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Asrock motherboards damaged by RAM warning sticker | PCWorld

You’d think that a company selling motherboards directly to desktop PC builders would have a little bit of faith that those users can assemble a PC. Apparently, that’s not the case for Asrock, at least on some variants of its high-end motherboards for the new AMD AM5 socket. Several Reddit users opened their X670E motherboards to find a huge sticker covering the RAM DIMM slots, which in at least some cases has caused damage to the slots when the user removed it. According to the Reddit posts spotted by TechSpot, the sticker is ostensibly meant as a guide for installing the RAM.

Several users reported that the sticker tore when they removed it, leaving behind a sticky residue and an incredibly delicate cleanup job. Buyers ready to assemble brand new, screaming-fast Ryzen 7000 desktops with these very pricey motherboards were not amused. An official statement from Asrock says the company will accept exchanges on motherboards that have sticker residue on the RAM slots. It also says that an updated version of the BIOS solves the long initial boot problem, and thus new motherboards won’t come with the sticker.

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Cydia Files Appeal After Unofficial App Store's Lawsuit Against Apple Dismissed - MacRumors

Cydia Files Appeal After Unofficial App Store's Lawsuit Against Apple Dismissed

District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed the company's antitrust lawsuit against Apple last month, according to court documents. SaurikIT sued Apple in late 2020, alleging that the company has an illegal monopoly over iOS app distribution given that the App Store is the only authorized marketplace where users can download apps on the iPhone and iPad. The complaint also alleged that Apple has «consistently tried to snuff out alternative app stores,» including Cydia. Cydia launched in early 2008, months before Apple's own App Store.

For example, long before Apple introduced the Control Center on the iPhone, there was a tweak available on Cydia called SBSettings that offered similar functionality. SaurikIT is owned by Jay Freeman, who is one of several developers and companies who have sued Apple for alleged anticompetitive behavior in relation to the App Store over the past few years, with others including Fortnite creator Epic Games, streaming music service Spotify, FlickType keyboard app creator Kosta Eleftheriou, and more. Apple has repeatedly denied that the App Store is a monopoly given that it faces competition from the Google Play store on Android devices. Apple has also repeatedly touted the privacy and security benefits of the App Store, arguing that third-party app stores on the iPhone could expose users to fraud, malware, and other risks.

I trust Apple far more than random developer #329487 when it comes to security and privacy. I’m not sure if this lawsuit has any merit, but neither does Apple when they make up excuses to block sideloading.

Remy149

Except consumers have multiple over manufacturers to buy phones from.

Apple Fails in Bid to Dismiss Cydia Creator's Amended Antitrust Lawsuit

Apple has lost a bid to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit filed against it by Jay Freeman, creator of an alternative App Store known as Cydia for «jailbroken» iPhones and iPads. Freeman sued Apple in late 2020, alleging that Apple has an illegal monopoly over iOS app distribution through the App Store. Prominent developer Kosta Eleftheriou has settled his 2021 lawsuit against Apple over its App Store review actions that he said hindered his ability to distribute apps on the platform while allowing copycat competitors to flourish, reports TechCrunch. «The United States Justice Department is in the early stages of crafting an antitrust complaint against Apple, reports Politico.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Calls Apple's App Store a 'Disservice to Developers'

«Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has called Apple's App Store, which has helped app makers earn over $260 billion since its launch, a »disservice to developers« that forces them to treat their apps as »sub-par. Apple today announced it is expanding its offering of how developers can promote their apps on the App Store, helping developers expand their reach and making it easier to discover more of what the App Store has to offer.

Epic Games Says Court 'Reached the Wrong Answer' and Made 'Multiple Legal Errors' in Apple Fight

Epic Games and Apple are continuing with their legal dispute, and today, Epic Games filed its Appeal Reply and Cross-Appeal Response Brief, following Apple's appeal filing back in March. « Apple, ....

EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024

The European Parliament today voted overwhelmingly in favor of enforcing USB-C as a common charging port across a wide range of consumer electronic devices, including the iPhone and AirPods, by the end of 2024. This... 10 New iOS 16 Features Coming Later This Year iOS 16 was released to the public three weeks ago with a customizable Lock Screen, the ability to edit iMessages, improvements to Focus modes, and much more. And in the coming months, iPhone and iPad users have even more new features to look forward to. We've rounded up 10 new features coming to the iPhone and iPad later this year, according to Apple.

Apple is developing new iPad Pro, Mac, and Apple TV models, and at least some of these products will be released in October, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. However, Gurman continues to believe that Apple is unlikely to hold an event this month. Now, evidence suggests that Apple is planning to release iOS 16.0.3 with additional bug fixes.

Apple SIM No Longer Available for Activating New Cellular Data Plans on iPads

As of October 1, Apple SIM is no longer available for activating new cellular data plans on supported iPad models, according to an Apple support document. Introduced in 2014, the Apple SIM was designed to allow iPad users to activate cellular data plans from multiple carriers around the world. Apple on September 23 officially launched the second-generation version of the AirPods Pro, introducing updated Active Noise Cancellation, Adaptive Transparency, improved sound, and more.

How big of an upgrade are Apple's cheapest mainstream flagship phones?

IPhone 13 Pro vs. Apple on September 12 released iOS 15.7 and iPadOS 15.7, delivering important fixes for multiple security vulnerabilities, including at least one that has been actively exploited.

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33081159

Orange site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33087525

How criminals are using jammers, deauthers to disrupt WiFi security cameras

A new warning is being issued for anyone who uses wireless security cameras like «Ring» to protect their home. Earlier this month, the woman said her car was stolen from her driveway, and when she went to review her Ring camera footage, she realized hours were missing.

By

Chris Burns, the owner of Techie Gurus, said security cameras that use WiFi to record are more about convenience than security. That's because WiFi can easily be disrupted, preventing the camera from capturing who is around your home, and criminals are catching on. «If you're relying on wireless as a security thing, you're looking at it wrong,» Burns said. Those crooks can use this like a WiFi jamming device, or a deauther, which can be the size of an Apple Watch.

A deauther will overwhelm a WiFi system, forcing the WiFi camera to stop recording if you stand close enough. They're also highly illegal, so jammers are more difficult to find, but a powerful jammer can prevent an entire street from recording on WiFI security cameras with the switch of a button. A spokesperson from Ring sent a statement saying, «Like any wifi-enabled device, WiFi signal interference may affect Ring device performance. » .

How can customers protect themselves?

«For true security, it should always be hard-wired, it should always be plugged into ethernet or something like that,» Burns said. Burns said as technology gets cheaper, it's likely jammers will become more popular and it's important to keep people fully-informed.

Why I Don’t Enjoy Writing PHP Anymore | by Michael Bodnarchuk @davert | Oct, 2022 | Medium

It was my first web-development language and the first programming language I was paid for. And I know some shit about maintaining PHP libraries. PHP development nowadays is bumping versions, updating types, and tests, and getting out of cross-dependencies conflicts.

Let’s imagine this situation

I have my own library MyLib that is expected to support PHP 7.4 and PHP 8+ at the same time. As MyLib author I can either drop 🤠 Client #1 and make a major release not because I introduced some breaking changes but because I bumped dependency of coollib.

Now imagine what happens if coollib has also dependencies… And so on…

However, PHP engine treats them differently.

So here are two fundamental problems we have in modern PHP

If either of these won’t be a problem, we would not get into dependency heck. Problem #1 was solved in In #NodeJS. So in NodeJS context, different versions of the same library with different signatures of methods can live together. Using types in the ecosystem and getting into dependency conflict was not an expected outcome of introducing more and more incompatible types into the engine.

Libraries tend to add more and more type changes with breaking compatibility in interfaces every year. Anyway, we can’t force maintainers to keep on old interfaces, right?.

