Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days
In just two days after release, Capcom's latest game - Pragmata - has surpassed 1m units sold.
ECCO THE DOLPHIN: COMPLETE
/PRNewswire/ -- A&R Atelier today announced Ecco the Dolphin: Complete, a comprehensive new package that takes players on a journey through time and through...
SQLite prefixes its temp files with `etilqs_` - blag
Here’s some wild lore inside SQLite’s source code explaining why temp files start with etilqs_
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PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features
PlayStation has revealed that players will need to verify their age later this year to continue using communication features.
TIL the inventor of the Rubik's cube took a month to solve it the first time.
The current world record is 3.47 seconds. But back in 1974 when inventor Erno Rubik first came up with the best-selling game, it took him a wee bit longer.
Palantir and the New Order: Neoliberalism is dead. Say hello to Techlordism
A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s tech lords need a …
'Beamdog's Whimsical Baldur's Gate 2' - Warlockracy
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IPv6 adoption statistics – Google
We are continuously measuring the availability of IPv6 connectivity among Google users. The graph shows the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6.
The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code
Five git log commands that diagnose a new codebase before you open a single file: code churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.
The People Who Put Emulators on Your Steam Deck Now Want to Sell You a Linux Console
The Playnix Console is a €1,179 Linux-powered gaming machine with an RX 9060 XT inside.
XChat, the standalone app for messaging on X, is available on iOS now
X has launched XChat, a standalone app for accessing the social platform's messaging feature.
'How To Get Started & Survive Stronghold Crusader's New Challenge' -GamerZakh
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Nextcloud stops bug bounty program due to increase of low-effort AI-generated reports
Nextcloud has joined a growing list of projects, including Curl, that have ended their bug‑bounty partnerships with HackerOne due to an unmanageable surge of low‑effort, AI‑generated security reports. I received the fol…
Tides of Tomorrow review: Your choices in this microplastics apocalypse are shaped by other players, feeling like a sharp, well-crafted the…
Tides of Tomorrow is a narrative adventure set in a gorgeous but deadly ocean
Commercial Children sexual abuse websites have doubled from 7,028 sites(2024) to 15,031 sites(2025), Generating profits for the gangs opera…
Commercial child sexual abuse sites have doubled as gangs profit online. IWF urges tougher laws on payments, platforms and encryption.
Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time
Newly leaked documents revealed the existence of the government's in-house facial recognition platform, coming soon to an ICE agent near you.
Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California privacy law at ‘industrial scale’
Empirical analysis of Global Privacy Control compliance across popular websites accessed from California. Independent research by webXray.
Mad Television Tycoon, a TV station management game from Eggcode Games, creators of Mad Games Tycoon and Mad Tower Tycoon, released in earl…
In Mad Television Tycoon, you take control of a TV station. Accept the challenge and lead your network to success. Your task is to create a diverse schedule, maximize advertising revenue, and outshine the competition.
The Secrets Behind THAT Cyberpunk 2077 Montage | Game Maker's Toolkit
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PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies
Reports claim that Saros' early sales have been below expectations for a PS5 exclusive, especially considering its relatively high budget.
Discomfort with modern technology shapes Gen Z's desire to live in the past
In the new NBC News Decision Desk poll, a plurality of young Americans said they’d choose to live in the past if they had the option.
Capcom Lists Dead Rising as One of Its 'Leading Brands' That It's 'Nurturing' — but Does That Mean Dead Rising 5?
Capcom is planning for Dead Rising's future. In its latest earnings report, the Japanese games company said it plans to nuture a handful of franchises for growth, with one of them being Dead Rising.
Xbox No Longer Developing Copilot For Consoles
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has announced that Microsoft will no longer develop Copilot for Xbox, and it's winding down mobile development as well.
‘In two years, nobody will care’ if actors are AI or not, predicts La Haine director
Mathieu Kassovitz, who is currently working on an AI-enabled film, also dismisses concerns over copyright
Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine
Mozilla is experimenting with Brave's adblock engine, here's how to turn it on.
Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes.
Dutch government secures deal with European cloud platform STACKIT - Digital Government
STACKIT is a European platform that Dutch government organisations can use under pre-agreed conditions, boosting digital autonomy.
