YouTube users reported the app on iPhones and iPads went down today at about 12:30 p.m., with many saying it repeatedly crashes when they try to open a video. More than 7,500 users reported issues with the app on DownDetector by 3 p.m. and 75 percent of complaints said the issues were with the app itself.
Source: Gizmodo – YouTube App Down on iOS Devices
“But Zak,” you cry, “there is no GeForce RTX 4070 Ti!” Not yet, there’s not, but all information indicates that that’s the name NVIDIA will use when it re-launches the un-launched GeForce RTX 4080 12GB. We’ve seen both rumors and leaks under that name, but what we hadn’t seen until now was the GPU that goes on those cards. Well, you’re looking
Source: Hot Hardware – GeForce RTX 4070 Ti’s AD104 GPU Strips Naked And Cleans Up For A Glamour Shot
So much for giggling at robots falling down. Researchers at the University of Lorraine have developed a “Damage Reflex” system (aka D-Reflex) that has a humanoid TALOS robot prop itself against a wall when one of its legs is broken, much like a human who just lost their balance. The neural network-based system uses its experience (in this case, 882,000 training simulations) to quickly find a point on the wall most likely to provide stability. The robot doesn’t need to know how it was damaged, and can reach out roughly as quickly as a person.
The result, as IEEE Spectrumnotes, is the anti-comedy you’d expect. Instead of a tumble to the ground, the robot braces itself against the wall like someone who just sprained their ankle. It’s not particularly graceful and requires that the robot stops its hand the moment it makes contact, but it’s effective in three out of four tests.
D-Reflex isn’t guaranteed to prevent a fall, if partly because it can’t account for every possible position or surface. It also doesn’t help the robot recover once it averts catastrophe — you won’t see the automaton limping along a wall until it finds help. The current approach is also based around a stationary bot, and won’t help if an actuator fails mid-stride.
Researchers hope to make a system that’s useful on the move, however, and envision robots that can grab chairs and other complex objects when a fall is imminent. This could save the cost of replacing worker robots that would otherwise plunge to their doom, and might lead to more ‘natural’ bots that learn to use their environments to their advantage. One thing’s for sure: if the robopocalypse happens, tripping the machines won’t stop them for long.
Source: Engadget – Robots are learning to brace themselves against walls to avoid falling
The cards of Magic: The Gathering have spent decades bringing horrifying monsters, incredible vistas, and mystical spells to vivid life, earning the game a veritable gallery rich with fantasy art. But now, the legendary card game is going to celebrate another equally legendary body of artwork.
Source: Gizmodo – The Legendary Artwork of Frank Frazetta Is Coming to Magic: The Gathering
Three Native American communities are receiving millions of dollars from the federal government to relocate due to climate change-related risks to their homes, the U.S. Department of the Interior said in an announcement today.
Source: Gizmodo – U.S. Government Will Pay to Move Native Tribes Whose Lands Are Threatened by Climate Change
Enlarge / Jaguar’s latest factory racing car is the I Type 6, its latest Formula E challenger. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin)
LONDON—On Wednesday, Jaguar Racing became the latest Formula E team to unveil its race car for the coming season. The sport has radical new technical rules for its third-generation race car, which is smaller, lighter, more powerful, and more efficient. This will be the British automaker’s sixth season competing in the series, and its participation is for more than just marketing; Jaguar Land Rover’s electrified road cars have benefited in tangible ways as a result, according to the team’s technical manager Phil Charles.
“If you rewind back to 2017, that’s the first time that [we used] our in-house inverter for the racing team,” Charles told Ars. “We put a silicon carbide switching device, the Wolfspeed one actually… that gave us the ability to switch super fast. That was the push on our side—we want to switch faster and see if that can give us efficiency, which it did. So we’ve gotten over and over and over during these inverter development cycles, switching faster and faster and faster,” he said.
At the time, few manufacturers looked at silicon carbide power electronics for road-going EVs. “Now everyone wants silicon carbide, and the reason they want it is the same reasons we do,” Charles said. “So the tech that we pushed then has really caught up now—the race to road is really clear. If I kind of map our switching speed increase, we’ve done five evolutions with different topologies of the in-house inverter. Now the road cars are coming along and the benefit there is range, ultimately; it means smaller batteries.”
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Source: Ars Technica – How Jaguar uses Formula E to make better road EVs
Have you ever seen a car commercial on TV and wondered where those big red bows come from? You’re not the only one—Capital One Bank even assembled an entire fact sheet about them. As silly and over-the-top as it is, there’s no denying that a car with a huge bow on it offers a certain sort of appeal. If it is an appeal…
Source: LifeHacker – Those Big Red Bows From Car Commercials are Real and You Can Buy One
Proxmox Backup Server is a free, open-source enterprise backup solution to back up and restore virtual machines, containers, and physical hosts following the client-server model. The new release is based on Debian 11.5 and adds namespace-aware prune jobs and offline mirroring capabilities.
Source: LXer – Proxmox Backup Server 2.3 Brings Essential Enhancements
The Vatican shut down its official website on Wednesday in the aftermath of an apparent cyberattck disabled the site and returned a 404 error message to online supplicants. The Holy See said it suspects hackers are to blame.
