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USA fight back in Honduras to revive World Cup qualifying campaign | World Cup 2022 qualifiers

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Antonee Robinson and Ricardo Pepi scored their first international goals after a half-time change in formation, Brenden Aaronson and Sebastian Lletget added late goals and the United States revived its World Cup qualifying campaign with a 4-1 win over Honduras on Wednesday night.

US captain Christian Pulisic joined the lengthy American injured list, limping off in the 60th.

Brayan Maya put Honduras ahead in the 27th minute of a one-sided first half as the Catrachos dominated before a horn-blowing full house at Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano.

Robinson scored in the 48th minute and Pepi, starting in his international debut, in the 75th. Aaronson scored off a slick pass from Pepi in the 86th, and Lletget added his eighth international goal in the third minute of stoppage as Catrachos fans cheers turned to boos and whistles.

Criticized for waiting too long to insert substitutes on Sunday against Canada, US coach Gregg Berhalter injected Robinson, Lletget and Aaronson to start the second half for John Brooks, George Bello and Josh Sargent.

Following a counter led by Pulisic, Lletget’s cross was redirected in front by Pepi, and Robinson volleyed from 7 yards for his first goal in 15 international appearances.

Pulslic needed treatment after a challenge, then fell to the ground after trying to sprint on a dribble. He was replaced by Cristian Roldan and joined Sergio Dest, Gio Reyna and Zack Steffen with injuries.

The 18-year-old Pepi put the US ahead in the 75th off a cross from DeAndre Yedlin, another sub.

Pepi became the 65th player to appear for the US since the October 2017 loss at Trinidad and Tobago ended a streak of seven straight World Cup appearances and the 42nd under Berhalter.

Aaronson, who scored his first goal in Sunday’s 1-1 draw against Canada, added his goal on a counter off a feed from Pepi.

Mexico lead the North and Central American and Caribbean with seven points, followed by Panama, Canada and the US with five each. Honduras and El Salvador have two each, and Jamaica none.

Following draws at El Salvador and at home against Canada, the US are in decent shape after three of the 14 matches. Qualifying resumes in October.

The US won for just the third time in 34 road qualifiers in which it conceded first (five draws).

Berhalter made five lineup changes, giving Pepi his national team debut and inserting Bello, Mark McKenzie and James Sands for their qualifying debuts and bringing back Sargent, who started the opener. They joined Pulisic and midfielders Tyler Adams and Kellyn Acosta in what appeared to be a 3-5-2 formation, with Adams playing wide on the right rather than defensive midfield.

Moya scored when he redirected a cross from Diego Rodríguez past goalkeeper Matt Turner after Brooks failed to make a tackle upfield.

Bello, making just his fourth international appearance, left Moya unmarked.

Notes Canada beat visiting El Salvador 3-0 on goals by Atiba Hutchison, Jonathan David and Tajon Buchanan. … Mexico got a 76th-minute goal from Jesus Corona in a 1-1 draw at Panama, which went ahead on Rolando Blackburn’s 28th-minute goal. … Costa Rica were held to a 1-1 draw by visiting Jamaica. Jimmy Marín scored in the third minute for the hosts and Shamar Nicholson tied the score in the 47th.

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Apex Legends Hackers Accused Of Complex Plot To Revive Titanfall Online

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In an attempt to create awareness for the current issues surrounding Titanfall’s multiplayer, hackers briefly took over Apex Legends last month. Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall games have been largely unplayable on PC for several months now due to constant distributed denial of service attacks, and its now alleged that the hackers looking to raise awareness may in fact be the same people responsible for Titanfall’s current problems.

The hackers who managed to advertise the site “SaveTitanfall.com” on a playlist in the lobby in Apex Legends denied any involvement with the Titanfall hackers and they released their own collection of evidence that accused several individuals of taking part in a convoluted scheme to gain access to Titanfall’s source code, as reported by Rock Paper Shotgun.

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“Originally, SaveTitanfall.com was a partnership between different Titanfall communities united to bring attention to the state of the games and give accurate information about the problems,” the report said. “Unfortunately, they decided to put their personal goals–promoting their server and personal Titanfall community project–above the good of the game and instead took advantage of the hard work of others when it was convenient for them.”

The report claims that hacker p0358 was to blame for most of Titanfall 1 and 2’s ongoing issues so that Titanfall Online could be revived. A free-to-play spin-off originally in development by Nexon for Asian markets, this project was eventually canceled in 2018.

P0358’s alleged scheme was centered on offering Titanfall fixes to Respawn in exchange for the game’s source code before a community investigation began making claims that P0358 and other partners were involved in the grand scheme.

The accused hackers have so far denied these allegations and released statements of their own to prove their innocence.

In summary, the story boils down to hackers constantly attacking both Titanfall games and supposedly posing as the eleventh-hour heroes all in an effort to gain access to the game’s source code, with the plan eventually being discovered by the game’s community. The hackers who launched their campaign on Apex Legends deny this, and both Titanfall games are still suffering from DDOS attacks on PC.

While Respawn and publisher EA are aware of the current state of the games, it’s a problem that the developer hasn’t been able to fix yet due to the games only having a skeleton crew working on them.

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New Data Revive Early Theory on Pandemic’s Origin

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One of 18 scientists to sign a May letter upping the idea that the novel coronavirus may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology says new evidence points in another direction: the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. “I do think transmission from another species, without a lab escape, is the most likely scenario by a long shot,” Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona, tells NPR. “The data are very consistent with it starting at the market.” A March report from the World Health Organization was inconclusive on whether the outbreak started at the market, though it did suggest transmission from bats to humans through another animal. Worobey—co-author of a new online review who’s used computer models to show how SARS-CoV-2 spread through Wuhan, China—says that report failed to look at the location of early known COVID-19 cases in relation to the market.

