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Star Wars Zero Company has sold 1 million copies worldwide
Star Wars Zero Company Patch 1.2 will release next week.
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Hytale creator is giving early access players 1 copy of the RPG for every chapter released until 1.0
If you're playing Hytale in early access via the premium Cursebreaker Edition, you might want to keep an eye out on your account inbox the next time a new chapter releases on the long road to 1.0. Simon Collins-Laflamme, founder of Hytale studio Hypixel, announced on Twitter that he's giving away a…
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Konami Planning 'Second and Third Waves' of New Silent Hill Games
Konami is planning "second and third waves" of new Silent Hill games, according to producer Motoi Okamoto. Okamoto offered a foggy glimpse into the classic horror franchise's future during an interview featured in Famitsu Issue 1965 (via Game Observer). The series ended a long, painful drought…
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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation: I Played a New Slice from the Early Game With a Boss Fight | IGN Preview
Key Preview Takeaways: Previous previews have focused on the open world, but my slice was focused on the more linear, story-intensive sections. Materia has a new way to level up. Difficulty was a bit lacking in this demo, but then again it was the first chapter of the game... We’re about six months…
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Blumhouse Partners With MatPat to Make Amanda the Adventurer Movie, Confirms More Indie Horror Game Adaptations Are Coming | NYCC 2026
Blumhouse Productions has partnered with YouTube star Matthew ‘MatPat’ Patrick to create a series of movies based on viral indie horror games, and Amanda the Adventurer is first on the docket. Representatives from Blumhouse and MatPat confirmed this partnership at New York Comic Con 2026, where…
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GitHub Copilot weekly releases — October 5
This week’s updates make Copilot easier to use across accounts and environments, with more control over what agents can access and how you manage their work. GitHub Copilot Claude Haiku… The post GitHub Copilot weekly releases — October 5 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
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GameAcon 2026 – Indie Game Showcase
GameACon 2026 returns to The Shops at Palm Desert on October 17–18 for our Indie Game Showcase. This year’s Steam showcase features 22 participating titles, alongside GameACon’s live gaming, developer activities, cosplay, vendors, and other programming at The Shops at Palm Desert. GameACon is…
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Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.
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Magic: The Gathering at NYCC Live Blog – Get Ready For Darkhold Destiny
Earlier this year at MagicCon in Las Vegas, Wizards of the Coast revealed its in-universe sets for 2027, but that only covered three of the six planned sets. The other three are Universes Beyond — the card game's crossover brand — and we're about to learn what at least one of them is at New York…
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Gears of War: E-Day Estimated Sales Reach Just 230,000 in First Week, Analyst Says
Xbox console exclusive Gears of War: E-Day is reportedly off to a soft start after reaching an estimated 230,000 copies sold in its first week. The alleged sales update arrived from Alinea Analytics' head of marketing analysis, Rhys Elliott, who shared early data for the Gears prequel on X/Twitter…
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Long live the mechanical keyboard
Keychron made a name for itself after launching on Kickstarter in 2017. Today, it offers the value K2 model as well as a variety of other versions, including one with an all-wood body.
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Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
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Cyberpunk 2077 is being made into a movie, even though we've already got the perfect cyberpunk movie starring Keanu Reeves as a guy named Johnny
XA Deadline report says Paramount Pictures is working with CD Projekt Red on a live-action movie set in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura, whose previous films include a pile of Transformers movies, a couple GI Joe flicks, and the 2005 Doom movie starring The Rock, attached…
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AWS Security Hub now exports findings to S3 in CSV or JSON format
Today, AWS Security Hub announces support for exporting findings to Amazon S3 in CSV or JSON (OCSF) format. Security teams that need findings outside the console for use cases such as compliance reporting and audit evidence can now export findings from every findings page in the Security Hub…
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A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis
Stylish upcycling, with a retro flare, at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.
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Decade-old RAM is making a comeback
CPU makers have noticed that the seemingly unending RAM price hikes are making it tough for a lot of us to upgrade our PCs. Their solution? A return to last-gen DDR4 RAM. Intel and AMD are making new CPUs that'll support the older, more affordable type of memory. On Friday, Gigabyte announced that…
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The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch
TypeSafe AI raised $870 million in a round led by a16Z.
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NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
"We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit."
