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Marvel Rivals hits the Ozempic, comes back 40 GB lighter

Incredible news, folks: Marvel Rivals has completely repackaged its assets. No, not those assets. Last Friday, the internet’s most erogenous shooter announced that it was slimming down. As part of an “Optimized texture resource compression strategy across all platforms,” Marvel Rivals now comes in about 40 GB lighter on PC than it did before. This […]

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The iPhone 18 Pro will cost Apple 38% more in parts – but there’s some good news

A new TrendForce analysis estimates that Apple will pay 38% more for iPhone 18 Pro components than it did for its predecessor. Unsurprisingly, the biggest hike is in the cost of memory, with Apple said to be paying around three times more this year. However, the firm’s analysis supports my own view that this year’s

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Valve has added ‘initial’ SteamOS gamepad support for several new gaming handhelds, including the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+

Valve is still beavering away at the internals of SteamOS, and the latest update notes for the 3.8.25 Beta release mention the addition of “initial gamepad support” for several non-Valve gaming handhelds. The mighty MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ is on the list, as are two offerings from Ayaneo. These are the Ayaneo Pocket S2,

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6 hidden Google apps you aren’t using, but should be

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Pankil Shah / Android AuthorityIf you love editing videos on your phone, Google has a free mobile video editor that’s worth trying out. And despite the name, it’s not just for YouTube Shorts. The app offers everything you could ever need to create

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“I’m sure you’re going to watch it because everyone is” – GTA 6 premiering on Netflix represents Rockstar “trying new things”, says Take-Two boss

The GTA 6 ‘extended look’ trailer will also be released later on as a ‘normal’ trailer on YouTube and the like, but for several hours, it will be exclusive to Netflix. The question is: why? “I think Rockstar felt that a Netflix release would be a great way to show off the extended trailer,” Take-Two

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Google is finally letting a rival app store onto the Play Store

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Google Play is about to do something that would have sounded pretty strange not too long ago: let you download another app store from inside Google’s own app store. Aptoide has announced that Aptoide Games, its gaming-focused Android marketplace, is coming to Google

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YouTube is auto-launching Shorts, and users aren’t happy

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. YouTube has a tendency to push Shorts in as many different ways as it can. You’d often find the top three, sometimes four, rows on your YouTube home page dedicated to Shorts. Sometimes, Shorts show up as recommendations under long-form videos instead of

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Google One has quietly turned your Android phone into another subscription

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Today, however, that space runs out in a flash. Android phone backups are bigger, WhatsApp chats count against your limit, and between 4K video backups and high-resolution photography, it’s easy to fill up that free storage in months if not weeks. Running out

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Critical Progress LoadMaster flaw now actively exploited in attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that hackers are exploiting a critical-severity Progress Kemp LoadMaster command injection vulnerability. Kemp LoadMaster is a very popular Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and server load balancer used by tech companies and government entities worldwide (e.g., Amazon, U.S. Air Force) to distribute incoming web traffic across multiple

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