on Monday introduced its budget-priced Radeon RX 460 graphics card
designed for e-sports gamers. It delivers the high frame rates DirectX
9-based shooters and action games demand, but also handles the more
robust next-generation DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs. The Radeon RX 460
offers a peak performance of 2.2 TFLOPS with support for 1080p frame
rates at 1080p.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83784.html

Nucleus Home Intercom Gets Alexa Advantage
The smart home of the future could be a wee bit smarter with the
addition of the Alexa-powered connected intercom system Nucleus
announced last week. The Nucleus intercom, which last fall made its
debut without Alexa, is a tablet that connects to a home network through
WiFi or Ethernet to allow family members to communicate with each other
both inside and outside the home.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83782.html

Is the Internet Turning Donald Trump - and You - Into an Idiot?
President Obama was viewed as the first techie presidential candidate
when he launched his campaign, and he has been connected at the hip with
Google for a large part of both terms. However, the brilliance his teams
displayed with using analytics never seemed to carry over into running
the country, which was disappointing. Most of the U.S. government still
has systems that are decades out of date.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83776.html

Apple to Enlist the Aid of a Few Good Hackers
Apple has introduced its first bug bounty program, set to launch in
September. Ivan Krstic, head of Apple security engineering and
architecture, announced the program at the Black Hat security conference
in Las Vegas. The focus reportedly is on an exceptionally high level of
service, and on quality over quantity. Participation in the program
initially will be by invitation only.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83779.html

Alexa Takes On Smart Home Security Responsibilities
Millions of customers using Amazon's Alexa voice assistant technology
now can add locks that can be controlled remotely to the growing
ecosystem of smart home capabilities. August Home last week announced
that Amazon's line of voice-assisted products, including the Echo, now
support its smart products, allowing users to lock and unlock their
doors using voice commands.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83775.html

Linux Botnets on a Rampage
Linux-operated botnet Distributed Denial of Service attacks surged in
this year's second quarter, due to growing interest in targeting Chinese
servers, according to a Kaspersky Lab report released this week. South
Korea kept its top ranking for having the most command-and-control
servers. Brazil, Italy and Israel ranked among the leaders behind South
Korea for hosting C&C servers, according to Kaspersky Lab.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83773.html

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