Star Trek: Picard’s final season felt as much like a hello as it did a farewell, as Picard and his friends handed the torch to a new generation of Starfleet heroes. It’s felt much the same off screen too, as showrunner Terry Matalas and his cast have told anyone who will listen to them that they really really really want
Source: Gizmodo – Star Trek: Picard’s Cast and Crew Still Really Want That Legacy Spinoff
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Exploit code for a critical printer software vulnerability became publicly available on Monday in a release that may exacerbate the threat of malware attacks that have already been underway for the past five days.
The vulnerability resides in print management software known as PaperCut, which the company’s website says has more than 100 million users from 70,000 organizations. When this post went live, the Shodan search engine showed that close to 1,700 instances of the software were exposed to the Internet.
World map showing locations of PaperCut installations.
Last Wednesday, PaperCut warned that a critical vulnerability it patched in the software in March was under active attack against machines that had yet to install the March update. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023–27350, carries a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible 10. It allows an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute malicious code without needing to log in or provide a password. A related vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023–27351 with a severity rating of 8.2, allows unauthenticated attackers to extract usernames, full names, email addresses, and other potentially sensitive data from unpatched servers.
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Source: Ars Technica – Exploit released for 9.8-severity PaperCut flaw already under attack
Samsung is expected to report its worst profit in 14 years due to falling prices for memory chips — the company’s biggest business — and weak demand. CNBC reports: The South Korean technology giant guided earlier this month that it would post operating profit of 600 billion Korean won ($449 million) for the first quarter. If Samsung reports this number, it would be the company’s lowest profit since the first quarter of 2009. Samsung releases preliminary earnings guidance, but does not give detailed figures. It reports its full first quarter earnings on Thursday.
Samsung is the world’s largest maker of memory chips, which go into everything from PCs to servers in data centers. During the height of the pandemic, demand for consumer electronics was high, as people stayed home. Electronics companies piled up chips to go into these products. But buyers are now cutting back on purchases of these goods due to inflation and macroeconomic concerns, leading to somewhat of a memory chip glut.
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Source: Slashdot – Samsung Faces Weakest Quarter Since 2009 As Memory Chip Market In ‘Worst Slump In Decades’
The 6.3 kernel was released
on April 24 after a nine-week development cycle. As is the case with
all mainline releases, this is a
major kernel release with a lot of changes and a big pile of new features.
The time has come, yet again, for a look at where that work came from and
who supported it.
Source: LWN.net – [$] Development statistics for 6.3
Canadian singer-songwriter Grimes has invited her fans to create music using her voice, stating that she would split 50% of royalties for any successful AI-generated song using her voice. On Sunday night she tweeted: “I’ll split 50% royalties on any successful AI generated song that uses my voice. Same deal as I would with any artist i collab with. Feel free to use my voice without penalty. I have no label and no legal bindings.”
She also said she welcomes the open sourcing of art and an end to copyright. “Im just curious what even happens and interested in being a Guinea pig.” From a report: Grimes has long embraced AI as a techno artist. In 2020, her first album to top the Billboard dance charts was Miss Anthropocene, named for the effects of technology on Earth’s ecology and climate in the post-Industrial Revolution era. It was also in 2020 that she teamed up with the algorithmic mood music startup Endel to create an AI-generated lullaby for her first child with SpaceX founder Elon Musk who they named X AE A-12 with the Elven spelling of AI, according to Grimes.
“Everyday I thank the overlords of Ableton for cleaning up my tracks, but I do worry though that AI will outpace us and make musicians obsolete. It’s inevitable,” she warned at Web Summit 2020. With millions of followers across YouTube, Instagram and Twitter and hits like Oblivion, Kill V. Maim and Go, her call for AI collaboration could be a game changer.
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Source: Slashdot – Grimes Tells Fans To Deepfake Her Music, Will Split 50% Royalties With AI
Amazon has a lot of rules for its delivery drivers: clipped nails, no body odor, clean ears, etc… These strict requirements govern everything from personal grooming to online activity (couriers wearing the Amazon uniform are barred from posting anything obscene). The company also sets its drivers’ wage minimums,…
Source: Gizmodo – A Group of Amazon Delivery Drivers Celebrate Unionization Despite Amazon Claiming It Terminated Their Contract
Cacti is an open-source web-based monitoring tool based on PHP and MySQL. This guide will teach you how to install the cacti monitoring tool on the Rocky Linux system.
Source: LXer – How to Install Cacti on Rocky Linux
Enlarge / Apple’s MagSafe battery pack for iPhone. The headset’s external pack is said to resemble these.
Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman is at it again, sharing insider details about Apple’s upcoming mixed-reality headset. This time, Gurman shared new details in his weekly newsletter about the headset’s controversial tethered battery pack design.
Previous reports from Gurman, supply chain analyst Ming Chi-Kuo, and The Information revealed that after much internal debate, Apple decided to move forward with a headset design that works with an external battery pack connected by a wire.
This is because including the battery inside the headset would make it too bulky and heavy for some users. Apple employees against this approach argued that it made the headset clunky to use, especially in public.
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Source: Ars Technica – Details emerge about Apple headset’s tethered battery pack
There are just so many games these days it’s hard to stand out from the crowd and get the world’s attention. So, here’s one good way: Get world-renowned anime house Studio Trigger to make the trailer for your upcoming Nintendo Switch sports-action game.
