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New Debian Developers and Maintainers (January and February 2024)

Bits from Debian - Sht, 23/03/2024 - 4:00md

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:

  • Carles Pina i Estany (cpina)
  • Dave Hibberd (hibby)
  • Soren Stoutner (soren)
  • Daniel Gröber (dxld)
  • Jeremy Sowden (azazel)
  • Ricardo Ribalda Delgado (ribalda)

The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:

  • Joachim Bauch
  • Ananthu C V
  • Francesco Ballarin
  • Yogeswaran Umasankar
  • Kienan Stewart

Congratulations!

Microsoft Confirms Windows Server Security Update Caused Memory Leak, 'Unscheduled' Reboots

Slashdot - Sht, 23/03/2024 - 3:34md
"Microsoft confirmed that a memory leak introduced with the March 2024 Windows Server security updates is behind a widespread issue causing Windows domain controllers to crash," BleepingComputer reported Thursday. Friday Microsoft wrote that the issue "was resolved in the out-of-band update KB5037422," only available via the Microsoft Update Catalog. (The update "is not available from Windows Update and will not install automatically.") BleepingComputer reported the leak only affected "enterprise systems using the impacted Windows Server platform," and home users were not affected. But Microsoft confirmed it impacted all domain controller servers with the latest Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, and 2022 updates: As BleepingComputer first reported on Wednesday and as many admins have warned over the last week, affected servers are freezing and restarting unexpectedly due to a Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) process memory leak introduced with this month's cumulative updates. "Since installation of the March updates (Exchange as well as regular Windows Server updates) most of our DCs show constantly increasing lsass memory usage (until they die)," one admin said. "Our symptoms were ballooning memory usage on the lsass.exe process after installing KB5035855 (Server 2016) and KB5035857 (Server 2022) to the point that all physical and virtual memory was consumed and the machine hung," another Windows admin told BleepingComputer. The leak "is observed when on-premises and cloud-based Active Directory Domain Controllers service Kerberos authentication requests," Microsoft wrote. "Extreme memory leaks may cause LSASS to crash, which triggers an unscheduled reboot of underlying domain controllers..." "We strongly recommend you do not apply the March 2024 security update on DCs and install KB5037422 instead..."

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Trump's Truth Social Is Going Public

Slashdot - Sht, 23/03/2024 - 2:00md
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Former president Donald Trump'sTruth Social, a shameless Twitter clone, is set to become a publicly traded company as soon as next week. Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp. voted on Friday to merge with Trump Media and Technology Group, the company behind Truth Social. The vote is a culmination of a years-long saga attempting to merge Trump Media with a publicly traded company in what's known as a SPAC deal. The company will trade under the ticker DJT once it goes public. [...] Truth Social looks nearly identical to Twitter, with some key distinctions. Instead of "tweeting," users post a "truth." A "retweet" is called a "retruth." Unlike many right-wing Twitter clones, the site functions well, has remained mostly online, and actually appears to have a somewhat active user base. But since launching in February 2022, after Trump was kicked off of mainstream platforms for inciting violence during the January 6 riot at the Capitol, the company has been mired in controversy.

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Truck-To-Truck Worm Could Infect Entire US Fleet

Slashdot - Sht, 23/03/2024 - 11:00pd
Jessica Lyons reports via The Register: Vulnerabilities in common Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) required in US commercial trucks could be present in over 14 million medium- and heavy-duty rigs, according to boffins at Colorado State University. In a paper presented at the 2024 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, associate professor Jeremy Daily and systems engineering graduate students Jake Jepson and Rik Chatterjee demonstrated how ELDs can be accessed over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connections to take control of a truck, manipulate data, and spread malware between vehicles. "These findings highlight an urgent need to improve the security posture in ELD systems," the trio wrote [PDF]. The authors did not specify brands or models of ELDs that are vulnerable to the security flaws they highlight in the paper. But they do note there's not too much diversity of products on the market. While there are some 880 devices registered, "only a few tens of distinct ELD models" have hit the road in commercial trucks. A federal mandate requires most heavy-duty trucks to be equipped with ELDs, which track driving hours. These systems also log data on engine operation, vehicle movement and distances driven -- but they aren't required to have tested safety controls built in. And according to the researchers, they can be wirelessly manipulated by another car on the road to, for example, force a truck to pull over. The academics pointed out three vulnerabilities in ELDs. They used bench level testing systems for the demo, as well as additional testing on a moving 2014 Kenworth T270 Class 6 research truck equipped with a vulnerable ELD. [...] For one of the attacks, the boffins showed how anyone within wireless range could use the device's Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios to send an arbitrary CAN message that could disrupt of some of the vehicle's systems. A second attack scenario, which also required the attacker to be within wireless range, involved connecting to the device and uploading malicious firmware to manipulate data and vehicle operations. Finally, in what the authors described as the "most concerning" scenario, they uploaded a truck-to-truck worm. The worm uses the compromised device's Wi-Fi capabilities to search for other vulnerable ELDs nearby. After finding the right ELDs, the worm uses default credentials to establish a connection, drops its malicious code on the next ELD, overwrites existing firmware, and then starts the process over again, scanning for additional devices. "Such an attack could lead to widespread disruptions in commercial fleets, with severe safety and operational implications," the researchers warned.

