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Hackers made $110,000 mining remotely on hijacked HP servers

TechSpot

At present, the company whose servers were hacked hasn’t made itself known. They’re likely one of the hundred or so major computing groups that have reported themselves as victims of the viral Log4J vulnerability this month, whose number include Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft.

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Video games and their communities are influencing the metaverse

Venture Beast

To follow the success of the video game industry, tech companies must put maintaining a loyal community at the forefront of their mission. Read More.

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The global version of Steam appears to be banned in China

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Steam Global seems to have been banned in China, according to a report from TheGamer. Only the Chinese version of Steam remains accessible in the country, which currently offers a limited library of just 103 games — a very small fraction of the over 110,000 games that Steam Global has at this time of writing.

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Marvel and Sony Think Spider-Man: No Way Home is Best Picture Material

Gizmodo

To say that Spider-Man: No Way Home is a success would perhaps be understating things. Tom Holland’s third solo outing as the webhead is a multiverse breaking hit and is currently expected to break $1 billion at the box office by the end of the holiday weekend. But that’s not enough for Marvel, whose movies this year… Read more.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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10 great games for your new 2021 OLED Switch

The Verge

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge. The best games to play together or alone The recent release of the Nintendo Switch OLED has many people rediscovering their love for the versatile handheld or experiencing what it has to offer for the first time. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or have never previously owned a Nintendo console, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite titles for Nintendo Switch.

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Microsoft, Intel and GM join a growing list of companies pulling out of CES

TechSpot

The Verge was first to report on the matter. According to the publication, an unnamed Microsoft spokesperson said via e-mail that after reviewing the latest data on the rapidly evolving Covid environment, Microsoft has decided not to participate in person at CES 2022. Instead, the Redmond-based tech company will have.

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Nintendo Switch eShop is down for some on Christmas Day

The Verge

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge. As kids and adults alike flock to the Nintendo eShop, eager to spend the gift cards they found in their stockings, that excitement was quickly spoiled by an eShop error screen. The annual holiday surge has brought down the Nintendo Switch eShop for some yet again, according to a report from Kotaku. We are aware that players are experiencing errors accessing Nintendo eShop, and are working to address the issue as soon as possible.

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The X-Men's Quiet Council Will Finally Get Their Own Comic Book

Gizmodo

As Jonathan Hickman’s tenure with the X-Men is coming to an end with Inferno , the mutants of Krakoa are about to go through another shift that naturally includes roster changes and new books. The “Reign of X” that’s made up the second chapter of this whole endeavor is over, and 2022 will see mutantkind seemingly take… Read more.

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8 great games for your new 2021 PlayStation 5

The Verge

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge. If you’re lucky enough to have one, that is The PlayStation 5 was released in November 2020, but it’s still incredibly hard to get. The chip shortage has rendered it nearly impossible to log onto your favorite retailer’s site and order one. In other words, among the no-doubt massive amount of people who want a PS5, very few are actually able to get one these days.

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Berserk Gets New York Times Ad Ahead of Volume 41's US Release in 2022

Gizmodo

Earlier this year in May, the manga community was shocked at the news that Berserk mangaka Kentaro Miura had passed away at the age of 54. Since it first debuted in 1989, the dark fantasy manga has been incredibly popular and influential , becoming one of the best-selling manga of all time and spawning multiple anime,… Read more.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope successfully launches into space

TechSpot

The launch took place from Kourou, French Guiana, with the highly complex JWST hitching a ride to space via an Ariane 5 launch vehicle.

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Tesla’s Gift to the World Allows Anyone to Turn Their Car Into a Light Show Machine

Gizmodo

Here comes Tesla with the gift you never knew you wanted (or don’t really want but hey, you know what they say about looking a gift horse in the mouth). Last Christmas, it gave its cars the ability to fart and bleat like goats. Apparently feeling more generous this year, Tesla decided that everyone needed a feature to… Read more.

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8 great games for your new 2021 Xbox

The Verge

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge. Many of these games play well on Series S, too The latest generation of Xbox consoles recently celebrated their one-year birthday, though like the PS5, your chances of easily buying one aren’t so great (the $300 Series S is far easier to find in stock than the $500 Series X is). Nevertheless, there have been some must-play games released on Xbox in the past year that make searching for one of these consoles worth the effort.

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Ron Perlman is Evil, Will Convince Pinocchio That Fascism is Cool

Gizmodo

Did you remember there’s two versions of Pinocchio we’re supposed to be graced with in 2022? One of them comes from Disney, obviously, but the other hails from acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro . The director of the recently released Nightmare Alley and Shape of Water has a new take on the classic character for… Read more.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Telescope’s launch makes Christmas merry for space fans — but the ride has just begun

GeekWire

A European Ariane 5 rocket sends NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to space. (NASA via YouTube). The most expensive telescope in the known universe has begun its journey to a vantage point a million miles from Earth with its launch from French Guiana. Today’s liftoff of an Ariane 5 rocket from the European Space Agency’s South American spaceport, coming at 9:20 a.m. local time (4:20 a.m.

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