Things are slowly getting worse during the Fourth of July hospital shift in The Pitt season 2. Not only has Dana (Katherine LaNasa) been trying her best to shield a sexual assault victim from the chaos of the emergency room, but a new type of disaster has entered the chat.

At the end of episode 7, the entire hospital system has been shut down to prevent being targeted by a cyberattack. What this means practically remains to be seen, but as it stands, nobody has access to patient records… or even where they are in the building.

The lifestyle projector category is no longer a niche sideshow in home theater. It is one of the fastest growing segments in the display market, driven by mobility, improving image quality, lower prices, and the simple reality that a 100-inch picture is more fun than a 55-inch TV when friends come over. Consumers want something they can move from the living room to the bedroom, take outside for movie night, or toss in a bag for a weekend away without hiring an installer.

The ViewSonic LX60HD lands squarely in that conversation. Known primarily for its PC monitors and business and home theater projectors, ViewSonic is leaning into the lifestyle trend with a portable Smart LED model that focuses on flexible placement, easy setup, and built in content access right out of the box. It is designed to make big screen viewing less intimidating, less permanent, and far more accessible at a price that does not require a second mortgage.

ViewSonic LX60HD Features & Specifications:

Product Design: The LX60HD uses the familiar cube-style chassis that’s become the default look for lifestyle projectors—compact, portable, and designed to sit just about anywhere without looking like “serious home theater equipment.”

Imaging Chip and Light Output: Inside, the LX60HD uses a single TFT LCD imaging chip paired with an LED light source rated at 630 ANSI lumens. ViewSonic also uses a sealed light engine to reduce the impact of dust and moisture over time.

Resolution: Native 1080p (Full HD).

Optical Engine: The sealed optical engine is designed to help keep dust and moisture from entering the light path—important for a projector that’s likely to be moved around, used in different rooms, or taken on the road.

Connectivity: The LX60HD covers both wireless and wired use cases. Wireless support includes built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. For physical connections, it offers HDMI, USB-C, AV-in, and an audio out port for external speakers or headphones.

Easy Setup: The LX60HD includes a suite of automated setup tools designed to simplify placement and alignment. These features include auto four-corner adjustment, automatic horizontal and vertical keystone correction, auto screen fit, instant autofocus, and obstacle avoidance to help maintain a properly sized and aligned image with minimal manual intervention.

Image Size Options: ViewSonic states that the LX60HD can project images up to 140 inches. In practical terms, it can produce an approximately 50 inch image from about 5 feet away, or scale up to around 100 inches from roughly 9 feet. As with any projector rated at 630 ANSI lumens, overall picture quality will vary depending on ambient light conditions, with best results achieved in dim or darkened rooms.

Google TV: The LX60HD runs on the built-in Google TV platform, providing direct access to a wide range of streaming services, including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Disney+, Max, and others. This allows users to stream content without needing an external media device, keeping setup simple and self-contained.

Wireless Screen Casting Dongle (Optional): ViewSonic also offers the optional PJ-WPD-700 plug and play dongle, which enables wireless screen casting from compatible smartphones and laptops directly to the LX60HD. It is a practical add on for classrooms, meetings, or quick presentations where running cables is not ideal.

ViewSonic LX60HD Projector Specifications

The Bottom Line 

The lifestyle projector space is crowded with inexpensive models that promise the world and deliver a dim flashlight. ViewSonic is at least playing this one straight. The LX60HD’s 630 ANSI lumens puts it ahead of portable competitors like the Xgimi MoGo 4 (450 lumens) and Samsung Freestyle (550 lumens), while still landing under the $300 mark. That matters.

You’re getting native 1080p, solid auto setup tools, built in Bluetooth, and Google TV in one compact cube. For a bedroom, dorm, office, or casual movie night, it makes a lot of sense. Setup is simple. Streaming is built in. Portability is the point.

But let’s keep expectations grounded. 630 lumens is not enough for a large screen home theater in a bright living room. This projector needs dim or near dark conditions to look its best, especially at 100 inches or larger. If you want a daylight TV replacement, this is not it.

The design is clean and easy to move, although a built in carry handle or optional floor stand would have made it even more flexible.

For under $300, the LX60HD offers a portable, affordable lifestyle projector that delivers usable brightness, smart features, and convenience without pretending it can replace a dedicated home theater setup.

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Bungie isn’t taking any prisoners when it comes to cheating on its upcoming extraction shooter, Marathon. In a detailed blog post explaining its anti-cheat measures, Bungie took a very declarative position against those caught trying to gain an unfair advantage.

