The Russian government blocked access to Google News in Russia late on Wednesday, citing “unreliable information” about the war in Ukraine, according to state media outlet Interfax.
Source: Gizmodo – Russia Blocks Google News for ‘Unreliable Information’ on War in Ukraine
The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is open-source and used by the driver stacks on both Windows and Linux is up to version 1.0.10713 and with this milestone is functional ray-tracing support in preparation for upcoming Intel Arc graphics processors with hardware ray-tracing support…
Source: Phoronix – Intel IGC 1.0.10713 Adds Ray-Tracing Support
GIF inventor Stephen Wilhite has died from COVID-19 at the age of 74 with his wife Kathaleen at his bedside, NPR has reported. He worked at CompuServe when he developed the “Graphics Interchange Format,” designed to allow photo transfers over slow modem connections. GIFs have since become synonymous with short meme videos, regardless of how you pronounce it (though it’s “JIF” with a soft “G,” according to Wilhite himself).
Wilhite invented the GIF in 1987 virtually on his own, according to his spouse. It was designed as an “exchange and display mechanism for graphic images” at a time when internet speeds were glacial compared to today. “He actually did that at home and brought it into work after he perfected it,” Kathaleen told The Verge. “He would figure out everything privately in his head and then go to town programming it on the computer.”
With limitations like 256 colors per animation, the format could easily have died out a long time ago. It had another trick, though — it was designed by Wilhite to store multiple frames, making it natural for short animations. It took on a life of its own after AOL purchased CompuServe and let the patent expire, particularly with artists and Tumblr users, according to a Daily Dot explainer.
Besides developing GIFs, Wilhite made other key contributions to CompuServe that helped it become the internet juggernaut of its time. “I greatly admired his intelligence and perseverance as he consistently created software products that were woven into CompuServe’s tapestry of offerings for corporate, hobbyist, and home consumers,” said co-worker Ty Wait on Wilhite’s obituary page.
Wilhite retired in 2000 to pursue his hobbies and interests, including travel and model trains. He always came back to his first love of programming, however — he was still doing that just weeks before he was struck ill with COVID, Kathaleen told NPR. “”He was probably one of the kindest, humble men you’ve ever met,” she said. “I’ve been reading about [the responses online] all afternoon, and I can’t even tell you how it comforts you.”
Source: Engadget – GIF inventor Stephen Wilhite has died
David Airlie has submitted the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver updates for the Linux 5.18 kernel that includes the many graphics/display driver changes this cycle…
Source: Phoronix – Linux 5.18 Graphics Driver Changes From FreeSync Video Mode To New Intel Hardware
You may want to update your copy of Elden Ring on PC to make sure that you don’t end up losing hours of gameplay to the endless death loop exploit. Bandai Namco has rolled out a patch for the game, which fixes a bug in multiplayer that “allowed players to teleport others to incorrect map coordinates.” A few days ago, reports surfaced about bad actors exploiting a bug that gives them a way to crash your game and teleport your character off the map. Upon reloading, you’ll just find yourself falling to your death and seeing the reviving/loading screen again and again.
Here’s the infinite death loop in action:
⚠️Elden Ring PSA for PC players⚠️
There’s an exploit going around on PC where hackers will corrupt your save file while you’re invaded.
First they will crash your game, and when you open it back up, your character will be constantly falling to their death… pic.twitter.com/8et3bl8T1I
— Mordecai (@EldenRingUpdate) March 18, 2022
As The Verge notes, some players were able to save their game by quickly teleporting elsewhere, but others reported losing as much as 100 hours of gameplay to the death loop. In addition to fixing this particular bug, the update also patches other issues, including ones that will prevent you from advancing certain quests.
Elden Ring has been out for less than a month, but it has become huge very, very quickly. It sold 12 million units worldwide merely 18 days after its release, smashing the records of other Souls-type titles — Dark Souls 3, the best-selling game in the franchise, only reached 10 million units sold four years after it became available. When Bandai Namco and Elden Ring developer FromSoftware announced the milestone, they also said that the IP could be expanded “beyond the realm of games.”
