The Visible Zorker Lets You Peer Under the Hood to See How Games Worked in the 80s
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Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?
In a makeshift demonstration kitchen in Concord, California, cooking oil splatters in and around a frying pan, which catches fire…
The things we’re building
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 126, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re…
Playing Esoteric Ebb is like rolling the dice with a great DM
It took me a while to get into Esoteric Ebb, a new CRPG from developer Christoffer Bodegård. The elevator pitch…
New Deep#Door RAT uses stealth and persistence to target Windows
Deep#Door hides a Python RAT inside a batch file, kills Windows defenses, survives via multiple persistence methods, and exfiltrates data…
Hollywood Has Finally Made a Hippo Horror Movie. It’s About Time
Compared to many other fictional animal villains, hippos kill plenty of people in real life every year.
Trellix Confirms Source Code Breach With Unauthorized Repository Access
Cybersecurity company Trellix has announced that it suffered a breach that enabled unauthorized access to a “portion” of its source…
Splatoon Raiders preorders for the Switch 2 are nearly 20 percent off
Nintendo recently announced a new pricing policy, which knocks $10 off the cost of digital versions of future first-party titles…
Study: AI models that consider user’s feeling are more likely to make errors
In human-to-human communication, the desire to be empathetic or polite often conflicts with the need to be truthful—hence terms like…
The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS
Valve and its SteamOS operating system have already done what a bunch of companies (including Apple) have been trying to…