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Image: Nintendo Hackers released a collection of leaked data from Pokémon game developer Game Freak over the weekend, including personal information about employees. Game Freak — which develops the main lineup of Pokémon video games — confirmed the breach in a statement, saying (per a machine translation from Japanese) that it was the result of “unauthorized access to our servers by a third party” and dated back to August of 2024.
Game Freak said the leaked

Image: Apple Apple has released the first trailer for the second season of Silo, and it looks like the season will tell us what happens to protagonist Juliette after the jaw-dropping cliffhanger at the end of season one.
The show, based on a series of books by Hugh Howey, is about a community of 10,000 people living in an underground silo that’s intended to protect them from dangerous conditions aboveground. If you’ve been meaning to see the first season and haven’t yet, you pr

Image: NetEase The rumors are true, the Destiny franchise is heading to mobile devices soon. Destiny: Rising is a new free-to-play mobile sci-fi RPG shooter that includes a number of playable hero characters, a shared world, and PvE and PvP modes all set in Bungie’s Destiny universe.
China-based NetEase Games has developed Destiny: Rising, after announcing a partnership with Bungie and a $100 million investment into the studio in 2018. Destiny: Rising will be set in an alternative Destiny

Image: Devolver Digital After the launch of Gris, a beautiful game exploring grief, the team at Nomada Studio in Barcelona needed a long break. They spent around half a year not even thinking about what was next, avoiding words like “Unity” or “sequel.” Eventually, director Conrad Roset, who became a parent during that time, came up with the idea of a similar experience that would introduce a new companion, allowing players to connect with and care for another character.

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is bringing Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone to Xbox Cloud Gaming later this month. This means Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be playable on Xbox Cloud Gaming at launch on October 25th, with Warzone and Modern Warfare III cloud support also getting enabled on the same day.
This is the first time a Call of Duty game has been available at launch on Xbox Cloud Gaming, following Microsoft’s acquisition of Activisio

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Microsoft is promoting Rare studio lead Craig Duncan to the head of Xbox Game Studios, following the retirement of Alan Hartman. The change of leadership comes less than a year after Hartman took on the head of Xbox Game Studios role after Matt Booty was promoted to an expanded president of game content and studios position.
In an email to Xbox employees today, seen by The Verge, Booty shared that Hartman is retiring at the end of November after more than

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Image: Fujifilm Even as it keeps working to catch up with demand for the massively popular X100VI, Fujifilm has been on a steady cadence of releasing new cameras. The X-T50 was announced in May, and it was the first to feature a physical dial for switching between the company’s signature film simulations. That dial is carrying forward to the new, budget-tier X-M5 that Fujifilm is announcing today.The X-M5 is priced at $799.95 and is an affordable gateway into the company’s interchang

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back up in read-only mode following massive data breaches last week.Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive, posted an update on Monday morning on X (formerly Twitter) announcing the site's return in a "provisional manner." "Safe to resume but might need further maintenance, in which case it will be suspended again," he wrote. "Please be gentle."Tweet may have been deletedKahle wrote the site will not yet reinstate its "Save

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The updated Remove Tool in Photoshop can now find and remove common distractions for you. | Image: Adobe Adobe is kicking off its annual Adobe Max conference today with the launch of new AI-powered features across its Creative Cloud apps. New AI features for Photoshop, like automatic background distraction removal and a more powerful Firefly generative AI model, are the biggest announcements, with Illustrator, InDesign, and Premiere Pro also getting new features that can help to speed up traditi

Meta Quest 3S made me feel like Tony Stark without needing his billionaire bank account. For just $299, I got to step into my own Iron Man suit right in my living room (shout out to Marvel's Iron Man VR). Did I almost break my hand from being too into it? Maybe. But hey, if Iron Man can take a few hits in his suit, so can I.Meta’s decision to launch a budget-friendly Quest 3 model took me by surprise, but it’s a welcome one. At $499, the original Quest 3 was already priced reasonably

It's Florida, Man is here to make you rethink the meme that simultaneously celebrates and denigrates a particular brand of American eccentric. From the producers of The Righteous Gemstones, this new HBO Original plays like Drunk History meets The Jinx, walking a fine line between enlightened empathy and smirking exploitation. For those unfamiliar, the title of "Florida Man" comes from the headlines of shocking news stories out of the Sunshine State, specifically those that succinctly paint