This Week in Self-Host
I'm officially back from my brief hiatus (shout-out to those who missed me), and as promised, have sifted through two weeks' worth of content to make up for it.
Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys
Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil.
Splatoon Raiders launches July 23rd! (Nintendo Switch 2)
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AMD announce FSR Upscaling 4.1 officially coming to RDNA 3 and RDNA 2
They sure took their sweet time didn't they. AMD have officially announced that FSR Upscaling 4.1 is officially coming to their older GPUs.
The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic
I’ve been getting more and more curious about the risk from Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview. So I pulled the system card, a whoppingly inefficient 244-page document that devotes just seven pages to the claim that the …
Tinder takes action against AI profiles by making users scan eyes for “proof of humanity”
Tinder is rolling out a new way for users to prove they’re real as AI-generated profiles continue to flood dating apps.
TIL Romania’s illicit handmade CoBra computer of the 1980s. The authorities could seize the students’ electronics, make them pay fines, an…
In their poor, Communist country, Romania's computer curious built an underground industry.
Anthropic has surged to a trillion-dollar valuation on secondary markets, overtaking OpenAI.
Buyers are in a race to secure a dwindling supply of shares in Anthropic, driving the AI company's valuation on some platforms to $1 trillion.
METRO 2039 | GAMEPLAY TEASER
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Amazon has cancelled The Lord of the Rings MMO, but promises it "continues to explore a compelling new game experience" set in Middle-earth
A source has revealed that the Lord of the Rings MMORPG was cancelled after the New World team was transferred over mere weeks before the layoffs.
Darwin's Paradox! on Steam - I love games you can finish in a few hours!
Step into a cinematic adventure as Darwin, a brilliant octopus trapped in a mysterious industrial world. Use his unique abilities - swimming, wall-climbing, shooting ink, camouflage, and more - to overcome traps and esc…
Sintopia, a tycoon x god game hybrid, where you manage the bureaucratic administration of Hell to build a resurrection business of your dre…
Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god…
Godot gets a funding boost from Slay the Spire 2 devs Mega Crit
The Godot Engine team have announced that Slay the Spire 2 developer Mega Crit have given them quite a nice funding boost.
PSA: If you use the Meta AI app, your friends will find out and it will be embarrassing | TechCrunch
Now that Meta released its Muse Spark model, more people are downloading the Meta AI app. And if you join the app, your friends will probably get an Instagram notification about it.
France announces a crucial step toward phasing out Windows
La direction du numérique en France va basculer de Windows à Linux et l'État engage un grand chantier de réduction de la « dépendance numérique
France Keeps Breaking the Internet to Stop Piracy, Even Though It’s Not Working
Back in 2011 and 2012, one of the central technical objections that helped kill SOPA and PIPA was about DNS blocking. Engineers, internet architects, and cybersecurity experts all lined up to expla…
X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam | TechCrunch
X Communities are no more. Only a fraction of X users were using Communities, and much of that use was spam, the company said.
Slopaganda: Coordinated network of inauthentic YouTube channels are pushing secession to Canadians at Alberta and even U.S. annexation.
A new incident response report from the Canadian Digital Media Research Network (CDMRN) identifies a coordinated network of 20 inauthentic YouTube channels targeting Albertan audiences with nearly 40 million views, expl…
The U.S. Still Doesn't Have an Answer to China's EV Dominance
President Trump's visit to China highlights a key tension for American decision makers: how to manage China’s growing prowess in sectors like the auto industry.
Meta blocks dozens of Queer and pro-abortion accounts on Instagram for second time in six months
Instagram has suspended more than 100 LGBTQIA+ accounts worldwide in recent weeks, including an estimated 5 to 10 Dutch accounts — among them prominent queer organizations and nightclubs in Amsterdam — for the second ti…
Anthropic Mythos shaping up as nothingburger
Anthropic's Mythos model is purportedly so good at finding vulnerabilities that the Claude-maker is afraid to make it available to the general public for fear that criminals will take advantage. But early analysis shows…
Play games, save forests | Simon Clark
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