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A trial of four former executives at the Zurich branch of Russia's Gazprombank has begun in Switzerland. The three Russians and one Swiss are charged with helping Russian musician Sergei Roldugin launder funds suspected of belonging to Russia's president. Mr Roldugin reportedly placed $50m (£42m) in Swiss accounts between 2014 and 2016, with no credible explanation of where the money had come from. At the time, he presented himself as a cellist on a modest income. He had become famous as a musician but did not earn vast sums. He once told the New York Times he was no businessman, and certainly not a millionaire. So where did he get millions of dollars to put into Swiss bank accounts? This is the question Zurich prosecutors say the accused former bankers should have asked. It was well known the cellist was a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and is even rumoured to be godfather to Mr Putin's daughter. Under Swiss law, banks are required to reject or close accounts if they have doubts about the account holder, or the source of the money. They are also supposed to handle "politically exposed persons" with extreme care. As a known friend to the Russian leader, investing millions in Switzerland after the illegal annexation of Crimea and subsequent sanctions against Russia in 2014, Sergei Roldugin should have rung alarm bells. Prosecutors will allege that did not happen. The case is being seen as a test of how rigorously Switzerland enforces its money laundering laws, which, on paper at least, are quite strict. Swiss authorities have worked hard in recent years to move away from the image of Switzerland as a country in which even the dirtiest money from the most brutalist dictator or most corrupt businessman can be washed whiter than white. Mr Roldugin's questionable money was first revealed, not by Swiss investigators, but by journalists, including a team from BBC Panorama, involved in an international investigation of the Panama Papers data leak organised by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in 2016. They discovered evidence of suspicious transactions involving Mr Roldugin's offshore companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars, as well as his Swiss bank accounts. Only after that evidence appeared did Swiss prosecutors launch their own investigation. Their indictment, now before the court in Zurich, suggests the musician was acting as "Putin's wallet", channelling funds via bogus companies in Cyprus and Panama into Gazprombank in Zurich. The four accused are charged with failing the "due diligence" test, in not checking - or turning a blind eye to - the real source of his money. They have all pleaded not guilty. Their defence lawyers argued that the prosecution has been unable to prove the money invested did not belong to the cellist. The fact he was known to be a friend of Vladimir Putin's was a good reason for not asking him about the source of his funds, as his wealth would not be a surprise. Gazprombank has since wound up its operations in Switzerland, and Sergei Roldugin himself is on the Swiss sanctions list. A verdict is expected on 30 March. If convicted, the four bankers face only mild, suspended jail terms of up to seven months. To secure a guilty verdict at all, prosecutors will have to convince the court that Mr Roldugin's millions in fact belonged to Vladimir Putin. Not an easy task now that the usual co-operation between states - in this case Switzerland and Russia - on money laundering investigations is not happening. No-one really knows how much President Putin, and those close to him, actually have. His stated salary is only a little over $100,000 (£84,400), the Swiss indictment points out. But there are rumours his fortune could be worth a staggering $125bn (£105bn), carefully stashed away in a complex web of shell companies and accounts of friends like Sergei Roldugin. That's why, despite the modest sentences, a guilty verdict could be so significant. It would send a signal not only to Russia's president, his friends, and the rest of his political establishment, that their cash can no longer be so easily hidden, but also to the professionals who have administered their funds. "Roldugin is not alone in his alleged role as one of 'Putin's wallets'," said Tom Keatinge, head of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute. "Those banks and law firms providing services to other close connections of Vladimir Putin should be on notice that the authorities are clearly energised to make their case in court." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64885959

