Diablo 4 game director says it's 'liberating' to be done with expansions as Blizzard can continue the narrative through seasons instead — 'We completed the story, but the butterfly effect can take us anywhere'

"Amid the dead rising from Pandemonium, the lost soul of the legendary Horadrim Deckard Cain returns with dire news," the questline description reads. "Three dark wanderers have returned, each leaving a trail of death in…

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Huawei’s answer to Nvidia isn’t a faster chip, it’s a much bigger machine

His opening keynote ran under the title Advancing the Agentic World, Building a Solid Silicon Foundation. Huawei then spent three days setting out the machines it wants to run that revolution on. Most of the coverage…

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Apple demands UK Home Office admit secret iPhone ‘backdoor’ order

Joined by human rights organisations Liberty and Privacy International , Apple appeared at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal to argue for the removal of restrictions gagging officials from confirming the confidential…

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Keep seeing strange meetings and events in your calendar? It might be because calendar-based phishing has jumped 33,000% since May — and they work even if the email is sent to spam

This is according to a new report by cybersecurity researchers Sublime, who argue that this type of phishing has finally “hit the mainstream”. The methodology is simple - the attacker uses a free service, such as Gmail…

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Winning video from Nikon microscope competition shows airway cells dancing in child with rare genetic disorder — Chinese student built imaging system to capture 'beautiful' cilia at 100x magnification

The competition aims to showcase "the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope", and the 2026 winners have now been announced. First prize this year goes to a video of airway cilia (tiny…

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NASA's moon orbiter has spotted an impact crater that only happens once a century

Sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, a comet or an asteroid that's about the size of a three- to six‑story building slammed into the lunar surface and made the largest modern-day crater in our solar system. While…

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Microsoft executive called OpenAI's web scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history'

Microsoft's director of Applied Science, Dr. Brent Hecht, said OpenAI's work was akin to the "largest theft of labor in human history" that could create a "doom loop," while OpenAI exec Nick Turley said it represented an…

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Boox Palma 3 v Palma 2: What’s new?

Once you’re finished here, be sure to check out our best e-reader guide too. Specs Comparison Table Boox Palma 3 Boox Palma 2 Display 6.13-inch E-Ink 6.13-inch E-Ink Dimensions 6.3 x 3.1 x 0.31 inches 6.3 x 3.1 x 0.31…

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OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot

A team at a US-based startup compromised a number of OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts, starting a process that enabled them to access their target's software cache – and potentially more. "The scope of what we could…

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Prime Big Deal Days starts soon, but these 16 tech deals at Amazon UK are already worth buying

It stands out because it's a record-low price for the ereader and e-ink notepad hybrid with 64GB of storage, which is rare to see outside of a major sales event. I guess Amazon didn't want to wait around until Prime Big…

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