Games: Now with more Sketchy Ads! - July 13, 2022

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NEWS SOURCES:

 

UNITED WE AD

Unity merges with IronSource

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-07-13-ironsource-to-merge-with-unity

https://twitter.com/unity/status/1547170536303857670

Right after layoffs https://kotaku.com/unity-ironsource-merger-ad-tech-layoffs-1849173304

To help monetization https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/unity-is-merging-with-ironsource-to-help-devs-with-monetization

Buuuut malware? https://twitter.com/sh4na/status/1547220546458361859

https://www.benedelman.org/news-021815/

https://blog.infostruction.com/2018/10/26/adware-empire-ironsource-and-installcore/

https://twitter.com/NoelFB/status/1547274382770221056

https://twitter.com/AmazingThew/status/1547288124824424448

 

BETTER THAN NOTHING

Nothing Phone

Event in a café https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3IRYTRlIFI

Hype video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWV2XjoRKhk

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/the-nothing-phone-1-hands-on-is-it-good-how-much-does-it-cost-and-can-i-buy-it/

399 or 624 CAD https://mobilesyrup.com/2022/07/12/nothing-phone-1-specs-features-camera-overview/

 

COPY RIGHTS

Internet Archive lawsuit

https://www.popsci.com/technology/internet-archive-lawsuit/

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/internet-archive-lawsuit/

Digital lending https://twitter.com/BilliardLentil/status/1547185182293327873

Pandemic use https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1547257745589407746

EFF helping https://www.eff.org/press/releases/internet-archive-seeks-summary-judgment-federal-lawsuit-filed-publishing-companies

https://www.shacknews.com/article/131326/internet-archive-lawsuit

 

QUICK BITS

 

HACKERS? LET ME SOLO THEM

Bandai Namco confirms hack

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/bandai-namco-has-been-hacked/

https://www.polygon.com/23206967/bandai-namco-hack-ransomware

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/elden-ring-game-maker-bandai-131620649.html

 

SUPER-SPECTRE

New speculative execution attack exploits mitigation for speculative execution attacks

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/07/intel-and-amd-cpus-vulnerable-to-a-new-speculative-execution-attack/

https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/retbleed/

https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7625886

patches could come with overhead https://www.ghacks.net/2022/07/13/patches-for-new-retbleed-amd-and-intel-microprocessor-vulnerability-may-have-significant-overhead/

 

DIAMOND RANK IN JOURNALISM

Gamers Nexus made a 30 minute documentary on Artesian Builds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2xMi7inB28

 

SUB-OPTIMAL

Optimum outage cuts off internet to 13,000 New Jerseyans

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/13/23207421/optimum-outage-new-jersey-parsippany-troy-hills-boonton

reason https://twitter.com/kisthak7/status/1547290184894582784

replies https://twitter.com/optimum/with_replies

 

DODOOMOM

Running Doom… in Doom

https://www.pcgamer.com/doom-hacker-gets-doom-running-in-doom

https://youtu.be/c6hnQ1RKhbo?t=539