In-flight Wi-Fi is a modern marvel: Connectivity beamed to your device mid-air, while you barrel through the atmosphere at hundreds of miles per hour. Unfortunately, it also often stinks. Service is frequently slow, breaks down, or never even gets started. And you can even end up shelling out money for Wi-Fi that…
Source: Gizmodo – Refunds for Crappy In-Flight Wi-Fi and Other Airline Consumer Protections Could Be Coming Soon
Meta is testing two features that integrate Facebook and Instagram more closely together. On Monday, the company began rolling out a new interface on Android, iOS and on the web for switching between accounts. Provided you’ve added your Facebook and Instagram credentials to the same Accounts Center, you can use the feature to switch between the two apps without navigating to your phone’s home screen, multitasking menu or app drawer. The interface also allows you to see a count of all your notifications in one place.
At the same time, Meta is introducing a redesigned login and onboarding experience on Android and iOS. If you’re new to the company’s social networks, you can create one account and then use it to create additional ones. For those who already have both Facebook and Instagram accounts, it’s now possible to use the login information associated with one app to access the other – though you first need to add them to the same Accounts Center.
Meta will notify you every time you use an existing account to create a new one or you add an account to the Accounts Center. Additionally, security features like two-factor authentication will still work, preventing, for instance, someone from using your Instagram credentials to access your Facebook account.
While the new features are “currently limited to Facebook and Instagram,” Meta notes it will “continue to explore how to improve connected experiences across all of our technologies.” They arrive following the debut of Meta accounts in August and a recent downturn in both revenue and user growth for the company.
Source: Engadget – Meta tests easier account switching between Facebook and Instagram
As we covered in our review of AMD’s Ryzen 7000-series processors, the new Zen 4-based chips have integrated graphics! That means no more having to grab an old clunker off the rack just to have working display connections. However, if you have read our review, you’ll know that the performance of the integrated GPU is, well—let’s say “uninspiring.”
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Source: Hot Hardware – It Won’t Run Warzone, But AMD’s Ryzen Zen 4 iGPU Can Power These Games With Ease
Hmm, how to put this… I want to tell you about Book of Evil, an upcoming horror comic by The Batman Who Laughs writer Scott Snyder and artist Jock, and I want to do that by not telling you about it. Instead, I’d like to highly recommend that you scroll down and read io9’s exclusive nine-page preview of the Comixology
Source: Gizmodo – Check Out Book of Evil, Scott Snyder and Jock’s Aptly Titled New Comic
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The annual gaming expo once known as E3 is finally crawling toward a rebirth as a physical event. While information about the next iteration of E3 remains scarce, this week’s big news suggests a crucial change in how the decades-old event will work: a split between audience types.
The expo’s new showrunners at ReedPOP, an agency responsible for regional gaming and comic expos like PAX, EGX, and Star Wars Celebration, confirmed on Monday that E3 2023 has locked down its location and date range. Both should sound familiar to E3 fans: a week-long span in mid-June (specifically, June 13–16) at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
This time around, E3 will better resemble overseas game-industry showcases like Gamescom and Tokyo Games Show. The event’s first two days, dubbed “E3 Business Days,” will exclusively host “registered industry personnel,” which ReedPOP says will include game makers, distributors, licensors, and members of the press. E3 2023’s third day will function as a hybrid industry/public day, and the fourth will be exclusively open to public ticket purchases. During this two-day span of “E3 Gamer Days,” the event will host a theater full of “deep-dive looks at highly anticipated titles.”
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Source: Ars Technica – E3 2023 locks down venue, schedule—and confirms new fan-friendly twist
Beijing’s long-distance bus drivers have been told to wear electronic wristbands that use emotion-sensing technology to monitor their state of mind. From a report: The move was initiated by the state-run Beijing Public Transport Holding Group, which says it is aimed at protecting public safety. But legal experts have raised privacy concerns and say the wristbands could cause bus drivers undue distress and potentially lead to discrimination. Some 1,800 wristbands were distributed to bus drivers on cross-province and highway routes on Wednesday, the official Beijing Daily reported. It is unclear how many drivers will be required to wear the devices. The report said they would be used to monitor the drivers’ vital signs and emotional state in real time to improve safety.
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Source: Slashdot – Beijing Bus Drivers Have Been Told To Wear Wristbands To Monitor Their Emotions
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The Ukrainian government on Monday warned that the Kremlin is planning to carry out “massive cyberattacks” targeting power grids and other critical infrastructure in Ukraine and in the territories of its allies.
“By the cyberattacks, the enemy will try to increase the effect of missile strikes on electricity supply facilities, primarily in the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine,” an advisory warned. “The occupying command is convinced that this will slow down the offensive operations of the Ukrainian Defence Forces.”
Monday’s advisory alluded to two cyberattacks the Russian government carried out—first in 2015 and then almost exactly one year later—that deliberately left Ukrainians without power during one of the coldest months of the year. The attacks were seen as a proof-of-concept and test ground of sorts for disrupting Ukraine’s power supply.
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Source: Ars Technica – Russia plans “massive cyberattacks” on critical infrastructure, Ukraine warns
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In the world of renewables, lithium-ion batteries are storage kings, making up around 70 percent of electric vehicle (EV) and 90 percent of grid batteries around the globe. As such, they’re becoming increasingly important in a world that’s trying to reduce its carbon emissions by electrifying homes, cars, and more. (Not that mining for lithium or the various rare earth metals in battery production is carbon-free.)
However, there are some problems with lithium-ion batteries, according to a recent Atlantic Council report. For one, existing supply chains for the minerals used for batteries are likely to be pushed to their limits as the world transitions to renewable energy.
