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• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Breaks Franchise Record

  01-11-2022 23:40 via games.slashdot.org
  Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II has had record sales of $800 million worldwide in sell-through following the first three days from its release. VentureBeat reports: The full title debuted on October 28 after hitting early-access release for the single-player campaign on October 20, breaking all previous three-day sales records since the franchise debuted in 2003. The blockbuster opening tops any of the biggest worldwide box office openings of 2022, surpassing Top Gun: Maverick, and
  
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• Work-From-Home Trend May Have Peaked In UK, LinkedIn Survey Finds

  01-11-2022 23:02 via news.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Remote working may have peaked in the UK as a loosening labor market hands power back to employers, according to research by LinkedIn. In September, 12% of UK jobs advertised on the site were remote, compared with 16% in January, as "paranoid" employers worry about the productivity of working from home, said Josh Graff, the managing director of LinkedIn for EMEA and Latin America. The company also found that three out of four bosses in the UK a
  
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• OpenSSL 3 Patch, Once Heartbleed-level 'Critical,' Arrives as a Lesser 'High'

  01-11-2022 22:20 via it.slashdot.org
  An OpenSSL vulnerability once signaled as the first critical-level patch since the Internet-reshaping Heartbleed bug has just been patched. It ultimately arrived as a "high" security fix for a buffer overflow, one that affects all OpenSSL 3.x installations, but is unlikely to lead to remote code execution. From a report: OpenSSL version 3.0.7 was announced last week as a critical security fix release. The specific vulnerabilities (now CVE-2022-37786 and CVE-2022-3602) had been largely unknown un
  
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• Charter Raises Base Internet To $80 a Month; Price Hikes To Hit 9.5M Users

  01-11-2022 21:44 via tech.slashdot.org
  Charter is raising prices on Spectrum home Internet service by $5 a month starting today, a company spokesperson confirmed to Ars. Standalone broadband prices are rising to $79.99 a month for 300Mbps download speeds, $99.99 a month for 500Mbps, and $119.99 a month for 1Gbps. 300Mbps is the advertised download speed for Charter's entry-level tier. From a report: The price increase takes effect today in most of Charter's 41-state territory, the company said. It affects broadband-only customers and
  
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• Air Force One Deal Has Cost Boeing Another $766 Million

  01-11-2022 21:05 via news.slashdot.org
  schwit1 shares a report: Boeing lost $766 million in Q3 on the project to build Air Force One aircraft. It increases Boeing's total losses on the two jets to $1.9 billion since the build began. Boeing bears the cost of any delays under a deal struck with the Trump Administration. schwit1 adds some commentary: "All government contracts should be like this. Cost savings are yours to keep. Cost overruns are yours to eat."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
  
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• Uber Tests Push Notification Ads, a Feature Literally No One Wants

  01-11-2022 20:25 via slashdot.org
  Uber recently launched its new advertising division and in-app ads. Apparently, those ads aren't staying within the app. From a report: Instead, ads from other companies are being sent out as push notifications, much to the chagrin of some Uber users. Over the weekend, people turned to Twitter to complain about the notifications, sharing screenshots of ads, including one particularly popular one from Peloton that Uber had sent out. One of the primary complaints: notifications are being sent out
  
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• US Banks Spent $1 Billion on Ransomware Payments in 2021, Treasury Says

  01-11-2022 19:45 via it.slashdot.org
  US financial institutions spent nearly $1.2 billion on likely ransomware-related payments last year, most commonly in response to breaches originating with Russian criminal groups, according to the Treasury Department. From a report: The payments more than doubled from 2020, underscoring the pernicious damage that ransomware continues to wreak on the private sector. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, said its analysis "indicates that ransomware continues to pose a significant t
  
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• Elon Musk Says Twitter Blue Subscription, at $8 a Month, Will Feature Blue Checkmark and Cut Ads By Half

  01-11-2022 18:46 via slashdot.org
  Big changes are underway at Twitter. Elon Musk, in a Twitter thread: Twitter's current lords and peasants system for who has or doesn't have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month. Price adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity.
  You will also get:
  - Priority in replies, mentions & search, which is essential to defeat spam/scam
  - Ability to post long video & audio
  - Half as many ads
  And paywall bypass for publishers willing to work with us
  
