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link : https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/1046124278/missouri-newspaper-security-flaws-hacking-investigation-gov-mike-parson Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is vowing to prosecute the staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after the newspaper says it uncovered security vulnerabilities on a state agency website. The governor is characterizing the paper's actions as a hacking that the state will investigate. He said it could cost taxpayers $50 million. "Not only are we going to hold this individual accountable, but we will also be holding accountable all those who aided this individual and the media corporation that employs them," Parson said at a news conference on Thursday. The backstory is a little complicated, so stick with us. It starts with a website maintained by the state's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). The Post-Dispatch said in a story published Wednesday night that an unnamed reporter had discovered flaws on that website that made the Social Security numbers of teachers and other school staff "vulnerable to public exposure." The issue involved a web application that allowed the public to search teacher certifications and credentials. The newspaper said that no private information was clearly visible or searchable, but teachers' Social Security numbers were contained in the HTML source code of those pages. More than 100,000 Social Security numbers were vulnerable, it added. Newspaper staff reportedly alerted DESE of the findings and delayed publishing the story to give the agency time to protect teachers' personal information and enable the state to check other websites for similar risks. DESE said it notified the Missouri Office of Administration's Information Technology Services Division to disable the problematic search tool as soon as the vulnerability was verified. "The state is unaware of any misuse of individual information or even whether information was accessed inappropriately outside of this isolated incident," the Office of Administration said in a news release on Wednesday. But that news release also placed the blame on the individual who had discovered the security flaw. It described the incident as a multistep process in which "a hacker took the records of at least three educators, decoded the HTML source code, and viewed the social security number (SSN) of those specific educators." (HTML source code is publicly available to anyone with a web browser and can be accessed in just a few clicks.) The Post-Dispatch disputed the agency's characterization. In reality, it said, its staff had discovered the vulnerability and then confirmed with three educators and a cybersecurity expert that the nine-digit numbers were in fact Social Security numbers. It also pointed out that DESE did not acknowledge — in its news release and in a letter to teachers — the total scope of the vulnerability and the fact that thousands of Social Security numbers "had been available to anyone through DESE's own search engine." Joseph Martineau, the Post-Dispatch's attorney, called DESE's deflection and accusation "unfounded" in a statement published by the paper. "The reporter did the responsible thing by reporting his findings to DESE so that the state could act to prevent disclosure and misuse," he wrote. "A hacker is someone who subverts computer security with malicious or criminal intent. Here, there was no breach of any firewall or security and certainly no malicious intent." A DESE spokesperson told NPR over email on Thursday that "we have every confidence that OA-ITSD has now protected educators' data to prevent further exposure." She directed NPR to the agency's earlier news release but declined to comment further, citing the investigation. The governor wants to use state resources to investigate the newspaper Parson convened a news conference on Thursday at which he vowed to prosecute the alleged hacking and then declined to take questions from reporters. He said that his administration had notified the Cole County prosecutor and that the Missouri State Highway Patrol's digital forensic unit would also be opening an investigation into "all of those involved." Those efforts could cost taxpayers as much as $50 million while diverting workers and resources from other state agencies, he emphasized. But he said the state is committed to "standing up against any and all perpetrators who attempt to steal personal information and harm Missourians." He also said the state would work to address those security concerns. "This individual is not a victim," he said. "They were acting against a state agency to compromise teachers' personal information in an attempt to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet." Martineau has not responded to NPR's request for comment regarding the governor's accusations. Parson cited a state statute that defines the offense of tampering with computer data, arguing that nothing in DESE's website authorized this individual to access teacher data. He also said that the statute allows his administration to bring a civil suit to recover damages against all of those involved and said emphatically that they refuse to let teachers be "a pawn in the news outlet's political vendetta." "We apologize to the hardworking Missouri teachers who now have to wonder if their personal information was compromised for pathetical political gain by what is supposed to be one of Missouri's news outlets," Parson said, describing