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When Apple unveils the iPhone 17 lineup next month, it seems like we’ll also see a new version of Apple’s first-party protective cases as well. If the latest rumors are true, the iPhone 17 case lineup will take a design cue from the AirPods Pro 2 charging case. It appears Apple is planning to add support for an optional lanyard …

Former BioWare executive producer Mark Darrah released the first part of his deep dive into Anthem‘s troubled development this week. It’s almost an hour long and covers a lot of ground, but two important moments during the failed loot shooter’s production stand out. The first was the original EA pitch meeting for the project that would eventually become Anthem. The …

Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photos: Getty This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Mila didn’t want a wedding. Eloping on a beach would have suited her, but when her boyfriend of six years proposed and insisted on a more formal event, she planned an intimate garden party. There …

Xbox is going through an identity crisis. The most recent wave of layoffs at Microsoft, which cut about 9,000 jobs including numerous positions at studios under the Xbox banner, suggests as much. These cost-cutting measures are said to be in the service of some realignment or reorganization that’s always purported to set up these companies for greater success. And yet …

Instagram is getting several new features that pull from competitors, and it’s updating a controversial feature that it added earlier this year. Starting today, users will have the ability to repost public Reels and grid posts from other accounts. And similar to TikTok, reposts will be collected in a designated tab on your profile and sprinkled into the feeds of …

RedOctane Games, a new studio within Embracer Freemode founded by veterans of the rhythm game world, has announced its establishment. It is focused “solely on advancing the rhythm game genre, combining the past with the future,” and is currently in production on its debut rhythm game to be announced later in 2025. The studio is led by Simon Ebejer, the …

Within the titles of the calendar invites, the researchers added their crafty malicious prompts. (Google’s Wen contends that the researchers changed default settings on who can add calendar invites to someone’s calendar; however, the researchers say they demonstrated some of the 14 attacks with the prompts in an email subject or document title as well). “All the techniques are just …

ControlVault3 firmware vulnerabilities impacting over 100 Dell laptop models can allow attackers to bypass Windows login and install malware that persists across system reinstalls. Dell ControlVault is a hardware-based security solution that stores passwords, biometric data, and security codes within firmware on a dedicated daughterboard, known as the Unified Security Hub (USH). The five vulnerabilities, reported by Cisco’s Talos security division and …

The best ad blocker out there now works on Safari. You can download uBlock Origin Lite from the App Store on Mac, iPhone, and iPad right now. The new ad blocker, from uBlock Origin developer Raymond Hill, blocks ads on YouTube without any difficulty, something that many Safari ad blockers have struggled with lately. It also runs efficiently in my …

The team behind open-world adventure RPG Genshin Impact is ending support for those on PlayStation 4. Developer HoYoverse has said it made this decision because of “limitations related to hardware performance and platform application size”. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings The PS4 version of Genshin Impact will be removed from the PlayStation Store later …