I didn’t give much thought to my dish rack until I went to my mom’s house and she had this simplehuman beauty. It’s a small thing, but it looks so much nicer than the flimsy $15 ones you can buy at the grocery store and it is incredibly functional.
Source: LifeHacker – Grab a Rare Discount on This Simplehuman Dish Rack
Earlier this year, I was back at my childhood home in Southern California, digging through some old boxes. Amidst assorted baseball cards, long-forgotten school projects, sports trophies, and more, I located a small, slender white cardboard box.
The box is unmarked, except for a small sticker in the top left-hand corner with my name on it. But I knew what it was the instant I saw it: my entire collection of Star Trek Customizable Card Game (STCCG), probably a couple hundred cards in total.
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Source: Ars Technica – How a Star Trek card game quietly continues, 10 years after its official end
schwit1 shares a report from The Daily Dot: A man was killed by police Thursday night in Wichita, Kansas, when officers responded to a false report of a hostage situation. The online gaming community is saying the dead man was the victim of a swatting prank, where trolls call in a fake emergency and force SWAT teams to descend on a target’s house. If that’s true, this would be the first reported swatting-related death. Wichita deputy police chief Troy Livingston told the Wichita Eagle that police were responding to a report that a man fighting with his parents had accidentally shot his dad in the head and was holding his mom, brother and sister hostage. When police arrived, “A male came to the front door,” Livingston told the Eagle. “As he came to the front door, one of our officers discharged his weapon.” The man at the door was identified by the Eagle as 28-year-old Andrew Finch. Finch’s mother told reporters “he was not a gamer,” but the online Call of Duty community claims his death was the result of a gamer feud which Finch may not have even been a part of.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Call of Duty Gaming Community Points To ‘Swatting’ In Wichita Police Shooting
Pick up the reader-selected Goodreads’ Best Books of 2017 from today’s Amazon Kindle sale. With the End-of-Year Kindle sale still running, there are tons and tons of under-$5 books to select from, so go ahead and start browsing. Some recommendations: Victoria: The Queen, for those of you who haven’t had enough…
Source: LifeHacker – Fill Your Kindle Library With Goodreads’ Best Books of 2017
Five years ago today I wrote about The Problems Right Now For Gaming On Linux with regards to challenges for Linux gaming when it comes to the software and hardware. In the five years since and with seeing thousands of more games be made available for Linux, the situation still is not ideal but it’s much better than at the end of 2012…
Source: Phoronix – There Still Are Some Pain Points For Linux Gaming Moving Into 2018
Apple’s flagship store in Chicago has a unique design aesthetic, much like the company’s mobile devices (big Apple logos don’t hurt). Despite the building’s interesting, MacBook-inspired looks, though, the winter weather conditions in the area have exposed a problem. Customers of the store are now greeted by large signs warning them to be
Source: Hot Hardware – Fancy Chicago Apple Store With MacBook Roof Poses Falling Ice Threat To Its Customers
2017 was easily the most pivotal year for the Ubuntu Linux distribution in years with Canonical having decided to end Unity 8 development in favor of moving to a GNOME Shell Wayland session. There was also the decision to develop a new server installer that is still under development, Snaps and its underlying tech continues to be worked on as an alternative to Flatpak, and Ubuntu continues to dominate the cloud landscape…
Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu’s Reformulated Desktop Was The Talk Of 2017
If you are a user of the popular Google Chrome extension “Archive Poster” you need to be aware that the extension has been misbehaving lately. Currently “Archive Poster” has over 105,000 users and has in recent weeks turned into an in-browser cryptocurrency miner.
The extension isn’t asking permission to hijack the CPU of user computers
Source: Hot Hardware – Popular Google Chrome Extension Hacked To Covertly Mine Cryptocurrency
Source: Engadget – Birkenstock vs. Amazon feud extends to search typos
Many people who download games on their Android devices probably don’t pay that much attention to the permissions they grant an app at install. What you may be missing during that install is a permission that allows the games to listen to what you are watching on TV in your home even when the game isn’t running. The scary part for many people
Source: Hot Hardware – Hundreds Of Mobile Games Are Stealthily Monitoring Your TV Habits
Most of you reading this have probably at some point been contacted by someone claiming you are the beneficiary in a will of a Nigerian prince. As the scam goes, all you have to do is submit your personal information and Western Union some funds to process the necessary paperwork, and in return you will receive hundreds of thousands, if not
Source: Hot Hardware – The Nigerian Prince Sugar Daddy Email Spammer Has Finally Been Busted
It seems the PS4 hack from CTurt is working only on older Firmwares < 1.76 or lower. So I found some infos how you can get a PS4 with this…
How to Get a PS4 with Firmware at 1.76 or Below for Hacking
Source: PS4 News – How to Get a PS4 with Firmware at 1.76 or Below for Hacking
Motorola announced a few months ago that it was planning to roll out the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, Android 8.0 Oreo, to several of its handsets. Making good on that promise, some Moto Z2 Force owners on T-Mobile have received the over-the-air update, joining their Moto Z2 Force brethren on Verizon, who recently began
Source: Hot Hardware – Motorola Moto Z2 Force Android 8.0 Oreo OTA Update Hits T-Mobile Network
The Kodi media player is now available to download on your Xbox One, making it one of the best Xbox One exclusives of the year. The Verge reports: Kodi is a very capable player that’s highly expandable thanks to third-party add-ons like live TV and DVR services — something Microsoft isn’t going to provide. But Kodi is perhaps best known as the go to app for piracy due to a wide variety of plugins that let you illegally stream television shows, professional sports, and films from the comfort of your living room. This has led to a cottage industry of so-called “Kodi boxes,” often built around cheap HDMI dongles like Amazon’s Fire TV sticks. While the XBMC Foundation has attempted to distance itself from the illegal third-party plugins, it’s also benefited from the exposure. In a blog post, Kodi warns that the Xbox One download isn’t finished and may contain missing features and bugs. Fun fact: Kodi began life fifteen years ago as the XBMP (Xbox Media Player). The only way to get the open-source player running on an original Xbox was to hack the console. XBMP eventually evolved into XBMC (Xbox Media Center), which then became Kodi.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Kodi Media Player Arrives On the Xbox One
Hello I was wondering that how much of the PS4 is hacked? can it play latest games or not, thanks.