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Tobias Bernard: Mini GUADEC 2024: We have a Venue!

Planet GNOME - Pre, 22/03/2024 - 7:51md

We’ve had a lot of questions from people planning to attend this year’s edition of the Berlin Mini GUADEC from outside Berlin about where it’s going to happen, so they can book accommodation nearby. We have two good news on that front: First, we have secured (pending a few last organizational details) a very cool venue, and second: The venue has a hostel next to it, so there’s the possibility to stay very close by for cheap :)

Come join us at Regenbogenfabrik

The event will happen at Regenbogenfabrik in Kreuzberg (Lausitzerstraße 21a). The venue is a self-organized cultural center with a fascinating history, and consists of, in addition to the event space, a hostel, bike repair and woodworking workshops, and a kindergarten (lucky for us closed during the GUADEC days).

The courtyard at Regenbogenfabrik

Some of the perks of this venue:

  • Centrally located (a few blocks from Kottbusser Tor)
  • We can stay as late as we want (no being kicked out at 6pm!)
  • Plenty of space for hacking
  • Lots of restaurants, bars, and cafes nearby
  • Right next to the Landwehrkanal and close to Görlitzer Park
  • There’s a ping pong table!

Regenbogenfabrik on Openstreetmap

Stay at the venue

If you’re coming to Berlin from outside and would like to stay close to the venue there’s no better option than staying directly at the venue: We’ve talked to the Regebogenfabrik Hostel, and there’s still somewhere around a dozen spots available during the GUADEC days (in rooms for 2, 3, or 8 people).

Prices range between 20 and 75 Euro per person per night, depending on the size of the room. You can book using the form here (german, but Firefox Translate works well these days :) ).

As the organizing team we don’t have the capacities to get directly involved in booking the accommodations, but we’re in touch with the hostel people and can help with coordination.

Note: If you’re interested in staying at the hostel act fast, because spots are limited. To be sure to get one of the open spots, please book by next Tuesday (March 26th) and mention the codeword “GNOME” so they know to put you in rooms with other GUADEC attendees.

Also, if you’re coming don’t forget to add your name to the attendee list on Hedgedoc, so we know roughly how many people are coming :)

If you have any other questions feel free to join our Matrix room.

See you in Berlin!

KDE Issues Warning After Theme Wipes Linux Users

LinuxSecurity.com - Pre, 22/03/2024 - 12:00md
The KDE team has warned Linux users about the potential risks of installing global themes. They have emphasized the need for vigilance and careful consideration when downloading and using themes, even from official sources like the KDE Store. Global themes and widgets created by third-party developers can run arbitrary code, resulting in unexpected consequences, including deleting personal data. At least one user had had their files wiped after installing a faulty global Plasma theme.

next-20240322: linux-next

Kernel Linux - Pre, 22/03/2024 - 2:58pd
Version:next-20240322 (linux-next) Released:2024-03-22

Felix Häcker: #140 Forty-six!

Planet GNOME - Pre, 22/03/2024 - 1:00pd

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from March 15 to March 22.

This week we released GNOME 46!

This new major release of GNOME is full of exciting changes, such as a new global file search, an enhanced Files app, improved online accounts with OneDrive support, remote login via RDP, improved accessibility, experimental variable refresh rate (VRR) support and so much more! See the GNOME 46 release notes and developer notes for more information.

Readers who have been following this site will already be aware of some of the new features. If you’d like to follow the development of GNOME 47 (Fall 2024), keep an eye on this page - we’ll be posting exciting news every week!

