Cheating is rife on many gaming platforms, but the biggest scammers are usually found around PC gaming – although game companies ban thousands if not hundreds of thousands the villain. valve steam deck, the upcoming handheld, should make breaking the rules harder.
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The company announced that titles that depend on Epic’s Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) software can now run on the wearable device. Valve said adding Steam Deck support to titles that use EAC is “a simple process”. Developers don’t need to update their SDK version or make other time-consuming changes. It joins BattlEye support, which means, as Valve notes, “The two biggest anti-cheat services are now easily supported on Proton and Steam Deck.”
However, it’s still unclear if some of the most popular multiplayer games on Steam using BattlEye and EAC, including titles like Rainbow Six Siege and PUBG, will work on day one.
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Must be a tough workout.
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Peloton didn’t need more bad news. The sixth season premiere episode of Billions includes a scene which, like the Sex and the City sequel, And Just Like That, points the finger at Peloton’s bike for causing Mike “Wags” Wagner (played by David Costabile) to have a heart attack has caused. Unlike And Just Like That, however, Wagner survives — he even references the AJLT scene, telling staff he “doesn’t date” that character.
And less memory for the highest spec model
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According to WinFuture’s Roland Quandt, European prices for the Galaxy S22 series start at €849 (approx. If that’s true, the 2022 Samsung Galaxy S series should cost the same as it did in 2021. In Europe at least, the Galaxy S22 Ultra will come with 8 GB of RAM shipped, while the S21 Ultra comes with 12 GB of RAM.
And if you thought that was expensive, a separate leak from Android Police earlier this month hinted that the company could charge an extra $100 for each model in the Galaxy S22 lineup in the US. We should know more very soon.
The move may be temporary.
Earlier this week, Apple began requiring students and teachers in the US to do so verify their identity through authentication service UNiDAYS before being able to take advantage of the company’s discounted education prices. However, that has now disappeared. You can once again buy discounted Macs, iPads and other Apple products on the company’s US education website without having to verify that you’re a current student or teacher.
The company appealed to the Australian High Court to overturn a defamation case.
Google has asked the High Court of Australia to overturn a 2020 ruling that warned it could have a “devastating” impact on the broader internet. Google claims it will be forced to “act as censorship” if the country’s highest court doesn’t overturn a decision that awarded a lawyer $40,000 in damages for defamation for an article the company linked to from its search engine .
In 2016, George Defteros, a Victoria state attorney, contacted Google to ask the company to remove a 2004 article from The Age. The play included reports of murder charges prosecutors had brought against Defteros in connection with the deaths of three men. Those charges were later dropped in 2005. The company refused to remove the article from its search results, believing the publication to be a legitimate source.
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