Eventually, they claimed that they came to believe that they were “responsible for exposing murderers” and were about to be “killed, arrested, or spiritually executed” by an assassin. They also believed they were under surveillance due to being “spiritually marked” and that they were “living in a divine war” that they could not escape.They alleged this led to “severe mental and emotional distress” in which they feared for their life. The complaint claimed that they isolated themselves from loved ones, had trouble sleeping, and began planning a business based on a false belief in an unspecified “system that does not…
Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the janitors mopping in their wake)—deep down at the level of the code, you saw craftsmanship so obsessive that…
While the deck has always been stacked against Bungie Marathon, trying to make an impact in the less-than-mainstream extraction shooter market with a hero-based concept somewhat antithetical to the genre, Arc Raiders has just made things a lot more difficult.We talked about this a while ago with Arc Raiders’ alpha…
Over the past five years, criminals behind widespread romance and investment scams—often inelegantly referred to as “pig butchering”—have stolen tens of billions from people around the world. Now law enforcement has carried out one of its biggest operations yet against that sprawling scam industry, targeting the operators of several modern…
Everyone gets that passwords, hate them or hate them, are a necessary security evil for so many business applications. With automatic password hacking machines, out there and employed by hackers, advice from Google about the dangers of relying on passwords, and even password manager vendors having to warn users not…
A sweeping plan to reconstruct Gaza, which has been shared with Trump administration officials, features the names and logos of more than two dozen companies—some of which tell WIRED they had no knowledge they were named or involved.The presentation outlining the plan was reportedly created by some of the businessmen…
A short while ago, there were insider reports alleging that Microsoft was about to extract itself from the first-party hardware space for the first time in Xbox brand history. But Microsoft strongly pushed back on that, and has done so one more time via Sarah Bond in a Variety(?) interview…
Google may have to change the way its search engine works in the UK, including potentially offering users the option to choose rival search services, as part of new regulation from the UK’s competition authority.In a decision handed down on Friday, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has designated Google…
Growing up, my Dad’s Technics cassette deck was endlessly fascinating. Its solid feel felt like proper hi-fi and its silver finish futuristic. It had two buttons labeled “Dolby B” and “Dolby C”, and I never understood what the difference was, and what “Dolby A” had done wrong to not even…
OpenAI has announced a number of projects this year with foreign governments to help build out what it has called their “sovereign AI” systems. The company says the deals, some of which are being coordinated with the US government, are part of a broader push to give national leaders more…
Football Manager 26 may be one of the most pivotal releases in the game’s 33-year history. The cancellation of last year’s game, along with the promise of a new match graphics engine and a complete overhaul of the user interface has fans of the game both excited and on edge.…
Apple has announced an all-new iPad Pro powered by the latest M5 chipset. It might seem like an incremental refresh, but a lot is going on with its internals. Apart from the next-generation processor, it also houses custom-designed Apple C1X and N1 chips in the same thin 5.1mm chassis.The M5…
After four years of construction, Intel said on Thursday that its Fab 52 semiconductor plant in Chandler, Arizona, is now turning out its first chips. The company also shared more details about the long-awaited CPUs that it will be producing in the facility using Intel’s brand-new 18A process technology.The announcement…
Are you struggling to find the comets in the evening sky? There are daily comet trackers on my feed each day this month, but even with sky charts and maps of the night sky, it’s hard to beat the best stargazing and astronomy apps.These apps use the date and time,…
Lauren Goode: What’s an example of that?Louise Matsakis: So, for example, there were some Chinese influencers who were spreading these conspiracy theories that Indians were plotting to use the visa to immigrate to China en masse.Lauren Goode: Interesting. You’ve both covered China’s businesses and workforce for years. Was this backlash…
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