Macworld If you’ve been using third-party apps on your Mac, you are probably familiar with a permission dialog box called “Full Disk Access.” It’s sort of a big catch-all permission that lets an application read or write almost any data to your Mac’s drive. It was originally conceived as a way for apps to be able to fully back up and restore your hard drive, but developers have since used it as a shortcut for…
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Archestra released OpenAPPA, an open-source security engine designed to stop data exfiltration caused by prompt injection or model hallucination. The team reports zero successful attacks when running security benchmarks Bench-Corp (20…
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As reported by MMORPG.com, developer Jagex has announced a new MMO follow-up to RuneScape with the working title "RuneScape 4." The announcement came as part of Jagex's yearly RuneFest convention being held this weekend.
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Today is a huge day for RuneScape fans, as UK developer Jagex has kicked off the biggest RuneFest ever, revealing a brand new in-development MMORPG in the process. Over 6,000 fans packed the NEC in Birmingham for the event, which opened…
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Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. Everyone has issues with iPhone storage. Even…
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A refreshed interface and smarter search make F-Droid a cleaner, easier place to discover niche open source apps
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Insiders report that developer Naughty Dog is working on a new action-adventure game in the Uncharted series, which is currently in early development and is not a remake. [1][2]
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Google suspends product vulnerability submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports.
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FieldAI Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence models for robots, is reportedly seeking $700 million in funding. A source told Business Insider today that the round could value the company at $10 billion. That’s five times…
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CVE-2026-85706 is a critical GitLab path-traversal vulnerability that has moved beyond theoretical risk into confirmed exploitation. It affects self-managed GitLab CE/EE and could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to read arbitrary…
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Dish-owned Sling TV will no longer be offering its Sling Pass feature that allowed people to buy a single day of cable TV programming at a time, as reported by The Desk. The feature was announced last year and offered a day pass, a weekend…
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The world’s tallest wind turbine has reached its full height in Germany, and its developer says the extra altitude could roughly double its electricity output.
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Need to know What is it?: Arcade racing with the Star Wars sauce. Expect to pay: $60/£50 Developer: Fuse Games Publisher: Secret Mode Reviewed on: Windows 11, Intel Core i9, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060 Multiplayer?: Yes Steam Deck: Unknown…
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GitLab warned customers today to immediately patch a critical AI Gateway vulnerability that could let attackers run arbitrary commands on vulnerable instances.
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Developers of the RPCS3 PS3 emulator recently shared a warning about the latest fraud attempts targeting PS3 fans in search of a new Blu-ray drive. An unknown number of scammers are now trying to sell "fake" Blu-ray drives that appear to…
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Firefox is making it easier to work with two web pages at once. In version 149, the developers added a new feature that allows a single tab to display two web pages side by side. You could, for example, keep Google Maps open on one side to…
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Local AI is becoming more useful by the token. As AI agents move from experiments into everyday development, increasingly capable open models are shrinking to fit on more devices, giving builders more to run locally. Coming this month,…
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Naughty Dog reportedly developing a new Uncharted game
Insiders report that developer Naughty Dog is working on a new action-adventure game in the Uncharted series, which is currently in early development and is not a remake.
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