It’s vacation season, and whether you’re heading out of town for some much-needed rest, or just traveling for work as usual, the accessories you travel with can make a world of difference.
Here are the best travel essentials for Apple devices.
Despite more than a year of warning, many Minecraft owners didn't upgrade their accounts to Microsoft accounts. As a result, they've lost access to a game they paid for.
Based on BYTES.The.Reverse.Tower.Defense-TENOKE ISO release: tenoke-bytes.the.reverse.tower.defense.iso (1,301,506,048 bytes)
100% Lossless & MD5 Perfect: all files are identical to originals after installation
NOTHING ripped, NOTHING re-encoded
Significantly smaller archive size (compressed from 1.2 GB to 665 MB)
Installation takes 1-3 minutes (depending on your system)
After-install integrity check so you could make sure that everything installed properly
HDD space after installation: 1 GB
Repack uses compression library by Razor12911
At least 2 GB of free RAM (inc. virtual) required for installing this repack
Game Description
BYTES: The Reverse Tower Defense is a twist on the classic TD formula where you play as the attacker to strategically build your own path and use special tiles to avoid and mitigate damage to your Bytes.
Rogue AI designation “NLAI 74a” or “Complexus” has slipped through New Life security and your goal is to prevent any further damage to the city of East Grid by taking back security nodes.
Non-linear level select
Beat levels, unlock upgrades, and tackle more difficult nodes to reclaim the 71 security nodes of East Grid in any order you prefer.
The story of Bytes is progressed as you complete Story Nodes, and you aren’t forced to do them in any particular order. Instead, the Story Nodes will progress the story as you visit them, remembering the order you did them in case you want to revisit old scenes.
A complete story
Bytes features a full story with two primary endings, as well as dialogue options to interact with characters. Take on the role of a hacker hired by New Life to stop one of their AIs, Complexus, from disrupting the city.
Game Features
Bytes features a dynamic AI, the antagonist Complexus, that attempts to counter your actions with turrets she determines will be the best for the job. No one path will ever stay safe for long.
Complexus buys and upgrades turrets with credits earned from destroying your Bytes and passing rounds like a player typically would.
Semi-random elements and Complexus ensures that no level will play quite the same.
8 Different turrets for Complexus to utilize.
Bytes is a game about mitigating damage and adapting to new dangers by building your path.
Mix and match Special Tiles to overcome levels. Use special tiles to protect your Bytes on a dangerous path, jump over gaps, teleport past walls, or out-speed turrets.
Change the formation of your units (Bytes) to cluster them together or space them apart, depending on the danger.
Choose between three different types of Bytes, or fine-tune your own waves in the Byte Editor.
XFX shared a picture in X, showing the ability to swap fans on its graphics card, giving the ability to use aftermarket fans with different colours and LED options, as it did with the Nitro Gear series.
A research paper explicitly says that Apple doesn’t use your data to train Apple Intelligence. This differs from OpenAI’s policy, which does use your ChatGPT sessions to help train its model.
However, Apple says that it does scrape websites for content via Applebot, and website owners must explicitly opt-out if they don’t want this to happen …
We’re still digging into all the new features coming with iOS 18, which was announced earlier this week at WWDC 2024. We’ve just reported on the update letting users choose their preferred Home Hub, but now there’s another significant change coming, especially for HomePod owners. With iOS 18, users can finally stream Spatial Audio over AirPlay.
The Elbrus-2S3 processor is being used to power a Raspberry Pi 5 competitor from Russian state agency Rostec. The problem? The Elbrus-2S3 hasn't been produced since 2022 when Taiwan sanctioned Russia.
Updates for the following games have been added yesterday.
All updates can now be found on their own page: Updates List in the menus on the top and on the left. All links to updates are also posted on respective game pages.
Many thanks to LeonelMG for helping me with maintaining of older games patches!
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In this episode of Apple @ Work, I talk with Apu Pavithran from Hexnode about the potential risks for Apple IT managers when it comes to sideloading apps on iOS.
