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Hackers compromise 14,500 Dahua web cameras in 35-day campaign

In a large-scale campaign that researchers dubbed CameraSwarm, hackers compromised more than 14,500 Dahua IP cameras mostly in Ukraine and Russia. The operation ran for at least 35 days between June 17 and July 22, compromising devices by exploiting vulnerabilities, brute-forcing logins, and using offline recovery codes from serial numbers for cloud-registered cameras. Researchers at

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Video game music, orchestral performances, and the sheer joy of a communal experience: how live concerts are helping us reconnect with gaming’s good side

Orchestral performances of video game music are no longer the novelty they once were – and that’s a good thing. Organisations such as the Game Music Festival have had such success with them they’re doing multiple performances for multiple game franchises each year, selling out locations like the prestigious Royal Festival Hall on London’s South

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The next Binding of Isaac game is going up against Grand Theft Auto 6

Repentance+ has been out on PC since 2024, with online play available in beta, which allows players to host a Friend Match and start a run with up to four other players. The beta also offered public matchmaking. Those features, alongside all other DLC – Afterbirth, Afterbirth+, Repentance and Repentance+ – have now been given

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The Blood of Dawnwalker’s final system requirements include upscaling set to Balanced—so unsurprisingly, they’re lower

Squinting at the new The Blood of Dawnwalker system requirements this morning before my second cup of coffee, my bleary eyes registered that the listed GPUs are often significantly less powerful than the previous recommended specs. As my tired eyeballs came into focus, though, it became clear why: upscaling, of course. Rebel Wolves has taken

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An updated PS5 DualSense Edge controller is apparently coming next year, but you probably shouldn’t get get too excited

As spotted by ResetEra, the new DualSense Edge’s model number is CFI-ZCP2, which is one number above the current CFI-ZCP1 model. So what might all this mean? The running theory is that, rather than being a major design overhaul, CFI-ZCP2 will simply allow easier access to the Edge’s rechargeable lithium-ion battery so users can more

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Games are the most optimistic way I have found of looking at the world

Actually, forget the mushrooms. Maybe there were as-yet-undiscovered species of dangerous snakes in the area? Maybe some weird band of medieval brigands had somehow survived contact with the modern world up until now and were waiting to attack us all on a family picnic, and leave us with cloth-yard shafts through all our wishbones. (Nobody

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