Most Linux distributions come with Python 2 versions by default. But as the developer community shifts to supporting Python 3 versions, it may be time to update your system. Here’s how.
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Source: Linux Today – How to Install Latest Python Version in Linux
CVE-2022-4139 was made public today as an i915 kernel graphics driver security issue affecting all Gen12 graphics — from integrated Tigerlake graphics up through the latest Raptor Lake graphics as well as the in-development Meteor Lake code plus the discrete GPUs of DG2/Alchemist and Arctic Sound…
Source: Phoronix – Intel Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Patched For New Security Sensitive Bug
I devoured C.L. Clark’s The Unbroken last year—it was part of the sapphic trifecta that came out in 2021, which also included The Jasmine Throne (Tasha Suri) and She Who Became the Sun (Shelley Parker-Chan). So I am thrilled to be able to reveal not only the cover for the second book in the Magic of the Lost Trilogy,…
Source: Gizmodo – The Faithless Cover is Giving Big Lesbian Energy
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has signed an executive order officially banning the social media app TikTok from state-owned devices that can access the internet, like phones and laptops. The move comes as concerns over the platform’s alleged infringement on national security grows.
Source: Gizmodo – South Dakota Bans TikTok From State Government Phones
Front Mission is an excellent strategy RPG series that deserves to make a comeback. It’s Final Fantasy Tactics’ grittier, grimier, futuristic cousin that swaps out swords and magic wands for submachine guns and giant, half-obliterated mechs slugging it out in a jungle ditch. Some of that charm comes through in Front…
Source: Kotaku – Front Mission 1st: Remake Isn’t The Reimaged Mech Shootout I Hoped For
The deals continue, with incredible savings on robot vacs, WiFi routers, headphones, and more. Be sure to take advantage of all the great savings to finish up your holiday shopping list.
The Eufy Robot Vac is a highly-rated robot vacuum cleaner that comes complete with WiFi, 1500Pa suction, and boundary strips. This super quiet vacuum is
Source: Hot Hardware – Cyber Week Deals Roll With 50% Off A Great Robot Vac, 51% Off Sony Headphones And More
Enlarge / The Hakuto-R spacecraft is encapsulated in a Falcon 9 fairing. (credit: ispace)
It has been a busy second half of the year for the Moon. Since late June, three US rockets have launched payloads to the Moon, and one more is set for early Friday morning.
Across these four launches—two on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, one on Rocket Lab’s Electron, and one on NASA’s Space Launch System—there have been a total of 15 spacecraft sent to fly by the Moon, enter orbit, or land there. The most notable of these, of course, is NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which is due to return to Earth on December 11.
This represents a remarkable renaissance in lunar exploration. Consider that, from 1973 to 2022, NASA and the United States sent a total of 15 spacecraft to the Moon over a period of five decades. Now, thanks to a mix of commercial, academic, and government payloads, US rockets will launch 15 spacecraft to the Moon in about five months.
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Source: Ars Technica – SpaceX set to launch two spacecraft to the Moon tonight
Chinese officials will begin cracking down on internet users liking social media posts that are deemed illegal or harmful amidst nationwide protests against China’s zero-Covid policy.
Source: Gizmodo – China Cracks Down on Liking Posts About Zero Covid Protests
Yesterday, SpaceX performed a static fire test of a prototype booster in which 11 of its 33 Raptor engines were briefly engaged. The private company could very well be on target to launch the fully stacked Starship system next month.
Source: Gizmodo – Latest Test of Gigantic Starship Booster Takes SpaceX Closer to Launch
Enlarge / A massive Smash Bros. mural from a trade show.
The organizers of a major Super Smash Bros. tournament series, the Smash World Tour, say that Nintendo has denied their request for an official license, cutting off months of negotiations “without any warning.” The decision has led to the cancellation of next year’s season and next month’s 2022 Smash World Tour Championships, though Nintendo now says that it “did not request” any changes for the championship. Either way, it’s an abrupt end for a massive tour that attracted 325,000 entrants across thousands of events in 2022, according to organizers.
“We are incredibly devastated that any of this happened, and given the trajectory of Nintendo, we were truly hopeful that significant, positive change was inbound,” Smash World Tour organizers said in a lengthy open letter detailing the factors that led to the cancellation. “However, the way the last few weeks have unfolded, we are extremely worried that all of that progress has been abruptly reversed.”
As we’ve discussed in the past, US copyright law gives Nintendo the right to shut down any and all Smash Bros. tournaments, which qualify as “public performances” of one of the company’s games. Nintendo has exercised this right a few times in the past, usually to shut down tournaments that use “unauthorized” mods for the base Smash Bros. games.
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Source: Ars Technica – Nintendo tells Smash World Tour it can no longer operate unlicensed tournaments
Benchmark results which appear to be from a system packing an Apple M2 Max processor have appeared online. The Geekbench online result browser indicates that someone put an M2 Max powered system through its paces in Geekbench 5.4.0 Tryout for MacOS AArch64 earlier today. It scored a very credible 1853 and 13855 in the single-core (1T) and
Source: Hot Hardware – Apple M2 Max Specs And Performance Revealed In Leaked Benchmarks
Honda’s big electrification push will include US-oriented hydrogen fuel cell cars. The automaker has revealed that it will begin US production of fuel cell vehicles in 2024. The first model will be a plug-in hybrid based on the current-generation CR-V (pictured here). You’ll theoretically have pure electric driving for your daily commute, but still get zero-emissions driving for longer city-to-city jaunts.
