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French tech company Capgemini to sell its subsidiary working for US ICE amid international controversy over the deaths of two people in ICE operations


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'Call of Duty' Microtransactions Surge Followed Jeffrey Epstein Advice to CEO


'Call of Duty' players are voicing their distress after stumbling upon specific correspondence in the recently released Epstein Files. Despite the convicted sex offender having no direct public ties to the gaming industry, and famously being banned from Xbox Live, it appears Jeffrey Epstein may have been a vocal proponent of introducing paid content to Activision's flagship franchise.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/call-duty-microtransactions-surge-followed-jeffrey-epstein-advice-ceo-1775450



42 years ago, this was state of the art copy protection


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in reply to DigitalDilemma

wow. Im old enough this could possibly be a thing for me but I barely had seen and touched computers. wizardy and oregon trail.
in reply to DigitalDilemma

My dad had some old games for his Amstrad computer that needed a Lenslok, to decode the characters displayed on the screen.

IIRC it didn't work very well at all.







in reply to Karna

Microsoft Teams is such a horrible piece of software that productivity will rise after abandoning Teams.
in reply to Karna

Nota bene how the description omits the world “encryption”. Timeo Frenchmen et dona ferentes


When Silence Is Mistaken for Peace


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Many assume the war is over and everything is fine now. That’s not our reality. Gunfire has decreased, but it hasn’t stopped, and daily life is still tight and uncertain. Our calls may be quieter, but the struggle continues. Any support or solidarity still means a lot.
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When Silence Is Mistaken for Peace




When Silence Is Mistaken for Peace




Bazzite Linux SMASHES Windows


in reply to cheesemoo

Plus a wider mouth and perhaps a hand grasping some hair. It doesn't convey enough SURPRISING RESULTS about using this NICHE OPERATING SYSTEM.
in reply to daanvd

A windows compute in the background that is on fire
in reply to AllzeitBereit

i thought the sloptuber title was funny tbh. 5-10 fps over windows isnt exactly like, mind numbing, but its cool to see the tests
in reply to marcie (she/her)

It's funny if you know that it is parody, but it's so widespead in this day and ago so I tend to unconsciously filter it out. Tbh I probably wouldn't have clicked the link if I hadn't seen your comment, since I thought this was the original title of the video
in reply to ffhein

Tbh I probably wouldn’t have clicked the link if I hadn’t seen your comment, since I thought this was the original title of the video


its what it was originally but youtube has a way for vids to swap out less attractive titles automatically for alternate titles

in reply to marcie (she/her)

But RAM on windows is 15GB vs 9.1GB on Bazzite, the difference is massive! That's only Cyberpunk, I didn't finish the video.

Windows is full of crap, especially Windows 11

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The ‘Wall of Tears’ in New York: when the names of Gaza’s children become testimony that refutes Israel




Too much open-source AI is exposing itself to the web


As if AI weren't enough of a security concern, now researchers have discovered that open-source AI deployments may be an even bigger problem than those from commercial providers.

Threat researchers at SentinelLABS teamed up with internet mappers from Censys to take a look at the footprint of Ollama deployments exposed to the internet, and what they found was a global network of largely homogenous, open-source AI deployments just waiting for the right zero-day to come along.

175,108 unique Ollama hosts in 130 countries were found exposed to the public internet, with the vast majority of instances found to be running Llama, Qwen2, and Gemma2 models, most of those relying on the same compression choices and packaging regimes. That, says the pair, suggests open-source AI deployments have become a monoculture ripe for exploitation.


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

depending entirely on ONE (quite violent at that) country for the world's compute is insane in the first place. i'm not well read into the decade long chinese effort to make these chips, but i'm rooting for at least some modest success.

from a quick search it seems their previous iteration, the MTT S90 already supports all modern apis and is already comparable to mid-range nvidia/amd chips from a couple of gens ago.

which is impressive, but it seems to be of limited production/availability so far.

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in reply to ☂️-

They've made substantial progress in the past 10 years. Sadly, the lack of access to EUVL machines is what's really holding them back from making higher end and more competitive technologies.

They are actively working on making EUVL machines domestically, which would be incredible given ASML is the only organization in the world that currently makes them. Still, it'll probably not be till the 2030s that they actually can get into production with that.

If this is a topic that interests you, GamersNexus did an awesome hour-long deep dive into a couple Chinese chip companies and what they've been making and how they are being unfairly handicapped by the west, and the incredible progress they are making despite that. This is sort of perfect timing for Chinese players to enter the market given Western companies are gouging consumers and losing the good will, pretty much every PC enthusiast in the world would be happy to buy Chinese products over Western ones based strictly on price of performance is up to par.

youtu.be/qzfhhAfxK-A



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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I swear to god it's so easy to spot CIA psyops I could do it with my eyes closed, yet libs see this kind of shit and will still doubt it.

edit: i was very sleepy when i first wrote this comment sorry for the typos

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in reply to ghost_laptop

The libs are truly the most propagandized people to ever live on this planet. They embody everything they project onto people living in China and DPRK.
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