Fans of the Studio Trigger anime Kill la Kill are in for a treat towards the end of July when the vagrant school girl Ryuko arrives on the Switch in her very first fighting game adaptation.

Following on from the initial reveal of the game around the same time last year, Arc System Works has now confirmed a Switch demo of Kill la Kill: IF will be made available alongside the game’s launch, on 25th / 26th July. It will include a Versus Mode – featuring a total of four playable characters (Ryuko Matoi, Satsuki Kiryuin, Ira Gamagoori and Uzu Sanageyama), and the first story mode chapter.

If you’re wondering why the Switch demo is releasing alongside the game, it’s “due to reasons”, according to the official Arc System Works America Twitter account. Other versions of the demo go live on Monday, 8th July. Digital pre-orders for Switch version are expected to follow sometime next week.

Update #2: Due to reasons, the Switch demo won’t be ready until the launch of the game.

Will you be downloading this demo or buying the full game on release? Leave a comment down below.

Based on our work with consumers and organizations of all sizes, across more than 800 million Windows devices, we’ve learned that it’s easier to deploy Windows 10 when using the powerful intelligence of the cloud and machine learning. Since the Windows 10 April 2018 Update release, we’ve leveraged artificial intelligence (AI) at scale to improve the quality and reliability of our release rollouts. And along the way, we’ve learned the best ways to help ensure devices have a positive update experience.

Today, we’re making these same learnings available to organizations through the public preview of Desktop Analytics, which is available now. Desktop Analytics provides the insight and automation you need to efficiently get current and stay current. Desktop Analytics is a cloud-connected service that integrates with System Center Configuration Manager and will integrate with Microsoft Intune in the near future. With Desktop Analytics, it’s easier to deploy with confidence and keep your PCs up to date with the latest Windows 10 capabilities your employees need.

“With Desktop Analytics, we’re able to automate our pilot plans to ensure all application and hardware scenarios can be tested and validated prior to upgrading to the latest release of Windows 10.”
—Jason Myers, End User Senior Lead, Mars

This service provides intelligence that helps you make more informed decisions about the update readiness of your Windows clients. In combination with Configuration Manager, Desktop Analytics is designed to create an inventory of the Windows apps running in your organization and then assess app compatibility with the latest feature updates of Windows 10. By combining data from your own organization with data aggregated from millions of devices connected to our cloud services, you can take the guess work out of testing these apps and instead focus your attention on key blockers. Historically, getting a view of the compatibility of your apps with new Windows releases was a time-consuming and tedious process of human testing—but now this can be automated through the intelligence of what we learn at cloud scale.

Desktop Analytics brings you data-driven recommendations that allow you to quickly and easily run successful pilots that represent your entire application and driver estate. You can then use the health signals of your pilots to evaluate the readiness of your assets and implement an optimized production deployment plan with Configuration Manager.

As Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft 365, explained last September, Desktop Analytics is the evolution of Windows Analytics, adding deeper integration with Configuration Manager and providing a ring-based approach to deployment using health signals.

To learn more and get started with the public preview, read our Desktop Analytics article. For additional resources, check out the new Desktop Analytics community and read more details on Tech Community.

Newsbrief: Keywords Studios has opened a recording studio in São Paulo, Brazil to support and expand its existing localization services in the country.

The move builds on the company’s 2018 acquisition of Maximal Studios, and gives its Brazilian localization efforts access to six individual recording studios as well as space for production and project management work.

In a press release, Keywords notes that the new studio also introduces a dedicated and scalable solution for Brazilian Portuguese voiceover recording, something it says was previously lacking in the localization filed.

“Brazil is a key territory for video-games,” says Nicolas Liorzou, Keywords Studios Americas’ regional managing director. “We believe that with this expanded studio in São Paulo, we’ll now be in the best position to accommodate the always-increasing needs of our customers in Brazilian Portuguese voice-over.”

Starting at 6:00 p.m. PST today, members of the Xbox One Preview Alpha Ring will begin receiving the latest 1907 Xbox One system update (Build: 19H1_RELEASE_XBOX_DEV_1907\18362.5047.190628-1920).

DETAILS:

• OS version released: 19H1_RELEASE_XBOX_DEV_1907\18362.5047.190628-1920
• Available: 6:00PM PDT 6/29/19
• Mandatory Date/Time: 3:00 AM PDT 6/30/19

Fixes:

Home

• Fixed an issue where the background artwork for a game would not be displayed on the Home screen.

System

• Stability fixes to the system.

Known Issues:

Profile Color

• Sometimes users may encounter the incorrect Profile color when powering on the console.

Happy Bungie Day!

