Security teams can use vulnerability assessments to understand their security posture. Learn about five top open-source vulnerability assessment tools here.
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Source: Linux Today – 5 Open-source Vulnerability Assessment Tools to Try Out
In celebration of Mafia’s 20th anniversary, 2K Games is selling the original open-world game for the low price of free for a limited time on Steam, starting from September 1 through September 5.
Source: Kotaku – The Original Mafia Will Be Free On Steam For Its 20th Anniversary
Prey (2017) is a very good game, one of my favorites from that year in fact. Yet its name always seemed…weird. It has no connection to the 2006 Prey or its never-released sequel. Now, in a new interview, the director of the game has explained how he and the team were forced by Bethesda to use that name and how “gross”…
Source: Kotaku – Prey Director Says He Felt ‘Gross’ Using That Name, Was Forced To By Bethesda
Several US government agencies are having a busy week for doling out broadband deployment funding to ISPs and state governments. Today, the FCC announced $791.6 million for six broadband providers, covering network expansions to over 350,000 homes and businesses in 19 states. The ISPs will receive the money over 10 years.
“This round of funding supports projects using a range of network technologies, including gigabit service hybrid fiber/fixed wireless deployments that will provide end-user locations with either fiber or fixed wireless network service using licensed spectrum,” the FCC said. Funded ISPs include Nextlink Internet and Starry.
Separately, the Treasury Department and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) this week announced new grants for states and Tribal entities (more on that later in this article).
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Source: Ars Technica – FCC has approved billion in broadband grants despite rejecting Starlink
Would it be a George R.R. Martin adaptation if there weren’t multiple people vying for control? As the first Game of Thrones spinoff, House of the Dragon, enjoys some massive early season success, one of the show’s co-creators, executive producers and directors, Miguel Sapochnik, is leaving.
Source: Gizmodo – House of the Dragon Loses One Game of Thrones Vet for Season 2, Replaces Them With Another
While many a collector can claim to have any number of rare video games and memorabilia, few, if any, actually own a majority of every console variation manufactured in the last 50 years. But that’s exactly what one France-based collector has just put up for auction, some 2,400 different consoles—from standard-issue…
Source: Kotaku – Someone Is Selling Nearly Every Console Ever Made On eBay For 1 Million Dollars
Chip technology firm Arm, which is owned by Softbank Group, said on Wednesday it has sued Qualcomm and Qualcomm’s recently acquired chip design firm Nuvia for breach of license agreements and trademark infringement. From a report: Arm is seeking an injunction that would require Qualcomm to destroy the designs developed under Nuvia’s license agreements with Arm, which Arm said could not be transferred to Qualcomm without Arm approval. Qualcomm acquired Nuvia for $1.4 billion last year.
The lawsuit represents a major break between Qualcomm and Arm, one of its most important technology partners that Qualcomm relied on for years after Qualcomm stopped work on designing its own custom computing cores. But the two companies have been at odds for years, with some inside Qualcomm complaining privately that Arm’s slackening pace of innovation is causing Qualcomm’s chips to fall behind Apple’s processors in performance. Qualcomm bought Nuvia — a firm founded by former Apple chip architects — to reboot its efforts to make custom computing cores that would be different from standard Arm designs used by rivals such as Taiwan chip designer MediaTek.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Arm Sues Qualcomm and Nuvia For Breach of License and Trademark
Fall is the best season, and I’m not here to discuss this any further. As winter (and seasonal affective disorder) lingers right around the corner, fall is also the best time to get your last bit of traveling in before the weather gets too cold to do anything except stay in bed.
Source: Gizmodo – Airbnb’s Most Booked Cities This Fall Might Surprise You
Enlarge / The winning entry, Théåtre D’opéra Spatial. (credit: Jason Allen)
A synthetic media artist named Jason Allen entered AI-generated artwork into the Colorado State Fair fine arts competition and announced last week that he won first place in the Digital Arts/Digitally Manipulated Photography category, Vice reported Wednesday based on a viral tweet.
Allen used Midjourney—a commercial image synthesis model available through a Discord server—to create a series of three images. He then upscaled them, printed them on canvas, and submitted them to the competition in early August. To his delight, one of the images (titled Théåtre D’opéra Spatial) captured the top prize, and he posted about his victory on the Midjourney Discord server on Friday.
Allen’s Discord post announcing victory. (credit: MidJourney Discord)
Allen’s victory prompted lively discussions on Twitter, Reddit, and the Midjourney Discord server about the nature of art and what it means to be an artist. Some commenters think human artistry is doomed thanks to AI and that all artists are destined to be replaced by machines. Others think art will evolve and adapt with new technologies that come along, citing synthesizers in music. It’s a hot debate that Wired covered in July.
