Cal Jeffrey

1 week ago | techspot.com | Cal Jeffrey

Whew: A week after Fallout co-creator Tim Cain revealed that Interplay had ordered him to destroy the game's and its sequel's source code in the late 1990s, new information shows it survived. One of the company's co-founders quietly preserved it decades ago, preserving important gaming history. Rebecca Heineman, a veteran programmer and co-founder of Interplay, told VideoGamer that she made personal backups of Fallout and Fallout 2 while working on Mac ports of the games.

1 week ago | techspot.com | Cal Jeffrey

A hot potato: App developers frustrated with Apple's and Google's "unfair" walled-garden policies have a new champion. Meta and several other organizations have formed a coalition to challenge the "duopoly" these two mobile platform giants have built. Initial efforts focus on age verification reform, but the alliance also plans to tackle several other restrictive policies maintained by both companies.

2 weeks ago | techspot.com | Cal Jeffrey

In brief: Security researchers have uncovered a wide-ranging set of vulnerabilities in Apple's AirPlay protocol that could allow attackers to hijack Apple and third-party devices remotely without user interaction. The exploit chain, dubbed "AirBorne," includes 23 individual bugs – 17 with official CVEs – and enables zero-click remote code execution on vulnerable systems.

2 weeks ago | techspot.com | Cal Jeffrey

Editor's take: We already have too much personal information floating around on the internet, and it's seemingly leaked on a monthly basis. So, is having snapshots of your screen taken every few seconds, stored and indexed – even locally – safe? These images could contain sensitive information that anyone with access to your computer can see. To me, it sounds like a bad idea. Let me hear your thoughts in the comments.

2 weeks ago | techspot.com | Cal Jeffrey

Bottom line: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered doesn't officially support mods. However, that hasn't stopped fans from experimenting – and finding that quite a few legacy mods for the original 2006 release still work with a bit of manual effort. Users on Reddit and the Bethesda Game Studios Discord noted that several classic .esp files function more or less as intended when dropped into the Remastered version.