Source: Engadget – ‘Elden Ring’ update fixes bug that could put players in an endless death loop
The crypto subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 5.18 kernel…
Source: Phoronix – Linux 5.18 Crypto Has Arm Optimizations, AVX For SM3, Xilinx SHA3 Driver
Founded with complete transparency and compliance in 2018, BitMart has remained a top-tier cryptocurrency exchange that continues to attract venture capital worldwide.
Now with more than nine million users, BitMart is stronger than ever and continues to look toward future challenges with optimism. Regardless of what setbacks occur, BitMart is confident in its ability to innovate and incorporate the best solutions to move boldly forward.
To coincide with BitMart’s Fourth Anniversary celebration (March 15 – 29), reporter Awais Ahmed had the opportunity to interview the founder and CEO of BitMart, Sheldon Xia, and present his visions for his crypto ecosystem to the world.
Many people consider the original Bitcoin whitepaper as the “Crypto Bible,” and Sheldon is undoubtedly a believer.
According to him, he first came across digital assets in 2013. After reading “A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” the idea that “Bitcoin could change the world” came to his mind. Even though this idea seemed absurd to many during the time, he had no qualms about introducing ‘Bitcoin’ as an emerging asset to people around him. Of course, those who recognized that this technology would change the world either became a HODLR or joined the crypto industry to build the necessary infrastructure. Still in his twenties and eager to dive deep into all the crypto industry had to offer, Sheldon made a bold choice: he wanted them all.
In the early stages of the crypto world, the infrastructure could only meet the basic needs of crypto investors, and there was not even any user experience. Crypto users who wanted to invest could only do so by sending money to the exchange’s personal account, which Sheldon had experienced. “My personal crypto experience coupled with my optimism about the industry eventually prompted me to enter the niche track of building an exchange. After experiencing the chaos of the industry, it made me prioritize the user experience at the top of my list, and put compliance at the core of BitMart’s development.”
Why did BitMart choose compliance as a breakthrough point at its inception?
Sheldon’s answer is that “it has to do with my personal experience and team’s DNA”.
In 2015, Sheldon started using Coinbase for quantitative trading while studying in the United States. Out of curiosity about the product, he went to study the history of Coinbase and learned a lot from it, but he also felt the difference between Western exchanges and Asian ones.
“In the current crypto world where exchanges are the core component, exchanges naturally carry strong financial and service attributes. Therefore, in the mainstream educational and socio-cultural environment of Western countries, the first reaction of tech-driven engineers, when they think of exchanges, is to move towards compliance and embrace regulation.” Sheldon said, “after all, regulation is not exactly a bad thing in the development of the crypto world. At this stage, embracing regulation can allow crypto assets and technology to better interact with the traditional world, improving the acceptance of the crypto industry by traditional financial investors and even the general public, which essentially gives a boost to the industry.”
With the CEO’s active promotion coupled with the fact that most of BitMart’s employees have financial and technical backgrounds, BitMart has a positive attitude towards regulation. So on the first day of the exchange’s existence, the compliance process was already one of the priorities in the early days of its development.
“In the early stage, our plan was to become the ‘ Asia’s version of Coinbase’. This strategy was based on the trending spot market and user demographics at that time. We wanted to take a certain market share in the Asia of the crypto market while seeking compliance in the region.
While BitMart’s crypto market share in Asia was increasing, we also noticed that the proportion of BTC settlements in Asian countries was declining. Hence, we promptly adjusted our strategy by shifting our focus to Europe and America. It proved that changing the company’s development strategy at the right time to adjust to the rapidly developing market is a necessary survival skill for a company.”
With its compliance attribute coupled with the ability to adjust, BitMart is favored among users and capitals. In November 2021, BitMart received Series B financing led by Alexander Capital with Alpha Square Group and Chaos Ventures participation.
After four years of growth, BitMart is now ranked among the top 10 exchanges in the crypto industry. On top of providing basic trading services to users, BitMart has also been enriching its product lines in order to meet the growing financial needs of all types of crypto users. BitMart’s current product lines cover spot trading, futures trading, leverage trading, savings, staking, and a premium launchpad serving more than nine million crypto users worldwide. Early this year, BitMart was ranked sixth in the [2021 Digital 100 – U.S. Financial Services].