them as having been put in the middle. The Missouri State Teachers Association has not commented publicly on the governor's remarks but released a statement on Thursday afternoon saying that the DESE website's vulnerabilities have eroded educators' confidence and calling on the state to "deploy every resource necessary" to keep their personal information secure. This is not the first time that Parson has lashed out at the news media during the coronavirus pandemic. As The Kansas City Star put it, he has "bristled at unfavorable reporting and singled out The Star, the Post-Dispatch and the Missouri Independent for criticism over their reporting on COVID-19." It's sparking concerns over press freedom Local and national critics are expressing their support for the newspaper and its right to free speech. Matt Bailey, the digital freedom program director with PEN America, called the governor's characterization of the reporter's actions as "an affront to democracy, the free press, and the public interest" in a statement provided to NPR. "And it comes at a time when opportunistic political leaders seek to demonize the press," he added. "Such craven acts merely serve the short-term interests of the governor; in the long term, they chip away at an already-precarious information ecosystem, where a growing number of people distrust credible accountability reporting." He added that the newspaper and its reporters acted responsibly in disclosing and then reporting on the security issues, saying they had done so in line with legal and ethical norms. "Missouri Governor Mike Parson's threats of legal action against the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and its reporter for pointing out a security flaw on a state website are absurd," Katherine Jacobsen, the Committee to Protect Journalists' U.S. and Canada program coordinator, said in a statement. "Using journalists as political scapegoats by casting routine research as 'hacking' is a poor attempt to divert public attention from the government's own security failing." Jean Maneke, an attorney for the Missouri Press Association, told The Associated Press that she doubts any judge "would allow this to proceed very far." She said the fact that the newspaper warned the state about the security risk indicates it was not acting with any criminal or malicious intent. Democratic state Rep. Crystal Quade, the House minority leader, released a statement on Thursday saying Parson should thank the newspaper, not threaten it. "In the finest tradition of public interest journalism, the Post-Dispatch discovered a problem — one publicly discernable to anyone who bothered to look; it verified the problem with experts; and it brought the problem to the attention of state officials for remedial action," she wrote. "The governor should direct his anger towards the failure of state government to keep its technology secure and up to date and work to fix the problem, not threaten journalists with prosecution for uncovering those failures."

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Michael Running Wolf still has that old TI-89 graphing calculator he used in high school that helped propel his interest in technology. "Back then, my teachers saw I was really interested in it," says Running Wolf, clinical instructor of computer science at Northeastern University. "Actually a couple of them printed out hundreds of pages of instructions for me on how to code" the device so that it could play games. What Running Wolf, who grew up in a remote Cheyenne village in Birney, Montana, didn't realize at the time, poring over the stack of printouts at home by the light of kerosene lamps, was that he was actually teaching himself basic programming. "I thought I was just learning how to put computer games on my calculator," Running Wolf says with a laugh. But it hadn't been his first encounter with technology. Growing up in the windy plains near the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Running Wolf says that although his family—which is part Cheyenne, part Lakota—didn't have daily access to running water or electricity, sometimes, when the winds died down, the power would flicker on, and he'd plug in his Atari console and play games with his sisters. These early experiences would spur forward a lifelong interest in computers, artificial intelligence, and software engineering that Running Wolf is now harnessing to help reawaken endangered indigenous languages in North and South America, some of which are so critically at risk of extinction that their tallies of living native speakers have dwindled into the single digits. Running Wolf's goal is to develop methods for documenting and maintaining these early languages through automatic speech recognition software, helping to keep them "alive" and well-documented. It would be a process, he says, that tribal and indigenous communities could use to supplement their own language reclamation efforts, which have intensified in recent years amid the threats facing languages. "The grandiose plan, the far-off dream, is we can create technology to not only preserve, but reclaim languages," says Running Wolf, who teaches computer science at Northeastern's Vancouver campus. "Preservation isn't what we want. That's like taking something and embalming it and putting it in a museum. Languages are living things." The better thing to say is that they've "gone to sleep," Running Wolf says. And the threats to indigenous languages are real. Of the roughly 6,700 languages spoken in the world, about 40 percent