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Genshin Impact’s developer to pay $20 million fine to settle FTC charges
The Federal Trade Commission announced on Friday that Genshin Impact developer Cognosphere has agreed to a $20 million settlement and several restrictions on how it sells its loot boxes and manages children’s personal data. According to the FTC, the company “actively marketed” its loot boxes to children and misled players about their odds of winning prizes. Cognosphere allegedly also “deceived…
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WordPress developer hours cutback may or may not slow innovation – Computerworld
“Automatticians who contributed to core will instead focus on for-profit projects within Automattic, such as WordPress.com, Pressable, WPVIP, Jetpack, and WooCommerce,” the statement said. “As part of this reset, Automattic will match its volunteering pledge to those made by WP Engine and other players in the ecosystem, or about 45 hours a week that qualify under the Five For the…
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AI coding tools aren’t the solution to the unfolding ‘developer crisis’ – teams think they can boost productivity and delivery times, but end up bogged down by manual remediation and unsafe code
Despite its efficiency benefits, AI code generation and similar solutions may not be the panacea to the ongoing ‘developer crisis’, new research warns. AI code generation tools may have helped increase velocity, but deployment errors mean devs are becoming increasingly bogged down in manual tasks remediating the systems’ various failings. A new report from Harness interviewed 500 engineering leaders and…
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LockBit developer snared in latest blow for infamous hacker group
A ‘key member’ of the LockBit ransomware collective has been charged by US authorities in the latest development of its ongoing quest to shutter the operation. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) issued a notice on 20 December that Rostislav Panev, a dual Israeli-Russian national, was arrested in Israel and pending extradition for being linked to the infamous hacker group.…
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NVIDIA Releases New Mini Developer Kit for Generative AI
NVIDIA has introduced a new at-home supercomputer just in time for the holidays. The tech giant unveiled its new Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, a powerful new platform that delivers generative AI 70% faster than its predecessor. The compact supercomputer offers cutting-edge features and enhanced computing power for developers and hobbyists looking to train and refine generative AI tools,…
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Cloudflare’s developer domains increasingly abused by threat actors
Cloudflare’s ‘pages.dev’ and ‘workers.dev’ domains, used for deploying web pages and facilitating serverless computing, are being increasingly abused by cybercriminals for phishing and other malicious activities. According to cybersecurity firm Fortra, the abuse of these domains has risen between 100% and 250% compared to 2023. The researchers believe the use of these domains is aimed at improving the legitimacy and effectiveness…
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Android 16’s First Developer Preview Is Here Early
If you’re an Android fan, you might be used to the typical rollout for Android developer previews: Google usually drops the first preview in February, so the fact that the company seeded Android 16’s first developer preview in November—three months ahead of schedule—is quite surprising. It’s a good thing, but not just because interested parties can try out Android 16…
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iOS 18.2 developer beta is live with Visual Intelligence, Image Playground and ChatGPT — all the new AI features for your iPhone
When Apple launched the new iPhone 16 lineup, they also hyped up the new Apple Intelligence features that were revealed during WWDC 2024. However, a number of those features were not going to be available out of the box and Apple confirmed that Apple Intelligence would be rolling out in stages. With iOS 18.1, Apple added a few AI features…
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Pokémon developer faces major data leak
October 10, 2024 Game Freak Inc. Notice and apology regarding the leak of personal information due to unauthorized access Game Freak Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Satoshi Tajiri, hereinafter referred to as “the Company”) has discovered that the personal information of our employees and others was leaked in connection with unauthorized access to our server by a third party in…
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AWS CEO Matt Garman thinks AI coding tools could herald the end of the developer as we know it – but there’s light on the horizon for worried devs
Software development will fundamentally change in the next few years, according to Matt Garman, AWS’ new chief executive, who argued that the rapidly maturing AI programming ecosystem could mean “most developers are not coding” within two years. Leaked audio obtained by Business Insider revealed Garman told AWS employees that coding was not the be-all and end-all of a software developer’s…
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