There have already been signs, now Intel is making it official: The company is changing the naming scheme of its desktop and notebook processors. 15 years ago, Intel switched to the well-known Core iX scheme – now the i is gone. In addition, Intel will no longer indicate the generation, so instead of a 14th Gen Core i9 there will be a Core 9 in the future.
The four to five-digit product number, which continues to contain the reference to the processor generation in the first place, is retained. The partly attached letters also remain with the usual meaning. However, the product numbers will be reset: the new naming scheme will be introduced with the Meteor Lake processors expected in late 2023, their product numbers will start with 1.
In a first statement in May via Twitter, company spokesman Bernard Fernandes justified the change by saying that Intel was at a turning point: At Meteor Lake, Intel used chiplets for the first time, some from its own 4 nm production and some from TSMC. Now it is said that the new naming scheme should make the most powerful processors easier to identify for customers.
In addition, the processors will be divided into two product lines in the future: In addition to the normal core processors, there will be core ultra processors. Intel has not yet announced what distinguishes an ultra processor from a model without this addition. Two options are obvious: the simple core processors could lack performance cores or the AI accelerator. The latter will be installed for the first time in Meteor Lake, all processors in this family and in the successor Arrow Lake are said to be Core Ultras.
Lots of new stickers
The new naming scheme also means new decals for the case. A device has the appropriate Core or Core Ultra sticker, if the remote maintenance extension vPro is available or a notebook is certified by Intel Evo, there are adapted variants. So far it seems as if, unlike before, the performance class is no longer specified for these. If a dedicated Arc graphics card is installed – Intel emphasized that this is possible with both Core and Core Ultra processors – there is another sticker on the case for it.
Should processors come onto the market before Meteor Lake – none have been announced so far – they would continue to use the old naming scheme, according to Intel. This explicit hint suggests that there could still be a Raptor Lake refresh.
Lose all your savings overnight. It is the nightmare that Miguel Ángel Sánchez, an ING client who has been the victim of a scam as dangerous as it is easy to fall for in her.
The affected person himself tells of his experience, which combines two techniques such as vishing and telephone spoofing. A deception that has ended with the user without his savings and where the bank ignores it, arguing that the responsibility lies with the client for having been scammed.
The call that can make you lose your savings
According to the client, the scam begins when a alleged member of the ING security team called him to alert that it had been detected that someone had accessed their accounts from the province of Cádiz and an iPhone 7.
In that call, where they already had some details of his bank account, he was given security advice, such as going to a nearby ING office, because his money could be in danger. The alternative was to follow a few steps over the phone to ensure the protection of the account, transferring the money to a secure account during the resolution of the incident.
At that point is where Michelangelo became suspicious. And here came the main deception. “How do we know that you are an ING worker?” asked the affected person. The response was “you can hang up on me and go to an office or you can look up the phone number I’m calling you from on the Internet.”
The user looked and He saw that the number was that of the ING branch on O’Donnell Street, in Madrid. “From that moment on I didn’t doubt,” explains the affected person. Big mistake.
The scammers were applying the telephone spoofing technique, which consists of falsifying the phone number of the sender in the call so that it appears to come from the aforementioned entity. But in reality that is not their real number. The call came from another number, but the identity had been spoofed, posing as the number of the real bank.
“You have to live the situation,” defends Miguel. “One of the things I proposed was to transfer all the money to my wife’s account. The scammer (with a Spanish accent) told me that surely the accounts of the people I usually make transfers to could also be in danger. It’s very good mounted.”
“I made a series of transfers to a supposedly secure ING account to protect my money. To make them, I received SMS from an ING phone, with the account number and a security code. In 25 minutes we had lost everything“.
Subsequently, the affected person decided to return the call and at that time he was speaking with ING. The answer was that he had been the victim of a scam. After contacting the bank, ING’s response is that they “take no responsibility if someone is using your phone number to deceive users.”
The bank argues that “since the lack of diligence” regarding its security elements and personal data has been confirmed, no payment is due by the entity.
In conversation with SamaGame, Miguel Ángel Sánchez explains that once the case went viral, ING contacted him again, to maintain its position although with a softer response. The affected person jokes about the fact that he has also received a survey to assess his response and treatment. “Everything is very unhuman,” he says.
How to avoid falling for these frauds
Spoofing is a scam that has become popular recently, but it is well known. The National Police has warned about its use and has arrested more than 200 people for defrauding more than 830,000 euros with this method.
The Police recommendation to avoid being victims of this type of fraud is clear. Here we leave you with a couple of tips:
Do not give personal or banking information over the phone or by SMS; Your bank will never request personal information from you through these means.
If you suspect that a call may be fraudulent, hang up directly and call the official number of your bank (or the one you usually contact) and not the phone number provided to you by the interlocutor.
Never give passwords over the phone. If they tell you that they are calling you from an entity or company, take note and contact them directly, verifying the authenticity of the interlocutor and the incident.
Use the official applications of banking entities and never make payments or update data through what they send you by email or SMS.
A similar conclusion is that of Miguel, who recommends that if there is a similar case: “hang up and call the bank. Or go to the nearest office.” Additionally, he points out that it is better to “trust banks with enough physical branches” and that if you have already fallen for the scam, not to fall “into the trap of “you should have done X.” We users cannot be ultimately to blame,” she concludes.
What responsibility do banks have in these scams?
There is already jurisprudence on the aspect of criminal liability. In the case of Miguel Ángel Sánchez, he has reported the case to the Police and has opened a process with the Bank’s own User Ombudsman, independent of it. He still explains that he has to put himself in the hands of consumer associations and possibly a lawyer.