are in danger of atrophying out of existence forever, according to UNESCO Atlas of Languages in Danger. The loss of these languages also represents the loss of whole systems of knowledge unique to a culture, and the ability to transmit that knowledge across generations. While the situation appears dire—and is, in many cases—Running Wolf says nearly every Native American tribe is engaged in language reclamation efforts. In New England, one notable tribe doing so is the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, whose native tongue is now being taught in public schools on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. But the problem, he says, is that in the ever-evolving field of computational linguistics, little research has been devoted to Native American languages. This is partially due to a lack of linguistic data, but it is also because many native languages are "polysynthetic," meaning they contain words that comprise many morphemes, which are the smallest units of meaning in language, Running Wolf says. Polysynthetic languages often have very long words—words that can mean an entire sentence, or denote a sentence's worth of meaning. Further complicating the effort is the fact that many Native American languages don't have an orthography, or an alphabet, he says. In terms of what languages need to keep them afloat, Running Wolf maintains that orthographies are not vital. Many indigenous languages have survived through a strong oral tradition in lieu of a robust written one. But for scholars looking to build databases and transcription methods, like Running Wolf, written texts are important to filling in the gaps. What's holding researchers back from building automatic speech recognition for indigenous languages is precisely that there is a lack of audio and textual data available to them. Using hundreds of hours of audio from various tribes, Running Wolf has managed to produce some rudimentary results. So far, the automatic speech recognition software he and his team have developed can recognize single, simple words from some of the indigenous languages they have data for. "Right now, we're building a corpus of audio and texts to start showing early results," Running Wolf says. Importantly, he says, "I think we have an approach that's scientifically sound." Eventually, Running Wolf says he hopes to create a way for tribes to provide their youth with tools to learn these ancient languages by way of technological immersion—through things like augmented or virtual reality, he says. Some of these technologies are already under development by Running Wolf and his team, made up of a linguist, a data scientist, a machine learning engineer, and his wife, who used to be a program manager, among others. All of the ongoing research and development is being done in consultation with numerous tribal communities, Running Wolf says. "It's all coming from the people," he says. 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Corsair has showcased its next-generation Dominator Platinum RGB DDR5 memory kits which will be the flagship modules from the memory maker. Corsair's Flagship Dominator Platinum DDR5 Memory Modules Pictures, Feature Stealthy Black Design But With Added RGB Illumination Corsair isn't making a big change in terms of the design of their next-gen Dominator Platinum DDR5 modules. This is mainly due to the fact that the current Dominator memory modules look absolutely stunning by themselves. The main changes will come in the PCB design which we can already see hints of underneath the heatsink. The memory modules feature at least 8 DDR5 ICs that will be running at speeds of up to 6400 Mbps initially and going upward as the new memory standard matures. Talking about the design, the Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR5 memory modules will rock the same great stealthy black look with the patented Dual-Path DHX cooling technology that rocks a high-end heat spreader along with 12 ultra-bright and fully addressable CAPELLIX RGB LEDs. The memory modules might also come in white colors though that hasn't been confirmed yet. Corsair will also offer RGB compatibility with its iCUE software suite while XMP 3.0 will allow overclocked profiles to be stored for a series of QVL compatible Intel 600-series motherboards. Previously, Corsair also showed off its Vengeance series DDR5 kits which offer a more mainstream design and a low-profile heat spreader. Corsair has not shared any specifications of its memory modules but earlier, the company did confirm that its memory modules will be able to hit DDR5-6400 speeds initially, offering up to 51 GB/s bandwidth. Following are all DDR5 kits that we have seen so far announced: G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5 Memory Kits GeIL Polaris RGB DDR5 Memory Kits TeamGroup T-Force Delta RGB DDR5 Memory Kits TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan DDR5 Memory Kits TeamGroup Elite Series DDR5 Memory Kits PNY Performance DDR5 Memory Kits ADATA XPG CASTER DDR5 Memory Kits V-Color DDR5 RGB Memory Kits ZADAK SPARK DDR5 Memory Kits Kingston Fury DDR5 Series Memory Kits ASGARD DDR5 Memory Kits Intel's Alder Lake Desktop CPUs will feature both DDR5 and DDR4 memory controllers and 600-series motherboards will also come with DDR5/DDR4 specific options. High-end motherboards will retain DDR5 while the more mainstream offerings will open up DDR4 support too. The Intel Alder Lake CPU lineup is expected to launch in November along with the respective Z690 platform and DDR5 memory kits.

