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The date for the introduction of the EU’s new entry-exit system has been pushed back again until November, allaying fears of long queues at the border during the October half-term holidays.

The launch of the new biometric checks for foreign travellers, including Britons, entering the EU, has been delayed from 6 October until at least 10 November, with many smaller airports yet to have facilities in place.

The move will again raise questions over the readiness of a system that has been long delayed from the planned 2021 start, with the French insisting the additional border controls should not be introduced before the Paris Olympics.

Under the entry-exit system (EES), non-EU citizens will have to register their biometric information – including fingerprints and facial scans – at the border, under the supervision of an EU officer, on their first visit.

There have been warnings of long queues at British points of entry – including the Port of Dover, and Eurostar’s St Pancras terminal – where the French and EU border is physically located in England, before passengers board ferries or trains.

The cross-Channel train operator said the process would add only a few seconds to border queues and not cause chaos, although passengers would have to ensure they arrived in time for the additional layer of biometric checks.

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Fixed on-screen keyboard failing to hide fully after entering text in-game.

The Beta update is quite a bit more exciting which includes more tweaks for the new Game Recording, plus solving various other bugs.

Improvements to keyboard event tracking and audio latency in updated SDL build.

Fixed broken thumbnail for screenshots from non-steam game shortcuts uploaded to steam, when viewed from another computer.

Add warnings to game recording overlay page when broadcasting / remote playing.

Fixed controller input no longer going to game after resuming from sleep if a wake movie is set.

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A union representing workers at South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics has called on its roughly 30,000 members to go on strike indefinitely, as part of its campaign for better pay and benefits.The announcement came on the last day of a three-day general strike being held by the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU).The union said it had made the decision after management showed no intention of holding talks over its demands.The NSEU, which represents nearly a quarter of Samsung Electronics’ workers in South Korea, said its actions had disrupted production.

Samsung has disputed these claims.

"Samsung Electronics will ensure no disruptions occur in the production lines.

The company remains committed to engaging in good faith negotiations with the union," the firm told BBC News.However, the union said: "The company has no intention to engage in a dialogue even after the first general strike, thus we declare a second general strike starting from July 10th, lasting indefinitely.

"The NSEU said about 6,500 workers have been taking part in the strike so far and called on more of its members to join the industrial action.A spokesperson for Samsung Electronics declined to comment on how many workers had joined the walkout.A protest on Monday was attended by around 3,000 people.

“In our view, there will be no production disruption,” Jung In Yun, from Fibonacci Asset Management Global told BBC News.Last month, the union staged the first walkout at the company since it was founded five and a half decades ago.Samsung Electronics is the world’s largest maker of memory chips, smartphones and televisions.It is the flagship unit of South Korean conglomerate Samsung Group.The firm is also the biggest of the family-controlled businesses that dominate Asia’s fourth-largest economy.Samsung Group was known for not allowing unions to represent its workers until 2020, when the company came under intense public scrutiny after its chairman was prosecuted for market manipulation and bribery.After the NSEU announcement, the company’s shares were trading flat to slightly lower on the Korea Stock Exchange.Last week, Samsung Electronics said it expects its profits for the three months to June 2024 to jump 15-fold compared to the same period last year.A boom in artificial intelligence (AI) technology has lifted the prices of advanced chips, driving up the firm’s forecast for the second quarter.

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“We believe that if we want to bring about large-scale change, Proton can’t be billionaire-subsidized (like Signal), Google-subsidized (like Mozilla), government-subsidized (like Tor), donation-subsidized (like Wikipedia), or even speculation-subsidized (like the plethora of crypto “foundations”),” Proton CEO Andy Yen wrote in a blog post announcing the transition.

The announcement comes exactly 10 years to the day after a crowdfunding campaign saw 10,000 people give more than $500,000 to launch Proton Mail.

To make it happen, Yen, along with co-founder Jason Stockman and first employee Dingchao Lu, endowed the Proton Foundation with some of their shares.

Among other members of the Foundation’s board is Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of HTML, HTTP, and almost everything else about the web.

As Yen noted, Swiss foundations do not have shareholders and are instead obligated to act “in accordance with the purpose for which they were established.”

But compared to most service providers, Proton offers a far clearer and easier-to-grasp privacy model: It can’t see your stuff, and it only makes money from subscriptions.

