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So far the summer months have been packed with fresh titles across a lot of the best streaming services. Now that July is near, it's Hulu turn to impress again.

Compared to last month's schedule, which saw the return of shows like FX's The Bear, Hulu is bringing even more new TV shows to its catalog – 82 to be exact! But out of all the new arrivals the return of the irreverent sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is coming back for a 17th season. Yep, it's still going strong.

There's no doubt that Hulu is one of the best streaming platforms for TV shows but that doesn't mean it's lacking in the movie department, and there'll be over 50 new movies on July 1 alone. I've got my eye on guilty pleasures Bride Wars (2009), Easy A (2010), and Dirty Dancing (1987).

Everything new on Hulu in July 2025

Arriving on June 1

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season 2 reunion (TV show)
Lies Hidden In My Garden season 1 (TV show)
Adam (movie)
Alita: Battle Angel (movie)
Bride Wars (movie)
Bridesmaids (movie)
The Bounty Hunter (movie)
The Call (movie)
Catch and Release (movie)
The Comedian (movie)
Country Strong (movie)
Daddy Day Camp (movie)
The Day After Tomorrow (movie)
Dear White People (movie)
Demolition (movie)
Dirty Dancing (movie)
Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights (movie)
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (movie)
Easy A (movie)
The Equalizer 3 (movie)
Flight Of The Phoenix (movie)
Ford v Ferrari (movie)
Friends With Benefits (movie)
Fruitvale Station (movie)
Garden State (movie)
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (movie)
Home Alone (movie)
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York (movie)
Home Alone 3 (movie)
Honest Thief (movie)
The Internship (movie)
"I Love You, Man" (movie)
I Origins (movie)
I, Robot (movie)
I Saw the Light (movie)
King Arthur (movie)
Kingdom Come (movie)
Kingdom Of Heaven (movie)
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (movie)
The Longest Yard (movie)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (movie)
Mission To Mars (movie)
Pixels (movie)
The Pledge (movie)
Prometheus (movie)
Puss In Boots (movie)
Real Steel (movie)
Ruby Sparks (movie)
The Sandlot (movie)
Shanghai Knights (movie)
Shanghai Noon (movie)
Sisters (movie)
Sugar (movie)
Sunshine (movie)
Tammy (movie)
Taxi (movie)
Ted (movie)
Ted 2 (movie)
The Way Way Back (movie)
Wrath Of Man (movie)

Arriving on July 2

Dragon Ball DAIMA (TV show)

Arriving on July 3

The American Soldier season 1 (TV show)
Aaron Hernandez and the Untold Murders of Bristol season 1 (TV show)
America The Story Of US season 1 (TV show)
America: Promised Land season 1 (TV show)
Barack Obama season 1 (TV show)
Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War season 1 (TV show)
Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution season 1 (TV show)
Codes and Conspiracies seasons 1-2 (TV show)
Community (TV show)
Dan Da Dan season 2 (TV show)
Days That Shaped America season 1 (TV show)
The First 48 Presents Critical Minutes season 3 (TV show)
The Proof Is Out There season 4 (TV show)
The Secret History of Air Force One season 1 (TV show)
The Secret History of the Civil War season 1 (TV show)
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers season 1 (TV show)
Who is Luigi Mangione? season 1 (TV show)
Mia and Me: The Hero of Centopia (TV show)

Arriving on July 4

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (movie)
The Abyss (movie)
The Day The Earth Stood Still (movie)
In the Lost Lands (movie)

Arriving on July 5

Cold Case Files: The Grim Sleeper season 1 (TV show)
The Idaho College Murders season 1 (TV show)
The Lake Erie Murders seasons 1-2 (TV show)
The Perfect Murder seasons 1-2 (TV show)
Untitled Maxine Project season 1 (TV show)

Arriving on July 6

Cults and Extreme Belief season 1 (TV show)
Killer Cases season 6 (TV show)
Toilet Bound Hanako-Kun season 2 (TV show)

Arriving on June 7

Such Brave Girls season 2 (TV show)
Deep Sea Detectives season 1 (TV show)
Travel Texas season 1 (TV show)

Arriving on July 8

Bachelor in Paradise season 10 (TV show)
Born to be Viral: The Real Lives of Kidfluencers (TV show)
Marked Men (movie)

