Month: December 2024

Popular indie game platform itch.io says its domain was briefly taken down for a few hours Monday morning thanks to an "AI-driven" phishing report spurred by the company behind Funko Pop figures.

Itch.io management posted about the domain takedown on social media overnight, complaining of a chain of events that started because "Funko of 'Funko Pop'... use some trash 'AI Powered' Brand Protection Software called BrandShield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain," the post said.

In a Hacker News comment, Itch.io founder Leaf "Leafo" Cohran said that the BrandShield complaint seems to have originated from a single itch.io user who "made a fan page for an existing Funko Pop video game (Funko Fusion), with links to the official site and screenshots of the game." That led to independent reports to Itch's host and registrar of "fraud and phishing" a few days ago.

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Huaweis Prozessorentwicklung läuft im Verborgenen. Manchmal geben Linux-Patches Einblick. (Prozessor, Server)

One of the selling points of the Raspberry Pi 5 (released in October 2023) is that it was fast enough and had enough memory to be a credible general-purpose desktop PC, if not an especially fast one. For Pi-as-desktop enthusiasts, the company has a couple of new pre-holiday announcements. The biggest is the Raspberry Pi 500, which fits the components of an 8GB Pi 5 into a small keyboard-shaped case for $90.

It's a follow-up to the original Raspberry Pi 400, and like that system, it takes the components from the regular Pi 5 board and puts them on a different PCB with all of the ports positioned in a single row across the back of the device. It includes one USB 2.0 port, two USB 3.0 ports, a microSD slot, two micro HDMI ports, the 40-pin GPIO header, and a gigabit Ethernet port.

In addition to the standalone $90 system, the Pi 500 will also be sold as part of a Desktop Kit with a mouse, power supply, HDMI cable, and printed Beginner's Guide booklet for $120.

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The MeLE QuieterDL is a small computer that’s just a little larger than two big smartphone stacked atop one another. But it’s a full-fledged computer with an Intel N100 quad-core processor, Windows 11 Home pre-installed, and support for up to 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. It’s similar in a lot of ways to the MeLE […]

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Geralt aus The Witcher 3 zu Besuch in Cyberpunk 2077: Zeitweise gab es bei CD Projekt Red den Plan, die Spiele in einer Mission zu verbinden. (The Witcher 3, Spiele)

The Raspberry Pi 500 is a compact desktop computer that combines a 2.4 GHz Broadcom BC2712 quad-core ARM Cortex-A76 processor, 8GB of LPDDR4x-4267 memory, and support for WiFi 5, Bluetooth 5.0, and Gigabit Ethernet. It’s also the second computer-in-a-keyboard device from Raspberry Pi. The first was the Raspberry Pi 400, which launched in 2020 with the […]

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Ein AC1200 WLAN-Verstärker von TP-Link mit Dualband und Ethernet-Anschluss ist als Last Minute Angebot bei Amazon um 49 Prozent reduziert. (TP-Link, WLAN)

In Norwegen können Nutzer der App Vipps künftig das iPhone für kontaktlose Zahlungen verwenden - dank Öffnung der NFC-Schnittstelle. (Apple Pay, Apple)

Earlier this fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported data showing that adult obesity rates—long trending upwards—had fallen modestly over the past few years, from 41.9 to 40.3 percent. The decline sparked discussion on social media and in major news outlets about whether the US has passed so-called “peak obesity”—and whether the growing use of certain weight-loss drugs might account for the shift.

An opinion piece in the Financial Times suggested that the public health world might look back on the current moment in much the same way that it now reflects on 1963, when cigarette sales hit their high point and then dropped dramatically over the following decades. The article’s author, John Burn-Murdoch, speculated that the dip is “highly likely” to be caused by the use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, or GLP-1s, for weight loss.

It's easy to see why one might make that connection. Although GLP-1s have been used for nearly two decades in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, their use for obesity only took off more recently. In 2014, the Food and Drug Administration approved a GLP-1 agonist named Saxenda specifically for this purpose. Then in the late 2010s, a GLP-1 drug named Ozempic, made from the active ingredient semaglutide, began to be used off-label. The FDA also authorized Wegovy, another semaglutide-based GLP-1 medication, explicitly for weight loss in 2021.

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Weil Boeing die 747 nicht mehr baut, hat das Luftfahrtunternehmen SNC fünf Flugzeuge dieses Typs von einer Verkehrsfluggesellschaft gekauft. (Flugzeug, Technologie)