Sovereign Tech Fund

Sonny announces

As part of the GNOME STF (Sovereign Tech Fund) initiative, a number of community members are working on infrastructure related projects.

Besides helping with the GNOME 46 release (congrats everyone!); here are the highlights for the past week

This week we welcome Jerry, Tom, Neill and Jude of Codethink into the team.

Jerry and Tom got started with finishing sysupdate: Implement dbus service. This will allow apps such as GNOME Software, KDE Discover, … to support systemd-sysupdate

Neill got started making GNOME openQA more robust with

Julian implemented 9 new properties for notifications in xdg-desktop-portal such as icon (via fd), sound, actions, markup-body, …

Julian worked on making notifications in xdg-desktop-portal forward compatible by allowing unknown properties.

Dorota is working on an interface for global shortcuts in Mutter/GNOME Shell suitable for the global shortcuts portal (except listing shortcuts)

Dhanuka has been testing the Rust DBus Secret Service provider implementation in oo7 to replace GNOME Keyring

Jonas made improvements in audio integration #25, #26

Alice resumed work on CSS custom properties / variables support in GTK; animations are now supported.

Andy made a protoype to allow opening URLs with apps. The goal is for an app such as GNOME Maps to advertise support for and handle openstreetmap.org or google.com/maps URLs. Your browser doesn't support embedded videos, but don't worry, you can download it and watch it with your favorite video player!

GNOME Core Apps and Libraries GLib

The low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK and GNOME.

Philip Withnall announces

Christian Hergert added support for sub-millisecond timeouts in GLib using ppoll() (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3958)

Philip Withnall reports

Sudhanshu Tiwari has made a start on porting some of the GIO documentation comments to gi-docgen in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3969

Emmanuele Bassi reports

JSON-GLib, the library for parsing and generating JSON data, is now capable of strict compliance with the JSON specification. To avoid breaking backward compatibility, strictness must be explicitly enabled by setting the JsonParser:strict property, or using the --strict option for the json-glib-validate command line tool. To enforce strict compliance, JSON-GLib now includes a whole JSON conformance test suite.

GNOME Incubating Apps

Sophie (she/her) announces

Decibels has been accepted into the GNOME Incubator. The GNOME incubation process is for apps that are designated to be accepted into GNOME Core or GNOME Development Tools if they reach the required maturity.

Decibels is a basic audio player that is supposed to fill the gap of GNOME currently not having a Core app that is designed to open single audio files. The incubation progress will be tracked in this issue.

GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries

Tobias Bernard reports

Railway has been accepted into GNOME Circle. It allows you to easily look up travel information across rail networks and borders without having to use multiple different websites. Congratulations!

Workbench

A sandbox to learn and prototype with GNOME technologies.

Sonny announces

Workbench 46 is out on Flathub! Here are the highlights

Everybody is excited about them so I’ll start by saying you can try libadwaita 1.5 adaptive dialogs with the new “Dialog” and “Message Dialogs” demos in the Library.

Workbench now shows inline diagnostics for Rust and Python.

A new Library demo “Snapshot” was added to demonstrate one of GTK4 coolest feature.

26 additional demos have been ported to Python

5 additional demos have been ported to Vala

The GNOME 46 release notes includes all the changes between Workbench 45 and 46.

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Fretboard

Look up guitar chords

Brage Fuglseth reports

Happy release week! Like many other apps, Fretboard has been updated to the GNOME 46 platform, taking advantage of the many platform improvements that have happened this cycle. It also recently gained the ability to notify you when there are no available variants of a chord in its internal chord set, prompting you to reach out and help improve it.

As always, you can get Fretboard on Flathub.

Third Party Projects

robert.mader announces

Livi 0.1.0 is now available on Flathub. Bundled with Gstreamer 1.24 and build against the GTK 4.14 it is the first desktop-targeting app to enable zero-copy Video playback by default in the Wayland ecosystem. Doing so enables highly power-efficient playback, closing the gap to other OSs or embedded environments. We expect quite a few people to hit driver bugs in the beginning - so in order to pave the way for other apps to pick up the technology, please help testing on you devices :)

Alain reports

Planify has received several updates this week, including bug fixes and design enhancements.

As part of the effort to apply for Gnome Circle, the user interface has been updated with new icons, design elements, and typography.

