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Old BlackBerry phones will stop functioning on January 4

TechSpot

The original announcement that BlackBerry was ending legacy OS support came in September 2020. This week the company issued a reminder along with an extensive FAQ outlining what users should do. On January 4, legacy services for BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier, BlackBerry 10 software, BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier, will end.

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Get the most value from your data with data lakehouse architecture

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Data lakehouse architecture combines the best of cloud data lake and warehousing architectures to give teams the most recent data. Read More.

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Square Enix promises ‘decentralized games’ in 2022

The Verge

What would a Final Fantasy , Tomb Raider , or Deus Ex look like if it were partly powered by the blockchain, so gamers could make money from their contributions? You may get to find out: Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda has revealed that the company’s New Year’s resolution is to release “decentralized games” starting in 2022. While you won’t find any details in Masuda’s letter discussing the company’s strategy for the new year , you will find a good sense of his cautious-but-optimistic stanc

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Report: 60% of U.S. infosec professionals believe ransomware is as serious as terrorism

Venture Beast

It's more important than ever that orgs shift their investment strategies to focus on ransomware protection designed for modern networks. 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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Winnie-the-Pooh and around 400,000 early sound recordings enter public domain

The Verge

Cover art for A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh. A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh , Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises , and other books, movies, and compositions from 1926 enter into the public domain today in the US. The works are now “free for all to copy, share, and build upon,” according to Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain , which tracks which copyrighted materials will become public each year.

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Pokémon Legends: Arceus Commercial Will Take Your Breath (of the Wild) Away

Gizmodo

It’s only a few weeks before Switch players can get their hands on Pokémon Legends: Arceu s. The next big entry in the series is winding back the clock to the Hisui Region before it came to be known as Sinnoh , and tasks players with exploring the area to research the pocket monsters in their natural habitats. Read more.

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Airbnb Will Hide Guests’ First Names in Oregon Until Bookings Are Confirmed to Fight Discrimination

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Airbnb is taking steps to tackle discrimination from hosts on its platform with a new update for guests who are residents of Oregon. Unfortunately, it seems like people in other states, and around the world, will just have to keep on fighting to be treated fairly on the platform. Read more.

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It’s 2022, and the Surface Duo still doesn’t have Android 11

The Verge

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. We are officially in 2022. Know what that means? That’s right: It means Microsoft has failed at its stated goal of bringing Android 11 to the Surface Duo by the end of 2021. Attentive readers may recall that Microsoft said the following this past September : “We remain committed to providing updates to Surface Duo, and we’re working to bring Android 11 to existing customers before the end of this year.

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Alan Moore's Legendary Miracleman Run is Getting an Omnibus

Gizmodo

For fans of the old superhero Miracleman, the last several years have been tumultuous. Created in 1954 by Mick Anglo and originally named Marvelman, the character’s been lost to time, even after his rights were eventually sold to Marvel back in 2009. It wasn’t clear if or when he’d return to the comics space, but this… Read more.

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CES 2022 will end one day early after major cancellations for in-person events

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Bend but don’t break. That’s the mantra of the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show as multiple major companies have canceled in-person plans for next week’s event in Las Vegas, leaving organizers scrambling to try and save the show.

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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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Peacemaker Rings in 2022 with a Delightfully Stupid Trailer

Gizmodo

What better way to celebrate the start of 2022 than with some violence and a bald eagle? As the clock hit midnight for east coasters, James Gunn dropped a new trailer for Peacemaker , the spinoff of The Suicide Squad starring John Cena’s patriotic antihero. Rather than focusing on the titular character’s conflicted soul Read more.

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Pioneering tech site HardOCP returns in limited capacity

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In a farewell message posted March 19, 2019, Bennett said he had been doing the same job for over two decades and the opportunity to do something new was very appealing.

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A Look Back at Betty White's Nerdiest Roles

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2021's been a not terribly great year and taken several talented folks from us, but it threw one final gut punch with the news of Betty White’s death on New Year’s Eve. Just a few weeks ahead of her much publicized 100th birthday, the vaunted actor passed away, leaving behind a pretty lengthy career spanning several… Read more.

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AT&T and Verizon may have to delay 5G deployments another two weeks over airline safety fears

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. US officials have asked AT&T and Verizon to further delay new 5G deployments so that the Federal Aviation Administration can have more time to determine where they might interfere with airlines. US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and FAA Administrator Steve Dickson sent a letter to the CEOs of the two telecoms on Friday requesting a delay of “no more than two weeks,” according to Reuters.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Thousands Learn That Extra Money in Their Account Is No Christmas Gift, It’s a $176 Million Bank Error

Gizmodo

Tens of thousands of people in the United Kingdom probably thought they had been especially good this past year when they saw their bank accounts on Christmas Day, all of which had more money than they expected. Alas, Santa Claus doesn’t have enough cash in his reserves to justify the roughly $176 million in payments,… Read more.

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Non-K Intel Alder Lake CPU specs confirmed by Asus and Colorful

TechSpot

It’s not uncommon for motherboard vendors to include unreleased processors in their lists of supported hardware, which is what’s happened here.

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Airbnb will hide guests’ names to fight discrimination (but only in Oregon)

The Verge

Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Airbnb announced that it’s changing the way guest profiles are displayed in its app — for Oregon residents specifically. Airbnb hosts who are based in Oregon will now see a potential guest’s initials, rather than their full name, until after they’ve confirmed that guest’s booking request. The change will fully roll out by January 31st.

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