Apex Legends uses the Source engine, which has had several RCE exploits over the years.

A nice writeup here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Compe...

Pineapple:

https://github.com/pineappleEA...

Is a fork of Yuzu's patreon-locked dev branches.

Considering so many captchas are being used to feed ML datasets, it's very not surprising AI trained on those datasets can now solve them effortlessly...

Directly to far cheaper VR platforms which already have spatial movie viewing capabilities.

I bet it'll show up in a VRChat movie world within a week of release.

So if someone passes away their YouTube videos will eventually disappear. More digital history being erased.

BLE tags use a compatible phone to report their location back to a central service, but unless you had an Apple Airtag [or AirTag compatible], your tags would only be picked up by other phones with the Tile app installed. This is of course fine if you're just keeping track of your keys and other household items, but Apple Airtags are really popular to slip into luggage, packages, and other valuables as a cheaper [and far smaller] alternative to SMS/GPS trackers.

These new tags use a component in Google Play Services [installed on every Android phone with the Google Play store], instead of the Tile app, making them, at least on paper, as good or better than Airtags, and far more reliable than Tile tags for remote tracking.

Instead of waiting for a phone with the Tile app installed to come by, now any android phone can pick up and report these tags back.

There's the whole problem of privacy, security, etc involving any BLE tag, but that's a whole different can of worms..

"Websites can pass the http headers X-Robots-Tag: noai, X-Robots-Tag: noindex , X-Robots-Tag: noimageai and X-Robots-Tag: noimageindex By default img2dataset will ignore images with such headers."

Followed directly by:
"To disable this behavior and download all images, you may pass --disallowed_header_directives '[]'"

I wonder what option most users will end up enabling. :)

Also this tool doesn't seem to check robots.txt [from a quick source search, may be wrong.] Getting the impression they don't entirely care about this.

So you mean it's time for a fork?

This is where the BBC News style of article titles shines.

Take this article for example: NSA contractor Reality Winner admits leak. Its title not having capitals all over the place makes it immediately apparent that Reality Winner is someone's name without requiring any punctuation.

Precious few Slashdot articles don't have title case, but for this one it would have been great.

Full translation:

"15:46 (Eastern time): The alleged hostage situation at Ubisoft, which launched a major police operation in Montreal, turns out to have been a hoax, our sources say.

The investigation team is currently working on finding the one(s) responsible for the call. Many employees locked down in the building, for the most part hidden in conference rooms, did not know it was a false alarm."

Source: TVA Nouvelles (fr)

Now if only they actually had any in stock!

I remember getting 50+ mbit on my shiny new 4G phone, both in Downtown Chicago and in a nearby national park.

What happened?

People who had SARS in 2002-2003 still have T cells that are cross-reactive to SARS-CoV-2 to this day (17 years later). SARS-CoV-2 antibodies are cross-reactive back to SARS as well, and it is expected that they may last as long. John Campbell explains, via Nature: SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in cases of COVID-19 and SARS, and uninfected controls.

The mutation rate of SARS-CoV-2 is very low compared to that of rhinoviruses, which cause the common cold, and influenza viruses. One major mutation has been observed: at position 614, RNA that used to encode aspartate now encodes glycine. It's not on the part of the spike that binds to the ACE2 receptor. Video for that one, with references in the description.

There was an article last year that pointed to possible viral origins of neurodegenerative diseases in general: Can the Flu and Other Viruses Cause Neurodegeneration?

A neurobiologist saw a duck acting strangely in a video, as if it had Parkinson's disease. In an experiment he then ran, he infected ducks with H5N1 and found that the virus had induced degeneration in the ducks' brains: inflammation and cell death.

It's hypothesised that influenza viruses can cause the same thing in humans. A literature review revealed a secondary outbreak of Parkinson's disease happening in 1940-1950, following the 1918-1919 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

As for the current pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can infect the central nervous system, breach the blood-brain barrier and enter the brain. It can cause symptoms like failure to breathe spontaneously, as well as the anosmia (lack of sense of taste or smell) that has been seen in the absence of blocked sinuses.

So, COVID-19 could cause similar neurodegeneration in some time.

WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, is looking at a lending feature in India