Talking about the expansion of BitMart’s product ecology, Sheldon adheres to the attitude of stability amid progress. He believes differentiated products should be provided to users in various development phases instead of launching fancy products just for gimmicks.
“An exchange is an infrastructure that provides basic services for users, only an exchange with credibility, usability, security, where users can profit from and get their needs satisfied can be called a ‘good’ exchange.” “We have constantly been tutoring our users about cryptos and paying great attention to the spot trading sector in the past four years. With the prosperity of the derivatives market in the traditional financing sector and the development of the crypto industry, I think it’s time for BitMart to march towards the derivatives market.” “ Along with this, we will also be strengthening our presence in the spot trading market.”
The momentum of BitMart’s ecosystem development will undoubtedly drive up the value of BitMart’s native ERC-20 token, BMX. Due to the BMX’s close alignment with BitMart, BMX tokens also sky-rocketed in 2021, with an annual increase of more than 1500%. Sheldon said that BitMart would explore the decentralization sector in the second half of this year, in which BMX may serve as the core fuel. “ The application scenarios for the BMX token will significantly increase.”
Meanwhile, the establishment of the BitMart investment fund – Cipholio Ventures has also added impetus to the development of the BitMart ecosystem. Sheldon hopes to explore and support early crypto projects through investment funds, further promote the development of the crypto industry through incubation of new tracks and new projects, and accelerate the replenishment of the BitMart ecosystem in many aspects.
Besides all the mentioned above, security will also be a major focus for BitMart. Sheldon did not evade the hack that occurred in 2021 and spoke openly about how it has helped the company move forward. As he said, “it is never too late to mend, and only when problems are exposed and solved under rapid development can BitMart move forward.” The unfortunate incident also enabled BitMart to upgrade its security system in all aspects. Not only had BitMart introduced new systems and external partners, it had also upgraded its staffing internally. Sheldon said that “providing users with secure and easy-to-use crypto services is BitMart’s continuous pursuit.”
When asked about how he sees BitMart in the future, he answered: “I hope that when people mention the word ‘metaverse’ in the future, the first exchange that comes to their mind is BitMart.”
Sheldon has his own exciting explanation for his answer. He explained that the businesses BitMart wants to focus on are three parts: cryptocurrency trading services, infrastructure, and an open financial system. With these three parts integrated into one, it becomes the entrance to the metaverse and Web 3.0.
Sheldon is optimistic about the future of the metaverse, and he said that it provides a similar function to cryptocurrency. “Just like how BTC provides a peer-to-peer online payment method that solves the payment problem of cross-regional and cross-system asset transfer; how the smart contracts provide the idea of using codes to solve the issue of trust in the blockchain industry.” “The metaverse provides a new entrance and exit for the emotional needs of human beings in the future. Although the metaverse is still in its early stage, we see recognition and experimentation from a wide range of industries.” As someone with a background in computer science, Sheldon sees what metaverse can offer and solve, despite its very early stage.
Sheldon especially emphasized that “as a concept that requires the collaboration of software, hardware, and infrastructure, the existence of the blockchain industry is crucial.” “And only the blockchain is used as the underlying system, can the underlying economic system for the metaverse be completed, where people and economy flow freely in the metaverse world. Therefore, what BitMart wants is to become the infrastructure of the metaverse and build the underlying infrastructure.
In Sheldon’s vision of the industry, the metaverse will become something beyond the scale of the current Internet in the next 5-10 years. The role BitMart aims to play is what a game hub is for the video game, where users can enter different virtual scenarios, switch between different account IDs, and where assets can be exchanged, traded, and stored. Bitmart aims to act as a transportation hub for Web 3.0 and the metaverse and provide services to users across the world.
One of Sheldon’s favorite books is Principles by Ray Dalio, in which the qualities of extreme truth-seeking and transparency are emphasized. It is also his philosophy in running the exchange. He believes full transparency is not only applicable to the company’s management but is also the core of the blockchain concepts. With these philosophies, Sheldon hopes to make the right decisions and seize the opportunities. And make BitMart the underlying facility of the metaverse and Web 3.0.
