Good deal: the external SSD Samsung T5 1 TB to -40% on Fnac

The Samsung T5 external SSD series offers transfers up to 540 MB / s. On Fnac during the French Days, the 1TB version of the flash drive is sold at -40%.
To go beyond the speeds of USB keys running on USB-A interfaces, we can turn to USB-C flash drives such as those offered by Samsung.

Portable and swift
The Samsung T5 series of portable SSDs comes in four versions: 250 and 500 GB, 1 and 2 TB. Robust housings withstand drops of up to 2 meters and come with a Type-C to A USB cable for older models. interfaces. With a transfer speed of the order of 540 MB / s, they can quickly copy a 4K film or a large FLAC discography, or even DSD for the most demanding.

With AES 256-bit hardware encryption, you can securely protect your data with an access password. Guaranteed 3 years and compatible Windows and MacOS, the T5 series drives weighs only 51 grams, thanks in particular to the Samsung V-NAND flash memory that fits on a small circuit.

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Good deal: External HDD Western Digital 3 TB at half price on Fnac

Western Digital's My Passport 3 TB external hard drive (USB 3.0) with automatic backup via WD Backup software is at -52% on Fnac during the French Days.
Available in a variety of bright colors, the Western Digital My Passport 3TB external hard drive is more than just a trendy look: it fits in the palm of your hand and automatically backs up photos, videos, music and documents in your system with software WD Backup included.

A backup system with planning
The WD Backup backup software does not just clone your data on the external hard drive, it allows to set a schedule for launching the process and the frequency of it. With only 170 grams on the scale, this 2 "1/2 size portable drive is also compact and convenient to carry everywhere. The theoretical maximum transfer rate of 625 MB / s allows you to quickly copy content from your PC to the WD drive.

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AES 256-bit hardware encryption and WD Security software ensure the privacy and security of your content. You can easily add a message containing your contact information to the password prompt if your My Passport hard drive is lost. The disc has a 2-year warranty.

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Good Plan: -40% on Asus ROG Strix XG27VQ 27 "curved gaming screen

Brilliant value for money on the 27 "curved screen of the Asus ROG Strix XG27VQ (144 Hz, 1ms, AMD FreeSync, 1080p) that goes below 300 € on Fnac during the French Days.
Impeccable response time, state-of-the-art refresh rate, integrated FreeSync technology and impeccable overall ergonomics: the ASUS ROG Strix XG27VQ has it all.

A gaming screen packed with qualities
The ASUS ROG Strix XG27VQ monitor takes advantage of a curved design on its 27 "slab, a technology that beyond a vile marketing strategy is of real interest to our eyes: the use of curved monitors reduces effort visual compared to the use of conventional monitors because the eye travels the same distance from one edge to another of the screen.

The VA Full HD panel boasts a refresh rate of 144 Hz, a response time of 1 ms and FreeSync for a gaming experience without tearing with a compatible GPU. It provides a viewing angle of 178 ° and the screen offers a brightness of 300 cd / m² and a contrast of 3000: 1. Its 1800R curvature covers our entire field of vision and provides better depth and minimizes external distractions.

Customizable at will
The ASUS ROG Strix XG27VQ monitor incorporates the exclusive ASUS GamePlus feature, a shortcut that allows you to benefit from improvements directly in your games and play to your full potential. A timer located on the left side of your screen allows you to keep an eye on the elapsed time while an IPS counter (images per second) allows you to check the fluidity of the game. Connector side, it has a DisplayPort, two USB 3.0 ports, a 1.4 and 2.0 HDMI port and an audio jack port.

The set takes place in an ultra-slim frame with a modern design that rests on a three-legged stand and ASUS Aura RGB lighting on the back. The monitor has an ergonomic frame that you can adjust to your liking by adjusting its height, angle of rotation, tilt and swivel. The subtlety of its frame is also ideal for multi-monitor installations. TFT Central, which tests the monitors, offers on its database a calibration file for the 35 "version of the monitor, the XG35VQ, which you can apply to the XG27VQ to get the most out of it.

