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The Legacy of ‘Scavengers Reign’ Lives on Through Video Games

It’s been little over a year since Scavengers Reign was canceled. Co-created by animator-producers Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner, Scavengers Reign garnered a modest yet passionate fanbase and went on to earn an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Animated Program. Despite this, however, HBO Max—and by extension Warner Bros. Discovery, HBO Max’s parent company—chose not to renew the show for a second season, effectively canceling the series. Set in the distant future, the animated sci-fi drama

9to5Mac Daily: July 31, 2025 – iPhone 17 price increase?

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Go Assembly Mutation Testing

While maintaining and developing the Go cryptography standard library, we often spend significantly more time on testing than on implementation. That’s good and an important part of how we achieve our excellent security track record. Ideally, this would be especially true for the least safe parts of the library. However, testing assembly cores presents unique challenges, due to their constant-time nature. This has been a long-standing issue. For Go 1.26, I am working on introducing a mutation

CISA open-sources Thorium platform for malware, forensic analysis

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today announced the public availability of Thorium, an open-source platform for malware and forensic analysts across the government, public, and private sectors. Thorium was developed in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories as a scalable cybersecurity suite that automates many tasks involved in cyberattack investigations, and can schedule over 1,700 jobs per second and ingest over 10 million files per hour per permission

Advanced Rust macros with derive-deftly

derive-deftly is a Rust package that you can use to define your own derive macros without having to write low-level procedural macros. The syntax is easy to learn, but powerful enough to implement macros of significant complexity. Just below is a simple example, to help you get a feel for the system. There is also comprehensive and rigorous reference material: Suppose you want to add accessor functions for the fields in your struct . You could do it by hand, like this: #![allow(unused)] fn

Lyft completes its $197 million acquisition of Europe's Freenow

Lyft has received the required regulatory clearance to finalize its acquisition of the European app-based taxi company Freenow. First announced back in April, Lyft’s approximately $197 million agreement with BMW and Mercedes-Benz allows the company to expand outside of North America for the first time. Freenow’s service will continue to operate as normal, but Bloomberg reports that users will be prompted to download the Lyft app when travelling in the US or Canada, and vice versa for Lyft rider

Plants vs. Zombies is getting an HD remaster with co-op

The iconic tower defense game Plants vs. Zombies is getting an HD remaster. Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted heads to the Switch and Switch 2 on October 23, as revealed during this morning's Nintendo Direct livestream. As the name suggests, it's a remake of the very first PvZ game, going all the way back to 2009. This is the first time we're seeing a version of the original title on a Nintendo platform since the DS . This is more than just a simple HD refresh. The graphics have been upscaled, whi

How founders are ditching VC norms and finding capital on their own terms at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, a candid conversation is coming to the Builder Stage — one that unpacks what startup funding looks like beyond the venture capital echo chamber. Funding routes that don’t start in the Valley Founders today have more capital paths than ever. But how do you navigate them — and know which one actually supports your growth? In this session, hear from Erik Allebest, the CEO and co-founder of chess.com; Gale Wilkin

Hey Microsoft, is it ‘Xbox PC’ or ‘Xbox on PC’?

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft first started using the “Xbox PC” term in a blog post announcing the Gears of Wars remaster in early May. It was a new branding effort designed to signal that games are available on PC through its own Xbox PC app and store. The Xbox PC branding didn’t last long though, as Microsoft has now started using “Xbox on PC” instead. Which one is it, Microsoft? The Xbox PC br

Figma’s IPO price hit a $19.3B valuation out of the gate

Figma will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday in one of the most anticipated IPOs of 2025. The IPO is 40x oversubscribed, VCs confirmed to TechCrunch and Bloomberg previously reported. That means demand for shares is 40x the number of shares the company and its existing investors are selling. So it should surprise no one that Figma, which offers design software, has priced its initial shares at $33 per share, above its previously announced range. On Monday, the company sa

Lyon Is Replacing Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and OnlyOffice

Jumping Rocks/Contributor/Getty Is it something in the water? First, it was Denmark bidding Microsoft adieu. Then it was the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Now it's Lyon, France's third-largest city and a leading economic hub, sweeping Microsoft Windows and Office suite away to replace them with Linux, OnlyOffice, NextCloud, and PostgreSQL. Also: Ready to ditch Windows? 'End of 10' makes converting your PC to Linux easier than ever So, why is Lyon making this move? Well, it's not due to

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 31, #1503

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle might not be as tough as yesterday's, but it is a bit of a stumper. There's a double letter and a fairly unusual start letter that threw me off. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you ne

Netflix Has Both 'Happy Gilmore' Movies Right Now, but Not for Long

The biggest original film to arrive on Netflix in July was undoubtedly Happy Gilmore 2. The Adam Sandler sequel was 30 years in the making and marks the return of one of his most iconic characters, Happy Gilmore, a Boston Bruins-obsessed hockey fan who turns his mean slapshot into a professional golf career. Happy Gilmore 2 premiered on Netflix on July 25, and features most of the original film's cast. Sandler is joined by Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald, Dennis Dugan and Ben Stiller, all of