Arriving on July 9

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 17 (TV show)
Ancient Aliens: Origins season 1 (TV show)
Insomnia (UK) season 1 (TV show)
Matched in Manhattan season 1 (TV show)
Team Players season 1 (TV show)

Arriving on June 10

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations seasons 5-6 (TV show)
Extreme Road Ragers season 1 (TV show)
Summer Baking Championship season 1 (TV show)
Suspicious Minds season 1 (TV show)
Parkland (movie)
Buffaloed (movie)

Arriving on June 11

Celebrity Family Feud season 11 (TV show)
Mountain Men season 13 (TV show)
Big Momma's House (movie)
Big Momma's House 2 (movie)
The Hot Chick (movie)
LOL Live with Chico Bean (comedy special)
LOL Live with Chinedu Unaka (comedy special)
Marmaduke (movie)
MR-9: Do or Die (movie)
Riff Raff (movie)

Arriving on June 12

90 Day Fiance season 6 (TV show)
90 Day Fiance UK season 3 (TV show)
Prison Wives Club season 1 (TV show)
A Quiet Place Part II (movie)

Arriving on June 13

Deep Sea Detectives season 2 (TV show)
Dumb Money (movie)

Arriving on June 14

Fugitives Caught on Tape season 1 (TV show)
Stags (UK) season 1 (TV show)

Arriving on July 15

Her Last Broadcast: The Abduction of Jodi Huisentruit (TV show)
Rachael Ray's Holidays season 1 (TV show)
Get Away (movie)
SAS: Red Notice (movie)

Arriving on June 16

Rachael Ray's Meals in Minutes season 2 (TV show)
Unexpected Loves season 1 (TV show)

Arriving on June 17

Baylen Out Loud season 1 (TV show)
Jake Makes It Easy season 1 (TV show)
My 600-lb Life season 3 (TV show)
My 600-lb Life: Where Are They Now? season 2 (TV show)
Polyfamily season 1 (TV show)
The Amateur (movie)
Snake Eyes G.I. Joe Origins (movie)

Arriving on July 18

High Rollers (movie)

Arriving on June 19

Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda seasons 6-7 (TV show)
The Assessment (movie)

Arriving on June 20

Smurfs: The Lost Village (movie)

Arriving on July 21

Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari (TV show)

Arriving on July 22

Red Eye (UK) seasons 1-2 (TV show)

Arriving on June 23

Washington Black season 1 (TV show)

Arriving on July 24

Match Game season 6 (TV show)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire season 4 (TV show)
Bakeaway Camp with Martha Stewart season 1 (TV show)
Mad About You seasons 1-7 (TV show)
Summer Baking Championship season 2 (TV show)

Arriving on July 26

BBQ Brawl seasons 1-2 (TV show)
Chopped season 61 (TV show)
Tournament Of Champions season 6 (TV show)
Tournament of Champions VI: The Qualifiers season 6 (TV show)
Ultimate Summer Cook-Off season 1 (TV show)

Arriving on July 28

The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball season 1 (TV show)
Operation Fortune (movie)

Arriving on July 29

Dope Girls (UK) season 1 (TV show)
Memoir of a Snail (movie)
Mr & Mrs Murder (TV show)

Arriving on June 30

The Bachelor (Australia) seasons 3-5 (TV show)
The Bachelorette (Australia) seasons 3-4 (TV show)

Arriving on July 31

Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives season 5 (TV show)
Guy's Grocery Games seasons 21, 22 & 38 (TV show)
Mad About You (TV show)

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• Future AI memory chips could demand more power than entire industrial zones combined
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The relentless drive to expand AI processing power is ushering in a new era for memory technology, but it comes at a cost that raises practical and environmental concerns, experts have warned.

Research by Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) and Terabyte Interconnection and Package Laboratory (TERA) suggests by 2035, AI GPU accelerators equipped with 6TB of HBM could become a reality.

These developments, while technically impressive, also highlight the steep power demands and increasing complexity involved in pushing the boundaries of AI infrastructure.

Rise in AI GPU memory capacity brings huge power consumption

The roadmap reveals the evolution from HBM4 to HBM8 will deliver major gains in bandwidth, memory stacking, and cooling techniques.

Starting in 2026 with HBM4, Nvidia's Rubin and AMD’s Instinct MI400 platforms will incorporate up to 432GB of memory, with bandwidths reaching nearly 20TB/s.