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Amazon Music for a good price

If you have more than one member of your household listening to streaming music, the Amazon Music Unlimited family subscription may be interesting. € 14.99 for 6 user accounts. And an Amazon Echo Dot at only € 0.99.
Amazon is launching a rather interesting promotional offer for any subscription to the family offering of its Amazon Music Unlimited music streaming service. With the € 14.99 subscription per month for up to 6 users, you can enjoy an Amazon Echo Dot for only € 0.99, compared to € 59.99 usually.

An Amazon Echo Dot at only € 0.99
To take advantage of this good plan, just click on the offer link and follow the instructions. You will then receive an e-mail with the steps to follow within 7 days of your registration. In this e-mail, you will have a code, which you will have to enter in the box promotional code when placing the order of your Amazon Echo Dot, making you benefit from the tariff of 0,99 €.

59 € saved, a good deal certainly. Note that only one Echo Dot device can be purchased at this rate per subscription. Obviously. Another clarification, users currently in their free trial period of the Family offer must wait until the end and their first payment to benefit from this offer. And if you're already subscribed to Amazon Music Unlimited Family, you can claim your Echo Dot immediately. Offer valid while supplies last.

For any subscription to the Amazon Music Unlimited Family Offer
The Amazon Echo Dot is the miniaturized version of the Amazon Echo. The accessory, already in its third generation, is less powerful than the standard model but has all its features. To you Alexa and all his possibilities!

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Good deal: the Roccat Horde membranical keyboard at -38%

Far from the fanciful design of gaming keyboards moving away from more and more of the norm, the Roccat Horde returns to the most sober mechanical keyboards ... but offers a surprising singularity. Hybrid technology for a better response Once upon a time, the Roccat Horde is announced as "the most feature-packed [...]


The Roccat Horde gaming keyboard that does not laugh with comfort and typing speed benefits from a reduction of 30 euros on Fnac.
Far from the fanciful design of gaming keyboards moving away from more and more of the norm, the Roccat Horde returns to the most sober mechanical keyboards ... but offers a surprising singularity.







Hybrid technology for better response time
Once is not customary, the Roccat Horde is announced as "the most feature rich of the market". If there is nothing that will upset the world of gamers, it may well change your playing comfort and typing. Its customizable Membranical keys have the distinction of combining the best of a mechanical keyboard and a membrane keyboard. Quick-release macro keys, configurable knobs and knobs, and customizable 16.8 million color RGB lighting make the Horde a comprehensive keyboard.

Membranical is the ideal compromise between membrane and mechanics: its activation point at mid-stroke gives it the most accurate and responsive striking to date, for a fast and quiet touch. The arrangement improves dust resistance and requires little maintenance, and the mid-height keys provide greatly improved accuracy and ease of tracking. The dial and configurable buttons provide fast and intuitive control for multimedia, lighting, brightness, dpi, volume and more, and can be fully customized to satisfy all players.

Not surprisingly, the keyboard has an anti-ghosting system. Wired keyboard, it has a USB cable 1.8 meters and weighs (all the same) 910 g.

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Former Mozilla VP blames Google For Sabotaging Firefox

Google ‘outfoxed’ Firefox alleges Former Mozilla VP

A former Mozilla executive has accused Google of repeatedly and continuously sabotaging Firefox for years in Windows 10.

Jonathan Nightingale, a former General Manager and Vice President of the Firefox group at Mozilla, said that Google was the company’s biggest partner during his 8-year tenure at Mozilla.

“Our revenue share deal on search drove 90% of Mozilla’s income,” he tweeted.

However, in a series of tweets that followed Nightingale described the changes and issues between Google and Mozilla that happened after the release of Google Chrome.

“When I started at Mozilla in 2007 there was no Google Chrome, and most folks we spoke with inside [Google] were Firefox fans,” Nightingale mentioned in a Twitter threadon April 13.

“When Chrome launched things got complicated, but not in the way you might expect. They had a competing product now, but they didn’t cut ties, break our search deal – nothing like that. In fact, the story we kept hearing was, ‘We’re on the same side. We want the same things’,” the former Mozilla exec said.

