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Kamis, 23 Mei 2019

The Morning After: The black-and-white portable console of the future - Engadget

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The new game system everyone is talking about can't do 4K, 8K or even 1K, but we're still excited about Panic's surprise Playdate portable console. On the other hand, it's time to say goodbye to Ouya and Consumer Reports has concerns about the latest Tesla Autopilot update.

No-gen portable gaming.'Firewatch' publisher's Playdate gaming handheld has a black-and-white screen, and a crank

Veteran software developer, Panic (best known for writing Transmit and publishing Firewatch), has unveiled a handheld game system, Playdate, that aims to break the rules of game consoles. There's a flip-out crank that serves as an analog controller, plus a monochrome 400 x 240 LCD that takes us back to the days of Game Boy but promises a "premium" experience -- even without a backlight.

It also has a unique software strategy to match its name. Games will arrive in "seasons" of 12, released one per week, without any word of which one is next. However, one title announced is Crankin's Time Travel Adventure from Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi. The cutesy portable will ship in 2020 for $149 with the first season of games included.

Someday UPS won't be hiring.Ford wants this creepy robot to bring its autonomous deliveries to your door

Announced earlier this year but now operational, the robot folds up in the back of a self-driving vehicle, ready to unfurl itself in a Lovecraftian manner when it arrives at the delivery destination. According to the press release, "Digit not only resembles the look of a person, but walks like one, too." To complete the delivery person-less experience, the robot combines sensor data with the autonomous vehicle to spot any obstacles before completing its mission.

Wait, it costs how much?Fujifilm launches the groundbreaking 102-megapixel mirrorless GFX100

On top of its eye-popping resolution -- the highest of any mirrorless or medium-format mirrorless camera -- the GFX100 has some seriously impressive specifications. Fujifilm said it's the first medium-format camera with full-coverage phase-detect autofocus, with subject tracking and face/eye detection. Plus the sensor is backside-illuminated, there's in-body stabilization and the whole thing is weather sealed. Now all you need is $10,000 to snag one when it goes on sale June 27th.

Engadget's Guide to Parenting in the Digital AgeThe best streaming apps for kids

YouTube Kids is still YouTube. And like the main version of the site, the quality of content ranges from acceptable to stuff that's just... weird. Thankfully, Billy Steele is highlighting several alternatives to YouTube Kids -- ones that are less likely to serve your little one up some nightmare fuel.

This case could have major implications for all esports professionals.Pro 'Fortnite' player Tfue speaks out about the lawsuit over his esports contract

The dispute between Turner "Tfue" Tenney and his esports team, FaZe Clan, reached a new level Wednesday night as Tfue released a new video and demand. After filing a lawsuit claiming the team is violating California laws protecting entertainers, Tenney is now requesting that FaZe Clan #ReleaseTheContract to show the terms that his lawyers called "onerous." Team-owner Richard "FaZe" tweeted that the team would do just that, saying "I have nothing to hide and everything I've said throughout all of this is the truth."

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2019-05-23 10:30:45Z
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Amazon preparing a wearable that ‘reads human emotions,’ says report - The Verge

In a week of eyebrow-raising headlines surrounding the US-China trade spat, this latest report from Bloomberg still manages to stand out: Amazon is said to be working on a wrist-worn, voice-activated device that’s supposed to be able to read human emotions. This would be a rather novel health and wellness gadget, of the sort we’re more used to seeing feature in tenuous crowdfunding campaigns instead of from one of the world’s biggest tech companies.

Bloomberg has spoken to a source and reviewed internal Amazon documents, which reportedly show the Alexa voice software team and Amazon’s Lab126 hardware division are collaborating on the wearable in development. The wearable, working in collaboration with a smartphone app, has microphones that can “discern the wearer’s emotional state from the sound of his or her voice,” according to Bloomberg. “Eventually the technology could be able to advise the wearer how to interact more effectively with others.”

Lab126 has already been responsible for the Kindle, the Fire Phone, and the Echo speaker that first introduced Alexa to the world, and a report last year suggested the group is also developing a home robot. The unifying thread to all of Amazon’s hardware efforts right now is to build out an ecosystem of Alexa-capable devices, with the rumored robot making Alexa more mobile and the alleged emotion-sensing wearable giving the voice assistant access to a whole new dimension of user awareness.

