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lifestyle whatever works blockchain technology we love it it's on the rise
but apparently valve isn't a fan yesterday the pc gaming giant banned all
steam games that use blockchain technology they didn't make a big deal
about it though the change was spotted by age of rus developer space pirate
games who tweeted about a new entry in steam's rules and guidelines section
banning applications built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange
of cryptocurrencies or nfts
pictures gameplay in age of rust involves solving puzzles to collect nfts
so they're obviously not too jazzed about the decision but for valve this is
less about staying in the stone age and more about blocking in-game items that
have real world value since that's what got them caught up in a legal snafu i
love the word snafu over gambling laws in 2018. so lame valve will i get the
thrill of playing the nft market except literally anywhere else on the
internet nft after htc's vive flow vr headset leaked
earlier this week the company officially unveiled it yesterday answering all of
our burning questions like were most or all of those press images of people
happily using the headset photoshopped the answer is yes most or all of them
were turns out the flow is intended for media playback and very simple vr apps
use an Android phone as the controller and it can't run for more than a few
minutes without being plugged into a battery pack that's the way i
it honestly seems like a google daydream view or an oculus go
but worse if that's possible also worse is this tweet from the
president of htc china asking facebook's andrew bosworth affectionately known as
boss if he'd like to trade oculus's lightweight vr prototype for a vive flow
a deal boss rejects don't fight guys no one wants either of
these although i might be speaking too soon the us army just delayed their
testing at microsoft's hololens to make sure it can meet requirements and i mean
that thing's been it's like 20 years old at this point so maybe htc is involved
somehow certainly not and the internet hasn't had a good ok
boomer moment for some time thankfully the governor of missouri has stepped up
governor mike parson which is a very boomery name has threatened to sue the
st louis post dispatch for hacking after
they published a story about a security flaw found in the state's public records
database the flaw made the social security numbers of education workers
visible simply by inspecting the site's html source code which can be done by
pressing f12 what you can also right-click i'm a hacker i knew it
i've been blackhead this whole time making the story even more amazing is
the fact that this flaw was reported to the state many years ago and the post
dispatch held off on publishing the story until officials could remove the
affected web pages to be fair i get how
governor parson wasn't able to parse how all all this works in his mind
the internet's just a series of tubes y'all went down the wrong tube we only
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quick bits are we do this every time many customers are visible a wireless
provider owned by verizon reported that their accounts were hacked this week
leading to fraudulent purchases and changed passwords
millennial hacked visible blamed reused passwords from outside sources for the
hack but also admitted to experiencing technical issues with its platform last
week so while visible may have screwed up here the real takeaway is use a
password manager and two-factor
the authentication one two three four no
after best buy essentially locked the ability to purchase a ps5 behind a 200
pay wall scout buy sony has decided enough is
enough and now they're offering a direct buy option this is revolutionary they're
vertically integrated this is crazy psn account owners can register to buy a
single console only on playstation's website and will be selected based on
their previous interests and playstation activities wow i never thought a stock
shortage would lead to another gamer gate keeping we're gatekeeping
who gets to buy only true fans can buy a ps5 can you do the playstation thing
no playstation roblox is weathering some player backlash after announcing a
number of upcoming changes including a ban on the use of vpns and the addition
of realistic player avatars with reactive facial expressions
i have a canker sore i have to eat like this i get the pushback because as far as i
understand roblox is supposed to be kind of ugly so if your realistic face is
pretty it's no bueno it fulfills the deep need in all of us to have to
inhibit the body of something that looks like a mutated lego person it's
fundamental that hair just clicks on do i really am
yes i wish a new phone called the zimbezi z2 it's a
phone made by an la-based company that's designed to share the profits from the
sale of your personal data with you for a change
the zim beezy is that what is it i don't know i don't know the zimbzz2
will go for 550 sporting some real mid-range specs but
don't worry you'll make your money back in no time with every piece of your soul
you sell to advertisers honestly i may prefer that they have my data if it
means i can pronounce the name of my phone
and it's happened they put a gun on spot okay it's not actually spot from boston
dynamics but it's a very similarly designed dog robot robot dog called
qugv from ghost robotics who recently showed
off models equipped with both a sniper rifle and a spy drone we now live in a
world with flying robot sniper spy dogs in hindsight it was inevitable
they're still good boys and this episode's ending is inevitable so come
back on monday with more tech news more good boys and everything will just be
fine just fine not if those dogs show up