'Anyone found to be cheating will be permabanned from playing Marathon forever': Bungie's doubling down on security following Arc Raiders' recent foibles
May 7, 2026
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‘Anyone found to be cheating will be permabanned from playing Marathon forever’: Bungie’s doubling down on security following Arc Raiders’ recent foibles

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As we’ve learned from the likes of Arc Raiders as of late, cheating and exploits are absolutely game-breaking in an extraction shooter. The recent item duplication glitch forced Embark to dish out warnings and bans after it broke the in-game economy, though there have been fears over big-name content creators getting preferential treatment. Bungie has…

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15 years after it was shut down, Star Wars Galaxies is still getting massive updates thanks to this restoration project—like a Helldivers-style galactic civil war

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I’ll always be both fascinated and appreciative of non-profit communities that keep old, shut-down MMOs—like my personal love, City of Heroes—up and running. As is the case for Star Wars Galaxies, which has had a private server in Restoration that’s been delivering large-scale updates for years now. And when I say large-scale, I mean it….

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‘I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb’: OpenClaw AI chose to ‘speedrun’ deleting Meta AI safety director’s inbox due to a ‘rookie error’

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Last month I checked out the hype surrounding Moltbot, AKA Clawdbot, AKA OpenClaw (third time’s the charm?). I spent a lot of time highlighting the potential security risks of using the hot new polymath AI. And now it looks like Summer Yue, director of safety and alignment at Meta Superintelligence, has gotten a personal taste…

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A UK redditor flew to New York City to buy 280 TBs worth of HDDs to avoid ‘literally ridiculous’ pricing, declares it was ‘worth it in the end’

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The good folks over at the r/DataHoarder subreddit take storage seriously. This, I would imagine, is obvious. One user, however, took their desire for silly amounts of hard drive space to the extreme when they flew from the UK to New York City in order to purchase ten 28 TB external hard drives, all in…

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WoW’s revisiting old zones for Midnight and The Last Titan because not every story ‘has to be told within the context of a new continent’

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World of Warcraft: Midnight‘s doing some interesting stuff—reimagining zones from The Burning Crusade which (sorry) came out in 2007 (so sorry) which was almost 20 whole years ago (I really am sorry). That’s only a couple years shy of being able to drink in the US. But that’s not where Blizzard’s stopping. It’s tackling Northrend…

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Users are reporting MSI’s yellow-tipped GPU power cables are sneaking out of place, putting graphics cards at increased risk

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GPU meltgate returns, this time with an unexpected twist: more meltiness. This time, it’s looking like one of the main preventative strategies against melting GPU cables might not be as simply effective as initially thought, as there are reports of gamers’ yellow-tipped MSI cables creeping out on their own over time (via Wccftech). We’ve witnessed…

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