Metavisio and its subsidiary Thomson Computing have unveiled what they call the first Web3 laptop, engineered from the ground up for native Web3 experiences.Read More

Available over the Tor network, Hydra was a bazaar that brokered not just drugs but also fake documents, cryptocurrency laundering services, and other illicit goods and services. Nine months after Hydra was taken down, authorities came for Bitzlato, a cryptocurrency exchange that laundered “a substantial portion of the cryptocurrency that Hydra received.” In all, authorities …

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After years of ignoring pleas to sign up to child protection schemes, the controversial messaging app Telegram has agreed to work with an internationally recognised body to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is used by major online services to help them detect and remove CSAM, and …

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Ubisoft announced that it will discontinue development on XDefiant, its free-to-play first-person shooter title. As a result, half of the XDefiant team worldwide will be transitioning to other roles within Ubisoft. This decision also leads to the closing of the San Francisco and Osaka production studios and to the ramp down of the Sydney production site, …

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As Amazon takes a major step into the AI space with its new Nova family of foundation models, Google is doubling down on its own multimodal AI capabilities. The tech giant’s cloud division has announced that …

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Dino Ying has been a patient leader. As chairman of Hero Esports (formerly VSPO) and Hero Games, he has had to endure a long period of investment before getting much hope of a payoff. Yet Hero Esports is coming into its own with backing from Saudi Arabia, and Hero Games has had a good run …

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Tencent and its Morefun Studios subsidiary revealed a 3D action-fighting game The Hidden Ones inspired by Chinese mythology. Launching in 2025 on PC and mobile, the game is similar to Black Myth: Wukong (which sold 20 million copies in a month) in its appeal in taking Chinese content to a global stage. Like Black Myth: …

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Emergence AI, a startup founded by IBM Research veterans that emerged from stealth earlier this year with more than $97 million in funding, today unveiled its enterprise-grade autonomous multi-agent AI orchestrator, which it claims is among …

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