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There is blossom on the trees, the mowers have been dusted off and birds - and cricketers - have been migrating back to the UK from warmer climes. Oh, and it is raining. It can only mean one thing - the 2024 County Championship campaign begins on Friday. Bazball might have lost a little of its buzz but some of its biggest names will feature in the early stages of the season. BBC Sport takes a look at who will be involved and some other things to look out for this year. Surrey looking for three in a row Not accounting for the Covid-hit seasons of 2020 and 2021, last season was effectively Surrey's third Championship title win from the last four, having also won it in 2018. Their squad is largely the same as last season, with England batter Dan Lawrence a notable addition, arriving from Essex. Overseas stars Sean Abbott and Kemar Roach will return to the Oval though all-rounder Aaron Hardie's planned stint has been called off by Cricket Australia. Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart, who is leaving the role at the end of the campaign, says they are hungry for more success. "Last March I said 'we want to attack this year not defend it'," he told BBC Radio London. "My dad [Surrey great Mickey Stewart] still goes on about being part of the team that won it seven times on the trot. We have now won it back-to-back. And adding Dan Lawrence gives us another top-class player, and more appetite to win it again." Head coach Gareth Batty said the club's mentality "has to be about winning things" and they do not want to stop at one trophy. "Knowing Alec isn't going to be around in a full-time capacity next year - for those that are driven by the emotional side it's a lovely add-on, for those who aren't it doesn't matter, it's still going to be winning - this group is driven for success," Batty said. Sounds ominous for the rest, so who can stop them? The challengers Essex hung around longer than anyone last season and took the title race to the final round, though they finished 20 points adrift in second place. One veteran Test opener has replaced another at Chelmsford with South Africa's Dean Elgar signed to fill the big shoes of the retiring Sir Alastair Cook. There's also an eye on the future as all-action keeper/batter Jordan Cox has been tempted over the Thames from Kent. The loss of Lawrence will certainly sting, but there are a host of talented young batters waiting in the wings and any side who can toss the ball to Jamie Porter, Sam Cook or Simon Harmer will fancy their chances. Essex were only denied victory over Surrey by the weather last season and this campaign, for the first time in five years, the two will face each other home and away. The final game of the season sees them face-off at Chelmsford. Lancashire took a step backwards in 2023 after finishing as runners-up in all three competitions the previous year. In a winter of change behind the scenes, head coach Glen Chapple has been replaced by Dale Benkenstein. The county have pulled off a coup with the arrival of Australia spinner Nathan Lyon for the first half of the campaign. Plenty of talk has been about how they pair him with Tom Hartley, fresh from a 22-wicket haul in England's Test series in India. Hampshire have quietly gone about their business after a pair of third-placed finishes. They have added promising Sussex top-order batter Ali Orr and Australia paceman Michael Neser. Will that be enough to end a 52-year wait for the title? James Vince, Liam Dawson, Mohammad Abbas, Keith Barker and Kyle Abbott are not getting any younger, but they did beat Essex and Surrey to finish the 2023 campaign. Durham's last game in Division One came against Hampshire in 2016 before they were relegated by the ECB at the end of the season, giving Hampshire a reprieve. They make a triumphant return to the top flight with a game against... Hampshire. They have plenty of quality in the pace bowling department. Australia's Scott Boland has signed an overseas deal until the end of July and they already have Ben Raine and Matthew Potts, who bagged 50 wickets apiece last year. South Africa batter David Bedingham returns for a full summer, while England skipper Ben Stokes also hopes to be involved at the start of the season. Worcestershire have seen New Road flooded seven times across the winter and their two home games in their opening six fixtures will be played at Kidderminster - with talk of them potentially leaving the ground permanently. While they have added West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder and Nathan Smith of New Zealand, in addition to Rob Jones from Lancashire and Northants duo Josh Cobb and Tom Taylor, their quest to avoid an immediate return to Division Two has not been helped by bowlers Dillon Pennington and Josh Tongue, and batter Jack Haynes, all moving to Notts. Nottinghamshire will be skippered by Haseeb Hameed, taking over from Steven Mullaney, in what feels like a new era at Trent Bridge with Samit Patel, Jake Ball and Stuart Broad all departing. There has been another change of captain at Somerset where Lewis Gregory succeeds Tom Abell, and though Ball arrives from