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Source: Ars Technica – AI wins state fair art contest, annoys humans
A fairly lengthy discussion of whether there should be a way to
break out of (or
continue) more than one level of nested loops in Python recently
took place in the Ideas
category of the language’s discussion forum. The idea is
attractive, at least in an abstract sense—some other languages support
jumping out of
multiple loops at once—but it seems unlikely to go anywhere for Python.
The barrier to new features is fairly high, for sure, but there is also a
need for proponents to provide real-world examples that demonstrate their
advantages. That, too, is a difficult bar to clear, as was seen in the
discussion.
Source: LWN.net – [$] Python multi-level break and continue
The Ubuntu Unity Remix team has submitted a proposal to the Ubuntu Technical Board to be accepted as the next official flavor. Learn more here.
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Source: Linux Today – Ubuntu Unity Remix Submitted Proposal for Official Flavor Tag
Security researchers revealed they uncovered a massive hole in TikTok’s security that affected every single user who has downloaded the app on Android devices worldwide. But if there is any lingering hint that any users were impacted by this “high severity” security exploit, then TikTok isn’t telling.
Source: Gizmodo – Patched TikTok Exploit Potentially Let Attackers Take Control of User Accounts
The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is a fascinating product. Cache capacity is a specification largely ignored by enthusiasts for many years, and yet the extra 64 MB of L3 cache is what allows the 5800X3D to best its higher-clocked sibling in games. AMD’s announced Zen 4 CPUs don’t include models with 3D V-Cache, but we’ve heard before that they could come
Source: Hot Hardware – Multiple AMD Ryzen Zen 4 7000-Series 3D V-Cache SKUs Rumored For CES 2023 Debut
It might get a little crowded on the Moon’s south pole as both NASA and China are aiming to land their prospective lunar missions at the same landing sites, hoping to snag some of the limited resources of that region.
Source: Gizmodo – NASA and China Want to Land on the Same Areas on the Moon
In a perfect world, no one would need to decide whether they should watch HBO’s smash hit Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon or Prime Video’s lavish Lord of the Rings prequel, The Rings of Power. However, it is not a perfect world, and there’s no doubt in my mind that only one of these series is going to…
Source: Gizmodo – House of the Dragon or Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power—Who Ya Got?
Mismanagement, waste and lack of transparency are making the cleanup in the Niger Delta’s Ogoniland anything but exemplary, UN reports indicate. From a report: In the more than a quarter century since Shell Plc left Ogoniland in southern Nigeria, oil has continued to ooze from dormant wellheads and active pipelines, leaving the 386-square mile kingdom’s wetlands shimmering with a greasy rainbow sheen, its once-lush mangroves coated in crude, well-water smelling of benzene and farmlands charred and barren. So when the $1 billion Ogoniland cleanup began in 2019, backed by Shell’s funding pledge and support from the United Nations, it was heralded as the most ambitious initiative of its kind anywhere in the world. But now, UN Environmental Programme documents seen by Bloomberg and reported for the first time indicate that the project — far from being exemplary — is making one of the earth’s most polluted regions even dirtier.
“We had hoped that the Ogoniland cleanup process would set the standard for the cleanup that will have to take place in the Niger Delta as a whole,” said Mike Karikpo, an Ogoni attorney with Friends of the Earth International. “But we’ve not seen any impact. There ought to be some impact on the lives and livelihoods of people whose lands and rivers were impacted by this oil.” In a scathing review of the Ogoniland cleanup efforts, led by the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, or Hyprep, the UN body paints a picture of rampant mismanagement, incompetence, waste and lack of transparency. It highlights the haphazard storage of oil-soaked soil that lets chemicals seep into uncontaminated grounds and creeks, contracts awarded to firms with little environmental-cleanup experience and proposals for millions of dollars in unneeded work.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – One of World’s Most Polluted Spots Gets Worse as Billion Cleanup Drags On
We frequently write about Android malware smuggled onto the Google Play Store in the form of what appear to be legitimate apps. However, the Play Store isn’t the only Google-run app store with a malware problem. A new report by McAfee Labs identifies five extensions on the Chrome Web Store that contain malicious payloads. These malware-laden
Source: Hot Hardware – Delete These Malware-Laden Google Chrome Extensions With 1.4M Collective Downloads Now
Quantum computing is the future, and the Linux Foundation and World Bank want to help you prepare for tomorrow.
Source: LXer – Free quantum computing class for tech leaders
Japan, a country known for advancing some of the world’s most innovative and quirky tech, is preparing to launch an all out “war” against the humble floppy disk.
Source: Gizmodo – Japan’s Digital Minister ‘Declares a War’ on Floppy Disks
For as much as Pokémon has stayed the same, it’s also changed quite a bit over the years. Nintendo’s decades-long Ash Ketchum biopic (bio…game?) has stayed true to its turn-based, monster-collecting roots. But every new iteration comes with something that differentiates it from its immediate predecessor. We’ve…
Source: Kotaku – The Best And Worst Parts Of Every Mainline Pokémon Game