Since signing the letter, Worobey has worked with microbiologist Robert Garry of Tulane University to map where people with early confirmed cases lived in Wuhan. The Wuhan Institute of Virology sits outside the initial cluster of cases. But the seafood market, more than 10 miles away, “seems like the bull’s-eye,” says Worobey. “It’s pretty extraordinary.” Plus, a recent study showed the market was one of four in Wuhan selling illegal wildlife, including palm civets and raccoon dogs, “which are the likely suspects as intermediaries to SARS-CoV-2,” says Worobey. Civets are thought to have caused the SARS-CoV pandemic in 2003, per NPR. This new research comes as WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls on China to release early “raw data” and allow greater access to its labs so scientists can better understand SARS-CoV-2’s origin, per Science. (Wuhan’s only foreign virologist thinks the lab-leak theory is unlikely.)

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Intel to Revive ‘Tick-Tock’ Model, Unquestioned CPU Leadership Performance in 2024/2025

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As part of today’s announcements, during Intel’s Q&A session after the prepared remarks, CEO Pat Gelsinger explained how Intel is going to revive its fortunes when it comes to its leading edge compute products. One of Gelsinger’s mantras seems to be that unquestioned leadership products bring unquestioned leadership margins for those products, and for Intel to execute, it needs to return to its days of old.

In the past, through the 1990s, 2000s, and into the 2010s, Intel’s manufacturing philosophy was known as ‘Tick-Tock’. This means that for every product generation, the leading edge compute hardware was either a Tick (process node enhancement), or a Tock (microarchitecture enhancement). Each generation would alternate between the two, allowing Intel to take advantage of a familiar design on a new process node, or using a mature node to enable a new performance-focused design. That policy was scuppered when delays to Intel’s 10nm forced Intel into more of a Tick-Tock-Optimization-Optimization-Optimization model.

Today CEO Pat Gelsinger stated that at Intel’s core it has to re-establish the Tick-Tock model that enabled repeated leadership in the CPU ecosystem, buoyed by a healthy CPU roadmap. Part of this is re-establishing discipline in Intel’s ranks to continually provide both microarchitecture updates and process node updates on a regular expected cadence. Pat stated as part of the call that Intel will look towards a confirmed yearly process node improvement, and as a result, there might be a lot of Ticks in the future, with a push to more Tocks as well.

On top of this commentary, Pat Gelsinger also stated that Intel’s CPU roadmaps are already baked in through 2021, 2022, and 2023. The company is thus looking to 2024/2025 for ‘unquestioned CPU leadership performance’, which traditionally means the fastest processor for single thread and multi-thread workloads. This is for sure a laudable goal, however Intel will also have to adapt to a changing landscape of chiplet processor designs (coming in 2023), enhancing on-die accelerators (GNA already present), and also what it means to have leadership performance – in the modern era, leadership performance doesn’t mean much if you’re also pushing lots of Watts. Intel stated that its 7nm process is now comfortably on track to deliver Meteor Lake, a client CPU using tiles/chiplets, in 2023, however we are likely looking to a 7nm variant or even external processes for a 2024/2025 product. Intel has also stated that it is looking to consider the core of its leading edge compute on external foundry processes, although one might argue that this doesn’t explicitly say ‘CPU’.

It is also worth noting that Intel/Gelsinger isn’t calling its disaggregated silicon as ‘chiplets’, and prefers to use the term ‘tiles’.  This is because Intel’s tiles amount to long wires across 3D packaging technologies like EMIB and Foveros, compared to package-based multi-die interconnect that require buffers as well as control fabric. Tiles by this definition are more costly to implement than chiplets, and have additional thermal considerations by having high-powered silicon close together, so it will be interesting to see how Intel balances these new packaging technologies with the more cost-sensitive elements of its portfolio, such as client processors.

It’s been known that Intel’s microarchitecture teams haven’t been idle waiting for 10nm to come through the pipe, with a number of designs ready and waiting to go for when the process node technology matures. With any luck, if Intel can get a headwind with 7nm, when 2024 rolls around it might all come thick and fast.

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Thailand allowing tourists to quarantine on yachts in bid to revive Phuket tourism

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If you have to quarantine, you might as well quarantine in style.

Thailand’s government is testing a program that would allow tourists to complete their mandatory quarantine periods on yachts off the coast of Phuket. Previous guidance stipulated that visitors remain on their yachts for 14 days before completing an additional 14-day quarantine on land — at their own expense — before exploring Phuket Island.

During that time, tourists will be allowed off their boats to swim but may not visit the shore, reports Phuket News.

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The new guidelines are aimed at helping the country’s tourism industry recover following a drastic drop in tourism, and even a brief ban on all visitors, amid the global pandemic. Phuket alone lost an estimated $10 billion in tourism revenue over the last 12 months, the Bangkok Post reported.

Thailand’s new test program has already accepted 100 yachts for its trial run, which is expected to bring up to 500 tourists, according to the Bangkok Post.

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Those taking part in the test will also be required to wear smart wristbands to transmit data from up to 10 kilometers offshore, including information about their temperature and blood pressure. The Royal Thai Navy will also be monitoring the ships and visitors from a base in Cape Panwa, according to Business Insider.

Cruising yachts anchored off the Royal Meridien Phuket Yacht Club Nai Han Bay Phuket Thailand. (Andrew Woodley/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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News of Thailand’s new yacht guidelines comes amid the country’s relaxed regulations for foreign visitors. As of April, tourists to Thailand will only be required to quarantine for 10 days after providing proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken within three days of departure from their home country, per Reuters.

Visitors with proof of vaccination, meanwhile, will only need to quarantine for seven days after providing documentation of negative COVID-19 tests taken within three days of departure.

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