A month after launch, some analysts are already raising a panic about PlayStation VR2 headset sales. Bloomberg reports that the PS5 accessories are projected to have sold less than 300,000 units in the first month, renewing calls to slash the high-end $550 price tag.
Source: Kotaku – PS VR2 Headset Sales Sound Like They’re Off To A Really Rough Start
Wildfly is an application runtime used to build Java applications. Here’s how to install Wildfly with Nginx as a reverse proxy on Ubuntu 22.04.
The post How to Install WildFly With Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04 appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – How to Install WildFly With Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04
I asked the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT to generate an entertaining introductory paragraph for a blog post about AI hallucinations, and here’s what it wrote:
Source: LifeHacker – How to Tell When an Artificial Intelligence Is ‘Hallucinating’
On Thursday, the official Netflix Anime account announced that the cast of the live-action 2010 Scott Pilgrim movie will reprise their roles in the upcoming Scott Pilgrim anime.
Source: Kotaku – Netflix Scott Pilgrim Anime Will Reunite Entire Movie Cast
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Toxic image board 4chan has managed to stay online for the past seven years—amid boycotts and advertiser flight, after being implicated in several mass shootings, even as it was identified as a source of the conspiracy theories that inspired the January 6 insurrection—thanks, in part, to a $2.4 million investment from a major Japanese toy company.
A partnership agreement, obtained exclusively by WIRED, shows not only how current site owner Hiroyuki Nishimura acquired the far-right message board but also how Japanese industry helped finance the deal.
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Source: Ars Technica – How a major toy company kept 4chan online
The hardest part about navigating leaks and rumors is determining how reliable and/or feasible they might be, which entails weighing the source and balancing the information with common sense. It’s an inexact science to be sure. We bring this up because a fresh leak pertaining to NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 launch suggests that pricing
Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Leak Reveals A Much Cheaper Price Than Expected
Twitter CEO Elon Musk surpassed former President Barack Obama in followers on Thursday, making him the most followed person on the platform. At the time of writing, Musk has more than 133 million followers, according to SocialBlade which reported his count hovers at 40,000 more than Obama.
Source: Gizmodo – Elon’s Ego Can Rest Easy Knowing He Now Has the Most Followers on Twitter
The rarest Yu-Gi-Oh! card in the world will finally be sold this April. Only one copy was ever printed, and it’s been in the hands of one owner since 2005. Now, the owner is finally ready to part ways with it after 18 years.
Source: Kotaku – Rarest Yu-Gi-Oh! Card In The World Will Be Sold After 18 Years
In a world where Google shapes everything, determining whether or not information is readily available to the average person based on key search terms, changing the name of a product or service can be a huge move. In some cases it can help, because moving away from working titles and establishing definitive ones, such…
Source: Kotaku – This Action-RPG May Have The Funniest Renaming In Game History
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google’s Bard hasn’t exactly had an impressive debut — and The Information is reporting that the company is so interested in changing the fortunes of its AI chatbots, it’s forcing its DeepMind division to help the Google Brain team beat OpenAI with a new initiative called Gemini. The Information’s report also contains the potentially staggering thirdhand allegation that Google stooped so low as to train Bard using data from OpenAI’s ChatGPT, scraped from a website called ShareGPT. A former Google AI researcher reportedly spoke out against using that data, according to the publication. But Google is firmly and clearly denying the data was used: “Bard is not trained on any data from ShareGPT or ChatGPT,” spokesperson Chris Pappas tells The Verge.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Google Denies Bard Was Trained With ChatGPT Data
The X.Org project has announced a vulnerability in its X server and Xwayland (CVE-2023-1393).
This issue can lead to local privileges elevation on systems where the X
server is running privileged and remote code execution for ssh X forwarding
sessions.[…] If a client explicitly destroys the compositor overlay window (aka COW),
the Xserver would leave a dangling pointer to that window in the CompScreen
structure, which will trigger a use-after-free later.
That has led to the release of xorg-server 21.1.8, xwayland 22.1.9, and xwayland 23.1.1.