Two Moscow police officers identified by the BBC as perpetrators of abuses against female anti-war protesters have been sanctioned by the EU. The EU accused Ivan Ryabov and Alexander Fedorinov of arbitrary arrest and torture. They were among nine people and three institutions sanctioned over sexual and gender-based violence, to coincide with International Women's Day on Wednesday. Others included Taliban ministers and officials from South Sudan and Myanmar. A BBC Eye investigation detailed how Ivan Ryabov was identified by protesters who had been physically abused by him when they were detained in March 2022. Alexander Fedorinov was identified by the BBC using facial recognition software. How the ‘man in black’ was exposed by women he terrorised Protests across Russia see thousands detained Announcing the sanctions in a statement, EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Police Josep Borrell said the EU was moving "from words to action" in its commitment to "eliminate all forms of violence of violence against women". He said the sanctions were "enhancing efforts to counter sexual and gender-based violence, to ensure that those responsible are fully accountable for their actions, and to combat impunity". The two Moscow police officers were sanctioned for their role in "arbitrary arrests and detentions as well as torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the context of the censorship and oppression led by the Russian authorities". On 6 March last year, a group of anti-war protesters were arrested and taken to Moscow's Brateyevo police station. There, at least 11 detainees - mostly young women - were subjected to physical abuse at the hands of a plainclothes police officer. The officer didn't give his name, and there was no record of him on any police websites. The protesters felt they had little chance in identifying their abuser, who they called the "man in black". That was until a huge data leak from the po[CENSORED]r Russian food delivery app, Yandex Food, provided the breakthrough they needed. Anastasia - who says she had been suffocated with a plastic bag by the "man in black" - trawled through the data and found only nine users who had ordered food to Brateyevo police station. Working with the other victims, she searched the names and phone numbers included in the leak, looking for pictures she recognised. Finally she came across a face that was imprinted in her memory - it was the "man in black" and his name was Ivan Ryabov. Anastasia also wanted to identify another officer who was present that evening and refused to give his name. The detainees had called him the "man in beige". Although he wasn't involved in the abuse of protesters, Anastasia felt he was somehow in charge. "All communication took place through him," she said. Using facial recognition on a short video captured inside the police station, the BBC was able to name the man as Alexander Fedorinov. At that time, he was the acting head of the Brateyevo police department. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64838937

As the world's leading streaming platform Twitch continues to grow, so do the problems it encounters with various types of bad behaviour. 2022 was probably the most dramatic year in Twitch's history(opens in new tab), and 2023 began with another breed of deeply gross scandal: The po[CENSORED]r streamer Atrioc visited a so-called deepfake website live on-stream, which featured explicit and faked imagery of women streamers including Maya Higa and Pokimane. Atrioc subsequently apologised(opens in new tab) and stepped back from streaming for a while, but the damage was done and the distress it caused those streamers featured on the website was public and clear to see. Twitch has now outlined how it plans to address "deepfake porn" incidents(opens in new tab), both on and off the platform, and starts by addressing the term itself. The phrase “deepfake porn” has acquired wide currency, but following advice from experts including Danielle Keats Citron (law professor and VP of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative) and the UK Revenge Porn Helpline, Twitch will refer to this material as "synthetic non-consensual exploitative images" or "synthetic NCEI." The reasoning goes as follows: Calling synthetic NCEI content “pornography” is incorrect. Porn (while prohibited on Twitch) should be consensual and should feature people who know they’re taking part in activities that others are going to see. That’s not what’s happening here, and why it’s important we reinforce unequivocally that this content is created without consent This is incidentally somewhat similar to what's currently happening with the term "revenge porn," which experts in the field of abuse have taken issue with: Not least because "revenge" implies that the victim did something to deserve it. In that case the preferred terminology in the field is now "image-based abuse," more clinical and accurate about the nature of the offense and with less of a victim-blaming implication. Finally on the matter of terminology, Twitch points out that "deepfake" is something of a contemporary buzzword but not necessarily an accurate description of the methods used to generate content such as this. This all matters because language is the building block of policy. Synthetic NCEI is prohibited under current Twitch policies and of course will continue to be so, but the wording of two site policies is going to be changed in the light of January's events: 1. We’re updating our Adult Sexual Violence and Exploitation policy to make it more clear that intentionally promoting, creating, or sharing synthetic NCEI can result in an indefinite suspension on the first offense. 2. We’re updating our Adult Nudity policy to include synthetic NCEI. Even if that NCEI is shown only briefly, or, for example, shown to express your outrage or disapproval of the content, it will be removed and will result in an enforcement. Twitch is now to host a creator camp on March 14 to gather further community and expert perspectives on how to deal with these problems in future. It will be led by Zara Ward, an expert on NCEI and a manager at the Revenge Porn helpline, as well as a streamer herself, and members of the Twitch safety team. Twitch has also assembled a list of resources(opens in new tab) that should be a first port of call for anyone affected by synthetic NCEI. These are obviously nascent technologies and can be used for things other than synthetic NCEI, and much of what people create with them is going to be amusing or weird or innocent rather than awful. Twitch is somewhat stepping into the unknown in terms of taking a proactive approach in dealing with it and acknowledges that, outside of the obviously horrible stuff, there are going to be incidents with more nuance: "Not all synthetically-created content is sexual in nature, nor is all of it non-consensual [...] But one thing is clear: when it’s used to create synthetic NCEI, that nuance disappears. The creation, promotion, or viewing of this content is not welcome on Twitch." https://www.pcgamer.com/twitch-starts-to-address-deepfake-porn-and-the-first-thing-to-go-is-that-phrase/

