Sunday, August 23, 2020
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DiceKeys creates a master password for life with one roll
Enlarge / Not a board game, a security tool. (credit: DiceKeys)
Modern cybersecurity, done with properly paranoid best practices, requires meeting some tough demands: Carry a physical two-factor key to plug in and authenticate yourself on a new computer, but if you lose or break that tiny piece of plastic you could be locked out of your accounts. Use different, totally unguessable passwords for every website, without repeating them or writing them down. And even if you opt for a password manager—as you should—you'll need to remember a long master password for years, or risk losing access to the rest of them.
Or you could reduce all of that complexity to a single roll of 25 dice into a plastic box. This week Stuart Schechter, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, is launching DiceKeys, a simple kit for physically generating a single super-secure key that can serve as the basis for creating all the most important passwords in your life for years or even decades to come. With little more than a plastic contraption that looks a bit like a Boggle set and an accompanying web app to scan the resulting dice roll, DiceKeys creates a highly random, mathematically unguessable key. You can then use that key to derive master passwords for password managers, as the seed to create a U2F key for two-factor authentication, or even as the secret key for cryptocurrency wallets. Perhaps most importantly, the box of dice is designed to serve as a permanent, offline key to regenerate that master password, crypto key, or U2F token if it gets lost, forgotten, or broken.
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A detailed look at some key developments/breakthroughs in robotics, amid an increasing interest in robots during the pandemic, and what to expect in the future (David Berreby/National Geographic)
A detailed look at some key developments/breakthroughs in robotics, amid an increasing interest in robots during the pandemic, and what to expect in the future — Machines now perform all sorts of tasks: They clean big stores, patrol borders, and help autistic children. But will they make life better for humans?
How Scientists Are Studying Diseases in Animals in the Himalayas
WB Games Montral Announces Gotham Knights, With Gameplay Footage
French-Canadian game studio, WB Games Montréal has finally announced their latest project - Gotham Knights at DC Fandome. After numerous cryptic tweets over the past year and even a 4-day long teaser campaign recently, the game premiered its first-ever trailer at the global virtual event. The studio also provided us with eight minutes of gameplay footage for the same.
The trailer opens up with the Bat-family receiving an encrypted message - “Code Black”, from the billionaire playboy philanthropist, Bruce Wayne himself. After being presumed dead, following an explosion in Gotham City, it is up to the remaining members - Batgirl, Robin, Nightwing and the Red Hood to become the watchful protectors of the corrupt, chaotic city. With the sad demise of Commissioner Jim Gordon, players will be operating via the Belfry and take control of the city overrun by volatile criminals. At the end of the trailer, we also get a first look at the primary antagonist - the mythical Court of Owls, their secret headquarters and their ninja-like foot soldier group - The Talons. Gotham Knights will be out in 2021.
Thankfully, the developers did not leave us hanging with just a reveal trailer and granted us with a detailed, 8-minute long pre-alpha build gameplay footage as well. Based on the aforementioned premise, it looks like we would not be playing as the Dark Knight in this iteration of the game (highly doubt it). The footage brings us to the snowy streets of Gotham City, about 12 hours into progression. Where we play as Batgirl and ride our way through the massive open-world city to Mr. Freeze’s base. From there, we team-up with Robin to take down a group of unexpecting goons. The game allows players to play through its entirety, either in solo mode or two-player coop. This time around, we see some totally unique features being introduced into the Batman games. Including the RPG-like grinding mechanics, levelled enemies that adjust according to progress and even a teleportation feature for Robin. As for movement and combat, it seems to have retained the grappling hook system for traversal while getting rid of the infamous free-flow combat system the Arkham games have been known for. The footage also offers an insight into the stealth mechanics and the dual takedown system derivative of Batman: Arkham Knight, before embarking on a boss fight against Mr. Freeze.
Earlier presumed to be a linear, single-player Batman story, fashioned the same way as the popular Arkham games, it is clear that the studio has taken a completely different and unpredicted approach. As for whether this change in tactic sits well with avid fans of the franchise, will only be revealed when the game finally releases in 2021. Although there is no mention of the platforms, it is reasonably safe to assume that the game will be out on Windows PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Similarly, Rocksteady had announced their upcoming title Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League at the same event, of which you can check out further details here.