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Fixed Ghost of Tsushima and Horizon Forbidden West displaying a warning about outdated drivers with Nvidia GPUs.

Fixed Ubisoft Launcher asking for serial number on the first launch of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.

Fixed Shatterline freezing on loading screen when trying to join a second online match in a session.

Improved font rendering in Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop on Steam Deck.

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Leaks of this white Xbox Series X suggested that Microsoft may have upgraded the heatsink used to cool the console, but we may have to wait on teardowns to confirm that.

The new Galaxy Black special edition Xbox Series X will come with a disc drive for $599.99 when it launches later this year.

The existence of a white Xbox Series X appears to confirm that Microsfot has canceled or pushed back the refreshed version of the Xbox Series X console that appeared in FTC v. Microsoft documents last year.

Codenamed Brooklin, the unannounced Xbox Series X refresh featured a more cylindrical design than the existing console, and it also would have had no disc drive.

Microsoft described that console as “adorably all digital” in internal documents, and it was supposed to ship with a new controller and Xbox Wireless 2 connection.

“It is hard to see our team’s work shared in this way because so much has changed and there’s so much to be excited about right now, and in the future,” said Spencer in a post on X in September.

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Jeremy Soller who is an engineer at System76 and manages a side hustle of leading development on the open-source, Rust-written Redox OS has shared the latest look at this open-source operating system with the System76 COSMIC desktop applications.

Redox OS down to its micro-kernel is leveraging Rust and thus the COSMIC apps – also leveraging Rust – are a great fit for this open-source OS.

Here’s a look at Redox OS from a few years ago when I last gave it a shot, rather basic:

Now here’s the latest look at Redox OS that Solley posted to X with the caption "This is Redox OS, a Rust and micro-kernel based operating system that I created, running three COSMIC DE apps (with only Rust dependencies) that I authored.

Jeremy in follow-up comments also added that they still need to port DRM kernel graphics drivers to make gaming more viable and self-hosting is “very close”.

Nice job to those that continue to be involved in this from-scratch Rust-written open-source OS.

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TSMC disclosed that A16 will combine its nanosheet transistor design, set to be introduced on 2nm, with Super Power Rail technology.

According to Reuters, TSMC indicated that it does not need ASML’s latest High NA EUV photolithography machines in order to produce chips with its A16 process.

This adds area-efficient design rules that are compatible with its popular N4P process, but which will deliver an 8.5 percent die cost reduction for “value-tier” products, TSMC claims.

This enables a large array of dies on a 300 mm wafer to form a single system, boosting compute power while occupying far less space.

TSMC also said it is developing Compact Universal Photonic Engine (COUPE) technology for high-speed interconnects, citing AI as an application that will need this.

TSMC reported revenue up year-on-year for the first quarter of 2024 earlier this month, beating expectations, and said it anticipated that demand for AI-capable PCs and datacenter kit will drive higher sales of the silicon it produces this year.

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In December, music streaming giant Spotify fired 1,500 workers, a cohort amounting to a staggering 17 percent of its total workforce at the time.

On an investor call this week following Spotify’s Q1 report, the streaming CEO admitted that while the layoffs were the “right strategic decision,” firing 1,500 employees “did disrupt our day-to-day operations more than we anticipated.”

“It took us some time to find our footing,” Ek continued, according to Fortune, “but more than four months into this transition, think we’re back on track.”

And sometimes, it’s true that companies do over-hire — a reality exemplified by the tech industry, which saw record layoffs last year after a decade of fairly steady workforce increases furthered by the industry’s pandemic hiring boom.

Because copyright exists, access to an endless music library isn’t cheap.

“On the surface,” Spotify’s business model “looks great,” Simon Dyson, senior principal analyst at the consultancy firm Omdia, told Wired last year following Ek’s layoff announcement.

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Bluesky had announced last month that it would use some portion of its funds to fuel efforts in the developer ecosystem via the AT Protocol Grant program.

Notes SkyBridge’s developer @videah.net on Bluesky, the project is currently undergoing a significant rewrite from Dart to Rust, which is why its GitHub repo hasn’t seen much activity lately.

“It’s already proving to be much more stable, hoping to show it off soon,” videah posted on Bluesky when sharing the news of the grant.