Notts, one player who will not be at Taunton this summer is Aussie all-rounder Will Sutherland, who has pulled out of his stint through injury. Somerset have famously never won the title and went five without a win to start last season. They will hope the return of Matt Renshaw early in the season gives them more momentum. Will Rhodes has also stepped down as Warwickshire captain, though George Garton has joined the Bears from Sussex. The Bears, champions in 2021, start against rivals Worcestershire at Edgbaston and will hope to improve on a fourth-placed finish last year. Daniel Bell-Drummond is the new Kent skipper. He will be hoping the addition of Matt Parkinson from Lancashire, and overseas players Wes Agar and Beyers Swanepoel, will help them take 20 wickets and avoid another brush with relegation. Brook to star in Division Two Yorkshire start against Leicestershire at Headingley and could select Harry Brook, who missed England's Test tour to India and pulled out of the IPL for personal reasons, but will be available for the first five games of the Championship season. Joe Root is set to start a six-game domestic stint later this month too. The man who brought Ottis Gibson in as coach, Darren Gough, has left his role as managing director of cricket while Colin Graves is back as chair for a season where the White Rose look poised for a promotion push. Elsewhere Middlesex hope the signing of Derbyshire talisman Leus du Plooy will spearhead an immediate return to the top flight, though seamer Tim Murtagh will be watching from the sidelines after retirement. Northants, who finished bottom of Division One last season, have Australian Chris Tremain and India's Karun Nair for the start of the season, while Nair's countryman Prithvi Shaw returns from June. Sussex saw Ali Orr depart for Hampshire this winter but have added the experience of John Simpson from Middlesex and Lancashire's Danny Lamb, while West Indies bowler Jayden Seales and India batter Cheteshwar Pujara are around early in the campaign. A deal for Leicestershire seamer Chris Wright was cancelled for personal reasons but they do have England paceman Ollie Robinson available for the start of the season. Leicestershire have lost Colin Ackermann and Calum Parkinson to Durham, but Liam Trevaskis is coming the other way, while Ben Mike and Ben Cox have arrived from Yorkshire and Worcestershire respectively, and Scott Currie joins on loan from Hampshire. Glamorgan have appointed Grant Bradburn as head coach and installed Sam Northeast as Championship skipper, after David Lloyd's move to Derbyshire, while Mason Crane will spend a season on loan at Sophia Gardens from Hampshire. Neser's move in the opposite direction will not help Glamorgan's top-two hopes. Lloyd, who takes over the captaincy from Du Plooy, is followed to Derbyshire by veteran Patel, and Aneurin Donald and Ross Whiteley from Hampshire. Patel wants 'belief' & 'aggression' at Derbyshire Mark Alleyne is back in charge at Gloucestershire - who were winless last season - after Benkenstein's move to Old Trafford, while Cameron Bancroft and Beau Webster have signed overseas deals after spells with Somerset and Essex respectively. 2023 at a glance County champions: Surrey Relegated from Div One: Middlesex and Northamptonshire Promoted from Div Two: Durham and Worcestershire Leading run-scorer Div One: Josh Bohannon, Lancashire - 1,257 runs Leading wicket-taker Div One: Brett Hutton, Nottinghamshire - 62 wickets Leading run-scorer Div Two: Alex Lees, Durham - 1,347 runs Leading wicket-taker Div Two: Ben Raine, Durham - 60 wickets How will 2024 work? Many of the changes in 2024 will be the undoing of alterations introduced for the 2023 season. The five points for a draw experiment was short-lived, reverting back to eight, though batting and bowling bonus points stay the same as last year. Traditionalists will probably welcome the fact that, by po[CENSORED]r demand, County Championship matches will be played in every month of the season. The campaign begins with eight consecutive rounds, played from Friday to Monday each week across April and May. Following a break for T20 cricket, and before England men's Test summer, the season returns with back-to-back rounds in late June and early July. After no Championship cricket in August last summer, two rounds take place towards the end of the month this year. The first half of the month will again be reserved for The Hundred and One-Day Cup. The final round of the Championship campaign starts on Thursday, 26 September. While it is unlikely to be widespread, for the first time hybrid pitches will be permitted in a one-year ECB trial. Hybrid tracks, which remain predominantly grass - but contain a small amount of synthetic fibres to help prevent deterioration and allow more cricket to be played on them - have previously only been used in white-ball cricket. Another thing to look out for is the return of the Kookaburra ball in place of the Dukes ball, with the number of rounds in which it will be used doubling from two to four. The ECB wants English players to be more experienced facing or bowling with it, with half an eye on the overseas Ashes series in 2025. Source.