So let’s sum up

While PHP still keeps ugly array_* str* functions from 90s, it breaks compatibility in the ecosystem with every new release. So you get stuck with the lowest PHP version of any of your dependencies. So let’s get back to me, a library author who has a library that just works. 🤓 Client #2 upgraded their app and wants me to upgrade my code as well.

🤠 Client #1 could not get an upgrade yet and wants to use MyLib. Actually, that enterprise client may be supporting MyLib with donations or paying me for consultancy. As an author of a general-purpose library, I will need to maintain a library with versions for all currently used PHPs. But we can’t pay them for a month just to make your shitty MyLib be installed on our application.

It happens because the PHP engine does not keep the compatibility of interfaces between releases, because PHP libraries upgrade to the most modern features, and because we share the global namespace of loaded classes. As a library maintainer, I need to balance upgrades, create bridges between different libraries and always test for compatibility with other dependencies.

Bravebros stay winning! Seeing a lot of people switch to brave recently. @BraveShill working overtime?

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/xvjdz9/brave_will_block_annoying_cookie_consent_pop_ups/

https://x.com/brave/status/1577024437383200768

Brave is about to solve one of the most frustrating problems with browsing the web

The developers behind Brave Browser have announced that it will begin to block cookie consent notice popups that negatively impact browsing experience for many users.

In an update, the anonymous browser’s Privacy Updates blog called cookie consent an "infamous and near-constant annoyance”, while citing an academic study that found many browser popups track users across the internet regardless of their choice.

Fighting back against Google’s privacy changes

Brave cited Google’s latest raft of proposed changes to Chrome as reasons why an open web, and content-blocking cowtools, must be fought for, starting with blocking cookie consent popups.

These changes include its upcoming switch to the Manifest V3 API, the plan to consolidate websites into single files via a new standard named WebBundles and the Privacy Sandbox initiative it has in development.

"The Web is built to be open. On the one hand, that’s great: It means privacy-protecting Web cowtools like Brave can act on behalf of users, and protect them from Web abuses and annoyances. On the other hand, cookie banners highlight how much worse the Web will get if Google succeed in weakening users’ ability to block such annoyances,” Brave said in its announcement .

https://archived.moe/g/thread/88998035

Unironically a sigma chad move

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33085410

https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/xv1hq9/feds_seized_311m_in_bitcoin_and_a_crypto_hacker/

Millions in Cryptocurrency Vanished as Agents Watched Helplessly

Feds locked up a storage device full of ill-gotten tokens.

Months later, Larry closed down the mixer, having performed 356,000 Bitcoin transactions.

Working with Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics company, the agents studied thousands of Helix transactions, subpoenaed emails, and ultimately found one involving a website that allows users to buy gift cards with Bitcoin.

He talked to agents that morning and attended the hearing where prosecutors convinced a judge that Larry was a flight risk and should stay locked up.

Gary is “not the sharpest tool in the shed and did not think through the consequences for his brother” before he moved the Bitcoin, the informant said.

And then there was the picture on his phone, included in the government’s court filings, of the bathtub of bills.

Rare based move from EU.

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EU lawmakers impose single charger for all smartphones

Apple resisted the EU legislation, saying it stifled innovation.

The EU parliament on Tuesday passed a new law requiring USB-C to be the single charger standard for all new smartphones, tablets and cameras from late 2024.

It is expected to save at least 200 million euros ($195 million) per year and cut more than a thousand tons of EU electronic waste every year, the bloc's competition chief Margrethe Vestager said.

The EU move is expected to ripple around the world.

But it resisted EU legislation to force a change away from its Lightning ports on its iPhones, saying that was disproportionate and would stifle innovation.

However some users of its latest flagship iPhone models—which can capture extremely high-resolution photos and videos in massive data files—complain that the Lightning cable transfers data at only a bare fraction of the speed USB-C does.

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VideoLAN, the developer and operator of popular media player VLC, has filed a legal notice to India's IT and Telecom ministries, alleging that the Indian bodies failed to notify the software developer before banning its website and did not afford it a chance for an explanation.