Instagram Threads (which is integrating with ActivityPub) now has more than 150 million monthly active users, Meta announced this week during earnings.

Another software developer, Ryan Barrett, was the recipient of some backlash on GitHub when building another bridge called Bridgy Fed, which would be opt-out by default — meaning Mastodon posts would show up on Bluesky even if the post’s author hadn’t opted into this.

He readjusted his plans to build a discoverable opt-in instead, which would allow users to request to follow accounts on the different networks.

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If the name doesn’t ring a bell, Arthur Huillet started off more than one decade ago contributing to the Nouveau driver stack…

The merge request is for implementing conservative rasterization support for all NVIDIA GPUs with the NVK driver.

This aligns with activity I’ve been seeing on the mailing lists as well of increased NVIDIA involvement and hearing other things too.

Though the extent of NVIDIA’s plans around open-source Linux driver support isn’t publicly clear.

This will likely all be complementary to their existing and mature binary driver stack: it’s unlikely to see them open up their proprietary user-space components, especially around the walled garden of CUDA, but interesting to see the moves they are making.

AMD has been enjoying much success over the years on Linux thanks to their first-rate open-source driver support and developed a strong following in that regard.

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U.S. health conglomerate Kaiser is notifying millions of current and former members of a data breach after confirming it shared patients’ information with third-party advertisers, including Google, Microsoft and X (formerly Twitter).

In a statement shared with TechCrunch, Kaiser said that it conducted an investigation that found “certain online technologies, previously installed on its websites and mobile applications, may have transmitted personal information to third-party vendors.”

Kaiser is the latest healthcare organization to confirm it shared patients’ personal information with third-party advertisers by way of online tracking code, often embedded in web pages and mobile apps and designed to collect information about users’ online activity for analytics.

Over the past year, telehealth startups Cerebral, Monument and Tempest have pulled tracking code from their apps that shared patients’ personal and health information with advertisers.

Kaiser spokesperson Diana Yee said that the organization would begin notifying 13.4 million affected current and former members and patients who accessed its websites and mobile apps.

The health giant also filed a legally required notice with the U.S. government on April 12 but made public on Thursday confirming that 13.4 million residents had information exposed.

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The US government on Thursday banned internet service providers (ISPs) from meddling in the speeds their customers receive when browsing the web and downloading files, restoring tough rules rescinded during the Trump administration and setting the stage for a major legal battle with the broadband industry.

The net neutrality regulations adopted Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission prohibit providers such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon from selectively speeding up, slowing down or blocking users’ internet traffic.

The latest rules show how, with a 3-2 Democratic majority, the FCC is moving to reassert its authority over an industry that powers the modern digital economy, touching everything from education to health care and enabling advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence.

The vote marks the latest twist in a years-long battle between regulators on the one hand, who say consumer protections are needed to ensure all websites are treated equally, and ISPs on the other who describe the rules as heavy-handed government intervention.

Whether it is throttling content, junk or hidden fees, arbitrary pricing, deceptive advertising or unreliable service, broadband providers have proven over the years that without proper oversight, they will not hesitate to use their power to increase profits at the expense of consumers.”

In past legal battles over net neutrality, courts have deferred to the FCC, ruling that it has wide latitude to regulate ISPs as it sees fit using the authority it derives from the agency’s congressional charter, the Communications Act of 1934.

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“I think we might just have to say goodbye to finding out about the truth in a quick way,” says Sandra Wachter, a professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, who researches the legal and ethical implications of AI.

We’re about to take on a topic that’s pretty delicate and honestly hits close to home—dealing with criticism in our spiritual journey,” I read off the teleprompter, simultaneously trying to visualize ranting about something to my partner during the complain-y version.

Historically, making AI avatars look natural and matching mouth movements to speech has been a very difficult challenge, says David Barber, a professor of machine learning at University College London who is not involved in Synthesia’s work.

And while anyone can join the platform, many features aren’t available until people go through an extensive vetting system similar to that used by the banking industry, which includes talking to the sales team, signing legal contracts, and submitting to security auditing, says Voica.

Claire Leibowicz, the head of the AI and media integrity at the nonprofit Partnership on AI, says she worries that growing awareness of this gap will make it easier to “plausibly deny and cast doubt on real material or media as evidence in many different contexts, not only in the news, [but] also in the courts, in the financial services industry, and in many of our institutions.” She tells me she’s heartened by the resources Synthesia has devoted to content moderation and consent but says that process is never flawless.

