A tiny device that’s well known amongst the hacking community, known as the Flipper Zero, is wreaking havoc for some iPhone users. The device can be utilized for DoS (Denial of Service) attacks and spam all nearby iPhones.
Infosec user Jeroen Van der Ham noticed while on a train ride that his and other people’s iPhones were receiving the
Source: Hot Hardware – This Tiny Device Renders iPhones Useless In A Nonstop DoS Attack Over Bluetooth
Being an effective communicator involves more than simply saying what’s on your mind. Your tone, body language, facial expressions, and, of course, the words and phrases you use have a major impact on whether others are open to hearing your thoughts, questions, and requests.
Source: LifeHacker – Avoid Using These Rude Phrases (And What to Say Instead)
The Washington Post looks at the “millions of independent creators reshaping how people get their news, especially the youngest viewers.”
News consumption hit a tipping point around the globe during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, with more people turning to social media platforms such as TikTok, YouTube and Instagram than to websites maintained by traditional news outlets, according to the latest Digital News Report by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. One in 5 adults under 24 use TikTok as a source for news, the report said, up five percentage points from last year. According to Britain’s Office of Communications, young adults in the United Kingdom now spend more time watching TikTok than broadcast television. This shift has been driven in part by a desire for “more accessible, informal, and entertaining news formats, often delivered by influencers rather than journalists,” the Reuters Institute report says, adding that consumers are looking for news that “feels more relevant….”
While a few national publications such as the New York Times and The Washington Post have seen their digital audiences grow, allowing them to reach hundreds of thousands more readers than they did a decade ago, the economics of journalism have shifted. Well-known news outlets have seen a decline in the amount of traffic flowing to them from social media sites, and some of the money that advertisers previously might have spent with them is now flowing to creators. Even some outlets that began life on the internet have struggled, with BuzzFeed News shuttering in April, Vice entering into bankruptcy and Gawker shutting down for a second time in February. The trend is likely to continue. “There are no reasonable grounds for expecting that those born in the 2000s will suddenly come to prefer old-fashioned websites, let alone broadcast and print, simply because they grow older,” Reuters Institute Director Rasmus Kleis Nielsen said in the report, which is based on an online survey of roughly 94,000 adults in 46 national markets, including the United States…
While many online news creators are, like Al-Khatahtbeh, trained journalists collecting new information, others are aggregators and partisan commentators sometimes masquerading as journalists. The transformation has made the public sphere much more “chaotic and contradictory,” said Jay Rosen, an associate professor of journalism at New York University and author of the PressThink blog, adding that it has never been easier to be both informed and misinformed about world events. “The internet makes possible much more content, and reaching all kinds of people,” Rosen said. “But it also makes disinformation spread.”
The article notes that “some content creators don’t follow the same ethical guidelines that are guideposts in more traditional newsrooms, especially creators who seek to build audiences based on outrage.”
The article also points out that “The ramifications for society are still coming into focus.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Will ‘News Influencers’ Replace Traditional Media?
Despite headlining a movie and starring in several recent live-action shows, Daredevil’s only had one chance to headline a video game of his own. That movie tie-in game for the Game Boy Advance may be forgotten by most, but at one point, the Marvel character was meant to star in a console before it was ultimately…
Source: Gizmodo – Behold, the Daredevil Game That Never Was
Good parenting is a lot like being a solid player two. You want to be supportive, curious, and competent. You’re there to have a good time, and understand going with the flow is key to harmony. This can be a challenge with kids and video games when you’re actually, literally, player two, especially if you’re a gamer…
Source: Kotaku – A Parent’s Guide to Super Mario Bros. Wonder
We’ve all been there: You’re getting some peanut butter, or looking to nosh a nice pickle, when you find your wrist strength is insufficient to get at the jar’s delicious contents. That’s more or less NASA’s vexing issue with the OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples—though, of course, that canister’s contents aren’t for eating.
Source: Gizmodo – Bennu Asteroid Samples Expected to ‘Fundamentally’ Shift Our Perspective on Cosmic Life
We’re already several days into the month of November and you know what that means, right? Well yes, a fowl feast is right around the corner. But this is also the time of the year when companies start promoting Black Friday (and later, Cyber Monday) deals. It’s more of a Black Friday season, really, as opposed to just a single day of sales.
Source: Hot Hardware – Google’s Great Pixel 7a Is Only 4 With This Limited Time Deal
Fix on the way but for those trapped in boot loop hell, data recovery isn’t certain. Google has confirmed that some people’s Pixel devices have lost access to local storage or become trapped in reboot loops after applying the Android 14 software update.…
Source: LXer – Help, Android 14 ate my Pixel! Bug causes endless reboots, loss of storage access
There are plenty of gamers who are having a blast in Alan Wake II, a survival horror game with bone-crunching system requirements (particularly if you want to play at a 4K resolution with max settings and ray tracing on high). If you’re having performance issues while playing the game, you may need to dial back the settings (see our Alan Wake
Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA GPU Hotfix Driver Solves Alan Wake 2 Performance Woes, BSODs And More
Linux 6.6 saw EEVDF merged and Intel hybrid cluster scheduling re-introduced. The core scheduler improvements merged this past week for the in-development Linux 6.7 isn’t quite as exciting but still there are some healthy scheduler improvements this round…
Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Boasts Some Scheduler Improvements & Intel IBRS Mitigation Change
If Prime Video’s regular movie selection doesn’t feel deep enough, a new streaming video channel from one of the most noted indie film distributors is here to help. This week, Kino Lorber launched Kino Film Collection, a new addition to Amazon’s SVOD line-up, and one that’s filled with an impressive array of titles…
Source: Gizmodo – Kino Lorber Launches New Prime Video Channel for Cinema Lovers
Though trains were once the dominant mode of transportation in the United States, that all changed following the rise of the automobile, and later, air travel. Companies merged, routes were closed, and traveling by rail became expensive and inconvenient.
