The crack team over at Bethesda (not to be confused with the Tyrone Biggums’ Crack Team), has been busy getting a bunch of the locomotion features that fans asked for into DOOM VFR. As noted on the DVRF Steam page, there are some other tweaks being implemented as well. Have you played DOOM VFR? It will scare the piss out of you and have you running and gunning like a madman, just hopefully not into the wall.
A new patch for DOOM VFR will be deployed on January 30 for PC. The DOOM VFR patch will take place at 2:00pm CST/3:00pm EST on January 30th on PC. Here are the patch notes.
Added Windows Mixed Reality headset support – Added Smooth Locomotion control option – Added Smooth Locomotion movement speed options – Added Weapon Pitch option to adjust angle of weapon on controller – Added option for Jump while using VR controllers with Smooth Movement on – Added toggle for Dash when smooth movement is on – Added Jump to Gamepad controller scheme – Fixed an issue with discoloring seen on some HMDs – Various bug fixes
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Source: [H]ardOCP – DOOM VFR Update Today
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Over 5,000 WordPress Sites Infected With Keylogger
In a blog post by Securi, it has been found that 5,482 WordPress websites infected with a keylogger. The malware, hiding as “cloudflare.solutions” was a part of a larger infection that injected a fake jQuery and Google Analytics script that was in reality a CoinHive cryptocurrency miner.
If anyone has a WordPress site, you should head over to Securi’s blog to see how to find and remove the malware. And I’ll be the one to say it, this is just another way that mining is screwing people over.
Given the keylogger functionality of this malware, you should consider all WordPress passwords compromised so the next mandatory step of the cleanup is changing the passwords (actually it is highly recommended after any site hack). Don’t forget to check your site for other infections too. Many sites with the cloudflare.solutions malware also have injected coinhive cryptocurrency miner scripts.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Over 5,000 WordPress Sites Infected With Keylogger
False Hawaii Missile Alert Sent After Drill Recording Said 'This Is Not A Drill'
A false ballistic missile alert in Hawaii was sent on January 13 because an emergency worker believed there really was a missile threat, according to a preliminary investigation by The Federal Communications Commission. From a report: The report finds that the false alert was not the result of a worker choosing the wrong alert by accident from a drop-down menu, but rather because the worker misunderstood a drill as a true emergency. The drill incorrectly included the language “This is not a drill.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – False Hawaii Missile Alert Sent After Drill Recording Said ‘This Is Not A Drill’
Pinterest hires Google computer vision expert to sort your Pins
Pinterest is very committed to improving its search technology through AI — so committed, in fact, that it just hired one of the foremost experts in the field. The social network has announced that it’s recruiting Chuck Rosenberg, Google’s AI visio…
Source: Engadget – Pinterest hires Google computer vision expert to sort your Pins
Google credits AI for stopping more rogue Android apps in 2017
Google likes to boast of its ability to shut down Android malware, and it apparently has good reason to brag about 2017. The company took down over 700,000 apps that violated Play Stores policies last year (a 70 percent increase over 2016), and it w…
Source: Engadget – Google credits AI for stopping more rogue Android apps in 2017
Non-Meat Foods You Should Make With Animal Fat
If you have spent any amount of time around these parts, you know that my life is basically sponsored by duck fat. Whether I’m sous vide-ing turkey legs or making mayo, I pretty much live for the rich, smoky taste graisse de canard brings to the dinner table.
Source: LifeHacker – Non-Meat Foods You Should Make With Animal Fat
What's The Best Electric Toothbrush?
We asked you about the best electric toothbrush over three years ago, and since then, there’s been a lot more innovation. There are app-enabled ones, silicone ones, even ones that have a subscription service. So, we’re coming back and wondering what you think the best electric toothbrush is, and why.
Source: LifeHacker – What’s The Best Electric Toothbrush?
Scientists Are Reviewing Amazon Products the Way They Actually Use Them
Scientists are just like us: They buy things on Amazon. The difference is what they actually use their purchases for. That’s the basis behind science’s hashtag-du-jour, #ReviewForScience, in which researchers write reviews for everyday products—the way they really use them.
Source: Gizmodo – Scientists Are Reviewing Amazon Products the Way They Actually Use Them
This 'Airbnb For DIY Garage Space' Lets You Wrench In Random People's Garages
Thirty one-year-old Andrew Koretz just emailed me about his new company, “Garage Time,” which apparently allows anyone to rent out unused garage space to people who just need a place to wrench. It actually sounds like a great idea.
Source: Gizmodo – This ‘Airbnb For DIY Garage Space’ Lets You Wrench In Random People’s Garages
The state of solar installers after Trump’s tariff
Two days after President Donald Trump signed hefty tariffs on imported solar panels, a five-man team was hauling slabs of them up the outside of a brownstone in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park.
In below-freezing January winds, they set up steel tilt racks on…
Source: Engadget – The state of solar installers after Trump’s tariff
Feds Drop the Hammer on Celeb-Endorsed Cryptocoin 'Bank' for Dumbest Lie Yet
There are a number of ways a cryptocurrency-based business can run afoul of regulators these days. A startup called Arisebank seemingly decided to try all of them at once.