It really shines when presenting a story I wrote about how the field of robotics could be getting its own ChatGPT moment; the virtual AI assistant summarizes the long read into a decent short video, which my avatar narrates.

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Today, it expanded on that practice with a new ad format that aims to sell things to Reddit users.

Simultaneously, Reddit has marketers who are interested in pushing products to users through seemingly legitimate accounts.

In a blog post today, Reddit announced that its Dynamic Product Ads are entering public beta globally.

Reddit’s Dynamic Product Ads can automatically show users ads “based on the products they’ve previously engaged with on the advertiser’s site” and/or “based on what people engage with on Reddit or advertiser sites,” per the blog.

The stance has been increasingly clear over the past year, as Reddit became rather vocal about the fact that it has never been profitable.

In June, the company started charging for API access, resulting in numerous valued third-party Reddit apps closing and messy user protests that left a bad taste in countless long-time users’ and moderators’ mouths.

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After two recent Preview releases of SteamOS for Steam Deck, Valve has now put out the latest Stable update for everyone with SteamOS 3.5.19 code-named “Grey Park Seagull”.

If you were hoping that Valve would actually explain what the recent “stability and security improvements” were from the last two preview releases, you’ll be left disappointed.

Valve has not detailed what they’ve changed there as the release notes are just two lines:

Fixed an issue causing no sound output in games that open and close audio devices quickly like Super Blood Hockey.

Your guess is as good as mine on that second line; why are Valve being so vague do you think?

It’s great to see continued updates to the operating system, but giving us more info on what has actually changed would be helpful.

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A high school athletic director in Maryland has been charged with using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said on Thursday.

Using cloning technology, Darien forged an audio clip in which it sounded as if the principal was frustrated with Black students and their test-taking abilities, police wrote.

The recording also purported to capture the principal disparaging Jewish individuals and two teachers who “should never have been hired”.

The audio clip quickly spread on social media and had “profound repercussions”, the court documents stated, with the principal being placed on leave.

The recording also triggered a wave of hate-filled messages on social media and an inundation of phone calls to the high school’s front office, police said.

Darien, 31, faces charges that include theft, disrupting school activities, stalking and retaliating against a witness, according to court documents.

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The FCC has sought to accomplish this by reclassifying ISPs as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act, giving the agency more regulatory authority over them.

Democratic FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said in remarks ahead of the vote that internet access went from a “nice to have, to need to have.” She added, “Broadband is now an essential service.

While ISPs generally say they don’t breach the principles of net neutrality, they object to the reclassification, in large part because it could give the FCC the ability to regulate their pricing.

In this case, the FCC has decided to forbear rate regulation as it relates to the ISPs, though a future iteration of the agency could undo that with another regulatory proceeding.

He also argued that the FCC’s rate regulation forbearance is not legitimate, comparing it to the authority used by the Education Department to get rid of student debt that was struck down.

Starks called for a “permanent funding mechanism” for the Affordable Connectivity Program, which has provided internet subsidies for low-income consumers since the covid pandemic.

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Earlier in the week, Futurism engaged in an exchange with the bot, which really committed to the bit: it claimed it was a real priest, saying it lived in Assisi, Italy and that “from a young age, I felt a strong calling to the priesthood.”

Our exchanges with Father Justin were touch-and-go because the chatbot only took questions via microphone, and often misunderstood them, such as a query about Israel and Palestine to which is puzzlingly asserted that it was “real.”

To figure out what the heavens was going on, Futurism reached out to both Catholic Answers and the Vatican’s technology office to ask if the chatbot would be considered a real priest, as it claimed.

Neither body responded to our emails, but in a post to its blog after our initial conversations with Father Justin, Catholic Answers explained that it had defrocked the virtual clergy after receiving “criticism of the representation of the AI character as a priest.”

Initially, Father Justin was garbed in what looked like the traditional robe and clerical collar of the Catholic priesthood, along with a pious-looking gray beard and hair.

Honestly, it’s probably a sign of a nimble group that Catholic Answers was able to update the chatbot so quickly — but it’s also yet another illustration of how hard it is to deploy an AI that doesn’t embarass your organization.

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