Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements

Microsoft has added a code that will warn you if your PC does not meet the hardware requirements. The warning will be displayed as a watermark so you know that you cannot use certain AI-powered built-in apps because of an unsupported CPU.

While initially, only PopCnt seemed to be a necessity, it looks like mandatory SSE4.2 requirement is also being added to the underlying code, and unsupported old CPUs that do not pack these instructions will no longer be able to boot into Windows 11 24H2.

🔗 Tom's Hardware

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Is Telegram's DC5 down again? Hell yeah, it is.

Edit (2:05 PM - GMT +05:30):
• It went down at approximately 1:36 PM
• It's now up at 2:05 PM

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Wondering which data centers (DC) are associated with which countries? Here's a list with the corresponding country codes:

• DC1
• DC2
• DC3
• DC4
• DC5

ℹ️ Credits: OctoGram - DC Status

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Want to check your typing speed? Here's how you can do it:

You can use a website like https://monkeytype.com or https://typeracer.com to check your typing speed. They will give you random words or sentences to type.

After the test finishes, they will tell you your typing speed, also known as WPM or Words Per Minute, with accuracy and more data.

Here's mine, check your typing speed with MonkeyType and send it in the comments!

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YouTube Now Wants to Show You Ads When You Pause Videos

These ads will show up when you pause an ongoing video you watched. The ads will take up the screen while the video you were watching is paused. The video will be shrunk down and ads will fill up the player. You will need to dismiss the pause ad to resume watching the video.

Pause ads on smart TVs were already under pilot testing, as announced in YouTube’s Brandcast event last year. Google’s Vice President Philipp Schindler shared the results of this experimental test during Alphabet’s first quarter earnings call. According to him,

"Initial results show that Pause Ads are driving strong brand lift results and are commanding attention."

🔗 Beebom

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iPads join iPhones in requirement to follow strict EU rules

iPadOS will now have to comply with the rules that allow users in Europe to download apps from outside the Apple App Store, uninstall apps preloaded on iPads, and select default services like browsers from choice screens.

The Commission's investigation found that Apple presents the features of a gatekeeper in relation to iPadOS, as among others:

• Apple's business user numbers exceeded the quantitative threshold elevenfold, while its end user numbers were close to the threshold and are predicted to rise in the near future.

• End users are locked-in to iPadOS. Apple leverages its large ecosystem to disincentivise end users from switching to other operating systems for tablets.

• Business users are locked-in to iPadOS because of its large and commercially attractive user base, and its importance for certain use cases, such as gaming apps.

Apple has now six months to ensure full compliance with the DMA obligations as applied to iPadOS.

🔗 EU's website
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Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement, "run0"

With systemd v256 we are going one step towards this. There’s a new tool in systemd, called "run0". Or actually, it’s not a new tool, it’s actually the long-existing tool “systemd-run”, but when invoked under the "run0" name (via a symlink) it behaves a lot like a sudo clone. But with one key difference: it’s not in fact SUID. Instead it just asks the service manager to invoke a command or shell under the target user’s UID. It allocates a new PTY for that, and then shovels data back and forth from the originating TTY and this PTY.

Lennart Poettering also talks about the weaknesses of sudo, and how it has a large possible attack surface (SUID Binary, network access, LDAP configurations, and other types of plugins). A better privilege escalation system should be in place for 2024 security standards.

Also, Lennart has mentioned that it will tint your terminal background in a reddish tone while you are operating with elevated privileges. It will also insert a red dot in the window title while you operate with privileges.

🔗 FOSS Outpost | Mastodon
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Telecom industry seeks ban on sale of WiFi 6E routers in India

The COAI, whose members include Reliance Jio, Airtel, and Vodafone Idea, in a letter to the Department of Telecom on April 15 said the sale of equipment for 6 GHz band utilisation, which has not yet been assigned for this purpose or has not been declared as licence-exempt by the government, is illegal and should be banned immediately in the country.

The COAI Director General SP Kochhar said that using such WiFi devices operating in the 6 GHz band will render customers responsible for these unauthorized transmissions, placing the burden of liability on consumers and shifting the onus of responsibility for such unauthorized transmissions from the real offenders to the consumers.

🔗 The Economic Times
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TikTok and Universal Music Group end feud with new agreement

Universal Music Group has inked a “multi-dimensional” deal with TikTok that will see its artists return to the platform’s one billion-plus users. UMG began pulling its music from TikTok on February 1st after the old contract expired.

Notably, the deal will address concerns that UMG and its artists have with generative AI.

TikTok and UMG will work together to ensure AI development across the music industry will protect human artistry and the economics that flow to those artists and songwriters. TikTok is also committed to working with UMG to remove unauthorized AI-generated music from the platform, as well as tools to improve artist and songwriter attribution.

🔗 TheVerge
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Over 8,500 Yuzu Forks have been hit by DMCA Takedown notices

DMCA takedown notices have targeted over 8,500 forks of the Yuzu codebase, for example: Provenance emulator for iOS and tvOS, and more of them. Yuzu mirror has been taken down as well. The exact reason for this is not known.

📹 MattsCreative
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