Author: Zach_Wilson
Overwatch 2 needs a win — the Invasion event, at best, is a draw
Overwatch 2’s Invasion event, which goes live today, is the game’s biggest update since penciling in the “2” in October of last year. The event, which coincides with season 6 of the battle pass, offers a new hero, a new game mode, and, perhaps most importantly, new story missions that,…
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Top open source project Moq slammed for secretly collecting user data
Popular open source (OS) project Moq just got updated to include a not-so-open-source addition in the form of a series of DLLs designed to collect hashes of user email addresses. The changes were first reported on by BleepingComputer, which notes that the project sees around 100,000 daily downloads on average,…
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter just isn’t scary enough to live up to Dracula’s legacy
There have been so many cinematic adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and movies inspired by the 1897 novel over the years that it’s actually quite easy to understand some of the logic behind Universal’s The Last Voyage of the Demeter from director André Øvredal. There’s an undeniable brilliance behind the…
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ChatGPT is a bad knowledge base, confirms new study
There’s been (probably a little too much) chatter on the internet about how OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and similar artificially intelligent (AI) chatbots, are going to change the way we approach work. There’s also some doom associated with this: are AI chatbots going to make a mockery of academia? Do away with…
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YouTube’s link spam situation is so bad that Shorts is banning links
YouTube is taking preventative measures to tackle the increase in scams and spam appearing across its TikTok rival, YouTube Shorts. Starting August 31st, YouTube will gradually make links across Shorts comments, descriptions, and the vertical live feeds unclickable to prevent users from potentially being exposed to malware, phishing scams, and…
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YouTube is deactivating links in Shorts videos to combat spam
YouTube knows that it has a spam problem, particularly when it comes to its two-year-old Shorts feature. In an attempt to do something about it, the streamer has announced it's deactivating links in Shorts descriptions, comments and the vertical live feed. YouTube is also taking away the ability to click…
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