Source: Kotaku – Studio Trigger Anime Trailer Makes Soccer Game Look Dope AF
Google’s rendering of “The Meander,” which will be “a central social gathering place with shops and local food.” I assume there are office buildings in there somewhere.
For a while, Google has planned to build a new 80-acre mega campus that would take over a large chunk of downtown San Jose, California. If you expressed doubt that the modern-day shutdown-happy Google could commit to the “10-to-30-year” timeline for the construction project, congratulations! CNBC’s Jennifer Elias reports that Google has put the idea “on pause” after just two years of construction.
Google got approval to start the project in 2021. The plan was to build an area twice as large as Google’s recently finished “Bay View” headquarters, which is about 14 miles down the road. The 80-acre “mixed-use neighborhood” would have had 7.3 million square feet of office space, 4,000 housing units, 15 acres of “parks, plazas, and green space,” and 500,000 square feet dedicated to “retail, cultural, arts, education, hotels and more.” The project, called “Downtown West,” had no estimated construction budget when it was announced, but some estimates said the finished work could be valued at $19 billion.
That was two years ago, though, and now Google is in the era of cost-cutting and earning Wall Street’s approval, so it sounds like Google has shifted its priorities again. CNBC’s report says that the project is now “on hold,” and sources tell Elias that Google “doesn’t have plans to revive the project in the near future.” Citing “internal correspondence,” the report also says Google removed construction updates from the project’s website last month.
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Source: Ars Technica – Google puts 10- to 30-year campus construction project “on hold” after 2 years
Recently, HBO Max officially announced it will be reviving the Harry Potter series as a multi-season television show. During a Warner Bros. Discovery press event, the initiative was described as a “decade-long” project to bring the novels to the small screen, hoping to create a faithful interpretation of the…
Source: Gizmodo – Keep Your Memories, Kill Your Nostalgia
Cigent Technology is a data security company whose main product is the Data Defense software-as-a-service security suite. The company’s about to introduce a new line of SSDs, though, and one of those is pretty interesting: the Cigent Secure SSD+, with automated anti-ransomware technology that claims to be able to protect sensitive data from
Source: Hot Hardware – Security Firm Unveils SSD With Built-In Ransomware Protection To Safeguard Data
Public sector workers in an eastern Chinese city are set to be paid fully in digital yuan, as the country makes a significant push to popularize the currency. From a report: Changshu, located in the province of Jiangsu, will start the new payment process in May, according to an official document widely posted on government websites. This is the biggest rollout of the currency, also known as the e-CNY, in China so far, according to state media. Government employees as well as staff at state-owned companies and public institutions such as schools, hospitals, libraries, research institutes and media organizations in the city will be affected. Changshu, a city of 1.7 million residents, was already experimenting with the digital yuan, a form of money that exists only online and is managed and backed by China’s central bank. Like cryptocurrency, the digital yuan incorporates some elements of blockchain technology: Every transaction is recorded and traceable in a digital ledger. Since last October, Changshu has been paying the transit subsidies for some government employees in digital yuan. China is already on the verge of becoming a cashless society, but the vast majority of electronic transactions happen on privately owned apps (Alipay and WeChat Pay), outside of the immediate purview of the state.
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Source: Slashdot – China Makes Major Push in Its Ambitious Digital Yuan Project
A federal judge is hearing arguments today in a Montana lawsuit that seeks to curb the U.S. Forest Service’s use of aerial fire retardant over concerns that the chemical mix is polluting waterways.
Source: Gizmodo – A Pollution Lawsuit Could Limit the Forest Service’s Use of Fire Retardant
While Debian and its derivatives are quite popular with ARM single board computers, the ARM64 Secure Boot support has been broken for at least two years. But a fix is on the way and it should appear for this year’s Debian 12 “Bookworm” release…
Source: Phoronix – Debian Fixes Secure Boot For 64-bit ARM After Being Broken For Two Years
Just because NFTs have lost much of their mainstream appeal, doesn’t mean the token creators are done fighting tooth and nail for the last scraps of past boom times. Late last week, a California judge decreed that those silly, derivative, and disturbing Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible tokens have trademark…
Source: Gizmodo – Judge Rules Those Fake Bored Ape NFTs Broke BAYC’s Trademark
Harrison Ford is ready to put Indiana Jones’ whip and fedora away for good, it seems. After Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny premieres in June, the actor has said he’s done with playing the adventuring archaeologist—which means don’t expect him to make an appearance on the Indiana Jones TV series currently in the…
Source: Gizmodo – Harrison Ford Is Done With Indiana Jones After Dial of Destiny
If you thought that gamers could be normal about two queers sharing a passionate kiss in 2023, then you would be very wrong. Horizon Forbidden West’s new story DLC, Burning Shores, contains a scene in which Aloy can choose to kiss a woman named Seyka, and it seems some PlayStation fans were not happy. Indeed, some…
Source: Kotaku – Homophobes Are Review Bombing Horizon Forbidden West’s DLC
As the PS4’s generation fades further and further in our rearview mirror, the prices of various games, particularly collector’s editions, are climbing ever higher. And with some of the prices out there, it might be worth perusing your collection if you’re looking to make some cash…or maybe you’ll want to hold on to…
Source: Kotaku – 12 Of The Most Expensive PS4 Games With Eye-Popping Prices