Riot Games is making a fundamental change to League of Legends as part of its ongoing effort to reduce toxic behavior: As of League's 11.21 patch, /all chat has been disabled for matchmade queues. "While /all chat can be the source of fun social interaction between teams, as well as some good-hearted banter, right now negative interactions outweigh the positives," Riot said in a blog post. "We'll evaluate the impact of this change through verbal abuse reports and penalty rates, as well as surveys and direct feedback from you all." For communicating between teams, the only option players will have are emotes, except during end of game periods, during which full team-to-team chat will be available. You'll still be able to chat with your teammates, which can come with its own serving of abuse, and some League of Legends players in the subreddit are expressing confusion over the choice to get rid of /all chat while leaving team chat intact.a "Just me or does 95% of the toxicity happen in team chat? Disabling /all does nothing imo," Reddit user Own-Iron-207 wrote. "I think ~60%-70% of my total friends list is from /all chat letting me find neat people in game, and 70%+ of the toxicity I find is from team chat," Lord_Dust_Bunny wrote. Riot acknowledged that team chat can also be abusive, but says that it's sticking around because it has a better reason to exist than /all chat. "Regarding [team chat], we're aware that verbal abuse happens in team chat too, so disabling /all chat won't get rid of abuse altogether," Riot said. "But team chat also plays an important team coordination function, so the potential value it brings is much higher, even if it can also host some negative experiences. We know this sucks for those of you who just want to compliment your lane opponent's skin, or ask for a dance party in Baron pit. But we believe the tradeoff is worth it to cut down on the growing negativity /all chat has been creating in your games." There's also some general disappointment over the removal of /all, though, even if it was an outlet for toxicity. "This /all chat feature removal is simply a punishment for the minority of players that are good sports and enjoy talking to opponents in [a] healthy way, with some reasonable and good-spirited banter," user ThisIsSnake wrote. "Why not tie /all to high honor levels and actually make these honor levels both easier to achieve and easier to lose?" League's Honor system, which indicates a player's record of positive or toxic behavior, is among the systems that Riot previously said "have started to show their wear and tear." Disabling /all chat is the latest in a line of moves Riot has taken to combat toxic players in its various communities. Back in April, the studio started recording player voice chat in Valorant to moderate "disruptive behavior," with the only way to opt out being to disable voice chat. In November 2020, Riot published an outline of measures it planned on taking to combat toxicity in League of Legends, including revising the tiered penalty system, additional ranked match solutions, and automated verbal abuse analysis. Other competitive games have similarly restricted team-to-team chat. Rainbow Six Siege set matches to team chat by default in early 2020, citing data showing that cross-team chat is responsible for "close to 85%" of toxicity. Similar to the League of Legends update, some Siege fans expressed confusion over Ubisoft's decision to disable cross-team chat while leaving team chat untouched.

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Link : https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-auto-sales-drop-as-chip-shortage-endures-11634026562 BEIJING—China’s car sales declined in the third quarter from a year earlier, the first such drop in more than a year, as the global chip shortage continues to hold back the world’s largest auto market. Sales of passenger cars in September fell 17% from a year earlier to 1.58 million vehicles, the China Passenger Car Association said Tuesday, the worst decline since March last year. Sales from July to September declined 13% from a year earlier. The world’s major auto markets have been grappling with a historic chip shortage and China hasn’t been spared. The shortfall intensified in the third quarter as Covid-19 cases surged in Southeast Asia—including in Malaysia, where semiconductors are sent for testing and packaging. In recent months, auto factories in the U.S. and Japan have halted production because of the semiconductor shortage. In the U.S., September auto sales fell 25%, according to Wards Intelligence. In China, tight monetary policy, a weakened real-estate market and declining earnings in the manufacturing sector have hurt consumer confidence, said Cui Dongshu, secretary-general of the passenger car association. Power outages in various Chinese regions, which limited output in September, are driving up risks in auto production, said Chen Shihua, deputy secretary-general of the government-backed China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. Last month, the China Automobile Dealers Association said the worst is over with regards to the semiconductor shortage domestically and that it expects supply issues to ease. Still, it could take at least three months for the impact to be felt in the retail market, the dealers association said. In September, global auto makers’ sales were hit hard in China. Toyota Motor Corp. TM 1.13% said sales in the country dropped 35.9% from a year earlier to 115,000 vehicles due to shortages of semiconductors and other components because of a surge in Covid-19 infections in Southeast Asia. Toyota recently halted some of its production lines in China, a spokesman said. Honda Motor Co. HMC -0.85% said its China sales fell 28.1%, while Nissan Motor Co. NSANY 2.00% said its sales dropped 26.2%. Sales for two China joint ventures of Volkswagen AG VOW -1.12% slumped 48.6% and 23.1%, respectively, data from the passenger car association showed. “The inventory level is at an all-time low,” said Guan Bolang, a Toyota dealer in Guangzhou. With production disrupted, some models may need months before they are delivered, during which time consumers may cancel orders, he said. Meanwhile, with vehicle stocks thinning, Mr. Guan was reluctant to offer discounts for fear of further squeezing profits. General Motors Co. GM 1.50% , which reports quarterly, delivered 623,000 vehicles in China in the July to September quarter, down about 19% from a year earlier, due to disruption in the semiconductor supply chain, the company said. As Chinese consumer demand is typically strong in the fourth quarter, the impact of supply chain disruptions on sales is likely to be further magnified, said Paul Gong, China auto analyst at UBS. Aside from the semiconductor shortage, car makers and component producers also face price increases for materials including cobalt, lithium, steel and aluminum, according to China’s auto industry regulator, auto makers and suppliers. Cobalt and lithium are necessary for producing most electric-vehicle batteries. The rising cost of raw materials coincides with growing Chinese demand for electric vehicles. In September, sales of what are known as new-energy vehicles—mostly electric vehicles—more than tripled in China from a year earlier to 334,000 vehicles, the passenger car association said. Tesla Inc. TSLA 1.74% sold 56,006 made-in-China vehicles in September, 6.9% of which were exported to other markets, passenger car association data showed. Pressured by rising costs of materials, Tesla said, it raised the price of its Shanghai-made Model Y Performance by 2.6% last month. Model Y buyers who place orders in October will have to wait until next year to receive their cars, a salesman at a Tesla store in Beijing said. Chinese EV makers posted record sales last month. BYD Co. 1211 -1.93% sold 71,099 new-energy vehicles and NIO Inc. NIO -0.36% and XPeng Inc. XPEV 0.77% delivered more than 10,000 vehicles each, the companies said. —Raffaele Huang contributed to this article. Write to Yoko Kubota at yoko.kubota@wsj.com Copyright ©2021 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Appeared in the October 13, 2021, print edition as 'Chip Shortage Dents China Auto Sales.'