graphics card market has been heating up recently with Nvidia's RTX 40-series cards hitting the ground running, and AMD's new RX 7000 GPUs launching to a more muted fanfare. Yet our best graphics card(opens in new tab) list is still swarmed with RX 6000-series. Why? Their price. Nvidia has come under some scrutiny from would-be graphics upgraders over the price of its GPUs—take the RTX 4080's(opens in new tab) ungodly $1,199 MSRP, for example—meaning that a competitive edge for AMD in this new generation has been its GPU pricing. That was until Nvidia released the RTX 4070 Ti which undercut the cheaper of the two new RDNA 3 cards from AMD to the tune of $100. Now, AMD has informed us that it is cutting the price of its RX 7900 XT at participating etailers/retailers as low as £799.99 in the UK and seemingly $799.99 in the US, too. With a $100 discount across a bunch of retailers, manufacturers such as ASRock and Sapphire are now offering the RX 7900 XT for just $799, down from its $899 MSRP. The same goes for our UK brethren, who can benefit from a delicious £100 discount on the second best RDNA 3 graphics card around today. For a GPU that utterly tramples the top Radeon card of AMD's previous generation, the RX 6950 XT(opens in new tab), it's great to see AMD stretching to offer discounts from the top down, especially when the RX 7900 XTX(opens in new tab) offers so much more for $999. As of now, we've spotted Newegg selling the ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT for $800(opens in new tab), and across the pond we've found Overclockers UK selling the Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Gaming for £800(opens in new tab), both with Last of Us Part 1 included. https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-has-effectively-announced-a-dollar100-price-cut-for-the-rx-7900-xt/

Six Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli army raid in Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry has said. Israel's prime minister said one of the dead had been responsible for killing two Israeli brothers last month. Their killings, in Hawara further south, led Jewish settlers to rampage through the town in one of the worst such acts in years. The assault on Hawara drew condemnation from around the world. The raid on Tuesday afternoon took place in a refugee camp which is a frequent target for Israeli operations against Palestinian militants. There were reports of heavy exchanges of gunfire, while videos on social media showed smoke billowing from a building and helicopters flying over a long line of military vehicles. The Israeli military says it used shoulder-launched missiles as it pursued the wanted man and claims local armed fighters shot at troops from an ambulance. The Palestinian health ministry listed the dead as five men in their 20s and one man of 49, identified as Abdel Fattah Kharousha. It is understood that he was a member of the Palestinian militant group Hamas from Nablus and had served time in an Israeli jail. Palestinian sources suggest that he carried out the shooting of the brothers on 26 February. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said two of his sons suspected of assisting with the attack on the brothers were arrested in a simultaneous operation in Nablus on Tuesday. Hillel Yaniv, 22, and Yagel Yaniv, 20, were killed as they drove through Hawara, about 4 miles (6km) south of Nablus. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a video message, saying Israeli forces had "eliminated the abominable terrorist who murdered [the brothers] in cold blood". "Our brave warriors operated surgically in the heart of the murderers' den." A spokesman for the Palestinian presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said the Israeli government was responsible for "this dangerous escalation", accusing it of waging "all-out war". Within hours of the brothers' killings, hundreds of Jewish settlers stormed into Hawara in revenge, setting fire to dozens of cars and homes. Palestinian officials said 37-year-old Sameh Aqtash was shot dead by the Israeli army, when soldiers entered their village with settlers, but the Israeli military said it was not involved. More than 100 Palestinians were injured, the Palestinian health ministry said. The attack on Hawara was one of the most violent incidents of its kind by Jewish settlers, with tensions and violence between settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank a constant issue. Palestinians accused the Israeli army of doing nothing to try to stop the settlers attacking the town. There was further violence in Hawara on Monday night, with security camera footage showing settlers throwing stones at a Palestinian family in a parked car before it managed to speed away. There has been a surge of violence between Israel and the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem this year. At least 70 Palestinians - militants and civilians - have been killed by Israeli forces, and on the Israeli side, 13 people have been killed in attacks, all civilians, except for a paramilitary police officer. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64866876

