Month: March 2023

Endnight Games’ sequel sold vast numbers on Steam. What’s behind its remarkable success – and what should you know before you play it? Late last month, a game called Sons of the Forest launched on the Steam Early Access programme, which allows players to buy unfinished games still in active development, and immediately became one …

What is Sons of the Forest, the cannibal survival game that sold 2m copies in a day? Read More »

A dizzying new game lets players live out their alt-rock dreams. Its creators explain how its pioneering design had to be note-perfect Has anyone ever told you that you lack rhythm? Have you ever belched out a flat note at karaoke and seen the room visibly deflate in front of you? Ever picked up a …

‘The player drives the music’: how Hi-Fi Rush reinvented the rockstar game Read More »

Drivers call for regulation of rideshare companies they say collect up to 50% of fares and arbitrarily close workers’ accounts For more than five years James Jordan worked full time for Uber in Los Angeles, California, until early 2022, when he was permanently deactivated from the app – Uber’s equivalent of being fired. He said …

‘It was traumatic’: Uber, Lyft drivers decry low pay and unfair deactivations Read More »

Meta’s head of chat app says it would not comply with the requirements set out in online safety bill WhatsApp would refuse to comply with requirements in the online safety bill that attempted to outlaw end-to-end encryption, the chat app’s boss has said, casting the future of the service in the UK in doubt. Speaking …

WhatsApp would not remove end-to-end encryption for UK law, says chief Read More »

Wind-down and liquidation plan follows mass withdrawal of deposits after collapse of FTX exchange The cryptocurrency-focused US lender Silvergate is to wind down its operations after it was hit by customer withdrawals following the collapse of crypto exchange FTX. The California-based bank had warned last week it was “less than well capitalised” after depositors demanding …

Crypto bank Silvergate announces liquidation amid sector turmoil Read More »

In this week’s newsletter: The first Black student at the University of Mississippi looks back at segregation and his activism and legacy in Breaking Mississippi. Plus: five of the best Oscars podcasts Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Northern NewsWidely available, episodes weekly“Mum Finds Soggy Whole Potato in her Packet …

Best podcasts of the week: Civil rights activist James Meredith reflects on his remarkable life Read More »

Breach in the systems of DC Health Link, a health insurance company, led to 170,000 records being compromised Members of the House and Senate were informed Wednesday that hackers may have gained access to their sensitive personal data in a breach of a Washington, DC, health insurance marketplace. Employees of the lawmakers and their families …

Sensitive personal data of US House and Senate members hacked, offered for sale Read More »

US regulators receive two complaints about Model Y SUVs with missing bolt in latest string of safety problems for company US auto safety regulators have opened an investigation into Tesla’s Model Y SUV after getting two complaints that the steering wheels can come off while being driven. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says …

Investigation launched into complaints of Tesla steering wheels coming off mid-drive Read More »

Dan Douglas started Duke Smoochem as a Twitter joke. Now the project has spiralled into an epic portrait of a declining nation – with everyone from Matt Hancock to GB News in its satirical crosshairs The Daily Mail would be horrified if it knew what it had spawned. Back in 2021, when news broke of …

‘Keir Starmer just ordered an alpaca airstrike!’ The game that holds up a dystopian mirror to the UK Read More »

Sixth failure this year comes against backdrop of financial and regulatory pressures on the company On Monday Twitter broke for the sixth time this year. Clicking any link on the social network resulted in an error message, while attempting to post a new image resulted in nothing but a big blank box where the picture …

Rise in Twitter outages since Musk takeover hints at more systemic problems Read More »