Source: LWN.net – X.org vulnerability and releases
Samsung Galaxy Book3 Pro 360: As Configured – $1699.99 The Samsung Galaxy Book3 Pro 360 delivers a premium convertible computing experience with dazzling 120Hz AMOLED display. Brilliant OLED Display Strong Battery Life Very Responsive Performance Immersive Dolby Atmos Audio Massive Trackpad Full 10-Key NumPad Included Grainy “FHD” Webcam Size…
Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Galaxy Book3 Pro 360 Review: Great Perf, Superb OLED
The kernel’s hierarchical maintainer model works quite well from the
standpoint of allowing thousands of developers to work together without
(often) stepping on each others’ toes. But that model can also make life
painful for developers who are trying to make changes across numerous
subsystems. Other possible source of pain include changes related to
licensing or those where maintainers don’t understand the purpose of the
work. Nick Alcock has managed to hit all of those hazards together in his
effort to perform what would seem like a common-sense cleanup of the
kernel’s annotations for loadable modules.
Source: LWN.net – [$] The trouble with MODULE_LICENSE() in non-modules
Sometimes you just don’t know what you’re missing. For years I thought I was a maximally efficient suitcase-packer, and scoffed at packing cubes. How could they possibly improve upon what I’m already doing? But one day I got a set, and realized I’d been living like a fool. If you’d like to have a similar experience, …
Source: LifeHacker – These Small Purchases Will Change Your Life, According to Reddit
The European Space Agency (ESA) shared an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope that has NASA and others stumped on how to give it one tidy label. It seems the luminous object located about 390 million light years from Earth is a bit too complex to be placed in a single box.
Scientists like to be able to narrow down what something
Source: Hot Hardware – Hubble Spots A Strange Celestial Object That Has NASA Stumped
While waiting for AMD 4th Gen EPYC “Genoa” instances to become available via the major public cloud providers, I was curious to see how existing AMD EPYC Milan instances compare to Intel’s new Sapphire Rapids instances in public preview on Google Cloud. While expecting some friendly competition, at the same vCPU size EPYC Milan was managing to deliver not only better performance-per-dollar but also even better raw performance in numerous workloads against the Google Cloud C3 Sapphire Rapids.
Source: Phoronix – AMD EPYC Milan Still Gives Intel Sapphire Rapids Tough Competition In The Cloud
Actor Matt Damon briefly became the face of cryptocurrencies with his “history is filled with almosts” commercial for the digital currencies exchange Crypto.com. Despite crypto’s ballooning prices in 2021, after the collapse of several major exchanges and lenders in 2022 the entire industry is feeling more like an…
Source: Gizmodo – Matt Damon Says He Did That Dumb Crypto.com Ad Because His Water Nonprofit Was ‘Down’
Netflix has just announced the voice cast of Scott Pilgrim. The Anime, which will feature the return of all the major stars from the live-action Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World film, including Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Brie Larsen, and Chris Evans to reprise their movie roles, this time in voice form.
Source: Gizmodo – Scott Pilgrim Movie Cast Reunites to Voice Their Characters in Netflix Anime
Enlarge / US Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) is a millionaire thanks to coal, gas, and oil interests. He was responsible for rewriting the US electric vehicle incentives. (credit: Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
US Senator Joe Manchin was instrumental in rewriting the nation’s electric vehicle incentives, but now the West Virginia Democrat says he wants to sue the federal government “if I’m allowed to” in order to stop too many EVs from reaching US customers with battery packs that contain materials and components refined, processed, or manufactured abroad. The politician made the remarks during a panel on Wednesday, according to S&P Global.
Originally, the IRS tax credits offered to car buyers to incentivize them to purchase a plug-in electric vehicle were linked to the size of the car’s battery. But as part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the rules were changed. Now, the $7,500 tax credit is only applicable to “clean vehicles”—either battery EVs or hydrogen fuel cell EVs, not plug-in hybrids.
There are several more requirements, including final assembly in North America, but for most new EVs, the stumbling block is a requirement that battery components be domestically sourced.
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Source: Ars Technica – Manchin vows to sue Biden administration over EV tax credits
