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Source: Click here A report from the Korean Economic Daily says Nexon has been slapped with a fine of ₩11.6 billion ($8.85 million) by Korea's Fair Trade Commission for changing the drop rates of items in MapleStory and Bubble Fighter "multiple times" between the years 2010 and 2021, without telling anyone that the changes had been made. Cubes, as they're known in MapleStory, are randomized items costing roughly ₩2,000 ($1.50) each that are used to change or upgrade the power of in-game equipment. They were added to the game in May 2010, according to the report, shortly after which Nexon began messing with the drop rates so more powerful Cubes would appear less often. It continued changing the odds until March 2021, in some cases ensuring that particularly high-demand Cubes didn't drop at all, but did not notify players of the changes—in fact, in August 2011 Nexon released a statement saying that no changes had been made. Loot box drop rates was a major hot topic several years ago: In 2017, China imposed a law requiring all game makers to reveal their loot box drop rates, and a couple years later major publishers in North America, facing growing pressure from the US government, followed suit. Knowing the drop rates is the only way players can have any idea how likely it is that they're going to get something good for their money (and thus, at least in theory, how aggressively they should keep throwing money at it), which is what makes it such a big deal—but of course that usefulness is dependent upon the information being accurate, which according to the KFTC was not the case here. This isn't the first time Nexon has been fined by the KFTC for messing around with drop rates: In 2018 it ate a ₩939 million fine ($875,000 at the time) for misleading Sudden Attack 2 players about loot box drop rates. That's partly why this new fine is the largest ever imposed by the commission for a violation of South Korea's Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce Act. "We imposed the largest fine because the Cube is a core product of [MapleStory], the violation period is long, and this is the second violation [by Nexon] following Sudden Attack," Korea Fair Trade Commission market surveillance department director Kim Jung-ki said. Nexon said it accepted the KFTC's decision but may challenge it, according to the report. I've reached out to Nexon for more information and will update if I receive a reply.

Source: Click here JioSpaceFiber — the upcoming satellite-based gigabit fibre service from Reliance Jio — could launch in India soon, according to a report. The telco has reportedly made all of the mandatory submissions to the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) and approval from the regulator will allow the company to launch its satellite communication services in the country. The telecom operator previously demonstrated its satcom technology at the 2023 India Mobile Congress last year and it could soon become the first satellite-based giga fibre Internet service in the country. Citing people aware of the developments, The Economic Times reports that Jio could soon receive all of the required approvals and authorisations from IN-SPACe for the launch of the company's satcom services in the country. In order to receive approval to deploy satellite services in India, operators have to get security clearances as well as approval from several ministries, according to the report. Last year, the telco showed off its JioSpaceFiber technology at the India Mobile Congress. At the time the company said that it has already connected four remote locations across the country — Gir in Gujarat, Korba in Chattisgarh, Nabrangpur in Odisha, and ONGC-Jorhat in Assam — with its JioSpaceFiber satellite-based giga fibre Internet service. In order to provide access to satellite-based Internet connectivity in India, Jio has partnered with Luxembourg-based satellite telecommunications network provider Société Européenne des Satellites (SES) for access to its medium earth orbit (MEO) satellites using SES's O3b and new O3b mPOWER satellites. Jio's satcom services are expected to compete with Elon Musk-led Starlink, Eutelsat Group's OneWeb, and Amazon's Project Kuiper, firms that are also looking to launch their services in India. There's no word from the company on plans to launch satellite Internet services in the country.

