Joe Rogan has an important message for Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and any other major artist that’s removed their music from Spotify’s platform in response to his podcast’s habit of hosting well-known antivaxxers: he’s sorry, but not sorry enough to stop doing it.
Source: Gizmodo – Joe Rogan Is Sorry, Not Sorry About His Podcast’s Misinformation Problem
Enlarge / The start of the 60th running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway. (credit: Rolex)
As is often the way with endurance racing, the 60th running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona turned into a sprint race for the flag, following a safety car intervention with less than an hour left on the clock. It was the final Daytona 24-hour race for the DPi category of prototypes, and the class put on a fine show over the weekend.
There were dozens of lead changes over the course of 24 hours, and any of the five Cadillac DPi-V.Rs and two Acura ARX-05s would have been plausible winners. But racing for 24 hours is not easy, and hour 13 took out two of the contenders, the No. 48 Action Express Racing Cadillac (which counted NASCAR legend Jimmie Johnson as one of its drivers) and the 301 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac (driven at the time by multiple IndyCar champion Sebastien Bordais).
The second Chip Ganassi Cadillac had to spend some time in the garage with a fuel pump problem with less than eight hours remaining in the race, leaving a four-way fight for the win between a pair of Cadillacs (the No. 5 JDC-Miller Motorsports car and No. 31 Action Express car), plus the pair of Acuras (the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing car and the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing machine).
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Source: Ars Technica – Acura wins overall, and GTD Pro delivers at the Rolex 24 at Daytona
Intel is releasing a “Special Edition” 12th Gen Core i9-12900KS processor based on its Alder Lake architecture, which ranks as only the second KS chip in the past couple of years (the other one being the 9th Gen Core i9-9900KS we reviewed in October 2019). It’s a fast slice of silicon and while not available to buy yet, the chip has surfaced
Source: Hot Hardware – Overclocked Intel Core i9-12900KS Special Edition CPU Shines In Benchmark Leak
When performing digital reconnaissance or penetrating testing, it’s important to fingerprint a network by understanding what operating system is used on a remote host. Nmap is a great tool for this job.
Although normally associated with the cybersecurity field and penetration testing, Nmap can also be used for benevolent purposes, such as a system administrator taking an inventory of what operating systems all the systems on his network are running.
The post How to Determine OS of a Remote Host appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – How to Determine OS of a Remote Host
If you just downloaded the latest version of macOS, 12.2, keep an eye on your MacBook’s battery life. Furious Apple laptop owners are reporting across various forums and social media platforms (Reddit, Twitter) that their MacBooks are experiencing excessive battery drain while in sleep mode (via MacRumors).
Source: Gizmodo – MacBooks Are Experiencing Battery Drain in Sleep Mode
There are many reasons to move away from Spotify. Apple Music now has lossless audio at a cheaper rate. If you use Amazon Prime, Prime Music comes free; if you have an Echo smart speaker, it’s the cheapest way to stream your music. Spotify doesn’t have music by Neil Young or Joni Mitchell. No matter the reason,…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Export Your Entire Spotify Library for Free
Modern sysadmins must maintain a diverse and ever-evolving set of technical skills. When you’re looking to increase your sysadmin skills, you might set out looking for training on key technologies, such as Kubernetes, containers, and automation. In fact, you’ve probably already started building your aptitude in those areas. But these aren’t the only things you need to work on if you want to stand out in your sysadmin career.
Source: LXer – 4 skills every sysadmin needs to know in 2022
Many websites and applications employ various device fingerprinting methods to identify users and track their activity across websites and applications over time. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a good explainer on this subject, as well as a tool to test how well your browser protects you from fingerprinting. TorZillaPrint from arkenfox
Source: Hot Hardware – Security Paper Finds GPU Fingerprinting Disturbingly Effective At Tracking You Online
MLB The Show 22 will arrive on April 5th and, for the first time in the series, you’ll be able to play on Nintendo Switch. There will be full cross-platform support between Switch, PlayStation and Xbox. You’ll be able to transfer Road to the Show or Franchise save files between platforms and have access to items across various consoles (though Xbox Series X/S and PS5-exclusive content will remain locked to those systems).