All animals need energy to live. They use it to breathe, circulate blood, digest food and move. Young animals use energy to grow, and later in life, to reproduce. Increased body temperature increases the rate at which an animal uses energy. Because cold-blooded animals rely on the thermal conditions of their environment to regulate their body temperature, they're expected to need more energy as the planet warms. However, our new research, published today in Nature Climate Change, suggests temperature is not the only environmental factor affecting the future energy needs of cold-blooded animals. How they interact with other species will also play a role. Our findings suggest cold-blooded animals will need even more energy in a warmer world than previously thought. This may increase their extinction risk. What we already know The amount of energy animals use in a given amount of time is called their metabolic rate. Metabolic rate is influenced by a variety of factors, including body size and activity levels. Larger animals have higher metabolic rates than smaller animals, and active animals have higher metabolic rates than inactive animals. Metabolic rate also depends on body temperature. This is because temperature affects the rate at which the biochemical reactions involved in energy metabolism proceed. Generally, if an animal's body temperature increases, its metabolic rate will accelerate exponentially. Most animals alive today are cold-blooded, or "ectotherms". Insects, worms, fish, crustaceans, amphibians and reptiles—basically all creatures except mammals and birds—are ectotherms. As human-induced climate change raises global temperatures, the body temperatures of cold-blooded animals are also expected to rise. Researchers say the metabolic rate of some land-based ectotherms may have already increased by between 3.5% and 12% due to climate warming that's already occurred. But this prediction doesn't account for the animals' capacity to physiologically "acclimate" to warmer temperatures. Acclimation refers to an animal's ability to remodel its physiology to cope with a change in its environment. But rarely can acclimation fully negate the effect of temperature on metabolic processes. For this reason, by the end of the century land-based ectotherms are still predicted to have metabolic rates about 20% to 30% higher than they are now. Having a higher metabolic rate means that animals will need more food. This means they might starve if more food is not available, and leaves them less energy to find a mate and reproduce. https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-climate-threatens-cold-blooded-animals.amp

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Cybersecurity researchers from Quarkslab have discovered two vulnerabilities in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0, which could spell major trouble for “billions” of devices. TPM 2.0 is a chip that PC manufacturers have been adding to the motherboards since mid-2016. The technology, as Microsoft explains, is designed to provide “security-related functions”. The chip helps generate, store, and limit the use of cryptographic keys. Many TPMs, the company further explains, include physical security mechanisms to make them tamper-resistant. TPM 2.0 flaw Now, researchers Francisco Falcon and Ivan Arce discovered out-of-bounds read (CVE-2023-1017) and out-of-bounds write (CVE-2023-1018) vulnerabilities, which could allow threat actors to escalate privileges and steal sensitive data from vulnerable endpoints(opens in new tab). The impact of the flaws could differ from vendor to vendor, BleepingComputer said. https://www.techradar.com/news/this-new-tpm-20-security-flaw-could-spell-big-trouble-for-billions-of-devices

Nobody comes out looking good in the latest round of graphics card updates, because both AMD and Nvidia have shipped out drivers that can do bad things to your PC. First, Nvidia has a relatively simple CPU overuse issue(opens in new tab) that occurs after exiting a game, and the basic workaround is just to go back to the previous driver. Second, AMD's driver can, in rare instances, totally corrupt your Windows installation Eep. That's a rather bigger deal, but actually isn't really AMD's fault, even though it has been live in both this latest Adrenalin driver and the previous one. Blame Windows' penchant for updating the OS at all costs. The Adrenalin 23.2.1 driver from February, as well as the current 23.2.2 version, can totally brick your machine, as happened to a bunch of Radeon owners, as well as Brad Chacos from PC World(opens in new tab). They have documented their pain and the "exotic" steps they took to get their test rig back up and running after the driver update killed it. The issue, it seems, is that on rare occasions where Windows decides that no matter what you're doing it simply must update something while you're installing your new AMD drivers, it will corrupt the system. Chacos found their installation went fine until the point where it came to restarting the machine, at which point it went through a continuous boot>BSOD cycle. https://www.pcgamer.com/both-amd-and-nvidias-latest-drivers-can-do-very-bad-things-to-your-gaming-pc/

