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Say what you will about Fox & Friends, but YouTube TV subscribers looking for their daily fix of Fox News, Fox Sports, and even local Fox stations might soon need to turn in elsewhere unless the two sides strike a deal.  According to a post on the official YouTube blog, Fox News, Fox Business, and Fox Sports will all go dark on YouTube TV if Fox and YouTube owner Google can’t resolve their differences by 5 p.m. ET on Wednesday August 27—tomorrow.  On a website presenting its own side of the dispute, Fox adds a few more channels that may fade out on YouTube TV, including FS1, FS2, Big Ten Network, Fox Desportes, the Fox News Channel, and local Fox channels, which carry (among other shows) Sunday NFL matchups.  The short version of the dustup is that Fox and YouTube TV can’t agree on the terms of an upcoming carriage renewal, with each side accusing the other of being greedy, stingy, a bully, or some mixture therein. For its part, YouTube claims that Fox is “asking for payments that are far higher than what partners with comparable content offerings receive,” while adding that YouTube wants to “reach a deal that reflects the value of their content and is fair for both sides without passing on additional costs to our subscribers.” So yes, YouTube is raising the specter of price increases if Fox gets it way.  On the flip side, Fox says it’s “proposing a fair, comprehensive deal” while accusing Google of “continually exploit[ing] its outsized influence by proposing terms that are out of step with the marketplace.”  It’s bellicose language, all right, but also familiar to anyone who’s followed similar carriage disputes in the past—and when contract disputes happen, they frequently go down to the wire.  Most recently, YouTube and Paramount got into a tit-for-tat that could have seen local CBS stations being pulled from YouTube TV. But at the eleventh hour, the two sides agreed to a short-term extension, and a deal was eventually struck.  Another memorable carriage dispute erupted in 2021, when YouTube TV and NBCUniversal got in each other’s faces over renewal terms—and again, a last-minute agreement allowed local NBC channels to continue streaming.  If the deadline in the current YouTube-Fox dustup passes without a deal and Fox channels do get yanked for “an extended period of time,” YouTube TV says it will give each subscriber a $10 credit for their trouble.  Will it get that far? If history’s any guide, this disagreement will end like most of the others: with a brief extension just as the clock winds down, followed by a deal. But we’ll have to wait and see. This news story is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best live TV streaming services. Read...

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An apparent leak of the planned notebook CPU releases from AMD and Intel have revealed both company’s plans through 2025 and beyond, showing off a complex AMD roadmap that extends in 2027 with the release of “Gator Range” and AMD’s Zen 6 architecture. The roadmap was published on the website of Seleno, a Spanish electronics manufacturer, and downloadable from a button marked “Roadmap” from the manufacturer’s site. It has not yet been formally confirmed, so it must be considered to be a rumor for now. Tom’s Hardware noticed the post, whose original source appears to be the Twitter account, “X86isdeadandback.” PCWorld was able to download the roadmap from Seleno itself. Seleno appears to be a small Spanish electronics company specializing in wireless chargers and power banks. But the company also maintains a notebook business, and published a roadmap of its own products and the roadmaps from AMD and Intel, accessible via the “Roadmap” link. Neither roadmap is sourced to AMD or Intel, and appears to be Seleno’s interpretation of what each company has told them (or simple forecasting rather than an actual leak). The AMD roadmap, however, is far more detailed. In fact, Intel’s 2025 roadmap, according to Seleno, matches what Intel has already said publicly with one exception: in notebooks, 2025 will be the year of Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake. In 2026, Intel will launch versions of the “Wildcat Lake” processor, a name that Intel has let slip before, in both the mainstream 9-17W “U” segments as well as the higher-performance “P” segment, which carries with it a 28W TDP. A screenshot of the Intel Platform Roadmap, as published by Seleno.es to its website.Foundry AMD’s notebook CPU roadmap is much more interesting. If the roadmap Seleno published is accurate, you’ll have the choice of seven separate CPU choices for 2025, ranging from the aging “Mendocino” Zen 2 parts for entry-level notebooks on up to the 16-core Ryzen X3D or “Fire Range” products, whose desktop counterparts have sparked a sharp increase in AMD’s desktop market share. AMD’s roadmap shows the Fire Range parts persisting through 2027. AMD’s Strix Halo (the Ryzen AI Max CPU found in the Framework Desktop and others) has no replacement at the current time, the Seleno roadmap indicates, persisting throughout 2025, 2026, and 2027. The big name on AMD’s alleged roadmap for 2026 is Gorgon Point, which replaces three separate processors AMD ships in 2025: the 12-core “Strix Point” mainstream Ryzen AI 300 Zen 5 