Source: Gizmodo – Feds Drop the Hammer on Celeb-Endorsed Cryptocoin ‘Bank’ for Dumbest Lie Yet
At 60 Frames Per Second, It Feels Like I'm Riding This Drone As It Races Down a Mountain
If there was ever a good reason to fullscreen a video on your computer, this is it. The third episode of Team Blacksheep’s Long Term Paradise series, featuring some of the best drone pilots in the world, might have you experiencing vertigo if you’re brave enough to watch this footage running at a full 60 frames per…
Source: Gizmodo – At 60 Frames Per Second, It Feels Like I’m Riding This Drone As It Races Down a Mountain
The Zapata EZFly, The Latest Jet-Powered Green Goblin Style Hoverboard
This is a video demonstration of the Zapata EZFly, the company’s latest jet-powered hoverboard. Unlike the company’s previous models, this one has handlebars for greater stability and doesn’t require the rider to wear a fuel-filled backpack. Based on all the cuts in the video, I’m guessing this thing has a flight time of about eight seconds. Still, soon hordes of tourists will be zipping around major cities on these things, taking in the sights and taking out power lines. THE FUTURE. Obviously, I’ll scavenge broken parts like Rey at the beginning of The Force Awakens to– “Build yourself a jet-powered robot lover?” What? Of course not. “Maybe though?” Tehehe! “You’re a freak, GW.” Who, this lil’ thang? *smiles coyly, gives myself devil horns with index fingers*
Keep going for the video while I take a good long look at myself in the mirror.
Source: Geekologie – The Zapata EZFly, The Latest Jet-Powered Green Goblin Style Hoverboard
Don't Give Your Teens Alcohol
You may have heard of moms and dads giving their teenagers alcohol as a parenting tactic—rationales include 1) it’s safer to buy it, serve it, and monitor it in a controlled environment than to have them sneak off with their friends to swig forties in some sketchy parking lot, and 2) it normalizes alcohol so they…
Source: LifeHacker – Don’t Give Your Teens Alcohol
New FCC Rules Will Require Wireless Companies To Deliver Emergency Alerts More Accurately
The Federal Communications Commission voted Tuesday to update the country’s wireless emergency alert system, aiming to ensure that local officials only sound alarms on Americans’ smartphones when those citizens are truly in harm’s way. From a report: The system, implemented in 2012, allows first responders around the country to dispatch short, loud, text-message-like bulletins to warn mobile users about inclement weather, abducted children or criminals at large. But public-safety leaders long have complained the alerts are inaccurate, rendering it difficult to use them in times of disaster without creating undue panic. And they fret that “over-alerting” has proven so frustrating to smartphone owners that they’ve simply turned off the alarms entirely — rendering it even more difficult to communicate in times of an emergency.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – New FCC Rules Will Require Wireless Companies To Deliver Emergency Alerts More Accurately
Get a glimpse of Netflix's latest sci-fi movie, 'Mute'
February will hopefully be rewarding for sci-fi fans who subscribe to Netflix. In addition to Altered Carbon’s debut this week, later in the month we’ll finally get a peek at director Duncan Jones’ Mute. The movie has been floating around for about a…
Source: Engadget – Get a glimpse of Netflix’s latest sci-fi movie, ‘Mute’
FSF Receives One Million Dollars Worth Of Bitcoin
The Free Software Foundation’s largest-ever single contribution came in the form of one million dollars worth of Bitcoin…
Source: Phoronix – FSF Receives One Million Dollars Worth Of Bitcoin
Cisco drops a mega-vulnerability alert for VPN devices
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On January 29, Cisco released a high-urgency security alert for customers using network security devices and software that support virtual private network connections to corporate networks. Firewalls, security appliances, and other devices configured with WebVPN clientless VPN software are vulnerable to a Web-based network attack that could bypass the devices’ security, allowing an attacker to run commands on the devices and gain full control of them. This would give attackers unfettered access to protected networks or cause the hardware to reset. The vulnerability has been given a Common Vulnerability Scoring System rating of Critical, with a score of 10—the highest possible on the CVSS scale.
WebVPN allows someone outside of a corporate network to connect to the corporate intranet and other network resources from within a secure browser session. Since it requires no client software or pre-existing certificate to access from the Internet, the WebVPN gateway can be generally reached from anywhere on the Internet—and as a result, it can be programmatically attacked. A spokesperson for the Cisco security team said in the alert that Cisco is not aware of any active exploits of the vulnerability right now. But the nature of the vulnerability is already publicly known, so exploits are nearly certain to emerge quickly.
The vulnerability, discovered by Cedric Halbronn of the NCC Group, makes it possible for an attacker to use multiple, specially formatted XML messages submitted to the WebVPN interface of a targeted device in an attempt to “double-free” memory on the system. Executing a command to free a specific memory address more than once can cause memory leakage that allows an attacker to write commands or other data into blocks of the system’s memory. By doing so, the attacker could potentially cause the system to execute commands or could corrupt the memory of the system and cause a crash.
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Source: Ars Technica – Cisco drops a mega-vulnerability alert for VPN devices
Khronos GDC Developer Day Set For 19 March
The Khronos Group has published their tentative list of sessions behind held at their Developer Day event coinciding with the Game Developers Conference in March…
Source: Phoronix – Khronos GDC Developer Day Set For 19 March
Child Health Groups to Mark Zuckerberg: Delete Messenger Kids
In December, Facebook launched Messenger Kids, a new messaging service for children as young as six. Now, a bunch of advocacy groups are urging Mark Zuckerberg to discontinue the app.
Source: Gizmodo – Child Health Groups to Mark Zuckerberg: Delete Messenger Kids