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Gaming The Web

Team Fortress 2 players drop review bomb on Valve for ignoring game's bot problem

The community is fed up with the cheaters and started a petition demanding developers nip the issue in the bud
What just happened? Team Fortress 2 just got review-bombed so hard that its "recent review" ranking is now "mostly negative." Despite being 17 years old, the team shooter is still very popular, even more so with its recent update. It still ranks as one of the most-played games on Steam.
Full story By Cal Jeffrey, 24 comments
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Gaming Hardware

Palmer Luckey's FPGA Game Boy clone lands just in time for the holidays

Something to look forward to: A race between FPGA-based retro handhelds is looming. The Analogue Pocket has been the standard for years, but former Oculus designer Palmer Lucky plans to release a similar device later this year to commemorate the original Game Boy. Meanwhile, hardware modder Taki Udon is currently developing options that could lower the barrier to entry for the emerging FPGA emulation market.
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Industry Car Tech

Total vehicle electrification could require significantly larger copper mining efforts over the next 30 years

Forward-looking: A new paper provides a concerning projection for copper supply over the next few years and the effects it could have on the development of EV technology. Significantly more copper mines will be needed, or we could adapt the hybrid model to achieve the best results for both greenhouse gas emissions and supply requirements.
Full story By Alfonso Maruccia, 21 comments
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Security Microsoft

Researcher says Microsoft's Windows Recall has security gaps "you can fly a plane through"

The OCR data for each snapshot is stored in a plaintext SQLite database file
Windows Recall: Microsoft says it's secure; security researchers say it's not, but does it matter? Windows Recall is a feature that takes screenshots of every moment you are on your computer to make that information available for Copilot searches. Is it a really useful feature, or is it just more AI rubbish being crammed down consumers' throats? Let us know in the comments.
Full story By Cal Jeffrey, 17 comments
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