CD Projekt Red, the maker of The Witcher series, Cyberpunk 2077, and other popular games, said on Friday that proprietary data taken in a ransomware attack disclosed four months ago is likely circulating online. “Today, we have learned new information regarding the breach and now have reason to believe... Read more

Sarah Tew/CNET Disney Plus has been a breakout success among the wave of new streaming services, thanks to a deep library of shows and movies, buzzy originals and (sometimes) big-screen movies to watch the same time they hit theaters. The latest big title is its Marvel original series Loki, which landed Wednesday.... Read more

The FBI’s repeated success in overcoming its “going dark” problem belie the protestations that it’s an existential threat. In some ways, Anom shows just how creative the agency’s workarounds can be. Researchers caution, though, that as more governments around the world seek the power to demand digital backdoors—and as... Read more

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. When politicians embrace games and the metaverse, you know we’re getting somewhere with mainstream recognition. And yesterday, New York mayoral candidate Andrew Yang dressed up as a metaverse avatar at one of his events. Yang donned a 3D animated... Read more

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the US’s top enforcer of labor rights, just expanded its complaint against Google to include three more fired Google workers. Those former employees say the company retaliated against them for protesting its work with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Now that these... Read more

Raiders of the Lost Ark villain Belloq — played by Paul Freeman — peers into Indiana Jones’ soul. Paramount It’s been 40 years since Indiana Jones whip-cracked his way into pop culture in Steven Spielberg’s exhilarating Raiders of the Lost Ark. Premiering in the US and Canada on June... Read more

This week, Senator Joe Manchin announced that he won’t support HR 1, the sweeping election reform legislation that passed the House and has been languishing in the Senate, effectively torpedoing its passage. But policymakers shouldn’t scrap the bill entirely. For legislators who are serious about expanding platform liability to... Read more

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. An overload of productivity tools is, ironically, killing workers’ productivity. That is the conclusion Cornell University’s Ellis Idea Lab researchers drew after a survey found that people were wasting 59 minutes of every working day trying to find information... Read more

The Model S Plaid will hit 60 mph in 2 seconds. Tesla The first production Tesla Model S Plaid rolled off the line on Thursday, with company CEO Elon Musk showing the electric four-door at an event in Fremont, California. The Plaid is the range-topping Model S, packing 1,020... Read more

Landes began making computer games in 1980, but when missed release dates killed the company he launched his own PBM brand in 1984. Based in Oregon, his creations included Swords of Pelarn, which Landes initially moderated by hand, an “arduous” process that could take 20 to 30 minutes for... Read more