Source: TG Daily – Sheldon Xia: BitMart will become the Ecological Entrance to the Metaverse and Web3.0
There are multiple ways to switch from the Wayland window system to the X11 window system, such as follows:..
Source: LXer – How to Enable X11 and Disable Wayland Window System
An international team of researchers analyzing the sounds captured by the Perseverance rover has determined the speed of sound on Mars. Phys.org reports: Baptiste Chide, with Los Alamos National Laboratory, gave a presentation (PDF) at this year’s 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference outlining the findings by the team. […] Chide reported that the team has used data from the microphone to measure the speed of sound on Mars. This was done by measuring the amount of time it took for sounds emanating from laser blasts from Perseverance to return to the rover’s microphone. The laser blasts were used to vaporize nearby rocks to learn more about their composition. They found sound to be traveling on Mars at approximately 240 m/s. But they also found that different frequencies of sound travel at different speeds on Mars. The speed increases by approximately 10 m/s above 400 Hz. This finding suggests that communication would be extremely difficult on Mars with different parts of speech arriving to listeners at different times, making conversations sound garbled.
Chide says the microphone also allowed for measuring temperature on Mar’s surface in and around the rover. This is because sound travels at different speeds depending on temperature. By measuring sound speed every time Perseverance fired its laser, the researchers were able to calculate rapid temperature changes. Chide also noted that the research team plans to continue monitoring and analyzing sounds from Mars over the course of a year to learn more about fluctuations during different events on the planet, such as during the winter months or when dust storms kick up.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Perseverance Rover Reveals Speed of Sound On Mars
Almost a year after Netflix introduced its shuffle play button, HBO Max has also launched its own. Unlike Netflix’s version that randomly plays shows and movies from the service’s whole catalog based on your viewing history, though, HBO Max’s has a pretty limited scope. When you tap on the shuffle button, the service will pull random episodes from one of the 45 shows included in the feature. Also, it’s only available on the service’s desktop interface at the moment.
It’s unclear if HBO Max plans to expand the number of shows included in the list it can randomly play. The WarnerMedia-owned service also didn’t say whether the feature will eventually be available on its apps, though it’s hard to believe that it’ll stay a desktop exclusive. When Netflix first introduced its “play something” button, the company initially made it available on TV devices only. Six months later, though, Netflix released it for Android devices and told us testing for iOS devices would begin in the following months.
Here are the 45 shows included in HBO Max’s list, per Deadline:
A World of Calm
Adventure Time
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Apple & Onion
Chappelle Show
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Craig of the Creek
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Ed, Ed and Eddy
ER
Flight of the Conchords
Fresh Prince
Friends
Full House
Great Pottery Throwdown
Hot Ones
How It Really Happened
Impractical Jokers
Key and Peele
Looney Tunes
Martin
Mike & Molly
Regular Show
Reno 911!
Rick & Morty
Robot Chicken
Scooby-Do, Where Are You!
Selena + Chef
Sesame Street
South Park
Teen Titans Go!
The Amazing World of Gumball
The Big Bang Theory
The Boondocks
The Mentalist
The Middle
The Nanny
The Office
The Shot: Uninterrupted
Tom and Jerry
Total Dramarama
Two and a Half Men
We Bare Bears
Whose Line is it Anyway
Young Sheldon
Source: Engadget – HBO Max’s new shuffle play feature is limited to 45 shows
A hacking group calling itself Lapsus$ recently made waves by releasing sources codes it claimed to have stolen from Microsoft and Okta. Now, cybersecurity researchers investigating the attacks have traced them to a 16-year-old living with his mother near Oxford, England, according to Bloomberg. While the researchers have identified seven accounts associated with the hacking group — including one traced to another teenager in Brazil — they believe the teenager from England is the mastermind and is behind some of the major Lapsus$ hacks. However, they weren’t able to connect the teen to all the attacks the group carried out.
The researchers looked at forensic evidence from the hacks, as well as public information to determine that the teen was indeed involved. Apparently, rival hackers posted the teenager’s details online, including his address and information about his parents. Bloomberg didn’t release the teen’s personal information and only mentioned that he goes by the aliases “White” and “breachbase.” White is reportedly so skilled at hacking and so fast at what he does that researchers previously thought the attacks were automated.
