The Morning After: ‘Final Fantasy XIV’ is so fashionable that Square Enix stopped promoting it | Engadget

Square Enix is the gross sales and supply of  Starter Edition and Complete Edition as a result of it is doing too effectively and the corporate’s servers cannot sustain. The resolution applies to each bodily and digital variations of the sport and can occur within the coming weeks. FFXIV gamers have been battling prolonged queues ever for the reason that got here out in late November. They nonetheless have to attend hours to get right into a server and be capable to play the sport.

It’s a bit of inside-baseball, however I’m planning a narrative on the record-breaking on-line RPG — however can’t entry the sport whereas this suspension continues. I assume I’ll have to search out one thing else to write down about over the vacation season. At least I’ve Deathloop and Metroid Dread to maintain me busy.

— Mat Smith

A motorbike journal managed it for years — till Facebook modified its title.

When Facebook determined to vary its title, altering its web sites, enterprise paperwork and extra, the corporate didn’t management the @Meta deal with on Instagram. It belonged to a small Denver-based journal referred to as META. The day of the announcement, the journal posted a photograph of varied print points with the caption “Since 2014.” But by the following day, the account had mysteriously vanished. @Meta now hosts all of the content material from the @Facebook Instagram web page, whereas posts from META, the journal, now seem underneath the @readmeta deal with. What occurred? And doesn’t this break Meta’s personal guidelines about Instagram handles?

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Expect meal kits, not fast-food. For now.

Uber and autonomous automobile firm Motional introduced a partnership for “autonomous deliveries” by means of Uber Eats. The pilot will launch sooner or later in “early 2022,” but it won’t offer the full range of Uber Eats options. Instead customers will be able to pick from “a curated set of meal kits from choose eating places.” The joint venture isn’t entirely driverless, either. A Motional spokesperson told Engadget: “We might be launching the service with security operators current within the automobile.” Meal equipment deliveries might be in Santa Monica, California, to start out, the place a big portion of Motional’s group works.

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Apple has sued the NSO group over the ‘nation state’ stage iMessage assault.

Google researchers have described NSO Group’s zero-click exploit used to hack Apple units as “incredible and terrifying,” calling it “one of the technically subtle exploits we have ever seen,” on par with assaults from elite nation-state spies.

The Project Zero group mentioned it obtained one among NSO’s Pegasus exploits from Citizen Lab, which managed to seize it through a focused Saudi activist. NSO’s unique exploit required the person to click on on a hyperlink, however the newest, most subtle exploits require no click on in any respect. Called ForcedEntry, it takes benefit of the way in which iMessage interprets information like GIFs to open a malicious PDF file with no motion required from the sufferer. Last month, the US Department of Commerce to its “entity list,” primarily banning it to be used within the US.

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Made for rideshare drivers, however not a taxi?

Arrival is a UK–US startup that desires to revolutionize the design and manufacture of electrical automobiles. Its first gross sales pitch is the Arrival Car, designed, at first, for rideshare drivers throughout their working day. We’ve bought an unique first look, however is it simply me or does it remind you of the from Total Recall?

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