apparently FIFA plans to release game named FIFA 24. Poor people that fall for this and buy the new game... I give it about 95% chance to be complete junk

"I can assure you that the only authentic, real game that has the FIFA name will be the best one available for gamers and football fans," FIFA President Gianni Infantino said in a statement Monday. "The FIFA name is the only global, original title. FIFA 23, FIFA 24, FIFA 25, and FIFA 26, and so on—the constant is the FIFA name and it will remain forever and remain the best."

EA will lose more then you expect on this, not really due to some inherent FIFA brand appeal, but because their franchise is forced to change name. After well over 20 years FIFA is recognized as a top tier football game by everyone. Now they will have issues with transferring this recognition to a new brand - this is going to cost them a lot in advertising budgets.

Its not really Microsoft only. As a dev you can also access WER entries for your application. Back when we had a native application we used it a few times to find and fix some crashes that were unreported by the users or hard to reproduce.

UN always was and always will be a talking forum. It has no real power whatsoever. Any member of security council can fully ignore it.

You cannot unilaterally send "blue helmets" - for them to be considered such they need to be recognized as neutral by both sides. If Russia doesn't recognize them and you send them anyway then it just means you are joining the conflict militarily with all the results you would get from doing it normally.

Nope, no one will join this conflict with their military. There will be lots of talking, some sanctions, but on the actual combat front Ukraine will be left alone.

This doesn't mean there will be no war later on - if Putin decides to push further there are pretty much only NATO countries left around to the west (except Finland and Sweden). If he decides to for example push baltic states (they have large russian minorities) we may get an actual conflict.

Looking at russian sources (using google translate) this minecraft stuff was just a side topic. The case was mainly centered around manufacture of pyrotechnics and some kind of attack on Putin's party office (breaking a window and throwing in smoke bomb? Im not sure). Seems like pretty standard anarchist activist stuff.

While its certainly better then nothing, such data is highly risky as AI might instead find and focus on some flaw in your simulation method and with very limited real data it may be hard to control against it.

For me this was the only windows upgrade that I was willing to spend the effort to rollback. After a month or two of installing ME, I reinstalled windows 98.

Apparently github mitigates sharing secrets ("scans for more than 70 different types of secrets") and I guess FF cookie database didn't make this list.

From TFA:
"There's precedent for GitHub to take action to help those who have been unwittingly publishing their cookie databases. The social code biz has been scanning for exposed credentials in repos since 2015 and now scans for more than 70 different types of secrets. Here's one more to add to the list."

They might have checked and steel came with ok result, although likely different in detail then faked data - but who would normally compare specific result between different passing tests? The problem here is not a production method and crappy output, but nonexistent QA - unless something went wrong any random sample should easily pass the requirements. Finding this random bad batch with random additional tests is pretty unlikely.

Both Russia and China voted "no" on this. They wont support this, same as US ignored their attempts on resolution related to preventing an arms race in outer space. This will be basically western discussion club with no real influence (even more limited then UN influence usually goes).

I think its not an issue.
"Somewhat confusingly, U2F is the name for both the web-facing API and a USB security key wire protocol. The WebAuthn API supports security keys speaking either the U2F (CTAP1) or FIDO2 (CTAP2) wire protocol. The proposal here is only to remove the U2F API. Users can continue to use their U2F security keys via the WebAuthn API"
https://groups.google.com/a/ch...

I know it's a bit late, but you can "upgrade" your disk to GPT with a special tool mbr2gpt. I used it a few months ago and it worked fine, though I first had to "fix" my mbr with some other tool. Anyway google solved all my issues with this upgrade.

The core of the issue is all kinds of social media connect people directly, bypassing any kind of social censorship. It works for both good and bad causes (classification often depends on your own position on particular issue). Engagement boosting algorithms mostly improve discoverability of like minded people and accelerate what would happen anyway. Then those people start reinforcing their beliefs forming deeper convictions.

What we are seeing now as troublesome groups always existed on the fringe of the society, but they didn't have the critical mass to really become noticeable. Now they can find each other regardless of geographical location and present their viewpoint to the masses bypassing societal censorship provided by traditional media.