link : https://www.ftadviser.com/pensions/2021/10/12/retirement-income-targets-show-covid-lifestyle-shift/ he Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has updated its retirement living standards to include Netflix subscriptions and a higher eating out budget as peoples’ lifestyles are changing post-Covid. In the first update of the retirement living standards since they were established two years ago, published today (October 12), changes included more money for eating out, a higher personal grooming and social activities budget and a monthly Netflix subscription. The PLSA said just as the most recent updates to the CPI basket of goods included hand sanitiser and home gym equipment, the new retirement living standards reflect changing attitudes towards retirement lifestyles post Covid-19. The standards show what life in retirement looks like at three different levels, and what a range of common goods and services would cost for each level. The three levels are minimum, moderate and comfortable, and the standards have been designed to fill the perceived gaps in current approaches and aid advisers when helping their clients with retirement planning. The annual budget for the minimum standard has risen since 2019 by £700 to £10,900 for a single person and by £1,000 to £16,700 for a couple in 2021. The minimum basket now includes an increase in the budget for hairdressing, from £15 to £25 for women and from £8 to £10 for men, and the inclusion of Netflix, adding around £1.38 each week. The moderate income level provides more financial security and flexibility. For example, people in this bracket could have a two-week holiday in Europe and eat out a few times a month. The annual budget for this standard has risen by £600 to £20,800 for a single person and by £1,500 to £30,600 for a couple. The eating out budget, which rose from £75 per person per month to £100 per person per month, drove much of this increase and the budget for social activities also grew from £35 to £50 per week. At the comfortable standard, retirees can enjoy more luxuries such as regular beauty treatments, theatre trips and three weeks holiday in Europe a year. This budget has increased by £600 to £33,600 for one person and £2,200 to £49,700 for a couple. Nigel Peaple, director of policy and advocacy at the PLSA, said: “It is important that the retirement living standards remain relevant by reflecting real world price changes and real world expectations about lifestyles in retirement. “We hope the updated standards will encourage people to think about whether they are saving enough for the retirement lifestyle they want and, in particular, whether they are making the most of the employer contributions on offer in their workplace pension.” Peaple said lockdown had encouraged workers to think about what activities and services they would want to be able to afford during retirement. “With barbers and hairdressers closed during lockdowns and many of us taking scissors to our own hair for the first time, it is little surprise that the research groups agreed the budget for personal grooming should be increased across the three standards. “The addition of Netflix also gives an insight into what many of us expect to be doing when we finish work.”