This memory type employs direct-to-chip liquid cooling and custom packaging methods to handle power densities around 75 to 80W per stack.

HBM5, projected for 2029, doubles the input/output lanes and moves toward immersion cooling, with up to 80GB per stack consuming 100W.

However, the power requirements will continue to climb with HBM6, anticipated by 2032, which pushes bandwidth to 8TB/s and stack capacity to 120GB, each drawing up to 120W.

These figures quickly add up when considering full GPU packages expected to consume up to 5,920W per chip, assuming 16 HBM6 stacks in a system.

By the time HBM7 and HBM8 arrive, the numbers stretch into previously unimaginable territory.

HBM7, expected around 2035, triples bandwidth to 24TB/s and enables up to 192GB per stack. The architecture supports 32 memory stacks, pushing total memory capacity beyond 6TB, but the power demand reaches 15,360W per package.

The estimated 15,360W power consumption marks a dramatic increase, representing a sevenfold rise in just nine years.

This means that a million of these in a data center would consume 15.36GW, a figure that roughly equals the UK’s entire onshore wind generation capacity in 2024.

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Some shows appear and disappear almost overnight; others become institutions. Modern Family is in the latter category: more than five years after it finished it's still one of the most watched shows on Disney+ globally.

Modern Family ran from 2009 to early 2020, and like any show with so many seasons it's fair to say that it lost some of its freshness over time: where season 1 has a stellar 100% rating from the critics on Rotten Tomatoes, the final season – season 11 – only reached 80%. But that's still a much higher rating than many rival sitcoms, and there's still lots to praise.

Here's why Modern Family is a modern classic and one of the best Disney+ shows – or best Hulu shows if you're in the US – of all time.

Why this family is worth getting to know

The first season set up the premise for the show. An unidentified (to us) film crew is following the Dunphys around to make a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the extended family: mom and dad Claire and Phil and their three children; Claire's dad Jay and his much younger wife Gloria; Jay's son Mitchell, his partner Cameron and their adopted daughter.

As you can see, the setup justifies the title: this is a thoroughly modern family, multi-generational, multi-racial and inclusive of all. And if that's all the show was about it would probably have been a disaster, preachy and worthy rather than punchy and hilarious. But the writing team is incredibly sharp, the dialog and set-pieces are often hilariously funny and the cast is spectacular. And I think its warmth and big heart really resonate with people whose screens increasingly seem to be blasting them with bad news.

The core cast is brilliant, and while some of the characterization comes close to stereotyping – the camp Cameron, the cantankerous Jay, the fiery Gloria – I don't think it ever crossed over from affectionate to problematic.

(Image credit: ABC)

You get the real feeling that the writers care about and love the entire cast – and what a cast it is. Ed O'Neill as Jay, Sofia Vergara as Gloria, Ty Burrell as Phil, Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell, Julie Bowen as Claire and Eric Stonestreet as Cameron are all delightful. And with the show lasting so long – almost a lifetime for its youngest stars, most of whom were grown adults by the final seasons – everybody was given lots of time to grow.

The characters are all favorites for me but I think the show was most often stolen by Rico Rodriguez as Manny, the oldest young man ever to exist (and someone who I can't separate from What We Do In The Shadows' similarly entertaining Guillermo, played by Harvey Guillén).

NPR put it very well, describing season 1: "Good acting. Great writing. Human characters played by amazing actors. That might be the one twist network TV hasn't tried often enough."

Writing in Salon, Heather Havrilesky urged us not to touch that remote. "Between the snappy writing, great comedic directing, and remarkable timing of all of the actors involved, "Modern Family" is one of those rare comedies that never feels awkward or corny as it's winding up to a punch line... laughter and families? Those two haven't come together on TV in a long, long time. But once they do? It's like science: You can't fight it." And Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly loved it too. "Modern Family is unique in the way it juggles so many players so deftly and makes every member of the cast a vivid, complex character," he wrote. "Oh, and it's really funny, too."

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• Zimperium spots new version of Godfather among Turkish Android users
• New version creates virtualized versions of legitimate banking apps in a sandbox
• It can exfiltrate login credentials, PIN codes, and unlock patterns

The notorious Godfather malware for Android phones is back with a vengeance, experts have warned, targeting victims with an upgraded build which makes it more dangerous than ever.

