Ubisoft Starts Removing Ubisoft Connect Launcher From Their Steam Releases

September 10th, 2026 08:34 PM

Ubisoft has announced they are starting to remove the Ubisoft Connect Launcher from their Steam games, and it should be great for us on the Steam Deck.

WATCH: Police: Michigan driver nearly hits student crossing street from school bus

September 11th, 2026 01:20 AM

Police say A student in Michigan crossing the street after getting off his school bus was nearly struck by an oncoming car that ignored the bus' flashing lights

August Was World's Joint-Hottest Month On Record, Scientists Say

September 11th, 2026 07:00 AM

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: August was the joint-hottest month ever recorded, tying with July 2023, according to the EU's climate service. The record was driven by a combination of climate change and the rising influence of El Nino, pushing heat into the atmosphere across the Pacific. Temperatures for the month were 1.65C above pre-industrial levels -- surpassing the critical 1.5C threshold agreed by countries to avoid the worst consequences of climate...

The Blood of Dawnwalker Hotfix Update 1.0.5 Available for Download

September 10th, 2026 09:34 PM

Rebel Wolves has released Hotfix 1.0.4 for The Blood of Dawnwalker. According to the devs, this hotfix comes with improvements to the shader compilation pipeline. This can help fix the stuttering issues for some users. As I’ve said before, the game suffers from major camera stuttering issues. So, you know what? I went ahead and … Continue reading The Blood of Dawnwalker Hotfix Update 1.0.5 Available for Download The post The Blood of Dawnwalker Hotfix Update 1.0.5 Available for Download...

GTA 6 Is Going To Be Huge. So Why Is Take-Two’s Stock Having Such A Bad Year?

September 11th, 2026 08:07 AM

Take-Two owns one of the largest entertainment franchises out there in Grand Theft Auto. The newest entry, GTA 6, launches this November. There is enormous hype for the new game, which is expected to sell millions of copies at launch and break records. In short, it's expected to be a once-in-a-decade (if not ever) kind of title. The game is also coming to market with a lot of positive sentiment and excitement. If you're a Take-Two shareholder, however, the past year has been a big bummer....

Slack can now vibe-code interactive charts and reports inside chats

September 10th, 2026 09:25 PM

A new feature coming to Slack will allow you to build interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presentations, microsites, and other tools directly inside a chat. With Slackforce Surfaces, you can describe to Slackbot what you need, and it will use AI to gather information from relevant conversations and connected apps, like Google Drive or Salesforce, to create it. Once Slackbot creates a Surface, you can share it with colleagues and pin it to channels, allowing other people to view it,...

Security advisories: CVE-2026-80212 and CVE-2026-80213

August 27th, 2026 12:00 AM

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the resolv gem bundled with Ruby. They have been assigned the CVE identifiers CVE-2026-80212 and CVE-2026-80213. We recommend upgrading the resolv gem. CVE-2026-80212: Memory exhaustion through malicious DNS responses An application that resolves a hostname an attacker can influence, such as a webhook target or a user-supplied URL, can be made to consume memory without bound. The attacker points a domain at a name server they control and returns...

FRANK SILLER: Everyone else was running away on 9/11. My brother ran toward the Twin Towers

September 11th, 2026 08:50 AM

On September 11, 2001, while thousands of people were trying to get away from the danger in lower Manhattan, my brother Stephen was heading straight toward it. His shift as a New York City firefighter was over and he was supposed to meet his brothers for a round of golf, but the moment he heard that a plane had hit the World Trade Center, he turned his truck around. For Stephen, there was never really a choice—people needed help, and he was going to help them.My brother Stephen barely had...

Assault and Batteries

September 11th, 2026 12:03 AM

Battery tech: Europe hopes to make up ground in battery industry - BBC.

Level-5’s Futuristic Detective RPG Decapolice Will Now Launch In 2027

September 10th, 2026 03:34 PM

Level-5’s long-awaited detective game Decapolice has a new launch date, pushing it out of its previously announced 2026 window. The game is now coming in 2027 and has a new trailer showing it off in action.Decapolice was announced in 2023 but has been repeatedly delayed. It stars Harvard Marks, a young detective and leader of the Special Investigation Unit’s rookie team. Marks, alongside fellow SIU members such as his friend and negotiation specialist Carl Oxford, must solve mysteries in...