Rain drips down the glasses of new recruit Toivo Saabas, tracing the contours of the green and black face paint that completes his camouflage. Lying on the saturated ground, and peering through the sight of his gun, the only frailty that threatens to give away his position is the plume of air he breathes out silently into the icy Estonian forest. Then comes the deafening call to attack. The 25-year-old springs to his feet. Forming a line with his brothers in arms, he bounds through the trees towards the Russian border. As he advances to the clatter of enemy fire, the Southampton University mechanical engineering graduate knows that one day this could all be for real. "We're practising for any threat," he says. "We're ready for anything that comes to Estonia and we're ready to defend the country." Toivo, from the capital Tallinn, is among the current crop of young Estonians undergoing their military service - a duty all men over 18 are asked to carry out. For women, it's voluntary. As the Cold War ended, and relations with post-Soviet Russia warmed in the 1990s, conscription appeared consigned to history in many parts of Europe. But not in Estonia, where it would have been impossible for the collective pain of occupation and deportation to have faded away. And now, following President Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, conscription is being rebooted and expanded across Europe, with those living on Russia's doorstep urging their Nato allies further afield, including the UK, to follow suit. This week Norway announced it was increasing the number of conscripted soldiers after Denmark said last month it intends to extend conscription to women and increase the duration of service. Latvia and Sweden recently restarted military service and Lithuania brought it back after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. "It takes a toll on you," says a drenched Toivo, explaining that the training has been the toughest experience of his life. "But in the end, it's service for your country. Being prepared for anything is better than kind of sneaking off and trying to evade this service." Rain has turned to hail and then to snow in a matter of minutes. Everyone is soaked to their skin. But as the simulation ends, relief quickly leads to animated conversation and laughter eclipsing the hardship of the previous hours. "It's the conscripts in Ukraine I feel sorry for," says Captain Mikk Haabma who is overseeing proceedings. "They are fighting for their lives." Standing more than 2m tall, the 38-year-old has a natural advantage when it comes to surveying the progress of his new intake. "Our country is based on reserves and these guys are filling the slots all the time. But also, they're getting the skills to get by in life - especially building their confidence. In a few weeks from now, these guys will be ready to fight the enemy." He means Russia. 'In the end we have Nato' Russia has never attacked a country within Nato, whose collective defence pact means that an attack on one member constitutes an attack on all. Indeed, the Kremlin ridicules suggestions it might. Three Nato countries - the UK, the US and France - each have nuclear weapons, as does Russia, so there would be concerns over the risk of nuclear escalation as a result of such a conflict. However, if the Russians did attack, I ask, what would they be confronted with? "A massive defeat," Captain Haabma replies. "Of course, they have the numbers, but in the end on a strategic level we have Nato and the technical superiority." The transatlantic military alliance - now a club of 32 including new members Finland and Sweden - is celebrating its 75th anniversary this week. So what is the overwhelming feeling in Estonia today? A sense of security being part of an enlarged alliance? Or fear about what Vladimir Putin may do next? "I think it's both," replies Kaja Kallas in her prime ministerial office in Tallinn. For her, Nato allies keeping their promise to spend 2% of GDP on defence is what's crucial. "In 1938, it was clear that the war was coming so the defence expenditure was increased by 100% but it was already too late." She continues, "This is what we have to do now in order to preserve our way of living, in order to preserve peace in Europe." However, in 2024, fewer than two thirds of Nato members are on course to reach their 2% funding goal, a shortfall that perpetually irked US President Donald Trump during his time in the White House. Ms Kallas, who's led Estonia since 2021, sees conscription as another integral part of both providing a deterrence to Russia but also stronger defence if it does attack. "We have a reserve army of 44,000 people that would equal, for Great Britain, around two million people. Two million people who are ready to defend their country and know what they have to do." After she mentions Britain unprompted, I ask whether she would in fact recommend conscription to the UK. "Of course, every country decides for themselves, we are all democracies, but I recommend this in many aspects." 'We lost our independence once before' When I recall that the head of the British Army was rebuked by Downing Street after saying Britain should train a "citizen army" ready to fight a war on land in the future, Kallas widens her eyes. "Well it doesn't surprise me because we have different historical backgrounds. We have lost our independence and freedom once and we don't want to lose it again. They say that you only understand freedom and what it means when you don't have it." A UK Ministry of Defence spokesperson told the BBC there is "absolutely no suggestion of a return to conscription". The British government says £50bn is being invested in its armed forces in 2024 to tackle multiple threats, including Russian aggression in Ukraine, and that "increasing recruitment and improving retention across the services is a top priority". Military service may well be going through a renaissance, but that doesn't mean all young Estonians are filled with unbridled enthusiasm for it. The warmth and buzz of F-Hoone bar in the centre of the capital is a far cry from the rain-soaked forest where the conscripts have been toiling away. The capital is gearing up for Tallinn Music Week, an annual celebration with live performances embracing a range of genres. Among those taking the stage will be The Boondocks - a four piece indie rock band originally formed in Pärnu, the coastal city in the south west of the country. "I'm not a soldier" sings 25-year-old Villem Sarapuu in their track Smokin' Aces. But every morning for two months he did in fact pull on military fatigues for his national service. "To begin with, I really didn't want to do it," he confides. "I don't think there are many people who are voluntarily going there." He says at first it took a considerable mental toll. "You're isolated from everyone and the wider world, but you're still in Tallinn so it's like a weird limbo." After the initial physical training, Villem spent his remaining six months with the military orchestra ultimately performing at the Independence Day parade. "My friends doing the real service were laughing at me - in a positive way. But I was doing the same thing: it's representing your country, you don't have to be in the trenches. Sitting next to him is band member Hendrik Tamberg, 28. As a conscientious objector, he was spared military service and instead spent a year caring for vulnerable adults with mental health problems. "I found it incredibly rewarding but I didn't have the camaraderie of people going through the tough forest hikes. I did feel that I missed out on something." As for lead singer Villem, he says he now looks back at his military training with happy memories and says it's a stark contrast to a deep collective unease his generation feels at the prospect that Russia may attack. "If I think about the free will of people, conscription isn't a very nice thing to force people to do," he muses. "But when it comes to a country such as Estonia, pretty small, it's absolutely necessary to recruit people to do this. Or this country won't exist any more." Source.