Cybersecurity researchers Zimperium claim to have seen an updated version of the infamous malware in the wild, and this one is even more dangerous as it simplifies things while evading detection even better.

Godfather is a banking trojan, used to steal money out of people’s bank accounts. Earlier variants worked as an overlay - placing an invisible layer on top of legitimate banking apps. Therefore, when victims bring up their apps and start typing in their login credentials, these would be picked up by the overlay and sent to the attackers, who would later log into the app and make cash withdrawals.

Virtualization attacks

The new version, however, ditches the overlay approach for something even more sinister - creating a virtualized version of the app.

On the compromised devices, the malware would launch a virtual instance of the banking app inside a sandbox. That way, the malware doesn’t even need to ask for excessive permissions in order to conduct wire fraud, and means victims may not even trust the legitimate apps they have installed.

When the victim gets infected, the malware first analyzes the installed apps and looks for a banking one that fits.

If it finds one, it creates a virtualized version that launches whenever the victim tries to bring up the legitimate one.

Besides stealing login credentials, Godfather can exfiltrate PIN codes and unlock patterns, and can remotely control the device during off-hours (in the middle of the night, for example), making wire transfers while the victim is asleep.

Zimperium says it has only observed Godfather among Turkish Android users so far, but it warned that the malware operators can pivot towards the West at any time, so banking users everywhere should be on their guard.

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I'm not someone who cries when I watch a highly emotive movie or TV series. Sure, I get teary-eyed but, in the vast majority of cases, I never find myself reaching for a box of tissues to stem the flow of tears cascading down my face after a particularly devastating scene or sequence.

So far in 2025, though, three different shows have somehow cracked my steely resolve and turned me into a blubbering wreck. Is it because I'm getting older and therefore more susceptible to emotionally-loaded productions? Are their stories so well designed that they tug harder at the ol' heartstrings? Or is it simply a big coincidence that three of the most soul-destroying projects have all launched on the world's best streaming services this year? Who's to say.

Regardless, I don't want to be the only softie around here, so here are the trio of TV Originals that have revived my cold, dead heart in the first six months of the year.

Adolescence (Netflix)

Adolescence dominated the news cycle for weeks after its Netflix launch in March (Image credit: Netflix)

Release date: March 13
Episode count: 4
Main cast: Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters, Faye Marsay, Christine Tremarco, Erin Doherty, Amelie Pease, and Owen Cooper
Director: Phil Barantini
Rotten Tomatoes (RT) critics score: 99%

Netflix's biggest TV hit of 2025 so far and, at the time of publication, the second most-watched English language TV Original in the streamer's history (take that, Stranger Things season 4!) is an unmissable miniseries.

A story whose individual chapters are all shot as one continuous, long take – a highly-technical process known as a 'oner' – Adolescence tells the tale 13 -year-old Jamie (Cooper) who's arrested on suspicion of murdering a female student at his school. Each episode focuses on different characters during and after the police investigation, too, with the immediate and long-reaching impact of the alleged crime felt keenly by all of those involved.

Hailed by fans and critics alike for its writing, directing, cinematography, tone, and individual and collective cast performances, Adolescence is an emotional powerhouse that deserves a permanent spot on our best Netflix shows list. Its impact has been so great, in fact, that it's sparked multiple nationwide discussions in the UK about youth knife crime, the alarming rise of misogynistic views among male teens, and systemic failures and local and national government levels. A heart-breaking program that'll leave a lasting impression on you long after its final credits sequence has rolled.

Andor season 2 (Disney+)

Andor season 2 episode 8 is one of the most heart-wrenching things I've watched on TV this year (Image credit: Lucasfilm/Disney+)

Release date: April 22
Episode count: 12
Main cast: Diego Luna, Adria Arjona, Genevieve O'Reilly Stellan Skarsgard, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Forest Whitaker, Faye Marsay, and Alan Tudyk
Directors: Ariel Kleinman, Janus Metz, and Alonso Ruizpalacios
RT critics score: 97%

Star Wars is a family-friendly franchise. Sure, it's occasionally pushed the boundaries of what's appropriate for younger members of its worldwide fanbase but, by and large, it hasn't gone out of its way to alienate parts of its global community.

Andor is the one project that dared to be different. A live-action, adult-oriented Disney+ series, it threw out the traditional Star Wars playbook in favor of telling a political and spy thriller-oriented story that not only stars a whole host of morally gray characters, but also tackles difficult topics of conversation around fascism, sexual assault, the human cost of conflict, and the moral complications that arise from revolution.

