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    Report: Oculus Touch controllers cost £190 in the UK

    But do the controllers come with a second positional tracker? That'd be the real killer feature, especially at a $200 price point.
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    Stealing login credentials from a locked PC or Mac just got easier

    If he's got 2 minutes of access, he'd be better off with a flush-fit USB keylogger to snarf the password when entered. Stealing a hashed password does not amount to pilfered creds. Good god, this can be done over WiFi without physical access for anything using LDAP. Not that I wouldn't like...
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    98 million passwords from 2012 breach of “Russia’s Yahoo” Rambler.ru leaked

    Beat them back. This isn't a literary quote; it's a string literal. They shouldn't be treated as equivalent.
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    Lenovo’s new Yoga Book is a 360 degree laptop without the keyboard

    Should have made both sides a screen, or put a digitizer in both sides... Seriously missed opportunity to compete with the Surface and Cintiq lines, here. As-is, it may be nice. Depends on how well it keeps up with the digitizer. But OneNote and good drawing are much improved by being able to...
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    Battlefield One’s open beta: PC vs. consoles, tanks vs. horses

    4, I thoguht? Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought it debuted in 4, and I *hate* it.
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    Battlefield One’s open beta: PC vs. consoles, tanks vs. horses

    But are you stuck with bolt-actions, are does every WWI soldier magically get a 1950s automatic? That's the important question to be answering in this review.
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    Augmenting the FPS: How well does Tobii track your gaze in a video game?

    I bought two of these after realizing they were a competitively priced camera that was compatible with Windows Hello! It's worth noting it requires a decent USB3 controller to prevent crapping all over your framerate. I've toyed around with them in Elite: Dangerous, as well. With Tobii's...
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    Needy robot babies are annoying and creepy, but ineffective birth control

    I'm finding that this depends entirely on whether they coo or cry next.
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    Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open

    Minor clarification: this was in LONG before the anniversary update. Build 1511 was Threshold 2, the November 12, 2015 update. I do agree that it was a bit crappy of them to rip out the diffusor without also delivering XTS the same day... Should have at least left the option. It just wasn't...
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    Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open

    You do not need to decrypt a bitlocker-secured system in order to change the key. Decrypt/re-encrypt doesn't require any less trust that MS does what they say (not backdooring your system) than trusting that they throw away a key when you run managebde -protectors -delete. Actually... You...
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    Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open

    Is it even fair to call it "by default"? It prompts you, "Where would you like to back up you recovery keys?". Onedrive is an option. You still have to click the bloody option. I clicked "FILE" instead, and secured a copy myself... nothing went to Onedrive. Even on pre-encrypted devices, it's...
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    Copperhead OS: The startup that wants to solve Android’s woeful security

    > But a majority of Copperhead's security enhancements are not likely ever to reach beyond the its small but growing user base, because of performance trade-offs or compatibility issues. > ... this goal [PaX and Grsecurity ports] has been stymied by hardware woes—some of which not even Google...
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    Here’s every opinion you’ll ever need about Pokémon GO’s success

    I'd happily drop $50 on the ability to trade and battle friends in this game. Just sayin'.
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    Here’s every opinion you’ll ever need about Pokémon GO’s success

    Three words: nerds, outside, WALKING Expanding on that a bit... packs of us. Walking outside. Together. Talking to and meeting other people. In the sunlight. Maybe I'm being a bit stereotypical (I mean, I camp, so it's not like I'm opposed to being outdoors), but we organized a group of 5 of...
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    Armed muggers use Pokémon Go to find victims

    Got brake checked yesterday morning driving on a main thoroughfare. Down to one line for construction. SUV literally STOPPED in traffic. Wife confirmed, in range of a Pokéstop. Never felt so justified laying on the horn. As my wife tagged the stop for both of us, and caught me an N-th Weedle...
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    Stocks surge for makers of guns, body cams in aftermath of cop killings

    Philosophies will differ on this sort of thing. I don't personally see it as a condemnation of my society (as a whole) to carry a weapon. I'm a CCW holder. I carry anywhere that I'm allowed. Statistically, I fully understand that I'm very unlikely to ever need to be armed. That is comforting...
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    Goodbye apt and yum? Ubuntu’s snap apps are coming to distros everywhere

    Holy cow, did Linux just finally catch up to Windows 95?? Okay, slightly unfair. This is using containers, instead of dropping the requisite library in the application directory, and having rules for checking the app directory prior to checking for a system-wide install of the requisite...
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    Microsoft sues US government over secret requests for customer data

    All comments below apply specifically to the US. YMMV elsewhere. The government wasn't put in place to defend your data. They were put in place to mitigate external military invasion. They're actually pretty good at that. The Bill of Rights was created to mitigate the fact that governments, by...
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    The Ars VR headset showdown—Oculus Rift vs. HTC Vive

    Well, this article pretty much sold me on the Rift. Gimicky software I don't use is cool, but my main use case is sim games anyway. Don't need hand-tracking for joysticks, and comfort for long sessions is of primary concern.
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    Three laws could cut US gun deaths by 90%, study says

    I'll agree, if you'll agree that passing the same law for all computing services, loosely defined as: * Computing devices you own * Accounts registered to your name (all accounts will be required registered to a citizen or legal alien resident, and will pass an FBI background check) * Your...