浪漫復仇韓劇《紅天鵝》由曾出演《紳士的品格》、《風在吹》的收視女王金荷娜，飾演身兼高爾夫球國手以及親善大使的吳婉秀；曾出演《幽靈醫生》、《忍者刺客》的南韓天王Rain 鄭智薰則飾演居心叵測的保鑣徐蹈允；曾出演《你太過分了》、《鬼村：殺人魔之女》，有「8頭身肌肉哥」之稱的鄭糠雲將飾演不斷出軌的集團繼承人金容國；曾出演《警校菜鳥》、《催魂頻率》，總是以百變形象驚豔觀眾的「劇拋臉」徐梨淑則飾演花人集團的 CEO 朴美蘭。
Apple TV and HomePod owners have the option of setting up these devices as a Home Hub to control HomeKit and Matter accessories remotely. However, while you can set up multiple devices as Home Hubs, there’s no option to choose a specific hub as the main one. But that’s changing with iOS 18 and tvOS 18, which finally give users this option.
A Reddit user who got his hands on the newest Samsung Copilot+ PC early posted benchmarks, and the results are incredibly disappointing. The CPU clock speeds on the unit are locked to 2.5 GHz, much slower than the advertised 4.0 GHz boost.
In this bumper edition, Benjamin and Chance react to everything Apple announced at WWDC 2024, including all the new features in iOS 18, visionOS 2, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11 and tvOS 18, and the suite of announcements under the banner of Apple Intelligence, as Apple sets its AI strategy.
And in Happy Hour Plus, we have even more thoughts on WWDC and some of the surrounding press interviews taking place this week. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join.
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macOS Sequoia comes with a simple but very useful new native tool: automatic window tiling. The new feature can be invoked in several different ways and comes with keyboard shortcuts. Here’s how to use automatic window tiling in macOS Sequoia.
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As we previously covered, watchOS 11 brings new fitness and health features to the . However, the update also comes with some welcome changes, such as the addition of Live Activities. First introduced with iOS 16, Live Activities are now coming to the Apple Watch with watchOS 11.
Based on Downward.Enhanced.Edition-RUNE ISO release: rune-downward.enhanced.edition.iso (4,699,881,472 bytes)
Game version: v2.0.2
100% Lossless & MD5 Perfect: all files are identical to originals after installation
NOTHING ripped, NOTHING re-encoded
Significantly smaller archive size (compressed from 4.4 to 3 GB)
Installation takes 1-3 minutes (depending on your system)
After-install integrity check so you could make sure that everything installed properly
HDD space after installation: 4.4 GB
Repack uses XTool library by Razor12911
At least 2 GB of free RAM (inc. virtual) required for installing this repack
Copy contents of “_Windows 7 Fix” folder to the game root to be able to play on Windows 7
Game Description
Downward will let you set off on humanity’s final adventure, to seek out an explanation for the apocalypse that changed the Earth as we know it.
Taking advantage of parkour techniques and of the mysterious “anomalies” you will traverse astonishing and dangerous ruins of past civilizations, all to find the legendary artifacts meant to control the deadly calamities that came to this world.
Game Features
Parkour: Experience challenging first-person parkour action as you traverse the ruins of past civilizations and survive the many dangers you will face.
Discover: Freely explore and enjoy breathtaking landscapes, reach secret places to collect useful items and hidden treasures.
Struggle: Ancient guardians will wake from their slumber to end your journey, are you ready to face them?
Level Up: Collect experience to upgrade your character’s stats and powers, use anomalies to your advantage!
Online: Freely access a safe world in an astral plane where you can practice parkour and test your might with numerous challenge and online leaderboards.
Shape: Access the Merchant’s Lair to study your enemies, prepare to explore, train and also… lay around. Command the sky to influence the environment, affecting both visuals and parkour.
Backwards Compatibility
This repack IS NOT backwards compatible with my previous Downward repack.
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TestFlight is an Apple platform that allows developers to distribute their beta apps to users outside the App Store. Following the WWDC 2024 announcements this week, which include iOS 18 and macOS 15 Sequoia, Apple has teased a major update coming to TestFlight later this year.
Voice computing is still in its early days, for one reason because voice assistants often aren’t great at understanding our words unless they fit a pre-defined model.
Siri with Apple Intelligence will hopefully be a lot smarter about this, but in case not there’s another iOS 18 feature that should do the trick: Vocal Shortcuts.
