Reddit user ExplorEverythingOnce states Valve refunded the full $109.24 (roughly £81) that they paid for the game’s Phantom Edition, despite roughly 470 hours logged – more than 230 times Steam’s usual cutoff. Rush disappeared without warning earlier this week as part of patch 1.4.1.5, buried among a batch of otherwise minor fixes. It’s still ostensibly […]
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! In just a few days, Amazon-owned Zoox will start charging for robotaxi rides. This might
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Asobi: Remote Play – not to be confused with the developers of the same name – has just entered public testing on Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and other SteamOS or Linux devices. Streaming your own PS4 or PS5 to a Deck over your home network isn’t new; Asobi and similar apps have supported that for
Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight, as Anthropic says it’s making auto mode the default for Pro, Max, and Team accounts, starting on August 14. The company first unveiled a test version of auto mode in March, pitching it as a way to balance speed and control. As Anthropic explained
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Situational Awareness may have had to sell off the majority of its public portfolio last month, but the AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets. This week, the fund invested $400 million into Source Foundry, a startup founded by Stanford researchers aiming to make chip manufacturing faster and cheaper, according to The Wall
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The Head Mare hacktivist group has been exploiting vulnerabilities in unpatched TrueConf video conferencing servers to replace client installers with malicious versions that deliver backdoors. The exploited vulnerabilities allowed the attacker to execute arbitrary code with the highest level of privileges and deploy the PhantomCore and PhantomGraph backdoors. TrueConf is a video conferencing tool widely
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A few of the things that have us hooked this week. Here’s another question: do you remember what you were playing last week? You don’t have to! The What We’ve Been Playing archive has you covered. The first few days of playing any fighting game is about finding a character, and I’ve been hunkered down
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The new firmware brings a couple of notable features, especially for players who own the more powerful – and more expensive – PS5 Pro. For starters, the firmware makes Sony’s upgraded PSSR 2.0 upscaling technology the default option for all games, rather than only those that support it. PS5 Pro launched alongside a new form
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The blog post, titled ‘our approach to playable species in Guild Wars 3′, starts by establishing that four species will be playable from the games’ release. Humans and Asura are options we’ve been able to play in prior games, though the Kodan (bear people) are a fan favourite who will be playable for the first
Alongside an infographic detailing the most-killed story NPCs in the game – it’s argumentative tiefling Zevlor, from the Druid’s Grove, if you’re asking – Larian revealed that “more non-Dark Urge players have managed to murder Alfira than Dark Urge players”. This is remarkable because as a Dark Urge player, you have no choice: if the
