Month: January 2025

Asus, Samsung und MSI haben gleichzeitig etwa 27 Zoll große 4K-OLED-Displays angekündigt, die eine Bildwiederholfrequenz von 240 Hz erreichen. (OLED, Display)

Apple hat eine Vergleichsvereinbarung über 95 Millionen US-Dollar wegen nicht autorisierter Sprachaufzeichnungen durch Siri erzielt. (Apple, Datenschutz)

Penetration Testing wird eingesetzt, um IT-Systeme effektiv abzusichern. Eine praxisorientierte Einführung in die Methoden und Techniken zum Aufspüren und Schließen von Sicherheitslücken bietet ein zweitägiger Workshop. (Golem Karrierewelt, Sicherheitslücke)

It’s been nearly a year since My Arcade showed off a handheld game console developed in collaboration with the company that currently owns the rights to the Atari name. Now they’ve posted a short teaser video on YouTube and social media indicating that the Atari Gamestation Go will be officially unveiled at CES 2025 next week. […]

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On Thursday, a three-judge panel struck down net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had hoped would stop broadband providers from varying speeds for users when connecting to different websites.

In his opinion, US circuit judge Richard Allen Griffin wrote that the FCC lacked the authority to impose the net neutrality rules under the "telecommunications service" provision of the Communications Act.

"The core of the dispute here," Griffin wrote, "is whether Broadband Internet Service Providers" like Xfinity or Spectrum offer a "telecommunications service" or an "information service." Because judges agreed they offer the latter, the court ruled that they could not be subjected to the FCC's net neutrality policies.

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The more than two decades since Half-Life 2's release have been filled with plenty of rumors and hints about Half-Life 3, ranging from the official-ish to the thin to the downright misleading. As we head into 2025, though, we're approaching something close to a critical mass of rumors and leaks suggesting that Half-Life 3 is really in the works this time, and could be officially announced in the coming months.

The latest tease came just before the end of 2024 via a New Year's Eve social media video from G-Man voice actor Mike Shapiro. In the voice of the mysterious in-game bureaucrat, Shapiro expresses hopes that "the next quarter century [will] deliver as many unexpected surprises as did the millennium's first (emphasis added)... See you in the new year."

#Valve #Halflife #GMan #2025 pic.twitter.com/mdT5hlxKJT

— Mike Shapiro (@mikeshapiroland) December 31, 2024

The post is all the more notable because it's Shapiro's first in over four years, when he concluded a flurry of promotional posts surrounding the release of Half-Life: Alyx (many of which were in-character as G-Man). And in 2020, just after Alyx's release, Shapiro told USGamer that he had recently worked on a "blast from the past" project that he would "announce... on my Twitter feed when I'm allowed to" (no such announcement has been forthcoming for any other game).

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Most PC makers are waiting until next week to unveil new computers powered by some of the chips that are set to launch during CES 2025. But ECS jumped the gun a bit by introducing three new laptops ahead of CES, including one model powered by an “AMD Krackan” processor. The ECS UP42KP is a 14 inch […]

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Tesla muss einen Rückschlag in seiner Wachstumsstrategie hinnehmen. Der Abstand zum Konkurrenten BYD ist minimal geworden. (Tesla, Elektroauto)

People have been complaining for a while that passing a CAPTCHA is too difficult, but developer and tech CEO Guillermo Rauch has made one of the hardest yet: a fully playable CAPTCHA based on the classic PC game Doom.

It's been a long-running joke that developers will make Doom run on absolutely anything, so it's not much of a surprise that it's now running inside something that resembles a CAPTCHA.

The app essentially amounts to a small Doom level that is playable with keyboard controls (arrow keys to move, space bar to shoot) within a CAPTCHA-like presentation. You must kill three enemies to pass the test.

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"It's time for THE charger," the European Commission posted to X on December 28, 2024. While the sentiment only applies to one continent (and not all of it) and only certain devices, the Common Charger Directive now in effect in the European Union suggests that far fewer gadgets will foist barrels, USB-micro, or proprietary plugs onto their owners.

The Common Charger Directive demands that a "USB-C receptacle" be equipped on "radio equipment" that is "equipped with a removable or embedded rechargeable battery" and "can be recharged via wired charging." If it has a battery and can be powered by up to 100 watts through a USB-C connection, it's generally subject to the EU's USB-C requirements. The directive applies to devices "placed on the market"—sent to a distributor or buyer—after December 28, even if they were initially designed and sold before that date.

Laptops get until April 2026 to comply, but most other things—phones, tablets, handheld gaming devices, computer accessories, and wireless headphones—will have to be powered by USB-C to be sold inside the EU from now on. Drones, for the time being, are largely unaddressed by the directive, but the EU will likely get around to them.

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