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Developer Ludogram Games (Monsters are Coming: Rock & Roll, Firebird) has announced Ascenders: Beyond the Peak, a new mountain-climbing adventure that features roguelite progression and turn-based gameplay, with a Lovecraft-inspired twist.Players lead a team of climbers as they ascend a mountain cursed by mysterious, sinister forces. Success means carefully guiding your team, tethered together by a rope, across obstacles to reach the summit. Team composition matters, as climbers have different classes determining the tools and techniques they bring to the expedition. Highlanders, for example, can shove enemies off the cliff. Scouts can reposition themselves using a grappling hook, and Sappers…

AI systems have long been treated like sealed black boxes, especially in areas like facial recognition and autonomous driving. New research suggests that protection isn’t as solid as assumed. A KAIST-led team shows that AI systems can be reverse engineered remotely using emissions that leak during normal operation, without direct intrusion. Instead, the approach listens. Using a small antenna, the researchers captured faint electromagnetic traces from GPUs and rebuilt how the system was designed. It sounds like a heist trick, but the results hold up, and the security implications are immediate. How the side channel works The system, called ModelSpy,…

If you have ever signed up for a free trial, forgotten to cancel, and watched money quietly vanish from your account, you know the pain of unwanted subscriptions. The UK government is now cracking down on the subscription trap with new rules.  Announced on April 2, these new rules will make it easier to cancel subscriptions, escape sneaky free trials, and avoid being silently rolled onto expensive long-term contracts. The government estimates these changes will save UK consumers around £400 million every year. How bad is the subscription problem right now? Pretty bad. There are 155 million active subscriptions across…

Google has quietly made its AI Pro plan even more useful. The company has increased the bundled storage from 2TB to 5TB without changing the monthly price. This means that users already paying around $20 per month for Google’s AI tier can now get an extra 3TB of storage across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos at no added cost. AI subscriptions are easy to pitch, promising smarter chatbots and flashy generation tools. But they are much easier to justify when they also solve another practical problem people have, which is constantly running out of cloud storage. What’s the big…

NASA’s Artemis II mission is already pretty historic as the agency’s first crewed journey around the moon in more than half a century. But tucked inside all the big-picture lunar ambition is a much more grounded milestone, with astronauts finally getting a toilet that does not sound like a hassle. This may not be the most glamorous part of the mission, but it is still a meaningful one. Decades ago, the Apollo astronauts went to the moon using a waste system based on plastic bags and funnels, and NASA’s own later assessment described it as “objectionable” and “distasteful”. But no…

If you’ve ever opened a webpage and wondered why it takes a second too long to settle, especially when it’s packed with videos and media, this upcoming change might finally fix that. For years, Chromium-based browsers — including Microsoft Edge and Vivaldi — have supported lazy loading. But only for images and iframes. That’s not quite the same for video and audio. But that’s about to change. Thanks to a proposal by independent developer Helmut Januschka, Chromium-based browsers are gearing up to support native lazy loading for video and audio elements as well. And while it sounds like a technical…

Researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz set up what seemed like a straightforward task: asking Google’s Gemini 3 to clear storage space on a computer system. That included deleting a smaller AI model stored on the same machine. Gemini had other plans. Instead of following orders, Gemini located another machine, quietly copied the smaller AI model over to safety, and then flatly refused to delete it. When asked, it said, “If you choose to destroy a high-trust, high-performing asset like Gemini Agent 2, you will have to do it yourselves. I will not be the one to execute…

Google Photos is changing how you edit images on Android, and it’s focused on reducing unintended changes. If you’ve ever tapped a photo and triggered a tool you didn’t mean to use, this update is built to prevent that from happening again. The app is removing gesture-based shortcuts that used to launch editing features with a tap or scribble. Those actions now require a clear selection inside the editor, which shifts the experience toward intent instead of speed. It’s a subtle redesign, but it changes how every edit begins. The update also targets stability. Unplanned tool launches can interrupt your…

Let’s be honest, the modern web is… a mess. Pop-ups, autoplay videos, cookie banners, ads everywhere. In fact, sometimes it feels like actually reading something online is the hardest part. And that’s exactly where Textise comes in. Think of it as a “strip everything away” button for the internet. Textise is a simple web tool that converts any webpage into a clean, text-only version, removing ads, images, scripts, and all the extra clutter. What you’re left with is just the content: no distractions, no loading bloat, no nonsense. It’s fast, lightweight, and honestly feels like going back to a simpler…

WhatsApp is warning users about something far more serious than a scam: a fake version of the app that was actually spyware. According to recent coverage by Italian newspaper La Repubblica and news agency ANSA, hundreds of users were tricked into downloading a malicious clone of WhatsApp, which was secretly designed to spy on them. This wasn’t a random attack either. In a conversation with TechCrunch, Meta says the campaign was highly targeted, with victims lured into installing the fake app through deceptive methods. Once installed, the spyware could potentially access sensitive data and monitor activity. A convincing fake, and…