Operations to defend the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut will go on, and are backed by senior generals, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Western analysts suggested at the weekend that Ukraine was probably withdrawing some of its troops, as Russian forces close in on the city. Moscow has been trying to take Bakhmut for months, as both sides suffer heavy losses in a grinding war of attrition. A local official says there has been street fighting in recent days. But Deputy Mayor Oleksandr Marchenko said at the weekend that Russia had not yet gained control of the city. Meanwhile Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner private army involved in the Russian campaign, has complained of a lack of ammunition amid apparent friction between his fighters and regular Russian forces. He also says his representative had been barred from a Russian military headquarters. Analysts say Bakhmut has little strategic value but has become a focal point for Russian commanders who have struggled to deliver any positive news to the Kremlin. Capture of the city would bring Russia slightly closer to its goal of controlling the whole of Donetsk region, one of four regions in eastern and southern Ukraine it annexed last September after referendums widely condemned outside Russia as a sham Mr Zelensky said in his evening address that he had discussed Bakhmut with senior generals. "[They] responded not to withdraw, but to strengthen [our defences]," he said. "The command unanimously supported this position. There were no other positions. I told the commander in chief to find the appropriate forces to help our guys in Bakhmut." The comments followed a report by the German newspaper Bild quoting Ukrainian government sources that armed forces commander Valery Zaluzhny had disagreed with Mr Zelensky about the operation several weeks ago, recommending a retreat from the city. Most defenders shared Gen Zaluzhny's view, the paper added. And at the weekend the US-based think tank the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said Ukrainian troops were probably conducting a "limited fighting withdrawal" while "continuing to inflict high casualties" on the Russians. Ground forces commander Olexandr Syrsky, quoted on a visit to the front line on Sunday by Ukrainska Pravda newspaper, said the fighting in Bakhmut had reached the "highest level of tension". "The enemy has been throwing extra Wagner forces into the battle," he said. "Our troops have been courageously defending our positions in the north of Bakhmut, trying to prevent the encirclement of the city." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64864496

I "If there are any people involved in the matter, and there certainly are... the perpetrators must be given the most severe of punishments," he warned. More than 1,000 girls at dozens of schools have been affected by unexplained illnesses since November. Incidents were reported in at least 15 cities and towns on Sunday alone. Authorities have released very little information about their investigations and announced no arrests, but they have accused Iran's "enemies" of using the suspected poisonings to undermine the clerical establishment. Some Iranians believe the girls' schools are being targeted by hard-line elements to stop them receiving an education. Others suggest the authorities may be punishing girls for their leading role in the nationwide anti-government protests that erupted in September. The first known case was reported at a school in the Shia holy city of Qom on 30 November, when 18 schoolgirls fell ill and were taken to hospital. Since then, a total of 127 schools in 25 of Iran's 31 provinces have been affected, according to a tally by the reformist news outlet Etemad Online. Students have said they smelled tangerine or rotten fish before falling ill. Many have suffered respiratory problems, nausea, dizziness and fatigue. In his first public comments on the matter Ayatollah Khamenei called on law enforcement and intelligence agencies to "seriously pursue the issue". "The poisonings are a grave and unforgivable crime," he declared during a speech at a tree planting event in Tehran, adding that there would be "no pardons" if anyone was identified as a perpetrator and convicted. Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei meanwhile warned that they could face the charge of "corruption on earth", which is punishable by death. He also said special courts would be set up in each province to summon "lie-spreaders and disrupters of public opinion in the case of the poisonings". Their remarks came a day after a series of suspected poisonings was reported in at least 15 cities and towns, with the south-western city of Ahvaz and the central city of Yazd said to have been worst affected. Opposition activist collective 1500 Tasvir posted footage that it said showed girls at Fatemieh Art School in the western city of Hamadan shouting: "We don't want to die." In another video, a woman in the northern city of Rasht said security forces had fired tear-gas at concerned mothers protesting outside the local education department. On Saturday, Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said that investigators had gathered "suspicious samples" at affected schools, but provided no details. Health Minister Bahram Eynollahi meanwhile told a conference last Tuesday that research indicated that "a kind of mild poison caused the intoxication". 1500 Tasvir tweeted on Sunday that it had "received the results of 25 blood tests from poisoned students in different cities" and that the "MCV number in all of them is lower than normal". The MCV, or "Mean Corpuscular Volume" count, measures the average size of red blood cells, which are responsible for transporting oxygen from the lungs to other parts of the body. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64862714