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• FCC Commissioner Says Government Should Ban TikTok

  01-11-2022 18:11 via news.slashdot.org
  The Council on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) should take action to ban TikTok, Brendan Carr, one of five commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission, told Axios in an interview. From the report: "I don't believe there is a path forward for anything other than a ban," Carr said, citing recent revelations about how TikTok and ByteDance handle U.S. user data. Carr highlighted concerns about U.S. data flowing back to China and the risk of a state actor using TikTok to covertly in
  
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• RIP Google Hangouts, Google's Last, Best Chance To Compete With iMessage

  01-11-2022 17:44 via tech.slashdot.org
  Google Hangouts is scheduled for death today. The phone app has been individually booting people off the service since July, but the last vestiges of Hangouts, the web app, will be shut down today. From a report: For a brief period, Hangouts was Google's best, most ambitious, most popular messaging effort, but 5 billion downloads later, Google is moving on. Hangout's next of kin, Google Chat, should have all of your messages and contacts automatically imported by now, but the new service is a me
  
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• Amazon Prime Now Comes With a Full Music Catalog of 100 Million Songs and Ad-free Podcasts

  01-11-2022 17:05 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  Amazon today announced a new benefit for its Prime members which could lure some subscribers away from other music services, like Apple Music or Spotify. From a report: The company said it will now offer Prime subscribers a full music catalog with 100 million songs, instead of the previously more limited selection of just 2 million songs, and will make most of the top podcasts on its service available without ads. In addition, the Amazon Music app is getting a revamp, which includes a new "Podca
  
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• UK Regulator Ofcom Sounds Death Knell of the Fax Machine

  01-11-2022 16:39 via news.slashdot.org
  The British communications regulator has sounded the death knell of the fax machine, just over 30 years after it revolutionised office life. From a report: Ofcom said on Tuesday it had started the process to scrap legislation compelling BT, the former state-owned monopoly, to provide dedicated landlines for the devices at affordable prices. The facsimile machine, first commercialised by Xerox in 1964, became a ubiquitous feature of offices around the world from the late 1980s, but has since been
  
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• CISA Upgrades to TLP 2.0

  01-11-2022 16:28 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: November 1, 2022
  Today, CISA officially upgraded to Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) 2.0, which facilitates greater information sharing and collaboration. CISA made this upgrade in accordance with the recommendation from the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams to upgrade to TLP 2.0 by January 2023.Key TLP 2.0 updates:TLP 2.0 changes TLP:WHITE to TLP:CLEAR.TLP 2.0 adds the designation TLP:AMBER+STRICT, which instructs the recipient to keep the information strictly wit
  
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• CISA Releases One Industrial Control Systems Advisory

  01-11-2022 15:44 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: November 1, 2022
  CISA released one Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisory on November 1, 2022. This advisory provides timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS.CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisory for technical details and mitigations:ICSA-22-221-01 Mitsubishi Electric Multiple Factory Automation Products (Update C)This product is provided subject to this Notification and
  
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• Google's New Shopping Features Can Help You Snag Good Deals

  01-11-2022 15:41 via tech.slashdot.org
  Google's rolling out a handful of new shopping features that should make it easier to find good deals directly from search. When you search for a product, Google will now surface results with coupon codes that you can copy and paste during checkout. From a report: Any products with a coupon available will have a new "Special Offer" badge in the top-left corner of their thumbnail. Google previously only labeled products when they were on sale or when their price dropped, but this new badge makes
  
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• SpaceX Launches First Falcon Heavy Mission in Three Years

  01-11-2022 14:59 via science.slashdot.org
  SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, the world's most-powerful active rocket, lifted off for the first time in more than three years on Monday from Florida's Cape Canaveral, with Elon Musk's company sending a group of satellites into orbit for the U.S. Space Force. From a report: The rocket system, representing three Falcon 9 boosters strapped side-by-side, lifted off at a SpaceX launch pad. The rocket's two side boosters were due to land in synchrony on adjacent concrete slabs along Florida's east coast roug
  
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• Five Years Later, Is eSIM Finally Ready To Take On the World?

