A team of astronomers has reconstructed the history of our local universe to understand the origin of the nearest stars. In a study published today in Nature, they describe an amorphous, 1,000-light-year-wide bubble ensconcing Earth that is responsible for those stars.
Source: Gizmodo – Earth Is Surrounded by a 1,000-Light-Year-Wide Bubble That Cooks Up Stars
Kirby and the Forgotten Land, the next mainline game in the adorable franchise, finally has a release date, and it’s not too far out. The open-world, 3D game is slated to drop on March 25, and ships with co-op multiplayer that looks similar to Bowser’s Fury.
Source: Kotaku – Kirby And The Forgotten Land Trailer Shows Off New Abilities, Co-op Play
If your last shopping trip or food delivery included bagged salads, you’re going to want to check the label to see if it’s one of the products being recalled over a risk of contamination from Listeria monocytogenes, according to an announcement from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Source: LifeHacker – Don’t Eat These Recalled Salads, FDA Says
Google had all but abandoned its smartwatch platform until Samsung stepped in last year to help build Wear OS 3. Now the company finally seems open to tackling the problems its user have been complaining about for years, starting with support for left-handed users.
Source: Gizmodo – After Years of Dragging Its Ass, Google Will Finally Add Left-Handed Support to Wear OS
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It’s time for another Dealmaster! Today’s roundup of the best tech deals we can find around the web includes the entry-level Apple Watch SE, which is down to $229. We’ve seen this price before, but it’s still $50 off Apple’s MSRP, about $30 off the SE’s usual street price, and only $10 above the lowest price we’ve tracked. While the higher-end Apple Watch Series 7 remains the top pick in our guide to the best smartwatches, the SE is a strong budget alternative. By comparison, it lacks an always-on (and slightly larger) display, it charges a bit slower, and it’s missing more advanced health-tracking features like blood oxygen monitoring and ECG functionality. But the experience is largely similar otherwise, with the same robust app library, a comparable design, and most of the same core health monitoring tools for sleep and exercise, all at a much lower cost. It’s still meant for iPhone users only, but if you were thinking of making this the year you pick up a smartwatch, this deal presents a good value.
Elsewhere, the Nintendo Switch Online bundle we featured last week, which pairs a recommended 128GB microSD card with a 12-month Switch Online Family Membership, is still available, as are most of the Switch game deals we highlighted from Nintendo’s New Year sale. We’ve also found lower-than-usual prices on Tribit’s XSound Go, a budget Bluetooth speaker we’ve praised in past buying guides, and Samsung’s T7, a portable SSD we like. Our curated roundup also has deals on Apple’s Mac Mini, screen protectors for the iPhone 13, USB-C chargers, and more. Have a look at the full list below.
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Source: Ars Technica – Today’s best deals: Apple Watch SE, Bluetooth speakers, Switch Online bundle, and more
Security fix for CVE-2020-16156
Source: LXer – Fedora 34: perl-CPAN 2022-84fd87f7eb>
Coinbase has embraced many of the workplace changes prompted by the coronavirus pandemic. The company became remote-first, and it’s even closing its San Francisco headquarters to hammer in its focus on working from anywhere. From a report: Now, nearly all of Coinbase will shut down for four separate weeks throughout the year so employees can “enjoy downtime without work piling up,” chief people officer L.J. Brock said. “Four weeks of coordinated recharge time might sound like a lot of time off for a company in hypergrowth, but given the intensity of our work throughout the year, we think this is the best way to ensure our pace is sustainable for the long term,” Brock wrote in a blog post Monday. Coinbase has also tested so-called recharge weeks before. Most of the company took one at the end of 2020, and it added two recharge weeks last year after finding that employees weren’t taking enough time off. Brock said over half of surveyed employees said the weeks off helped them reset.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Coinbase Will Shut Down For Four Weeklong Breaks This Year
David Malcolm describes
some GCC improvements to defend against bidirectional-text attacks in
source code.
My colleague Marek Polacek and I implemented a new warning for GCC
12, -Wbidi-chars, for detecting Trojan Source attacks involving
Unicode control characters. Marek implemented the guts of the
warning, but when I tried it out on the examples provided by the
Trojan Source researchers, I found I had trouble understanding the
initial results—precisely because of the obfuscation itself.So for GCC 12, I’ve added a new flag to GCC diagnostics, indicating
that the diagnostic itself relates to source code encoding. When
any such diagnostic is printed, GCC will now escape non-ASCII
characters in the source code.
Source: LWN.net – Malcolm: Prevent Trojan Source attacks with GCC 12
If the first few episodes of The Book of Boba Fett were interested in contextualizing the man its titular former bounty hunter became after escaping the Sarlacc, its third, “The Streets of Mos Espa,” is the first to really examine what he’s up against in the present. But like drivers on the titular streets of that…
Source: Gizmodo – The Book of Boba Fett Is Already Messily Wiping Its Own Slate Clean
Until very recently, I had never watched an entire season of the Real Housewives franchise. I had tried to get into Beverly Hills, but it did not take. For whatever reason (ennui and boredom), I decided to give Salt Lake City a try, and I am now borderline obsessed with a bunch of rich women who live in Utah.