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A VPN is a must-have security tool for the privacy-minded. It'll help you keep snoopers at bay by encrypting your internet traffic, and safeguard your online activity by cloaking your original IP address. Given the amount of personal data that flows through Apple CarPlay, including your messages and real-time location, as well as the next-gen CarPlay experience set to take control of your car's reversing cameras, climate control, and even vehicle diagnostics, investing in one of the best VPNs around is pretty sensible. Although Apple is praised for its seemingly watertight security, CarPlay lacks encryption—a major privacy pothole you can fill with a Virtual Private Network (VPN). However, the caveat here is that some VPNs cause issues with CarPlay, and may not work at all if CarPlay detects them. In this guide, I've rounded up the best VPNs for CarPlay. I'll also show you how to use a VPN with CarPlay so you can steer clear of data leaks, cybercriminals, and hacking attempts. HOW TO USE A VPN WITH CARPLAY There are two ways you can use a VPN with CarPlay: 1. My go-to method is to opt for a provider with reliable VPN obfuscation technology. Obfuscation conceals the fact that you're using a VPN in the first place. So, Apple CarPlay will treat your VPN-encrypted internet connection like a normal, unencrypted connection, so you don't need to sacrifice your digital privacy to enjoy the benefits of Apple CarPlay. 2. If your VPN doesn't offer obfuscation, or if CarPlay detects your VPN, you can try using split tunneling instead, and configuring the Apple CarPlay app to bypass VPN encryption. METHOD #1: OBFUSCATION The best (and most reliable) way to use a VPN with CarPlay is to opt for a provider with robust obfuscation. While most VPNs do have some form of obfuscation tech, the market is flooded with providers left, right, and center—and they're not all made equal. I've rounded up the best iPhone VPNs of 2024, so far, to help you find your ideal match. It's worth noting that ExpressVPN isn't included in my shortlist of the best CarPlay VPNs. Unfortunately, multiple users have reported that the provider causes problems with CarPlay, and my personal testing confirmed the issue. METHOD #2: SPLIT TUNNELING If obfuscation isn't on the cards, you can configure CarPlay to bypass your VPN entirely by using split tunneling. Unfortunately, I'd class this method as a workaround at best because it isn't ideal. Why? Well, because you'll be eliminating the security benefits of using a VPN in the first place—your CarPlay traffic remains unencrypted, just like a standard internet connection, meaning it's not safe from prying eyes. However, those who want to use CarPlay and their VPN concurrently and have tried and failed to make it work through VPN obfuscation may want to give it a go. After all, it will still allow you to enjoy all VPN benefits on your iPhone/iPad while you carry on with music, navigation, streaming, etc. on CarPlay without interruptions. Here's a step-by-step demonstration of how you can bypass a VPN with Apple CarPlay. Note that I'm using NordVPN in this example, but any of my top picks will work similarly. Step 1: Pick a reliable VPN Some VPN providers don't offer split tunneling and even those that do sometimes can't detect CarPlay. This makes it less a question of "how" you use a VPN and more about which VPN you use. So, look for a high-quality provider that offers split tunneling, such as NordVPN and Surfshark. Step 2: Go to settings > split tunneling After you have installed and configured the VPN to your liking, check the settings menu to find the split tunneling option. It's worth noting that different providers keep the option in different places. NordVPN, for example, has a separate Split Tunneling section whereas ExpressVPN keeps split tunneling on the General tab. Step 3: Set Apple CarPlay to bypass Under split tunneling, you should be able to find an "Add" button. Tap it, and add CarPlay to the bypass list. Step 4: Connect That's all—just connect your VPN like you normally do and you'll be able to use CarPlay without any issues. Source.

