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If you’re a macOS user, you probably know that Safari is your default browser, but at the same time there are other options out there such as Google Chrome. However if you ever needed a reason to come back to Safari, then perhaps the update to Safari in the upcoming macOS High Sierra release could be tempting.

As expected with the update, Apple will be adding some new features to Safari. One of those features includes Autoplay blocking. If you hate websites that play videos or audio automatically in the background, which can get very annoying if you have multiple tabs open at once and you’re trying to track the source, Autoplay blocking will come in handy.

This will be enabled by default across all websites, but users can later specify which they want to allow/disallow individually. Note that there are already extensions available that do this, but if you wanted a built-in feature, then we guess this is it. Moving on, another feature that will be added to Safari comes in the form of Intelligent Tracking Prevention.

This will use local machine learning to help identify cookie types used by websites and to partition them or purge the cross-site scripting data from them. Basically the idea is to help prevent your computer from being tracked by ad trackers across multiple websites, which is great for privacy and could potentially improve on browsing speed.

macOS High Sierra will be released later this year but the new features in Safari can be found in the upcoming Public Beta of the operating system which should be available later this month.

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Whenever we see mashups of various Nintendo franchises, it is usually done by Nintendo themselves and with existing Nintendo properties, such as in the case of Mario Kart and the Super Smash Bros. franchises. However this year Nintendo will be attempting something different with Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle.

Announced by Ubisoft at E3 2017, it seems that the rumors have come true as this game is essentially a mix of characters from the Mario universe and Ubisoft’s Rabbids characters. Its description reads, “The Mushroom Kingdom has been torn apart by a mysterious vortex, transporting the chaotic Rabbids into this once peaceful land. To restore order, Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach and Yoshi must team up with a whole new crew: four Rabbids heroes! Together, they will battle with weapons through four worlds filled with combat, puzzles, and unpredictable enemies.”

It is something of a tactical RPG and given Nintendo’s play style, it appears to be a rather lighthearted and somewhat silly game that looks like it could be a lot of fun. It will involve players duking it out on small battlefields where they can hide, launch attacks, and so on, which some have likened to games such as XCom.

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle has been designed exclusively for the Nintendo Switch and is expected to be released on the 29th of August later this year.

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Infowars host Alex Jones declared victory Monday against the mainstream media and their “globalist” agenda, six days before his controversial interview with NBC is scheduled to air.  

“I win by going into the Gorgon’s pit and I survive,” Jones said. “I survived going into that lair. And that’s what it’s all about.”

The Gorgon, in this case, is NBC host Megyn Kelly, who Jones also referred to Monday as a “fembot Dr. Evil.” The descriptions are on-brand for Infowars, where Jones warns daily on the internet of dark forces plotting against him and his liberty-loving audience. It’s where he’s also helped fuel conspiracy theories, like the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks being an “inside job,” and the slaughter of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School a hoax.

Such conspiracy mongering wouldn’t so dangerous if unhinged individuals weren’t threatening the parents of dead children, or if Infowars didn’t have influence in the White House. President Donald Trump, known for pushing conspiracy theories himself, has appeared on the show, and longtime outside adviser Roger Stone is regular guest and occasional fill-in host.

Kelly cited Trump’s fondness for Infowars as justification for booking Jones on her Sunday evening newsmagazine in response to criticism that has included complaints from families of Sandy Hook victims and calls on social media to boycott the network. 

Networks have aired interviews with mass murderers like Charles Manson and brutal dictators like Syria’s Bashar Assad. So it’s tough to argue that the appearance of Jones on broadcast television should be taboo. 

But in deciding to “shine a light” on Jones, NBC risks of giving a spotlight to a provocateur known for promoting misleading claims ― and providing him with a new audience. 

A promotional clip released Sunday from the interview showed Kelly challenging Jones on Sandy Hook, and pointing out when he dodged a question about his views. Still, Jones is seen on camera sowing doubt about a matter of fact. That 20 children and six educators were murdered in Newtown, Connecticut, isn’t up for debate. 

For a TV journalist interviewing Jones, it can be asymmetrical warfare. He’s unlikely to be suddenly swayed by fact-based evidence, redirects pointed questions, and in the end can frame the entire interview as an attempt by the nefarious mainstream media to silence him. And his fans will eat it up. 

Recently, “60 Minutes” anchor Scott Pelley tried nailing down Mike Cernovich for a segment on “fake news,” but the right-wing media personality chocked up their competing views as due to operating in “different universes.” BuzzFeed’s Charlie Warzel wrote that Cernovich “was able to take an interview designed to discredit him and use it to his advantage.”

Jones has already played up the Kelly interview for his audience, and is likely to to do more in the days leading up to its Sunday airing and beyond. On Monday’s show, Jones said he taped the four-hour interview with Kelly and plans to expose news media manipulation after it airs.

“I knew it’d be rigged,” he said. “I knew she was lying to me. I knew she was deceiving. I knew it was a giant hit piece.”

Jones said the only way he could fail was to not do the interview. He said he warned NBC they were walking into his trap by sitting down with him. 

Jerome Corsi, a leading proponent of the racially fueled birther conspiracy theory aimed a former President Barack Obama, now Infowars’ Washington bureau chief, speculated that Kelly could have been assigned to interview Jones as part of a deep-state conspiracy to tarnish the host as an ally of Russia. Jones did not dispute the theory.

With Jones, whose attorney recently tried explaining his erratic behavior as performance art in his child custody case, it’s unclear what he actually believes and what is schtick. It’s hard for a journalist, even one with the best of intentions, to pin him down on specifics.

Jones returned in the evening, after his four-hour Infowars show ended, to respond to the media firestorm from Sandy Hook families, claiming NBC’s teaser misrepresented his views. He said he believed Sandy Hook was “real,” even if some details in media accounts were not.

“They did not have me in there saying I believe children died there at Sandy Hook,” Jones said of the promotional clip. “They had it edited where I sounded like I said nobody did. And the headlines are I doubled down. That’s why I’m calling for the piece not to air Sunday on Father’s Day.”

Some Sandy Hook parents have asked for the same.

The network, with the controversy sure to generate big ratings, is unlikely to budge.  

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