Stratasys sues Bambu Lab over patents used widely by consumer 3D printers

Stratasys sues Bambu Lab over patents used widely by consumer 3D printers

Enlarge / The Bambu Lab A1, complete with heated build platform. Bambu Lab A patent lawsuit filed by one of 3D printing’s most established firms against a consumer-focused upstart could have a big impact on the wider 3D-printing scene. In two complaints, (1, 2, PDF) filed in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, against…

John Carpenter’s Halloween getting two new games by Evil Dead: The Game dev

John Carpenter’s Halloween getting two new games by Evil Dead: The Game dev

Get those knives ready because there will be two new Halloween games based on John Carpenter’s terrifying universe. One of those Halloween titles will be developed in Unreal Engine 5 and helmed by Boss Team Games, a studio already familiar with the movie-to-horror-game pipeline after creating Evil Dead: The Game. According to an IGN exclusive…

Microsoft’s Paint 3D was once the future of MS Paint, but now it’s going away

Microsoft’s Paint 3D was once the future of MS Paint, but now it’s going away

Enlarge / Paint 3D, once the future of the Paint app, is getting the axe in November. Andrew Cunningham In October of 2017, Microsoft released a version of Windows 10 called the “Fall Creators Update,” back when the company tried to give brand names to these things rather than just sticking to version numbering. One…

Microsoft warns of serious vulnerability in Office

Microsoft warns of serious vulnerability in Office

Microsoft is urging all users of Office and Microsoft 365 to update the software as soon as possible, because hackers have started exploiting a serious vulnerability to access sensitive information on computers. To be fully protected against the vulnerability, designated CVE-2024-38200, users need to install a security fix that will be released to the public…

Deadlock, an unannounced Valve game, hits concurrent player highs on Steam despite the secrecy

Deadlock, an unannounced Valve game, hits concurrent player highs on Steam despite the secrecy

Valve’s got something brewing, it seems. The Half-Life and Portal studio appears to be working on something, which may or may not be Half-Life 3 (finally). But before that, there’s Deadlock, an unannounced Overwatch-style game which, despite no official word from Valve as to whether it’s even real or not, is pulling some pretty hefty…

Voxel private eye simulator Shadows of Doubt investigates a full release in September – Destructoid

Voxel private eye simulator Shadows of Doubt investigates a full release in September – Destructoid

ColePowered Games has announced (spotted by Gematsu) that its procedurally generated crime investigation simulator, Shadows of Doubt, is ready to end its journey through Early Access with a full release on September 26 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Shadows of Doubt was released into Early Access in April of last year. It attempts…

EY exec: In three or four years, ‘we won’t even talk about AI’

EY exec: In three or four years, ‘we won’t even talk about AI’

July was another rough month for the tech sector, with a worse-than-expected jobs report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and analysis of that data by industry experts. And on top of that, uncertainties around tech talent remain, according to a recent pulse survey from consultancy and professional services firm Ernst & Young (EY)…

Nashville man arrested for running “laptop farm” to get jobs for North Koreans

Nashville man arrested for running “laptop farm” to get jobs for North Koreans

Enlarge Federal authorities have arrested a Nashville man on charges he hosted laptops at his residences in a scheme to deceive US companies into hiring foreign remote IT workers who funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars in income to fund North Korea’s weapons program. The scheme, federal prosecutors said, worked by getting US companies to…