This guide walks you through the steps to change or reset root password in Fedora 38 Linux operating systems.
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Monthly Archives: April 2023
Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere
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Colorado has enacted the nation’s first state law guaranteeing farmers a right to repair tractors and other equipment themselves or at independent repair shops. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, signed the bill yesterday.
“I am proud to sign this important bipartisan legislation that saves hardworking farmers and ranchers time and money on repairs, and supports Colorado’s thriving agriculture industry… Farmers and ranchers can lose precious weeks and months when equipment repairs are stalled due to long turnaround times by manufacturers and dealers. This bill will change that,” Polis said.
The state House voted 46-14 in favor of the bill on April 11, while the Senate voted 21-12 on March 30. “The legislation advanced through long committee hearings, having been propelled forward mostly by Democrats even though a Republican lawmaker co-sponsored the bill,” the Associated Press wrote. “The proposal left some GOP lawmakers stuck between their farming constituents pleading for the ability to repair their equipment and the manufacturers who vehemently opposed it.”
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Source: Ars Technica – Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere
After Fox Fires Tucker Carlson, Vegas Plays ‘Who’s Next’
What does Tucker Carlson have in common with open-source software? As far as we know, absolutely nothing. When we asked Christine about this, she said, “There’s more to life than software.”
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Rainn Wilson Would Be the Best Dungeon Master for Dungeons & Dragons | io9 Interview
What's New on Netflix in May 2023
The Peak Streaming era may be coming to an end—tumult at HBO Max, belt tightening at Paramount+, whatever is happening with Hulu—but Netflix still has very deep pockets. Deep enough to attract the sort of star power that used to cost $20 million per movie. Star power the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jennifer…
Source: LifeHacker – What’s New on Netflix in May 2023
SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch Sold House to Guy Whose Firm Brought Clean Power Plan Lawsuit
It may not reach the level of Clarence Thomas being buddies with a guy who owns a garden full of dictator statues, but there are plenty of other scandals to be had on the Supreme Court. Politico reported this week that Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has found himself in a small ethics conundrum—one tied to the oil…
Source: Gizmodo – SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch Sold House to Guy Whose Firm Brought Clean Power Plan Lawsuit
Microsoft starts rolling out iOS support for Phone Link syncing to all Windows 11 users
Following a limited test that began in late February, Microsoft has begun rolling out iPhone support within its Phone Link app to the wider Windows 11 user base. The software, for the uninitiated, allows you to sync your calls, messages and contacts to your PC. Microsoft has offered Phone Link (in various forms) on Android devices since as far back as 2015. Microsoft expects to roll out iOS support to all Windows 11 users by mid-May.
Once you have access to the feature, the easiest way to link your devices together is to type “Phone Link” into Windows 11’s search bar. Coincidently, that’s also the best way to find out if you have access to the feature too. If you’re like me, you will probably see the option to add an iPhone grayed out, with the icon noting it’s “coming soon.” Once the feature does arrive, it’s also worth noting there are some limitations. As with the Insider test, you can’t use the app to send images and videos from your Windows machine. Group messaging also isn’t supported. Additionally, the software works on a session basis, so your latest messages will only come through when your iPhone and PC are connected.
Still, even when you consider all those limitations, iPhone-carrying Windows users are sure to appreciate the integration offered by Phone Link, particularly since most people might not be familiar with options like Unison and AirDroid.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-starts-rolling-out-ios-support-for-phone-link-syncing-to-all-windows-11-users-181521677.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – Microsoft starts rolling out iOS support for Phone Link syncing to all Windows 11 users
Desta is a turn-based dodgeball strategy game with heart and style, now on PC
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The studio behind Monument Valley, one of the best mobile games ever made, made a Netflix-required mobile game in 2022 that you almost certainly didn’t play, let alone see. Desta: The Memories Between is now out on PC and Nintendo Switch, and I highly recommend you seek it out if you lean toward coming-of-age stories, turn-based strategy, dreamlike surreality, or nailing someone in the face with a perfectly angled ball.