Source: LifeHacker – Take Advantage of Amtrak’s New Fares to Book Your Holiday Travel
Mesa’s Rust-based OpenCL implementation “Rusticl” has added initial support for the cl_khr_gl_sharing extension for working on OpenGL and OpenCL interoperability…
Source: Phoronix – Mesa’s Rusticl Adds cl_khr_gl_sharing For Advancing OpenGL/OpenCL Interoperability
System Activity Reporter or SAR is a program utility for analyzing Linux system performances. SAR measures CPU activity, memory paging, network issues, process and thread allocation, etc. Wondering how to install and use SAR on Linux? Don’t worry, our extensive step-by-step guide is here to to show you. Read on and find out more!
Source: LXer – How to Install and use SAR on Linux
Revel is leaving behind its roots and ending its (at times controversial) electric moped service New York City and San Francisco. Company CEO and co-founder Frank Reig has sent a company-wide email, viewed by TechCrunch, telling staff that “the service has been strained and ridership isn’t what it used to be.” Revel has also sent out emails to its passengers, notifying them that the service will shut down on November 18 and encouraging them to use their account credits before then.
It’s a bad day for car-free travel in NYC. @_GoRevel is shutting down their moped business in NYC and SF.@StreetsblogNYC @ShabazzStuart pic.twitter.com/UXo5RDSKrY
— Matt (@Noticeandaccept) November 3, 2023
As the publication notes, Revel pulled the service out of its other markets in 2022, and only has around 3,000 mopeds operational in NYC and San Francisco. A spokesperson from the company told TechCrunch that ridership has dropped by 30 percent in both remaining cities year-over-year and that it’s no longer sustainable to keep that segment of its business running.
Revel temporarily paused its moped service a few times over the years due to safety concerns. In 2020, it suspended the ridesharing solution following an accident wherein two customers were killed while riding its vehicles. It brought back the service after implementing a mandatory in-app safety test and requiring riders to take a selfie of themselves wearing a helmet. Revel also pulled its mopeds from the Bronx for over a year due to a string of battery thefts.
Going forward, Revel will focus on its EV ride-hailing service operated by employee drivers across the five boroughs of New York. It also plans to expand its EV fast-charging stations in New York and the Bay Area.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/revel-is-shutting-down-its-shared-electric-moped-service-113046594.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – Revel is shutting down its shared electric moped service
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In 1976, beloved chef, cookbook author, and television personality Julia Child returned to WGBH-TV’s studios in Boston for a new cooking show, Julia Child & Company, following her hit series The French Chef. Viewers probably didn’t know that Child’s new and improved kitchen studio, outfitted with gas stoves, was paid for by the American Gas Association.
While this may seem like any corporate sponsorship, we now know it was a part of a calculated campaign by gas industry executives to increase the use of gas stoves across the United States. And stoves weren’t the only objective. The gas industry wanted to grow its residential market, and homes that used gas for cooking were likely also to use it for heat and hot water.
The industry’s efforts went well beyond careful product placement, according to new research from the nonprofit Climate Investigations Center, which analyzes corporate efforts to undermine climate science and slow the ongoing transition away from fossil fuels. As the center’s study and a National Public Radio investigation show, when evidence emerged in the early 1970s about the health effects of indoor nitrogen dioxide exposure from gas stove use, the American Gas Association launched a campaign designed to manufacture doubt about the existing science.
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Source: Ars Technica – When the natural gas industry used the playbook from Big Tobacco
Enlarge / The Apex, SWFT’s take on a very affordable e-mountain bike. (credit: John Timmer)
The subject of this review, SWFT’s new Apex mountain bike, pulls together threads from two bikes we’ve looked at previously. One of those threads came courtesy of SWFT, which introduced itself to the world with the Volt, an exercise in trying to get e-bike prices down to the point where they weren’t competing with a decent used car. While the Volt wasn’t a great bike, it was perfectly functional and offered a decent ride at a sub-$1,000 price. Now, SWFT is trying to work that same magic with a mountain bike.
The second thread came courtesy of the Specialized e-mountain bike we looked at earlier this year. In that review, I suggested that if you wanted to drop less than three or four thousand dollars on even a non-electrified mountain bike, you would sacrifice quality and features.
The Apex raises the stakes of that sacrifice by keeping dual suspensions, throwing in an electric assist, and targeting the price below $2,200. The sacrifices involved are pretty noticeable and are made worse by a couple of questionable design decisions. While the bike can be fun to point at a trail, it doesn’t work especially well as a mountain bike, though a lot of its issues would be easy to correct if SWFT decided to come out with a 2.0 version.
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Source: Ars Technica – Hitting the trails with a low-priced e-mountain bike
The Linux 6.7 sound subsystem changes submitted this week by maintainer Takashi Iwai include support for a number of new audio devices/platforms…
Source: Phoronix – New AMD & Intel Sound Support Ready For Playback In Linux 6.7
Recently there was some tuning in Mesa Git for helping with higher quality Radeon video encoding on Linux for GPUs using Video Core Next (VCN). Similar tuning has now been back-ported for older Radeon GPUs using the VCE encode engine and UVD video decoding…
Source: Phoronix – Mesa 24.0 Improving Radeon VCE/UVD Video Encoding Quality
The crypto subsystem updates for the Linux 6.7 kernel includes the usual churn like various crypto acceleration updates for different SoCs and other routine changes plus is also limiting the role of some insecure and/or obsolete crypto hashing algorithms…
Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Reducing The Roles For Some Insecure/Obsolete Crypto Algorithms