What’s new:

  • Performance of synchronization with Nextcloud has been improved.
  • It’s now possible to select the Pinboard view as the homepage.
  • You can now add a task to the Pinboard view from the contextual menu.
  • Various reported bugs have been fixed.

Akshay Warrier reports

Biblioteca 1.3 is now available on Flathub!

This release comes with several additions and improvements such as:

  • Added docs for GLib/Gio/GObject
  • Added support for web content
  • Improved searching UI
  • Added support for keyboard navigation in the sidebar
  • Added zoom buttons to the primary menu
  • Added shortcuts to view open tabs and toggle sidebar

Markus Göllnitz announces

Rumour has it there was a recent release of Usage – complete with leaked release screenshots.

  • So far, It looks like, it features an indicator for applications running in background.
  • Apparently, it is even displaying individual Android applications when you run Waydroid, now. That is something.
  • On top of it, I would say, the split of the performance view into processor and memory and the subsequent use of flat header bars works quite well.

Find it at a distro near you.

FineFindus says

I’m happy to announce the first release of Hieroglyphic, a forked and updated version of TeX-Match, which helps to find LaTeX symbols by drawing them. It’s available for download on Flathub.

Kooha

Elegantly record your screen.

Dave Patrick says

Kooha 2.3 is now released on Flathub! While there are no groundbreaking new features, this release is focused more on fixes and quality-of-life improvements.

The following features and fixes are the highlights:

  • The area selector window is now resizable, making selecting an area more flexible.
  • The previously selected area is now remembered across sessions.
  • The current video format and FPS configurations are now visible in the main view.
  • The recording done notification now shows the duration and size of the recording.
  • Progress is now shown while flushing the recording.
  • Recording in stereo rather than in mono is now more preferred.
  • Audio stutters on long recordings are now properly fixed.
  • The preferences dialog is now more descriptive and provides a more convenient FPS selection box.
  • Incorrect recording orientation on certain compositors is now fixed.

For a more detailed changelog, check out the full release notes.

Flare

Chat with your friends on Signal.

schmiddi reports

Flare version 0.14.1 was released. This release includes updating the dialogs to the new adwaita adaptive dialogs. Furthermore, we also have a new “new channel” dialog and channel information dialog. This release also contains a hotfix for newly linked devices not working with groups and another minor fix for an error in certain groups.

Blueprint

A markup language for app developers to create GTK user interfaces.

Sonny announces

Blueprint; the markup language and tooling for GTK is out in version 0.12

Here are the highlights ✨

Brand-new formatter to keep files tidy

AdwAlertDialog are supported

Emit warnings for deprecated features in GTK, GLib, etc

New IDE integration features

  • document symbols
  • “Go to definitions”
  • Code action for importing missing namespace

We also celebrate 70 applications on Flathub built with Blueprint.

Events

Deepesha Burse reports

The deadline for the GUADEC 2024 Call for Participation is closing soon! This year’s conference will take place in Denver, Colorado, from July 19th to July 24th and we encourage all interested contributors, speakers, and participants to submit their proposals before the deadline on 24th March. This is an excellent opportunity to share your insights, experiences, and ideas with the GNOME community and contribute to the success of GUADEC 2024. Please visit guadec.org to submit your proposals. If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out to the organizing committee at guadec@gnome.org. We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you at GUADEC 2024 in Denver and online!

That’s all for this week!

See you next week, and be sure to stop by #thisweek:gnome.org with updates on your own projects!

Christian Hergert: BOLT’ing Libraries

Planet GNOME - Enj, 21/03/2024 - 8:06md

I did a little experimenting with BOLT today to optimize libraries post-link.

I’m not an expert on it or anything, but it seems to allow you to reorder functions in your executable/library based on feedback from perf record and some special post-processing. You can merge multiple runs together in case you have different workloads you’d like to optimize for. But in the end, hot functions get placed near each other to reduce instruction cache pressure.

In all, it says you can expect gains up-to about 7% which fits in line with my experiment. For example, I open gnome-text-editor with a large C file, the overview map enabled, and syntax highlighting on. Then hold down Page Down to the bottom, Page Up to the top, and then Page Down back to the bottom.

The first pass through the source code is usually a little slower because you’re doing the incremental syntax-highlighting process.

After using BOLT on Pango, I saw roughly a 6% reduction in time spent measuring text (which is one of the most expensive parts of the overview map).

To test this out, I did have to play with my CFLAGS to have -Wl,--emit-relocs linker option. After that and a meson setup --wipe $SRCDIR things seem to work as expected.

