YouTuber Jared “ProJared” Knabenbauer has posted a video denying allegations from three months ago that he supposedly had exchanged nude photos with two underage fans. Knabenbauer acknowledged that he did exchange nude photos with other fans, clarified that this was “consensual,” although there was a “power imbalance”…
Source: Kotaku – YouTuber Jared “ProJared” Knabenbauer has posted a video denying allegations from three months ago t
After searches for “suicide” on Amazon brought up a number of items to aid in causing a customer’s own death, the tech giant pledged to add helpline information to the pages of certain products.
Source: Gizmodo – Amazon Search Results for ‘Suicide’ Will Now Include a Helpline Instead of Nooses
The next time you’re on a retail site that offers discounts in exchange for becoming a member, double-check your cart before you check out. Some retailers are automatically adding memberships—and monthly membership fees—to new purchases.
Source: LifeHacker – Watch Out for Retailers With Sneaky Monthly Membership Fees
Minecraft Earth has begun rolling out to Android devices as part of a closed beta period. So far, developer Mojang has flipped the switch in five cities, including Seattle, London, Tokyo, Stockholm, and Mexico City. More will be added, and if you want know when you can play on your handset, you need to head over to the Play Store and jot your
Source: Hot Hardware – Minecraft Earth Beta Goes Live In Five Cities, Here’s How To Pre-Register
NASA has ensured the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico can continue its search for near Earth objects (NEOs) that pose a threat to the planet with a $19 million grant. The fund was awarded to the University of Central Florida, which operates the obs…
Source: Engadget – Arecibo Observatory nets million grant to search for dangerous asteroids
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Edward Furlong reprise their respective iconic roles in Terminator: Dark Fate.
Paramount Pictures marked the anniversary of the Terminator franchise’s original fictional Judgement Day (August 29, 1997) with the release of a full-length trailer for its forthcoming film, Terminator: Dark Fate. It’s technically the sixth film in the series, but it’s actually been conceived as a direct sequel to the hugely successful first two films in the franchise: Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
So Terminator: Dark Fate pretty much ignores all the other Terminator movies as existing in alternate timelines—an attempt to go back to the glory days of the franchise, complete with the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong, and Linda Hamilton, plus James Cameron on board as producer. Per the official synopsis, “27 years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a new, modified liquid metal Terminator (Gabriel Luna) is sent from the future by Skynet in order to terminate Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes), a hybrid cyborg human (Mackenzie Davis), and her friends. Sarah Connor comes to their aid, as well as the original Terminator, for a fight for the future.”
The first teaser dropped in May, whereupon we learned that Dani has been on the run with her friends for a couple of years under the protection of soldier assassin Grace, the human/cyborg hybrid. And Luna’s Rev-9 Terminator can actually split in two, the better to take out its target(s). An understandably suspicious Sarah nonetheless teams up with Grace to protect Dani and her friends, and we had a brief glimpse of Schwarzenegger’s grizzled old Terminator, apparently hiding out in a remote cabin in the woods, ready to come to their aid as well.
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Source: Ars Technica – Locked and loaded: Terminator: Dark Fate trailer gives us even more Ah-nold
The ACRN hypervisor that was open-sourced by Intel last year as a small footprint virtualization hypervisor focused on real-time computing and safety-critical applications for IoT and related embedded use-cases is up to version 1.2…
Source: Phoronix – ACRN 1.2 Hypervisor Released With Kata Containers Support, Secure Boot Capability
Earlier this week, you brought you the news of an unfortunate turn of events that resulted in the popular app CamScanner being removed from the Google Play Store. The app, which can create PDF documents, is developed by CC Intelligence and has been downloaded over 100 million times.
The problem came into play when users began getting bombarded
Source: Hot Hardware – CamScanner App Dev Claims It Was The Victim Of A Malicious Rogue Ad Network
After years in the making, today we get to return to Thra with the epic, gorgeous fantasy of Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. But after you’re done binging 10-ish hours of puppet glory, later this year you’ll be able to get a glimpse at the incredible craftsmanship that brought it life in a new book—and…
Source: io9 – An Exclusive Look Into the Remarkable Craftmanship Behind The Dark Crystal: The Age of Resistance
Strength training for women is spoken about in code words. We’re supposed to fear getting “bulky” and instead want to build “long, lean muscles.” Guys are told in no uncertain terms that lifting will make them big, muscular, jacked; women, somehow, will only get “toned.” This is patriarchal bullshit that obscures how…
Source: LifeHacker – Worrying About ‘Bulky’ Muscles on Women Is Some Sexist Bullshit
As investigations into a massive, coordinated ransomware attack against local governments in Texas continues, 13 new victims of ransomware attacks have been publicly identified. Most of them are school districts, thought the victims also include an Indiana county, a hospice in California, and a newspaper in Watertown, New York.
The ransomware involved in the Texas attacks, which hit 22 local-level government entities, has not yet been identified. Multiple sources have suggested that the Texas attacker gained access through a managed service provider that the local governments all had in common, but that has not been confirmed by state officials.