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CodeQL 2.27.2 improves C++, Go, Rust, and JavaScript analysis
CodeQL 2.27.2 is now available, adding a C++ regular-expression parser and analysis improvements across several languages. CodeQL is the static analysis engine behind GitHub code scanning, which helps you find… The post CodeQL 2.27.2 improves C++, Go, Rust, and JavaScript analysis appeared first on…
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‘Piece by piece’: Trump administration vows to dismantle the International Criminal Court with sweeping new sanctions
The sanctions cut the court off from U.S. dollars, financial services and technology companies, giving American businesses six months to end ties.
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How California built its Behavioral Health Public County Profile on Databricks
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) built the Behavioral Health...
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Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds – Year Two Showcase Wrap Up!
Thank you all for an incredible Year One of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds! But we’re just getting started. We are pleased to announce that Year Two will be going live November 3, 2026. Today during the Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds World Championship Finals, we presented the Year Two Showcase, which…
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U.S. CFTC moves to fold event contracts into swaps regulations as legal fight rages
The derivatives regulator is proposing a formal rule to include certain contracts traded on platforms like Kalshi's as swaps that require the agency's oversight.
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‘I don’t know that that’s actually going to happen’: Vance doubts plan to livestream of execution of Fort Hood shooter after Pentagon’s announcement
“So whatever the controversy is about the method of the execution, I hope that people don’t forget that this is a guy who brutally murdered a lot of innocent people,” Vance said.
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Trump struck a diesel deal with Putin just weeks after signing Russia sanctions. Zelenskyy calls it ‘a weak decision’
With U.S. diesel at $6.23 a gallon, the Treasury Department is easing restrictions on Russian diesel shipments for six months.
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STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™ – Game Tactics
Want to improve your chances of climbing the ranks and becoming an elite racing pilot in the Galactic League? Fuse Games, the development team behind Star Wars: Galactic Racer™, share some tips about their favorite builds and how to maximize their potential to give you an edge in the competition…
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Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, but the…
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What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains?
Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day.
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My new cozy obsession is a Lord of the Rings-inspired Animal Crossing riff blowing up on Kickstarter
We live in a heavy world right now, with stressors like AI, layoffs, and political crises seemingly around every corner with no signs of slowing down, which is why, even in the spooky month of October, I'm leaning into the cozy gaming space more than ever. Animal Crossing is still my go-to home…
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Update - 12.0.244617
Hey everyone, Patch notes for yesterday’s update (08/10/2026), with changes following the taster for our latest DLC, Rides & Relics. We hope you’re having tonnes of fun with Rides & Relics and the free Digiverse update bringing Little Kitty, Big City to Two Point Museum. As always, we love hearing…
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An Update from the Anti Cheat Team - 10/09/2026
Competitive Integrity Update - Weapon Exploit Fixes We’ve deployed fixes for multiple high-profile weapon exploits in Apex Legends this week. You may have seen the videos circulating in community spaces earlier this week. These fixes address an exploit that allowed an entire magazine to be fired in…
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Anthropic AI model submits false homicide tip to police website
ANTHROPIC-PHILADELPHIA:Anthropic AI model submits false homicide tip to police website
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Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks
Hackers are abusing legitimate Bing search-result redirects as click URLs in Google search ads to direct users to fake Claude installers that deliver ClickFix attacks. [...]
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Agents can now buy domains with the Vercel CLI
Vercel CLI Your agent can now use theto buy a domain. vercel domains search vercel domains check vercel domains price vercel domains buy The agent discovers candidates with, checks availability and registrar pricing withand, and initiates the purchase with. vercel domains buy The purchase decision…
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LucasFilm Games Producer Responds after Galactic Racer Character Biddy Blas Goes Viral
If you’ve been on gaming Twitter recently, you’ve probably seen a clip from Star Wars: Galactic Racer making the rounds on your timeline — specifically, a player’s interaction with a character named Biddy Blas. It’s almost impossible to hate the guy, who tells you all about how awesome he is in a…
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Skate Developer Promises More Creative Tools Are Coming After ReSkate Modding Platform Goes Viral
Full Circle, the developer of Skate, published a statement addressing community mods following the viral launch of a fan-made modding platform called ReSkate. ReSkate was officially released into the wild about a week ago. This platform allows fans to play the game offline, create private servers…
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Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Becomes ‘Assisted Driving’ in Europe
The automaker has been criticized for misleading drivers with the feature’s name. Now it’s renaming it for European regulators.