Nvidia has published a new driver ( 552.12) that adds game-ready support for Season 3 of Call of Duty Modern Warfare III and Warzone, the game’s free-to-play battle-royal component. The only other addition to Nvidia’s new driver is a new Resizable Bar profile for Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition, which enables ReBAR support in the game — giving GeForce gamers a slight performance improvement. Season 3 is the latest update for Modern Warfare III and its battle-royal Warzone component. Warzone is getting new features, including the return to Rebirth Island, which debuted when Warzone first launched several years ago. The map has been updated to modern standards, with all-new gameplay features that change the dynamics of the fan-favorite map. Modern Warfare III Multiplayer also got a few updates for Season 3, including new maps and modes that will spice up the combat compared to prior seasons. Apparently, a massive in-season Zombies update is also coming that features a brand new Dar Aether Rift and a showdown with the Dark Aether entity face-to-face. Nvidia shared performance analytics of most of its desktop and mobile GPUs, running the game with both DLSS 3 on and off. At 4K Ultra, Nvidia’s benchmarks report that the RTX 4090 gets 235.9 FPS average(166.6 with DLSS off), and the RTX 4080 Super gets 184.3 FPS average (120.9 with DLSS off). At 1440P, the RTX 4090 gets 315.1 FPS average (201.6 with DLSS off), RTX 4080 Super 255.1 FPS (186.7 DLSS off), RTX 4070 Super 216.9 FPS (158.4 DLSS off), and the RTX 4070 gets 194.8 FPS average (138.8 DLSS off). Nvidia only tested the RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4060 at 1080p, but at that resolution both GPUs get well over 150 FPS. According to Nvidia’s results, the RTX 4060 Ti archives 205.3 FPS average (145.1 DLSS off) and the RTX 4060 178.2 FPS average (120.2 DLSS off). For the rest of the benchmark results, including the mobile RTX 40 series results, check out Nvidia’s full blog post on the new driver update. The two-trillion-dollar GPU manufacturer also published latency results, to promote its Reflex latency-killing technology. Nvidia’s testing methodology does not say if DLSS 3 frame generation was used, but it's quite obvious that frame gen was disabled, due to the very fast results. Nvidia’s testing reveals that the RTX 4090 achieves 9ms of latency, the RTX 4080 Super has 10ms of latency, the RTX 4070 Super sits at 11ms of latency, the RTX 4070 has 12ms of latency, the RTX 4060 Ti sits at 15ms of latency, and the RTX 4060 achieves 18ms of latency with Reflex enabled. Testing was done on a Core i9-12900K test rig at 1080p. Horizon Forbidden West Changes and Bugs The only other change with this driver that Nvidia provided is a new Resizable Bar profile for Horizon Forbidden West. Sadly Nvidia did not reveal how much additional performance ReBAR adds. However, in my own (limited) testing with the previous Nvidia driver 551.76 and Nvidia Inspector to manually enable ReBAR in the game, I found that my RTX 4070 machine gained up to 8% more performance, but that was only in the most intensive parts of the game. We should expect Nvidia’s ReBAR update to provide a similar performance improvement, if not more, since Nvidia can manually tweak the ReBAR size to the game’s specific needs. Manually enabling ReBar with Inspector doesn’t allow you to do this. Nvidia also confirmed that there is an issue with Reflex in Horizon Forbidden West , where GPU utilization can be lower than normal when setting Reflex to “On + Boost”. This is something I've also run into while playing the game with my RTX 4070. The easiest workaround is to just switch Reflex to “on” mode, without boost, or use Nvidia Ultra Low Latency setting instead of Reflex. Source.

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Samsung launched the Galaxy S24 series running on Snapdragon and in-house Exynos chipsets in January. The South Korean technology conglomerate was tipped last month to fully switch to Exynos SoCs for the entire Galaxy S25 lineup next year. A new report, however, contradicts the claim and says that Samsung will once again opt to split its Galaxy S25 smartphones between Snapdragon and Exynos chipsets. The company will reportedly utilise Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and Exynos 2500 chipsets for its next generation of flagship Galaxy S series smartphones. According to a report by DigiTimes Asia (via SamMobile), Samsung will stick with its strategy of using both Qualcomm and Exynos chipsets for its Galaxy S series smartphones. The report does not specify which phones in the lineup will run on Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, but we can expect the Qualcomm SoC to feature on the top-of-the-line Galaxy S25 Ultra in all markets. Other phones in the series — likely to be Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25+ — could feature the Exynos 2500 chipset or Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, depending on the region where they are sold. The Galaxy S24 Ultra runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 globally, while the in-house Exynos 2400 SoC powers the base Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+ in markets outside the US, including India. Last month, a rumour claimed that Samsung may use either an Exynos SoC or a Snapdragon chip, depending on the region, even on the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6 foldables. This would be a departure from Samsung's usual practice of packing Snapdragon processors in its Galaxy Z Fold and Galaxy Z Flip smartphones. Samsung is also working on closing the performance gap between Qualcomm and Exynos chipsets. Last week, a tipster claimed that the company's Exynos 2500 processor outperformed the current Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC in terms of both CPU and GPU performance. The claim, however, was not backed by any performance metrics and benchmark numbers. While there are no benchmarks available yet, the Exynos 2500 chipset is said to comprise a Cortex-X5 core clocked at 3.2GHz or more, three Cortex-A730 cores at up to 2.5GHz, two more Cortex-A730 cores, and four Cortex-A520 cores with undisclosed clock speeds. Early in March, the Galaxy S25 series was tipped to run entirely on Samsung's Exynos chipset. Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset, meanwhile, has been confirmed to launch with a custom Oryon CPU at the Snapdragon Summit in October. The chipset is expected to power upcoming flagship Android phones like Samsung Galaxy S25, Xiaomi 15 series, and Asus Zenfone 11. Source.