Indian telecom operators have been blocking VideoLAN's website, where it lists links to downloading VLC, since February of this year, VideoLan president and lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf told TechCrunch in an earlier interview. India is one of the largest markets for VLC.

"Most major ISPs [internet service providers] are banning the site, with diverse techniques," he said of the blocking in India. The telecom operators began blocking the VideoLan website on February 13 of this year, when the site saw a drop of 80% in traffic from the South Asian market, he said.

Now, VideoLAN, in assistance with local advocacy group Internet Freedom Foundation, is using legal means to get answers and redressal. It has sought a copy of the blocking order for banning VideoLAN website in India and an opportunity to defend the case through a virtual hearing.

In the notice, VideoLAN argues that the way Indian ministries have enforced the ban on the website, they violate their own local laws. The letter adds:

As per Rule 8 of the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking for Access of Information by Public) Rules, 2009 ('Blocking Rules') and the ruling of the Supreme Court in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015) 5 SCC 1, government officers responsible for issuing a blocking order are required to: (i) make all reasonable efforts to identify the originator or intermediary hosting the information to be blocked, (ii) issue a notice to such person, (iii) provide a hearing to such person before the concerned authority, and (iv) provide a copy of a reasoned blocking order to the person concerned prior to the hearing. Despite this, the URL, which allows users to download VLC was blocked by the DoT without any prior notice, or an opportunity of hearing to VideoLAN.

Indian telecom operators have not explained why they have blocked the VideoLan website, but some speculate that it could be because of a misinterpretation of a security warning from earlier this year.

Security firm Symantec reported in April this year that the hacker group Cicada, which has ties with the Chinese government, was exploiting VLC Media Player as well as several other popular applications to gain remote access to the victim’s computers. Kempf said he or his firm had not been contacted by any Indian government agency and the block is likely a result of a misunderstanding of the Chinese security issue.

But by blocking the website, India is pushing its citizens to “shady websites that are running hacked version of VLC. So they are endangering their own citizens with this ban,” Kempf said earlier.

In the legal notice, VideoLAN warns that failure to comply with its request will compel the open source firm to initiate legal proceedings. “Any such proceedings, if initiated, shall be solely at your risk, cost, and for breach of your own rules,” the notice adds.

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DNS Providers as Piracy Fighters? Enforcement Groups Weigh Options * TorrentFreak

DNS Providers as Piracy Fighters? Enforcement Groups Weigh Options

The World Intellectual Property Organization's Advisory Committee on Enforcement recently heard how DNS providers have the ability to fight online piracy but could also face liability as secondary infringers. Veiled warnings like these are nothing new, but with piracy colossus Fmovies cited as a primary example, pressure on DNS entities is building once again. In the fight against piracy, not only do the smallest gains require an unusual effort but they're increasingly dependent on the cooperation of third parties, usually those in the online tech sector. If these companies can't be convinced to commit business resources to the piracy war voluntarily, lawsuits and mandatory conscription can lie ahead.

The message – that internet companies must tackle piracy or be held responsible for taking part in it – is nothing new.

Control The Phone Book, Control Communications

A presentation prepared for the recent Fifteenth Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Advisory Committee on Enforcement begins with a brief explainer of the Domain Name System and how it works. The fundamental importance of DNS to the internet is glaringly obvious. So that humans don't have to remember thousands of IP addresses to access their favorite websites, the DNS system holds all of those numbers in a database and matches them to more easily remembered domain names. When domain names are entered into a browser , DNS converts the domain into an IP address and the page appears.

Following legal action, ISPs in dozens of countries are now required to prevent their customers from accessing sites like thepiratebay.org. Critics say that internet infrastructure shouldn't tell lies to its users. If The Pirate Bay's resistance to shutdown helped to fuel the early days of pirate site blocking, sites like FMovies may end up shouldering the blame for more extreme measures. With close to 87 million visits per month via desktop alone, FMovies is not only massive but quite possibly the most comprehensive pirate VOD-style streaming site available today.

