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Vatican scrambles to patch ‘phishing goldmine’ app promoted by the Pope: ‘Prayer infrastructure on the framework you learn in week 2 of a Node.js bootcamp’

On January 20, 2019, Pope Francis delivered his weekly Angelus to St Peter’s Square from a window in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace. In it, he enjoined the faithful to join him on the Church’s then-new Click To Pray app—helpfully modelled by a nearby priest, wielding a tablet. Hundreds of thousands of people signed up in…

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‘Easily the dumbest thing I’ve ever built’: Guy puts spikes and taser on Steam Deck to stop family from using it

Have you ever been sick of your family using your electronics without asking, and thought ‘boy, I should put spikes and a taser on this thing’? If the answer is yes, then you’re like Redditor ConroyyJenkinss (presumably no relation to Leroy), who has done just that. Taking to the Steam Deck subreddit, they recently announced…

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Micron’s low power DRAM ‘consumes approximately one-third the power of DDR5’ in AI data center workloads, but I’m not sure that’s good news

AI’s hunger for both power and memory, plus the resulting supply crisis of the latter, has led to many industry players engaging in a spot of creative problem solving. Case in point, Micron and Meta have collaborated on an experimental data centre roll out of low power DRAM. Micron has developed SOCAMM2, a fresh form…

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“We’d Probably Have To Release Them In 4 Or 5 Instalments” – Final Fantasy XIV’s Director On Why More Remakes Haven’t Materialised

“Look at Final Fantasy VI; it’s such an incredibly huge game.”. The Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida suggested that if remakes of Final Fantasy VI, VIII, and IX were to happen, they would potentially be a much larger undertaking than the current Final Fantasy VII Remake Trilogy, requiring four or five instalments (h/t: Genki/VGC)….

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