Cracker removes controversial Denuvo DRM from Doom: The Dark Ages
A "cracker" known as Voices38 recently shared their latest release: a Denuvo-free version of Doom: The Dark Ages. The newest entry in id Software's FPS franchise has now entered the wild world of PC piracy, though it remains an 81 GB download with significant hardware requirements, including a powerful gaming GPU.
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Apple launches AirPods Max 2 with stronger ANC, lossless audio, and live translation
Pre-orders for the AirPods Max 2 open March 25 in more than 30 countries, with general availability beginning in early April. Apple is sticking with the familiar industrial design, which means the sequel looks a lot more like a spec and feature refresh than a dramatic reimagining.
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Meta is pulling the plug on Instagram's encrypted messages
Unlike WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, where E2E encryption is either the default or automatically applied to certain message types, Instagram's deployment had always been partial and manual. The feature was available only to a subset of users and had to be explicitly enabled.
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Digg relaunch fails after two months as bots and AI agents flood the site
The new Digg experiment is ending in a resounding fiasco. The beta version of the rebuilt social sharing portal has already been shut down – a "difficult" decision that forced the company to significantly downsize its development team. Building new internet projects in 2026 is a completely different experience, Digg...
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Microsoft says Samsung Galaxy app bug, not Windows update, locked some users out of C: drive
Because the failures appeared around March Patch Tuesday and followed recent security updates, plenty of people blamed Microsoft's latest patches. Now, the company says the real culprit was not Windows itself, but Samsung software.
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Samsung wins court ruling after German judge says some TCL "QLED" TVs aren't really QLED
A central question was whether TCL's 'QLED' televisions actually used quantum dots – the nanoscale semiconductor particles that give QLED displays their enhanced color range and brightness. According to the court, TCL's advertised QLED models "do not deliver the color reproduction expected from QLED TVs," effectively misleading consumers about the...
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Google quietly removes AI-powered health search tool that surfaced medical advice from online forums
Launched in March 2025 on mobile in the US, What People Suggest leveraged AI to collate information from various online discussion platforms, such as Reddit, Quora, and X, and share it with users. An example Google gave was someone with arthritis wanting to know how others with the condition exercise.
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Hacker unveils exploit that cracks the "unbreakable" Xbox One at the silicon level
The demonstration marks the first public, reproducible breach of the Xbox One's hardware-level defenses, a milestone in console hacking that recalls the famous Reset Glitch Hack that compromised the Xbox 360 years earlier. But Gaasedelen's technique goes deeper, operating below the software stack, against the boot ROM on the Xbox...
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Grandmother spent six months in jail after AI facial recognition misidentified her
A team of US Marshals arrested 50-year-old Lipps in Tennessee at gunpoint last July while she was babysitting four young children, writes InForum. She was booked into the county jail in Tennessee as a fugitive from justice from North Dakota.
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Nvidia's next AI chip may move beyond the all-purpose GPU
The shift would mark a rare departure from the philosophy that has guided Nvidia for most of its 33-year history: that a single class of GPU can handle every stage of AI computing, from training massive models to delivering fast, real-time responses. As competition intensifies and demand grows for quicker,...
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