Hollywood companies have forced ISPs in several countries to tamper with the site's local DNS entries after obtaining injunctions or voluntary cooperation. Perhaps the most surprising thing about the presentation is that it talks about options for action against DNS, yet reveals the countries where FMovies has infrastructure, names the companies allegedly supporting that infrastructure, and puts their locations on a map. The presentation has some ideas but before we come to them, it might be worth looking at the slide again. OVH and M247, two companies listed as serving FMovies, are very large hosting operations and couldn't hide even if they wanted to.

The presentation to the WIPO Enforcement Committee even states that DNS resolvers are completely incapable of removing infringing content. “The legal frameworks and case law lack a clear picture at international and national levels. Sony Music certainly hopes that will be enough.

Cloudflare Ordered to Block Pirate Sites

In July, an Italian court ordered Cloudflare to block three torrent sites on its public DNS resolver 1.1. 1.1. Music industry group FIMI said that since the Cloudflare service helps people to access pirate sites, Cloudflare becomes part of the piracy problem. The court agreed and issued a preliminary injunction against Cloudflare.

While it has been compelled to block in both Italy and in Germany, Cloudflare recently said it will fight any ‘global' blocking requests if they target its 1.1. 1.1 DNS resolver.

Less Aggressive Options

If DNS entities get tired of the lawsuits, it's possible they could be tempted by so-called non-fault injunctions, the presentation suggests. Everyone involved acknowledges that the intermediaries are in a good position to help out and that everyone's rights should be respected under the principle of proportionality. By designating groups such as the MPA as ‘Trusted Notifiers', DNS entities could follow the lead of two domain registries and decide what should be blocked in private. “Proactive measures by DNS providers to discourage online infringement and other illegal activity should be adopted, such as ensuring accuracy of registrant/WHOIS data.

Voluntary reactive measures, such as trusted notifier arrangements, should be encouraged,” the presentation concludes . WIPO says that the views in the presentation on DNS providers and resolvers are those of the authors and are not necessarily shared by WIPO members.

Research

Movie & Music Piracy Acceptable to a Growing Number of U.S.

LMAO just let apple frick itself out of market share. NFT people don't give a shit what the platform is and opensea 2.5 percent already getting undercut by emerging competition.

Google insiders explain why Google launches many products and then abandons them.

Hint: It has to do with chasing promotions. 🤦‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/u9nwleGxHK

— Peter Yang (@petergyang) October 3, 2022

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18379394

tl;dr

Fandom [...] has acquired a portfolio of entertainment and gaming brands from Red Ventures - GameSpot, Metacritic, TV Guide, GameFAQs, Giant Bomb, Cord Cutters News and Comic Vine.

Fandom will extend its 360 programs for its advertising partners [...] and enhance the data and insights within FanDNA, Fandom’s proprietary data platform.

It will be amusing to see how they inject autoplay videos and ads into old text guides on GameFAQs.

Following the open-source release of Stable Diffusion, photos of violently beaten Asian women generated by Stable Diffusion were posted in online chat rooms. Reports also indicate that several 4chan threads have been dedicated to Stable Diffusion-generated pornography, some of which portray real people. In a message posted to users of the Stable Diffusion Groomercord, Stability AI Founder and CEO Emad Mostaque said to Stable Diffusion users, “If you want to make NSFW [Not Suitable for Work] or offensive things make it on your own GPUs when the model is released.” Mr. Mostaque then went on to tell users which GPUs were compatible with its model for the sake of using it to generate illicit content , content Mr. Mostaque knew or should have known would likely include illegal content.

Iran is literally locking in and shooting its best and brightest students. #MahsaAmini

(This is at Sharif University, which my father helped establish, it is one of the most elite technical universities in the world) https://t.co/wZqKnGYBOL

— Hadi Partovi (@hadip) October 2, 2022

Imagine being this dumb of a country