Source: Click here As AI PCs debut, one question you’ll be asking yourself is: What can I do with them? Audacity has an early answer, with the release of its on-chip audio AI tools for music generation, transcription, and more. Intel used Audacity as a demo partner while describing the Meteor Lake (now rebranded as Core Ultra) architecture in Malaysia, showing off some of the tools that it formally released on Monday. The tools use OpenVINO, an open-source toolkit, but one developed by Intel and that the company has separately optimized. (Unfortunately, OpenVINO has only been optimized for Intel’s 11th-gen Core chips and later, as well as Arm — not AMD or its Ryzen AI.) Audacity’s new AI tools include: Noise suppression, which filters out background noise from music and conversation Transcription, powered by Whisper.cpp, which can transcribe words to a label track and (separately) to an external file Music generation, which uses Stable Diffusion and Riffusion to generate music from a prompt or from existing music Music separation, which can split a song into separate instruments, including vocals (think karaoke!) The issue is that these new AI tools, in addition to the CPU limitations placed upon them, require a single older version of Audacity installed: Audacity 3.4.2. Audacity has published a list of installation instructions to add the new tools, which are otherwise fairly simple. From the installation page, you’ll need to download Audacity 3.4.2 as well as two files: Audacity-OpenVINO-Module-3.4.2-R1.zip and openvino-models.zip. If you’re new to downloading AI models, keep in mind that they’re sizeable: the models file is 1.92GB. You’ll then need to copy the files to the folder in which Audacity has been installed, and then run Audacity.exe. Inside of Audacity, go to Edit>Preferences, and then change mod-openvino to “Enabled”. You’ll then need to close Audacity and re-open it. When that’s completed, you’ll now have one of the early AI PC tools at your disposal! Enjoy!

Source: Click here Plextor is one of the legendary names in client PC storage and has been associated with high quality and performance for nearly three decades. But it looks like Kioxia thinks differently, as it has decided to shut down the Plextor brand for SSDs and use the Solid State Storage Technology (SSSTC) trademark instead, according to a report by HKEPC. SSSTC will focus solely on drives for enterprise, datacenter, and industrial applications. The GoPlextor.com website has already been shutdown, and Plextor.com leads to SSSTC.com — which only lists products for enterprise, datacenter, and industrial applications and no longer lists consumer SSDs. SSSTC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kioxia, which makes 3D NAND memory and various NAND flash-based products, including SSDs and memory cards. Kioxia obtained SSSTC from Lite-On, which decided to get rid of its solid-state storage business in 2019. It sold this unit for $165 million to Toshiba Memory, which was renamed Kioxia later that year. Plextor used to make some of the best SSDs. The main values of Lite-On's SSD unit were its capable R&D team, the brand's reputation for reliability and high performance among PC enthusiasts, and its well-established business relations with channel and OEM clients. Meanwhile, success of Plextor's SSDs was largely driven by the success of Marvell's SSD controllers and Plextor's ability to design competitive firmware. But Marvell was late to market with PCIe Gen4 and PCIe Gen5 controllers as its developers fled to InnoGrit. Unlike its rivals, Plextor never adopted Phison's platforms, but started relying on controllers from InnoGrit, Marvell, and Silicon Motion, which meant that the company had to disperse its resources and design three different branches of firmware — not a particularly good way of using limited resources. As a consequence, the value of the Plextor brand dropped among enthusiasts, and Kioxia has decided to kill it off instead of reviving it. In fact, from now on, Kioxia's SSSTC will no longer offer client SSDs at all, and will instead focus on enterprise, datacenter, and industrial drives. Kioxia itself will, of course, continue to provide SSDs for client applications, but the company is somewhat behind its rivals: it still does not have a single drive with a PCIe 5.0 interface, while many of its rivals have already launched two generations. SSSTC will continue to offer RMA services to current owners of Plextor drives, but don't expect new Plextor-branded products to emerge in the future. Something similar happened to the OCZ brand, which was also abandoned by Toshiba (the ancestor of Kioxia) in favor of its own brand SSDs. Plextor will be missed since the brand has been known for its excellent optical disk drivers and SSDs for over 30 years.

Source: Click here Houthi militants will face as-yet-unspecified “consequences” if they continue to “threaten lives” and disrupt trade flows in the Red Sea, the United States and a host of international allies said in a new statement Wednesday. The joint missive — issued simultaneously by the governments of the U.S. Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom — stops short of spelling out how the allies plan to quell mounting turmoil in the Red Sea region. But it warns that recent events pose “a direct threat” to global trade and constitute “a significant international problem that demands collective action.” Sailors navigating the narrow Bab-el-Mandeb Strait — on a vital shipping route linking Europe to Asia — have in recent weeks faced drone strikes, missile attacks and hijackings by Iran-backed Houthi militants operating off the coast of Yemen. The Shia militant group insists it is only targeting shipping with links to Israel in a bid to pressure it to end the war in Gaza. However, the busy trade route from the Suez Canal through the Red Sea has seen dozens of commercial vessels targeted or delayed, forcing Western nations to intervene. In the past week the U.S. Navy destroyed three boats carrying Houthi rebels in the Red Sea after fighters attempted to board a container ship. Wednesday's joint statement brands the Houthi attacks "illegal, unacceptable, and profoundly destabilizing.” "We call for the immediate end of these illegal attacks and release of unlawfully detained vessels and crews. The Houthis will bear the responsibility of the consequences should they continue to threaten lives, the global economy, and free flow of commerce in the region’s critical waterways," the statement said.