Some cybersecurity researchers believe that the group is motivated by not just money, but also notoriety, seeing as the actor doesn’t cover its tracks. As Microsoft detailed in its investigation of the Lapsus$ attacks, the group even announces its hacks on social media and publicly posts calls for employees willing to sell their company logins. The bad actor also joins targets’ communications channels, such as their Zoom calls, to taunt the people responding to their attacks.
Microsoft said the group started by targeting organizations in United Kingdom and South America, but that it has since expanded to target entities around the world, including government agencies, telecoms, and companies in the health sector. Both Microsoft and Okta admitted that they suffered a security breach, but both claim limited impact from the attacks.
Source: Engadget – Cybersecurity researchers trace Lapsus$ attacks to a teenager from England
Akihabara News (Tokyo) — An Artificial Intelligence-piloted ship successfully performed an extended test voyage along the coast of Japan, a first-of-its kind event at the end of last month.
The AI-piloted container ship, Suzaku, sailed from Tokyo Bay to Ise Bay from February 26 to March 1, without human intervention.
The 790 kilometer voyage was the fifth in a series of tests by the Nippon Foundation’s autonomous ship program.
Program director Satoru Kuwahara told national broadcaster NHK that the ship “was developed to solve the problem of labor shortages on domestic ships as society ages.”
There are still some labor demands even in the case of fully autonomous voyages, but far less manpower is needed compared to conventional shipping.
The tests are backed by the Designing the Future of Full Autonomous Ship Consortium, which includes over thirty companies from an array of fields.
The ship was equipped with numerous cameras to scan the coastline and to avoid maritime collisions. The AI piloted its course by measuring the height of waves and taking into account local weather reports. In this way it plotted the safest path to its destination.
In the event of technical failures or emergencies, the AI can switch to a remote manual piloting system.
Since roughly five hundred commercial ships navigate through Tokyo Bay on a daily basis, avoiding collisions was a particular concern of the developers, but the automated ship was able to perform its tasks flawlessly.
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Source: Akihabara News – Testing Self-Piloted Ships
When Backdrop CMS needed to upgrade our real-time chat platform, we had to balance ease of use with our preference for open source. Those criteria led us to Zulip, an open source chat and collaboration platform with many features we were looking for.
Source: LXer – How our community uses Zulip for its open source chat tool
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Last June, the Department of Defense released a long-awaited and much-hyped document called “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” detailing the government’s knowledge of UFOs and its programs trying to detect and catalog them. Many UFOlogists hoped that the “UFO report” would be a watershed moment in the field, showing that the government was taking UFOs seriously and, perhaps, explaining what the government thought they were. Unfortunately, the nine-page report was pretty underwhelming; for the most part it revealed things we already knew, and read primarily like a plea from the DoD for more funding. Tantalizingly, we were told that members of Congress received a classified briefing with more information that would likely never be released to the public.
John Greenewald, the government transparency virtuoso behind the Black Vault, however, has a gift for us today: A redacted version of the classified report, obtained by filing a mandatory declassification review. This version of the report is longer and much more interesting — detailing, for example, the most “common shapes” of UFOs spotted by the military. Certain sections of the classified report, such as one called “And a Handful of UAP Appear to Demonstrate Advanced Technology,” have far more detail on specific incidents that the Department of Defense cannot explain and that are not mentioned in the public report, including seemingly two different incidents witnessed by multiple pilots and officers in the Navy. A section called “UAP Probably Lack a Single Explanation” seemingly attempts to go into greater depth exploring what those explanations could be, and also has an extra redacted paragraph about what the DoD believes could be attributed to “Foreign Adversary Systems.”