Desta is a college-age British youth who’s anxious about returning home to a widowed mother, friends left behind, memories of their late father, and a lot of unresolved feelings. You guide Desta through anxious dreams that are, very conveniently, expressed as grid-based, turn-by-turn dodgeball fights. Can you resolve the guilt of falling out of touch with your best friend from high school by pulling off the perfect bank shot off their dome, catching the ball on the rebound, then hitting them again? In Desta, you can, and I swear it works.
It helps that developer ustwo brings all its powers to bear on Desta‘s dreamy visuals, evocative soundtrack, and wonderful spoken dialogue. You could ignore the narrative if you wanted to get straight to the increasingly complicated battlefields—the story bits are short and direct and easy to skip. But I’d bet that you’ll get pulled in.
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Source: Ars Technica – Desta is a turn-based dodgeball strategy game with heart and style, now on PC
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Basically Has A Matrix-Style Slow-Mo Mode
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is out in a few short days and it’s promising some accessibility options that sound incredibly helpful for those looking to take their time acclimating to the game’s potential challenges. One standout feature is the option to slow combat and traversal down so you can take these challenges on…
Source: Kotaku – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Basically Has A Matrix-Style Slow-Mo Mode
Intense new trailer for The Flash wows the crowd at CinemaCon
Barry (Ezra Miller) uses his powers to travel back in time and change the past in The Flash.
Warner Bros. dropped an intense new trailer for The Flash during this week’s CinemaCon in Las Vegas, the annual convention attended by movie theater owners from all over the world. The trailer is just as good as the first one, giving us even more of Michael Keaton’s Batman and plenty of action, emotional beats, and even a few hints about how it might upend the entire DC Extended Universe going forward.
As we’ve previously reported, Andy Muschietti (It, It: Chapter 2) signed on to direct the long-planned Flash-centric standalone film in 2019. Ezra Miller’s The Flash had already made his DC Extended Universe debut with cameo appearances in Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad in 2016 and as a co-star in 2017’s Justice League. And the wider DC multiverse was confirmed when Miller made a cameo in the Arrowverse TV crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019–2020).
Earlier scripts focused on adapting the Flashpoint crossover storyline from the comic books, in which the Scarlet Speedster goes back in time to keep his mother from being murdered, thereby altering the entire timeline. In that alternate world, a young Bruce Wayne is killed rather than his parents. Thomas Wayne becomes Batman, Martha Wayne becomes the Joker, Wonder Woman and Aquaman are bitter enemies, and Superman is a prisoner. Muschietti kept several of the Flashpoint story elements while acknowledging that this would be a different version. And he wanted to include not just Michael Keaton’s Batman but Ben Affleck’s, too, since he thought Barry’s relationship with the latter would make Keaton’s inclusion even more powerful.
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Source: Ars Technica – Intense new trailer for The Flash wows the crowd at CinemaCon
Palantir shows off an AI that can go to war
Palantir already sells its domestic surveillance services to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, so it should come as no surprise that the company founded by billionaire Peter Thiel is working to make inroads into the Pentagon as well. On Tuesday, the company released a video demo of its latest offering, the Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP). While the system itself is simply designed to integrate large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 or Google’s BERT into privately-operated networks, the very first thing they did was apply it to the modern battlefield.
In the video demo above, a military operator tasked with monitoring the Eastern European theater discovers enemy forces massing near the border and responds by asking a ChatGPT-style digital assistant for help with deploying reconnaissance drones, ginning up tactical responses to the perceived aggression and even organize the jamming of the enemy’s communications. The AIP is shown helping estimate the enemy’s composition and capabilities by launching a Reaper drone on a reconnaissance mission in response the to operator’s request for better pictures, and suggesting appropriate responses given the discovery of an armored element.
“LLMs and algorithms must be controlled in this highly regulated and sensitive context to ensure that they are used in a legal and ethical way,” the video begins. To do so, AIP’s operation is based on three “key pillars,” the first being that AIP will deploy across a classified system, able to parse in real-time both classified and non-classified data, ethically and legally. The company did not elaborate on how that would work. The second pillar is that users will be able to toggle the scope and actions of every LLM and asset on the network. The AIP itself will generate a secure digital record of the entire operation, “crucial for mitigating significant legal, regulatory, and ethical risks in sensitive and classified settings,” according to the demo. The third pillar are AIP’s “industry-leading guardrails” to prevent the system from taking unauthorized actions.