Source: Click here The stream through western Alaska never looked like this before. In aerial photography from the 1980s, it wove cleanly through the tundra, thin as thread. Today, in satellite images, it appears as a string of black patches: one large pond after another, dozens of metres apart. It’s a transformation that is happening across the Arctic, the result of landscape engineering on an impressive scale. But this is no human endeavour to reshape the world. It is the work of the North American beaver, and there is no sign of it stopping. Were the waddling rodents making minor inroads, researchers may never have noticed. But the animals are pouring in, pushing north into new territories. The total number of animals is far from clear, but the ponds they create are hard to miss: in the Arctic tundra of Alaska alone, the number of beaver ponds on streams have doubled to at least 12,000 in the past 20 years. More lodges are dotted along lakes and river banks. “What’s happening here is happening on a huge scale,” says Ken Tape, an ecologist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who is tracking the influx of beavers into the sparse northern landscape. “Our modelling work, which is in progress right now, shows that this entire area, the north slope of Alaska, will be colonised by beavers by 2100.” The preponderance of beavers, which can weigh as much as 45kg, follows a collapse in trapping and the warming of a landscape that once proved too bleak for occupation. Global heating has driven the shrubification of the Arctic tundra; the harsh winter is shorter, and there is more free-running water in the coldest months. Instead of felling trees for their dams, the beavers construct them from surrounding shrubs, creating deep ponds in which to build their lodges. The new arrivals cause plenty of disruption. For some communities, the rivers and streams are the roads of the landscape, and the dams make effective roadblocks. As the structures multiply, more land is flooded and there can be less fresh water for drinking downstream. But there are other, less visible effects too. The animals are participants in a feedback loop: climate change opens the landscape to beavers, whose ponds drive further warming, which attracts even more paddle-tailed comrades. Physics suggested this would happen. Beaver ponds are new bodies of water that cover bare permafrost. Because the water is warm – relatively speaking – it thaws the hard ground, which duly releases methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases. Scientists now have evidence this is happening. Armed with high-resolution satellite imagery, Tape and his colleagues located beaver ponds in the lower Noatak River basin area of north-western Alaska. They then analysed infrared images captured by Nasa planes flying over the region. Overlaying the two revealed a clear link between beaver ponds and methane hotspots that extended for tens of metres around the ponds. “The transformation of these streams is a positive feedback that is accelerating the effects of climate change, and that is what’s concerning,” says Tape. “They are accelerating it at every one of these points.” Because the Nasa images give only a snapshot in time, the researchers will head out next year to measure methane on the ground. With more measurements, they hope to understand how the emissions vary with the age of beaver ponds: do ponds release a steady flow of methane, or does the release wane after a decade or two? Alaska is not the only region scientists are watching. Beavers are on the move in northern Canada too, where the creation of ponds over permafrost will have a similar effect. “The scale of the issue in terms of space and numbers is huge,” Tape says.

Source: Click here Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper has been fined $300,000 (£237,290) for "unacceptable conduct" after throwing a drink at Jacksonville Jaguars fans. Tepper was captured on video throwing a drink in the direction of Jaguars fans from the owner's box on Sunday. The incident occurred during the Panthers' 26-0 defeat in Jacksonville - their 14th loss in 16 games. "I am deeply passionate about this team and regret my behaviour on Sunday," the 66-year-old said. "I should have let NFL stadium security handle any issues that arose. I respect the NFL's code of conduct and accept the league's discipline for my behaviour." In announcing Tepper's punishment, the NFL said in a statement: "All NFL personnel are expected to conduct themselves at all times in ways that respect our fans and favourably reflect on their team and the NFL." Tepper replaced Jerry Richardson as Panthers owner in 2018. The Panthers' record of two wins and 14 defeats is the worst in the league heading into the final week of the regular season, with no other team winning fewer than four games or losing on more than 12 occasions. But although the Panthers are guaranteed to end the season with the worst record, they will not have the top pick in the next NFL Draft after they traded that selection away last year to sign quarterback Bryce Young.

