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Lord of the Rings fans need to try this tabletop RPG, especially now it’s getting a beginner-friendly update
GamesRadar+ has highlighted a Lord of the Rings tabletop role-playing game, urging fans of Tolkien’s world to give it a try, with the recommendation given extra weight by news of an upcoming beginner-friendly update to the system. The piece frames the game as an accessible way for fans to experience Middle-earth beyond the books and…
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Alan Wake 2 sales surpass 3 million copies
Remedy Entertainment has confirmed that Alan Wake 2 has now sold more than 3 million copies, marking a turnaround for a game that started slowly at launch and took years to become profitable. The figure was revealed in the developer-publisher’s half-year financial report covering January to June, with the milestone reached during the second quarter,…
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Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub
Mozilla has revoked a cryptographic subkey used to sign Firefox and Thunderbird releases after discovering that an unencrypted copy of the private key had been accidentally committed to a private GitHub repository. The company disclosed the mishap on Monday, noting that access to the repository was limited to a small number of Mozilla staff who…
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New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn’t know about passkeys
A researcher recently described a “Pass-ta-key” attack capable of extracting all passkeys stored in Google Password Manager on a malware-infected Windows machine, prompting concern that passkeys might not be as secure as claimed. However, the technique is neither novel nor unique to passkeys, and the confusion stems from a widespread misconception about how passkeys are…
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Mortal Shell 2 will let you lower its difficulty by making executions refill your health, or up the challenge by turning off the sun
Mortal Shell 2 developer Cold Symmetry has revealed the Soulslike title won’t have conventional difficulty settings, but will instead offer special in-game items that let players tailor how challenging the game feels. Rather than a simple easy-to-hard slider, these items alter core mechanics and world conditions, giving players granular control over their experience while preserving…
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Hacks by runaway AI are foreseeable. We’re letting them happen.
There is a point of no return ahead: a point where we can’t simply turn the AIs off because they’d escape and turn us off instead.
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Music Venues Are In Crisis – Can Sponsorship Help Preserve Our Grassroots Spaces?
The Music Venue Trust’s latest annual report shows grassroots UK music venues are closing at a rate of roughly two a month, even as festival sponsorship revenue soars, raising the question of whether brand money could help preserve small clubs and pub venues. The report highlights a stark contrast within the same music industry: the…
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6 Best Dehumidifiers to Fight Mold and Muggy Summers (2026)
WIRED has published its 2026 guide to the best dehumidifiers, aimed at helping people manage mould and excess indoor humidity during muggy summers. High humidity is more than a nuisance, the outlet notes, as it can hinder the body’s ability to cool down in hot weather, strain air conditioning systems, worsen cardiac issues, and promote…
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The AI takeover of mathematics has begun
OpenAI has announced that an advanced unreleased AI model, known as Astra, produced solutions to 10 long-standing mathematics problems, some of which had stumped academics for decades. The development has stirred a mixture of excitement and unease among mathematicians, including Oxford’s Fields Medal-winning professor James Maynard, who describes grappling with what the shift means for…
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A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts
Computer scientists have found a way to extract the hidden “thinking” process that frontier AI models use to work through complex problems, exposing a vulnerability shared by major providers including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. The technique offers evidence, though not proof, that some Chinese AI models may have been trained by “distilling” reasoning from US…