Meta slated to reported second-quarter earnings after the bell

Meta is set to report its second-quarter earnings on Wednesday, with analysts eyeing any changes to the company's costs and related guidance amid CEO Mark Zuckerberg's recent artificial intelligence hiring blitz. Here's what analysts polled by LSEG are expecting: Earnings per share : $5.92 expected : $5.92 expected Revenue: $44.8 billion expected Investors are likely to be monitoring any comments from Zuckerberg about his company's recent spending on AI and how that technology might benefit

Microsoft set to report earnings after the close

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on , April 4, 2025. Microsoft is scheduled to report fiscal fourth-quarter results after markets close on Wednesday. Here's what analysts are expecting, according to LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $3.37 $3.37 Revenue: $73.81 billion The estimates imply around 14% year-over-year revenue growth for Microsoft, the world's No. 2 company by marke

9to5Mac Daily: July 30, 2025 – iOS 18.6 now available, Apple Card news

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Ramp hits $22.5B valuation just 45 days after reaching $16B

In Brief Eric Glyman, co-founder and CEO of expense management startup Ramp, announced on Wednesday a fresh $500 million raise at a whopping $22.5 billion post-money valuation. This new round, led by Iconiq Growth with participation from Founders Fund and D1 Capital Partners, comes just 45 days after Ramp’s last round. In June, Ramp raised $200 million at a $16 billion valuation, and that was a leap over the $13 billion valuation Ramp announced in March. In his blog post, Glyman laid out his

Bitmapist: We built an open-source cohorts analytics tool that saved millions

At Doist, we love making smart bets. Sometimes, the smartest decision isn’t to pick the biggest or shiniest tool out there but to build a small tool that does exactly what’s needed. That’s how Bitmapist came to life—a powerful, open-source cohort analytics library that’s been quietly driving smarter decisions and saving us millions of dollars. Why We Built Bitmapist Several years ago, we faced a common startup challenge: we needed robust cohort analytics to gain a deeper understanding of how p

Noah Hawley Wants ‘Alien: Earth’ to Feel Like a ‘Game of Thrones’ Horror Show

The Wailing‘s Na Hong-Jin is cooking up a new sci-fi thriller. Sterling K. Brown teases the “dreamy” Henry Cavill in Voltron. Julia Garner is under fire in a tense new clip from Weapons. Plus, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds heads to the holodeck in new images. To me, my spoilers! Hope Variety reports Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Hoyeon, Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Taylor Russell, and Cameron Britton will star in Hope, a new sci-thriller from the director Na Hong-Jin (The Wailing) about

New report doubles down on iPhone rebound in China, despite overall market decline

A few weeks ago, a report from Counterpoint Research suggested Apple may be turning things around in China. Now, new data from Canalys shows iPhone shipments in mainland China rose during the second quarter of 2025, even as the broader smartphone market declined. Here’s the breakdown. iPhone picks up, but Apple still in fifth Canalys’ numbers show that Apple shipped 10.1 million iPhones in Q2 2025, placing it fifth in China’s smartphone rankings, behind Huawei, vivo, OPPO, and Xiaomi. As note

‘Predator: Badlands’ Came From a Desire to Do Something New, With a Dash of ‘Star Wars’

With Prey, director Dan Trachtenberg did something no one ever thought was possible. He took a beloved franchise, Predator, and flipped it on its head. By giving it a fresh perspective and a new timeline, he took something old and brought it into the now. For his follow-up, he wanted to do that again, but it was difficult. Everyone kind of just wanted Prey 2. “Sometimes when you make a sequel, it’s just part two of the cool thing, not a cool thing in and of itself,” Trachtenberg said recently a

Home Depot has a new animatronic version of Skelly the skeleton

The Home Depot is well on its way to becoming a Spirit Halloween that also sells weed whackers. Here we are in July, and the retailer is already rolling out its Halloween product lineup. The centerpiece is the latest version of Skelly, the hardware store's viral skeleton. Meet the $279 animatronic Ultra Skelly. Given its name, you might think Ultra Skelly is even bigger than the standard 12-ft. model. But the new model is only 6.5 ft. tall. The "Ultra" part comes from app control and animatroni

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9to5Mac Daily: July 29, 2025 – iPhone 17 Pro spotted in the wild?

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK

WEBASSEMBLY (WASM) In order to provide both security and portability, it was decided to move away from add-ons distributed as DLL s in favour of add-ons distributed as WebAssembly modules. In order to do so without requiring a full rewrite of existing add-ons, a new platform toolset was designed for Visual Studio with the following capabilities: Direct compilation of C/C++ projects into WebAssembly (as WASM). Debugging of WebAssembly modules by attaching to the game executable. Full support

Microsoft Releases List of Jobs Most and Least Likely to Be Replaced by AI

Researchers at Microsoft tried to determine which precise jobs are most and least likely to be replaced by generative AI — and the results are bad news for anyone currently enjoying the perks of a cushy desk job. As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, the Microsoft team analyzed a "dataset of 200k anonymized and privacy-scrubbed conversations between users and Microsoft Bing Copilot," and found that the occupations most likely to be made obsolete by the tech involve "providing informat