Roblox Corporation recently announced plans to expand "age estimation" measures to all users. The system will focus on those accessing the platform's chat features. Chief Safety Officer Matt Kaufman said the changes will take effect by the end of the year. Read Entire Article
Microsoft is turning Rust into a first-class language for developing secure Windows drivers
Microsoft began adopting Rust for core Windows programming a few years ago, praising the relatively new language as a key tool for reducing bugs and enhancing security. The company has now unveiled some of the work aimed at making Rust development easier and more effective for Windows driver projects. Read...
Lenovo Legion Go 2 with OLED display and Ryzen Z2 Extreme launches in October, starting at $1,049
The Legion Go 2 features an 8.8-inch OLED display with a 1,920 × 1,200 resolution and a variable refresh rate ranging from 30 Hz to 144 Hz. Lenovo will offer two configurations: a base model powered by AMD's Z2 APU and a premium version equipped with the more powerful Z2......
New Faceplant attack exposes serious flaw in Windows Hello at Black Hat
Two German security researchers have disclosed a technique that allows attackers with elevated system privileges to bypass Microsoft's Windows Hello for Business authentication. The findings, presented at the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas, expose a new vulnerability in Microsoft's enterprise-grade biometric login framework and mark the second major......
Microsoft open sources 6502 BASIC, a key piece of computing history
A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC is now open source, giving programmers and archivists access to the official product after decades of relying on "unofficial" copies and fragments. Read Entire...
The quantum computing race is moving beyond hardware to focus on software
One notable example is the $34 million secured by British quantum algorithms specialist Phasecraft from a group of investors, including an entity linked to Danish pharmaceutical leader Novo Nordisk. Read Entire Article
Evidence mounts for Half-Life 3 development in Counter-Strike 2 code update
Prominent Valve leaker Tyler has been tracking Valve's public codebase updates since 2017 and noted that August 2025 saw the most weekly activity from the company in around a decade. He recently extracted more data from Valve game patches, pointing to the possible development of a new Half-Life game, presumably......
BMW unveils Vision CE, a self-balancing electric scooter with protective cage
The Vision CE owes a lot of its design language to the old BMW C1, a scooter from 2000 that also featured an enclosure. The idea was to combine the convenience of a scooter with the safety of car, but it never sold well and was discontinued in 2002. Read...
Hollow Knight: Silksong’s launch crashed Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo stores
Customers looking to purchase Hollow Knight: Silksong, which launched on Thursday, encountered clogged servers on Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo digital storefronts. The long-awaited side-scrolling action game quickly topped sales charts and garnered positive early impressions. Read Entire Article
Scammer posing as stranded astronaut convinces woman to send him $6,750 to buy oxygen
Like so many romance scams, this one started when the man contacted the victim – a resident of Japan's northern Hokkaido island – on social media. Police said initial contact was made in July, and that the person claimed he was a male astronaut. Read Entire Article