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The former chief executive of Alameda Research, the trading company that acted as the vehicle for the multi-billion-dollar fraud at crypto exchange FTX, has been given a two-year prison sentence after cooperating with investigators.

The popular adorable sleep app and Pokémon Go companion Pokémon Sleep is getting a much-requested feature. Until now, Pokémon Sleep relied on a phone's motion sensor and microphone to detect sleep duration and quality: the higher quality sleep you get, the more Pokémon are drawn to your restful vibes. However, a recent official announcement declared that you can finally sync the app to your best smartwatch or Fitbit.

The news was announced by a video (embedded below) featuring a Dratini and a Chikorita curling around a wrist, among other adorable Pokémon animations that I don't recognize (having only played the first few generations, obviously).

The Pokémon Sleep website lists compatible devices, including all Apple Watches from the Apple Watch Series 3 onwards, all Samsung Galaxy Watches, the Samsung Galaxy Fit (but not the Fit E), and the Samsung Galaxy Ring.

All Google Pixel Watches are compatible, and many Fitbits: the incompatible ones are listed as "Fitbit Classic, Fitbit Ultra, Fitbit One, Fitbit Zip, Fitbit Flex, Fitbit Force, Fitbit Charge, Fitbit Charge HR, Fitbit Surge, Fitbit Alta, Fitbit Ace, Fitbit Ace 2, Fitbit Ace 3, Fitbit Inspire, Fitbit Ace LTE." 

Analysis: The Pokémon Company have been Slowpokes

(Image credit: The Pokémon Company)

This compatibility feature seemed obvious from the get-go, perhaps even from launch. However, while we imagine many adult Pokémon fans will use the app as an incentive to get a good night's sleep, many children (Pokémon's original target audience) will also do so. 

Kids won't always have access to a smartwatch, so it didn't necessarily matter that Pokémon Sleep launched without smartwatch accessibility. However, given that most of the best sleep trackers are wrist-based (or even now finger-based with the advent of smart rings), it made sense to add compatibility eventually. 

Most of the big players have compatibility here: Apple, Google, Samsung, and so on, but one thing missing is the Fitbit Ace LTE. The only child-focused smartwatch, it only launched last month - but then again, so did the Galaxy Ring. So, I wonder why the Ace LTE didn't make the cut. 

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DeepX is a South Korean AI technology company that specializes in deep learning solutions across industries like autonomous systems, robotics, and healthcare. At the recent 2024 Embedded Vision Summit, DeepX presented its first-generation chips, the V1 and M1, designed for different applications, and hinted at its upcoming next-generation chip focused on AI for on-device and autonomous robot applications.

The V1 SoC (previously called L1) features the DeepX 5-TOPS NPU paired with quad-RISC-V CPUs and a 12-MP image signal processor. This sub-$10 SoC is built on Samsung’s 28-nm process and runs the YOLO v7 model at 30fps, consuming just 1-2 watts. It supports the latest CNN algorithms for computer vision and is designed for products like IP and CCTV cameras, robotic cameras, and drones.

The M1 is a larger accelerator created to work with a host CPU. It reportedly achieves the highest cost-efficiency (inference/$), power-efficiency (TOPS/W) and performance efficiency (FPS/TOPS). AI performance is 25-TOPS and it consumes 5 watts. It's suitable for use in consumer and industrial robots, machine visions, AI required IPC and HPC, smart factories and edge computing.

Partnering with LG

DeepX CEO Lokwon Kim told Sally Ward-Foxton from EE Times that the company is collaborating with LG to port LLMs to DeepX’s chip for use in mobile devices, cars, and white goods. “[AI in the device] really makes sense for their business model for LLMs, that’s why we’re collaborating,” Kim said. “They are providing their LLM technology so we can learn about the model’s characteristics and optimize for on-device applications.” The result will be an NPU chip optimized for running LLMs on-device, but initially, it will function solely as an accelerator. It is expected to take another 3-5 years to develop a fully LLM-capable SoC.

The next chip on DeepX’s roadmap is the V3, developed in response to feedback from Chinese and Taiwanese customers. The V3 will reportedly feature a 15-TOPS dual-core DeepX NPU with quad-Arm Cortex A52 CPU cores and will operate below 5 watts on average. “Previously we used a RISC-V CPU, but customers wanted to have Arm,” Kim told Ward-Foxton. “That’s why we targeted an Arm quad-core there. Customers also wanted USB 3.1, a more powerful ISP -not an upgrade on the NPU. That’s why we redesigned it.”

