Month: August 2022
This Is What An NFT Consultant Does All Day
Welcome to Crypto Diaries, a new series on BuzzFeed News that helps us understand what the future of Web3 might look like — by showing what the heck people who are already living there do all day. We’ve asked crypto evangelists, NFT collectors, metaverse mavens, and decentralized diehards to keep…
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GitLab won’t delete your old, unloved projects after all
Audio player loading… Following some severe backlash from developers, GitLab has axed plans to delete free users’ dormant projects after a year automatically. Anonymous sources told The Register (opens in new tab) the plan was originally set to come into play in September 2022, with GitLab claiming the move would…
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Mario Kart 8’s new DLC tracks are more (or less) of a good thing
Nintendo is now a third of the way through its ambitious DLC plans for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the ultra-popular kart racer that was released for the then-new Nintendo Switch over five years ago. Back in March, it announced it would be releasing a total of 48 new tracks for…
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Serious bug in US Emergency Alert System could be abused to create mass panic
Audio player loading… A bug in the US Emergency Alert System (EAS), a tool used to deliver urgent alerts to the general public, could be abused by threat actors to send out fake alerts, possibly creating mass panic. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently confirmed these findings in an…
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The iPhone’s Focus mode (almost) kept me off my phone on vacation
Two Fridays ago, just before I left for a week-long vacation to Florida, I went through my pretrip digital routine. I set my Slack status to “Vacationing” with a palm tree emoji and paused notifications until further notice. I turned on Gmail’s auto-responder. I deleted a bunch of apps from…
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Watch Master Chief unleash hell on Doom Guy in God of War
Audio player loading… Master Chief crosses the forbidden boundary to hop over to the PlayStation universe and step into the slightly smelly shoes of Kratos. Since God of War landed on PC, it’s been subject to the same hazing as all console titles that make the jump to the platform.…
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