The end is in sight for Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), world’s weariest and most war-torn former babysitter, and her slash-happy nemesis, Michael Myers—but first, they have to find each other again. Once they do, as this final Halloween Ends trailer teases, it could mean curtains for them both.
Source: Gizmodo – The Final Halloween Ends Trailer Promises a Fight to the Death, Or Else
Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite and Fall Guys, has unleashed another “F” into the world by adding an NFT-based video game to its online store: Fuck, are we still doing this crypto-baby thing?
Source: Kotaku – The First NFT-Based Game Out On The Epic Games Store Looks As Awful As You’re Expecting
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should investigate how data brokers including Equifax and Experian have amassed payroll records about most Americans, a small rival urged in a letter to the agency on Monday that was seen by Reuters. From the report: For decades, companies such as Equifax have acquired employee work histories and compensation data from employers to help lenders, landlords, hiring managers and other customers perform background checks of individuals. But these big databases are vulnerable to theft and error, and workers are sometimes surprised their records are included, according to privacy activists. Equifax said it follows all laws and welcomes additional voices in the industry. In the letter to the FTC, San Mateo, California-based startup Certree said that Equifax and Experian are providing financial incentives like a slice of their revenue to employers to gain exclusive access to payroll data. Equifax also has deals with payroll software vendors that help employers process paychecks. The letter describes the agreements as anticompetitive and potentially unlawful.
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Source: Slashdot – FTC Should Probe Payroll Data Deals By Brokers Like Equifax, Rival Says
Some office suites are capable of doing much more than ordinary office tasks. Learn about top open source plugins for ONLYOFFICE docs here.
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Source: Linux Today – Top 5 Open Source Plugins for ONLYOFFICE Docs
Enlarge / The Mercedes-Benz EQE sedan’s shape has been designed to create as little drag as possible.
DENVER—No one has more experience with launching new cars than Mercedes-Benz, the world’s oldest existing automaker. The company is at the start of a new phase of its existence, as it transforms into a carbon-neutral company that mostly builds electric vehicles. But it’s sticking to some tried and true strategies as it does.
So, like the smaller, cheaper E-Class that follows the S-Class sedan, the EQE sedan will arrive this fall in the US to follow last year’s bigger, more expensive EQS sedan.
Built using Mercedes’ new EVA2 platform for EVs, the EQE is obviously related to the EQS; the two cars look similar, having been optimized to the nth degree by the wind tunnel and computational fluid dynamics. It’s an evolution of the cab-forward “four-door coupe” look that the company pioneered on the CLS, but with any rough edges polished away to aid the air’s passage over and around the bodywork as efficiently as possible. Mercedes hasn’t published the EQE’s drag coefficient, but I’d be surprised if it was higher than the EQS’s remarkable 0.2, given that it rides on smaller 19-inch wheels.
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Source: Ars Technica – Dialing back the bling makes a better EV: The 2023 Mercedes EQE sedan
For many people, the dream of picking up an NVIDIA RTX 30 Series GPU was stymied by shortages and crypto hysteria over the past few years, but there’s good news: the 40 Series is just around the corner. Now that the next-gen GPUs are official, NVIDIA is talking details, including what kind of power supply you’re going to need for these new,
Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA Talks GeForce RTX 40 Series Power Requirements And Whether You Need A New PSU
Netflix has shared the trailer for its fictional Spotify series, and it appears to be just what you’d expect — for better and for worse. The preview clip portrays Spotify founder Daniel Ek (played by Vikings‘ Edvin Endre) as a revolutionary who not only wants to create a legal alternative to piracy, but hopes to reshape the entire music industry. Not surprisingly, the show pits Ek and crew against a range of enemies that include skeptical labels and wary politicians.
The six-episode miniseries premieres October 13th. Veteran Netflix movie director Per-Olav Sørensen helmed the project, while Christian Spurrier (Hunted) was the writer.
Whether or not The Playlist is entertaining, there are concerns it may paint a largely one-sided view of Spotify’s success. The trailer does acknowledge concerns about Spotify’s pay-per-play business model, but characterizes them as minor headaches — in this take, artists are simply thankful their concerts don’t end up on The Pirate Bay. There’s no talk of low or unpaid royalties in the trailer. For that matter, it’s wrong in casting legal music streaming as an entirely novel concept at the time. Rhapsody, anyone?
The tone isn’t surprising, though. There’s been a string of fictionalized movies and shows about technology companies as of late, ranging from Apple’s WeWork drama through to Showtime’s Uber production. That’s not including earlier media like The Social Network or Steve Jobs. While these titles don’t necessarily flatter their subjects, there is a tendency to portray companies as game-changers that are ultimately beneficial — the shows don’t always confront serious issues, such as struggling artists or unhappy taxi drivers.
Source: Engadget – Netflix’s Spotify series trailer portrays streaming music as a revolution
If you would like to win a very cool RTX 4090 GPU, NVIDIA and Cyberpunk 2077 are giving you the chance. The two companies are teaming up to give away a total of three RTX 4090 GPUs, along with a Cyberpunk 2077 custom backplate.