Ford today said it's increasing production on models in high demand, with plans to triple the amount of F-150 Lightnings it builds this year. After a weekslong stoppage due to a battery issue that's now been fixed, production of the electric F-150 will resume on March 13. Other notable Fords with ramped-up production include the Bronco Sport SUV, the Maverick pickup, the Mustang Mach-E EV, and the Transit vans. It's no surprise Ford wants to sell as many vehicles as possible this year, and today the company detailed plans to strongly increase production of several models that are in high demand. The most notable of which is the F-150 Lightning, which Ford says it's on track to build triple the amount compared with last year. The plans comes on the heels of Lighting production being halted for multiple weeks due to a battery issue. Ford has since fixed the problem and said production will resume on March 13. With assembly back in motion, the company hopes to start building 150,000 Lightnings annually by the end of this year. In 2022, Ford said it sold 15,617 copies of the electric F-150. Of course, the Lightning is just one of the Ford models that are said to be in high demand. Others that will see their production ramped up include the compact-sized Bronco Sport SUV and the Maverick pickup truck. To meet demand in North and South America, the company plans to increase production by more than 80,000 units in 2023. Earlier this year, we learned that Ford planned to increase production of the Mustang Mach-E by nearly 67 percent, from 78,000 units last year to 130k in 2023. That is said to already be underway, and today the company said changes at the production plant will help towards nearly doubling hourly production of the Mach-E. Ford said it's targeting annual manufacturing rate of 210K by the end of this year. With Ford also saying it's adding more workers in April at the Kansas City assembly plant where the Transit van and its electric counterpart are built, the company aims to increase annual production of those by 38,000. While Ford didn't announce specific plans to increase production of other po[CENSORED]r models, the company did mention it's trying to find ways to build more gas-burning and hybrid F-150s, which are built at the Dearborn, Michigan plant. Ford is also preparing to introduce new or updated versions of the Escape, the Mustang, the Super Duty trucks, and the Ranger. The latter will be built on the same assembly line as the full-size Bronco, and the launch of the new-generation Ranger could be why Ford didn't say it would increase Bronco production https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43177610/ford-production-increase-f-150-lighting-mustang-mach-e-bronco-sport-maverick/

. Multiple fire departments rushed to the scene in Roosevelt, N.J., on Wednesday to put out the flames. A New Jersey woman who was being evicted died in a fire at her home after she threatened to blow it up, police said. The woman was served an eviction notice at her home on Cedar Court in Roosevelt, about 20 miles from Trenton, but refused to leave, New Jersey State Police said. Just after 11 a.m. Wednesday, state troopers were called to the home for a report of smoke. Shortly after they arrived, the home went up in flames. The woman, who has not been publicly identified, died, Sgt. Philip Curry said. He said the cause of the fire is being investigated. Curry said authorities believe animals were killed in the fire but did not know how many. NBC New York reported that the woman took care of cats for other people. Neighbors said she may have had as many as 30 in her home. The state's animal control office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday. Police said no one else was at the home with the woman. Three firefighters sustained minor injuries https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nj-neighbors-say-woman-may-30-cats-house-torched-fatal-fire-eviction-n-rcna73133

There has been talk of Lego working on a new Zelda-themed set or two for a little while and the company now seems to have inadvertently confirmed it. With images of an early version of a Zelda lego set appearing on YouTube, some creators have now started to report receiving takedown notices from Lego. Considering it seems unlikely that Lego would care if these leaks weren't of real Lego sets, the company has now essentially confirmed that they were legit all along. VGC notes that the production timeline for getting a Lego set to market is around two years, so it's possible that this leaked version could change plenty before we can actually buy anything. The legitimacy of the leak wasn't really in question even before Lego started throwing takedown notices around, however. The images shared were supposedly from an internal survey which also included other sets that were in an early stage of production. "This included a Lord of the Rings Rivendale set, which would be confirmed to be real only days later, lending to the legitimacy of the leaked Zelda images," VGC notes. Lego and Nintendo aren't strangers, of course. The Lego Nintendo NES is pretty great, and it's far from being the only Nintendo-themed Lego set that you can buy. It now looks increasingly likely that we can expect Zelda to be joining the mix eventually, too. https://www.pocket-lint.com/lego-seemingly-confirms-zelda-lego-set-through-youtube-video-takedowns/

