AMD isn’t the only hardware company making waves this week at SIGGRAPH 2017. NVIDIA is looking to bolster its position in the professional graphics arena with a few new breakthroughs. The first of which is the addition of two new external graphics solutions that are targeted at professional artists and designers who primarily work with notebooks.
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Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA Announces Quadro And TITAN X External GPU Solutions, OptiX 5.0 SDK
Sansar, the VR platform by Second Life creator Linden Lab, is now available for everyone to explore. The public “creator beta” follows a private “creator preview,” which allowed developers and aspiring level designers to try Sansar’s building tools….
Source: Engadget – The VR successor to ‘Second Life’ is now in public beta
Free movement of EU citizens to Britain will end when the country leaves the EU in March 2019, Theresa May’s spokesman said Monday, moving to contain a Cabinet row over immigration after Brexit. From a report: Downing Street (headquarters of the government of the United Kingdom) said on Monday it was “wrong” to suggest free movement would “continue as it is now” once Britain leaves the EU. It comes following days of confusion and rumours of infighting between Cabinet colleagues over the crucial issue of immigration after Brexit.
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Source: Slashdot – Free Movement of EU Citizens To Britain Will End in 2019
If you’ve played Éric Chahi’s classic action-adventure Another World (aka Out of this World), there’s a good chance you remember the soundtrack. Large chunks of the game were punctuated by silence, but you knew something special was happening…
Source: Engadget – Classic action game ‘Another World’ is headed to your turntable
Hello PsxHax members can I use the blu-ray disk drive on pc ?
Source: PS4 News – Use a PS3 Blu Ray Disk Drive on PC desktop?
A threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Mandiant has been hacked and the attackers are claiming to have lurked on his computer for a year, collecting his login credentials for various sites and tracking his location.
Source: Gizmodo – Hackers Breach Cybersecurity Company In Apparent Revenge On Employee
Fifteen state attorneys general have teamed up with a pro-Hollywood group to launch a campaign aimed at dissuading the public from visiting file sharing sites.
To be sure, it’s true that ads and other content on piracy sites can infect unsuspecting visitors with malware. But these attorneys general, in conjunction the Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA), really want you to know that visiting pirate sites can ruin both your life and your family’s life. The scary black-hooded hacker on their video messages says it all.
“Hackers use pirate websites to infect your computer and steal your ID and financial information, or even take over your computer’s camera without you knowing it,” the top cops from the states say in the PSAs. The PSAs are appearing on social media, radio, and television this summer.
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Source: Ars Technica – State attorneys general team up to scare you from “content theft sites”
Hacker Allen Pan built a pair of custom gloves featuring a butane dispenser, parts from an electric arc lighter, and a motion sensor that automatically trigger a terrifying blast of fire with every detected punch.
Source: Gizmodo – Hadouken! Flamethrower Gloves Let You Blast Street Fighter Fireballs With Every Punch
Android Police is reporting that both versions of Chrome Canary and Chrome Dev are in the wild now that have Google’s new native ad blocking working. I did download both these versions on my Pixel XL and neither had the option available, so your mileage may vary. Google’s hope in all of this is that these native ad blockers will dissaude people from using adblockers that simply remove all ads that are impacting many content creators, like ourselves. Nearly 65% of our readers now block all our ads, our primary way of paying the bills. If you do, please consider Patreon.
It may seem strange that Google is introducing an ad blocker to its browser, given that its core business is in online advertising. It actually makes a lot of sense, as the ads that will be blocked will be the intrusive ones that have nothing to do with Google. The standards will be agreed upon by members of the Coalition for Better Ads, including Google. By blocking the offending ads, the company hopes to dissuade users from installing third party blocking software that does impact its business.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Google Chrome with Native Ad Blocker Now in the Wild
Gboard might not be the fastest input method for your device, but that doesn’t negate its utility. Swapping to it within a text message thread or Facebook Messenger is faster than jumping into another app to get, say, an image from Google and then co…
Source: Engadget – Gboard on iOS adds YouTube and Maps everywhere there’s a keyboard
Code repository GitHub is facing a major service outage, it said moments ago. Earlier today, the company said it was facing a minor service outage. The downtime comes less than two weeks after it was facing another “minor service outage,” which lasted for several hours. The cause for today’s disruption remains unknown. The open source company’s Twitter feed suggests it has faced several issues over the past few months. Update: GitHub reports all the services are now operational.
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Source: Slashdot – GitHub Faces ‘Major Service Outage’ [Update]
Code repository GitHub is facing a major service outage, it said moments ago. Earlier today, the company said it was facing a minor service outage. The downtime comes less than two weeks after it was facing another “minor service outage,” which lasted for several hours. The cause for today’s disruption remains unknown. The open source company’s Twitter feed suggests it has faced several issues over the past few months.
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Source: Slashdot – GitHub Faces ‘Major Service Outage’
On Friday, FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced some new cigarette and vaping regulations that the agency will put into place over the next few months or years. One of the biggest: the addictive component of cigarettes will have to go away.
Source: LifeHacker – The FDA Wants Cigarettes to Lose Most of Their Nicotine
Netflix isn’t the only video service suffering form a hack: HBO has been breached as well. Hackers have gotten their mitts on 1.5 terabytes of data according to Entertainment Weekly, which apparently includes an episode of Ballers and Room 104 in add…
Source: Engadget – Hackers leak HBO episodes, ‘Game of Thrones’ info online
An anonymous reader shares a report: Hackers have broken into the networks of HBO and reportedly leaked unreleased episodes of a number of shows, as well as the script for next week’s “Game of Thrones” episode. Altogether, they have reportedly obtained a total of 1.5 terabyte of data. HBO confirmed the intrusion in a statement sent to Variety: “HBO recently experienced a cyber incident, which resulted in the compromise of proprietary information. We immediately began investigating the incident and are working with law enforcement and outside cybersecurity firms. Data protection is a top priority at HBO, and we take seriously our responsibility to protect the data we hold.”
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Source: Slashdot – Hackers Break Into HBO’s Networks, May Have Leaked ‘Game of Thrones’ Script
Figuring out how to feed the Earth’s population is no small feat, which is why a recent development is so exciting. Researchers at the Lappeenranta University of Technology and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have figured out a way to produc…
Source: Engadget – Scientists want to create animal feed out of light and electricity
A big update is available today of OPNsense, the fork of pfSense that serves as a FreeBSD-based network operating system / firewall…
Source: Phoronix – OPNsense 17.7 Released For FreeBSD 11 Powered Firewall
Last week, we found our readers’ favorite domain name registrars, but owning a domain isn’t very useful unless you can put a website on it. So this week, we’re looking for nominations for the best hosting service. Check out the rules below, then head down to the comments to support your pick.
Source: LifeHacker – What’s Your Favorite Web Hosting Service?
Note: Check your volume, security alarm.
This is some home security footage of a jerk cat knocking a glass picture frame off the dining room table and setting off the home’s alarm system. I like how his accomplice hangs around until the alarm starts talking, then he high-tails it out of there before their shirtless owner comes hustling in to disarm the alarm. If I had to choose, I’d say that was probably my favorite part. I want those boxers. “Like the same style?” No, his.
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Source: Geekologie – Cat Knocks Picture Frame Off Table, Sets Off Security Alarm
A noisy cheer went up from the crowd of hackers clustered around the voting machine tucked into the back corner of a casino conference room—they’d just managed to load Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” onto the WinVote, effectively rickrolling democracy.
Source: Gizmodo – Every Voting Machine at This Hacking Conference Got Totally Pwned