At a climactic point in the interactive narrative that unfolds onboard the Halcyon—the hotel-cum-spaceship that is home to Disney World’s incredibly expensive, soon-to-open two-day theme park/Live Action Role Play Star Wars experience—an invasion of First Order stormtroopers overtakes the ship, adorning it with blood…
Source: Gizmodo – How Disney’s Galactic Starcruiser Fits Into the Star Wars Timeline
An estimated 30 to 40% of Americans experience insomnia symptoms each year—and that was before everything went sideways. Today, those numbers are likely to be much worse, and it can be a real struggle to deal with, as it impacts just about every aspect of your life. But cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I)…
Source: LifeHacker – You Should Try Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Treat Your Insomnia
Last night I stubbed my toe on the way to the bathroom and it hurt like the dickens. Then this morning as I was sorting through my inbox I came across an email from Biostar announcing another pre-built mining rig, the iMiner A588X8D2, stuffed with no less than eight Radeon RX 580 graphics cards. I’d have rather stubbed my toe again.
Look,
Source: Hot Hardware – Biostar Crammed 8 Radeon RX 580 GPUs Into A Mining Rig Because It Didn’t Read The Room
Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto stars in Morbius.
Sony Pictures has dropped one last trailer to stir up audience excitement for Morbius, the oft-delayed spinoff film about one of the lesser-known Spider-Man foes, directed by Daniel Espinosa.
As we reported way back in January 2020, when the first trailer dropped, Sony’s film adaptation of the character was intended to be part of a new shared universe of films along the lines of the Marvel model. The studio hoped to spin-off the Sony Marvel Universe (SMU) from its successful Spider-Man franchise.
The 2018 film Venom kicked off the series, starring Tom Hardy in the title role. Critics slammed it, but Venom went on to gross over $850 million worldwide. (The sequel, Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage, finally came out last year after also being pandemic-delayed and grossed $500 million worldwide despite mixed reviews.) So Sony decided to move forward with the planned Morbius movie, tapping Daniel Espinosa (Life) to direct—a solid choice, since Espinosa clearly knows how to merge science fiction and horror. Jared Leto was cast as Morbius.
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Source: Ars Technica – Morbius is finally coming to the big screen as Sony releases final trailer
Hitting the linux-firmware.git tree were updated AMD firmware images for Picasso, Raven, and Raven2 hardware with a rather important fix…
Source: Phoronix – Updated AMD APU Firmware Helps Systems Stuck On High Memory Clocks, Wasting Battery
Rockarrolla is a music player that seeks to emulate a music jukebox. It’s written in the Vala programming language and published under an open-source license.
Linux offers a dazzling array of free and open-source music players, ranging from the most frugal terminal-based players to huge memory-hogging players built with frameworks like Electron. We’ve reviewed the vast majority of music players, but it seems like there’s an almost endless supply.
Here’s our review of Rockarrolla.
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Source: Linux Today – Review: Rockarrolla Vala-Based Jukebox Emulator
Whenever you do a login, logout, or attempt to log in, everything gets recorded on your system, and there is a specific command that you can use to find out who has logged into your Linux system. In this article, you will see a binary file that is responsible for maintaining records and how to read the binary file using the “utmpdump“ utility.
Source: LXer – What is utmp,wtmp,btmp, and how to read?
FromSoftware’s Elden Ring launched last week to overwhelmingly positive reviews but a few issues have prevented some players from enjoying the game to its fullest. Over the weekend, one of those was resolved. If you’ve been playing through the title on Xbox, you likely saw that you couldn’t play Elden Ring online due to an error message that said “Network status check failed.” On Saturday, Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb said the issue had been resolved.
PSA: If you were seeing this error message on the Xbox version of #ELDENRING The issue has been resolved pic.twitter.com/MQYC21GP8Z
— Larry Hryb ☁ (@majornelson) February 27, 2022
Neither FromSoftware nor publisher Bandai Namco said what caused the problem, but it prevented people from doing things like summoning other players to help them with boss fights. At its core, Elden Ring is a single-player game, but those elements add a lot to the experience.
As for some of Elden Ring’s other issues, particularly those involving the PC version of the game, FromSoftware and Bandai are still working to resolve those. If you’re waiting to play the game on Steam Deck, the good news there is that Valve said it was working on optimizing the game for its new handheld and would update Proton this week to improve performance.
The graphics team has been hard at work on optimizing ELDEN RING for Steam Deck. Fixes for heavy stutter during background streaming of assets will be available in a Proton release next week, but are available to test now on the bleeding-edge branch of Experimental. pic.twitter.com/5oSnXtF2OG
— Pierre-Loup Griffais (@Plagman2) February 26, 2022
Prominent CSGO streamer and pro esports player Aleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev has donated one million Ukrainian hryvnias (or a little over $33,000 USD) to the Ukrainian army, according to a post on his Instagram Stories. This comes just after s1mple gave an emotional plea for unity during the Intel Extreme Masters…
Source: Kotaku – CSGO Pro Loses Tournament, Gives K To The Ukrainian Army Like A Champ Anyway
Squid Game ran away with three SAG Awards Sunday night, making it the most-awarded media of the entire show. Lead actors Lee Jung-jae and Jung Ho-yeon won for their individual performances, and the ensemble stunt work in the show also snagged an Actor.
