AI company bitHuman has announced a visual SDK for creating avatars for use as chat agents, instructors, virtual coaches, companions, and experts in different fields.  According to the company, the SDK allows avatars to be created on Arm-based and x86 systems without a GPU. The avatars have a small footprint and can be run online or offline on devices like Chromebooks, Mac Minis, and … [Read more...]

In a coordinated international operation, law enforcement agencies successfully dismantled critical infrastructure belonging to the BlackSuit ransomware group, also known as Royal, marking a significant victory in the ongoing battle against cybercriminal enterprises. The July 24, 2025 takedown operation resulted in the seizure of four servers, nine domains, and approximately $1.09 million in … [Read more...]

The former execs say Krafton delayed the game to avoid paying a bonus, while Krafton claims it just wasn’t ready.Aug 12, 2025, 7:14 PM UTCAsh Parrish is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities.Krafton has fired another shot in its legal battle with former executives of … [Read more...]

Officials are asking people to take action during a ‘nationally significant’ water shortageAug 12, 2025, 7:11 PM UTCJustine Calma is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home, a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals.Can deleting old emails and photos help the UK … [Read more...]

Indian fintech giant Paytm has received long-awaited approval from the country’s central bank to operate as a payment services provider for online merchants — just days after one of its Chinese investors sold its entire stake — marking a key regulatory breakthrough after months of setbacks and scrutiny. On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) granted “in-principle” approval to Paytm’s Payment … [Read more...]

Meta's X competitor, Threads, is continuing to add users at a brisk clip, with the social network now surpassing 400 million monthly active users. The news, reported by Fast Company, follows Threads reaching the 300 million mark in December 2024 and the 200 million mark in August 2024.FC also cited data from Similarweb that showed mobile performance for Threads drawing closer to the figures from … [Read more...]

I've built, upgraded, and benchmarked dozens of PCs over the decades I've been into computing. Back when you had to set individual drive jumpers and airflow for cooling wasn't a consideration, to the relatively plug-and-play nature of PCs today. Whether you're using the best GPUs, the best gaming CPU, or something more modest, most of the PC building experience is codified, and has tons of … [Read more...]

For a little while, we've seen Microsoft rolling out a new blue screen of death to Windows 11. Well, we say "blue screen," but in truth, the new adjustments makes the display go black instead. It's part of Microsoft's mission to make it easier for people and businesses to get their systems back up and running. Source: xda-developers.com … [Read more...]

Back in 2019, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued the dating app giant Match Group, accusing it of deceiving Match.com users into purchasing subscriptions through misleading means. Now, after six years, the company — which operates popular dating apps Match, Tinder, OkCupid, Hinge, and Plenty of Fish — has agreed to a $14 million settlement, as announced by the FTC on Tuesday. The … [Read more...]

Microsoft has released the Windows 11 August 2025 Cumulative Updates, KB5063878 for version 24H2 and KB5063875 for versions 22H2 and 23H2, delivering critical stability fixes and new features released along with Microsoft patch Tuesday august 2025. These updates address performance issues reported since May 2025, including frame rate drops in games like Fortnite and device unresponsiveness, … [Read more...]

Electronic Arts has revealed that their Javelin anti-cheat system successfully prevented 330,000 attempts to cheat or tamper with anti-cheat controls during the Battlefield 6 Open Beta launch period. The gaming giant’s SPEAR Anti-Cheat Team disclosed these statistics while addressing community concerns about cheating incidents in the highly anticipated military shooter’s beta testing … [Read more...]

Aug 12, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Container Security New research has uncovered Docker images on Docker Hub that contain the infamous XZ Utils backdoor, more than a year after the discovery of the incident. More troubling is the fact that other images have been built on top of these infected base images, effectively propagating the infection further in a transitive manner, Binarly REsearch … [Read more...]

Microsoft disclosed a significant remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its Teams collaboration software as part of its August 2025 Patch Tuesday updates. The critical flaw, identified as CVE-2025-53783, could allow an unauthorized attacker to read, write, and even delete user messages and data by executing code over a network. The vulnerability is a heap-based buffer overflow, a type … [Read more...]

The company is moving at a “fast clip,” in part to compete with OpenAI.Aug 12, 2025, 6:10 PM UTCHayden Field is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets.The AI coding wars are heating up. One of the main battlegrounds? “Context windows,” or an AI model’s working memory — the … [Read more...]

Previously, if you wanted a monitor for competitive gaming, you had to choose between an IPS or VA panel to get something with a super high refresh rate or opt for a slower OLED display with richer colors and better contrast. But today, Samsung is changing that with the Odyssey OLED G6, which is the first 500Hz OLED gaming monitor in the world.Available for $1,000, the Odyssey OLED G6 (G60SF) only … [Read more...]

Many designers have that one paid tool they swear by to bring their work to life, but I wanted to challenge that and run real-world projects with nothing but free tools. I’ve tried all of them, from open-source and self-hostable to proprietary, but there’s one tool that managed to do everything I needed — Figma. Source: xda-developers.com … [Read more...]

Demand for AI “companion” applications outside of bigger names, like ChatGPT and Grok, is growing. Of the 337 active and revenue-generating AI companion apps available worldwide, 128 were released in 2025 so far, according to new data provided to TechCrunch by app intelligence firm Appfigures. This subsection of the AI market on mobile has now generated $82 million during the first half of the … [Read more...]

Hackers claim to have compromised the computer of a North Korean government hacker and leaked its contents online, offering a rare window into a hacking operation by the notoriously secretive nation.  The two hackers, who go by Saber and cyb0rg, published a report about the breach in the latest issue of Phrack magazine, a legendary cybersecurity e-zine that was first published in 1985. The … [Read more...]

Alien: Earth delivers everything you'd want from a series with "Alien" in the title: The iconic Xenomorphs hunting down hapless humans; gratuitous body horror; and androids who you can never fully trust. But writer/director Noah Hawley (Legion, Fargo) and his team also manage to push the franchise to new heights, delving into the philosophical questions that Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Alien … [Read more...]

Microsoft released its August Patch Tuesday security updates, addressing a total of 107 vulnerabilities across its product ecosystem. The update includes fixes for 90 vulnerabilities, classified as follows: 13 are Critical, 76 are Important, one is Moderate, and one is Low. Notably, none of these vulnerabilities are listed as actively exploited zero-days, which provides some relief for IT … [Read more...]