‘Stardew Valley meets Twin Peaks’ in this ‘gritty farming thriller,’ and if you don’t find all of those words appealing I don’t know how to help you

We know the trope of the cozy life sim: you’ve inherited a tumbledown farmhouse from a distant relative and need to grow crops, make friends with the locals, and restore the farm to its former glory. That’s not quite the case in Crop, the “gritty farming simulator” developer Carbonara Games described to me as “Stardew…

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The Witcher 3 multiplayer mod adds new setting-appropriate features, like the ability to form a totem pole of Geralts or turn into a fox

The Witcher 3 is a deep, textured game with incredible worldbuilding—worldbuilding that the Witcher Online mod on NexusMods delves deeply into. Finally, you can explore the Continent with your friends, doing setting-appropriate activities like (checks notes) er, riding about on each other’s shoulders, and (frantically sweating, flipping through notes in a panic) turning into a…

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Hackers claim they’ve breached a Chinese supercomputer and are demanding huge amounts of crypto for the data, but security researchers are sceptical

Earlier this year, dark web hackers claimed to have exfiltrated a huge amount of data from the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) in Tianjin, China. The hacker group FlamingChina claims that it stole 10 petabytes of data pertaining to advanced science and defence agencies within China. However, a number of security researchers have since cast doubt…

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A renowned New York Times investigative reporter thinks British cryptographer is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, said cryptographer says no

Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous name of the inventor of bitcoin, has never been publicly unveiled. The New York Times believes it may have finally nailed the right guy, but said guy says it’s not him. In a video report from the New York Times, investigative reporter John Carreyrou argues it is British cryptographer Adam Back….

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