As EE Times explains, “Customers wanted Arm CPUs in part because the Arm ecosystem can provide better security solutions - many customers are building security camera systems. Other customers want to run the robot operating system, which is now supported on Arm, though it has not come to RISC-V yet.”

DeepX says it will continue to offer the RISC-V-based V1 alongside the Arm-based V3 (samples of which are expected by the end of 2024), promising to support both architectures well into the future.

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Considering that the Google Pixel Watch 3 launched on September 10, 2024, in two sizes, new Fitbit integrations, and running Wear OS 5, it was likely only a matter of time before some of its software features began to trickle down to previous Pixel Watches.

Like clockwork, Google has announced that the latest Pixel Watch Update brings Wear OS 5 to the original Pixel Watch and the Pixel Watch 2. The update is just beginning to roll out now and is being done in phases, so you may not see it immediately available as an over-the-air update. 

It also brings with it more than just bug fixes and security patches. 

Wear OS 5 arrives on the Pixel Watch 1 and 2

Google’s latest version of WearOS isn’t necessarily a redesign or a rethinking, but it brings a few changes that Pixel Watch wearers can take advantage of. Beyond bug fixes, you can expect new colors for watch faces and more widgets – aka complications – to pick from. You can also put different data metrics on the watch face from the developer side.

Like the Pixel Watch 3, the new app grid launcher will arrive on the first- and second-generation, making it easier to find and view all the apps. Better Camera Controls are arriving, so you can use your Pixel Watch as a viewfinder for your connected smartphone's camera. It becomes more practical and less of a gimmick. Pixel Recorder will also arrive on the wrist.

Google promises many quality-of-life improvements in WearOS 5, such as squashing bugs and ‘performance updates.’ To be eligible to receive the WearOS 5 update, you’ll need to ensure that the first-generation or second-generation Pixel Watch is running either Wear OS 3.5 or Wear OS 4.

WearOS 5 is housed within the September 2024 update, which is now rolling out in waves, so it might appear immediately. If you’re inclined to check, you’ll swipe down from the watch face on the Pixel Watch and tap Settings. From there, navigate to System then System Updates to check for an update. If one is found, you can install it and wait as the Pixel Watch goes through the motions of downloading, installing, and restarting. 

No matter how you get WearOS 5, it's great to see Google continuing to support its previous generation Pixel Watches.

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First of all, please stop calling the new iPhone 16 Camera Control a button....Just kidding. You can call it a button, but it is more than that. It's a multi-function control that accepts full presses, light presses, and gestures. And now I know that it works perfectly with on-screen controls.

As you may know from reading our extensive reviews of the iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 16, and iPhone 16 Plus, the new Camera Control, which sits on the right side of the latest phones, just below the power button, gives you instant access to your iPhone Camera app.

When you press it, a little control window appears on the Super Retina XDR display, right next to the physical button. It's a flexible black window that grows and shrinks depending on your control. So, the camera selection is slightly smaller than when scrolling through the main menu of exposure, depth zoom, cameras, styles, and tones.

In my experience, it's pretty easy to use all of these controls when holding the phone in a landscape position, which makes the Camera Control feel more or less like the shutter button on a traditional camera. Using it when the phone is in a vertical position, which I often do, is more awkward.

There is, it turns out, another way to use Camera Control: You can touch the screen.

I know that seems obvious, but once you start using Camera Control, you basically train yourself how to use a combination of single and double presses and sliding gestures on the button to control the camera. Touching the screen almost doesn't even occur to you, though I guess it should. 

After all, what's the point of having anything appear on the touch screen if you can't touch it?

How to do it

(Image credit: Future)

Here's how it works. You can still access the camera app with a full press of the Camera Button. After that, you press it again lightly (you'll feel the haptic vibration under the button's sapphire surface)  once or twice to access your desired camera feature. Next, instead of sliding your finger on the Camera Control button, you slide your finger up and down on the screen.

This is helpful in one-handed vertical mode because you can use your thumb to select different modes quickly, and yes, you can tap on some of the on-screen selections like "Camera" to access the camera list and then slide on the screen to a different lens.

On-screen control is also useful in landscape mode. When I start with the Camera Control button, my index finger naturally drops down onto the screen to slide back and forth and select options in the little black Camera Control area.

If you thought that Camera control wasn't for you because it's a physical control for things you usually do on a screen, this is a way to have your cake and eat it too: a winning combination of physical and touch-screen control.

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Hackers have modified the infamous Mallox ransomware to also target Linux systems, experts have claimed.

The new version is called Mallox Linux 1.0, and was recently discovered by cybersecurity researchers SentinelLabs, after Mallox’s operators mistakenly leaked their tools.