Trying it For Yourself

sudo dnf install llvm-bolt perf

perf record -e cycles:u -j any,u -o perf.data -- gnome-text-editor

# you can do this for any of the binaries
perf2bolt -p perf.data -o perf.fdata ~/.jhbuild/lib/libpango-1.0.so

llvm-bolt ~/.jhbuild/lib/libpango-1.0.so -o libpango-1.0.so.bolt -data=perf.fdata -reorder-blocks=ext-tsp -reorder-functions=hfsort -split-functions -split-all-cold -split-eh -dyno-stats

mv libpango-1.0.so.bolt ~/.jhbuild/lib/libpango-1.0.so

Rinse and repeat.

Neuralink Shows First Brain-Chip Patient Playing Online Chess Using His Mind

Slashdot - Enj, 21/03/2024 - 8:00pd
Neuralink, the brain-chip startup founded by Elon Musk, showed its first patient using his mind to play online chess. Reuters reports: Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralyzed below the shoulder after a diving accident, played chess on his laptop and moved the cursor using the Neuralink device. The implant seeks to enable people to control a computer cursor or keyboard using only their thoughts. Arbaugh had received an implant from the company in January and could control a computer mouse using his thoughts, Musk said last month. "The surgery was super easy," Arbaugh said in the video streamed on Musk's social media platform X, referring to the implant procedure. "I literally was released from the hospital a day later. I have no cognitive impairments. I had basically given up playing that game," Arbaugh said, referring to the game Civilization VI, "you all (Neuralink) gave me the ability to do that again and played for 8 hours straight." Elaborating on his experience with the new technology, Arbaugh said that it is "not perfect" and they "have run into some issues." "I don't want people to think that this is the end of the journey, there's still a lot of work to be done, but it has already changed my life," he added.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Formula 1 Chief Appalled To Find Team Using Excel To Manage 20,000 Car Parts

Slashdot - Enj, 21/03/2024 - 4:30pd
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Starting in early 2023, Williams team principal James Vowles and chief technical officer Pat Fry started reworking the F1 team's systems for designing and building its car. It would be painful, but the pain would keep the team from falling even further behind. As they started figuring out new processes and systems, they encountered what they considered a core issue: Microsoft Excel. The Williams car build workbook, with roughly 20,000 individual parts, was "a joke," Vowles recently told The Race. "Impossible to navigate and impossible to update." This colossal Excel file lacked information on how much each of those parts cost and the time it took to produce them, along with whether the parts were already on order. Prioritizing one car section over another, from manufacture through inspection, was impossible, Vowles suggested. "When you start tracking now hundreds of thousands of components through your organization moving around, an Excel spreadsheet is useless," Vowles told The Race. Because of the multiple states each part could be in -- ordered, backordered, inspected, returned -- humans are often left to work out the details. "And once you start putting that level of complexity in, which is where modern Formula 1 is, the Excel spreadsheet falls over, and humans fall over. And that's exactly where we are." The consequences of this row/column chaos, and the resulting hiccups, were many. Williams missed early pre-season testing in 2019. Workers sometimes had to physically search the team's factory for parts. The wrong parts got priority, other parts came late, and some piled up. And yet transitioning to a modern tracking system was "viciously expensive," Fry told The Race, and making up for the painful process required "humans pushing themselves to the absolute limits and breaking." The idea that a modern Formula 1 team, building some of the most fantastically advanced and efficient machines on Earth, would be using Excel to build those machines might strike you as odd. F1 cars cost an estimated $12-$16 million each, with resource cap of about $145 million. But none of this really matters, and it actually makes sense, if you've ever worked IT at nearly any decent-sized organization. Then again, it's not even uncommon in Formula 1. When Sebastian Anthony embedded with the Renault team, he reported back for Ars in 2017 that Renault Sport Formula One's Excel design and build spreadsheet was 77,000 lines long -- more than three times as large as the Williams setup that spurred an internal revolution in 2023. Every F1 team has its own software setup, Anthony wrote, but they have to integrate with a lot of other systems: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and wind tunnel results, rapid prototyping and manufacturing, and inventory. This leaves F1 teams "susceptible to the plague of legacy software," Anthony wrote, though he noted that Renault had moved on to a more dynamic cloud-based system that year. (Renault was also "a big Microsoft shop" in other areas, like email and file sharing, at the time.) One year prior to Anthony's excavation, Adam Banks wrote for Ars about the benefits of adopting cloud-based tools for enterprise resource planning (ERP). You adopt a cloud-based business management software to go "Beyond Excel." "If PowerPoint is the universal language businesses use to talk to one another, their internal monologue is Excel," Banks wrote. The issue is that all the systems and processes a business touches are complex and generate all kinds of data, but Excel is totally cool with taking in all of it. Or at least 1,048,576 rows of it. Banks cited Tim Worstall's 2013 contention that Excel could be "the most dangerous software on the planet." Back then, international investment bankers were found manually copying and pasting Excel between Excel sheets to do their work, and it raised alarm.

