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New HybridPetya Ransomware Bypasses UEFI Secure Boot With CVE-2024-7344 Exploit

Admin5 months ago06 mins mins

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya that resembles the notorious Petya/NotPetya malware, while also incorporating the ability to bypass the Secure Boot mechanism in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) systems using a now-patched vulnerability disclosed earlier this year. Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET said the samples were uploaded to the VirusTotal platform…

Borderlands 4’s Big Jump Glitch Is Wild And Won’t Be Patched

Admin5 months ago02 mins mins

A newly discovered bug in open-world looter shooter Borderlands 4 is letting players use a specific legendary gun to fling themselves across large sections of the game’s map. It looks wild and could be useful for speedrunners. But Gearbox is watching the glitch and might, if needed, fix it to avoid technical problems. On September…

Star Wars Fans Are Bummed About How Boring Mandalorian And Grogu Looks

Admin5 months ago04 mins mins

Our first trailer for the next Star Wars movie has arrived and it looks incredibly forgettable. Fans are picking apart a 90-second clip of The Mandalorian and Grogu and mourning the franchise’s loss of visual identity. Is Disney’s take on the sci-fi galaxy far, far away cooked, or is this just how a movie about a…

Jimmy Kimmel Live! Returns Following Disney Boycott

Admin5 months ago03 mins mins

Tomorrow, Jimmy Kimmel will return to host his late-night show after it was “indefinitely” put on hold on September 17 by Disney following remarks he made about Charlie Kirk in the wake of the conservative commentator’s assassination earlier this month. The decision prompted a large amount of backlash from fans, actors, and comedians, and led…

15 Tips And Tricks To Know Before Playing

Admin5 months ago07 mins mins

Dying Light: The Beast is here, and despite some odd issues with super rain (which should be all fixed up now), I’ve been having a wonderful time with Techland’s open-world zombie RPG. After spending over a dozen hours with it, as well as playing the past games in the series, I have some tips to…

The Steam Deck Just Went On Sale And Is Killing The Competition On Price

Admin5 months ago02 mins mins

Despite a trade war and rising inflation, the three-year-old Steam Deck hasn’t gone up in price yet. In fact, it just got a pretty major discount. The $400 LCD model will be 20 percent off for the 2025 fall Steam sale. That makes it significantly cheaper than just about every other current-gen gaming device on…

Love and Deepspace Is Huge, So Why Am I Just Learning About It?

Admin5 months ago03 mins mins

Sometimes, in this line of work, a game’s name will pass over your feeds multiple times before you ever actually see a frame of footage from it. That is what happened to me with Love and Deepspace, Papergames’ 2024 dating sim, which apparently has over 50 million players worldwide. The otome game has always been…

Mirror founder Brynn Putnam to unveil her new startup at Disrupt 2025

Admin5 months ago03 mins mins

Seven years after unveiling Mirror at TechCrunch Disrupt 2018, Brynn Putnam is returning to the stage where it all began. The serial entrepreneur who turned a fitness concept into a $500 million acquisition by Lululemon will debut her latest venture at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 at San Francisco’s Moscone West in October. Putnam’s path from that…