More often than she plays the part of lewd Twitch and Kick streamer Amouranth, 29-year-old Kaitlyn Siragusa is a businesswoman. But she’s primarily in the business of her body, hawking “made-to-order” water from her hot tub (sold out), a few strands of hair and her fart in a jar for a $400 sale price (sold out), and On…
Source: Kotaku – Amouranth’s Latest Business Venture Will Drive Her Haters To Drink
Before the 1950s, filmmakers didn’t think about teenagers as anything other than adults-in-waiting—accessories to the adult characters in films. That changed circa the release of Nicholas Ray’s 1955 James Dean star vehicle Rebel Without a Cause, the success of which made studios realize that teens were driving around…
Source: LifeHacker – The 30 Best Teen Movies You Can Stream Right Now
In a recent demo, Intel showed off its upcoming Meteor Lake CPU running Dying Light 2 on the chip’s integrated Xe graphics. This demo compared how the game ran on the processor at a native 1080p resolution versus running the game at 720p with XeSS upscaling it to 1080p. Although the demo focused on how much higher the framerate was with XeSS
Source: Hot Hardware – Watch Meteor Lake’s Arc iGPU Run Dying Light 2 Smoothly With XeSS
A Twitch streamer has dedicated nearly three years of his life to Fallout 4, struggling to complete the most challenging feat I’ve ever heard of: a 100-percent completion of Bethesda’s 2015 action role-playing game without taking one single bit of damage.
Source: Kotaku – This Impossible-Sounding Fallout 4 Speedrun Took Over 2,000 Hours
When the BBC brings over 800 episodes of Doctor Who to its iPlayer streaming service next week, part of the celebrations will include an extra treat for Who fans young and old: the chance to listen to audio recordings of stories lost to the BBC’s archival junking program decades ago.
Source: Gizmodo – Missing Doctor Who Episodes Will Be Available to Listen to Soon
The Leica M11-P is the first camera in the world designed specifically to combat AI deepfakes. It stores metadata in line with the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) to ensure better protection of copyrights and safeguards the trustworthiness of publications.
In the world of photography, professionals have been locked in a battle to
Source: Hot Hardware – How Leica’s M11-P Camera Combats AI Deepfakes For Photographers With Deep Pockets
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One year into Elon Musk’s ownership of X, the finances of the platform formerly known as Twitter remain shaky. But the ongoing money troubles haven’t stopped Musk from forging ahead with his plan to turn X into a bank, a move he said last November would be key to helping the platform avoid bankruptcy. On an earnings call yesterday, Musk told X employees that he predicts X’s payments system will launch by the end of 2024, The Verge reported.
“It would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year,” Musk said, confirming that “when I say payments, I actually mean someone’s entire financial life. If it involves money, it’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So it’s not just like ‘send $20 to my friend.’ I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”
In January, Musk took his first steps toward this ambitious goal by registering Twitter Payments LLC with the US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. This was a necessary step for Twitter to start transmitting money between users in all states and US territories, and according to The Verge, Musk confirmed that he expects to get the rest of the money-transmitting licenses “in the next few months.”
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Source: Ars Technica – Elon Musk wants your “entire financial life” on X by 2024
Back in August Google Cloud announced the C3D instances powered by AMD EPYC 9004 “Genoa” processors while only last week was C3D promoted to general availability. Curious about the performance of C3D after being impressed by AMD EPYC Genoa bare-metal server performance at Phoronix as well as what I’ve seen with Genoa in the cloud at Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2 / AWS, here are some benchmarks of the new C3D up against other GCE instances.
Source: Phoronix – Google Cloud C3D Shows Great Performance With AMD EPYC Genoa
User-space developers working with highly threaded applications would often
like to be able to use spinlocks to protect shared data structures from
concurrent access. There is a fundamental problem with user-space
spinlocks, though: there is no way to prevent a thread from being
preempted. Various ways of working around this problem have been explored,
but this
patch from Steven Rostedt questions the premise on which much of that
work is based: what if it were possible to prevent preemption, for a
short period at least?
Source: LWN.net – [$] Deferred scheduling for user-space critical sections
For a view into the OpenBSD approach to security, see this message from
Theo de Raadt, where he describes a plan to remove the syscall() system call
(which allows the invocation of any available system call by providing its
number) from the kernel. The purpose, of course, is to make it harder for
an attacker to invoke an arbitrary system call, even if they are able to
run some code on the target system.
I hope I am forcing attack coders into using increasingly more
complicated methods. Same time, it means fewer methods are
available. Other methods make exploitation more fragile. This is
pushing success rates into “low-percent statistical” success. If
we teach more software stacks to “fail hard, don’t try to
recover”, that is an improvement in security.
Source: LWN.net – Removing syscall() from OpenBSD
Everything’s getting more expensive, even inside Fortnite. Epic Games’ free-to-play battle royale is raising the price of V-Bucks today by roughly 12.5 percent. Being the last one standing just got a little more expensive, at least if you want to look stylish and rank up the season battle pass while doing it.
Source: Kotaku – Fortnite Just Got More Expensive Thanks To ‘Inflation’
Bird scooters may have taken over city streets in recent years, but the Bird brand has also extended its reach into the bike space with electric-boosted rides of the highest quality—through Oct. 31, you can get one on sale for $849.97 (reg. $2,299).
Source: LifeHacker – This Bird eBike Is on Sale for 0
One of JBL’s best-sounding portable speakers is on sale via Amazon, with the Charge 5 matching a record low price of $120 in an early Black Friday deal. This Bluetooth speaker usually costs $180, so this represents a discount of 33 percent. We’ve seen this speaker go on sale before, but the price hasn’t been this low since July.