The notion of a gadget that can sense emotions isn’t too far-fetched, as there are a number of measurable biomarkers that can suggest states like agitation. Achieving an accurate, or at least generally reliable, picture of a person’s emotional state, however, seems like a hugely ambitious undertaking. This is definitely one of those things that hasn’t yet been done because it’s very hard to do. Today’s report does conclude by saying that it’s not immediately obvious how far along Amazon’s project is or whether it’ll result in any sort of commercial product. So we should probably keep our emotions in check for now.

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2019-05-23 09:33:55Z
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Amazon Is Working on a Wearable Device That Reads Human Emotions - Bloomberg

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2019-05-23 09:15:00Z
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Fujifilm GFX100 Unveiled: It's a Game-Changing 102MP Mirrorless Camera - PetaPixel

Fujifilm has announced the new GFX100, a 102-megapixel medium format mirrorless camera that the company calls “a game changer in digital camera technology and capability.” It’s the new flagship camera of the GFX line.

At the core of the camera is a 102MP backside-illuminated CMOS sensor that has a diagonal length of 55mm, the same medium format size as the GFX 50S and GFX 50R — by comparison, 35mm full-frame sensors are about 43mm diagonally, so the 55mm features about 1.7 times the surface area.

The 102 megapixels is the highest resolution ever offered in a mirrorless camera, and the camera has a native ISO of ISO 100 and a maximum ISO of 12800 (expandable to 102400).

The GFX100 is the first digital camera with a sensor larger than full frame to offer in-body image stabilization and on-board phase detection hybrid autofocus with nearly 100% coverage.

The 5-axis in-body image stabilization (IBIS) provides up to 5.5 stops of stabilization.

The entire shutter system is suspended by four springs within the camera to reduce shutter shock.

“This dramatically broadens the scope of situations where a user can hand-hold the camera and still enjoy the world of 100MP+ ultra-high resolution, pushing the boundaries of photographic expression,” Fujifilm says.

The phase detection hybrid AF system one-ups other medium format digital cameras by using 3.76 million phase-detection pixels across almost the entire sensor, allowing photographers to focus on subjects anywhere in the frame.

“[N]ear perfect auto-focus performance with speed and accuracy is now a reality for photographers needing optimum performance in subject tracking, face/eye detection and low-contrast environments,” Fujifilm says, noting that the GFX100 autofocuses up to 210% faster than the GFX 50R’s conventional contrast AF system when using fast prime lenses.

Build-wise, the GFX100 is quite tough: featuring 95-point weather sealing, the camera is dust-resistant and weather-resistant. The magnesium alloy body is also both lightweight and durable. The camera is the first in the GFX family to feature a built-in vertical grip.

“Designed for protection, the GFX100’s core imaging unit, consisting of the lens mount, image stabilization mechanism and image sensor, has been structured completely separate from the main body panels,” Fujifilm says. “This ‘double-structure’ is designed to ensure a high level of precision and robustness while minimizing resolution degradation caused by external stress to the body.”

The top of the camera features a large info display:

On the back of the camera is a 3.2-inch 2.36-million-dot tilting touchscreen LCD.

The three-direction tilt capabilities allows the screen to work well in both orientations.

The electronic viewfinder (EVF) is interchangeable, and removing it gives the camera a smaller form factor.

A swiveling and tilting attachment for the EVF can give you more flexibility while shooting.

Despite its large sensor, the GFX100 has a body that’s comparable to flagship 35mm full-frame DSLRs on the market. It measures just 6.15×6.44×4.05 inches (15.6×16.36×10.29cm) and 1.93 inches (4.9cm) at its thinnest part. And it weighs just 3 pounds (1.36kg) with two batteries, a memory card, and an EVF. By comparison, the Canon 1D X Mark II measures 6.2×6.6×3.3 inches (15.8×16.8×8.26cm) and weighs 3.37 pounds (1.53kg).

On the video front, the GFX100 is the first mirrorless camera with a sensor of this size to provide 4K/30p video recording. It can also record in F-Log Rec 2020 and capture 4:2:2 10-bit uncompressed footage through the HDMI port.