Link : https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/us-canada-border-reopen-1.6208838 Fully vaccinated Canadians will be allowed to enter the United States at land and ferry border crossings starting in early November. Senior U.S. officials announced Tuesday night a plan to begin reopening the land borders with Canada and Mexico, which have been closed for non-essential travel since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. An exact date for the reopening has not yet been determined, according to senior administration officials who briefed reporters earlier about the plan during a conference call. They said a number of details are still being worked out, including the type of documentation that will be accepted to prove a traveller's vaccination status. The U.S. is also awaiting guidance from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) about travellers who received mixed doses of COVID-19 vaccines or the AstraZeneca vaccine. The U.S. has not approved the mixing of vaccine doses or the AstraZeneca vaccine for its own residents. However, an official on the call noted that the CDC plans to recommend the acceptance of air travellers who have been inoculated with any vaccine approved for emergency use by the World Health Organization, which includes AstraZeneca. The official said a similar rule should be expected at land crossings. Tuesday night's announcement about the reopening came shortly after Rep. Brian Higgins — a New York Democrat who has been one of the loudest critics in Washington of the continued border restrictions — broke the news. "The sigh of relief coming from northern border communities following this announcement is so loud it can practically be heard on either end of the Peace Bridge," Higgins said in the statement, referring to the span that connects Buffalo, N.Y., to Fort Erie, Ont., and one of the busiest bridges between the two countries. According to U.S. officials, Canadians crossing the border will be questioned about their vaccination status by border agents. Proof of vaccination will only be required if a traveller is sent for secondary screening, the government officials said on the call. If a traveller is fully vaccinated, there will be no requirement for them to show a negative COVID-19 test. When the updated rules go into effect, the U.S. will also ease other travel restrictions for fully vaccinated travellers arriving by air. Disproportionate measures The updated rules mean Canadian and U.S. citizens will soon face essentially the same rules when crossing the border after months of disproportionate measures at the world's longest international border. The Canadian government in August reopened its border to fully vaccinated U.S. travellers, which raised repeated questions about why the U.S. did not make the same change. The U.S. rules have also been described as inconsistent, since Canadians have been allowed to enter the U.S. by air, even for non-essential purposes, for most of the pandemic. The government officials said the updated regulations reflect the growing uptake in vaccinations across North America. They noted that nearly 263 million people in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are now fully vaccinated. Essential workers crossing the land border, such as truckers, will also face a new vaccine mandate starting sometime in January 2022. Canada has opened up its borders to fully vaccinated foreign travellers. Are there risks? Calls for U.S. to reopen land border to vaccinated Canadians grow louder Biden easing foreign air travel restrictions, requiring vaccines The officials said they are waiting to implement that change, which they referred to as the second phase of the border reopening, so that essential workers are given adequate time to get fully vaccinated. The existing border restrictions were set to expire on Oct. 21, but will now be extended until the new rules go into effect.

OnePlus 9RT will come with a three Wi-Fi antenna system to deliver reduced game latency, the company has revealed. The new advancement is aimed to deliver a better mobile gaming experience. In addition to the next-generation Wi-Fi antenna system on the OnePlus 9RT, OnePlus has revealed the key specifications of the OnePlus Buds Z2 ahead of its official announcement. The truly wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds will come with three microphones and 94 milliseconds of latency. Both OnePlus 9RT and OnePlus Buds Z2 are launching at an event in China later this week. OnePlus 9RT specifications On Tuesday, OnePlus revealed on Weibo that the OnePlus 9RT will come with the three Wi-Fi antenna system, with a dedicated antenna for gaming. The new antenna system is claimed to reduce the average latency while playing games by up to 38 percent. This will help improve gaming on the upcoming OnePlus phone. Earlier teasers confirmed that the OnePlus 9RT will come with a 600Hz touch sampling rate. The phone is also teased to have up to 7GB of RAM expansion support to improve multitasking. Further, the OnePlus 9RT is confirmed to come with a large vapour cooling (VC) chamber and a five-dimensional heat dissipation design to maintain temperature while processing heavy tasks and running graphic-intensive games. Other key specifications of the OnePlus 9RT that are confirmed so far include a 120Hz Samsung E4 AMOLED display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC, and a triple rear camera setup with a 50-megapixel primary sensor. The smartphone is also teased to have LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage. Furthermore, it will include a 4,500mAh battery with 65T Warp Charge charging. OnePlus Buds Z2 specifications Separately, OnePlus has shared the OnePlus Buds Z2 specifications on Weibo while comparing the new earbuds with the OnePlus Buds Z. The OnePlus Buds Z2 will feature active noise cancellation (ANC) with up to 40dB noise reduction that will come through a three-microphone system. This is unlike the original OnePlus Buds Z that didn't include ANC. The OnePlus Buds Z2 will also carry a latency rate of 94 milliseconds — down from the 103 milliseconds latency rate available with the Buds Z. The OnePlus Buds Z2 will come with 11mm moving coil drivers that will be larger in size over the 10mm driver unit available on the Buds Z, as per the company's teaser. The earbuds will also have Bluetooth v5.2 connectivity — an upgrade over the OnePlus Buds Z that had Bluetooth v5.0. OnePlus also claims that the Buds Z2 earbuds will deliver up to 38 hours of battery life. This is again an upgrade over the Buds Z that were rated to offer 20 hours of playback.