Source: PS4 News – How much of the PS4 is hacked?
Thursday night Wichita police killed Andrew Finch after responding to a call claiming a man at his address had shot someone and was holding others hostage. That call was a hoax, commonly referred to as “swatting,” and in this case, it’s apparently li…
Source: Engadget – LAPD arrest 25-year-old suspect in Wichita ‘swatting’ case
Germany has barred Amazon from drawing in online shoppers who misspell iconic German sandal maker Birkenstock in their Google searchers. “Amazon reportedly won business for common Birkenstock misspellings by booking variants like ‘Birkenstock,’ ‘Bierkenstock,’ and ‘Birkenstok’ in Google AdWords, so that they produced search results for shoes sold in Amazon.com,” reports Quartz. From the report: According to Reuters, Birkenstock turned to the court because it feared shoppers might unwittingly buy shoddy counterfeits, which could damage its brand reputation. “For us, Amazon is complicit,” Birkenstock chief Oliver Reichert told German magazine Der Spiegel, according to Reuters. Birkenstock first walked away from Amazon.com in July 2016. Besieged by counterfeits and rogue merchants, the company said it would no longer supply products to Amazon for U.S. customers starting Jan. 1, 2017. “The Amazon marketplace, which operates as an ‘open market,’ creates an environment where we experience unacceptable business practices which we believe jeopardize our brand,” David Kahan, Birkenstock’s CEO for the Americas, wrote in a memo at the time. A year later, Kahan denounced Amazon in a lengthy memo for attempting to get Birkenstock retailers to sell it their inventory, even though the company had explicitly removed its sandals from Amazon.com in the U.S. “I share in no uncertain terms that this is unacceptable and will not be tolerated,” Kahan wrote. “[A]ny Authorized retailer who may do this for even a single pair will be closed FOREVER.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Germany Orders Amazon To Stop Taking Advantage of People Who Can’t Spell ‘Birkenstock’
Continuing in the holiday…
PS4 4.05 Payload WIP for Game Modding, UART Enabler and RandTool
Source: PS4 News – PS4 4.05 Payload WIP for Game Modding, UART Enabler and RandTool
Cageymaru sent this over to me early Friday morning. A man was killed in Kansas, as reported by the The Wichita Eagle, in what seemed to be another Swatting event. At that time there was no hard evidence that pointed towards Swatting, although circumstantial evidence seemed to point to that. PCMag has published an article late Friday that points to a story behind the event that has not yet been fully verified. The issues with this form of “prank” are far from undocumented, although, if that is what happened here, it is the first time it has resulted in a death. The Wichita Police Department gave a full statement, along with the recorded 911 call and body cam footage late on Friday. It was only a matter of time.
The Call of Duty gaming community also say the whole feud was over a mere $1.50 wager. Allegedly, a person behind the Twitter handle @SWAuTistic initiated the swatting in attempt to harrass [sic] a rival Call of Duty player with the Twitter handle @7aLeNT, who gave out the wrong address.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Swatting “Prank” Ends Up in Death?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Britain’s homes could be lit and powered by wind farms surrounding an artificial island deep out in the North Sea, under advanced plans by a Dutch energy network. The radical proposal envisages an island being built to act as a hub for vast offshore wind farms that would eclipse today’s facilities in scale. Dogger Bank, 125km (78 miles) off the East Yorkshire coast, has been identified as a potentially windy and shallow site. The power hub would send electricity over a long-distance cable to the UK and Netherlands, and possibly later to Belgium, Germany, and Denmark. TenneT, the project’s backer and Dutch equivalent of the UK’s National Grid, recently shared early findings of a study that said its plan could be billions of euros cheaper than conventional wind farms and international power cables. The sci-fi-sounding proposal is sold as an innovative answer to industry’s challenge of continuing to make offshore wind cheaper, as turbines are pushed ever further off the coast to more expensive sites as the best spots closer to land fill up.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Dutch Utility Plans Massive Wind Farm Island In North Sea