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Gears of War Creator CliffyB Comments on E-Day
Gears of War series creator Cliff "CliffyB" Bleszinski shared some positive and candid thoughts about Gears of War: E-Day during a video interview. Though he was not involved in the development of Gears of War: E-Day, Bleszinski's contributions laid the foundation for the entire Gears of War…
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Zenless Zone Zero Version 3.3 'Journey to the Sky' launches on October 21
Zenless Zone Zero version 3.3 brings in new S-Rank Agents Phoenix and Severian,, Alongside All-New Mech Combat Gameplay
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Powering your Raspberry Pi Over Ethernet using PoE
PiMyLifeUp shared how to power your Raspberry Pi using Power over Ethernet (PoE). The PoE standard is a neat way to power devices without needing to plug them in physically to a power point. Power is instead delivered over your ethernet connection, this is super useful if you have to run an…
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Gears of War E-Day sold just 62k copies on Xbox versus 1.7 million Game Pass players, analyst says
Gears of War: E-Day sales topped 230,000 across Xbox and Steam following an October 1 launch, according to estimates from analyst firm Alinea. Market analysis head Rhys Elliott reports the Xbox player base is larger than it appears, even if premium sales were dominated by Steam. An estimated 62,000…
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Don't worry, Valve: I've got your next Deadlock character concepts sorted
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C++26: Reducing undefined behaviour -- Sandor Dargo
C++26 continues the language’s push toward safer, more predictable code by reducing situations that can lead to undefined behaviour. This article looks at several key changes that turn dangerous runtime surprises into diagnosable errors or well-defined behaviour. C++26: Reducing undefined behaviour…
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AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
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Ohio blogger found guilty of harassment for sending Shrek nude to senator
A jury found an Ohio political blogger guilty of telecommunications harassment after he sent an explicit image of Shrek to a Republican state senator. On Friday, a judge ordered DJ Byrnes, owner of political commentary blog The Rooster, to pay a $200 fine, according to a report from the Columbus…
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An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.
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NEW GUIDE: Fruit Jam Motion Tracking Eyeballs #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
Do you ever feel like someone or something is watching you? In the case of this project, it is! You can use a Fruit Jam running CircuitPython with a USB webcam to display monster eyes that gaze in the direction of motion captured by the webcam. The CircuitPython code utilizes Turbo helper modules…
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Active Matter: Activity Report
Operatives! In the first month since the game’s release on Steam and consoles, we threw all our efforts into promptly tracking your feedback and deploying rapid hotfixes to improve your comfort as you navigate the Multiverse. During this time, we’ve released more than ten updates and made hundreds…
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Amazon EC2 R8gd instances are now available in additional regions
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8gd instances are available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances feature up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage and are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance over…
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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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Why humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization test
How better data and human judgment can help robots move beyond demos toward reliable real-world performance. The post Why humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization test appeared first on The Robot Report.
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Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial
CDC allocated $1.6M for study on alleged harms of hepatitis B vaccine.
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Launch Known Issues (Updated: 10/9)
Hello Daevas, Below is a list of in-game known issues that are currently being investigated. We will periodically update this notice as issues are discovered and resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding. \[New] Known Issues (NA West) Players are unable to proceed to the character…
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Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g…
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[Announcement] "Awakening Expansion - Unleashed" Preview - Amy, Ai
"Awakening Expansion - Unleashed" Preview
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‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this…
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‘I drive a Tesla’: After Elon Musk said he’d lose his job, Delta CEO Ed Bastian says there’s ‘no tit for tat’ as airline unveils earnings miss
Bastian says the Starlink snub was business, not personal, as a 62% fuel jump led to Delta’s first earnings miss in two years.
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Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines used at many data centers
Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines as the data center boom pushes prices up.
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LED Bubble Hair Extensions with Motion Controlled Effects #Sensors #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
Turn your hair into a motion-reactive light show with these colorful LED Bubble Hair Extensions from Erin St Blaine. This wearable project combines lightweight LED seed pixels with bright bubble-braid hair extensions to create glowing cyberpunk-style hair that reacts when you move. An LIS3DH…
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PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
"The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."
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