The latest piece of tech that can unexpectedly be hacked: a ‘nutrunner’ wrench, which had over 20 vulnerabilities that’ll be patched out in January

I really feel like we’re nudging towards the Cyberpunk: 2077-style future where netrunner hackers will basically become wizards, able to explode just about anything with a few lines of rogue code. Okay—the reality may be far more boring, but considering they put DRM in trains a while back I’m crossing my fingers for cyber sorcerers…

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Disney CCG Lorcana lets you ruin your deck with 99 copies of the puppies from 101 Dalmatians, if that’s your sort of thing

I don’t have the kind of deep pockets to really get into trading card games—but I do like watching the meta fluctuate from afar. Disney’s CCG has been of particular interest, because weird strategies keep emerging around obscure characters like Hiram Flaversham. Or in this case, anti-strategies that you have no good reason to use….

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US Supreme Court has had enough of Epic vs. Apple, refuses to hear appeals, Tim Sweeney says the fight to open-up iOS ‘is lost… a sad outcome for all developers’

The US Supreme Court has ended the legal battle between Apple and Epic, for now at least, by refusing to hear either side’s appeals in their long-running dispute over iOS store policies (as reported by Reuters). Apple had appealed against a lower court’s ruling which ordered certain changes to iOS policies, while Epic had appealed…

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Turnip Boy Robs a Bank review

You know that scene at the end of the Scott Pilgrim movie where he’s having to do the whole Chaos Theatre shtick a second time, breezing through security with just a couple of punches and some hurtful words? It was kinda badass, and that’s how I felt after a couple of hours into Turnip Boy…

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