I really enjoyed Andor season 1 but, whether it's down to its hard-hitting narratives, the show's much more confident second and final season, or a combination of both, season 2 is a whole other beast. You can read more about why it's such a paradoxically entertaining yet heavy watch in my Andor season 2 review, or go and stream one of the best Disney+ shows in its entirety right now. It'll be worth it once you reach Andor season 2 episode 8, i.e. the gut-punch of a chapter that made me sob my heart out.

The Last of Us season 2 (Max)

The Last of Us season 2 episode 2 hit viewers like a freight train (Image credit: HBO)

Release date: April 13
Episode count: 7
Main cast: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Isabela Merced, Young Mazino, Gabriel Luna, Rutina Wesley, and Kaitlyn Dever
Directors: Craig Mazin, Neil Druckmann, Kate Herron, Mark Mylod, Stephen Williams, and Nina Lopez-Corrado
RT critics score: 92%

The Last of Us season 2 was a slight step down in quality compared to its more lauded forebear, but the popular HBO and Max TV Original still had the capacity to emotionally wreck viewers on multiple occasions.

I don't think anyone's gotten over last season's harrowing second or sixth episodes yet, either. I include myself among that contingent, too – and that's as someone who's played The Last of Us Part II, aka the second game in Naughty Dog's video game namesake that The Last of Us TV show's sophomore outing is based on.

With The Last of Us season 3 in early development, there'll be many more distressing moments to come in one of the best Max shows. It might be best to stockpile tissues now, then, before The Last of Us' third installment makes its TV bow and potentially rips out our heart like its predecessors did.

What TV episodes and/or full shows have had you wiping away tears from your eyes? Let me know in the comments!

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The Nintendo Switch 2 has periodically taken the handheld gaming spotlight, with its early June launch leading to high sales – to be specific, it's already sold over 3.5 million units worldwide. However, if it wasn't clear enough already from my previous articles, I don't recommend the device for many reasons.

The $80 price tag for first-party games, the lack of freedom and ownership issues, alongside its price against other handheld gaming PCs and consoles, all play a significant factor in my decision not to buy one.

Amazon's Prime Day is also on the horizon – but if you had any hopes of major Switch 2 price drops, there likely won't be any worth noting, because it's still far too early post-launch. This means looking at alternatives – you could still purchase the original Nintendo Switch, but that would leave you behind a generation in terms of performance.

That opens the gateway to handheld gaming PCs, and since I've used a handful of them, there's a few that I would recommend if you're out for a Switch 2 alternative.

1. Asus ROG Ally

(Image credit: Future)

Having used both the Asus ROG Ally and the Lenovo Legion Go for a long time (mostly the former), I can tell you that they're the best handhelds you can get in the same price region as the Switch 2.

Both use AMD's Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor, which utilizes 8 cores and 16 threads, along with 12 RDNA 3 GPU cores – and that's ideal for a 1080p game resolution.

It has the benefit of VRR (variable refresh rate) to ensure the screen's refresh rate syncs with your game's frame rate, eliminating screen tearing in the process – a game-changing tool the Switch 2 doesn't have, while docked.

I've gone as far as installing Bazzite on the Asus ROG Ally, and it's made the handheld gaming experience much easier and more streamlined. It's no secret that Windows 11 has a significant impact on gaming performance, as we've seen that SteamOS performance shines in several games in comparison.

Most importantly, though, the ROG Ally has a faster processor, more RAM at 16GB vs the Switch 2's 12GB, with access to a greater library of games (since it's a PC, after all). Its price at launch was $699 / £699 / AU$1,299, but that's dropped down to $649 / £522 on Amazon. Already on Amazon in the UK, it's available at £449 on sale, in the same price region as the Switch 2's Mario Kart World bundle – and since Prime Day is on the horizon, expect it to drop even lower.

2. Lenovo Legion Go

(Image credit: Future)

The same applies to the Lenovo Legion Go; you're getting great performance across a variety of games with the Z1 Extreme chip, and a 144Hz refresh rate. If anything, this is a direct competitor to the Switch 2, with its detachable controllers allowing you to replicate the Joy-Con experience.