Most interestingly, redacted figures, images, and diagrams in the classified reports explain what the DoD believes to be the most “common shapes” of UFOs, as well as “less common/irregular shapes.” These sections are completely omitted in the public report and are unfortunately redacted in the version of the report obtained by Greenewald. The classified report also explains that the FBI has investigated and will continue to investigate UFOs in an attempt to ascertain the causes of the phenomena; a redacted section seems to explain which instances it has investigated. “Given the national security implications associated with potential threats posed by UAP operating in close proximity to sensitive military activities, installations, critical infrastructure, or other national security sites, the FBI is positioned to use its investigative capabilities and authorities to support deliberate DoD and interagency efforts to determine attribution,” the report reads.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Activist Publishes Redacted Version of Classified Military UFO Report
OTRS Community Edition is an open-source helpdesk software written in Perl. In this article, you will learn how to install OTRS Community Edition on the Rocky Linux system. You will be installing OTRS with the MariaDB database and Apache webserver.
Source: LXer – How to Install OTRS (CE) Ticketing System on Rocky Linux
NASA plans to encourage the development of another commercial vehicle that can land its Artemis astronauts on the moon. Space.com reports: In April 2021, NASA picked SpaceX to build the first crewed lunar lander for the agency’s Artemis program, which is working to put astronauts on the moon in the mid-2020s and establish a sustainable human presence on and around Earth’s nearest neighbor by the end of the decade. But SpaceX apparently won’t have the moon-landing market cornered: NASA announced today (March 23) that it plans to support the development of a second privately built crewed lunar lander.
“This strategy expedites progress toward a long-term, sustaining lander capability as early as the 2026 or 2027 timeframe,” Lisa Watson-Morgan, program manager for the Human Landing System Program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said in a statement today. “We expect to have two companies safely carry astronauts in their landers to the surface of the moon under NASA’s guidance before we ask for services, which could result in multiple experienced providers in the market,” Watson-Morgan added. […] Congress is “committed to ensuring that we have more than one lander to choose [from] for future missions,” [NASA Administrator Bill Nelson] said during a news conference today, citing conversations he’s had with people on Capitol Hill over the past year. “We’re expecting to have both Congress support and that of the Biden administration,” Nelson said. “And we’re expecting to get this competition started in the fiscal year [20]23 budget.”
Exact funding amounts and other details should be coming next week when the White House releases its 2023 federal budget request, he added. “So what we’re doing today is a bit of a preview,” Nelson said. “I think you’ll find it’s an indication that there are good things to come for this agency and, if we’re right, good things to come for all of humanity.” NASA plans to release a draft request for proposals (RFP) for the second moon lander by the end of the month and a final RFP later this spring, agency officials said. If all goes according to plan, NASA will pick the builder of the new vehicle in early 2023. That craft will have the ability to dock with Gateway, the small moon-orbiting space station that NASA plans to build, and take people and scientific gear from there to the surface (and back). This newly announced competition will be open to all American companies except SpaceX. But Elon Musk’s company will have the opportunity to negotiate the terms of its existing contract to perform additional lunar development work, NASA officials said during today’s news conference.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – NASA Wants Another Moon Lander For Artemis Astronauts, Not Just SpaceX’s Starship
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and configure an SSH server on Ubuntu 20.04 and how to connect to the SSH server.
The post How to Install and Configure SSH Server on Ubuntu 20.04 appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – How to Install and Configure SSH Server on Ubuntu 20.04
A 20-year-old Ukrainian man named “Fadey” managed to escape the war and cross into Poland with 40% of his life savings in bitcoin contained on a USB stick. Finbold reports: His experience starts with the invasion and the realization that he would soon have to flee his homeland, for which he needed money. Cash was out of the question. “I couldn’t withdraw cash at all, because the queues to ATMs were so long, and I couldn’t wait that much time,” he said. However, he had a USB stick that contained around $2,000 in Bitcoin, equalling around 40% of Fadey’s life savings. The funds on the drive were accessible to him with a unique passcode, allowing him to pay for his survival in another country. “I could just write my seed phrase on a piece of paper and take it with me,” he explained. The story was first reported by CNBC.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Young Ukrainian Escapes War With USB Stick Holding 40% of His Life Savings In Crypto
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 24, 2022 is available.
Source: LWN.net – [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 24, 2022
Aria Beingessner, a member of the teams that implemented both Rust and Swift, has an interesting new take on some of those (and other) language’s problems – that C isn’t a programming language anymore.
Source: LXer – C: Everyone’s favourite programming language isn’t a programming language