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Richard Lawler

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    Forza Motorsport’s 2.0 patch will fix this antigravity replay bug next week.

    The launch of Xbox’s new flagship gaming series has had a few bugs, and in the Forza Monthly live stream, they announced that patch 2.0 is coming on November 14th, adding Yas Marina as a new track, new cars, and fixing over 200 bugs.

    That includes the one shown here where replays of multiplayer races send cars floating skyward or through the ground into space. A slide with more of the incoming fixes is included in the gallery below, and the Forza website also has more details.

    Animated GIFs of race cars in Forza Motorsport descending through the track into oblivion due to a bug in the game.
    Animated GIFs of race cars in Forza Motorsport descending through the track into oblivion due to a bug in the game.
    Animated GIFs of race cars in Forza Motorsport descending through the track into oblivion due to a bug in the game.
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    For the 5th night in a row, a Bally Sports outage has cut off many NBA and NHL fans.

    Every night there have been games to watch this week there’s been a Bally Sports outage, and Friday night is no different.

    The NBA is kicking off its new in-season tournament tonight, so fans of teams playing their first games like the Cleveland Cavaliers, Indiana Pacers, and Milwaukee Bucks fans have been among those reporting problems with the app. One difference from the last four nights is that Bally’s support account now says the company is “actively” issuing credits.

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    Richard Lawler
    Mark Zuckerberg is not fighting anyone any time soon.

    Meta’s CEO posted this picture to Instagram Friday night, saying, “Tore my ACL sparring and just got out of surgery.”

    He was apparently training for his next competitive MMA match. Recovery from this type of injury takes up to a year for professional athletes, so an executive closing in on 40 could be out of action for a while. On the plus side, maybe this will keep Elon Musk from randomly threatening to show up at Zuckerberg’s house for a brawl.

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    ‘OpenSea 2.0’ starts with mass layoffs as the NFT balloon deflates.

    CEO Devin Finzer says OpenSea is “shifting to a smaller team with a direct connection to users.” Decrypt reports about 50 percent of employees are impacted. When it laid off 20 percent of its employees last year, around 230 people remained.

    This chart shows OpenSea activity peaked with over 50,000 active wallets (around the time it was valued at $13 billion) and $140 million in daily volume, which has dropped to fewer than 8,000 active wallets and $2.3 million in volume.

    A line graph from the site DappRadar showing how the active wallets, volume, and transactions on OpenSea peaked at the end of 2021 and have shrunk to almost nothing now in comparison.
    Data on OpenSea active wallets, volume, and transactions since January 2021.
    Image: DappRadar
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    Richard Lawler
    The jury in the Sam Bankman-Fried / FTX fraud trial has reached a verdict.

    The jury only started deliberating a few hours ago, but after all of the testimony and evidence, they notified court officials they reached a verdict, as former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried faces seven charges, including wire fraud. We’ll have their decision here as soon as it is available.

    According to a report from CNBC, the media will see it in about 10 minutes.

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    ESPN Bet’s big launch happens in two weeks.

    In early 2022, Bob Chapek was Disney’s CEO, and it was “placing its bets on sports streaming and the metaverse.” Those metaverse plans evaporated, Chapek lost a petty war with Bob Iger, and ESPN is up for sale despite still making tons of money.

    But the gambling thing — that’s still happening. The more than $1.5 billion licensing deal that will replace Barstool branding on a sportsbook and bring more gambling content to the network launches in force on November 14th.

    Subject to final approvals, ESPN BET will go live in 17 states, which include: Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

    Additionally, ESPN is now using official odds provided by ESPN BET across editorial and other content.

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    Welcome back to the future of sports broadcasting, again.

    For the second time in the last three nights, many NHL and NBA fans can’t stream their local teams due to a major outage at Bally Sports. It blamed Monday night’s issues on Okta’s Auth0, so I wonder what tonight’s excuse is for why I’m missing a second straight Pistons game.

    Making things even better, regional blackouts mean that despite the existence of NBA League Pass, there’s no legitimate option available for the people who are most likely to be interested.

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    Inside Huawei’s ‘European-inspired’ HQ.

    It opened a few years ago, but this post by a travel vlogger put the “mini Europe” project back on my radar. Housing the Huawei R&D department (which is probably where it designs new chips) and reportedly costing over $1.5 billion to build, it has replicas of 12 European cities, including Gothenburg and Prague.

    However, despite the travel reels from invited and/or sponsored visitors circulating on social platforms, you won’t just casually access the Huawei Dongguan Campus in Shenzhen — it’s only for “Huawei employees, family, and clients.”

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    Gran Turismo 7’s big Spec II update launches tonight.

    Expect a new progression dashboard, new cars, and new tracks, as well as some PS5-only tweaks like 4-player split screen and the Sophy AI driver agent.

    Sophy has been touted as a scientific breakthrough made with reinforcement training to master both superhuman lap times and racing etiquette (unlike the people you race online in GT and Forza). Now, Sophy 2.0 can drive 340 cars (up from four in its previous iteration) on nine tracks. However, GTPlanet notes it’s unclear how many instances of Sophy can take the track at once.