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Signal adds new security feature to thwart man-in-the-middle attacks

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Signal has introduced Automatic Key Verification, a new security feature that gives users a new way to ensure their encrypted chats haven’t been intercepted. The new feature is part of a “key transparency” system that uses Cloudflare and Trail of Bits as trusted third-party independent auditors to verify the integrity of Signal conversations. “It works […]

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After giving it 2 patches and dropping it like a stone, Bethesda promises to bring Switch 2 optimisations to Oblivion Remastered on other platforms

Games /

Oblivion Remastered has led a rather odd post-release life. The closest we’ve got to a new Elder Scrolls since 2011 released in April last year, received a fair amount of acclaim, then essentially went silent. It twitched into activity a couple of times in the months following its release for patches 1.1 and 1.2, but

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Smilegate will rescue Lost Ark’s western servers, as Amazon ditches support while retreating from MMO development

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News by Connor Makar Staff Writer Published on Aug. 12, 2026, 11:18 a.m. Follow Lost Ark Amazon Game Studios has announced it will no longer support the Western game servers for massively-multiplayer online action role-playing game Lost Ark, from 2027 onwards. But it’s not the end. In its place, the original Lost Ark developer Smilegate

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Parents urged to revisit screen time limits as kids head back to school

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Parents are being urged to revisit the screen time limits they impose on their kids when they head back to school. It says stressed parents may take a more relaxed attitude to screen time during the summer break, and this can prove seriously detrimental to their children once the new school term begins. Additionally, experts

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The Anker SOLIX C2000 Gen 2 is the portable power station I’ve needed for years

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Jonathan Feist / Android AuthorityThe Anker SOLIX C2000 Gen 2 is the portable power station I’ve needed for yearsEnough portable power for a weekend trip or a short power outage? This does everything I need it to for my road trips.By Jonathan Feist•Aug

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AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year

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As AI makes coding dramatically faster, the next big challenge in software development is testing and validating all that code. Blacksmith has raised a new $45 million round to capitalize on that shift. The Series B, led by Peak XV Partners, values Blacksmith at $550 million, up from the $60 million valuation it was assigned

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Xbox promises that the causes of the recent outage, which rendered even game discs unplayable, have been fixed

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"Our engineers are actively hardening the services and infrastructure." If you read Van Vliet’s original explanation, you’ll know the outage was caused by an outside service that Xbox relies on. The service controls Game Pass purchased content, home console sharing and other “PC scenarios”. Unfortunately, Xbox’s systems themselves had a separate bug that appeared at

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A forgotten old co-op Lord of the Rings game has been unexpectedly remastered and re-released, and there’s a promise of more to come

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That game is The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, and the Legacy edition, as the new remaster is known, is available today on PC (Steam, Epic Game Store, GOG), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. It’ll be available slightly later on Switch and Switch 2, from 18th August. The game costs around

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Lego shut down a Bionicle fangame 8 years in the making—1 year later, its developers are back with something legally distinct and arguably cooler

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It’s always heartbreaking when fan projects get axed—but one sorrow from last year was Bionicle: Masks of Power, which was shut down by Lego after it had peacefully co-existed with it for eight whole years. The project, a fully-fledged third-person action game by Team Kanohi, had attempted to thread the needle by playing nice with

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Harry Potter nerds have forced an undersea cable to be moved to avoid Dobby the house elf’s grave, now runs close to Bronze Age remains instead

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An undersea power cable linking the UK National Grid to Ireland has been forced to relocate, after Harry Potter fans complained it would go through Dobby’s grave. You know, Dobby the house elf. The fictional character created by J.K. Rowling. Fans became aware of the desecration of Dobby’s memorial after a BBC interview with project

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