Apple TV+ offers a diverse array of TV series, with comedies like Ted Lasso and Shrinking, dramas like Presumed Innocent and The Morning Show, and sci-fi series galore. But when it comes to films—not counting limited-time offerings from other studios—the service has largely focused on Oscar contenders.
Most of the biggest TV+ original movies—CODA, Killers of the Flower Moon, Napoleon—lean toward serious subject matter. But later this summer, a new comedic heist film looks set to offer a lot of fun and reunite Matt Damon with his former director of The Bourne Identity.
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Despite more than a year of warning, many Minecraft owners didn't upgrade their accounts to Microsoft accounts. As a result, they've lost access to a game they paid for. 
PCI-SIG delays conformity tests for PCIe 6.0 and PCIe 7.0, which could slowdown adoption of these technologies. 
A woman arriving in mainland China from Hong Kong was found to have 350 Nintendo Switch game cartridges stuffed into her bra. 
XFX shared a picture in X, showing the ability to swap fans on its graphics card, giving the ability to use aftermarket fans with different colours and LED options, as it did with the Nitro Gear series. 
Only 20% of China's chipmaking tools are domestically made, putting the country at the mercy of external forces. 
The Elbrus-2S3 processor is being used to power a Raspberry Pi 5 competitor from Russian state agency Rostec. The problem? The Elbrus-2S3 hasn't been produced since 2022 when Taiwan sanctioned Russia. 
Updates for the following games have been added yesterday.
SK hynix retracts comments made by booth rep, claims its GDDR7 memory is on track for mass production in Q4 this year. 
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▲ BenQ RD280U 可自動偵測調整螢幕與背光燈亮度。
▲ 夜間守護模式有感降低螢幕亮度，讓工程師在昏暗環境下保持雙眼舒適與精神專注。
▲ 獨家 Coding 模式有效強化螢幕對比，不論深、淺程式開發環境都能清楚判別程式碼。
▲ 獨家 Coding 快捷鍵與功能燈設計，一鍵開啟Coding模式進入高效工作狀態。
▲ Aten展出優聲學AI語音合成服務以及本地端AI推論迷你電腦與伺服器。
▲ 現場也展示透過光學文字辨識（OCR）技術搭配優聲學進行朗讀。
▲ 本地端AI推論迷你電腦採用NVIDIA Orin NX與Orin AGX的解決方案。
▲ 伺服器則可依需求挑選不同效能的硬體組合。
▲ 達米安·史特凡尼克能夠使用碳水泥超級電容器為手持遊戲設備供電（圖片來源：Damian Stefaniuk） 
▲ 麻省理工學院的研究人員正在致力於擴大碳水泥超級電容器的規模，以便將其用於多種不同的應用（圖片來源：Getty Images） 
▲ SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Card Guideline指示規範的顯示卡長寬尺寸為30.4 x 15.1公分，厚度為2.5槽（5公分），並需保留電源纜線安裝空間。
▲ 現場展示多款對應的顯示卡與機殼。
▲ Asus ProArt GeForce RTX 4080 Super是唯一「80」等級的產品，此外還有Galax的GeForce RTX 4070 Super 1-Click OC 2X。
▲ NVIDIA自家GeForce RTX 4070 Super Founders Edition與GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Super Eagle OC V2也符合指示。
▲ 此外還有INNO3D GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super Twin X2 OC White與MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super Shadow 3X。
▲ Pailt GeForce RTX 4070 Super Infinity 3、PNY GeForce RTX 4070 Super XLRB Gaming Verto也都在榜上。
▲ 現場也展示了多款機殼。
▲ SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Card Guideline指示相容顯示卡一覽。
▲ SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Card Guideline指示相容機殼一覽。
This is the second time Microsoft has back-tracked on Recall. 
A Reddit user who got his hands on the newest Samsung Copilot+ PC early posted benchmarks, and the results are incredibly disappointing. The CPU clock speeds on the unit are locked to 2.5 GHz, much slower than the advertised 4.0 GHz boost. 
The bank disclosed it fired the employees after finding they were giving the impression of working when they really weren't. 
Windows NT screensavers, including the most popular, get their origin story explained by Raymond Chen. 
With ever-soaring SSD prices, it's great to see a low $234 price tag on Adata's superfast 4TB XPG Gammix S70 Blade SSD. 