Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked and leaked

Re:Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked a... by marcosdumay on Thursday June 09, 2016 @08:16AM (#11868850)

Not anymore.

It's hard to get specific numbers about a trend that just changed. But the double every 18 months is now clearly wrong.

We've got a couple of approximately 27 months doubling, but that is past too. My bet is that we won't get a fixed number ever again.

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Re:Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked a... by tracker1 on Thursday June 09, 2016 @05:45PM (#11872631)

I'm not sure the fastest per core speed for the last 5 years in CPUs is significantly faster.. more cores, more caches for some operations, but not nearly the growth we used to see.

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Re:Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked a... by cm2187 on Thursday June 09, 2016 @07:18PM (#11873106)

Well, I was surprised by these benchmarks: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10404/asrock-deskmini-110-mini... When you compare the skull canyon CPU and the i5 6500: http://ark.intel.com/compare/93341,88184 The i5 has better specs on pretty much any aspect, but the skull canyon does way better in those benchmarks. I am told the impact is the 128MB eDRAM which acts as a L4 cache.

So maybe that's the way for computers to become much faster, making everything around the CPU go faster. Integrate the RAM and the GPU on the chip. Superfast SSDs. Etc.

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