Going the app route will help deliver WSL updates faster, Microsoft contends Microsoft has just released a preview for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as a store application for Windows 11 machines. The company explains that this is the first release in its attempts to make WSL as a decoupled app that can be installed and updated from the Microsoft Store. “Installing WSL through the store will allow you to get the latest WSL updates and features faster, and without needing to modify your Windows version,” wrote Craig Loewen, a Program Manager at Microsoft.Check our roundup of the best Linux distros Also check our collection of the best Linux distros for business These are the best Linux distros for developers Don’t let the preview tag throw you off. In a FAQ style post Loewen added that the release isn’t a new version of WSL, and rather just the first release of the new delivery mechanism to test the waters and iron out any issues before making the app generally available. WSL on the Microsoft Store In the post Loewen explains that since its inception WSL has been offered as an optional component inside Windows. Secondly, the binaries that make up WSL's logic in that optional component are part of the Windows image, and thus are serviced and updated when the OS itself is. Microsoft now hopes to change these aspects and offer WSL as an app that is separate from the Windows image. Furthermore, just like any other Store app, users will be able to get updates to WSL independently of the OS. “So now once new features like GUI app support, GPU compute, and Linux file system drive mounting are developed, tested and ready for a release you will get access to it right away on your machine without needing to update your entire Windows OS, or going to Windows Insider preview builds,” rounds off Loewen. Here are the best Linux laptops for running LinuxWith almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’s TechRadar Pro’s expert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.

NVIDIA has officially discontinued specific game-ready driver support for the Kepler Family of GPUs manufactured since 2012. Today, driver support for the GeForce GTX 600 series, as well as a hefty portion of the GeForce 700 series GPUs, has officially been discontinued. Farewell Kepler GPUs - NVIDIA Discontinues GeForce GTX 600 and 700 Series Game Ready Driver Support Today, NVIDIA released the first driver from their 495 branch, which dropped support for any Kepler family graphics processors. NVIDIA Launches The Low-End GeForce GT 710 Graphics Card – Based on Kepler GK208, Aimed at Low Cost PCs The following list of cards are no longer supported by NVIDIA: TITAN family of GPUs: GeForce GTX TITAN, GeForce GTX TITAN Black, GeForce GTX TITAN Z GeForce 700 series of GPUs: GeForce GTX 780 Ti, GeForce GTX 780, GeForce GTX 770, GeForce GTX 760, GeForce GTX 760 Ti (OEM), GeForce GT 740, GeForce GT 730, GeForce GT 720, GeForce GT 710 GeForce 600 series of GPUs: GeForce GTX 690, GeForce GTX 680, GeForce GTX 670, GeForce GTX 660 Ti, GeForce GTX 660, GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST, GeForce GTX 650 Ti, GeForce GTX 650, GeForce GTX 645, GeForce GT 640, GeForce GT 635, GeForce GT 630 The only GeForce 700 series GPUs that will still maintain support are the GeForce GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 750, and GeForce GTX 745. These series are all based on NVIDIA's Maxwell architecture, and not the previous Kepler architecture. Kepler is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by NVIDIA, first introduced at retail in April 2012, as the successor to the Fermi microarchitecture. Kepler was Nvidia's first microarchitecture to focus on energy efficiency. Most GeForce 600 series, most GeForce 700 series, and some GeForce 800M series GPUs were based on Kepler, all manufactured in 28 nm. Kepler also found use in the GK20A, the GPU component of the Tegra K1 SoC, as well as in the Quadro Kxxx series, the Quadro NVS 510, and Nvidia Tesla computing modules. Kepler was followed by the Maxwell microarchitecture and used alongside Maxwell in the GeForce 700 series and GeForce 800M series. The architecture is named after Johannes Kepler, a German mathematician and key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. — Wikipedia NVIDIA Kepler series GPUs will still be offered security updates at this time. However, NVIDIA has chosen to continue offering bug fixes, enhancements to performance, any additional feature support in the future, as well as "day-0 game support" for their Maxwell, Pascal, Turing, and Ampere lines of graphics cards.