series; the “Krackan Point” {sic] 8-core offshoot, which boasts the same Copilot+-class NPU and Zen 5 architecture; and the “Hawk Point” chip, an 8-core Zen 4 processor. The roadmap describes Gorgon Point as a 12-core chip with a 55-TOPS NPU, manufactured on a 4nm process with the Zen 5 architecture. A screenshot of AMD’s mobile CPU roadmap, as published by Seleno.es to its website.Foundry Also in 2026, the Seleno roadmap indicates that AMD is saying that the Hawk Point chip will slip in as a replacement for mainstream notebooks, maintaining its current characteristics as a Zen 4 processor on the 4nm process node, and using DDR5 and LP-DDR5 memory. Finally, Seleno’s AMD roadmap shows the migration from the Zen 5 architecture to Zen 6 taking place in 2027. Although it’s no secret that AMD is working on future architectures, AMD hasn’t spoken publicly about Zen 6 yet. Its most likely opportunity to do that will be on Nov. 11, when it holds a special day for financial analysts. It’s on those days that AMD typically presents future roadmaps and talks more publicly about its strategies and initiatives. In 2027, Gator Range will mark the debut of Zen 6 in what Seleno calls the “ultimate compute” category. Mainstream notebooks will follow suit, with “Medusa Point” — a Zen 6 chip on a 3nm process node — taking over from Gorgon Point. AMD also apparently plans what Seleno refers to as “Medusa BB” — possibly a “baby Medusa Point,” as Tom’s Hardware suggests — without any distinguishing characteristics. Seleno published the roadmaps to its Web site.Foundry Interestingly, in 2027 all of AMD’s notebook processors will apparently meet Microsoft’s Copilot+ requirements, with the exception of one: the Mendocino chip, which will keep on puttering along from 2024 until presumably 2027 as beyond. Seleno’s roadmap contains details of the company’s own notebook plans, as well as which processors the company will include. In a note, Seleno said that it is phasing out Intel’s 12th-gen Core i5-1235U, though the timing will depend on the stock on the open market. Seleno also notes that supplies of Intel’s N-series (Alder Lake-N, Twin Lake-N, and Jasper Lake) remain in short supply. Read...

“If the product is free, you are the product.” You can apply that thinking to pretty much anything supported by advertising or data collection, including tools like Chrome and Gmail. (And you’re not paying to read these words, are you? Food for thought.) But one VPN tool, claiming to increase user privacy and security, might be snooping on the people it’s claiming to protect. That’s the claim put forth by Koi Security, a software vendor that also investigates other applications. According to its report, the “FreeVPN.One” virtual private network, available as an extension of the Chrome browser, is peeping on its users in a variety of ways. First and most concerningly, the extension appears to take a screenshot of every single website the user visits, even waiting a second after the page loads to make sure everything is rendered. This automatic screen recording may be related to the tool’s “Scan with AI Threat Detection” feature. This little button lets you “scan” a website visually and then it sends the screenshot off to FreeVPN.One’s servers, where it gets analyzed for threats. That sounds neat, I suppose… but it’s not really doing anything that couldn’t be done faster and more efficiently just by sending the URL in. And, as Koi reports, the tool appears to have taken a screenshot of every single page the browser visits already, without informing the user. The extension is also recording the user’s location via IP address, and has access to all of the user’s URLs via elevated permissions. “With the  permission, the extension gains the ability to access every site you visit,” says Koi’s report. “This broad reach lets it inject a content script everywhere you go.” Koi says that FreeVPN.One has massively updated its permissions and alleged spying starting in April of this year, after amassing hundreds of thousands of installations, and has covered its tracks in some of the recent releases with updates meant to obfuscate its activity. Though the developer claims that screenshots are not permanently saved or transmitted, and that user data is never sold, they remain anonymous with no notable business or contact information. The developer stopped responding to Koi’s emails after being asked to provide any sort of evidence of legitimacy. VPN tools are skyrocketing in popularity, as more countries and US states enact laws that limit user access to adult websites, and more users become wary of their online safety. But free VPNs are a gamble at best — the very nature of the system requires a good amount of trust, literally funneling all your web traffic through a third party. This particular extension, which is still available on the Chrome Web Store, went well beyond the basics for that via its elevated permissions. If you need a VPN for anything more than a few basic, low-risk browsing sessions, it might be best to invest in a paid option. Paid VPNs aren’t necessarily any more trustworthy… but they do have an incentive to keep the user happy, instead of collecting valuable data and finding a way to monetize it. For a deep dive into the best options for VPNs, be sure to check out this PCWorld report. Read...