7’s up, Guardians. Years ago you, the community, made 7/7 the unofficial celebration of everything Bungie. Fast forward to today, we’ve kept the name but it’s become the official celebration of all of you, the best community in the solar system.

We hope you’ll join us today in taking a moment to reflect on all of the unforgettable fireteams, friendships, and families that you’ve made over the years. Each one has contributed to building this amazing community into what it is today.

Thank you for everything, Guardians.

Moments of Triumph

Starting July 9, 2019, Moments of Triumph for Year 2 of Destiny 2 will become available. Players will be challenged to complete triumphs that span content throughout the solar system, from the Dreaming City to the EDZ. This year will be fairly straight forward: Complete in-game triumphs, unlock rewards.

Rewards

So, what’s available day one? We’ll have Triumphs for players to complete throughout various activities and releases. Players who own Destiny 2 will have the ability to earn all in-game rewards. In order to earn the 2019 Moments of Triumph T-shirt offer, players will need to own Destiny 2: Forsaken. To complete all 2019 Triumphs and unlock their title, players will need to own the Destiny 2 Annual Pass.

Triumphs

Solstice of Heroes Triumphs

Solstice of heroes will also bring some new loot for players to earn this summer. Keep your eyes peeled, we’ll have a blog article on July 24 to show off the upcoming event!

Moments of Triumph will be available from July 7 through August 27, 2019.

Refreshing Stock

If you make a purchase this week, you will receive a code for the Sign of Celebration emblem, available through July 13.

Formal Attire

Before we go, we want to say thank you again for being such an amazing community. We’ve gone through our archives of concept art and hand-picked a few pieces for you to adorn your screens with.

Oh, and don’t forget…

Happy Bungie Day. We’ll see you starside.

<3,

Bungie

The Nintendo Switch Online service might have only been launched late last year, but it’s already got more than 10 million subscribers. Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed this at the company’s recent Shareholder Q&A.

The number of subscribers for Nintendo Switch Online has increased steadily since the service was launched last September, and it has now surpassed 10 million accounts.

It’s been well-known the service was close to 10 million users since April.

When asked about how Nintendo would “continue to make the content of the service more appealing going forward” he referenced existing offerings such as the online NES library and Tetris 99. He also mentioned how current subscribers gained access to additional services like Save Data Cloud Backup and game vouchers.

Nintendo Switch Online provides users the ability to play Nintendo Switch games over the internet, both competitively and cooperatively. It also provides services such as Nintendo Entertainment System – Nintendo Switch Online, Save Data Cloud Backup, and smartphone application services such as online lobbies and voice chat. In addition, we provided TETRIS 99 as a special offer to Nintendo Switch Online members this February, and then in May, began selling Nintendo Switch Game Vouchers that allow users to purchase two Nintendo Switch download titles at a discount.

How would you like to see Nintendo improve the value of the online service moving forward? Tell us below.

One of the most requested Pokémon games of all-time is a sequel to the 1999 Nintendo 64 title, Pokémon Snap. Will it ever happen, though? While fans have been hoping for a follow-up for a long time now, according to Game Freak’s Junichi Masuda, it’s going to need to have a very unique twist.

During an interview with Metro’s Game Central, Masuda was asked why there hadn’t already been a new Snap game, following the release of the Wii U GamePad and Nintendo Labo Camera Toy-Con. This was his reply:

“All I can say is that I don’t think we can just make the same thing again. So we’d have to come up with a very unique twist on this if we do make another one.”

So, it’s going to need to be something seriously special and apparently, the Labo Toy-Con Camera might not be enough of a spin, either.

What do you think? Would a sequel to the original N64 title actually need a unique twist? Or would an updated roster of pocket monsters to snap be enough? Leave a comment below.

Fedora, like all Linux based systems, comes with a powerful set of security features. One of the basic features is permissions on files and folders. These permissions allow files and folders to be secured from unauthorized access. This article explains a bit about these permissions, and shows you how to share access to a folder using them.

Permission basics

Fedora is by nature a multi-user operating system. It also has groups, which users can be members of. But imagine for a moment a multi-user system with no concept of permissions. Different logged in users could read each other’s content at will. This isn’t very good for privacy or security, as you can imagine.

Any file or folder on Fedora has three sets of permissions assigned. The first set is for the user who owns the file or folder. The second is for the group that owns it. The third set is for everyone else who’s not the user who owns the file, or in the group that owns the file. Sometimes this is called the world.

What permissions mean

Each set of permissions comes in three flavors — read, write, and execute. Each of these has an initial that stands for the permission, thus r, w, and x.

