Ashlee Lhamon's "Caesura" is io9's featured Lightspeed Magazine story for October.
Entertainment Read on GizmodoGitLab has released security updates to address multiple flaws in Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE), including a critical arbitrary branch pipeline execution flaw....
Politics Read on Bleeping ComputerA multi-year competition challenge to Facebook (aka Meta), which saw Germany’s antitrust authority become a pioneering champion for privacy rights in 2019 after it sought to block the social media giant’s ‘superprofiling’ of users on the grounds that consentless cross-site tracking of users is an “exploitative abuse” of Facebook’s monopoly position, finally concluded Thursday with […]
Politics Read on TechCrunchTabletop board games and video games typically offer ways to reduce their difficulty. But getting and keeping a group together for game nights, across different schedules and experience levels? That can be fiendishly hard. That, more than anything, is what Sunderfolk wants to make easier. At its core, it’s a turn-based tactical RPG with well-worn hero classes and mechanics familiar to fans of crunchy tabletop games and CRPGs. But this upcoming game from Secret Door, led by Blizzard veteran and tabletop aficionado Chris Sigaty, wants to bring more people into the game-night fold. By fusing Jackbox-like accessibility with tabletop mechanics and letting the game do all the hard work, Sunderfolk aims to reduce learning curves, eliminate setup, and encourage game nights with friends. Also, you use your phone as a controller, connected to one "big screen," local or remote. But it makes sense, and it worked, at least in the two hours I got to play Sunderfolk. The phone (or tablet) is both a controller and a replacement for all the cards, tokens, and other ephemera a tabletop player would have in front of them. And it allows for quick setup of couch co-op or screencasted play. Sunderfolk is a game that can make use of the QR-code-scanning, Discord-arranging skills many of us learned during the pandemic. Read full article
Entertainment Read on Ars TechnicaIntel is finally addressing how hot and power-hungry its desktop CPUs have become. Intel’s new flagship Core Ultra 200S series of processors, arriving on October 24th, are focused on performance per watt to run cooler and more efficiently than the previous 14th Gen chips. Codenamed Arrow Lake S, these are also Intel’s first enthusiast desktop CPUs with a built-in NPU, or a neural processing unit, for accelerating AI tasks. “Arrow Lake will deliver Intel’s best performance for enthusiasts in desktop and mobile,” says Josh Newman, general manager and VP of product marketing client computing. “It will deliver that performance at significantly lower power levels than previous generations of Intel enthusiast products, and Arrow Lake is also...
Business Read on The Verge TechTechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is only two weeks away, and we want to ensure that students and recent grads don’t miss out on the full Attendee Pass experience — now available at a discounted rate with a Student Pass. We get that finances can be tight for students and recent grads, but we don’t want you […]
Education Possible ad Read on TechCrunchA motorcyclist died in an accident on Zuiderzeeweg in Amsterdam during the early hours of Thursday morning. The police reported that a chase “may have” preceded the fatal accident.
Crime and Courts Read on NL TimesLexus is launching a new LX SUV with a “rugged” hybrid engine that’s capable of surviving some watery excursions. The LX 700h is equipped with a 3.5L V6 twin-turbo hybrid system with a waterproof battery and a divider that helps prevent water ingress to the engine, and a waterproof AC inverter that provides up to 2,400 watts of external power supply. If water gets into the system, you’ll be alerted on the new 12.3-inch full LCD meter screen. Lexus says its newly designed parallel hybrid system integrates a motor generator with a clutch positioned in between the engine and transmission. The setup lets it maximize torque output and maintain full-time 4WD, which is good for efficiency. It’s also the automaker’s first system that includes...
Environment Read on The VergeUpdate, October 10th: Registration is full for Nintendo’s playtest. Our original story follows. Do you want to be one of the 10,000 people who participate in Nintendo’s mysterious new “Playtest Program” for Nintendo Switch Online? If you meet the criteria, you can apply for the playtest from the “To application page” link on Nintendo’s website starting today at 11AM ET / 8AM PT. Applications will stay open until October 15th at 10:59AM ET, though Nintendo says it will stop taking applications early if it reaches capacity. I imagine you’ll be up against a legion of hopefuls, but if you want to throw your hat in the ring, here’s what you need to know. Perhaps most importantly, is the fact that only people with an active Nintendo Switch...
Entertainment Read on The VergeAfter a great event last month in San Jose, Ars is switching coasts for October and descending in force on our nation's capital. If you're on the East Coast and want to come hang out with Ars EIC Ken Fisher and me while we talk to some neat speakers and learn some stuff, then read on! Continuing our partnership with IBM, Ars presents "AI in DC: Privacy, Compliance, and Making Infrastructure Smarter." Our tone this time around will be a little more policy-oriented than our San Jose event. We intend to have three panel discussions, with the overall topics looking like this: Specifically, here are our panels and the panelists we've confirmed: Read full article
Politics Read on Ars TechnicaAI is spamming up job applications. Jason Koebler from 404 Media writes about a person who claimed to have used a free tool, AI Hawk, to apply for 17 jobs in an hour — only stopping when they’d reached 2,843. The tool automatically entered the person’s bio, generated résumés, wrote customized cover letters, and checked […]
Business Read on TechCrunchA pro-Palestinian group has compromised the login information for the world’s biggest digital archive and launched a sustained DDoS attack against the site.
Crime and Courts Read on GizmodoThe Dutch Cabinet wants to closely consider exactly what work close relatives of King Willem-Alexander will be able to do in the future.
Politics Read on NL TimesAnother classic Star Wars game is getting the updated re-release treatment, with some changes to its anachronistic take on the prequel-era Jedi.
Entertainment Read on GizmodoCan AI actually change our love-hate relationship with our tools?
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