We try recommending the best gadgets to our readers, especially those that offer the greatest value. Still, anyone shopping for a laptop or phone will need to be prepared to spend at least a few hundred bucks—even if that device is a Chromebook or a budget handset. What if there was another way?
Source: Gizmodo – This ‘Minimum Viable Computer’ Costs —and It Can Run Doom
Wayland Protocols 1.25 was released today as the collection of testing and stable Wayland protocols. New to Wayland Protocols 1.25 is the session-lock-v1 protocol being experimental and responsible to handle session locking…
Source: Phoronix – Wayland Testing New Protocol Extension To Handle Session Locking
We just published a new collection targeting Linux’s Local Privilege Escalation, and CVE-2021-4034 is its first scenario! While this will not allow you to prevent the exploit, it will give you insight into whether you have been compromised by this vulnerability. Stay tuned as we add additional exploit attempt scenarios to the collection.
The post PwnKit: Detect Privilege Escalation with CrowdSec appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – PwnKit: Detect Privilege Escalation with CrowdSec
The first release candidate of GStreamer 1.20 is now available for testing of this widely-used, open-source multimedia framework…
Source: Phoronix – GStreamer 1.20 RC1 Released With Many Exciting Improvements
Even without an ongoing pandemic disrupting supply chains and making it an even bigger challenge to hire seasonal labor, being a farmer is hard work, especially around harvest time. A company called Tevel Aerobatics Technologies believes it’s come up with a better harvesting solution for fruit farmers with the apple…
Source: Gizmodo – The Apple Drone Is Finally Here
Werewolves take note: In February, the moon will be full on Tuesday, the 16th, so plan for your transformation accordingly. The moon will appear above the horizon at around sunset and will be brightest at around midnight.
Source: LifeHacker – When to See the ‘Snow Moon’ in February
Any number of things can serve as personal distractions in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, but one I’m sure a lot of folks will enjoy is shiny hunting. Searching out with these alternately colored pocket monsters is half the fun of these games for many hardcore fans, and Arceus offers up an interesting way to do so with its…
Source: Kotaku – To Get Shinies In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, You Need To Exploit Mass Outbreaks
A bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania collapsed on Friday, taking a bus down with it and resulting in at least 10 people reporting injuries—though fortunately, no one was severely harmed or died. The collapse occurred just hours before Joe Biden was scheduled to give a speech in the city on the crumbling state of the…
Source: Gizmodo – Pittsburgh Bridge Collapses Right Before Joe Biden’s Visit to Promote Infrastructure
At least 26 public corporations are holding bitcoin on their balance sheets, according to data compiled by cryptocurrency analytics firm CoinGecko. Since the price of cryptocurrencies began to plummet in November, they’ve collectively lost nearly $7 billion. Quartz reports: The price of Bitcoin peaked above $67,000 on Nov. 8, but has since fallen 46%. Corporate crypto holdings for the largest 26 totaled at least $14.7 billion at the height of the rally. As of Jan. 26, they’re worth $8 billion. The companies — which include electric carmaker Tesla, financial services startup Square, and South Korean video game developer Nexon, along with a slew of crypto miners, exchanges, and investment firms — hold 217,240 bitcoin. That’s a little more than 1% of all the bitcoin in the world.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – The Crypto Selloff Wiped Billion Off Corporate Balance Sheets
A week before the Winter Olympics get underway, EA has added women’s teams to its NHL games for the first time. You can now select one of 10 women’s International Ice Hockey Federation national squads in NHL 22: Canada, Czech Republic (Czechia), Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Russia, Switzerland and, of course, Team USA.
EA has also introduced IIHF Men’s and World Juniors teams to NHL 22. Along with competing in IIHF World Championship tournaments, the Men’s and Women’s teams are playable in the Play Now, Online Versus, Threes Now and Offline/Online Shootouts modes. EA announced the additions last month.