“I think our friends inside Google genuinely believed that. At the individual level, their engineers cared about most of the same things we did. Their product and design folks made many decisions very similarly, and we learned from watching each other.

“But Google as a whole is very different than individual googlers. Google Chrome ads started appearing next to Firefox search terms. Gmail & [Google] Docs started to experience selective performance issues and bugs on Firefox. Demo sites would falsely block Firefox as ‘incompatible’,” he said.

“All of this is stuff you’re allowed to do to compete, of course. But we were still a search partner, so we’d say ‘hey what gives?’ And every time, they’d say, ‘oops. That was accidental. We’ll fix it in the next push in 2 weeks.’

“Over and over. Oops. Another accident. We’ll fix it soon. We want the same things. We’re on the same team. There were dozens of oopses. Hundreds maybe?

“I’m all for ‘don’t attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence’ but I don’t believe Google is that incompetent. I think they were running out the clock. We lost users during every oops. And we spent effort and frustration every clock tick on that instead of improving our product. We got outfoxed for a while and by the time we started calling it what it was, a lot of damage had been done,” Nightingale added.

While Nightingale later stated that more than anyone Mozilla is responsible for Firefox’s collapse, this is not the first time a Firefox team member has made allegations against Google. In July 2018, Mozilla’s Technical Program Manager Chris Peterson accused Google of deliberately slowing down YouTube performance 5x slower in Firefox and Edge by switching to a JavaScript library for YouTube that they were aware was not supported by Firefox.

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Microsoft’s latest patch crashes antivirus programs of Sophos, Avira, Avast, McAfee

Microsoft’s recent security update affecting anti-malware software from Sophos, Avira, Avast, McAfee

Microsoft’s recently released April 9 monthly rollup update is causing compatibility issues with anti-malware software from Sophos, Avira, ArcaBit, Avast, and McAfee.

The antivirus titles that are affected are Sophos Endpoint and Sophos Enterprise Console, Avira antivirus software, ArcaBit antivirus software, Avast and McAfee Security Threat Prevention 10.x & McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention 8.0. The update (KB4493472) is affecting PCs running Windows 7, 8.1, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012, Server 2012 R2, and also likely Windows 10.

After the April 9 security update, the systems running the aforementioned antivirus software are either failing to start or having sluggish performances or become completely unresponsive at the restart.

According to Microsoft, the issue could be likely due to a bug introduced with the April security update that impacted the Kerberos implementation in several versions of Windows.

For those unaware, Kerberos is a computer network authentication protocol used in a huge number of open-source and commercial products. It works on the basis of tickets to allow nodes communicating over a non-secure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner.

Microsoft has currently added a block to this update for Sophos, Avira, and ArcaBit users that will stop it from being installed on PCs with affected antivirus software. McAfee is still under investigation.

“Microsoft and McAfee have identified an issue on devices with McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) Threat Prevention 10.x or McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention (Host IPS) 8.0 installed. It may cause the system to have slow startup or become unresponsive at restart after installing this update,” Microsoft explains in its support page.

Several vendors have issued warning to its customers regarding the bug in the monthly roll-up update.

“After installing certain Microsoft Windows updates… Sophos has received reports of computers failing to boot. Sophos is actively investigating this issue and will update this article when more information is available,” Sophos said in a note that it sent to its customers earlier this week. However, system running Sophos Intercept X are not affected by the issue, Sophos notes.

McAfee suggested that the problem could be due to a change that Microsoft made to the Windows Client-Server Runtime Subsystem (csrss.exe).

“Changes in the Windows April 2019 update for Client Server Runtime Subsystem (CSRSS) introduced a potential deadlock with ENS. McAfee is investigating this issue and will resolve it in a future update. A Proof of Concept (POC) build to test a fix is currently available. Escalate a Service Request to Technical Support to obtain the POC,” McAfee wrote. “McAfee is investigating this issue and will resolve it in a future update.”

On the other hand, vendors like ArcaBit and Avast have published updates that address the problem.

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