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
New 3D printing method creates superconductors with unprecedented performance
The research work, published in Nature Communications, was developed by an interdisciplinary team led by Ulrich Wiesner, a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and includes an all-in-one fabrication process. Read Entire Article
Bankruptcy attorney Mark Zuckerberg sues Meta for repeatedly suspending him
Mark Steven Zuckerberg, who is not related to Facebook's founder Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, said the social media platform removed his law firm's business page five times over the past eight years, while his personal account faced four suspensions during the same period. Each action accused him of impersonating a celebrity,......
Ransomware hackers threaten to feed stolen art to AI companies
The Artists&Clients website was recently compromised by the LunaLock ransomware group, putting users at risk of a significant privacy breach if the company does not pay the ransom. Even more concerning, the criminals warned that the stolen content could be sold directly to "AI companies" for training large language models.......
Lego’s most expensive set ever is the $1,000 Death Star
Lego says the set (item number 75419) is loaded with details and Easter eggs for fans to discover. Highlights include the crushing trash compactor that trapped Rebel heroes, the hangar that Luke Skywalker and Han Solo infiltrated while dressed as Stormtroopers, Emperor Palpatine's throne room, Princess Leia's holding cell, and......
Jury orders Google to pay $425 million for unlawfully tracking millions of users
The Web & App Activity feature is a central component of Google's privacy controls, designed to let users manage whether their searches, location history, and interactions with Google services or partner websites and apps are stored. Read Entire Article
ATI’s vintage R300 GPU continues to evolve with Linux driver updates
A developer named Brais Solla has recently added support for two "new" OpenGL features for graphics cards based on the R300 series, a GPU architecture first introduced by ATI in August 2002. ATI is long gone, but the Radeon GPU brand continues to fight an uphill battle against Nvidia's massive......