Ripple effect: For the second time in less than a week, Microsoft's account security protocols have sparked discussion across social media. As the Redmond firm and Sony plan to shift away from physical media, more users are realizing they don't truly own anything tied to a digital account or a cloud server.

A complaint from a Dutch streamer whose hijacked Microsoft account was permanently suspended has gone viral. The user claims

WTF?! Boston Dynamics' Spot the dog has been around for years, during which time it's had about as many jobs as Homer Simpson. Now, the company is testing a way for the robotic quadruped to help delivery drivers move packages from a vehicle to the door.

Boston Dynamics has posted a video of Spot on a route with a delivery driver. After it hops out of the back of a van

First look: An open-source firmware project called OpenPuck lets Valve's Steam Controller mimic other gamepads without requiring Steam to run in the background. The project was built by an enthusiast known as Safijari and runs on a microcontroller that translates inputs on the device itself. The firmware reads the controller's raw input and, in real time, remaps it to Xbox, PlayStation, or Nintendo-style layouts.

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WTF?! Want to know why Ubisoft was willing to endure so much hate and a temporarily negative Steam rating by including $85 worth of day-one DLC with Black Flag Resynced? The fact it made the company an extra $1 million probably explains it.

Ubisoft has a reputation for the amount of paid-for cosmetic and so-called time-saving extra content it adds to its titles, but making

Something to look forward to: League of Legends has joined the popular trend of long-running live service games that introduce classic modes to emulate their early years. However, instead of reverting to a specific moment in the game's evolution, Riot Games will combine elements of how LoL felt between 2009 and 2013.

The League of Legends Classic game client is now available to download . The

What just happened? The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on a VPN provider and its administrator for the first time. The agency is targeting a service accused of helping ransomware gangs hide their identities and attack American organizations.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated First VPN Service, also known as 1VPNS, and its Ukrainian administrator, Dmytro Rashevskyi. Belarusian national Yegeniy Vladimirovich Silayev was sanctioned separately for selling "cryptors,"

Why it matters: A long-standing weakness in a key PC security system stems from a simpler issue: outdated components that were never revoked. Researchers at ESET have found that a set of vulnerable UEFI "shim" bootloaders – some going back to 2013 – remained trusted by Microsoft for years after their flaws were known. As a result, attackers could bypass Secure Boot on both Windows and Linux machines with

Facepalm: The UK and Europe are going through an unprecedented heatwave right now. It's causing a lot of problems, including devices that keep overheating as temperatures soar. To try to cool them down, some Brits have been placing them in their fridges and freezers, but the only thing this results in is more work for repair shops.

Jamie Farnell, a repair shop owner in the UK town of Wem told the