“We are taking a strong stance against cheating and anyone found to be cheating or developing cheats will be permanently banned from playing Marathon forever, no second chances,” the blog post read, adding that there will be an appeals system in place.

However, Bungie’s anti-cheat standards go beyond punishment. In the blog post, Bungie detailed that Marathon‘s dedicated servers have full authority on movement, shooting, actions, and inventory. Since these key actions rely on the server, it will translate to smoother gunplay for players as well as the prevention of cheats related to teleportation, unlimited ammo or damage manipulation. Bungie is also incorporating a “Fog of War” system that limits an individual player’s client to see only certain regions of a map, which should prevent wall hacks, ESP cheats or loot revealers.

On top of these robust regulations, Bungie is utilizing BattlEye, a kernel-level anticheat that’s seen with other popular multiplayer shooters like Fortnite, Rainbow Six Siege and Destiny 2. Bungie added that in the event of disconnecting, you’ll be able to reconnect to your run without any hitches. If players can’t reconnect due to an issue with the servers, Bungie said it will “attempt to return the starting gear to all impacted players.”

Marathon isn’t out until March 5, but Bungie is doing a preview weekend with the Server Slam event starting February 26. Still, it’s obvious that Bungie already wants to get ahead of the competition, since Arc Raiders, another recently released extraction shooter, has been dealing with its own cheating problem. To address the rise in cheating, the game’s developer, Embark Studios, implemented a three-strike system, which some players have criticized as too lenient.

Spanish authorities have arrested four alleged members of a hacktivist group believed to have carried out cyberattacks targeting government ministries, political parties, and various public institutions.

The group, which called itself “Anonymous Fénix” and claimed they were affiliated with the Anonymous hacker collective, conducted distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets in Spain and several South American countries, according to the Spanish Civil Guard.

The first attacks occurred in April 2023 and peaked after the flash floods that struck Valencia in late October 2024, when the group’s members attacked multiple government websites, claiming Spanish authorities were responsible for the deaths and destruction caused by the storm.

Anonymous Fénix also used X and Telegram to spread anti-government messaging and recruit volunteers for its campaigns.

“From September 2024 they increased their activity and initiated a campaign of recruitment of volunteers with the aim of perpetrating cyberattacks against relevant domains,” the Spanish Civil Guard said over the weekend.

“They reached their peak after the DANA of Valencia when they managed to successfully attack different websites of the Public Administration, justifying that they were ‘the responsible for the tragedy.’”

The Civil Guard arrested the group’s administrator and moderator in May 2025, in Alcalá de Henares, near Madrid, and Oviedo, in the northern region of Asturias. After analyzing the evidence collected following those arrests, investigators identified two additional members of the group as its most active operatives, who were arrested earlier this month in Ibiza and Móstoles, near Madrid.

Following the arrests, Spanish courts also ordered the seizure of the group’s accounts on X and YouTube and ordered the closure of its Telegram channel. No details on specific charges or potential penalties were provided in the Civil Guard’s announcement.

In recent months, Spanish authorities also detained a 19-year-old suspect in Barcelona for allegedly breaching nine companies and dismantled the “GXC Team” crime-as-a-service (CaaS) platform that pushed AI-powered phishing kits, Android malware, and voice-scam tools.

More recently, in January, the Spanish National Police arrested 34 suspects linked to a criminal network involved in cyber fraud and believed to be connected to the Black Axe crime ring.

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The demoscene is still alive and well, and the proof is in this truly awe-inspiring game demo by [daivuk] : a Quake-like “boomer shooter” squeezed into a Windows executable of only 64 kB he calls “QUOD”. We’ve included the full explanation video below, but before you check out all the technical details, consider playing the game. It’ll make his explanations even more impressive.

OK, what’s so impressive? Well, aside from the fact that this is a playable 3D shooter in 64kB, with multiple enemies, multiple levels, oodles of textures, running, jumping et cetera–it’s so Quake-like he’s using TrenchBroom to make the levels. Of course he’s reprocessing them into a more space-efficient, optimized format. Yeah, unlike the famous .kkrieger and a lot of other demos in the 64kB space, this isn’t all procedurally generated. [daivuk] did make his own image editing program for procedurally generated textures, though. Which makes sense: as a PNG, the QUOD logo is probably half the size of the (compressed) executable.

The low-poly models are created in Blender, and all created to be symmetric–having the engine mirror the meshes saves 50% of the vertex data. . Blender is just exporting half of a low-poly mesh; just as he wrote his own image editor, he has his own bespoke model tool. This allows tiling model elements, as well as handling bones and poses to keyframe the model’s animation.