NVIDIA recently announced the upcoming launch of their high-end 40 Series GPUs. People immediately began to murmur
Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA And CPDR Are Giving Away Cyberpunk 2077 Themed GeForce RTX 4090 GPUs, How To Enter
Cyberpunk 2077’s launch has been one of the messiest in recent history. Praised in many initial reviews on PC, so broken on last-gen consoles it was pulled from the PlayStation Store, and then saddled with post-launch delays as players waited for promised fixes and new content. Now, nearly two years later, the…
Source: Kotaku – Cyberpunk 2077 Dev On The Million-Player Revival: ‘It’s F****** Good To Be Back’
Amazon is serving up several genuine Xbox controllers at deep discounts right now, with savings up of to 27 percent off their respective MSRPs. These are some of the lowest prices we’ve seen to date, save for last year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals bonanza when they sold for a few bucks less. You could choose to wait for this year’s
Source: Hot Hardware – Official Xbox Wireless Game Controllers Are Up To 27 Percent Off With These HOT Deals
If you’ve noticed an underperforming investment in your portfolio, you might have a silver lining available to you: tax-loss harvesting. This strategy allows you to offset taxable capital gains with your capital losses. Through this process, you can reduce your tax bill and improve your overall portfolio going…
Source: LifeHacker – What Is Tax-Loss Harvesting (and Who Does It Benefit)?
Are you a FIFA fan? Are you also a little baby-human who sometimes just doesn’t want to hear it? Then does EA have the new feature for you! FIFA 23, out for pre-orderers today, will let you turn off commentary that’s critical of how you’re playing. Alternative idea: play better?
Source: Kotaku – FIFA 23 Has Option Where Game Won’t Tell You How Bad You Are
Alex Mashinsky — chief executive and cofounder of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network — is stepping down. From a report: Mr. Mashinsky submitted his letter of resignation to the Special Committee of the Board of Directors on Tuesday, according to Mr. Mashinsky’s law firm “I regret that my continued role as CEO has become an increasing distraction, and I am very sorry about the difficult financial circumstances members of our community are facing,” Mr. Mashinsky said in his resignation letter.
Mr. Mashinsky launched Celsius in 2017 with two partners, often pitching it as a safer and better alternative than traditional banks. Celsius had the same basic model as a consumer bank — such as taking deposits and making loans — though it paid far more on deposits than a federally regulated bank. In less than five years, Celsius grew into one of the biggest crypto lenders, with more than $20 billion in assets at its peak, the company said last year. That all changed when cryptocurrency started plunging this year. In June, Celsius paused all withdrawals and filed for bankruptcy in July, saying that it owed customers nearly $4.7 billion in crypto.
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Source: Slashdot – Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky Steps Down
Magento is a very well-known e-commerce platform and highly customizable application. It offers open-source and commercial versions to help developers build eCommerce websites.
Source: LXer – How to Install Magento 2.4 on Debian 11
The 2022-23 NBA season is right around the corner and the league is stealing a march on opening night with a redesign of its iOS and Android app. The new version places a lot of focus on vertical videos, which fits right in with the modern age of social media.
For one thing, it rips a page right out of the TikTok playbook with a vertically scrolling For You feed, which will feature real-time highlights from ongoing games. The page will be personalized with the help of Microsoft Azure and Azure AI (Microsoft is the NBA’s cloud and AI partner) and feature recommended content that’s based on fan preferences.
In addition, the league has integrated its subscription services, NBA League Pass and NBA TV, into the app. It says NBA League Pass members will have access to live streams of out-of-market games with higher video quality and lower streaming latency. Subscribers will be able to watch games with alternate camera angles, check out betting-focused versions of streams and try analytics-driven options. There will be Spanish, Portuguese and Korean commentary feeds too.
Alongside the relaunch of the app, the NBA has lowered the price of League Pass subscriptions for a limited time. The standard package is currently $15 per month or $100 for the season, and $20 per month or $130 for the entire season if you opt for the premium package. The bundle includes access to NBA TV.
Elsewhere on the content front, the app will feature streams from pre- and post-game press conferences and media days, teams’ pregame shows for League Pass games and a show centered about NBA culture and lifestyle. There will also be weekly shows focused on highlights and betting. International pre-season games in Japan and Abu Dhabi will stream live on the app as well.
You’ll have access to several docuseries, including a seven-episode one called Gold Blooded that focuses on the Golden State Warriors’ run to the 2022 title. The first episode is on the app now. In Pass The Rock, which will debut in late November, you’ll gain some insight into the NBA’s hottest new stars, on and off the court. There will be archival content too, including documentaries, 500 classic games and every Finals game since 2000.
On top of all that, the league is introducing a free membership program called NBA ID, which can be linked to a NBA League Pass subscription. NBA ID will offer benefits and rewards including original content and material from the league’s vault. Members will also gain access to exclusive experiences from NBA partners, ticket deals, prizes from NBA Pick’Em fantasy games and more.
Source: Engadget – The NBA redesigned its app for the TikTok era
NASA’s DART mission to ram a kinetic impactor into a harmless asteroid went perfectly yesterday, resulting in the desired destruction of the spacecraft. And as views from Earth showed, the effects of the impact weren’t subtle.
Source: Gizmodo – Ground Telescopes Capture Jaw-Dropping Views of DART Asteroid Impact
In this guide, we will cover how to install Docker on AlmaLinux 9 step-by-step. Docker is a free and open-source containerization tool.
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Source: Linux Today – How to Install Docker on AlmaLinux 9 Step-by-Step
Paleontologists have discovered a bizarre worm-like creature from the Cambrian Period that has features associated with three groups of living animals. Just a half-inch long and covered in bristles, the armored Wufengella is providing clues as to how ancient filter-feeders evolved.
Source: Gizmodo – 500-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Worm Covered in Bristles
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is urging consumers to check their pantries, refrigerators, and freezers to see whether they contain any of the roughly 87,00 pounds of various ready-to-eat meat products that may be contaminated with harmful bacteria.
Source: LifeHacker – Throw Out This Bacon, Sausage, and Other Meat, Department of Agriculture Says
