Anthropic reports the first 80-90% ‘AI-orchestrated’ cyber espionage campaign, but cybersecurity critics are sceptical

Recently, in a blog post titled “Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign”, Claude owner Anthropic shared details on a “Chinese state-sponsored group” it claimed was using Claude’s coding tool to try and infiltrate 30 global targets. This report claims “the threat actor was able to use AI to perform 80-90% of the campaign”,…

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PC and smartphone markets forecast to shrink in 2026 due to higher prices as memory supply crisis escalates and threatens to spoil Black Friday for PC fans

Market analyst Trendforce is predicting that both the PC and smartphone markets will actually shrink next year as a consequence of the memory supply crisis (via Hankyung.com). So far, we haven’t seen any dramatic increases in PC system prices, but as Black Friday 2025 hoves into view, the question is for how much longer will…

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Battlefield 6 is putting on a week-long free trial to celebrate the latest seasonal content, which brings the warzone to an affluent Californian neighbourhood

The latest update for Battlefield 6 adds new seasonal content for the main multiplayer and Redsec. And to celebrate all this new content, Battlefield 6 will also be putting on a free-to-play event for a week, to show off some specific maps and modes. “Later this month, players can jump into Battlefield 6 via a…

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The developer of 80 Days was once invited to pitch a Doctor Who game, but never heard back from the BBC afterward: ‘Technically, we’re still waiting for a reply’

80 Days may still be the best-known game from narrative maestros Inkle Studios. But the developer’s most ambitious game is probably Heaven’s Vault, a sci-fi archaeological adventure about piecing together an ancient alien language. Phillippa Warr gave it an impressive score of 88 in PC Gamer’s Heaven’s Vault Review, stating it “does a beautiful job…

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‘Elon [Musk] truly would be the best owner of any game company,’ claims former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick with a completely straight face

After more than 30 years of running Activision, from 1991 to 2023, you might think that Bobby Kotick knows a thing or two about what it takes to run a successful videogame company. He’s a controversial figure, but Kotick also bought a failing company for $500,000 and turned it into a publisher that Microsoft spent…

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Thermaltake View 390 Air review

Airflow and aesthetics don’t often mix in the world of PC cases. Thermaltake, however, has done a pretty good job of it here. The Thermaltake View 390 Air swaps a top panel for tempered glass to excellent effect, leaving plenty of options for direct airflow over your components. I received the View 390 Air in…

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Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick wanted to buy Minecraft until he found out Notch was leaving and Microsoft was offering a billion dollars more: ‘I’ll go airplane shopping with you, but you’ve gotta take that offer’

Over a decade ago, when Minecraft studio Mojang was still a plucky independent outfit enjoying the fruits of developing one of the most successful games of all time, it unsurprisingly had a bunch of suitors. And one of them was Bobby Kotick. Chatting on the Rushmore podcast, host Ari Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor, asked the…

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This speedrunner has been making a glorious multi-handheld gaming PC body harness rig for IRL game streaming on the move

There are some corners that cannot be unturned, some scientific experiments that cannot be un-experimented, some contraptions that cannot be unseen. There are those too, of course, that are glorious. And then there are those, like this one from Speedrunner and X, TikTok, and Twitch user veegeea, that sit in the curious valley between the…

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Demonschool review

Need to Know What is it? A hellish tactics RPG that’s a little Buffy, a little Shin Megami Tensei.Release date [November 19, 2025]Expect to pay $25/£20Developer Necrosoft GamesPublisher Ysbryd GamesReviewed on Nvidia GeForce RTX3070, AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, 32GB RAMSteam Deck VerifiedLink Official site Inside me there are two wolves—Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Persona—so…

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