Meta is prompting Meta Quest 3 and Oculus Quest 2 users to verify their birthday before they can use their VR headsets. This helps it verify the age on your account so it can serve you appropriate content – and give your parent or guardian access to tools and account protections, if necessary. This also isn’t just one of those popups you can ignore. Once you’ve been asked to verify your age you’ll have 30 days to do so according to the official page. Once the time limit expires your account will be blocked – and restrictions will only be lifted when you provide your birthday. You don’t want to rush through the process either. If you enter the wrong date, changing it can be a pain. Scroll down for more information, but the TL;DR version is that you’ll need a credit card or an ID to make any alterations – and getting stuck with the wrong account age could cause problems depending what apps and social settings you like to use. These changes follow Meta asking app developers to self-identify what age category their apps are suitable for – either Preteen, Teen, or Adult – and after its request for age verification to be built into mobile app stores like the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Speaking to The Verge, Meta's Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis explained that Meta’s practicing what it preaches by implementing these changes to the Quest platform. What does your age mean for your Meta account? There are three types of Meta Quest account, and you’re assigned one based on your age. The most restricted are Preteen accounts – for users aged 10 to 12. Also known as Parent-managed accounts, if you’re 10, 11, or 12 you’ll need a parent or guardian to set up their account so they can approve yours. All of your profile settings are set to private by default, and if you want to change this, or download or use an app, you’ll need your parent’s permission. Then there are Teen accounts for people aged 13 to 17. Profile settings are still set to private by default, but you have the power to change them – you don’t need a parent or guardian’s approval. Instead your parent can set up supervision tools that offer a way for them to customize your experience without needing to be involved in every decision. Lastly, Adult accounts are for users 18 or over and you’re given complete control over your profile settings and what apps you want to use. How do I change my birthday on Quest? If you’ve inputted the wrong birthday or one that’s different from the one that’s already on your account then we have some good news, and some bad news. The good news is you can change it – the bad news is you’ll need a credit card or an ID (such as a driver’s license, school ID or state ID) so Meta can make sure you’re telling the truth. Using a credit card is faster according to Meta’s Verification page, but it will need to make a charge – which is refunded. If you’d rather not have Meta take your money – even temporarily – you can use the ID verification method though this will apparently take longer to verify. Though we don’t know exactly how long this verification process takes in either case. Whichever option you choose, Meta has said it doesn’t store the information for long after it completes the age verification. If you can’t verify your age then you can choose to stick with your newly-entered birthday and be sorted into the Teen or Preteen account brackets – though this will mean there will be some restrictions on your account. Source,

As China is accelerating its transition to its own computer platforms, local developers of processors are set to benefit. Recently the Hebi city government procured as many as 10,000 computers based on processors from Loongson for 50 schools in the city. The new PCs are not only based on domestic hardware, but they also use homegrown software, according to Weixin.QQ.com. Loongson helped to adjust learning experiences and eventually could ship considerably more CPUs for China's educational sector. The 10,000 desktop systems are based on Loongson's 3A5000-series quad-core processors based on the homegrown LoongArch GS464V instruction set architecture and will be used in the Hebi city and Qi Bin District. These computers run on the domestic UOS operating system and come with a full set of licensed software, including the WPS Office, the Mythware Classroom Management software, as well as 104 applications covering a wide range of educational and management needs, according to the report. Selling 10,000 CPUs is hardly a big deal for Loongson as this is essentially a relatively small commercial batch of processors. But this is a pilot program that involves 50 schools. If the program achieves its goals and is considered a success then the company will be able to sell considerably more of its CPUs, which will be a big deal. In addition to building desktop computers, Loongson has reportedly helped develop educational materials by assisting in the creation of six textbooks based on the latest standards. Loongson has also supplied teaching robots and set up education scenarios in some pilot schools. Looking ahead, Loongson plans to expand the 'Hebi Experience' to more regions across the country, which will provide the company with a plethora of new business opportunities to sell its computer platforms to the educational sector. According to a recent Financial Times report, China has begun a policy shift to phase out foreign processors from its government computers and servers. This move is aimed at gradually replacing AMD and Intel processors from PCs used by Chinese government agencies with domestic CPUs, which will decrease sales of American CPUs and increase sales of Chinese CPUs in the government sector. Source.

