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Nox Night writes:

Is it time for a DriverGater movement? Cheating on gaming benchmarks has been the raison d'être of the GamerGater movement. All of the major graphics chip manufacturers have been caught cheating on performance benchmarks [xbitlabs.com] by including code in the driver to detect benchmark runs and take visual shortcuts that produce better numbers but worse quality.

Now Volkswagen has been caught using the same tactics [nytimes.com] - to detect when their vehicles are being benchmarked for emissions and to release less nitrogen oxide pollution but operate less efficiently, giving false results.

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