Source: LifeHacker – You Should Waffle Some Falafel Mix
Following some small-scale tests in a number of cities since Lime revealed its latest e-bike in March 2021, the company has started making the Gen4 available to users in the US. The first batch of the new model has arrived in Washington DC.
The biggest update this time around is a swappable battery that’s interchangeable with Gen4 scooters, which should both save Lime money and bolster sustainability, in part by reducing the number of trips that Lime’s charging vans need to make. The latest model also features a more powerful motor than previous generations, automatic two-speed transmission, a phone holder and a revamped handlebar display that matches the one on Lime’s scooters. The company says the modular design should boost the usability of Gen4 e-bikes to five years.
Lime said last year it would invest $50 million into the Gen4 e-bike. It aimed to start transitioning to the latest model last summer. However, other than a few small-scale pilots in the fall, it had to put those plans on hold due to supply chain issues.
The company plans to upgrade e-bikes in the cities it currently serves to the Gen4 and expand to more cities this year. For now, 250 Gen4 e-bikes are available in Washington DC. Lime told TechCrunch it plans to replace its entire fleet of 2,500 e-bikes in the city with the Gen4 by April. The new e-bike should hit more cities around the globe this spring, including Atlanta and Charleston.
Source: Engadget – Lime’s latest e-bikes are now available in the US
Destiny 2’s: The Witch Queen expansion will be released in a little over a month. There is little known about the expansion, but Bungie has dropped a few hints here and there. Bungie recently offered the first major look into Savathûn’s Throne World ahead of the Destiny 2: Witch Queen expansion.
Bungie remarked, “A twisted wonderland of
Source: Hot Hardware – What To Expect As Destiny 2: The Witch Queen Takes Players To Savathun’s Ominous Throne World
Whatever your experiences with own mental health, it’s daunting to find the perfect thing to say when someone you care about is struggling with depression. But it’s easier to figure out what not to say.
Source: LifeHacker – Things You Should Never Say to Someone Struggling with Depression
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Source: Linux Today – The Best Linux Games of 2021
When it comes to the march of technology, the advancements never stop coming. Hence why even though the first consumer platforms supporting PCI Express 5.0 only recently launched, there’s already talk of the next iteration, PCI Express 6.0. More than just talk, actually. PCI-SIG, the consortium responsible for overseeing the PCI Express standard,
Source: Hot Hardware – PCI Express 6.0 Spec Finalized With A Huge Leap In Bandwidth For Next-Gen SSDs And GPUs
A cooldown is part of every workout, in theory. Whether it’s a session with weights at the gym, or a run outdoors, you’re supposed to do some kind of slower-paced activity at the end, and maybe even stretch a little. But honestly, I don’t always have the time. And when I skip my cooldown, nothing bad happens. What…
Source: LifeHacker – Do You Really Have to Cool Down After Exercise?
In addition to the prompt support for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, another exciting milestone for the in-development Linux 5.17 kernel is introducing mainline support for the StarFive JH7100, which has been trying to make its debut as the first usable and low-cost RISC-V platform…
Source: Phoronix – Linux 5.17 Adds Support For “The First Usable, Low-Cost RISC-V Platform”
Lawsuits are weighing heavily on the Bitcoin ecosystem, and former Twitter chief Jack Dorsey thinks he can help fend them off. Coindeskreports Dorsey, Chaincode’s Alex Morcos and academic Martin White have proposed a nonprofit legal defense fund for Bitcoin developers to protect them against lawsuits and similar “legal pressure.” The fund’s board (currently Dorsey, Morcos and White) would choose cases to support, with part-time and volunteer lawyers providing the initial defense counsel for free.
The fund will initially take over coordination for the defense against the Tulip Trading lawsuit targeting developers over alleged breaches of fiduciary duty relating to the long-dead Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange. Dorsey didn’t say how much money the fund had to start, but noted it wasn’t looking for additional money “at this time.”
Dorsey has direct incentives to establish a legal defense fund, of course. His company Block is heavily involved in Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies and the blockchain, and the flurry of lawsuits could tarnish his business as much as anyone else’s. However, Dorsey noted that many Bitcoin developers are independents that have little choice but to give up when facing lawsuits they don’t have the resources to fight. The nonprofit might prove vital if it strengthens the Bitcoin community as a whole, whether or not Dorsey directly benefits from its actions.
Source: Engadget – Jack Dorsey proposes a legal defense fund for Bitcoin developers
One last trailer for Scream sets up the sequel’s interesting subversions. A new Peacemaker clip sees John Cena’s unlikely hero wrestle with the events of Suicide Squad. Plus, a look at what’s coming on Superman & Lois and Naomi. Spoilers, away!
Source: Gizmodo – Marvel’s New Halloween Disney+ Special Might Have Just Recruited a Nevers Star
Why we need to revisit the origin of blue hyperlink While musing over my recently published article, Why are hyperlinks blue, I was left feeling a bit blue myself. Yes, it could have been the fact that I was evacuated and Hurricane Ida was destroying my home, I’ll admit. Besides that, I was also bothered […]
Source: LXer – Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue
