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Peak gets its final major update and a “new secret for you to discover” next week
Developer Aggro Crab has confirmed that its co-op climbing game Peak will receive its final major update on 11th August, alongside a teaser trailer titled “The Final Ascent”. The update marks a significant milestone for the indie hit, which became one of publisher Landfall’s string of multi-million-selling titles alongside Content Warning and Totally Accurate Battlegrounds.…
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Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: ‘This essentially saved my life’
A former XCOM 2 developer has released “Rubicon Rumble Pack”, a cancelled Quake 4 expansion, publicly on GitHub after finding it stored on an old hard drive. The developer, who worked on the project during a difficult period, said rediscovering and sharing the lost content had a profound personal impact, describing the release as something…
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AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust
Educators and publishers are increasingly relying on AI detection tools to identify AI-generated writing, echoing the earlier rise of anti-plagiarism software. Unlike traditional plagiarism checkers, which compare text against databases of existing content, AI detectors such as GPTZero, Pangram and Turnitin’s own tool use their own AI models to guess whether writing was produced by…
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The Complicated Case of Passing On Your Digital Estate
Managing a deceased or incapacitated person’s online accounts, from cloud storage to social media to cryptocurrency, has become a growing headache for grieving families, particularly when no advance planning has taken place. Wired’s guide explains that without a clear inventory of digital assets and instructions for what should happen to them, survivors often have no…
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Roblox shares plummet by 70% after the company reports persistent decline in player numbers, and of course the solution involves AI
Roblox’s share price collapsed by around 70% after the company revealed that its daily active user numbers have been steadily declining, raising fresh doubts about the platform’s long-term growth prospects. The drop wiped a substantial amount off the company’s market value and has intensified scrutiny of how Roblox plans to reverse the trend, with executives…
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Gulf tensions, Ukraine wildfire arrests and Tube attacker probe dominate today’s briefing
Iran offers to reopen the Strait of Hormuz amid fresh attack claims, Israel seizes West Bank land near Sebastia for a park, and France arrests hundreds over its worst wildfires since WWII; also: a Tube attacker missed link, AI-designed antibiotic viruses, Banksy’s costly legacy and Newcastle’s pre-season win.
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Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How
Meetily is a free, open-source meeting assistant that transcribes and summarises meetings without requiring a paid subscription. It addresses two common drawbacks of commercial meeting-assistant tools, which typically cost $10 to $20 a month and require uploading recordings to the cloud, raising privacy concerns for sensitive discussions. The application runs on Windows and macOS (with…
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TCL Note A1 Nxtpaper Review (2026): A Hybrid Tablet for Taking Notes and Watching Video
Wired has reviewed the TCL Note A1 Nxtpaper, a hybrid tablet that aims to combine digital note-taking with full Android tablet functionality, including video playback. Unlike dedicated E Ink devices such as the reMarkable or Kindle Scribe, it uses a proprietary matte LCD panel to approximate a paper-like writing feel while retaining colour display and…
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Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
A Zscaler ThreatLabz analysis of a month-long ransomware campaign found that attackers are increasingly bypassing chief executives and instead targeting mid-level managers, particularly those around 46 years old, who hold enough operational authority to influence a company’s decision on whether to pay a ransom. Rather than sending indiscriminate extortion emails, criminal groups now combine data…
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These AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes
David Silver, a former Google DeepMind researcher who led the development of AlphaGo, has pledged to donate all proceeds from any future sale of his AI startup, Ineffable Intelligence, to charity. He is among a growing number of AI entrepreneurs, including Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman and Lovable founder Anton Osika, committing their equity gains…