Isn't this the same as "Total Cookie Protection" that was released a while ago?

The attack begins with a phishing email sent to the target

Okay bro im not reading past this its 2024

I currently still own an LG G5 (LineageOS). This is what an actually removable and replaceable battery looks like and should be like. This is that same phone in water for two minutes. This phone is from 7 years ago. Only phone left on the market nowadays with those capabilities (probably even better) is Fairphone.

Is there a way to tell if a game is using this crap?

EDIT 3: Another auto-updated list of games to avoid that use Denuvo

EDIT: found this list, will leave it here in case someone needs it. (REPORTED TO BE OUTDATED)

EDIT 2: also as they pointed out in the comments (for Steam users) this list is more updated, and if you follow it, it shows you if a game uses denuvo or not when you are browsing a game's store page.

What you are saying might be true as well but given your uncivil comment history i am pretty sure a mod "being tankie" is not the reason you are silenced in those communities...

Teoretically speaking, asking for a friend who's doing research, how would you access such a service? :)

Im starting to think that this whole "security updates support" is just another layer of planned obsolescence. Perfectly running phones with hardware that works just fine and could surely easily support any future security update, becoming "obsolete" simply because the manufacturer does not release updates these "security updates" anymore.

I feel like it is still too early to talk about "AI cannibalization" or "feedback loops" as that would mean that a big proportion of the training data is AI-generated content itself, against all the rest that could be scraped off the internet or the public domain, I don't think this is happening yet.

What people might experience instead, and perceive as dumbness, is that given that the datasets used to train AIs cannot really change that much in a short time (unless we wait for another hundred years so humans can produce actual human original content to train the AI again), and as the mathematical models used to build answers based on the datasets are pretty much the same, a person talking with ChatGPT will over time perceive more and more that the answers are built using a "pattern" or a "structure", aka the model derived from feeding the dataset into the AI training itself.

Just my pennies on this, let's also consider that is in human nature to be excited for something new that sounds cool, and then to get bored when you got accustomed to it and pushed it to its boundaries.

Compare it to the steam deck (a bit more pricey, but can also run emulators). If you want a more polished nintendo-like experience however, the switch is probably not a bad purchase (consider you have to add to it the hefty cost nintendo puts on their games and the fee for playing online, if you want to).

It is a common misconception, this and this are the same phone. It's a 2016 model btw.

Makes me want to screen record DRM protected stuff and redistribute it right now :)

Oh this is something i can surely help with, here is my iban: IT54500-....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square

lmfao spit my tea

Maybe MEGA? Really depends on your use-case

Yeah if incivility is in the rules it should be enforced for everyone.

Sorry to ask but since you keep using that word, what does tankie has to do with putin? Wasn't it something about the soviet union?

Meta will face daily fines of 1 million Norwegian Krone (€89,500) if it doesn’t comply with the order.

Mhhh

Edit: should have made it proportional to their revenue (as it should be done with every other fine)

What the hell

AI is officially the current catch-all tech term for news titles right now

That was a very interesting read, thank you!

BaaS

The last element in a queue: :D

On desktop (which is what the website in question is mostly loaded in) is 6,6%. Still isnt huge but definitely more significant.

Shit smells like Google's browser add-on Google tells you to install if you want to opt-out of Google's tracking. Nice.

Google sure is creating a lot of Pixel-fanboys by instilling this myth that if you dont get daddy google's precious over-the-air updates delivered to your phone in 30 seconds after their release your phone might be at great risk®™ (exactly like if you dont let google play store scan the apps on your device to look for malicious software, like F-Droid, a common known attack vector).

Because surely Fairphone users are all government officials with nuclear codes and Kim Jong-un's nudes saved in their notes and teams of indian hackers are 24/7 waiting for a security update to release, so they can unpack the zero-day-vulnerabilities before fairphone gets their release-cycle

Can you please elaborate further on this "component lifespan" thing? Because I think they were quite clear on the processor life cycle.

represents a potential $8 trillion to $13 trillion opportunity by 2030, that could boast as many as 5 billion users.

Lmao

/s?

Sir, here is your pass for "things whose end justify the mean", have a good day.

Should have used public transport ;)

".com.tw" lmao i see what they did there

That seems like a good piece of advice, maybe I will use this temporarily while I figure if I want to get a dedicated device.

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Thanks for this pearl

That's cool but you can't search through it and the way the list is displayed makes it so there is no game title in text so Ctrl+F isn't possible either. Am I missing something?

What components are you talking about? Can you provide some sort of source or reference or something? Are you maybe talking about the data modem?

This is the first time I will be on this other side of this argument, but let me disagree. The technology behind it isn't inherently bad, it's the people running the system having access to it that scares us. Take Snowden for example; when he exposed what the NSA was doing with US citizens data (with the help of big companies), do you think he meant that the internet or security cameras are the threat? They sure as hell are a good vector, but you don't trash nor blame your pc for being the mean though which that is achieved. The problem is who we put in power and how we held them accountable for misusing it.

I can't see any added value of having an unremovable battery that isn't entirely outweighted by the advantage of you being able to replace it.

Giving up your right to easily replace a key part of your phone just so in the event it gets stolen a thief can't take it out, to me feels like saying that pissing on your food so the person next to you won't eat it while you are gone is a good idea.

Additional points:

• Any phone thief probably has the tools (or knows a guy) to remove any battery from any phone.
• In case your phone has an account lock feature, that doesn't go by just removing the battery, they would have to do some advanced wiping, which would make having the unremovable battery useless anyways.
• "Oh but at least i can track them down and feel like a secret agent on a mission against the thief bad guy" 1) Dont, i dont think your phone is worth your safety. 2) they can just put it in a faraday bag as others already pointed out. Or literally a tinfoil wrap. A "faraday bag" is actually a stupid piece of radiation blocking pouch you can buy for 10 euros on amazon really.

You know what instead actually prevents your phone from being stolen? Paying attention to your pockets and avoiding to flex the latest iphone model around. I am absolutely sure "safety" and "consumer security" are points companies will bring up against user-removable batteries