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Microsoft released the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update yesterday. It has been discovered that the update brings a new anti-cheat feature for games. PC game developers can use this feature to prevent cheating in their titles. The feature, called TruePlay, was first mentioned in a Windows 10 Insider Build over the summer. Microsoft didn’t really reveal many details about it back then.
TruePlay is capable of running as a protected process, meaning that it’s capable of monitoring gaming sessions for the manipulations that are commonly used by cheaters. The feature can then create an alert and share it with developers when it detects cheating behavior.
“To ensure and protect customer privacy while preventing false positives, these data are only shared with developers after processing has determined cheating is likely to have occurred,” Microsoft explains in its MSDN page.
Microsoft does add that it’s up to the developers if they want to exclude select parts of the game from monitoring. This suggests that this feature is meant more preventing cheating in online modes and not necessarily restricting players from doing the same in single-player modes.
Users have the option to toggle this feature off at system level but if they do that, it can prevent them from playing parts of a game that make it mandatory for TruePlay to be turned on. The feature is turned off by default currently and it’s not known if any games are relying on it so far.
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Nobody is going to hold a grudge against you if you forgot about the Mac mini. Apple hasn’t updated this product in over three years but it seems that the company isn’t pulling the plug on the Mac mini just yet. In response to a query about the Mac mini’s future, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that it remains an “important part” of Apple’s product lineup.
Tim Cook was asked over email by if there’s anything in the pipeline as far as the Mac mini is concerned. Cook’s response doesn’t suggest that there’s a new one in the pipeline, but what it does reveal is that the Mac mini will probably not get the axe anytime soon.
Cook said in his reply that “while it is not the time to share any details,” the company does plan for the Mac mini to be an “important part” of its product line going forward. This does give us some hope that the Mac mini will eventually receive an update.
Just how long that’s going to take remains to be seen, though. There haven’t been any rumors about a new Mac mini recently so it may be a while before a new one is launched. When we start hearing rumors about one, it will be a good indication that perhaps a new Mac mini is just around the corner.
Tim Cook Says Mac Mini Is An ‘Important Part’ Of Apple’s Lineup , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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