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Laid off Bethesda Montreal staff allegedly told they'd get "smallest severance legally possible" the same day as those Fallout announcements

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Last week, in the wake of yet another round of mass layoffs across the company, Xbox announced that Fallout 5 is in preproduction, Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters are coming, and that Obsidian are working on a new Fallout project. If you were to ignore the 1600…

The Video Game History Foundation's latest collection is a deep dive into E3 "like you've never seen it before"

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Ah, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, better known by many as Summer Game Fes-, wait, sorry, guess I've already moved on! Better known as E3, of course, the first of its kind showcase dedicated entirely to video games that died because it simply couldn't figure out how to live in the…

[$] Save and restore may be coming to GNOME

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<p>One of the features that users often miss when moving from X11 to Wayland is the ability to save and restore the position of windows between sessions. At <a href="https://events.gnome.org/event/306/">GUADEC&#160;2026</a>, held in A&#160;Coruña, Spain, Adrian Vovk provided an overview of work that has gone into providing a platform-wide save and…

PyPI now rejects new files after 14 days

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<p>Python Software Foundation security developer-in-residence Seth Larson has <a href="https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-07-22-releases-now-reject-new-files-after-14-days/">announced</a> that the <a href="https://pypi.org/">Python Package Index</a> (PyPI) will now reject new files that are uploaded to releases older than 14 days. The restriction is to prevent the poisoning of old releases if publishing tokens or workflows of PyPI projects are…

"The goal is to provide what we can": Elder Scrolls Online Crown Store undergoing changes due to "team bandwidth" in wake of Xbox layoffs

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Following Microsoft's mass layoffs, The Elder Scrolls Online has ended up in a transitional period while remaining staff work to forge a path forwards. If you want evidence of effects the cuts are already starting to have on the MMO, look no further than its Crown Store.

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[$] Attaching programs to multiple tracepoints

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<p> Tracepoints in the kernel are useful for a variety of purposes: debugging, active monitoring, and performance measurements, among other things. Previously, any given BPF program could only be attached to a single tracepoint. Jiri Olsa has been working to change that, and led a discussion about his progress at…

Security updates for Wednesday

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Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (389-ds-base, c-ares, dovecot, freerdp, glib2, gstreamer1-plugins-good, gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free, hplip, kernel, kernel-rt, nodejs:22, perl-XML-LibXML, webkit2gtk3, and yggdrasil), <b>Debian</b> (kernel, nss, roundcube, rtpengine, and xz-utils), <b>Fedora</b> (btrbk, kernel, mupdf, nuclei, perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-X509, rust-fern, rust-ifcfg-devname, rust-routinator, rust-rpki, and rust-syslog), <b>Mageia</b> (tig), <b>Oracle</b> (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0,…

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced modders make Blackbeard playable, but here's a syringe-shaped reason to avoid historically accurate pirate roleplay

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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced's an idyllic pirate adventure, especially given it trains its eye firmly on Edward Kenway's quest for booty. Naturally, Kenway hangs out with a bunch of real pirates from history throughout his time on the high seas, including the most famous one, Blackbeard. There's now…

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