Other features and specs of the GFX100 include dual SDXC card slots, a USB-C port, microphone and headphone jacks, a 2.5mm remote release connector, 16 Film Simulation modes, Fujifilm’s X-Processor 4 engine, 16-bit RAW photos, Fujifilm’s new “Smooth Skin Effect” function, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth wireless connectivity, and tethered support for Capture One.

Here are a few official sample photos captured with the camera (you can download the high-resolution versions here):

Here’s a 5-minute hands-on video introducing the GFX100 by Fuji Guys:

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The new Fujifilm GFX100 will be available starting on June 27th, 2019, with a price tag of $10,000.

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2019-05-23 06:10:52Z
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Rabu, 22 Mei 2019

One Of The World's Biggest Games, League Of Legends, Reportedly Headed To Mobile - GameSpot

It seems developer Riot Games is looking to bring one of the world's most popular games, the MOBA League of Legends, to the mobile market. According to a Reuters report, a mobile version of League of Legends is reportedly in development.

Both Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Riot did not provide comment on the matter, but Reuters reports that "one of the sources said Tencent and Riot have been working on a mobile version of 'League of Legends' for more than a year." A separate source, according to Reuters, says this mobile League of Legends probably won't launch this year.

Reuters cites data aggregator Statista, which states that League of Legends raked in $1.4 billion last year, a 21% decrease from the year prior but a huge sum nonetheless. Bringing League of Legends to mobile, a game with 10 years of history under its belt, would bode well for both Riot and Tencent. As Reuters puts it, "Mobile games accounted for 57% of videogame revenue in China in 2018 but only 36% in the U.S. market."

As Newzoo analyst Gu Tianyi states, "League of Legends is not doing as well as it used to and so Riot badly needs a new way to monetise the game, especially considering that it is Riot's only game."

In our Most Influential Games of the 21st Century series, we covered the impact League of Legends has had on things like the burgeoning esports industry. "From record viewership numbers on Twitch to hosting one of the biggest esports events ever at Madison Square Garden in 2016, Riot Games' prodigal son has gone from strength to strength since its launch in 2009. Blizzard and Valve, the top dogs when Riot Games entered the scene, are now playing catch-up to the well-oiled Ferrari that is the League of Legends production model, and it shows."

While there's no doubting the significance of League, developer Riot has received an increase amount of attention recently due to complaints from its employees. Most recently, more than 150 members of its staff staged a walkout to protest company policies.

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2019-05-22 19:55:00Z
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Windows Zero-Day Drops on Twitter, Developer Promises 4 More - Threatpost

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SandboxEscaper has released her latest local privilege-escalation exploit for Windows.

A Windows zero-day exploit dropped by developer SandboxEscaper would allow local privilege-escalation (LPE), by importing legacy tasks from other systems into the Task Scheduler utility.

It’s the latest zero-day from SandboxEscaper, who said that she has four more in the hopper that she’d like to sell for $60,000 to non-Western buyers.

Mitja Kolsek, co-founder of 0patch and CEO of Arcos Security, told Threatpost that the bug is a typical LPE flaw, allowing a low-privileged user on the computer to arbitrarily modify any file, including system executables.

“Since these are executed in high-privileged context, the attacker’s code can get executed and, for instance, promote the attacker to local administrator or obtain covert persistence on the computer,” said Kolsek, adding that 0patch is working on releasing a micropatch for the vulnerability as soon as possible. “The only atypical factor is that the attacker must know a valid username and password on the computer because these must be passed to Task Scheduler in order for the exploit to work.”

He added, “This means, for example, that a local corporate user without administrative privileges on their workstation could easily mount such attack, and so would an external attacker who gained remote access to some computer in the network and found or guessed any Windows domain user’s credentials.”

Abusing Legacy Tasks

The exploit, disclosed on Twitter on Tuesday, takes advantage of the fact that old Windows XP tasks in the .JOB format can be imported to Windows 10 via the Task Scheduler. An adversary can run a command using executables ‘schtasks.exe’ and ‘schedsvc.dll’ copied from the old system. This results in a call to a remote procedure call (RPC) called “SchRpcRegisterTask,” which is exposed by the Task Scheduler service.