Frame.io V4 aims to make collaborating on large projects much easier by removing the need to jump between different apps. | Image:Adobe The latest version of Frame.io, Adobe’s review and collaboration platform for Video and photography, is rolling today, making it easier to manage sprawling creative projects in a single app. Available for all users on web, iPhone, and iPad, Frame.io V4 is the biggest update to the platform since it was launched in 2015, according to Adobe, and adds new tag

Adobe’s Firefly Video Model can generate a range of styles, including ‘realism’ (as pictured). | Image: Adobe Adobe is making the jump into generative AI video. The company’s Firefly Video Model, which has been teased since earlier this year, is launching today across a handful of new tools, including some right inside Premiere Pro that will allow creatives to extend footage and generate video from still images and text prompts.
The first tool — Generative Extend &m

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a €119mn contract with Italian scaleup D-Orbit for its first in-orbit servicing mission, RISE.  Scheduled for launch in 2028, RISE will attempt to rendezvous with, maneuver, and detach from an ESA satellite in geostationary orbit. Then it will embark on an 8-year mission, visiting several other satellites and giving them a new lease on life.   RISE, which is about the size of a minivan, will be like a car mechanic, but for aging spa

Apple's Vision Pro headset is incredibly powerful, but also very expensive and quite bulky. The company is reportedly planning to launch a much lighter wearable device — though don't expect it to arrive very soon.According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple's Vision Products Group is working on (at least) four new devices, including a second generation Vision Pro, and a cheaper variant that might arrive as early as this year. SEE ALSO:Ray-Ban Meta Glasses can be used to dox strangers via fa

In what could be a big win for the EU’s chip industry, Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council Minister, Wu Cheng-wen, says TSMC is planning to further expand operations in the bloc. TSMC broke ground in August on a €10bn chip plant in Dresden, Germany — its first in Europe. The German government will provide half of the funding with €5bn in state aid, under the EU’s Chips Act. The fab will produce semiconductors for automotive and industrial applicati

Clips from Canada's Dragons' Den have gone viral after guest Simu Liu called out bubble tea business Bobba for cultural appropriation. Now investing Dragon Manjit Minhas has withdrawn her $1 million investment offer, Bobba is scrambling to do damage control, and Liu is calling for calm as they receive a significant amount of criticism online.If you've missed the firestorm that's completely taken over Asian TikTok during the past few days, here's the rundown.SEE ALSO:The 'hear me out' cake TikTok

This content originally appeared on Mashable for a US audience and has been adapted for the UK audience.We've all heard the rumours that Macs don't need antivirus software. We hate to break it to you but that just isn't true. As security software brands will tell you: Any machine is susceptible to attack. Even the mighty Apple Mac.Sure, Macs are generally more secure than PCs. Windows does tend to have more security vulnerabilities because, while Apple does everything in-house, Windows operates

Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer.If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for October 14's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.SEE ALSO:Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable SEE ALSO:NYT Connections today: Hints and ans

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for October 12's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself,

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What do you do when people aren't taking the climate crisis seriously? You make them part of the problem. That's the narrative-altering tack taken by Act of Man, a new nonpartisan climate coalition and social activation that's shifting the vocabulary around so-called "natural" disasters to center the increasingly essential role of human climate change in extreme weather — weather that should more accurately be called "unnatural."SEE ALSO:Online experts you can trust for Hurricane Milt

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Mashable reviews quite a few laptops every year, and one of the most reliable laptop brands we've tested is HP. That said, multiple great options can be a double-edged sword. How do you narrow it down to find the best HP laptop for your specific needs?Well, it depends on what you need a laptop for.Need an HP laptop for gaming? We prefer the brand's Victus line over its Omen line. Looking for a HP laptop with an insanely long battery life to last between classes or through long work days? Our pic

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Image: the Internet Archive The Internet Archive is back online in a read-only state after a cyberattack brought down the digital library and Wayback Machine last week. A data breach and DDoS attack kicked the site offline on October 9th, with a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records also stolen in recent weeks.
The Internet Archive is now back online in a “provisional, read-only manner,” according to founder Brewster Kahle. “Safe to resume but might

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If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game.Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, w

Reddit is off to a rocky start this week.On Monday morning reported outtages started to spike on Downdetector.com, with 75 percent of people flagging an issue with Reddit's website.Credit: Downdetector.com
When Mashable attempted to access reddit.com from the UK, EU and Australia, we were greeted with a message saying "no healthy upstream". A thread on the r/techsupport subreddit shows a number of users reported the same issue. SEE ALSO:Reddit's latest policy change could stifle future protests