Framework 13 (2023) AMD mainboard review

The new Framework AMD mainboard is finally here and now I love the Framework 13 laptop. I mean, I’ve been very positive about the company’s modular notebook setup in the past—and love the idea of a laptop that can be upgraded a few generations down the line—but while it’s a good office laptop it never…

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Well that didn’t take long: Diablo 4 is coming to Steam

Boy, that sure didn’t take long. Blizzard announced today that Diablo 4, the latest iteration of its demon-clobbering action-RPG, will be coming to Steam on October 17. Diablo 4 on Steam will support cross-platform play with other versions of the game—Battle.net, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5—and will offer unique Steam-specific…

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Five former Ubisoft employees arrested following investigation into sexual misconduct complaints at the company

A Liberation report (Google translated) says five former Ubisoft employees, including former chief creative officer Serge Hascoët and vice president of editorial and creative services Tommy François, have been arrested in France for questioning about allegations of sexual harassment and abuse while at the company.  The arrests were made following a more than year-long investigation…

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El Paso, Elsewhere’s mashup of Max Payne and breakup ballad shouldn’t work, and yet it’s one of the boldest, freshest games of the year

El Paso, Elsewhere is a videogame-ass videogame. Its features wouldn’t be out of place scrawled across an OG PlayStation game’s back cover: 50 levels of intense action! Seven powerful weapons!An army of the undead to blast back to hell!More lurid colored lighting than you can shake an LED array at! While it may draw from…

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Chess grandmaster denies using anal beads to cheat against world champion: ‘categorically no, of course not’

Last year the chess world was engulfed by scandal after world champion Magnus Carlsen accused his opponent, grandmaster Hans Niemann, of cheating in a game which Niemann won. The allegation was explosive and, as allegations about Niemann’s past behaviour came to light, one unverifiable and lurid detail took centre stage: that the player had cheated…

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Red Cross issues rules of engagement to war-focused hacker groups, who say ‘why should I listen to the Red Cross?’

We live in an age of state-sponsored cyber warfare, one where conflicts have a parallel and intangible digital battlefield. The most obvious manifestation of this is propaganda, good old information warfare, with things like photos, videos and records being obtained and then framed and circulated online. The other side of it—concentrated cyber attacks on infrastructure,…

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