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Picture the scene: Four soldiers make a desperate scramble for their dropship on an alien planet, pursued by enormous, dagger-clawed bugs. Machine gun fire rattles, green goo erupts, the landing pad teems with beasts as the quartet piles through the boarding hatch and their ride blasts off at the last available second. It could be a Hollywood action sequence, but in Helldivers 2 it's merely the end of another mission. Indeed, it's amazing just how often a Helldivers 2 sortie climaxes in screaming, skin-of-the-teeth heroics. And it remains exciting time after time, because that Hollywood ending is never guaranteed. Maybe you get tagged yards from completing your great escape. Maybe by a spray of bullets from a wheeling teammate. Maybe the group's impossibly overrun, yet one of you somehow dives home and lives to tell the tale. Or maybe no one makes it at all (mercifully, you still get rewards for any completed objectives). Starship bloopers It's not only the denouement of missions that make lasting memories either. In this four-player squad shooter (solo play is possible, but not much fun), every element harmonises explosively, resulting in scenes that really could have been choreographed for the movies. And, well, in a sense they were. Helldivers 2 is unashamedly a mash of sci-fi action film tropes, with a large slice of Starship Troopers on proud display, sprinkles of Aliens and the Terminator series on top. Every line of its code works to recreate the feel of their iconic scenes—panic, bravado, dark humour—through improvised mayhem. Leaning into Starship Troopers' scenario is a smart choice for the tone of the game too. As with its predecessor, Helldivers 2 apes Paul Verhoeven's 1997 satire at every turn, as citizens of Super Earth fight for freedom and democracy by offering their lives to the churn of endless war. True, the writing here is little more than a pale impression of its inspiration, yet it grants the action a glorious absurdity that sparks wild gambits and frequent hilarity. The appeal comes from the idea that, despite the propaganda, you aren't some Master Chief super soldier, but a hapless nobody, plunged into enemy territory to sacrifice yourself for vague ideals. You will be crushed, burned, impaled and probably blown up by equally out-of-their-depth teammates, so every onslaught you survive is a well-earned victory, and every death is a tragi-comic side effect of the situation. Besides, seconds after your demise, one of your squadmates calls in reinforcements, and before you know it you're barrelling down from orbit in a bullet-like capsule to rejoin the fray. Just hope they took care not to summon you near a pack of killer bugs or cyborgs. One of the most consistently brilliant concepts in Helldivers 2, in fact, is that support always arrives from the sky, launched by your personal starship, which hangs like a satellite above your position. In many ways, this sequel is a remake of the first game with added live service progression and a switch of perspective, from top-down to over-the-shoulder, but that switch is a genuine game changer, both because it makes the fights so much more up close and personal, and because of your connection with the heavens, as drops from above pepper the battlefield. Not only do reinforcements arrive from on high—with a hefty thud that can smash fragile scenery or bugs—but so do what the game calls stratagems, which means equipment, heavy weapons and devastating firework displays of airstrikes and orbital laser fire. Each combatant selects four stratagems before landing, all restricted by cooldown timers, and managing these is the difference between being some schmuck holding an assault rifle and a few grenades, and a cackling exterminator who's a danger to insect, machine and human alike. Air and orbital strikes are a quick way to decimate swathes of enemies, but equally the surest means of butchering your friends. You see, air and orbital strikes are a quick way to decimate swathes of enemies, but equally the surest means of butchering your friends. You make the call by throwing a metal ball, which acts as the target point for the barrage—a comically imprecise method for a precision strike—then a red beam appears from the sky and you have seconds to clear the area before the boom, the shake and a stunning display of smoke and flames. That red laser can thus be your saviour, or the harbinger of imminent death. It's the same with automatic gun turrets, mine pods and beefy hand-held ordnance. You literally can't live without them, but their deployment might work against you, whittling down your reinforcement stock faster than the enemy could have hoped. And even with an organised squad, mistakes happen simply because skirmishes escalate so wonderfully stupidly quickly in Helldivers 2. One minute, you're in tight formation, calmly pinging distant threats (a very useful feature), the next you're diving behind a rock to avoid a charging beetle, its chums burrowing up on all sides, your team scattered. Before the dust settles, someone saves an ally from certain death, someone goes down in a blaze of suicidal glory, and of course someone punches an airstrike command and lobs the targeting device without checking your position first. Fighting fit It's not any one element of Helldivers 2 that makes it sing, however. They all conspire together. With the enemies, the numbers are huge—with framerate drops very rare—closing in like xenomorphs nesting in a reactor, but also the specifics of each kind force you to react differently, making you run, stand firm or dive to the dirt, scatter grenades or whip out a shotgun for close encounters. You learn that the bigger, deadlier creatures and androids, which start popping up in about the fourth or fifth of the game's nine difficulty levels, have specific weak spots. Getting them in your sights is often a matter of using the terrain to your