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Just weeks after the NYT profiled Blake Benthall about his Silk Road 2.0 role and post-prison endeavors, 404 Media has identified a co-founder, Thomas White, as its “Dread Pirate Roberts 2.0.”

The incredibly online Harris-Walz campaign cited Dril’s “im not mad. please dont that I got mad” tweet (which is somehow not among the dozens of their posts saved in our preservation effort) in a campaign press release sent to reporters.

With Simultaneous Opposing Cardinal Directions (SOCD) features like Wooting and Razer’s new Rappy Snappy / Snap Tap enabled, FPS players don’t have to let go of one key to press another, enabling near-instant changes of direction. Some players have called it “basically cheating.”

BleepingComputer points out the notes for this month’s Android security patch, with fixes for flaws that could allow someone to take over your device. The 2024-08-05 patch level specifically addresses a kernel flaw tagged CVE-2024-36971 which “may be under limited, targeted exploitation” already, so be sure to update your devices ASAP.

As we started testing Windows 11 on Arm with new Copilot Plus PCs, we noticed issues with the performance of Adobe Premiere Pro. Adobe blocked the x86 software from Snapdragon X Elite laptops before their public launch, but now Windows Central says it’s available under emulation, and is “good enough for a basic video project,” while a planned Arm-native version is still in development.

404 Media reports, with screenshots of Slack conversations and excerpts from emails, on a massive undertaking by Nvidia to scrape online videos for AI training that appears to go well beyond research.

Gershkovich, who had been sentenced to 16 years in prison, was released Thursday along with Paul Whelan, Alsu Kurmasheva, Vladimir Kara-Murza, and twelve others.

There were reportedly only 150 pairs made and distributed in 2006 / 2009, but NiceKicks and SneakerNews report the PlayStation x Nike Air Force 1 Low will be re-released next year, according to unnamed sources.