In 2022, Facua got ING to take charge of the return of a theft due to phishing. Initially they refused, but the consumer organization obtained the refund because it demonstrated that the bank “could not show evidence of having carried out the double authentication of operations that is mandatory for banking entities.”
The jurisprudence in Spain is consistent: the bank has to return the money that was taken illicitly by third parties. The legal nuance in these cases is to demonstrate whether there is “gross negligence” by the client. If so, the bank is exempt from liability. However, simply falling for the scam does not count as such.
In July 2023, Justice determined that Banco Santander had to return 6,000 euros to a phishing client. In September 2023, it was Abanca that had to return around 30,600 euros to affected customers.
As argued by the Provincial Court in another phishing case, there is no such serious negligence because there is premeditated deception by a third party to gain your trust. And yes there is a default by the bank for not applying sufficient security measures.
There is no clear legislation or a ruling from the Supreme Court that clarifies the rule for all these scams, but the trend in known cases is towards a criterion that positions the victim as a “simple passive subject” and the bank as an entity with “active responsibility.”
I work out, box, and run four times a week, and when I stop, I can’t help but feel guilty. My body agitates, my concentration declines. However, it can be beneficial to take breaks from time to time. I even invite you to do it. Because just because you stop training because you’re sick, for example, doesn’t mean you’re going to lose all your muscles. So rest assured: sculpting your figure takes time, and losing it takes time too.
We gain strength and endurance through a process called progressive overload (meaning your performance inevitably increases over time). “The benefit of progressive overload is that you don’t have to push yourself every workout to make progress,” says Andy Stern, personal trainer and co-founder of Rumble Boxing. You can and should adapt your training to your fitness and needs. Are you sore? Are you recovering from an injury? No need to strain: lift lighter weights.
Don’t worry if you slow down from time to time, or if you allow yourself breaks. “The important thing when doing sport is to do it regularly,” says Andy Stern. “You have to train for weeks or even months to sculpt your figure. We have to see the whole situation, in the long term. It’s okay if you stop exercising for a week or two because you’re sick. It’s not going to stunt your progress if you’ve been training consistently for months and months.”
However, it is obviously possible to lose strength and endurance if you stop for too long, but after how long exactly? Strength and aerobic capacity respond differently to “detraining.” Generally speaking, it is possible to keep your figure after a long period of inactivity. According to a 2020 study, three weeks of detraining did not impact muscle thickness, strength or athletic performance in adolescents.
Cardio is lost faster than strength
According to Jesse Shaw, MD, associate professor of sports medicine at the University of Western States, this is also the case in adults. “Unless you are bedridden or weightless,” he explains, “the activities of daily life allow you to stay in shape.” However, aerobic capacity declines more quickly than strength, explains Jesse Shaw. Cardiopulmonary function begins to decline after about two weeks of break. Running or cycling will feel much more difficult and your heart rate will tend to increase more quickly.
The length of the break needed to lose shape, however, differs depending on the individual. The most determining factor is the regularity of training: “The more regularly you have trained, the more resistant you will be to detraining,” explains Jesse Shaw. Age also weighs in the balance. A 2005 study found that older people (74-86 years old) showed a significant decline after two weeks of detraining compared to 60-73 year olds.
Losing LP, especially after having a good win rate, is frustrating. Even more so when trying to climb to the highest possible rank. Players aired their grievances on Twitter/X and Riot responded with a brief explanation.
The climb to Challenger has begun, but it seems some players are losing more League Points (LP) after losses than they are gaining after wins. Clearly, the community is frustrated and has started calling out Riot on social media, demanding an explanation of what’s really going on here.
Luckily, players didn’t have to wait too long, thanks to the League of Legends team’s Lead Gameplay Designer. Matt “Phroxzon” Leung-Harrisongiving a brief explanation of what could have happened to players, even going so far as to check their personal op.gg accounts for personalized reviews.
LoL players frustrated with LP gains and losses in Season 14
Losing and gaining LP has always been questionable in League of Legends and players complain about it constantly. LoL Season 14 just started a week ago and players are already expressing their frustration on social media, with Riot Phroxzon stepping in to provide insight into the amount of LP gained or lost after matches.
According to Phroxzon, Emerald+ players are expected to gain or lose 20 LP this season, while players below Emerald hover around 28+-. He also added that it is not uncommon to have short spurts of disproportionate gains in LP.
To clarify some things: – Earnings in Emeraude+ will be centered around +-20 this season – Gains below Emerald will be centered around +-28 or so (we’ll see if this ends up being unsustainable) – Getting short bursts of +19/-21 and +21/-19 in Emerald+ are pretty normal (usually… https://t.co/RPHDu2fytv
– Matt Leung-Harrison (@RiotPhroxzon) January 15, 2024
Getting short bursts of +19/-21 and +21/-19 in Emerald+ are pretty normal (there will usually be about that many), usually when you lose multiple times at the limits of levels.
He noted that in lower versions, under Emerald, there had been some issues with LP gains at level limits, with players not being demoted correctly. This results in higher LP losses, since the system desperately tries to match the player’s hidden rank with their visible rank.
Phroxzon also explained the reasoning behind the increase in negative LP gains for some players, stating that the system tries to find the right ranking for you every match.
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A player goes 30-0. You know they’re better than the games they’re playing, but not by how much, so you put them in harder and harder games. Then when they start shedding you have to start slowing their growth, but you don’t know by how much. There is a very good chance that their rating will exceed and need to be removed = negative LP gains.
So the system works behind the scenes to get you where you need to be, especially during demotion or promotion games. He also added that while it may seem unpleasant, the only real way to solve the problem is to continue playing for the time being, even if it hurts to lose more LP.
