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The Morning After: Pokémon hack exposes future games, beta designs and more
14 Oct

The Morning After: Pokémon hack exposes future games, beta designs and more

John RoutledgeLatest News
Pokémon developer Game Freak has confirmed its servers were hacked in August. The breach meant internal materials — from source codes to early and even scrapped character designs — were circulating on social media over the weekend.Leaked documents and images flooded Reddit and X after Centro Leaks began dumping it all on Saturday afternoon. It allegedly includes source codes for…
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Massive Pokémon leak exposes beta designs, source codes and plans for upcoming titles
13 Oct

Massive Pokémon leak exposes beta designs, source codes and plans for upcoming titles

John RoutledgeLatest News
Pokémon developer Game Freak has confirmed it suffered a breach as troves of internal materials pertaining to the franchise — from source codes to early and, in some cases, scrapped character designs — hit social media this weekend. In a statement published on Thursday (translated from Japanese), the company said it discovered its servers were hacked in August and that…
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SpaceX successfully catches Super Heavy booster after launching Starship’s fifth flight
13 Oct

SpaceX successfully catches Super Heavy booster after launching Starship’s fifth flight

John RoutledgeLatest News
SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster successfully returned to the pad after liftoff to be caught by the launch tower’s mechanical arms in an incredible feat Sunday morning. The milestone came during the fifth flight of the company’s Starship, and is a huge step for the rocket’s planned reusability. Starship launched at about 8:25AM ET from SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas Starbase.Landing rockets…
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Xbox Cloud Gaming may finally let you stream your non-Game Pass purchases soon
12 Oct

Xbox Cloud Gaming may finally let you stream your non-Game Pass purchases soon

John RoutledgeLatest News
Microsoft is expanding Xbox Cloud Gaming’s streaming capabilities to support titles that aren’t on Xbox Game Pass, The Verge reports. The company has stated its plans to let users stream games from their own libraries numerous times over the last few years, going back to the announcement of Project xCloud, but the feature hasn’t yet materialized. Now, Microsoft is ready…
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TikTok is reportedly aware of its bad effects on teen users
12 Oct

TikTok is reportedly aware of its bad effects on teen users

John RoutledgeLatest News
TikTok's executives and employees were well aware that its features foster compulsive use of the app, as well as of its corresponding negative mental health effects, according to NPR. The broadcasting organization reviewed the unredacted documents from the lawsuit filed by the Kentucky Attorney General's Office as published by the Kentucky Public Radio. More than a dozen states sued TikTok…
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NLRB accuses Apple of illegally restricting employee Slack and social media use
11 Oct

NLRB accuses Apple of illegally restricting employee Slack and social media use

John RoutledgeLatest News
The National Labor Relations Board has accused Apple of infringing on its employees’ rights to advocate for better working conditions. In a complaint spotted by Reuters, the agency alleges Apple illegally fired an employee who had used Slack to advocate for workplace changes at the company. Separately, the NLRB accuses Apple of forcing another worker to delete a social media…
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Hackers made robot vacuums randomly yell racial slurs
11 Oct

Hackers made robot vacuums randomly yell racial slurs

John RoutledgeLatest News
Robot vacuums across the country were hacked in the space of several days, according to reporting by ABC News. This allowed the attackers to not only control the robovacs, but use their speakers to hurl racial slurs and abusive comments at anyone nearby.All of the affected robots were of the same make and model, the Chinese-made Ecovacs Deebot X2s. This…
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