advantage or combining with a mate, one of you baiting the target while the other strikes from the rear. Mission design, meanwhile, is involving and varied even at this early stage. From destroying bug nests or bot factories to grabbing soil samples or preparing the launching of an ICBM, objectives span multiple stages, which send you between traversing the sizeable maps to holding positions while stabbing inputs into terminals, manually moving machinery or waiting for processes to complete. Missions also offer multiple sub-objectives, tempting you to boost your XP and currency rewards, with the caveat that enemy forces increase the longer you stay planetside. Such decisions can balance your efforts on a knife edge. The visuals and audio are spot on too. Each planet has a distinct personality—colour, natural cover, hazards, environmental features—while bugs are reliably disgusting and bots are as menacing as the Terminator influence implies. The sound is the star, though, from pitch perfect gunfire, reload clacks and explosions, to the chitter and squeal of insects, the perfectly-timed "Eat this!" and "For democracy!" barks of your team, and a score that's equal parts jingoistic and dramatic. It's almost a shame to turn on your microphones, although definitely advisable. As for the service structure of the game, it doesn't feel intrusive yet and monetisation is limited to additional armour, helmets and capes. The end game appears to involve the entire player base collaborating to liberate a spiral of planets around Earth—sorry, Super Earth—with a handful accessible at a time. Each time you finish a mission the completion target on that planet ticks up by a ten thousandth of a percent, which is arguably the game's smartest piece of satire, showing you what your blood, sweat and tears are worth. When a count reaches 100%, which happened only once in the first week after launch, that planet becomes unavailable and new ones open up. Presumably, developer Arrowhead has a hand on the dial here, ensuring progress isn't too fast or slow. Still, after 20 hours of play, a sense of grind did begin to kick in a little. The quantities of XP and currencies required to level up and grab more powerful stratagems, weapons and armour push you towards higher difficulty levels, which are tough to manage without well-organised and equipped teams. It can feel like a bit of a Catch 22, in which you need better gear to tackle their challenge, but it's difficult to get that gear until you do. That said, there's no doubt progress has felt slower than it should in Helldivers 2 so far due to technical hitches. Losing your connection as you make that run for the dropship after a 30-minute mission is infuriating, as is arriving home to find you've not been awarded the points you'd earned. Arrowhead is clearly paying attention, at least, and that latter bug seems to have been squashed in the last couple of days. The biggest issue left at the time of writing is with accessing a quick match, which can take minutes of repeated trying and failing even though plenty of games are available. Indeed, the large number of people playing Helldivers 2 is apparently causing the problem by overloading the servers. That's less of a concern of course if you have a team of friends ready to dive with, and despite the hiccups, those initial 20 hours have largely been joyous. The prospect of unlocking more planets and more spectacular toys to play with, plus a hundred more last-ditch sprints to the dropship, is far more enticing than the vast majority of live service propositions. Source.

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Samsung is trying to enter the commercial banking space with a new super app, as per a report. The South Korean tech giant already has a financial services app called Momino, but now it reportedly wants to upgrade it and turn it into a super app, of the likes of WeChat. If the information is to be believed, this will also mark the entry of the tech giant into the super app space. The company is said tie up with a major bank in South Korea to offer a basket of features with the app. According to a report by The Korea Economic Daily, Samsung Financial Networks, a business division comprising the tech giant's four financial affiliates — Samsung Card, Samsung Life Insurance, Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, and Samsung Securities — is aiming to partner with a leading bank in South Korea to jointly build a super app for financial services. Citing unnamed sources, the report mentioned that the smartphone maker has sent out proposals to five leading banks seeking a partnership for the app. As per the report, the five banks include KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Hana, Woori and the digital-only K Bank. The proposal is said to contain Samsung's plans to build a super app on top of its existing financial services app Momino, which already offers multiple services such as money transfer, currency exchange as well as real estate and car price comparisons in South Korea. However, the app is considered to be struggling in po[CENSORED]rity with only a few million users. Reportedly, the five banks will share presentations with Samsung on Tuesday, and a decision on the partnering bank can be reached as early as Wednesday. “Having a Samsung brand in our banking business is a huge strength to become bigger in the Korean financial market,” one of the local banks told the publication. Despite being a global conglomerate and owning four different financial affiliates, the report highlighted that Samsung is not eligible to own a bank in South Korea. This is the reason it has decided to instead partner with a leading bank to increase its basket-of-services. It is believed that the banking partner will be providing the infrastructure for the project while Samsung will offer software support and its own financial services to make the super app more appealing. Source.