File permissions

For files, here’s what these permissions mean:

• Read ®: the file content can be read
• Write (w): the file content can be changed
• Execute (x): the file can be executed — this is used primarily for programs or scripts that are meant to be run directly

You can see the three sets of these permissions when you do a long listing of any file. Try this with the /etc/services file on your system:

$ ls -l /etc/services
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 692241 Apr 9 03:47 /etc/services

Notice the groups of permissions at the left side of the listing. These are provided in three sets, as mentioned above — for the user who owns the file, for the group that owns the file, and for everyone else. The user owner is root and the group owner is the root group. The user owner has read and write access to the file. Anyone in the group root can only read the file. And finally, anyone else can also only read the file. (The dash at the far left shows this is a regular file.)

By the way, you’ll commonly find this set of permissions on many (but not all) system configuration files. They are only meant to be changed by the system administrator, not regular users. Often regular users need to read the content as well.

Folder (directory) permissions

For folders, the permissions have slightly different meaning:

• Read ®: the folder contents can be read (such as the ls command)
• Write (w): the folder contents can be changed (files can be created or erased in this folder)
• Execute (x): the folder can be searched, although its contents cannot be read. (This may sound strange, but the explanation requires more complex details of file systems outside the scope of this article. So just roll with it for now.)

Take a look at the /etc/grub.d folder for example:

$ ls -ld /etc/grub.d
drwx------. 2 root root 4096 May 23 16:28 /etc/grub.d

Note the d at the far left. It shows this is a directory, or folder. The permissions show the user owner (root) can read, change, and cd into this folder. However, no one else can do so — whether they’re a member of the root group or not. Notice you can’t cd into the folder, either:

$ cd /etc/grub.d
bash: cd: /etc/grub.d: Permission denied

Notice how your own home directory is setup:

$ ls -ld $HOME
drwx------. 221 paul paul 28672 Jul 3 14:03 /home/paul

Now, notice how no one, other than you as the owner, can access anything in this folder. This is intentional! You wouldn’t want others to be able to read your private content on a shared system.

Making a shared folder

You can exploit this permissions capability to easily make a folder to share within a group. Imagine you have a group called finance with several members who need to share documents. Because these are user documents, it’s a good idea to store them within the /home folder hierarchy.

To get started, use sudo to make a folder for sharing, and set it to be owned by the finance group:

$ sudo mkdir -p /home/shared/finance
$ sudo chgrp finance /home/shared/finance

By default the new folder has these permissions. Notice how it can be read or searched by anyone, even if they can’t create or erase files in it:

drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 6 15:35 finance

That doesn’t seem like a good idea for financial data. Next, use the chmod command to change the mode (permissions) of the shared folder. Note the use of g to change the owning group’s permissions, and o to change other users’ permissions. Similarly, u would change the user owner’s permissions:

$ sudo chmod g+w,o-rx /home/shared/finance

The resulting permissions look better. Now, anyone in the finance group (or the user owner root) have total access to the folder and its contents:

drwxrwx---. 2 root root 4096 Jul 6 15:35 finance

If any other user tries to access the shared folder, they won’t be able to do so. Great! Now our finance group can put documents in a shared place.

Other notes

There are additional ways to manipulate these permissions. For example, you may want any files in this folder to be set as owned by the group finance. This requires additional settings not covered in this article, but stay tuned to the Magazine for more on that topic soon.

By Amber Neely
Sunday, July 07, 2019, 02:22 pm PT (05:22 pm ET)

Bill Gates has spoken of Steve Jobs’ ability to mesmerize people an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS show, equating Jobs’ talent to magic.

According to Bloomberg, Bill Gates was impressed by Steve Jobs’ ability to take a firm that was “on a path to die” and turn it into one of the most valuable companies to date. He claimed that this was largely because Steve Jobs possessed an almost magical ability to mesmerize people.

“I was like a minor wizard because he would be casting spells, and I would see people mesmerized, but because I’m a minor wizard, the spells don’t work on me,” said Gates.

Gates also went on to discuss Jobs’ ability to innately understand what made both people and products a worthwhile investment.

“I have yet to meet any person who [could rival Jobs] in terms of picking talent, hyper-motivating that talent, and having a sense of design of, oh, this is good [or] this is not good,” Gates continued.

CNN’s segment is the latest in a series of interviews with many publications, in which Gates has spoken specifically about Apple. In one recent conversation, Gates expressed regret over not successfully competing with Apple in the mobile market.

“The greatest mistake is whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is,” he said. “That is, Android is the standard non-Apple phone platform.”

CNN has not released the interview online yet, but has featured a prior Gates’ interview in which he discussed his thoughts on government regulation of technology firms, as well as what he would have done differently.