The analysis of the tool led the researchers to conclude that Mallox Linux 1.0 is actually a rebrand of the Kryptina encryptor. Kryptina was built last year by a threat actor alias “Corlys”, who tried to rent the tool for roughly $800. However, since the cybercriminal community did not show much interest in the tool, Corlys shared it for free, in hopes that someone might pick it up.

TargetCompany

Now, it seems Mallox did, since the new variant uses Kryptina’s source code, the same encryption mechanism (AES-256-CBC), and the same decryption routines. Furthermore, it uses the same command-line builder and configuration parameters, too. Therefore, Mallox devs only changed the name and appearance of the encryptor, and removed any mention of Kryptina from the documents. Everything else is left unchanged.

For now, there is no word on potential victims, but in their analysis, researchers from Kaspersky said Mallox affiliates “do not restrict their activities to a specific country”. Instead, they attack vulnerable companies wherever they are. However, the majority of the firms struck by a variant of Mallox are located in either Brazil, Vietnam, or China.

The ransomware is also known as Fargo, or TargetCompany, and has been active in one form or another since June 2021. At first, it was targeting mostly unsecured MS-SQL servers, Sekoia found. Another Mallox hallmark is to threaten the victims, especially those in the European Union, about potential GDPR violations.

Between October 2022 and March 2023, its affiliates stole data from at least 20 organizations.

Via BleepingComputer

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New research involving 26,000 participants has revealed the vital importance of movement for office workers, confirming that continuous desk work can have a drastic impact on your mental health. 

A new study commissioned by ASICS, dubbed 'State of Mind,' has revealed "a strong connection between sedentary behavior and mental well-being with State of Mind scores declining the longer individuals remain inactive." 

We all know that sitting behind a desk can get pretty tiring and draining after a while, but just how bad is the problem? Turns out it's pretty bad. The research concluded that "after just two hours of continuous desk work State of Mind scores begin to drop and stress levels rise." 

And after four hours of uninterrupted desk work, workers' stress levels increased by nearly 20%. Help is at hand, though, thanks to a new Desk Break experiment. 

15 minutes of movement is all it takes

Dr. Brendon Stubbs from King's College London has conducted a study examining the impact of movement on the mental well-being of office workers. Participants took daily 5-minute movement breaks and 15 minutes of exercise after three to four hours of work. 

After just one week of movement breaks, State of Mind scores went up by more than 22%, with confidence increasing as well as anxiety and perceived stress levels dropping by double digits. It's not just a feel-good factor, either. Just 15 minutes of exercise during the workday boosted productivity by fully one-third, and focus by more than 28%. 

"We have shown previously that just 15 minutes of exercise in leisure time can result in a meaningful improvement in people's State of Mind scores," Dr Stubbs concluded. "But what surprised us with the Desk Break experiment was how powerful the 15-minute movement breaks were in improving well-being and reducing stress. It even changed people's perceptions of their workplace for the better."    

If that's too many numbers after a long day at the office, just watch ASICS new 'The Desk Break' public service announcement, starring an angry Brian Cox. (Above)

ASICS is calling for office-based employees around the world to take a Desk Break for their mental health. Luckily, there's plenty of tech on hand to help you get a head start. 

One of the best standing desks on the market might help you with mobility, posture, and overall activity, but part of taking a desk break is leaving your workspace to help clear your mind. Many of the best smartwatches on the market, such as the Apple Watch Series 10, come with built-in 'time to stand' reminders that can remind you to get up and stretch your legs. 

On a lunch break, why not use Garmin Connect to put together a quick 25-minute walk or run over lunch? You could even try Hugh Jackman's 7-minute workout (twice, preferably) or a quick Apple Fitness Plus activity. You'll also get some benefits from an under-desk treadmill, which can be handy during calls, meetings, or training, but remember actually to get away from your screen at some point, too. 

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Comedy, action and horror – these are just a few of the genres that are coming to Max in October 2024, proving once again why it belongs among the best streaming services. After a slightly less packed scheduled in August 2024, which did improve in September 2024 but only slightly, I can say with confidence that next month, we are so back. 

It's a relief that Max has pulled itself together for October 2024 since spooky season is the best time of year to indulge in a good show or movie, especially the best horror movies, which the platform is filling out with classics from A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) to Misery (1990). 

With over 60 movies arriving on October 1 alone, choosing a movie or show can go either way. It could be the easiest choice in the world, or trigger your indecisiveness – so it's a good thing we have a best Max movies recommendations guide to point you in the right direction. 