Name of the game: Red Dead redemption 2 Price: 19.79$ Link Store: Press here Offer ends up after X hours: Offer ends 15 March Requirements : MINIMUM: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 - April 2018 Update (v1803) Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-4770K / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X Memory: 12 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 150 GB available space Sound Card: Direct X Compatible RECOMMENDED: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 - April 2018 Update (v1803) Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-4770K / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X Memory: 12 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 150 GB available space Sound Card: Direct X Compatible

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Microsoft has transitioned its confidential containers on Azure Container Instances (ACI) from limited preview to public preview as full general availability moves one step closer. A Microsoft blog post(opens in new tab) explains how the service makes use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization and Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) in AMD’s latest chips designed for servers. ACI Product Manager Peter Pogorski explained how Azure customers are “increasingly turning to cloud-native, container-based applications to support their workloads”, but they continue to demand high levels of data protection. Azure confidential containers “This serverless platform allows for running Linux containers within a hardware-based and attested Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), providing the simplicity of a serverless container platform with the enhanced security of confidential computing," Pogorski summarized https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-opens-azure-confidential-containers-to-public-preview

It used to be the case that when you talked about Intel's B motherboards, you were talking about something pretty much low-end with a cheap VRM, under par connectivity, or a poor USB complement. But most critical of all, was the lack of memory overclocking. That's all changed since the release of the B560, and for many users, a good quality B760 board will happily run a Core i9 13900K(opens in new tab) and DDR5-6000+. Add to that a high end GPU, you've got a high-end system by any measure So, B doesn't have to mean budget, and in the case of the Asus ROG Strix B760-F Gaming WiFi(opens in new tab), that's especially true. While it really does look like a premium board, and at a glance it's deserving of ROG branding, at $269 / £279 / AU$499, it appears to be the most expensive B760 motherboard on the market. That puts it head-to-head with many Z790 boards that cost less, meaning the Asus is up against some stiff competition. The ROG Strix B760-F does have some features that elevate it above the cheaper Z790 boards though. Firstly, let's go over the B760 chipset. Apart from disabled CPU overclocking, the major difference between B760 and Z790 is the CPU to chipset DMI link speed. In the case of Z790, this link is an x8 link, whereas B760 has an x4 link. This means B760 will generally have a lesser I/O with fewer SATA and USB ports or fewer M.2 slots https://www.pcgamer.com/asus-rog-strix-b760-f-gaming-wifi-motherboard-review/

IMAGE SOURCE Xi Jinping is set to deepen his control of China's government and economy, as lawmakers meet this week in Beijing to pass far-reaching reforms. The National People's Congress (NPC), a rubber-stamp parliament, will confirm Mr Xi's third term as president, and the appointments of his top team. They will also name a new premier, the second-in-command after Mr Xi, as the incumbent Li Keqiang departs. The Two Sessions, as the meetings are known, are an annual affair. But this year's sessions are particularly significant as delegates are expected to reshape several key Communist Party and state institutions. They will also tighten control over bodies overseeing the finance sector and scientific and technology work, while "strengthening party-building work" in private businesses, according to state media. The moves will likely further blur the lines between the Chinese Communist Party and the government, and consolidate the party's control of the private sector. This comes amid an ongoing corruption crackdown which has seen a string of high-profile businessmen disappear in recent years. The latest person to go missing was one of China's top dealmakers in the tech sector This week's NPC meeting will also formalise Mr Xi's leadership of the country, as he will be elected president of China and head of the armed forces. He secured his position in the echelons of Chinese power in October last year, when the Communist Party re-elected him as their leader for a third term. It was a break from decades-long tradition, as no other party leader besides Communist China's first leader, Mao Zedong, will have served for this long. In the 2018 NPC meeting, lawmakers had approved the removal of term limits on the presidency, effectively allowing Mr Xi to remain leader for life. Mr Xi's appointment comes as he faces domestic pressure to turn around an economy battered by his zero-Covid strategy and crackdowns in various business sectors. Abroad, he is navigating worsening ties with the US over the Ukraine war and the recent spy balloon saga, even as he warms his embrace of Russian leader Vladimir Putin https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64819857