Audio is treated similarly to textures and meshes: built up at runtime from stored data and a layered series of effects. When you realize all the sounds were put together in his sound tool from square and sine waves, it makes it very impressive. He’s also got an old-style tracker to create the music. All of these tools output byte arrays that get embedded directly in the game code.

The video also gets into some of his optimization techniques; we like his use of a map file and analyzing it with a python tool to find the exact size of game elements and test his optimizations thereby. One thing he notes is that his optmizations are all for space, not for speed. Except, perhaps, for one thing: [daivuk] created a new language and virtual machine for the game, which seems downright extravagant. It actually makes sense, though, as the virtual machine can be optimized for the limits of the game, as he explains starting at about 20 minutes into the video. Apparently it saved a whole 2kB, which seems like nothing these days but actually let [daivuk] fit an extra level into his 64kB limit. Sure, it’s still bigger than Quake13k–and how did we never cover that?–but you get a lot more game, too.

So, to recap: [daivuk] didn’t just make a game with an impressively tiny size on disk, he made the entire toolchain, and a language for it to boot. If you think this is overoptimized, check out Wolfenstien in 600 lines of AWK. Of course in spite of the 1980s file size, this needs modern hardware to run. You can get surprising graphics performance from a fraction of that, like this ATtiny sprite engine.

Thanks to [Keith Olson] for the tip, which probably took up more than 64kB on our tips line.

from the about-face dept

One of the more perplexing questions in all of the coverage I’ve done on RFK Jr. has been whether or not Kennedy is some misguided true believer or if this is all some grift for power, influence, and/or money. While most people who watch how RFK Jr. has operated on the topic of vaccines, for instance, both before and after he entered government, they assume he’s a real, if stupid, crusader. But they will tell you the same when it comes to processed foods and pesticides, two topics on which Kennedy has also crusaded for years, and two topics that have been noticeably absent or reversed now that he’s in government.

The pesticide topic was recently thrust back into the news. Trump signed an executive order that essentially demanded that two chemicals be produced in higher quantities: phosphorus and glyphosate. Kennedy then came out to cheerlead the executive order as well, which was odd when you consider what glyphosate is chiefly used for.

Trump on Wednesday night signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to compel the domestic production of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides. Glyphosate is the chemical in Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup and is the most commonly used herbicide for a slew of U.S. crops. Trump, in the order, said shortages of both phosphorus and glyphosate would pose a risk to national security.

Kennedy backed the president in a statement to CNBC Thursday morning.

“Donald Trump’s Executive Order puts America first where it matters most — our defense readiness and our food supply,” he said. “We must safeguard America’s national security first, because all of our priorities depend on it. When hostile actors control critical inputs, they weaken our security. By expanding domestic production, we close that gap and protect American families.”

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Bayer-Monsanto has been the defendant in a number of lawsuits over its Roundup product. Specifically, those suits have been powered by claims that glyphosate causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of cancer primarily impacting blood cells. Whether or not you or I think those claims are true, Kennedy sure said he did, since he acted as counsel in some of these suits.

Kennedy, a former environmental attorney, notably once won a nearly $290 million case against Monsanto for a man who claimed his cancer was caused by Roundup. The executive order came down one day after Bayer proposed paying $7.25 billion to settle a series of lawsuits claiming Roundup causes cancer.

The MAHA crowd is understandably pissed. Building a career on these very concrete health stances, only to reverse course while in government to appease Dear Leader, is a fairly horrible look. And it’s actually a worst of both worlds situation, as his MAHA crowd is pointing to his failed promises and hypocrisy, while those who are generally his opponents are pointing out that this might be a stance in which he was actually acting rationally before pulling a u-turn.

“This was one of the few issues where Secretary Kennedy actually embraced credible science,” said Kayla Hancock, Director of Public Health Watch, a project of Protect Our Care. “But RFK Jr. tossed out his years of anti-pesticide advocacy and conviction like a used tissue to stay in the good graces of Donald Trump, who cares more about making his chemical company donors happy than protecting the public’s health. This makes it clear, Secretary Kennedy has no problem selling out his supposed value if there’s a quick buck to be made for special interest donors, or political points to be scored.” 

This seems as close to a solid answer to the question I posed at the start of this post as we’re likely to get. Kennedy, whatever else he might be, is not a true-believing crusader willing to hold firm to his beliefs. He simply does and says whatever will propel his influence and revenue. That’s it.

You’ve been lied to, MAHA people. Lied to and used to put in office the very people who have betrayed you. Let that sink in.

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