Source: Gizmodo – Squid Game Wins Big at SAG Awards
British science is facing the threat of a highly damaging brain drain that could see scores of top young researchers leaving the UK. In addition, the futures of several major British-led international projects are also now in jeopardy following a delay in funding by the European Union. From a report: Senior scientists say the UK’s scientific standing is at serious risk while others have warned that major programmes — including medical projects aimed at tackling global scourges such as malaria — face cancellation. “There is a real prospect that bright young scientists will decide it will be best for their careers if they leave the UK,” said Martin Smith, head of policy at the Wellcome Trust. “At the same time, if research partnerships involving the UK break down, Britain will no longer be seen as a reliable scientific partner. UK science will suffer.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – UK Scientists Fear Brain Drain as Brexit Rows Put Research at Risk
Enlarge / The new version of Dishy McFlatface. (credit: Starlink)
SpaceX is sending Starlink user terminals to Ukraine after a request from a government official. Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s vice prime minister and minister of digital transformation, used Twitter to make a direct plea to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Saturday, writing:
@elonmusk, while you try to colonize Mars—Russia try to occupy Ukraine! While your rockets successfully land from space—Russian rockets attack Ukrainian civil people! We ask you to provide Ukraine with Starlink stations and to address sane Russians to stand.
About 10 hours later, Musk responded, “Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route.” A bit later, Fedorov sent a tweet thanking Musk and another tweet thanking Ukraine’s ambassador to the US, Oksana Markarova, “for swift decisions related to authorization and certification that allowed us to activate the Starlink in Ukraine.”
We asked SpaceX for details on how many Starlink user terminals are being sent to Ukraine and how they’re being distributed and will update this article if we get any information. Starlink was recently used to provide broadband in parts of Tonga that were cut off from Internet access by the tsunami.
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Source: Ars Technica – Ukraine asks Musk for Starlink terminals as Russian invasion disrupts broadband
There are multiple ways you can go about chasing lower CPU temps. Adding more fans and periodically cleaning the dust filters can go a long way. So can reapplying the thermal paste, or swapping out your CPU cooling solution for something that packs more punch, perhaps a liquid cooling setup. All good options, or you could throw caution to
Source: Hot Hardware – This Custom Copper IHS For Alder Lake Touts Cooler Temps By Up To 15 Degrees
In this Linux quick tip, we will explore several ways to find the date your Linux operating system was installed.
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Source: Linux Today – How to Find the Date/Time when Linux OS was Installed
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Big Tech companies, for the most part, have been able to have their cake and eat it, too.
By pitching themselves as neutral platforms that prioritize free expression—while at the same time bowing to local pressure to remove or restrict certain content—they’ve enjoyed rather broad access to nearly all the world’s markets. Even Russia, which for decades during the Soviet era fought to keep Western media out, has let them in.
That may be about to change, though.
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Source: Ars Technica – Big Tech spent decades skirting geopolitical issues. That’s no longer an option
On social media, what was once conventional beauty wisdom can easily start to trend after a quick rebranding to make it seem like a brand-new, cutting-edge tip. Just as easily, it can be replaced with another hot new trend, which could contradict the first one. Remember how beauty gurus used to insist you should put a…
Source: LifeHacker – What Is ‘Slugging’ (and Is It Really Good for Your Skin)?
Twitter is adding prominent labels to tweets from Russian state media outlets as it tries to limit the publications’ reach on its platform.
“Today, we’re adding labels to Tweets that share links to Russian state-affiliated media websites and are taking steps to significantly reduce the circulation of this content on Twitter,” Yoel Roth, the company’s head fo site integrity tweeted. “Our product should make it easy to understand who’s behind the content you see, and what their motivations and intentions are.”
Roth added that since the invasion, links to Russian state media outlets have been shared more than 45,000 times a day. He said Twitter was also working to “significantly reduce the circulation of this content on Twitter.” The company announced last week that it was pausing ads and recommendation features in Ukraine and Russia.
As people look for credible information on Twitter regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we understand and take our role seriously. Our product should make it easy to understand who’s behind the content you see, and what their motivations and intentions are.
— Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) February 28, 2022
The company has labeled state media outlets at the account level since August 2020, but those labels only appeared on the account profiles. The new labels will be displayed much more prominently, appearing alongside tweets from these accounts, much like how the company has labeled election and COVID-19 misinformation. The labels will appear on tweets from state run media in other countries in the “coming weeks.”
Twitter isn’t the only platform trying to tamp down the reach of Russian state media outlets following the invasion of Ukraine. Facebook barred Russian state media from accessing ads and other monetization features, and has blocked some outlets’ ability to post within Ukraine.
Source: Engadget – Twitter is labeling tweets from Russian state media outlets
Etsy is joining the ranks of tech companies offering support to Ukraine following the Russian invasion. The craft-oriented marketplace is writing off all outstanding fees for Ukraine-based sellers. The move is worth about $4 million and is meant to offset “tremendous financial hardship” for creators affected by the conflict.
The gesture comes amid a flurry of help for Ukraine. Airbnb has offered free housing for up to 100,000 Ukranian refugees. Elon Musk’s companies, meanwhile, have offered free EV charging and Starlink terminals. That’s not including initiatives to protect residents and limit misinformation.
Etsy’s fee waiver isn’t large compared to some of these relief efforts. It’s not compensating sellers for lost business or waiving future fees, for instance. Still, this could be welcome for Ukranians who had to deal with outstanding Etsy bills on top of Russia’s military campaign.
Source: Engadget – Etsy is cancelling million in Ukraine seller fees
In 2019, researchers first described a 1.15-mile-wide crater in a mountain range in northeast China; late last year, a NASA satellite imaged the crater from space, giving a broad new view the impact’s aftermath.
Source: Gizmodo – Satellite Spots Massive Asteroid Impact Crater in China
sc-im is lightweight, fast, and intuitive. Here’s what you ned to know.
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Source: Linux Today – Meet sc-im, an ‘Excel’ for the Terminal