It's not quite the all-conquering phenomenon that it was during a certain period of lockdown, but the colourful knockabout fun of Fall Guys now just seems something of a fixture in the games scene. Its simplicity, readability and inherent humour mean this is something people will be playing for many years to come—and as is typical these days, that early success has turned a standalone title into something of a service game. Developer Mediatonic recently had a booth at EGX (as booth ideas go, giant obstacle courses is a good one), and our colleagues at TechRadar caught up with the game's lead designer Joe Walsh. Speaking to the game's breakout success, Walsh reckons that its inspirations outside of the usual were the key. "The difference with Fall Guys is that we were inspired by television," Walsh told TechRadar. "And it ended up being quite perfect timing with the growth of Twitch while we were working on the game. But really the inspiration for it is Takeshi's Castle and Total Wipeout. It's A Knockout for people who are maybe a bit older. "And those game shows are so amazing. I spent my childhood watching them and loving them, and I've always wondered what it would be like to compete on those shows. And that was really the genesis of Fall Guys. I think that's what makes it so unique is that it's the only game to draw inspiration from that area. I think it's been a big reason as to why it's been such a hit." The only one I think he missed is Gladiators, but then I'm one of those who thought Gladiators was the greatest TV show ever made when I was 10. Something about that Saturday evening family entertainment slot is in Fall Guys however: it really understands that, sometimes, just watching people fall over is as funny as it gets. Fall Guys now gets new content during themed seasons, and as well as a constant conveyor belt of cosmetics continues to introduce new game modes and ways to play. Walsh returned to the theme of po[CENSORED]r TV shows here, picking out a concept used in Squid Game that was once considered but rejected. "Oh, yeah, there's definitely a lot [of levels that don't make it]," says Walsh. "One of the ones that's come up recently, again, is Squid Game, [which] is now the biggest TV show in the world. And it opens with Red Light, Green Light, which is something that we dabbled with. And we never actually got to prototyping it, because we couldn't quite see how it works." Red Light, Green Light is a simple game: competitors line up and when the green light shows can move towards the finish line. When the red light shows, everyone has to stop moving immediately, and those that don't go back to the start. That would seem quite an odd fit for Fall Guys, where part of the joy is in your character's wobbly onwards momentum: equally, that's why a clever implementation of it could work. "Within a video game there's something about movement, which is in real life it's very hard to stay still," says Walsh. "But in a video game, you just put your controller down. And so at the time, I think we were like 'we'll never do Red Light, Green Light, it doesn't make sense.' But now seeing how po[CENSORED]r Squid Game is I'd love for us to have another crack at something like that and see if we could do it in Fall Guys." Whether it's a terrifying Spelunky Guy or a bizarre chibi Bomberman, new Fall Guys content appears constantly and, with Mediatonic's acquisition by Epic earlier this year, the Fortnite-style shotgun approach will continue. Whether that means we'll get a Red Bean, Green Bean mode, or Walsh is just thinking aloud, remains to be seen.Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer. He is the author of a Brief History of Video Games, a full history of the medium, which the Midwest Book Review described as "[a] must-read for serious minded game historians and curious video game connoisseurs alike."

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One of the most frustrating parts of using Microsoft Excel could finally be over thanks to a new update to the software. Microsoft has revealed it will be bringing support for smoother scrolling to its Excel Desktop app, hopefully resulting in a much better user experience. The spreadsheet software update should mean an end to accidentally snapping to random unwanted cells, or losing track of all your vital data in the middle of an important work task. Check out our list of the best productivity software available Here's our list of the best collaboration software out there We've built a list of the best office software on the market Smooth scrolling At the moment, Excel struggles with smooth scrolling, as the software looks to automatically highlight the cell in the top-left of your spreadsheet - an issue Microsoft admits is frustrating, and not particularly easy to fix. Though you might think this is an easy fix, simply requiring the alteration of a few lines of code, there’s actually a lot more to it," noted Microsoft engineer Steve Kraynak in a blog post outlining the change. "In fact, we learned that this change affects many different aspects of Excel, including freezing panes, resizing rows, cutting and pasting, filtering, cell styles, comments, dragging and filling, and more." The new smoother scrolling update has two parts - firstly, making scrolling smoother when using either the mouse wheel or the scrollbars (with Microsoft noting that touch screen and touch pad already scrolled smoothly). Secondly (and more excitingly) you can now stop scrolling partway through a row or column, with Excel no longer making you go any further than you want. Microsoft notes that users can try out a number of new features thanks to the update, including dragging the scroll bar to see how they can scroll with precision and stop anywhere they like. The feature is available now to Insiders on Windows with Beta Channel or Current Channel Preview with Version 2109 (Build 14430.20000) or later, and be available to all Microsoft 365 Subscribers within the next few months. Microsoft Office 2021 release date, pricing, features and everything else you need to know Mike Moore is News & Features Editor across both TechRadar Pro and ITProPortal. He has worked as a B2B and B2C tech journalist for nearly a decade, including at one of the UK's leading national newspapers, and when he's not keeping track of all the latest enterprise and workplace trends, can most likely be found watching, following or taking part in some kind of sport.