When a specific function is encountered, called “\par int __stdcall tsched::SetJobFileSecurityByName(LPCWSTR StringSecurityDescriptor, const unsigned __int16 *, int, const unsigned __int16 *)\par”, it opens the door to gaining system privileges.

“I assume that to trigger this bug you can just call into this function directly without using that schtasks.exe copied from Windows XP,” SandboxEscaper added in her Tuesday writeup. “but I am not great at reversing :(.”

Other researchers have tested the exploit and found it to be valid.

“I can confirm that this works as-is on a fully patched (May 2019) Windows 10 x86 system,” tweeted Will Dormann, a vulnerability analyst at CERT/CC. “A file that is formerly under full control by only SYSTEM and TrustedInstaller is now under full control by a limited Windows user. Works quickly, and 100% of the time in my testing.”

He said it works against a fully patched and up-to-date version of Windows 10, 32 and 64-bit, as well as Windows Server 2016 and 2019. Windows 8 and 7 are not vulnerable, he noted.

Microsoft, for its part, has yet to release an advisory or statement on the bug, which doesn’t yet have a CVE.

More Zero-Days on the Horizon?

SandboxEscaper also announced on her blog that she’s sitting on three other LPE vulnerabilities and another, fittingly, for escaping the Windows sandbox.

“If any non-western people want to buy LPEs, let me know,” she wrote. “(Windows LPE only, not doing any other research nor interested in doing so). Won’t sell for less then 60k for an LPE. I don’t owe society a single thing. Just want to get rich and give you *** in the west the middlefinger.”

SandboxEscaper has a history of releasing fully functional Windows zero-days. Last August, she debuted another Task Scheduler flaw on Twitter, which was quickly exploited in the wild in a spy campaign just two days after disclosure.

In October, SandboxEscaper released an exploit for what was dubbed the “Deletebug” flaw, found in Microsoft’s Data Sharing Service (dssvc.dll). And towards the end of 2018 she offered up two more: The “angrypolarberbug,” which allows a local unprivileged process to overwrite any chosen file on the system; and a vulnerability allows an unprivileged process running on a Windows computer to obtain the content of arbitrary file – even if permissions on such file don’t allow it read access.

“I believe her claim about four more vulnerabilities as she has demonstrated her abilities to find them in the past,” Kolsek told Threatpost.

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2019-05-22 14:56:00Z
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How to get the Windows 10 May 2019 Update right now - The Verge

Microsoft’s Windows 10 May 2019 Update is available this week and ready to download. After an extended month of testing, Microsoft is making its latest Windows 10 update available for anyone to install. The Windows 10 May 2019 Update includes a new light theme, a Windows Sandbox feature, and even kaomoji like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and quicker access to symbols. You can find our 10 favorite new Windows 10 May 2019 Update features right here.

Like previous updates, Microsoft is rolling this one out in stages, and you might not see it instantly on your machine. You can check Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update to see if the update is listed. If it’s not listed, there is another way to force your PC to get the latest update.

Download the Update Assistant from Microsoft’s website
Launch the Windows10Upgrade9252.exe file
Click “Update Now”
If your device is compatible with the Windows 10 May 2019 update, the next button will let you start the upgrade

If you want to get an ISO and wipe your machine, you can simply download the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft’s website and create a bootable USB key to clean install the latest Windows 10 May 2019 Update.

Microsoft is also blocking machines with older versions of the BattlEye anti-cheat software installed. This seems to be a fairly widespread block right now. If you hit an error saying you can’t upgrade, it’s worth checking to see if you have any games that haven’t been updated recently. Alternatively, you can also uninstall BattlEye (removal .exe tool) and then reopen your game to get the latest version.

Also, make sure you don’t have any USB storage devices like an external USB device or SD memory card attached during the installation of the May 2019 Update, as there’s an unusual block in this update. If you’re still stuck, head over to Microsoft’s new Windows release health dashboard that lists known issues and offers up a status on the rollout of the Windows 10 May 2019 Update.

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2019-05-22 13:29:51Z
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