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EPA Sets Strict New Limits On Tailpipe Emissions That Could Boost EV Sector

Slashdot - Enj, 21/03/2024 - 3:02pd
sinij shares a report from the New York Post: The Biden administration finalized its crackdown on gas cars Wednesday, with the Environmental Protection Agency announcing drastic climate regulations meant to ensure more than two-thirds of passenger cars and light trucks sold by 2032 are electric or hybrid vehicles. The EPA rule imposes strict limits on tailpipe pollution, limits the agency says can be met if 56% of new vehicles sold in the US are electric by eight years from now, along with 13% that are plug-in hybrids or other partially electric cars. That would be a huge increase over current EV sales, which rose to 7.6% of new vehicle sales last year, up from 5.8% in 2022. [...] The new rule slows implementation of stricter pollution standards from 2027 through 2029, before ramping up to near the level the EPA preferred by 2032. "Personal car ownership is about to get A LOT more expensive as it will have to carry the costs of deep discounts to entice EV sales," adds Slashdot reader sinij.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

next-20240321: linux-next

Kernel Linux - Enj, 21/03/2024 - 2:51pd
Version:next-20240321 (linux-next) Released:2024-03-21

Epic Games Store To Launch On iOS and Android This Year, Will Take 12% Cut of Sales In EU

Slashdot - Enj, 21/03/2024 - 2:25pd
During its State of Unreal presentation at GDC 2024 today, Epic Games confirmed its plans to bring the Epic Games Store to iOS and Android before the end of the year. The company also shared more details about its app marketplace for iOS in the European Union. As reported by 9to5Mac, Epic Games said it will take a 12% commission from sales. From the report: Epic says the terms for developers will be the same via the Epic Games Store on mobile as they are on the Epic Games Store on PC. As such, the company will take a 12% commission on all sales through the Epic Games Store. The revenue share is 100% for the developer during the first six months on the Epic Games Store. The Epic Games Store will feature Epic's own content, including Fortnite, alongside a selection of third-party partners. The company says it will share additional details in the lead-up to the launch later this year.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Woman With $2.5 Billion In Bitcoin Convicted of Money Laundering

Slashdot - Enj, 21/03/2024 - 2:01pd
mrspoonsi shares a report from the BBC: A former takeaway worker found with Bitcoin worth more than $2.5 billion has been convicted at Southwark Crown Court of a crime linked to money laundering. Jian Wen, 42, from Hendon in north London, was involved in converting the currency into assets including multi-million-pound houses and jewelry. On Monday she was convicted of entering into or becoming concerned in a money laundering arrangement. The Met said the seizure is the largest of its kind in the UK. Although Wen was living in a flat above a Chinese restaurant in Leeds when she became involved in the criminal activity, her new lifestyle saw her move into a six-bedroom house in north London in 2017 which was rented for more than $21,000 per month. She posed as an employee of an international jewelry business and moved her son to the UK to attend private school, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said. That same year, Wen tried to buy a string of expensive houses in London, but struggled to pass money-laundering checks and her claims she had earned millions legitimately mining Bitcoin were not believed. She later travelled abroad, buying jewelry worth tens of thousands of pounds in Zurich, and purchasing properties in Dubai in 2019. Another suspect is thought to be behind the fraud but they remain at large. The Met said it carried out a large scale investigation as part of the case - searching several addresses, reviewing 48 electronic devices, and examining thousands of digital files including many which were translated from Mandarin. The CPS has obtained a freezing order from the High Court, while it carries out a civil recovery investigation that could lead to the forfeiture of the Bitcoin. The value of the Bitcoin was worth around $2.5 billion at the time of initial estimates -- but due to the fluctuation in the currency's value, it has since increased to around $4.3 billion.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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