As with last year’s edition, which was the first to land on Xbox, MLB The Show 22 is coming to Xbox Game Pass on its release day. That continues an unusual arrangement where a Sony-published title is available to Game Pass members at no extra cost. Subscribers can play via the cloud as well as on consoles.
This year’s cover athlete is Los Angeles Angels megastar Shohei Ohtani. The pitcher and designated hitter had an incredible 2021 season, racking up 46 home runs and 156 strikeouts. It’s pretty hard to imagine anyone else gracing MLB The Show 22‘s cover.
Source: Engadget – MLB The Show is coming to Switch for the first time
Snowed in? A loather of Valentine’s Day? Feeling sluggish on the doom-laden treadmill of life? Perk up with this robust list of brand-new sci-fi and fantasy books coming out in February. We got Jedi! We got space nuns! We got monsters, slippery royals, thieves, and even a taser-wielding librarian! Read on!
Source: Gizmodo – Fall in Love With Reading Thanks to These 42 New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
The first release candidate of Redis 7.0 was made available today. Getting us excited about this updated in-memory key-value database are “significant performance optimizations” among other improvements…
Source: Phoronix – Redis 7.0 Is Near With “Significant Performance Optimizations”
Enlarge / The Blackberry Torch, the company’s first touchscreen phone, is held for display during its debut in New York in 2010. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images)
BlackBerry is adding another sad chapter to the downfall of its smartphone business. Today the company announced a sale of its prized patent portfolio for $600 million. The buyer is “Catapult IP Innovations Inc.,” a new company BlackBerry describes as “a special purpose vehicle formed to acquire the BlackBerry patent assets.”
BlackBerry says the patents are for “mobile devices, messaging and wireless networking.” These are going to be the patents surrounding BlackBerry’s phones, QWERTY keyboards, and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). BlackBerry most recently weaponized these patents against Facebook Messenger in 2018, which covered ideas like muting a message thread and displaying notifications as a numeric icon badge. BlackBerry—back when it was called RIM—was a veteran of the original smartphone patent wars, though, and went after companies like Handspring and Good Technology in the early 2000s.
If the name “Catapult IP Innovations” didn’t give it away, weaponizing BlackBerry’s patents is the most obvious outcome of this deal. According to the press release, Catapult’s funding for the $600 million deal is just a $450 million loan, which will immediately be given to BlackBerry in cash. The remaining $150 million is a promissory note with the first payment due in three years. That means Catapult is now a new company with a huge amount of debt, no products, and no cash flow. Assuming the plan isn’t to instantly go bankrupt, Catapult needs to start monetizing BlackBerry’s patents somehow, which presumably means suing everyone it believes is in violation of its newly acquired assets.
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Source: Ars Technica – BlackBerry sells mobile and messaging patents for 0 million
Sony Group is purchasing Bungie, the U.S. video game developer behind the popular Destiny franchise, for $3.6 billion to bolster its stable of game-making studios. From a report: The deal announced on Monday is the third significant video-game acquisition announced this month, following Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard for $69 billion two weeks ago and Take Two Interactive snagging mobile game leader Zynga on Jan. 10. Buying Bungie will give Sony one of the most popular first-person shooter games to compete with the massive Call of Duty series, which Sony’s main rival now owns through Activision.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Sony Buys ‘Destiny’ Game Developer Bungie for .6 Billion
In a change on its developer website, Apple has announced support for unlisted apps on its App Store. This means developers can finally submit apps (and get them approved) that are only discoverable if the user has a direct link.
With this change, developers with apps not really suitable for public distribution can ask the Cupertino-based
Source: Hot Hardware – Here’s The Deal With Apple Suddenly Allowing Unlisted Apps In The App Store
In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to install Python 3.10 or 3.11 on CentOS with step-by-step instructions. This tutorial includes instructions for Python 3.10 and Python 3.11 on CentOS 7 and CentOS 8.
