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Some hack for good, some hack for evil,

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and some hack because Taylor Swift's Eras Tour sold out too quickly. Or at

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least that's how it seems now that Ticketmaster hackers have leaked what

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they claim are valid Taylor Swift tickets. Now that might sound cool and

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Robin Hood-like, but unfortunately, it is not. This goes back to May when

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hacker group and sparkly twilight vampires Shiny Hunters allegedly stole

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the data of 500 million Ticketmaster customers, including 193 million ticket

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barcodes. To try and put the pressure on Ticketmaster to pay a ransom, Shiny

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Hunters seems to have released the ticket data for 166,000

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Taylor Swift tickets with instructions on how to turn this data into scannable

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barcodes. Ticketmaster has released a statement saying no customers are at

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risk of losing their tickets because their SafeTix technology refreshes

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ticket barcodes every few seconds, preventing them from being stolen or

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copied. Having said that, they also advertise that their barcodes are saved

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offline to the Ticketmaster app once viewed, which could imply the tickets

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could be transferred. One software engineer already found a way around

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SafeTix just to avoid using Ticketmaster's god-awful app. Oh, and

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also scalpers have been bypassing Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes for at

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least a year now. So, yeah, they're they're just straight-up lying. Boeing

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has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the US government in relation

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to the two fatal crashes that occurred in 2018 and 2019. Those crashes killed a

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total of 346 people, but Boeing gave the Department of Justice a strong defense

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against going to trial. Money. In 2021, Boeing made a $2.5

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billion deal with the DOJ that required the aeronautics firm to implement major

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safety changes and engage in no wrongdoing for 3 years. But after the

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door blew out on that Alaska Airlines flight earlier this year, the DOJ

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smartly determined that Boeing had broken the terms of the deal. Now,

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Boeing has accepted a new deal to avoid a trial that will require them to spend

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at least $455 million on improving compliance and safety programs. And

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they're definitely not going to break another promise to the US government.

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That'd be crazy. They pinky swore.

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Not everyone is super happy with this deal. For example, the families of the

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crash victims. They've made it known that they will be asking the court to

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reject the deal, believing it fails to hold Boeing accountable. And yeah, when

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you think about how Boeing's deception of federal regulators led to hundreds of

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deaths, a promise to do better next time does sound a bit inadequate. PC hardware

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manufacturer ZOTAC has come under fire for allowing anyone to access private

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customer data with a simple Google search. According to an investigation by

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Gamers Nexus, the company seemed to have been storing RMA files containing full

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names, mailing addresses, and other sensitive customer information in a

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publicly accessible server, making them accessible in Google search. Not only

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was customer data exposed, but business-to-business invoices were also

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equally Googleable. Fortunately, it seems ZOTAC is now trying to fix the

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issue. While links will still show up in web searches, they appear to be dead

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when you actually click on them. But before we give ZOTAC too much credit for

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doing the bare minimum after a maximum screw-up, some information is still

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stored in Google's cache. So, if you happen to have bought and then returned

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any ZOTAC merchandise, you may want to search your name and ZOTAC to see if any

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results pop up. You can request that Google remove the result from search by

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clicking the three dots in the top right of the result, or you can leave it up

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and just pretend you're famous. I'm basically Taylor Swift.

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They're very sharp. Contrary to previous rumors, AM5 will not be getting a boost

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in the 3D V-Cache department over the previous 7000 X3D series chips.

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According to WCCFTech, the new 9000 X3D processors will feature

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up to 128 or 96 MB of L3 cache on dual

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and single CCDs, respectively. If there's one thing we love in technology,

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it's when things stay the same. Like core counts and clock speeds, the latter

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of which haven't been confirmed yet for the X3D variants. Unless you're into

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overclocking, you might want to wait to upgrade. Qualcomm seems to be leaving

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users of ARM-based Copilot Plus laptops to fend for themselves when it comes to

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compatibility issues. After Microsoft espoused its Prism x86 emulator for

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Snapdragon X notebooks, Samsung warned customers that its Galaxy Book Edge 4

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Copilot Plus PC cannot run some common

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software. According to The Register, Qualcomm is simply directing concerned

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users to community-made crowdsourced websites that list compatible apps

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without explaining why some apps can't be emulated. Meanwhile, Microsoft is

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apparently continuing to parrot that x86 emulation works great. But hey, I guess

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the Windows on ARM revolution couldn't be a real revolution if the new regime

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wasn't pumping up propaganda. It's a real M1 moment. It takes a while. 2

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years for Apple. We just learned that last month, police in Phoenix, Arizona

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pulled over an autonomous Waymo vehicle that was driving in the wrong lane

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towards oncoming traffic. The car's onboard system had apparently gotten a

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bit scrambled by inconsistent construction signs and wound up running

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a red light like a confused senior trying their best. The car had neither a

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driver nor a passenger, and the police dispatch records note that the

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responding officer was unable to issue citation to computer. According to

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Waymo, its cars are three times better at avoiding collisions than human

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drivers. Because human drivers also suck. It's

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like multiplying by zero. Microsoft's Notepad is finally getting an upgrade

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though. Spell check and auto-correct 41 years into development. What's next?

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Predictive text in 2034? The new features came out to select users

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earlier this year, but now that the massively complicated beta test is

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complete, the team has deemed it ready and safe for everyone on Windows 11.

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There's dozens of us. Along with all of the other developments over the past few

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years like find and replace and text zooming, the debate over Notepad versus

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Notepad++ is over. Plus plus wins. Just

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use that one. Please. And Australian telecom companies that are now sending

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suspected spam callers to Apate, an

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AI-powered system designed to learn more about scammers while wasting their time

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and frustrating their efforts. Apate is modeled off past scam baiting systems

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like Lenny, a 2011 chatbot meant to

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imitate a telephone scammer's perfect victim, a lonely old man desperate to

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talk and annoy the out of them. Unlike Lenny, however, Apate can imitate

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victims of any age and background, making it like a shape-shifting

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time-wasting hydra of an old man who just wants to talk. My grandkids never

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call. Where am I? Who are you? I DON'T HAVE any grandkids, but it won't

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be a waste of your time to come back on Wednesday for more tech news, unless you

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consider hearing tech news a waste of time. But in that case, why are you here

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now? Still, come back though.