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Pedro Pascal, Brendan Wayne, and Lateef Crowder portray the titular bounty hunter, with Jeremy Allen White, Martin Scorsese, and Sigourney Weaver in support.

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Intel's upcoming Crescent Island product as a reminder is a new inference-optimized Xe3P graphics card with 160GB of vRAM and targeting enterprise AI workloads. Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers continue to be very busy enabling the driver support for Crescent Island as well as making broader Xe3P improvements...

Asian governments are implementing emergency measures like four-day workweeks and work-from-home mandates to cope with a fuel shortage triggered by the Iran conflict and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. "Asia is particularly dependent on oil exports from the Middle East; Japan and South Korea respectively source 90% and 70% of their oil from the region," notes Fortune. From the report: On March 10, Thailand ordered civil servants to take the stairs rather than the elevator, and to work-from-home for the duration of the crisis. It increased the air-conditioning temperature to 27 degrees Celsius, and will tell government employees to wear short-sleeved shirts over suits. (Thailand has about 95 days of energy reserves left, according to Reuters). Vietnam also called on businesses to let people work-from-home to "reduce the need for travel and transportation." The Philippines is pushing for a four-day work week, and has ordered officials to limit travel "to essential functions only." South Asia is getting hit hard too. Bangladesh brought forward the Eid-al-fitr holiday, allowing universities to close early in a bid to save fuel. Pakistan also instituted a four-day week for government offices and closed schools. India suspended shipments of liquefied petroleum gas to commercial operators to prioritize supplies for households, leading to worries from hotels and restaurants that they may be forced to close without fuel supplies. Countries across the region are also considering price caps, subsidies, and tapping strategic oil reserves. On Wednesday, the International Energy Agency "unanimously" agreed to release 400 million barrels of oil and refined products from its reserves. The Associated Press offers a look at the energy supplies that countries hold and when they tap them.

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Natural-language AI helps chemists design molecules step by step - Phys.org. Thanks Max. Apple's Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product - WIRED (may require registration or subscription). Will...

Linux gaming in 2026 is absolutely amazing, and CachyOS has been my go-to distro for gaming since day one. But one of the best things about Linux is that you are never stuck with just one option. If CachyOS is not your thing, there is no shortage of great alternatives.

Write Warz is currently free on Steam, but to keep it permanently, you need to download AND play it before April 17.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: More than 70 civil liberties, domestic violence, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+, labor, and immigrant advocacy organizations are demanding that Meta abandon plans to deploy face recognition on its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, warning that the feature -- reportedly known inside the company as "Name Tag" -- would hand stalkers, abusers, and federal agents the ability to silently identify strangers in public. The coalition, which includes the ACLU, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Fight for the Future, Access Now, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, is demanding Meta kill the feature before launch, after internal documents surfaced showing the company hoped to use the current "dynamic political environment" as cover for the rollout, betting that civil society groups would have their resources "focused on other concerns." Name Tag, as revealed in February by The New York Times, would work through the artificial intelligence assistant built into Meta's smart glasses, allowing wearers to pull up information about people in their field of view. Engineers have reportedly been weighing two versions of the feature: one that would only identify people the wearer is already connected to on a Meta platform, and a broader version that could recognize anyone with a public account on a Meta service such as Instagram. The coalition wants Meta to scrap the feature entirely. In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, it argues that face recognition in inconspicuous consumer eyewear "cannot be resolved through product design changes, opt-out mechanisms, or incremental safeguards." Bystanders in public have no meaningful way to consent to being identified, it says. Meta is also urged to disclose any known instances of its wearables being used in stalking, harassment, or domestic violence cases; disclose any past or ongoing discussions with federal law enforcement agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, about the use of Meta wearables or data from them; and commit to consulting civil society and independent privacy experts before integrating biometric identification into any consumer device. "People should be able to move through their daily lives without fear that stalkers, scammers, abusers, federal agents, and activists across the political spectrum are silently and invisibly verifying their identities and potentially matching their names to a wealth of readily available data about their habits, hobbies, relationships, health, and behaviors," write the groups, which also include Common Cause, Jane Doe Inc., UltraViolet, the National Organization for Women, the New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Library Freedom Project, and Old Dykes Against Billionaire Tech Bros, among others.

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The Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due for release tomorrow has a lot of audio fixes/quirks to correct a wide variety of different hardware issues, mostly different problematic laptops for their speakers and/or microphone behavior under Linux...

Video games are weird little things. It's pretty rare for films to get scrapped part way through production, even if these days some production companies opt to use even finished projects as tax write offs. But games can frequently get canned, disappear for a bit, and even return after many years of silence. Enter SiN Reloaded, the Nightdive-made remaster of the classic boomer shooter, that is alive once more!

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ASUS has started an internal review on the reports concerning AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D failure on its AM5 800-series motherboards. ASUS Makes First Official Statement Regarding Reports of AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Deaths On Its AM5 800-Series Motherboards We recently reported several instances of ASUS X870E and X870 motherboards affecting the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs. Going through Reddit, you can still find several reports where AMD's Ryzen 9000 CPUs, especially the 9800X3D, have been affected on ASUS's 800-series motherboards. ASUS has now made its first official statement, in which the company says that it has started an internal review […]

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The Crucial T710 is the Gen5 NVMe SSD for gamers and content creators who don't want to compromise on transfer speeds.

In partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), CISA released an update to joint guidance Product Security Bad Practices in furtherance of CISA’s Secure by Design initiative. This updated guidance incorporates public comments CISA received in response to a Request for Information, adding additional bad practices, context regarding memory-safe languages, clarifying timelines for patching Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEVs), and other recommendations.

While this voluntary guidance is intended for software manufacturers who develop software products and services in support of critical infrastructure, all software manufacturers are strongly encouraged to avoid these product security bad practices.

CISA and FBI urge software manufacturers to reduce customer risk by prioritizing security throughout the product development process. For more information and resources, visit CISA’s Secure by Design webpage or learn how to take CISA’s Secure by Design Pledge.

The latest Steam client drops support for operating systems older than Windows 10 or macOS 10.15 Catalina. "That means Mac users can't run 32-bit games anymore, as all macOS versions from Catalina onward only run 64-bit binaries," reports The Register. From the report: [I]f you have a well-specified older Mac, here is another reason to check out Open Core Legacy Patcher. For now, macOS 10.15 Catalina will do but we suspect it won't for long. This version of Steam uses the equivalent to Chrome 126: "Updated embedded Chromium build in Steam to 126.0.6478.183." However, versions since Chrome 128 require macOS 11 or newer. For now, Catalina will work -- but the next significant Steam update will update Chromium as well, and there's a high probability that that will drop support for 10.15. So, if you're using OCLP to install a newer macOS, you should probably go directly to Big Sur. In The Reg FOSS desk's testing, we found that Big Sur ran reasonably well on a machine with Intel HD 520 graphics, although the same hardware ran very poorly with macOS 12 Monterey. Unfortunately, the inevitable end is in sight for older Macs. That said, the November 2024 Steam client update brings several "wins," including a built-in Game Recording feature, an upgraded Chromium browser engine, and the new "Scout" Linux runtime environment for improved compatibility and performance, especially on the Steam Deck and Linux distros. Additionally, it delivers bug fixes and enhancements for modern OS users.

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I once tried to spatchcock a Thanksgiving turkey with a regular pair of kitchen shears. It didn't go so well. For those who don’t know, spatchcocking is also called butterflying, and it requires that you remove the bird’s backbone in order to roast it flat instead of 3D like it is typically. In my unprepared scenario, it took two people to finally get the job done and I walked away with a blister. But spatchcocking isn't difficult to do—with the right tools. Once I got my hands on a pair of poultry shears, it changed my future Thanksgivings forever.

Whether you’re breaking down a chicken into quarters or spatchcocking a 20-pound turkey, poultry shears are essential. Please note that these are not regular kitchen shears, nor the random craft scissors you happen to keep in the kitchen drawer—genuine poultry shears are special. With Thanksgiving on the horizon, there’s no better time to get yourself a pair. 

What are poultry shears, exactly?

Regular kitchen shears closely resemble multi-purpose scissors—they have straight blades, with thumb and finger hoops—but their shape is a bit stockier. You can use kitchen shears to trim vegetables, snip scallions into rings, or even cut pizza into slices, but these scissors are not terribly helpful for butchering. I can personally tell you that using these to cut through raw turkey bones is like using a fork to drink your morning coffee. 

Poultry shears are indeed scissors, but they’re designed specifically to slice through the meat and bone of chicken, turkey, pheasant, and other fowl. The shape, size, and design of these scissors makes this tough job a much lighter lift. The blades are fairly narrow and curved upward, making it easier to navigate the chicken cavity or get through hard to reach places while keeping your hand out of the way. The cutting edges of the blades have serrated segments, which reduces slipping and makes it easier to cut through bones. 

Crucially, poultry shears are spring-loaded. Part of what made my regular-kitchen-shears experience so unfortunate was that my grip strength was absolutely exhausted. The spring-loaded action makes cutting easier and faster. Additionally, they’re usually made of durable, hard-wearing stainless steel, so they’re easy to clean, and stay sharp and in good shape for years. 

When can you use poultry shears?

If you plan on spatchcocking a turkey this year, poultry shears are an absolute must. Doing this cooks the bird more evenly, leads to crispy skin instead of the often soggy thighs, and can knock off an hour or more from your total cooking time. Here’s how to spatchcock a chicken; you use the same steps for a turkey.

Poultry shears aren't just for November; they're indispensable throughout the year. You can use them to butcher fish, or crack and divide lobster or other crustaceans. Use your poultry shears to trim off loose fat from any cut of meat. Naturally you'll want to reach for them whenever you’re breaking down a chicken into drums, thighs, wings and breasts before cooking (or freezing for easy dinners throughout the week), or after roasting to divide the bird for serving. 

If portioning or carving large chickens or turkeys with a knife has ever felt unwieldy (the bird juices can make the whole business rather slippery), you might find that using poultry shears feels safer and more comfortable. That alone is worth the purchase. Consider it a small investment for a much better Thanksgiving. 

Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) from Thomas "GloriousEggroll" Crider version 1.1.1 is out now as the first official release to help improve Linux desktop and Steam Deck gaming.

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This week we're surprised to find ourselves talking about the Black Ops 6 multiplayer beta, but we've also got chat about Squirrel With a Gun, Tetris, and plenty of other stuff too. This week's music: PLAIINS - Slow Rotting, Fast Decay

Attackers are increasingly using new phishing toolkits (open-source, commercial, and criminal) to execute adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. AitM enables attackers to not just harvest credentials but steal live sessions, allowing them to bypass traditional phishing prevention controls such as MFA, EDR, and email content filtering. In this article, we’re going to look at what AitM phishing