But there are also geopolitical factors that could disrupt these supply chains. For instance, many of the minerals tied to the production of these batteries are either obtained or processed in Russia and China. For the United States, this might mean that the security of the supply chains for these batteries is put at risk by geopolitical conflicts. For instance, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine saw the price of nickel—a core component in EV batteries—skyrocket.
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Source: Ars Technica – Report pushes ‘big-tent’ approach for the future of batteries
System 76 is skipping the Pop!_OS 22.10 release in October to focus time and development effort on the new Rust-based COSMIC DE.
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Source: Linux Today – Pop!_OS 22.10 is Not Under Development to Focus on Rust-based COSMIC
Washing machines—is there anything they can’t do? Just kidding: There are plenty of things you shouldn’t wash in your machine. Plus, the machine itself has to be washed, which is tedious. Still, there are some surprising uses for yours, even if it’s not usable for every situation. Here are a few ways you should be…
Source: LifeHacker – 9 Things You’re Not Cleaning in Your Washing Machine (but Should Be)
With Hurricane Ian threatening the Florida peninsula, NASA has opted to transport its 321-foot-tall Space Launch System to the Vehicle Assembly Building where the Artemis rocket and Orion spacecraft will be safe from potentially damaging winds.
Source: Gizmodo – NASA’s Megarocket Heads for Shelter as Hurricane Ian Approaches
Parts of Canada’s Atlantic coast are reeling after being battered by one of the most powerful storms to hit the country in history. Post-tropical cyclone Fiona swept through the province of Nova Scotia and parts of New Brunswick this weekend, killing at least one person and causing homes to collapse and widespread…
Source: Gizmodo – Hurricane Fiona Rips Apart Canada’s East Coast
Following one of the biggest data breaches in Australian history, the government of Australia is planning to get stricter on requirements for disclosure of cyber attacks. From a report: On Monday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Australian radio station 4BC that the government intended to overhaul privacy legislation so that any company suffering a data breach was required to share details with banks about customers who had potentially been affected in an effort to minimize fraud. Under current Australian privacy legislation, companies are prevented from sharing such details about their customers with third parties.
The policy announcement was made in the wake of a huge data breach last week, which affected Australia’s second-largest telecom company, Optus. Hackers managed to access a vast amount of potentially sensitive information on up to 9.8 million Optus customers — close to 40 percent of the Australian population. Leaked data included name, date of birth, address, contact information, and in some cases, driver’s license or passport ID numbers. Reporting from ABC News Australia suggested the breach may have resulted from an improperly secured API that Optus developed to comply with regulations around providing users multifactor authentication options.
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Source: Slashdot – Australia To Overhaul Privacy Laws After Massive Data Breach
Magic: The Gathering is arguably weirder than it ever has been, whether it’s in its epic tales of spell-slinging Planeswakers in its primary card sets or its crossovers with everything from Street Fighter and Fortnite to Warhammer 40K and Lord of the Rings. But the series is often at its weirdest not when playing with…
Source: Gizmodo – How Magic: The Gathering Crafts Its Zaniest Sets
Cheesecake is the kind of dessert that requires you to fully commit well before you flick on the oven. It takes a lot of time, specific tools, and an unholy amount of cream cheese. Providing everything goes right, removing a sloshing tray of 350-degree water along with a three-pound cheesecake is rarely a pretty…
Source: LifeHacker – Make Your Next Cheesecake in an Air Fryer
Caddy is an open-source, fast, cross-platform web server written in Go, best known for its automatic HTTPS features. It is designed to be simple, easy to use, and secure. Caddy 2.6 has enabled HTTP/3 by default, virtualizes the file system, and increases the performance of static files and FastCGI.
Source: LXer – Caddy 2.6 Web Server Brings HTTP/3 Support by Default
Jupiter will appear larger and brighter than usual Monday night, as it makes its closest approach to Earth since 1963.
Source: Gizmodo – Look at Jupiter With Binoculars Tonight
Storied NSA whistleblower turned cybersecurity activist has a new credential to add to his name: Russian citizen.
Source: Gizmodo – Putin Just Made Edward Snowden a Russian Citizen
The British pound on Monday briefly hit a record low against the dollar, extending losses after Britain’s new government on Friday announced a sweeping economic overhaul centered around tax cuts and deregulation. Citibank called the move a “huge, unfunded gamble for the U.K. economy.” From a report: The pound slumped as low at $1.035 on Monday, breaking the 1985 record, and although it bounced up from those depths it remains down about 19 percent this year. The pound has also fallen against the euro, although not by as much. In other markets, yields on British government bonds hit multiyear highs, meaning that borrowing costs are rising steeply as the government prepares to issue more debt to pay for subsidies on energy bills and other policies.
What does the weaker pound mean for the British economy? The drop in the pound poses concerns, since a weaker currency makes imports more expensive. It also makes it more expensive for Britons to travel abroad, since their money doesn’t go as far as it did before. British companies, many of which rely on materials imported from other countries, may raise prices to compensate for their higher costs — putting pressure on inflation, which is already running near 40-year highs. […] People and companies abroad buying goods and services from Britain could benefit from cheaper prices. And businesses in Britain that generate revenue elsewhere will earn more when that money is converted back into pounds. For Americans and others spending dollars or euros while traveling to Britain, their trips will be more affordable than they would have been even a few months ago. Further reading: Fed official warns UK tax cuts increase risk of global recession.
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Source: Slashdot – Why a Weak British Pound Matters
