A potentially scary, though difficult to implement side-channel attack that could allow malicious websites to read and extract sensitive data has broken cover. The vulnerability affects all GPU manufacturers across devices ranging from PCs, to laptops and phones.
According to a paper released by researchers from four American universities (via Ars Technica), the so-called GPU.zip attack relates to GPU compression data. This is proprietary so it would require a hacker to have a deep knowledge of GPU compression algorithms, which are closed in nature and would require reverse engineering. That’s no mean feat for a start.
A malicious website can then use a cross-origin SVG (scalable vector graphics) filter to read the pixels displayed by another website. It works by visiting a website with embedded iframe HTML elements. The iframe links to the cross-origin webpage allowing a hacker to extract information as it appears on the screen, one pixel at a time.
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In a recent earnings report, Blizzard celebrated Diablo 4’s meteoric rise as its highest-earning game of all time, even while community sentiment around the latest patch hasn’t been stellar.
The report itself celebrates this over the span of four bullet points, even noting that net bookings for Diablo: Immortal have been at the “highest level since January.” Overwatch 2 only gets one bullet point, presumably as punishment.
“While engagement and player investment in Overwatch 2 declined sequentially in the quarter, the Overwatch team is looking forward to the August 10 release of Overwatch 2: Invasion. This will be the largest seasonal update yet, planned to include new PvE Story Missions, a new game mode, and a new hero progression system as well as an additional hero.”
When I think about the community response to the patch, “engagement and player investment” doesn’t quite come to mind. As PC Gamer’s Tyler Colp pointed out last month, the $15 price point most…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of the few RPGs rich in evil options where I actually stuck to mostly heroic deeds in my first playthrough. But I’m doing my total scumbag run at the moment, which means the news that Larian’s working on some more evil endings is music to my ears.
Chatting to IGN, CEO Swen Vincke teased some of what the studio’s got planned for us before it bids farewell to the Forgotten Realms for good—specifically, more campaign conclusions for evil-inclined adventurers.
“So they’re working on the evil endings right now,” Vincke said. “I’ve seen some of them. They’re really evil. So the evil players will be satisfied with that.”
You can already screw everyone over and herald in a dark age through your actions in Baldur’s Gate 3’s final moments. And you can spend most of the game indulging in your character’s worst impulses—especially if you’re playing as the Dark Urge and pay too much attention to the voice in your noggin. But you ca…
No Man’s Sky has been spitting out cosmic adventures for seven years and, despite not meeting expectations at launch, has evolved into an incredibly varied sandbox thanks to Hello Games’ fantastic post-launch support. With free, expansion-sized updates coming out every year, it keeps beckoning players back.
This month, according to Hello Games founder Sean Murray, is actually its “biggest” in the last few years, despite competition from the long-awaited Starfield, another sandbox that ticks a lot of the same boxes.
This is across all platforms, says Murray, but on Steam alone it’s had its best month since September 2021, and one of its best months overall. It’s quite the achievement for a game of this age. It’s worth noting that its largest update of the year arrived in late August, followed by a new Expedition at the start of this month, so both of these things are major contributing factors.
A narrative is already forming that this boost is due to disappoin…
YouTuber Bouch is no stranger to Baldur’s Gate 3 challenge runs. He’s beaten the game by finishing every fight in a single hit; he’s beaten it by throwing underwear; he’s beaten it without using any movement speed. What else is there left to achieve? Well, where Alexander might’ve wept for want of worlds to conquer, Bouch turned into himself cheese. And yes. He beat it.
As reported by GamesRadar, to even begin his cheese quest, Bouch had to take a crack at mod creation. By rewriting a line in the already-existing Select Your Statuses mod, Bouch gave himself the ability to turn into a cheese wheel by toggling on the Polymorph: Cheese spell—a spell that in a just world would be the highlight of every wizard’s repertoire, but in Baldur’s Gate 3 is only used by a single djinni in Act 3. Having successfully authored one of the world’s most specific game mods, Bouch rolled off in cheese-shape towards adventure.
You’ll be shocked to learn that the combat capabilities of …