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Rocksteady Reveals Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
Rocksteady Studios has just dropped the first official teaser trailer for their upcoming project - Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League at DC Fandome. The creators of the Batman Arkham franchise had released a teaser poster featuring a rogue-looking Superman earlier this month as part of the promotional campaign.
The trailer starts out by showing the Brainiac's illuminated Skull ship, floating atop the city of Metropolis, undergoing mass destruction at the hands of his soldiers. From there it goes on to introduce the 4 primary characters in the game - Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot and King Shark aka the Task Force X. Sent on a mission to eliminate a mystery target based on Amanda Waller’s orders, the supervillain special ops team is seen lazing about and bantering in front of a pizza shop on some random rooftop. That is until they are threatened to have their heads blown out. We are then given a first-look at all the unique moves and skill sets each of the characters have to offer while thrashing down a bunch of bad guys. Towards the end of the trailer, it is revealed as to who the mystery target was - Superman. A rogue Superman and the entirety of the Justice League to be precise. Probably under the influence of the Brainiac’s mind control, as indicated by his glowing purple coloured eyes.
As stated by Sefton Hill of Rocksteady, the game is set in the same universe as the Arkham Verse. And that some of the incomplete or referred to storylines in the past games will come to fruition in this title. The game allows you to play either in solo-mode, where the remaining characters will be taken control of by bots, during your playthrough. Or even in an online multiplayer coop mode. Also, playing in the solo-mode in no way limits the player to a particular character. Players will have complete freedom over whichever characters they want to play as and can easily swap between them accordingly.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will be out in 2022 on Windows PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Similarly, WB Games Montréal had announced their upcoming title Gotham Knights at the same event, of which you can check out further details here.
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Saturday, August 22, 2020
Q&A with FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller and analyst Neil Cybart about the merits of Epic's lawsuits against Apple and Google, and the economics of the App Store (Stephen Warwick/iMore)
Q&A with FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller and analyst Neil Cybart about the merits of Epic's lawsuits against Apple and Google, and the economics of the App Store — “Epic's complaints are very well-crafted, but the hurdle for establishing an antitrust violation is high”
Samsung Galaxy M31s review: Hits the right notes
Freepik, a popular freemium stock photos marketplace, discloses data breach and says hacker obtained info of 8.3M users, including usernames and password hashes (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
Freepik, a popular freemium stock photos marketplace, discloses data breach and says hacker obtained info of 8.3M users, including usernames and password hashes — Freepik is one of the most popular websites on the internet, currently ranked #97 on the Alexa Top 100 sites list.
U.S. WeChat Users Alliance, a nonprofit, files a lawsuit in district court in SF against Trump's executive order banning transactions with WeChat and ByteDance (John D. McKinnon/Wall Street Journal)
U.S. WeChat Users Alliance, a nonprofit, files a lawsuit in district court in SF against Trump's executive order banning transactions with WeChat and ByteDance — Group of users of popular Tencent-owned app says Trump administration's planned curbs violate civil rights, target Chinese-Americans
HBO Max drops first trailer for Zack Snyder’s Justice League
The first teaser for Zack Snyder's Justice League is set to Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."
Fans who have been clamoring to see Zack Snyder's director's cut of the disappointing 2017 film, Justice League, will finally get their wish, as HBO Max released a two-minute trailer for Zack Snyder's Justice League during the virtual DC Fandome event. The trailer actually leaked online before the panel, but was quickly pulled until the official release.
(Some spoilers for the 2017 Justice League below.)
The original Justice League was the third film in a trilogy that included Man of Steel (2013) and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). It brought together Ben Affleck's Batman and Henry Cavill's Superman with Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), The Flash (Ezra Miller), and Cyborg (Ray Fisher). They are on a mission to save the world from arch-villain Steppenwolf, a New God in search of three "Mother Boxes" that will enable him to terraform the Earth into something more hospitable to him and his army of Parademons.
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Watch the First Trailer for The Batman
Watch the First Trailer for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
How Schneider Electric is using AI in call centers and manufacturing to complement employees' work and boost productivity, rather than to replace them (Patricia Cohen/New York Times)
Patricia Cohen / New York Times : How Schneider Electric is using AI in call centers and manufacturing to complement employees' work ...
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg : South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; ...
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The first project we remember working on together was drawing scenes from the picture books that our mom brought with her when she immigrate...
