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Months after seemingly giving up on Destiny 2, Bungie now says it’s planning to restore vaulted content in the game like campaigns, destinations, and raids. The decision reverses the Destiny Content Vault that Bungie created six years ago, controversially removing older content from Destiny 2 that players had paid to access.“We understand that removing these experiences had a lasting impact on player trust and enjoyment of Destiny,” admits Bungie. “We cannot change the decision we made, but we can acknowledge its impact and do the work to make it right by restoring these important parts of Destiny’s history.“All Destiny 2…

Technical details and a proof-of-concept exploit have been published for a new WordPress cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability dubbed ‘Click2Shell’ that affects the platform’s Core component. The security problem does not have an official identifier but was addressed last week with the release of WordPress version 7.1.1. It is a pre-authenticated remote code execution chain that allows an attacker to install any theme in the official WordPress.org catalog and run an arbitrary PHP file. Security researcher Paulos Yibelo of the autonomous penetration testing platform pwn.ai discovered Click2Shell and reported it to WordPress on August 22. The researchers explain that “a…

Some Bitcoin mining vardiff (variable difficulty) controllers can keep demanding work calibrated for a machine’s former speed after it cuts hashrate. The miner can keep hashing and consuming electricity while accepted shares become vanishingly rare.Bitcoin Optech highlighted the failure mode on Sept. 18, drawing wider attention to an analysis that mining engineer Eric Price published in July. The finding concerns pool-assigned share difficulty, not Bitcoin’s network difficulty, and it describes a testable controller weakness rather than evidence of widespread miner losses.How Bitcoin mining vardiff gets stuckPools assign each connection a share difficulty that is easier than Bitcoin’s block difficulty. A…

Scientists have developed an overwhelming array of methods to measure how burning fossil fuels, clearcutting forests and polluting oceans are harming the planet. But which measurements are most critical? Is it the rising concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere or the buildup of toxic chemicals in rivers and oceans? Is it the steady rise in global temperatures, potential ocean-current tipping points, vanishing glaciers or dwindling biodiversity?   All of those, and more, are vital strands in the fabric of life on Earth, and the latest edition of a planetary health check, released Monday, weaves a subset into a framework of…

Between 1995 and 2013, the uranium from around 20,000 Soviet nuclear warheads supplied up to 10 percent of U.S. electricity. After the Cold War arms race, the Megatons to Megawatts program turned 500 metric tons of bomb-grade uranium from decommissioned Soviet-era nuclear weapons into low-enriched uranium (LEU) for U.S. nuclear reactors. Today, Russia remains America’s top supplier of enrichment services (the process that turns natural uranium into nuclear fuel). This is odd: Washington banned imports of Russian LEU in August 2024, a move that prompted Moscow to outlaw such exports to the United States three months later. Both bans appear…

They waited for them for hours in the rain and cold of this seemingly endless winter in Joinville, Santa Catarina state. In this exhibition centre that once hosted the country’s largest arms fair before falling victim to its own success and being moved to São Paulo, the campaigners can hardly believe their eyes. On this particular day, it must be said that the Bolsonaro family’s supporters are spoiled with choice: there are not one, but two Bolsonaros onstage. The eldest son, Flavio – nominated by his father Jair as the Liberal Party’s candidate for the presidential election – is accompanied…

“We have to be very careful and understand that Russia is trying to destabilize and scare Europe. And any time we overreact to a hybrid attack, they have actually won the battle in that particular way,” Stubb told POLITICO during an interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. “We also have to understand that it is not in the interest of Russia nor in the capacity of Russia to go full-scale” with military escalation, Stubb added. “So they will continue to intimidate and we just have to be, as I say, cool, calm and collected…

The Liberal Democrats have rejected official guidance by the equalities watchdog on how organisations should implement the supreme court ruling on transgender people, calling it “discriminatory and unworkable”.The motion, passed overwhelmingly at the party’s annual conference in Brighton, makes the Lib Dems the first of the big three parties in parliament to call for a new approach to implementing last year’s ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex only. The Greens have previously done so.Formal guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), put out in May, is intended to tell service providers…

Last week, GM announced a new software experience for its upcoming Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks, including a new look for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, the popular phone mirroring systems that the automaker made a big deal about removing from its electric vehicles in 2023.Naturally, this led to some confusion about whether GM was “bringing back” CarPlay and Android Auto to its vehicles. Yahoo Finance reported it that way, calling it an “about-face” by the automaker, while Apple Insider’s headline boasted that GM “cave[d]” on its decision to remove the interface from its gas-powered vehicles. Even The Verge’s…

Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, a unified text-to-image generation and image editing model. Its visual generation component has 7B parameters across 32 single-stream DiT layers. One checkpoint covers text-to-image, multi-reference editing, local edits, and transparent RGBA output. Is it deployable? Yes, for research and evaluation. Day 0 support covers Diffusers, ComfyUI, vLLM-Omni, SGLang, and LightX2V. Commercial deployment needs a separate license from Qwen. From 20B to 7B The original Qwen-Image shipped in August 2025 as a 20B model under Apache 2.0. Editing lived in a separate Qwen-Image-Edit checkpoint. Qwen-Image-2.1 folds both jobs into one model at about a third…