  01-11-2022 14:00 via mobile.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Android Authority: It's been five years since the advent of the eSIM card on smartphones, and yet the computer in our pockets is still tied down to a plastic tab that hasn't changed all that much since its debut in 1991. What gives? [...] An eSIM-enabled phone can store multiple SIM cards on the device. It makes switching networks as simple as switching your Wi-Fi network, and that's anything but convenient for mobile operators. For users in areas with sp
  
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• Scientists Find Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Hiding In the Sun's Glare

  01-11-2022 11:00 via science.slashdot.org
  A team of researchers has detected a trio of near-Earth asteroids in the inner solar system, one of which is the largest found since 2014 that poses a potential risk to the planet. The asteroids remained undetected until now because they occupy a region of the sky hidden by the Sun's glare. Gizmodo reports: Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are two types of near-Earth objects that space agencies like to keep track of. Despite the scary-sounding names, none of
  
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• China Launches Final Module To Complete Tiangong Space Station

  01-11-2022 08:00 via science.slashdot.org
  The third and final module has arrived at China's Tiangong space station. Space.com reports: The Mengtian module launched to Earth orbit atop a Long March 5B heavy-lift rocket from Wenchang, south China, at 3:37 a.m. EDT (0737 GMT and 3:37 p.m Beijing time) on Monday (Oct. 31), according to the state-run outlet Xinhua News. Mengtian arrived at Tiangong as planned about 13 hours after liftoff, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The launch marked China's ninth space station-related missio
  
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• Leaked Documents Outline DHS's Plans To Police Disinformation

  01-11-2022 04:30 via yro.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Intercept: The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents -- obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents -- illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms. The work, much of which remains unknown to the American public, came into clearer view e
  
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• Electric Scooter Ban Increased Congestion In Atlanta By 10%, Study Finds

  01-11-2022 03:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  A study published last week in the scientific journal Nature Energy studied the effects of traffic and travel time in a city when micromobility options like electric scooters and e-bikes are banned. The results documented exactly how much traffic increased as a result of people switching back to personal cars instead of smaller, more urban-appropriate vehicles. Electrek reports: The study, titled "Impacts of micromobility on car displacement with evidence from a natural experiment and geofencing
  
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• Why Google Is Removing JPEG-XL Support From Chrome

  01-11-2022 02:25 via tech.slashdot.org
  Following yesterday's article about Google Chrome preparing to deprecate the JPEG-XL image format, a Google engineer has now provided their reasons for dropping this next-generation image format. Phoronix reports: As noted yesterday, a patch is pending for the Google Chrome/Chromium browser to deprecate the still-experimental (behind a feature flag) JPEG-XL image format support from their web browser. The patch marks Chrome 110 and later as deprecating JPEG-XL image support. No reasoning was pro
  
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• Crypto Lender Hodlnaut Lost Nearly $190 Million in TerraUSD Drop

  01-11-2022 01:45 via slashdot.org
  Embattled cryptocurrency lender Hodlnaut downplayed its exposure to the collapsed digital-token ecosystem created by fugitive Do Kwon yet suffered a near $190 million loss from the wipeout. Bloomberg reports:The loss is among the findings of an interim judicial managers' report seen by Bloomberg News. It is the first such report since a Singapore court in August granted Hodlnaut protection from creditors to come up with a recovery plan. "It appears that the directors had downplayed the extent of
  
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• 'QR Code Menus Are the Restaurant Industry's Worst Idea'

  01-11-2022 01:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from an article written by The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf: Thinking of my earliest trips to restaurants, in the 1980s, I faintly remember waiters taking my grandfather's credit card and using a manual flatbed imprinter to make an impression of its raised numbers. My nephew, born early in the coronavirus pandemic, may come of age with similar memories of physical menus as a childhood relic. Recalling them dimly when a dining scene in an old movie jogs his
  
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• Netflix Adds 6th Gaming Studio With Acquisition of Spy Fox

  01-11-2022 00:20 via games.slashdot.org
  Amir Rahimi, vice president of game studios at Netflix, said in a blog post that, close to the first anniversary of launching games a year ago, Netflix is announcing that Spry Fox is joining as its sixth in-house games studio. VentureBeat reports: Spry Fox is an award-winning independent studio focused on cozy, original games. Their unique approach to game development and success with titles like Triple Town, Alphabear and Cozy Grove will help accelerate Netflix's creative development in another
  
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