Month: April 2022

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Judge rejects Musk’s claim that limits on his tweets violate First Amendment

Elon Musk speaking to reporters while he walks away from a courthouse.

Enlarge / Elon Musk talks to members of the media while leaving federal court in New York on Thursday, April 4, 2019.

A federal judge has rejected Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s attempt to get out of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that requires Tesla to impose limits on Musk’s social media statements.

The judge also rejected Musk’s request to quash portions of an SEC subpoena that seeks documents related to whether he got pre-approval before posting a recent tweet about Tesla stock sales. The ruling against Musk was issued Wednesday by Judge Lewis Liman in US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

“Musk was not forced to enter into the consent decree” with the SEC, and he “cannot now seek to retract the agreement he knowingly and willingly entered by simply bemoaning that he felt like he had to agree to it at the time but now—once the specter of the litigation is a distant memory and his company has become, in his estimation, all but invincible—wishes that he had not,” Liman wrote. The judge also called Musk’s claim that the SEC is harassing him “meritless.”

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The doomsday clock is ticking in new Jurassic World Dominion trailer

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are joined by Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Sam Neill in Jurassic World Dominion.

Universal Pictures has released a second trailer for Jurassic World Dominion, the sixth installment in the hugely successful franchise, featuring cloned dinosaurs roaming freely on the mainland as human beings face possible extinction.

As we’ve reported previously, the Jurassic World trilogy was always intended to be a complete story told across three films, as opposed to the standalone nature of the original trilogy. Director Colin Trevorrow, who co-wrote Dominion‘s script, knew that he wanted the third film to center on dinosaurs going “open source,” so to speak—portraying a world in which Wu is not the only scientist capable of cloning the beasts. But rather than scene after scene of dinosaurs terrorizing people and destroying cities, he wanted “a world where dinosaur interaction is unlikely but possible—the same way we watch out for bears or sharks.”

Per the official premise:

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Call of Duty cheaters are being struck blind by anti-cheat software

Hey, where'd everybody go?

Enlarge / Hey, where’d everybody go? (credit: Chaos / Activision)

Players caught cheating in Call of Duty can now be punished with a penalty that makes them unable to see their opponents, a new anti-cheat mitigation feature that Activision calls “cloaking.”

Cheaters that are subject to a cloaking penalty will find that “characters, bullets, even sound from legitimate players will be undetectable,” according to a post on the official Call of Duty development blog. Those cheaters will remain fully visible to non-cheaters, though; Activision quips that “they’ll be the players you see spinning in circles hollering, “Who is shooting me?!'”

The latest anti-cheat update will roll out first for Call of Duty: Vanguard, then applied to the free-to-play Warzone, Activision says, “to minimize and issues players may encounter.” It also comes on top of another cheating mitigation measure, called Damage Shield, which was announced in February and “disables the cheater’s ability to inflict critical damage on other players.”

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