More details of the hydrogen-powered CR-V will be revealed sometime closer to its 2024 launch, Honda says. It’s only willing to offer a peek at the power plant (below). The existing CR-V is available as a conventional hybrid with a gas engine and no plug-in feature.
The new model is part of a larger Honda strategy to completely drop combustion engine vehicles by 2040 using a mix of pure EVs and fuel cell cars. On top of the hydrogen CR-V, Americans can also expect the fully electric Prologue SUV in 2024. The brand already sells the electric Honda E subcompact, but not in the US. Honda aims to be carbon neutral by 2050.
Whether or not there’s a market for the fuel cell SUV is uncertain. Hydrogen cars haven’t gained much traction in the US compared to their all-electric counterparts, due partly to high prices and a lack of filling stations. Honda axed the fuel cell-based Clarity sedan in 2021, reportedly in response to weak demand for the $71,200 machine. There’s no guarantee customers will be more welcoming in 2024, particularly as EVs become more affordable and offer improved range.
Source: Engadget – Honda will start US production of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in 2024
The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) recent petitioned for and has been approved to deploy robots that can utilize deadly force under specific circumstances. This announcement has quite obviously created a lot of chatter, especially in the San Francisco community.
On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors gave SFPD the green
Source: Hot Hardware – San Francisco Greenlights Police Proposal To Grant Robots A Deadly Force Option
By now, you probably know how buggy Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are. At this point, the glitches and issues are more features than bugs. Most of the games’ quirks seem to range from harmless to game-breaking, but there are some newly-discovered ones you can use for your benefit…specifically to duplicate items and…
Source: LifeHacker – These Glitches Let You Cheat in ‘Pokémon Scarlet’ and ‘Violet’
An excellent way to breathe new life into our favorite classics is to update the visuals. Whether that’s a complete remake or just some high resolution textures, these updated graphics usually awe us and in many cases it makes those games we love feel like new again. Well, Valve’s 2007 award winning first-person puzzle game, Portal, is receiving
Source: Hot Hardware – Portal With RTX Trailer Shows Off Stunning Ray Tracing Effects But You’ll Need A Burly GPU
hondo77 writes: Two years ago, Disney Research Studios developed AI-powered tools that could generate face swap videos with enough quality and resolution to be used for professional filmmaking (instead of as questionably low-res GIFs shared around the internet). This year, the researchers are demonstrating a new tool that leverages AI tricks to make actors look older or younger, minus the weeks of work usually needed to perfect those kinds of shots.
Using neural networks and machine learning to age or de-age a person has already been tried, and while the results are convincing enough when applied to still images, they hadn’t produce photorealistic results on moving video, with temporal artifacts that appear and disappear from frame to frame, and the person’s appearance occasionally becoming unrecognizable as the altered video plays. To make an age-altering AI tool that was ready for the demands of Hollywood and flexible enough to work on moving footage or shots where an actor isn’t always looking directly at the camera, Disney’s researchers, as detailed in a recently published paper, first created a database of thousands of randomly generated synthetic faces. Existing machine learning aging tools were then used to age and de-age these thousands of non-existent test subjects, and those results were then used to train a new neural network called FRAN (face re-aging network).
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Disney Made a Movie Quality AI Tool That Automatically Makes Actors Look Younger or Older
Different languages provide different controls, and in Lua, there’s the while loop, for loop, and repeat until loop. This article covers for loops. I will cover while and repeat until loops in a separate article…
Source: LXer – Get to know Lua for loops in 4 minutes
When the original Uncharted game debuted in 2007, an IGN reviewer called it a “rollercoaster adventure.” Fast forward 16 years and you’ll be able to experience Uncharted as a literal thrill ride at a theme park. Spanish resort PortAventura World has signed a deal with Sony to build a rollercoaster based on the Uncharted movie, which is an adaptation of Naughty Dog’s games. The ride is slated to open at the theme park, which is around an hour and a half away from Barcelona, in mid-2023.
The rollercoaster will take the park’s visitors on “a dangerous search for one of the greatest treasures ever found,” PortAventura said. With a budget of over €25 million ($25.7 million) behind it, the Uncharted ride will have an immersive pre-show that’s said to be full of surprises. The rollercoaster will be almost 700 meters long and reach a height of over 12 meters. At least some parts of the so-called dark ride will be enclosed, and likely feature animations or video projections, special effects and Nathan Drake saying “No, no, no!” way too many times.
Although it had a lukewarm reaction from critics, Uncharted performed fairly well at the box office, pulling in just under $402 million to become the fifth highest-grossing film based on a video game. Sony is turning many of its other PlayStation properties into movies and TV shows, including The Last of Us, Horizon, God of War and Ghost of Tsushima. Perhaps some of those will end up becoming theme park rides too — though a Last of Us rollercoaster might be a little too thrilling for some folks.
Source: Engadget – Uncharted: The Movie: The Rollercoaster is coming to a Spanish theme park
With so, so many planets in Starfield, Bethesda’s upcoming space sim game, there’s a lot of room for speculation ahead of its release on Xbox and PC next year. But the time for guessing games is coming to an end. Inspired by fictional themes and “tone” moreso than hardcore realism, the game aims to preserve fun while…
Source: Kotaku – Starfield, Bethesda’s Next Big RPG, Has Survival Elements Without All The Stress