This sale is not just for the plain-jane black speaker, as you have your pick of colors, from gray, red and turquoise to unique patterns like camouflage. All told, choose from six colorways for the speaker.
JBL’s Charge 5 made our list of the best portable bluetooth speakers, and with good reason. The sound quality is great and we praised its “bright output and capable low end.” The battery lasts up to 20 hours per charge, which is a decent metric, and the whole thing is actually waterproof, with an IP67 rating. This means that if it accidentally falls in the pool during a backyard soiree, you won’t have to head immediately to Best Buy for a replacement.
There’s also a built-in powerbank that lets you use the speaker to charge other devices, and this unit boasts access to JBL’s proprietary PartyBoost feature. This lets you combine multiple wireless speakers to instantly create a stereo setup. As a matter of fact, the only potential downside to this portable speaker is the original asking price, as $180 is pretty steep. For today, at least, that issue has been solved.
JBL also has a number of wireless earbuds and headphones on sale right now, to complete the personal audio package. You can snag the company’s new high-end Quantum 910 headphones for $230, a savings of $70, or the budget-friendly Tune 230NC earbuds for $50 instead of $100.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/jbls-charge-5-speaker-drops-to-a-record-low-in-an-early-black-friday-deal-152651436.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – JBL’s Charge 5 speaker drops to a record low in an early Black Friday deal
The newest gaming laptops have put up some mightily impressive numbers that approach high-end desktops. While the GPU is certainly at the forefront of the excitement, a strong CPU is a prerequisite to complete the package. The heavy hitting NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 laptops typically come packed with the 13th generation Intel Core i9-13900HX
Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Core i7-14700HX Benchmarks Confirm Raptor Lake Refresh Is Headed To Gaming Laptops
Thai Food Near Me, Dentist Near Me, Notary Near Me, Plumber Near Me — businesses across the country picked names meant to outsmart Google Search. Does it actually work? From a report: Thai Food Near Me isn’t the first business to think of the Google-first naming convention. There are reminders of Google’s kingmaker status in online discoverability everywhere in cities across the country. Among the businesses I was able to find: a chain of half a dozen Affordable Dentist Near Me’s in Texas; an Antiques Near Me two hours outside of New York City; seven Plumber Near Me businesses; a Phone Repair Near Me in Cape Cod, Massachusetts; a Psychic Near Me in Chicago; and more than 20 iterations of “Notary Near Me” across the US. Felix Silva decided on the name Barber Shop Near Me after considering more than 20 other options for his Coral Springs, Florida, store in 2019. The name is meant to be neutral and memorable — another one in contention was “The Barber Shop” — but Silva fully leaned into the Google joke: the logo is a red location pin resembling Google’s own, with a blue, white, and red barber pole pattern in the middle.
[…] As with Thai Food Near Me, the most powerful thing an SEO-driven name might be able to do is get customers in the door. From there, it’s up to a business to give them a good experience, whether that’s a great plate of pad see ew or the perfect haircut. Then, the cycle continues — happy customers leave good reviews. Good reviews help the business’s Google Maps profile rank higher. Silva uploads high-quality photos and videos to the page and shares updates, too. That’s another SEO move; some experts say active profiles can improve a business’s rankings. Still, the naming scheme has caught on: one acquaintance selling Christmas trees, for example, rebranded his business to be called Christmas Trees Near Me, Silva says. (Silva’s is not the only Barber Shop Near Me, either — there are also shops with the same name in Oak Park, Illinois; Queens, New York; and Muskogee, Oklahoma, according to Google Maps.)
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – The Restaurant Nearest Google
After a month in beta, Valve has finally released SteamVR 2.0 for all users in the Steam VR ecosystem. This update brings some new features, updates, and upgrades over the previous version of SteamVR while also increasing SteamVR’s modernity to align with the recent Steam platform update earlier this year.
The SteamVR 2.0 update has brought
Source: Hot Hardware – SteamVR’s Long Awaited 2.0 Update Is Here With A Bunch Of Improvements And Bug Fixes
On Thursday, the U.S. International Trade Commission determined that Apple had infringed on a patent held by the medical-technology company, Masimo. This infringement could potentially result in an import ban on specific Apple Watch models.
Source: Gizmodo – Apple Could Face an Import Ban on Its Watches Due to a Patent Violation
This week, the whole internet is talking about one young woman’s journey into career disillusionment—specifically, her shocking discovery (shared via TikTok) that having a job cuts into your personal time in a major way. Meanwhile, youth in Britain are using the internet to gaslight their American cousins, and famous…
Source: LifeHacker – The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: Gen Z Goes to Work, Finds It Time-Consuming
Linux Mint’s vision showcases a continued reliance on Xorg. Wayland’s on the horizon, but full readiness is projected for 2026. More on that here!
The post Linux Mint Will Continue Betting on Xorg in Future Releases appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – Linux Mint Will Continue Betting on Xorg in Future Releases
Like the original Spider-Man and Spider-Man: Miles Morales before it, the recently released Spider-Man 2 is a bombastic superhero journey. With two Spider-Men on hand in Peter Parker and Miles Morales, plus the introductions of Kraven the Hunter and the alien symbiote who’ll become Venom, the sequel can’t help being a…
Source: Gizmodo – Spider-Man 2’s Writers Break Down the Game’s Big Spoilers
