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Submission + - Easy NTSYNC arrives for Steam users with GE-Proton 10.10

Submitted by drinkypoo
drinkypoo writes: GloriousEggroll has released GE-Proton 10.10, a heavily breathed-upon version of Valve's version of Wine used with Steam, and the big news is that it supports NTSYNC by default on supported platforms. That means amd64 systems whose kernel is built with the CONFIG_NTSYNC option, available in the 6.14 series or later or for 6.12 or 6.13 as a patch. NTSYNC is support for certain fine-grained Windows NT scheduling primitives for Linux, the use of which improves performance and compatibility for Windows programs. Maximum performance gains range from modest to dramatic, with most programs falling towards the lower end of the spectrum, but it can substantially improve minimum frame rates for some titles. You can observe that ntsync is being used from the console output, e.g. using "tail -f ~/.steam/steam/logs/console-linux.txt". You will see messages like "wineserver: NTSync up and running!"

Submission + - Apple refused to help Harris campaign when they were hacked (forbes.com)

Submitted by drinkypoo
drinkypoo writes: A week before the election, the Harris campaign sought assistance from Apple to detect threats on their phone, and was rebuffed with excuses about privacy.

Apple knows when your phone has been attacked, they tell you to go to someone who cannot help you for help, and they are in fact preventing those people from helping you. They are only hiding their own incompetence and insecurity.

Submission + - Nearly half of corporate donations in 2024 are from crypto corps (citizen.org) 1

Submitted by drinkypoo
drinkypoo writes: Public Citizen reports that 48% of all corporate contributions in 2024 elections have come from cryptocurrency corporations, with over $119 million spent influencing federal elections. Only fossil fuel companies have spent more over the last ten years. The crypto sector's chosen SuperPACs won their preferred outcomes in 36 out of 42 primary races they invested in. Is this undue influence when only 7% of Americans have used cryptocurrency?

Submission + - EPA report reveals Apple is willfully venting toxics from their chip fab (x.com)

Submitted by drinkypoo
drinkypoo writes: A former Apple employee tipped off the EPA to massive and ongoing willful release of emissions from Apple's baby fab in Santa Clara, and although Apple was warned about what was supposed to be a surprise inspection the inspectors still discovered that Apple was illegally treating and transporting hazardous waste, dumping hazardous waste into the ambient air outside the facility, and leaving stockpiles of volatile chemicals unattended on weekends. Apple did not seek or receive a permit for transportation or storage of many of these toxic, "highly flammable" and corrosive chemicals, and is also doing no monitoring of their own emissions. Many would like to see manufacturing returned to the USA, but is this the outcome they desired or expected?

Submission + - Right to Repair Battle Heats Up with Rooting of John Deere Equipment

Submitted by drinkypoo
drinkypoo writes: John Deere, current and historic American producer of farming equipment, has long been maligned for their DRM-based lockdowns of said equipment which can make it impossible for farmers to perform their own service. Now a new security bypass has been discovered for some of their equipment, which has revealed that it is in general based on outdated versions of Linux and Windows CE.

Carried out by Sick Codes, the complete attack involves attaching hardware to the PCB inside a touchscreen controller, and ultimately produces a root terminal.

In the bargain and as a result, the question is being raised about JD's GPL compliance.

Submission + - A biodegradable paper battery might reduce e-waste

Submitted by drinkypoo
drinkypoo writes: Swiss researchers have developed a prototype disposable graphite-anode zinc-air battery which can be printed on a paper substrate, which they hope will reduce e-waste by replacing button cells in disposable paper-mounted electronics, and demonstrated using it to operate a LCD digital clock. From the fine article,

The battery is based on a metal-air electrochemical cell that uses Zinc as a biodegradable metal in the anode, graphite in the cathode, paper as a separator between the electrodes, and a water-based electrolyte. In addition to paper’s inherent biodegradability, sustainability and low cost, this design takes advantage of its natural wicking behavior and hygroscopic nature; The battery remains inactive until it contacts with water which then passively absorbs and transports across the paper membrane, thus activating the battery. The anode and cathode materials developed in this work are compatible with additive manufacturing techniques[...]

The current collector is "composed of graphite flakes, carbon black, shellac and ethanol."

Submission + - Pupil response to imagined subjects reveals aphantasia (unsw.edu.au)

Submitted by drinkypoo
drinkypoo writes: Researchers at UNSW Sydney have discovered that aphantasia, or lack of visual imagination, can be detected by lack of pupillary response. Pupillary response to both real and imagined objects was measured and compared, and the response to imagined objects was larger in those reporting greater vividness of imagery.

Submission + - Giant Tesla battery in Australia earns around a million bucks in a few days (electrek.co)

Submitted by drinkypoo
drinkypoo writes: Last week, Neoen's and Tesla’s massive battery was paid up to $1000/MWh to charge itself and now it could have earned up to 1 million AUD in the last few days by selling the power back to the grid to cover a coal plant outage. Unlike other forms of power storage, battery systems can be switched between states (charging, discharging, or idle) effectively instantly, which permits a stabilizing effect on the grid.

Submission + - Self-Driving Big Rigs Become a Reality

Submitted by drinkypoo
drinkypoo writes: We've been discussing the import of automation of over-the-road trucking here on Slashdot in fairly passionate terms whenever self-driving vehicles enter the conversation. Jalopnik reports that The Freightliner “Inspiration Truck” will be the first autonomous commercial truck to drive on American roads. The truck will be demonstrated today.

Submission + - Supermicro fails at IPMI, leaks admin passwords (cari.net)

Submitted by drinkypoo
drinkypoo writes: Zachary Wikholm of Security Incident Response Team (CARISIRT) has publicly announced a serious failure in IPMI BMC (management controller) security on at least 31,964 public-facing systems with motherboards made by SuperMicro: "Supermicro had created the password file PSBlock in plain text and left it open to the world on port 49152." These BMCs are running Linux 2.6.17 on a Nuvoton WPCM450 chip. An exploit will be rolled into metasploit shortly. There is already a patch available for the affected hardware.
Apple

Submission + - UK court sanctions Apple for non-compliance (groklaw.net)

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drinkypoo
drinkypoo writes: "Per PJ over on Groklaw as always, "Since Apple did not comply with the order in its estimation, adding materials that were not ordered and in addition were "false", the judges ordered Apple to pay Samsung's lawyers' fees on an indemnity basis, and they add some public humiliation". And per the judge, "what Apple added was false and misleading". Your move, Apple."

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