Source: Click here Hasan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, says the killing of Hamas's powerful deputy leader will "not go unpunished". Saleh al-Arouri died in a drone attack in Beirut on Tuesday. Israel has not confirmed it was responsible. Mr Nasrallah described Arouri's death as a "major, dangerous crime about which we cannot be silent". He added that if Israel wages war on Lebanon "there will be no ceilings, no rules" to Hezbollah's response. "We are not afraid of war," said Mr Nasrallah in a televised address. "Those who think of going to war with us will regret it. War with us will come at a very high cost." He previously said that any killings in Lebanon would be a red line. Hezbollah - like its ally, Hamas - is considered a terrorist organisation by Israel, the UK and others. It is the largest political and military force in Lebanon and has ministers in the country's government. The attack that killed Arouri was the first in Beirut following months of exchanges of fire between Iranian-backed Hezbollah and Israel, in response to the war in Gaza. These had largely been confined to Lebanon's southern border. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on Wednesday it was "defending its borders" from a number of missiles launched from Lebanon. That was after its military was reported to have increased the number of its air defence batteries near the border. Arouri was a key figure in the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, and a close ally of Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader. He had been in Lebanon acting as a connection between his group and Hezbollah. He was known to be on Israel's hit list and the country's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu had previously vowed to eliminate Hamas's leaders - wherever they are. Arouri was on a US blacklist too, with a bounty of $5m ($3.9m) on his head since 2018. Miri Eisin, a retired colonel from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told the BBC that the Hamas deputy was "living in the heart of the Dahiya, in the heart of the Hezbollah area of Beirut" and that he was the "direct connection between Hamas and Hezbollah". She added that while she felt bad for the Lebanese people about the risk of a full-blown conflict with Israel, it was important to deal with "terror operatives". The US said it remained incredibly concerned about the risk of the conflict in Gaza spreading to the wider region after Arouri's death - a fear shared by Lebanese Foreign Minister, who said his government had appealed to Hezbollah not to retaliate. "We are very concerned, [the] Lebanese don't want to be dragged, even Hezbollah does not want to be dragged into a regional war," Abdallah Bou Habib told the BBC. US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said on Wednesday that Washington was not given advance notice of the strike in Beirut that killed Arouri. The United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force in Lebanon says it is also deeply worried about a potential escalation of violence. A spokesperson for the UN's Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) has urged all parties to show restraint, saying that a wider conflict would have devastating consequences for both Israel and Lebanon. Iran has condemned the killing of Arouri, with the country's foreign minister criticising Israel for its "cowardly terrorist operations" in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Hamas has reportedly told Egyptian and Qatari mediators that it is suspending talks over the possible release of more Israeli hostages in response to Arouri's killing. There are also reports in Arab media that a scheduled visit by an Israeli delegation to the Egyptian capital has been postponed. Meanwhile, the fighting in Gaza continues. The UN said five people were killed in an attack on the Palestinian Red Crescent building in the southern city of Khan Younis on Tuesday, as Israel urged people to evacuate. A five-day old baby was among the dead, according to a spokeswoman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). "This was a space where babies were living. This is a space where children were living," said Gemma Connell. "You can see on the floor the blood. The world should be absolutely horrified. The world should be absolutely outraged." Leaflets have been dropped in Khan Younis, warning residents to leave specified areas designated a "combat zone" by the IDF. The message said it was an "urgent warning" to evacuate several blocks in numerous neighbourhoods. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 22,000 people have been killed in the territory since Israel started its retaliatory campaign. At least 1,200 people were killed when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October and about 240 others were taken hostage. Some 105 hostages were later released during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.