Amaya Toman If you own a PlayStation game console and wanted to enjoy the past weekend by playing online, there is a high probability that you were unpleasantly surprised by the outage of the PlayStation Network online service. You were definitely not alone in this situation, the outage was then confirmed by Sony itself. Today's summary of the day will continue to talk about the communication platform Zoom, but this time not in connection with the news - scientists from Stanford University came up with the term "video conference fatigue" and told people what causes it and how it can be solved. We will also mention a serious security error in the Windows 10 operating system, which Microsoft managed to solve after a relatively long time - but there is one catch.
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Zoom fatigue
It will be almost a year since the coronavirus pandemic forced many of us into the four walls of our homes, from where some often participate in calls with their colleagues, superiors, partners or even classmates via the Zoom communication platform. If you have recently registered exhaustion and fatigue from communicating via Zoom, believe that you are definitely not alone, and that scientists even have a name for this phenomenon. Extensive research conducted by Professor Jeremy Ballenson from Stanford University has shown that there are several causes of so-called "video conference fatigue". In his academic study for the journal Technology, Mind and Behavior, Bailenson states that one of the causes of video conferencing exhaustion is the constant eye contact that occurs in unnatural amounts. During video conferences, users must in many cases carefully focus on watching the faces of other participants, which the human brain evaluates as a kind of stressful situation, according to Bailenson. Bailenson also states that watching themselves on a computer monitor is also exhausting for users. Other problems are limited mobility and sensory overload. The solution to all these problems must have occurred to those who do not teach at Stanford while reading this paragraph - if video conferencing is simply too much for you, turn off the camera, if possible.
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Microsoft security bug fixed
About a month and a half ago, reports began to appear on the Internet, according to which a rather serious error appeared in the Windows 10 operating system. This vulnerability allowed a simple command to corrupt the NTFS file system, and the flaws could be exploited regardless of user activity. Security expert Jonas Lykkegaard said that the bug has been present in the system since April 2018. Microsoft announced late last week that it finally managed to fix the bug, but unfortunately the fix is not currently available for all users. The recent build number 21322 is said to contain the patch, but it is currently only available to registered developers, and it is not yet certain when Microsoft will release a version for the general public.
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PS Network Weekend Outage
Over the past weekend, complaints began to appear on social media from users who were unable to log in to the PlayStation Network online service. The error affected owners of PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and Vita consoles. At first it was not possible to sign up for the service at all, on Sunday evening it was "only" a significantly limited operation. The large-scale outage completely prevented users from playing online, the error was later confirmed by Sony itself on its official Twitter account, where it warned users that they may have problems launching games, applications, and some network functions. At the time of writing this summary, there was no known solution that users themselves could help themselves with. Sony went on to say that it is working hard to fix the bug and that it is trying to resolve the outage as quickly as possible.
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