Source: Gizmodo – The Pope’s Website Is Down After a Suspected Hack
UK’s Ofcom hired former Google executive Gill Whitehead to head up a team regulating search engines and social media firms, the latest in a string of Silicon Valley appointments as the watchdog prepares to impose sweeping new online safety laws. From a report: Whitehead, formerly Google’s senior director of client solutions and analytics, will work alongside Ofcom Chief Technology Officer Sachin Jogia and online safety lead Jessica Zucker. Jogia and Zucker were was previously executives at Amazon.com and Meta Platforms respectively. Ofcom’s top hires over the past 18 months underscore a pivot in its role from an auditor of the airwaves and postal service to one increasingly concerned with the internet and Big Tech.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – UK Internet Watchdog Increasingly Led by Ex-Big Tech Executives
OnePlus? More like plus one more Android update! Beginning next year, OnePlus says it will offer an additional year of OxygenOS updates to its smartphones, which beats out Google’s current offering of only three years for its Pixel phones.
Source: Gizmodo – OnePlus Attempts to One-Up Google By Committing to Four Years of Android Software Updates
Google is working to fix an issue that is causing the YouTube mobile app to repeatedly crash for some iOS users. “Hi, we’re aware that many of you using the YouTube app on iOS devices may be experiencing crashes,” the company said in a tweet caught by The Verge. “We’re so sorry about this & have begun working on a fix! Updates soon.”
hi, we’re aware that many of you using the YouTube app on iOS devices may be experiencing crashes
we’re so sorry about this & have begun working on a fix! updates soon🔍
— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) November 30, 2022
As of the writing of this article, YouTube has yet to share more information on the situation. Google did not immediately respond to a comment request from Engadget. We’ll update this article once there’s more information to share. It’s unclear how widespread the problem is among iOS users. On my iPhone, I was able to watch this incredible video of the Artemis 1 launch synced to “Free Bird” without issue during my lunch break. However, Downdetector indicates there have been more than 7,500 reports in the US of the app not working.
Source: Engadget – YouTube is repeatedly crashing for some iOS users but a fix is on the way
While several X.Org DDX drivers in the past have implemented a “TearFree” xorg.conf driver option to try to eliminate screen tearing when running an X.Org Server without a composited environment, the xf86-video-modesetting generic DDX that is widely used has lacked that option. That is until a developer finally stepped up and has pending support for the “TearFree” option…
Source: Phoronix – xf86-video-modesetting X.Org Driver Sees Patch For “TearFree” Page Flipping
A privacy-invading ATM, the latest project from MSCHF, is making waves at Art Basel Miami Beach. The Brooklyn-based art collective has brought the ATM Leaderboard to a VIP event where people can access their bank account balance which is then displayed in a ranking board overhead.
Source: Gizmodo – MSCHF’s Latest Project Is an ATM That Broadcasts Your Account Balance
At least they aren’t going to Sauron it. Willow, the Disney+ series that’s the long-awaited follow-up to the 1988 George Lucas/Ron Howard film, is finally here and during the first episode, a mystery emerged. One fans have been thinking about for decades. What happened to Elora Danon?
Source: Gizmodo – Willow Is Here With an Epic, Revealing 2-Episode Premiere
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A European regulator today reportedly threatened Elon Musk with a continent-wide ban on Twitter if the company fails to enforce content moderation rules required by the Digital Services Act. Also today, Twitter claimed it hasn’t changed any policies—even though it stopped enforcing rules against COVID misinformation.
“As we carry out this work, we want to assure you of a few things: First, none of our policies have changed,” Twitter wrote in a blog post titled, “Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conversation.”
Twitter made this claim just a week after the major reversal in how it handles COVID misinformation. “Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy,” Twitter said. We wrote about the change yesterday.
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Source: Ars Technica – EU threatens Musk with Twitter ban as firm defends new approach to moderation
Sony’s December free games for PlayStation Plus Essential include Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. Subscribers can play remastered versions of the classic trilogy at no extra charge. The collection, released in May 2021, includes Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 with modernized 4K graphics and tighter gameplay.
Developer BioWare saved the biggest upgrades for the 15-year-old original. While the non-remastered version is nearly unplayable by modern standards, the remaster is friendlier for modern gamers with more consistent weapon accuracy, tighter camera controls, a dedicated melee button and snappier combat. BioWare also tweaked its handling of the trilogy’s endings, ditching the original approach that required a separate app download to get the best finale. In the new version, your final outcome is based exclusively on your decisions across all three titles.
Other free PS Plus Essential games for December include third-person platform fighter Divine Knockout: Founder’s Edition and open-world RPG Biomutant. In addition to new free games added each month (yours to keep as long as you remain subscribed), PlayStation Plus Essential gives you access to online matchmaking in paid titles. The service costs $9.99 per month or $59.99 per year. It replaced the standard PS Plus earlier this year, when Sony added more expensive Extra and Premium tiers to compete with Xbox Game Pass.
Source: Engadget – ‘Mass Effect: Legendary Edition’ is free for all PS Plus subscribers in December
Attack on Titan creator Hajime Iseyama was nervous about his first-ever appearance at Anime NYC a few weeks ago. The source of his nervousness wasn’t the fact that it would mark his first time stepping foot in the United States, but rather the backlash he feared he’d receive from the crowd following the popular…
Source: Kotaku – Anime Fans Still Love Attack On Titan Creator Despite The Series’ Ending
With the increase in IT job openings, many are enticed to dive into the industry. Check out the most in-demand skills organizations are looking for when hiring for IT.
The post 10 Most In-Demand IT Skills to Master This Year appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – 10 Most In-Demand IT Skills to Master This Year
On Monday, Elon Musk picked a public fight with Apple, accusing the company of freezing its advertising on Twitter and wondering aloud if the alleged pause was because “they hate free speech in America.” In fact, Apple spent $84,615 on Twitter ads that very same day, according to data from Pathmatics, a digital ad…
Source: Gizmodo – Apple Spent ,000 on Twitter Ads the Same Day Elon Tweeted It ‘Mostly Stopped’ Advertising There, New Data Shows