NHL 12 (which was released in 2011) was the first game in the series in which players could take to the virtual ice as a woman, as long as they created one themselves. The following year, Canadian hockey pioneer Hayley Wickenheiser and American defense player Angela Ruggiero (who could join any team in NHL 13) became the first real playable women hockey players in the franchise, but it’s taken almost another decade for EA to add full women’s squads.
The NHL series is following other major sports games franchises in adding women’s teams. EA brought them to its FIFA games for the first time in 2015, while 2K Games introduced the WNBA to NBA 2K in 2019.
Source: Engadget – ‘NHL 22’ adds women’s teams for the first time
When last we left the Fast and Furious franchise, Dominic Torreto’s crew had finally made it into space. For the next installment, could they go under the sea? Anything’s possible, especially since Aquaman himself, Jason Momoa, is likely to join the cast.
Source: Gizmodo – Fast and Furious 10 Has Recruited Aquaman, Which Feels Only Natural
While trotting about the first free-roaming area of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, it would behoove you to visit the massive, angry Rapidash roaming the Horseshoe Plains. You’re sure to get on like a house-sized horse on fire.
Source: Kotaku – What Happens When You Attack That Pokémon Legends: Arceus Giant Rapidash
NVIDIA’s new mobile GPU, the RTX 3080 Ti, has finally made its way into consumers’ hands. That means we finally get a peek at its GA103 GPU, which turns out to be quite a beast in both size and performance.
The mobile graphics cards introduced this week have a GA103S/GA103M GPU, officially labeled GN20-E8-A1. These appear to be scaled back
Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GA103 Mobile GPU Flaunts Massive Die In High-Res Photos
Nano isn’t good as it should be, while vim seems quite complex for the beginner. There are many Text Editor for Linux users, and choosing the best one is quite debatable. Suppose you do not want to leave nano because other editors are too complex and require a learning curve. Then you didn’t try till now micro terminal-based text editor.
Source: LXer – Micro: Modern and Intuitive Terminal-Based Text Editor
ONLYOFFICE Docs is an open-source office suite distributed under GNU AGPL v3.0. It comprises web-based viewers and collaborative editors for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations highly compatible with OOXML formats. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a fillable form with ONLYOFFICE Docs.
The post Create Fillable Forms in ONLYOFFICE Docs 7.0 appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – Create Fillable Forms in ONLYOFFICE Docs 7.0
Your heart beats faster when you’re working hard, so it’s a good way to tell if you’re exercising hard enough…right? Well, not exactly. Your heart rate is only a good gauge of effort in certain types of exercise. And it can even steer you wrong if the numbers are miscalibrated.
Source: LifeHacker – Please Stop Checking Your Heart Rate so Much
Is your Steam catalog looking a little thin? Probably not, but who can resist a sale? We all know the drill by now—Steam discounts a bunch of games for the latest sale event (the Steam Winter Sale is barely in the rear view mirror!), we buy up a bunch of titles in eager anticipation of playing them at some point, then life gets in the way.
Source: Hot Hardware – Steam Lunar Sale Is Live With Some Fantastic Gaming Deals Up To 90 Percent Off
With The Legend of Vox Machina, the voice actors behind Critical Role are attempting to break new ground as a tabletop roleplaying series turned into an animated TV show. Since the same actors are voicing their characters, and have been guiding hands in the show’s development, fans haven’t been very concerned with…
Source: Gizmodo – In The Legend of Vox Machina, Critical Role Faces the Challenge of Turning D&D into TV
A new Pokémon game means, well, new Pokémon, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus is no exception. And while the latest installment in Nintendo’s flagship role-playing franchise may skew from the series’ foundational elements in interesting ways with its fluid, open-world gameplay, some of these debuting Pokémon still come…
Source: Kotaku – How To Evolve Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ New Monsters, Plus Old Ones With Weird Requirements
Winter sports involving snow-covered hills and gravity are really only fun if you’ve got an easy way to get back up that hill. For those times or places where a ski lift isn’t available, the PL1 is a portable tow rope system that can be quickly set up on-site and easily carried in a backpack.
Source: Gizmodo – Backcountry Winter Sports Are More Fun With a Portable Ski Lift in Your Backpack