Back in the mid-1980s, the nighttime soap opera Dallas set the all-time gold standard for terrible uses of the “It was all a dream!” plot reveal, with a ridiculous twist erasing the entire previous season. In the decades that followed, Hollywood has continued to exploit this overused trope. Horror movies, in particular, going back to the beginning of cinema and …
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Apple has just released iOS 18.6, the latest iPhone update for users. Though anyone hoping for big new features will have to wait for iOS 26 this fall, today’s new iOS 18.6 release does provide a host of important security fixes. Here are the full details. We all have our own reasons for installing iOS updates. For some, it’s compelling …
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Microsoft has now quietly admitted Windows 11 24H2 stability issues after recent mandatory cumulative updates. Windows 11 24H2 is comparatively better than the previous releases, but the rollout wasn’t exactly smooth. It caused a lot of issues for some of us, including Blue Screen of Death, but more problems were introduced with the follow-up cumulative updates. We found that Windows …
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Just a day after release, publisher 505 Games has released a new update for Wuchang: Fallen Feathers that addresses several performance issues, fixes some bugs, and grants missing preorder bonuses. Alongside the fixes, all players will receive the game’s original soundtrack DLC as a form of apology. The patch notes detail the addition of a manual toggle for low latency …
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Meta has fixed a security bug that allowed Meta AI chatbot users to access and view the private prompts and AI-generated responses of other users. Sandeep Hodkasia, the founder of security testing firm AppSecure, exclusively told TechCrunch that Meta paid him $10,000 in a bug bounty reward for privately disclosing the bug he filed on December 26, 2024. Meta deployed …
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Recent Secret Lair drops have been a real rollercoaster. After the shift to the limited-run print model, things were unsurprisingly a disaster. Thankfully, over time, Wizards managed this problem, and drops stopped selling out instantly. More recently, however, Wizards has bafflingly returned to the form of having some seriously shocking sales. Recent Secret Lair drops, like the Final Fantasy crossover …
Read More »Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release due out later today, an x86/urgent pull request was sent out today that includes some fixes for old AMD Zen 2 hardware. There are two principal set of changes with this week’s “x86/urgent” pull request for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle. First up, it contains patches for updating the MAINTAINERS entry with longtime …
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