A “human in the loop” to prevent such actions does exist in Palantir’s scenario, though from the video, the “operator” appears to do little more than nod along with whatever AIP suggests. The demo also did not elaborate on what steps are being taken to prevent the LLMs that the system relies on from “hallucinating” pertinent facts and details.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/palantir-shows-off-an-ai-that-can-go-to-war-180513781.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – Palantir shows off an AI that can go to war
Google Adds Spin.AI App Risk Assessment for Chrome Extensions
With Spin.AI App Risk Assessment, Google Workspace admins and security teams can make an assessment of the risk Chrome extensions may present.
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Source: Linux Today – Google Adds Spin.AI App Risk Assessment for Chrome Extensions
Company Seeks First-Time Restart of Shuttered Nuclear Plant
A company that tears down closed nuclear power plants wants to do in Michigan what has never been done in the U.S.: restore a dead one to life. From a report: Holtec Decommissioning International bought the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station last June for the stated purpose of dismantling it, weeks after previous owner Entergy shut it down. Fuel was removed from the reactor core. Federal regulators were notified of “permanent cessation of power operations.” But with support from Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and leaders in the Lake Michigan community where Palisades was an economic driver for 50 years, Holtec soon kicked off a campaign to bring the plant back. The 800 megawatt facility had generated roughly 5% of the state’s electricity.
“Keeping Palisades open is critical for Michigan’s competitiveness and future economic development opportunities,” Whitmer said in a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, herself a former Michigan governor, requesting federal funding for the restart. Activists who long criticized Palisades as poorly maintained and dangerous don’t want it resurrected. They note its years of mechanical problems, including what the Nuclear Regulatory Commission described as among the nation’s worst cases of nuclear fuel container weakening. A degrading seal on a device controlling the atomic reaction led Entergy to close the plant nearly two weeks earlier than planned in May 2022.
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Source: Slashdot – Company Seeks First-Time Restart of Shuttered Nuclear Plant
AI 'Agents' Are Trying to Make Life a Little Easier and a Lot Weirder
Tech bros are always chasing the next big thing, so much so that some developers are already trying to imply that chatbots like ChatGPT are old hat. The real big AI innovation, they say, is language model-powered AI “agents” able to carry out multiple tasks in a row.
Source: Gizmodo – AI ‘Agents’ Are Trying to Make Life a Little Easier and a Lot Weirder
The Death of the Chevy Bolt Is Bad News for Earth
Long ago, they paved paradise and put up a parking lot. That was the compromise of progress. Now, Chevy is taking what could’ve been a proverbial parking lot at least filled with compact, relatively affordable electric vehicles and swapping it for one stuffed with more, massive EV pick-up trucks.
Source: Gizmodo – The Death of the Chevy Bolt Is Bad News for Earth
Report: DDR5 RDIMM Production Impacted by PMIC Compatibility Issues
Memory module producers have been shipping unbuffered DDR5 memory modules for desktop and laptop computers running Intel’s 12th Generation Core ‘Alder Lake’ processors in high volumes since September, 2021, without any major issues. But DDR5 is just now entering the datacenter world, and according to a recent report, it looks like power management ICs (PMICs) for registered DIMMs have become a constraining factor due to compatibility issues.
In a report published by TrendForce discussing the current state of the market for server-grade DDR5 memory, the semiconductor analyst firm noted that there is an issue with PMIC compatibility for DDR5 RDIMMs, with both DRAM suppliers and PMIC vendors are collaborating to resolve the problem. The analysts do not reveal the exact root cause of the problem, but claim that PMICs from Monolithic Power Systems (MPS) do not have any issues, leading them to expect MPS PMICs to be in high demand for the foreseeable future.