In the case of this latest batch of attacks, Ryuk ransomware has been identified as the malware used on at least three occasions. The victims, based on data collected by the threat research group at cloud security firm Armor, include:
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Source: Ars Technica – Rash of ransomware continues with 13 new victims—most of them schools
Americans throw out a lot more food than they expect they will, food waste that is likely driven in part by ambiguous date labels on packages, a new study has found. From a report: “People eat a lot less of their refrigerated food than they expect to, and they’re likely throwing out perfectly good food because they misunderstand labels,” said Brian Roe, the study’s senior author and a professor of agricultural, environmental and development economics at The Ohio State University.
This is the first study to offer a data-driven glimpse into the refrigerators of American homes, and provides an important framework for efforts to decrease food waste, Roe said. It was published online this month in the journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling. Survey participants expected to eat 97 percent of the meat in their refrigerators but really finished only about half. They thought they’d eat 94 percent of their vegetables, but consumed just 44 percent. They projected they’d eat about 71 percent of the fruit and 84 percent of the dairy, but finished off just 40 percent and 42 percent, respectively.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Much Fridge Food ‘Goes There To Die’
This is a video of BMW painting one of their new X6 SUVs with the 99% light absorbing Vantablack VBx2 from Surrey NanoSystems. Some more info while I paint a fur bikini-clad barbarian woman with a sword on the hood of my Civic Hybrid. That’s gotta be good for a 10-horsepower boost, right?
The VBx2 variant of Vantablack has a one-per-cent total hemispherical reflectance, meaning it is still considered super-black while enabling a small amount of reflection from every angle.
“We realised that it wouldn’t have worked if we’d put on the original Vantablack material, as the viewer would have lost all sense of three-dimensionality,” said Ben Jensen, Vantablack inventor and founder of Surrey NanoSystems.
“It worked really well because of the size of the car, its distinctive shape, and how imposing it is,” he continued. “VBx2 with its one-per-cent reflectance provides just enough of a hint of shape.”
Meh, you should have gone all the way. I WANTED to lose all sense of three-dimensionality. But you took it away from me, didn’t you? *banging fist on table* YOU TOOK IT ALL AWAY. “Jeez, GW, calm down.” I’m sorry, it’s just really easy to get worked up about things that has zero bearing on my life whatsoever.
Keep going for a couple more shots and the video.
Source: Geekologie – BMW Paints One Of Their X6 SUVs With Vantablack
You guys really like to talk about your dogs, which is amazing. I do too. The finalists for this week’s Co-Op all came highly recommended. The winner and runner-up were neck and neck, but the OG Kong took the lead and won it all.
Source: io9 – These Are Our Readers’ and Editors’ Favorite Dog Toys For Super Chewers
Buy Committee, it finally happened. The crossover we’ve all been waiting for; Buy Committee and bidets. Sean commented on my Tushy travel bidet post with this question:
Source: Gizmodo – Buy Committee: How Do I Get The Bidet Experience on My Wall-Mounted Toilet?
Ever since my friend and Kotaku comrade in arms Tim Rogers reviewed Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age last year with glowing praise, I’ve been trying desperately to play it. The combat is snappy, the world is gorgeous, and the prospect of a sweeping story excites me. But every time I play, I stop. It’s the…
Source: Kotaku – I Keep Quitting Dragon Quest XI Thanks To Its Atrocious Music
The BLT is a simple sandwich, but simplicity demands excellence. Each component plays an important role, and maximizing the crisp saltiness of the bacon, the crunch of the lettuce, and the juicy sweetness of the tomatoes is what makes the sandwich truly magnificent.
Source: LifeHacker – Marinate Your Tomatoes for Extra Flavorful BLTs
It’s not Linux but is worth a read: Google’s Project Zero blog has a
highly detailed analysis of several iOS exploits and how they were used
to compromise large numbers of devices. “There’s something thus far which is conspicuous only by its absence: is any of this encrypted? The short answer is no: they really do POST everything via HTTP (not HTTPS) and there is no asymmetric (or even symmetric) encryption applied to the data which is uploaded. Everything is in the clear. If you’re connected to an unencrypted WiFi network this information is being broadcast to everyone around you, to your network operator and any intermediate network hops to the command and control server.
This means that not only is the end-point of the end-to-end encryption
offered by messaging apps compromised; the attackers then send all the
contents of the end-to-end encrypted messages in plain text over the
network to their server.“
Source: LWN.net – A very deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild (Project Zero)
The toll of people sick with acute lung illness tied to vaping has doubled since last week, with around 354 suspected cases across the U.S. Now, health officials are finally starting to publicly zero in on a leading suspect: unlicensed additives and contaminants, particularly those found in products containing THC.
Source: Gizmodo – Black Market THC May Be Causing the Alarming Surge in Vape-Related Lung Illnesses
A recently published patent application filed in the US by Microsoft describes a “multi-sided electromagnetic coil access assembly” that would be the crux of a folding PC display. Or in other words, think of Samsung’s Galaxy Fold, only instead of a phone that opens up into a tablet, this could be a dual-display variant of a future Surface
Source: Hot Hardware – Is Microsoft’s Folding Display Patent A Precursor To A Dual-Screen Surface PC?