Everything new on Max in October 2024

Arriving on October 1

21 Jump Street (movie)
22 Jump Street (movie)
A Day in the Country (movie)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (movie)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (movie)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (movie)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (movie)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (movie)
A Return to Salem's Lot (movie)
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (movie)
Altitude (movie)
Annabelle Comes Home (movie)
Annabelle: Creation (movie)
Barry Munday (movie)
Contraband: Seized at Sea season 1 (TV show)
Contraband: Seized at the Border season 5 (TV show)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (movie)
Dinner for Schmucks (movie)
Doctor Sleep (movie)
Dune (movie)
Edge of Darkness (movie)
Four Christmases (movie)
Freddy vs. Jason (movie)
Frost / Nixon (movie)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (documentary)
Godzilla vs. Biollante (movie)
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (movie)
Green Porno (movie)
Gremlins (movie)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (movie)
I Was a Teenage Zombie (movie)
Interview with the Vampire (movie)
Invictus (movie)
It (movie)
It: Chapter Two (movie)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (movie)
Knife in the Water (movie)
Lawrence of Arabia (movie)
Major Barbara (movie)
Mecum Main Attractions: Monterey CA (TV show)
Misery (movie)
Mississippi Masala (movie)
Monte Carlo (movie)
My Life as a Dog (movie)
Ondine (movie)
Open Your Eyes (movie)
Poltergeist (movie)
Practical Magic (movie)
Red Dawn (movie)
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (movie)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (movie)
Scooby-Doo (movie)
Stephen King's It (movie)
The Conjuring (movie)
The Conjuring 2 (movie)
The Cranes are Flying (movie)
The Curse of La Llorona (movie)
The Death of Superman (movie)
The Huntsman: Winter’s War (movie)
The Life and Times of Farmer Al (movie)
The Naked Kiss (movie)
The Return of Godzilla (movie)
The Rise of Catherine the Great (movie)
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (movie)
Traffik (movie)
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Tough Love (movie)
Walkabout (movie)
Water for Elephants (movie)
 
Arriving on October 2 

Destinations of the Damned with Zak Bagans season 1 (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 3

Expedition Bigfoot season 5 (TV show)
Expedition X season 8 (TV show)
Gremlins: The Wild Batch season 2 (TV show)
Las Bravas F.C. season 2 (TV show)
Salem’s Lot (movie)
Velma: This Halloween Needs To Be More Special! (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 4

Angel of Death (Szadź) seasons 2-3 (TV show)
Angel of Death (Szadź) season 4 (TV show)
HGTV Urban Oasis 2024 (TV show)
Mini Beat Power Rockers: A Hairy Halloween (TV show)
Mini Beat Power Rockers: What a Monster (TV show)
Scariest House in America season 1 (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 6

Have I Got News for You (TV show)
The Franchise season 1 (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 7

House Hunters: Amazing Water Homes season 1 (TV show)
Kids Baking Championship: Scary Good (TV show)
La Mente del Poder season 1 (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 9

1000-lb Sisters season 6 (TV show)
Bargain Block New Orleans season 1 (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 10

Caddo Lake (movie)
Expedition Unknown season 14 (TV show)
Good Hair (movie)
Roller Jam (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 11

The Confidante (Une Amie Dévouée) (TV show)
The Disappearance (Chyłka - Zaginięcie) seasons 2-5 (TV show)
Tuesday (movie)
 
Arriving on October 13

Love & Marriage: Detroit season 2 (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 14

Barney's World season 1 (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 15

I Am Not A Monster: The Lois Riess Murders (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 17

LOUDER: The Soundtrack of Change (documentary)
 
Arriving on October 18

MaXXXine (movie)
Mecum Full Throttle: Indianapolis Fall Special 2024 (TV show)
My Lottery Dream Home season 16 (TV show)
The Sancho Case (Caso Sancho) (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 19

Bering Sea Gold season 18 (TV show)
Vacation House Rules season 5 (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 21

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three (movie)

Arriving on October 22

Residential Rage (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 23

1000-lb Best Friends season 3 (TV show)
Breath of Fire (TV show)
Sin City Tow season 1 (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 25

Trap (movie)
 
Arriving on October 26

First-Time Buyer's Club season 2 (TV show)
Impractical Jokers season 11 (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 27

Chris Brown: A History of Violence (TV show)
Somebody Somewhere season 3 (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 28

Paranormal Caught on Camera season 8 (TV show)
People Magazine Investigates season 8 (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 30

Skin Hunters (TV show)
Supermarket Stakeout season 6 (TV show)
 
Arriving on October 31

Dark Souls Among Us (aka Senales del Mas Alla) season 1 (TV show)

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The brand has released its first two-wheeled motorcycles in nearly 40 years. They're all-electric, have a devilishly clever new regen braking system, and a trick up their sleeve.

