Best Druid Feats in Baldur’s Gate 3 – Destructoid

Best Druid Feats in Baldur’s Gate 3 – Destructoid

Of all the classes in Baldur’s Gate 3, Druids are the only characters that can pivot between being powerful casters and crushing skulls with animalistic melee attacks.  Picking the right feats for your Druid means understanding your playstyle, and that’s why I should preface this list with my own biases. I tend to find pleasure…

Apple stealthily adds minor features in iOS 17.6, macOS 14.6 releases

Apple stealthily adds minor features in iOS 17.6, macOS 14.6 releases

Enlarge / iOS 17.6 installing on an iPhone 13 Pro. Samuel Axon Apple has some minor updates for all its operating systems, and the releases include iOS 17.6, iPadOS 17.6, tvOS 17.6, watchOS 10.6, and macOS Sonoma 14.6. Apple’s notes for these updates simply say they include bug fixes, security updates, or optimizations. However, there…

AI search engine accused of plagiarism announces publisher revenue-sharing plan

AI search engine accused of plagiarism announces publisher revenue-sharing plan

Enlarge (credit: Moor Studio via Getty Images) On Tuesday, AI-powered search engine Perplexity unveiled a new revenue-sharing program for publishers, marking a significant shift in its approach to third-party content use, reports CNBC. The move comes after plagiarism allegations from major media outlets, including Forbes, Wired, and Ars parent company Condé Nast. Perplexity, valued at…

Stormgate’s early access preview goes live today, 2 weeks ahead of the full release

Stormgate’s early access preview goes live today, 2 weeks ahead of the full release

Stormgate, a next-gen free-to-play RTS from developer Frost Giant Games, has entered its early access preview phase today, a full 2 weeks before its release on August 13, 2024. Kickstarter backers, closed beta testers, and those who purchase a Steam early access version of the game can get in early and start playing before anyone…

Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription

Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription

Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber recently discussed the possibility of one day selling a mouse that customers can use “forever.” The executive said such a mouse isn’t “necessarily super far away” and will rely on software updates, likely delivered through a subscription model. Speaking on a July 29 episode of The Verge’s Decoder podcast, Faber, who…

Crypt Custodian cleans up the afterlife with broom-bashing brawls in August

Crypt Custodian cleans up the afterlife with broom-bashing brawls in August

Some believe that when you die, that’s it. Lights out. Others believe there’s an afterlife, and sometimes that afterlife needs a cloaked cat to keep it clean. The latter theory holds water in Crypt Custodian, a top-down Metroidvania that hits PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC on August…

Loss of popular 2FA tool puts security-minded GrapheneOS in a paradox

Loss of popular 2FA tool puts security-minded GrapheneOS in a paradox

Enlarge / Graphene is a remarkable allotrope, deserving of further study. GrapheneOS is a remarkable ROM, one that Google does not quite know how to accommodate, due to its “tiny, tiny” user numbers compared to mainstream Android. “If it’s not an official OS, we have to assume it’s bad.” That’s how Shawn Wilden, the tech…

Darkness reigns over Wikipedia as official dark mode comes to pass

Darkness reigns over Wikipedia as official dark mode comes to pass

Enlarge / Wikipedia’s decades of content can be a light to you in dark places, and now you can choose the dark for yourself. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Wikipedia Dark mode, night mode, light-on-dark design, or whatever you want to call the version of computer content that doesn’t feel blindingly bright at night,…

Hackers exploit VMware vulnerability that gives them hypervisor admin

Hackers exploit VMware vulnerability that gives them hypervisor admin

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft is urging users of VMware’s ESXi hypervisor to take immediate action to ward off ongoing attacks by ransomware groups that give them full administrative control of the servers the product runs on. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-37085, allows attackers who have already gained limited system rights on a targeted server…