Although DRAM makers have been distributing samples of their server grade modules to CPU and server makers since early 2022, practical issues only emerged recently when producers began to ramp up production of their machines running AMD’s EPYC 9004 ‘Genoa’ and Intel’s 4th Generation Xeon Scalable ‘Sapphire Rapids’ processors. As a result, the demand for PMICs from a single supplier has created a bottleneck in production, claims TrendForce. This will have a knock-on effect on the server market, which is already suffering from a demand drop.
Neither analysts nor DRAM producers are currently disclosing the precise reason for the PMIC issue. But it is evident that, as both client and server DDR5 DIMMs require PMICs, it is turning out to be harder to make server-grade modules than client-aimed DIMMs.
As part of the changes that came with the DDR5 specification, DDR5 memory modules now come with their own voltage regulating modules (VRMs) and PMIC. Moving these components on to DIMMs is intended to minimize voltage fluctuation ranges (DDR5’s allowable range is about 3% (±0.033V) for a 1.1 volt supply), as well as decrease power consumption and improve performance. But doing so adds complexity to individual DIMMs, as well.
Unbuffered DDR5 DIMMs for client PCs are relatively simple since they are all single or dual-rank and carry at most 16 single-die memory chips. High-capacity Registered DDR5 memory modules for servers use more chips and those chips can pack in multiple DRAM dies each, which greatly increases complexity.
As a result of the PMIC bottleneck as well as a slower ramping of DDR5 manufacturing capacity, TrendForce predicts that prices of server-grade 32GB DDR5 modules will drop to around $80 – $90 in April and May, due to the lower fulfillment rates of DDR5 server DRAM in the short term. As a result, DDR5 prices are expected to fall more slowly than DDR4 for the next couple of quarters, with DDR5 prices only finally catching up (or rather, down) with DDR4 once production picks up.
Source: AnandTech – Report: DDR5 RDIMM Production Impacted by PMIC Compatibility Issues
How Temping Really Works
When you’re out of work and need to pay some bills, the goal is typically to get a new full-time job as soon as possible. To bridge the gap, we tend to think of gig economy jobs—DoorDash, Uber, etc—as the obvious solution. But there’s an old school, tried-and-true option to keep in mind too: Temping.
Source: LifeHacker – How Temping Really Works
Gotham Knights Six Months Later: Better, But Still Mid
Gotham Knights was supposed to signal a new era for Rocksteady’s Arkham series. Developed by Batman: Arkham Origins studio WB Games Montréal, the superhero action-RPG shared a lot of the same DNA with the memorable Arkham games of yesteryear while adding its own flavor to the iconic formula. It was even moving away…
Source: Kotaku – Gotham Knights Six Months Later: Better, But Still Mid
UK Just Dealt A Major Blow To Microsoft's $69B Activision Acquisition
UK watchdog Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) dealt a huge blow to Microsoft’s attempt at acquiring Activision-Blizzard-King. The final decision from CMA stated Microsoft’s solution had “significant shortcomings,” and that the deal would reduce innovation and alter the rapidly growing landscape of the cloud gaming market.
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Source: Hot Hardware – UK Just Dealt A Major Blow To Microsoft’s B Activision Acquisition
After nearly two years, Virgin Galactic’s space plane returns to the sky
Enlarge / Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spacecraft completed a glide test Wednesday. (credit: Virgin Galactic)
The VSS Unity spacecraft did not make a powered flight with its rocket engine on Wednesday, but it cleared the final hurdle before doing so by performing a glide test in New Mexico.
On Wednesday morning, the VMS Eve aircraft took off from Spaceport America and subsequently released the spacecraft at an altitude of about 14 kilometers. After this, VSS Unity glided back to the runway in New Mexico, testing modifications to the spacecraft’s flight controls and handling.
After the test, Virgin Galactic said the glide flight closes its “final validation test points” of a campaign to ensure the aircraft and space plane are ready to resume powered flights. To that end, the company said data collected during the flight will be analyzed in the coming weeks, and assuming the review goes well, the next mission will be a powered spaceflight.
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Source: Ars Technica – After nearly two years, Virgin Galactic’s space plane returns to the sky