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Microsoft has had a tricky year when it comes to cybersecurity, with the tech giant experiencing a slew of security incidents related to its products in recent months.

Firstly, Russian state-sponsored hackers were able to steal US government emails by compromising Microsoft corporate email accounts. An attack in 2023 by a Chinese state-sponsored group saw Microsoft Exchange Online mailboxes breached, including those belonging to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, US Ambassador to the PRC R. Nicholas Burns, and Congressman Don Bacon.

Having then claimed security would be its number one priority, the company has now released a progress update on the Secure Future Initiative (SFI) - a program launched in November 2023 to advance Microsoft’s cybersecurity protection.

Safeguarding the future through the lessons of the past

(Image credit: Microsoft)

Microsoft’s SFI update provides an overview on the progress being made to “prioritize security above all else” including updates to governance, new upskilling programs, employee security reviews, and how Redmond is addressing its core pillars of cybersecurity.

In the last year, Microsoft has enhanced its governance by creating a Cybersecurity Governance Council made up of Deputy Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) that regularly review all things cybersecurity, including risk, compliance and defense.

Executives have also had their pay tied to security performance to enhance accountability and instill incentive to focus heavily on avoiding errors and improving on past performance. Moreover, the company introduced a Security Skilling Academy to provide employees with new cybersecurity skills and knowledge.

As for Microsoft’s six key cybersecurity pillars, the company has taken steps to improve identity and secret protection by boosting token management and phishing resistance in Microsoft’s access management solution, Microsoft Entra ID. Tenant and production protection has been enhanced through the streamlining of app lifecycle management, and the reduction of the attack surface through the removal of inactive tenants.

Network protection has been improved by isolating certain virtual networks with backend connectivity to reduce the potential for lateral movement, and Admin Rules for Azure Storage, SQL, Cosmos DB, and Key Vault have been increased to help customers secure themselves.

The SLI has also resulted in 85% of Microsoft’s production build pipelines for commercial cloud using centralized governance, Personal Access Tokens have been reduced to a seven day lifespan, and checks have been introduced into the software development cycle alongside reducing the number of elevated roles that can access engineering systems.

Threat detection and monitoring has been streamlined through the introduction of standardized security audit logs and centralized log management covering 99% of network devices.

Finally, Microsoft has committed to improving transparency and reducing their time to mitigate common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) across its cloud infrastructure by updating processes, as well as establishing the Customer Security Management Office to improve customer communication when a security incident occurs.

“The work we’ve done so far is only the beginning. We know that cyberthreats will continue to evolve, and we must evolve with them," noted Charlie Bell, Executive Vice President of Microsoft Security.

"By fostering this culture of continuous learning and improvement, we are building a future where security is not just a feature, but a foundation.”

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HP has unveiled plans to end some of the most common printing woes with the launch of a new service powered by AI.

Designed to "change how the world prints", HP Print AI will look to make printing less of a chore, tackling annoying or tricky challenges for home users and office workers alike.

The launch should also mean your printer produces most consistent, high-quality output, with a new collaboration tool also helping to boost productivity among teams based in different locations.

HP Print AI

(Image credit: HP)

The first AI-powered feature to be introduced in the slightly hubris-y "Perfect Output", which HP says will make printing from sources such as web browsers and spreadsheets smoother.

Printing items such as news articles, recipes and how-to guides from a browser often yields unnecessary white space and issues with image sizes or ads being included - and Perfect Output looks to solve this by detecting "unwanted content" such as ads and web text, printing only what you need, solving not just time, but ink and paper.

The tool also looks to make printing from spreadsheets less painful, offering a printable selection that doesn't split tables or charts across pages.

Elsewhere, the platform will look to provide greater collaboration for businesses scanning lots of documents to get customer information. The new HP Scan AI Enhanced tool is able to identify the type of document being scanned, and extract the desired information based on your specific business needs, saving especially smaller businesses time and money being spent on manual data upload tasks.

"We are transforming the printing experience with HP Print AI, making it easier and more intuitive," said Tuan Tran, HP President of Imaging, Printing, and Solutions. "Introducing AI solutions across our portfolio will simplify printing, ignite creativity, and accelerate collaboration – all while ensuring customer data is protected and kept private. This is our first step in setting a new standard for printing."

HP Print AI is available today, with the company saying it intends to continue launching extra capabilities throughout 2025.

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