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CD Projekt Red stays busy with Witcher 4 full steam ahead, Cyberpunk’s major sales milestone, and another new IP taking shape
CD Projekt Red has revealed in its latest quarterly earnings report that Cyberpunk 2077 has now sold over 40 million copies, with its expansion Phantom Liberty adding a further 15 million sales, underlining the Polish studio’s ability to keep older titles commercially relevant years after launch. Joint-CEO Michał Nowakowski described Cyberpunk as an “evergreen franchise”…
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Judge Dredd Meets Studio Ghibli in the Most Exciting Cyberpunk Game in Years
Neon Giant, the studio behind 2021’s The Ascent, unveiled No Law at Gamescom 2026, a new immersive sim that reworks familiar cyberpunk conventions with a sunlit, plant-overrun Mediterranean city called Port Desire rather than the usual rain-soaked, neon-drenched metropolis. After a closed-door, hands-off preview of roughly an hour, the reporter called it the most exciting…
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I rented a car, and within hours, my driver’s license was for sale
A security researcher discovered his driver’s licence, scanned during a routine car rental, was for sale on the dark web within hours—one of more than 153 million IDs listed on a new criminal marketplace called Nexus, according to an exposé by journalist Brian Krebs. The breach appears to stem from a third-party ID scanning service…
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DLSS 5 finally has a use case – making Cyberpunk 2077 genuinely dystopian
A leaked version of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 AI upscaling technology has been used by modders to render Cyberpunk 2077 in a hyperrealistic style, producing an unusually grim and grotesque depiction of the game’s setting, Night City. Unlike other games modded with the leaked tech, where only the characters tend to look unsettling, this version renders…
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AI agents breached enterprise network and deployed ransomware within hours
A ransomware attacker used frontier AI models and agentic frameworks to breach an enterprise network in under 10 hours, a task security firm Unit 42 says would typically take human operators around two weeks. Rather than exploiting a novel zero-day or displaying elite hacking skill, the attacker delegated nearly every stage of the intrusion to…
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“When you’re friends first and the music comes later, you know it’s non-competitive”: Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery aimed to prove two guitarists can share a studio without dissolving into a duel of overplaying egos. Did they do it?
Progressive rock guitarists Steve Hackett (formerly of Genesis) and Steve Rothery (Marillion) have released their first full-length collaborative album, The Roaring Waves, an instrumental, cinematic work built around oceanic themes. The pair, who are close friends, deliberately set out to avoid the competitive, technically showy dynamic that can arise when two virtuoso guitarists share a…
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Cybercrime losses near $21B: 5 ways to protect your money
Americans lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crime in 2025, according to the FBI, a 26% increase on the previous year, with investment fraud accounting for the largest share at roughly $8.65 billion. The tech commentator known as “CyberGuy” (Kurt Knutsson) highlights the figures alongside a growing concern that artificial intelligence is making scams far…
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Uber drivers launch European class action over ‘soulless’ and ‘scary’ AI algorithm
Uber drivers from the UK, the Netherlands and other European countries have launched a landmark legal action against Uber, alleging that the AI-powered algorithm the company uses to set pay and allocate jobs breaches data protection law and unfairly depresses their earnings. Drivers describe the system as a “black box” that learns their individual willingness…
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An AI cyberattack could turn off America’s lights before Washington even understands why
A series of warnings issued over 17 days in August highlighted growing concern that artificial intelligence is making it easier for hackers to attack the systems controlling America’s power, water, factories and hospitals, rather than just stealing data. Experts warn that AI is shortening the time defenders have to respond, with some systems now capable…
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Tesla tests camera-only Cybercab robotaxis in Austin
Tesla has begun public rides for its Cybercab robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, nearly two years after Elon Musk first unveiled the steering-wheel-free vehicle. The launch is a major test of Musk’s long-held, contrarian bet that self-driving cars can rely solely on cameras and AI, rejecting the lidar and radar sensors used by rivals such…