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Source: Linux Today – How to Install Python 3.10 (or 3.11) on CentOS
For a number of reasons, living during a global pandemic for nearly two years has caused a lot of people to rethink their life choices—including their current job. These aren’t all necessarily people looking for a career change, or to follow whatever they see as their “true calling.” It also includes those who now…
Source: LifeHacker – Before You Quit Your Job, Ask Yourself These Questions
Have you heard the one about a notable maker of games consoles paying an exorbitant amount of money to acquire a games studio and all of its IP? Of course you have, because Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard is a big deal. To be outdone (see what we did there?), Sony today announced it is scooping up Bungie for $3.6
Source: Hot Hardware – Sony To Acquire Destiny Developer Bungie For .6B In Another Big Games Studio Power Play
Sony has plans to acquire Bungie, the studio behind the hit sci-fi MMO Destiny, in a deal worth $3.6 billion. Bungie will join the Sony Interactive Entertainment family, which includes Insomniac Games, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla Games, Sucker Punch Productions, Bluepoint Games and a handful of other prominent studios.
Bungie is positioning the acquisition as the start of a new era for the company — one focused on global multi-media entertainment, not just games. Bungie will retain creative control over its franchises and continue to develop for multiple platforms, not just PlayStation, according to a blog post by CEO Pete Parsons.
“We will continue to independently publish and creatively develop our games,” he wrote. “We will continue to drive one, unified Bungie community. Our games will continue to be where our community is, wherever they choose to play.”
The deal follows news on January 18th that Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard for $69 billion, and it’s the latest sign that the video game industry has entered the consolidation stage. Massive companies including Microsoft, Sony and Tencent are in the process of sweeping up as many studios as they can in a battle for exclusive experiences. As console makers, Sony and Microsoft hold particular power in these negotiations, with built-in audiences of millions on the PlayStation and Xbox platforms.
These deals give the acquired studios financial stability, production support and wide-reaching marketing plans, though they’ll have to operate within a corporate ecosystem and potentially tie their games to specific platforms. Bungie, it seems, has plans to publish outside of Sony’s PlayStation universe, though time will tell what that looks like in practice.
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Source: Engadget – Sony is buying ‘Destiny’ studio Bungie
Enlarge / Well, we didn’t necessarily see this one coming. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Sony | Bungie)
After Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard King, talk turned to how Sony and its PlayStation division would deal with the fallout of the purchase. If the Xbox becomes the exclusive home of Call of Duty games, would Sony be left out of the megaton first-person shooter space? Would Sony fire back with a major acquisition of its own?
On Monday, Sony announced plans to acquire Bungie and its Destiny series of shooters in a deal reportedly valued at $3.6 billion (in an email to Ars Technica, a Sony rep declined to confirm that figure). Somehow, this pricey purchase includes a firm pledge from Bungie, despite its new corporate overlords: Bungie’s “future games” will not be PlayStation exclusives.
Bungie had clearly prepared to announce this news to its active Destiny 2 user base, which plays on a variety of non-PlayStation platforms like Steam, Google Stadia, and (of course) Xbox. Its Destiny 2-specific FAQ confirms that the game’s current content map is set until at least 2024, when a project dubbed “The Final Shape” launches. All planned content will continue to work cross-platform without any PlayStation “console exclusive” forks or DLC, the company said.
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Source: Ars Technica – A wacky, .6 billion end to gaming-acquisition January: Sony buys Bungie
Hazelight Studios and Sonic the Hedgehog production company dj2 Entertainment are aiming to turn It Takes Two into a movie or TV show. Pat Casey and Josh Miller, who wrote both Sonic movies, are onboard to adapt the co-op game for the big or small screen. Although no studio or network has snapped up the project just yet, Variety reports that a bidding war is underway.
“Creating the world and story in It Takes Two was so much fun for me and the team,” Hazelight founder and creative director Josef Fares said in a statement. “Since it has a strong narrative with many crazy characters and just as crazy co-op action moments, the potential is huge for a great adaption to film or television.”
At the 2021 Game Awards, It Takes Two won three honors, including the game of the year gong. EA published it last March and more than three million copies were sold by October. Along with It Takes Two and the Sonic movies, dj2 is working on a Tomb Raider anime for Netflix. It’s also developing a Disco Elysium series and a Sleeping Dogs movie.
Although It Takes Two received widespread plaudits for its platforming and asynchronous split-screen gameplay, several critics took issue with the “stay together for the kids” story and an “awful” character called The Book of Love. With some finding the plot to be the weakest aspect of the game, it’ll be interesting to see how that translates to a movie or TV show.
Source: Engadget – ‘It Takes Two’ is being adapted for film or TV
