after our painstaking analysis we have determined that there is in fact zero
tech news to be found in those new space pictures from the james webb telescope
what are you like from texas i think it's confirmed that we have the only
tech news in the universe seems unlikely i know but that's just
the science i don't trust you game engine maker unity has made some weird
moves in the last couple of years and the company is sticking to their
questionable guns with their latest announcement unity has made a deal to
merge with iron source an organization described as either an app monetization
platform or a malware ad tech company
depending on who you ask and this comes just two weeks after hundreds of unity
staff were laid off personally it was interesting trying to learn about this
story because almost every article we could find talked about this acquisition
in terms of how it would help unity devs better monetize their games
but the community response was almost universally negative calling ironsource
a malware delivery system and a company that literally makes browser toolbar
viruses to be fair they can help you monetize unity is being accused of
horrible mismanagement because of their bold acquisitions like weta digital and
parsec as well as the recent layoffs seems like the general sentiment toward
the unity game engine is still positive but that may change once it's updated to
automatically install a search engine that you've never heard of that somehow
worse than banging science is always progressing nothing the company hyped
into the stratosphere thanks to being founded by former one plus chief carl
pay finally launched its nothing phone one yesterday with an event that was
live streamed partially from a hole in the wall cafe
i guess that's part of the message yeah they're humble
stop the hype oh and what's that cool new phone in your hand
it's nothing it's just nothing yeah it also legitimately does seem to be the
case here the phone one has some decent specs like a fingerprint reader under
its 120 hertz screen and wireless charging and it's got those super cool
glyph leds that a lot of people are probably going to
end up covering up with a case but it also only has the mid-range snapdragon
778g plus processor and ip58 water
resistance rather than the full 68. the best part though is the price at 399
euros it is pretty aggressive but it's
not coming to north america so maybe that's why i'm feeling so salty right
now what the heck because i couldn't buy it even if i wanted to things are stupid
if i can't buy them right twitter for example yes and the internet archive a
vital resource for any self-respecting terminally online person could soon be
forced to pay millions of dollars in fines unless a 2020 lawsuit is dismissed
the suit was brought about by a group of book publishers in 2020 after the
archive launched its national emergency library project which allowed users to
borrow digital copies of 1.4 million
books during the early days of the pandemic when people were arguing about
whether they should bake a sourdough or a focaccia that was nice
the publishers say that this is copyright infringement but the archive
with help from the electronic frontier foundation has filed to dismiss that
lawsuit arguing that since they purchased physical copies of every book
they make available they are no different than a regular library a
library that also indexes the internet so you can never truly escape a bad
tweet it's a public service we need it gotcha
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is volatile bandai namco the publisher for tekken pac-man and elden ring has
confirmed reports that emerged yesterday claiming the company was hacked the
extent and impact of the attack is not fully clear yet but it is possible that
customer information may have been compromised now i know the mechanics are
slightly different but with so many elden ring mods out there is it possible
that we could summon some kind of tarnished to invade the hackers realm my
build isn't really for that if not then why did you spend a thousand hours in
this game why like for what if you can't summon the tarnish what is it what is
this game what is it since the original spectre exploit was identified in 2018
so many more speculative execution flaws have been found in Intel and AMD
processors that we're starting to find exploits in the updates that were meant
to mitigate those exploits researchers have identified a flaw
they're calling ret bleed because it undermines a software defense called ret
palin and to make matters worse mitigations for this mitigation are
likely to come with slowdowns in performance i mean the truth is we can only slap
flex seal patches on the x86 architecture so many times here people
maybe we should move on but that could be a risky business
i don't know if this counts as tech news but one of our buddies at gamer's nexus
has released a 30-minute documentary on the collapse of artesian builds and they
even managed to get into their warehouse complete with moldy lunches
give it a watch because it'll be a while before i can get another tech longer out
oh this was written for riley i'm just not as fast as tech jesus uh
blessed be his mane yes i get it because he's got the hair got
the hair hot on the heels of the massive rogers blackout in canada internet tv
and phone provider optimum has experienced a network outage in new
jersey that affected more than 13 000 customers which is about the same as the
population of canada so we got lots of space so that's pretty bad optimum
doesn't seem to be doing as great a job as rogers of communicating that to its
users but it appears that the cause may simply be a car that ran into a utility
pole and not a couple of hosers pressing the wrong buttons in the back room so
yeah hopefully service will be restored pretty soon there but you should just take off of there
and the latest unexpected thing to run classic doom is
doom itself what yes someone who goes by
kgsws has posted a video demonstrating a
successful attempt at playing an instance of doom
within another instance of doom so you'd
think this is the end game right i don't think so because we haven't even
tried running doom on some truly crazy things like like a human body i could
put it i think you could put it let's get to work displaying your belly button
my work though is done so come back on friday for more tech news there might be
some floating around out there in the cosmos we don't know but we're going to keep looking we need more data call up
my buddy james james webb mr webb