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Microsoft deleted a hacked user's 25-year-old Xbox account, along with his OneDrive baby photos
Posted on Wednesday July 15, 2026
A complaint from a Dutch streamer whose hijacked Microsoft account was permanently suspended has gone viral. The user claims to have lost access to his son's baby pictures and digital games that cost thousands of euros.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Boston Dynamics tests Spot as a delivery assistant that carries packages
Posted on Wednesday July 15, 2026
Boston Dynamics has posted a video of Spot on a route with a delivery driver. After it hops out of the back of a van, the driver loads parcels onto a conveyor belt attached to the robot's back.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Enthusiast project turns the Steam Controller into a cross-platform gamepad
Posted on Wednesday July 15, 2026
Valve's new Steam Controller doesn't natively support XInput, even though XInput remains the standard for many PC games and devices. Typically, Steam has to stay open in the background to bridge that gap. With OpenPuck, the microcontroller handles the translation itself, so Steam doesn't have to.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Ubisoft endured a review-bombing campaign, then made $1 million from Black Flag Resynced's controversial DLC
Posted on Wednesday July 15, 2026
Ubisoft has a reputation for the amount of paid-for cosmetic and so-called time-saving extra content it adds to its titles, but making the combined cost of the DLC higher than the price of the game itself was a step too far for many Black Flag buyers. It caused the remake...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Riot is reviving old League of Legends even as it prepares the game's biggest overhaul ever
Posted on Wednesday July 15, 2026
The League of Legends Classic game client is now available to download. The new mode, set to open at the end of this month, will focus on characters and gameplay elements from the game's first three seasons.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
US Treasury sanctions a VPN provider and its administrator for the first time
Posted on Wednesday July 15, 2026
The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated First VPN Service, also known as 1VPNS, and its Ukrainian administrator, Dmytro Rashevskyi. Belarusian national Yegeniy Vladimirovich Silayev was sanctioned separately for selling "cryptors," tools designed to disguise ransomware and other malware as harmless software so security systems do not detect it.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft finally patched Secure Boot bypasses that were hiding in plain sight since 2013
Posted on Wednesday July 15, 2026
The issue affects 11 shim binaries that were still signed and accepted by systems enforcing Secure Boot. That signature is what allows code to run during the boot process. If a trusted component is compromised, everything that follows can be affected.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Repair shops are booming during heatwaves as people keep putting phones in fridges
Posted on Wednesday July 15, 2026
Jamie Farnell, a repair shop owner in the UK town of Wem told the BBC that he has been flooded with devices suffering from internal moisture damage recently.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Testing AMD's EXPO Ultra Low Latency Memory
Posted on Wednesday July 15, 2026
AMD's new EXPO Ultra Low Latency memory promises tighter timings without manual tuning. We tested G.Skill's latest DDR5 kits to see how much faster they make Ryzen gaming.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
SoftBank boss says the AI revolution will cost $5 trillion a year, also, there's no bubble
Posted on Tuesday July 14, 2026
Masayoshi Son is hell-bent on bringing AI to the masses, and he's ready to spend the enormous sums required to reach this historic goal. Speaking at SoftBank's annual corporate conference in Tokyo, the outspoken founder shared a few numbers about that spending, though he chose not to elaborate on exactly...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »