August 18, 2022 ‘Diablo IV’ won’t include pay-to-win microtransactions Blizzard has published a long-awaited update on its monetization plans for Diablo IV. The short version of the blog post is that Diablo IV…
August 18, 2022 Streaming viewership surpasses cable TV for the first time in the US It was seemingly just a matter of time before streaming overtook at least one form of conventional TV, and now that moment has arrived….
August 18, 2022 Zoom patches critical vulnerability again after prior fix was bypassed Enlarge / A critical vulnerability in Zoom for MacOS, patched once last weekend, could still be bypassed as of Wednesday. Users should update again….
August 18, 2022 Netflix’s ad-supported plan likely to have another drawback: No video downloads Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) The presence of advertisements apparently won’t be the only major difference between Netflix’s ad-supported and ad-free plans. Text…
August 18, 2022 Ring patched an Android bug that could have exposed video footage Enlarge / Ring camera images give you a view of what’s happening and, in one security firm’s experiments, a good base for machine learning…
August 18, 2022 Hundreds of Unionized Google Staff Push for More Abortion Protections More than 650 members of the Alphabet Workers Union, the recently-established minority union made up mostly of Google engineering folks, demanded in a letter…
August 18, 2022 Free Chinese VPN exposed millions of users’ data A free VPN service aimed at Chinese users has been found guilty of exposing over 5.7 billion data entries. An investigation by Cybernews revealed…
August 18, 2022 A ‘De-Extinction’ Company Says It’ll Bring Back the Tasmanian Tiger The last known thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus, or Tasmanian tiger) died in Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo in 1936. Now, a genetic engineering company that last year…
August 18, 2022 Acura shows off a Precision EV concept inspired by Italian power boats Honda’s Acura division has pulled back the curtain on a sleek Precision EV concept at Monterey Car Week. Acura took inspiration from Italian power…
August 18, 2022 She-Hulk Is Here With an MCU-Heavy Origin Story Three years ago this week, Marvel announced that it was making a series based on the popular character She-Hulk. The wait has been long,…