While I'd still recommend the Asus ROG Ally for most gamers, the Lenovo Legion Go slightly widens the gap with a much bigger 8.8-inch 2560x1440 screen. However, it's important to note that this can be a detriment in a decent number of games – and that's because the Z1 Extreme is pushing above its weight with gaming at 1440p.

You may be able to get away with it in titles like Hades that don't require a lot of power to run well, but you'll definitely be tuning down the resolution in games like Cyberpunk 2077, Resident Evil 4, or Hitman World of Assassination.

Don't let that deter you from purchasing, though, as you'll still be getting the same or better gaming performance as you would with the Switch 2 with a screen of higher quality (just note, that it doesn't have VRR).

As for its price, you can find it at $699 at Amazon in the US and Best Buy, but if you're in the UK, you can find it as low as £499. With Prime Day almost here, prices should drop significantly.

There's also a Lenovo Legion Go S, using a weaker Ryzen Z2 Go processor, but there's another variant using the same Ryzen Z1 Extreme; it knocks the resolution down to a more reasonable 1920x1200 on an 8-inch display with VRR.

3. MSI Claw 8 AI+

(Image credit: Future)

While the MSI Claw 8 AI+ is the most expensive option compared to the Switch 2, Lenovo Legion Go, and Asus ROG Ally (and by a significant margin) at $900 / £899 / AU$1,799, it's easily the best handheld gaming PC under $1,000.

Using Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V processor, gaming at low TDPs (power consumption) is the biggest highlight as it provides extensive battery life without a heavy compromise on frame rates.

It's the one handheld I recommend for anyone willing to spend more than they would for affordable handhelds, as you'll get the bang for your buck. I haven't had the opportunity to get hands-on yet, but based on performance results and Intel's driver improving performance, it's enough for me to say it's a better choice than the Switch 2.

The only potential downside is that I don't see any major discounts coming in for this one on Prime Day – and that could be a dealbreaker for anyone wincing at the price tag. It's still a fairly new handheld, and there is a lack of availability right now. So in reality, you'll likely find yourself choosing between the Legion Go and ROG Ally.

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Meta has introduced passkey support for Facebook on mobile devices which will significantly decrease the chance of someone hacking into your account.

Rather than using a clumsy and easily guessed password to log in, you can now use a fingerprint, face or PIN to verify that you are logging in to your account.

Better still, passkeys are often faster to use than passwords, meaning your whole Facebook experience should be even easier.

Facebook gets passkeys

Passkeys for Facebook on iOS and Android mobile devices “will soon be available”, Meta said, with passkeys for Messenger also due to be released in the “coming months.”

Passkeys are a much more resilient alternative to passwords and one-time-codes as they cannot be stolen and are much less susceptible to malicious sites looking to steal your login details, such as typo-squatting domains. They can also be a good alternative to using a password manager that requires constant back-and-forth between apps in order to enter your password.

Your passkey is stored locally on your device, meaning Meta doesn’t have access to it. One unfortunate downside of passkeys is that if you lose your mobile device that stores your passkey, it can be a bit of a hassle getting back into your account and setting up a new passkey.

Meta also announced passkeys will also be used to verify payments through Meta Pay, and will soon also be used to protect your encrypted message backups once Passkeys for Messenger arrive.

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Minecraft players are being actively targeted by a group of cybercriminals interested in their login credentials, authentication tokens, and crypto wallet information, experts have warned.

Cybersecurity researchers Check Point Research recently discovered the large-scale operation, run by a group called the Stargazers Ghost Network, a distribution-as-a-service (DaaS) operation active for a year now, distributing malware and infostealers on behalf of other cybercriminals.

In this campaign, the crooks abused the fact that Minecraft is one of the largest games in the world, with an active, thriving community of players and modders. Minecraft mods are player-built additions to the game and as per the researchers, there are more than a million modders out there.

Hundreds of repos

The attackers created malicious GitHub repositories, spoofing legitimate mods, and pretending to be cheats: Skyblock Extras, Polar Client, FunnyMap, Oringo, and Taunahi, are just some of the names making rounds.

CheckPoint says these have had thousands of views on Pastebin, suggesting that the campaign is rather successful.

To make matters worse, since these are custom-built to target Minecraft users, and since both the downloader and the malware are written in Java, they are currently going undetected by all antivirus engines.

"We have identified approximately 500 GitHub repositories, including those that are forked or copied, which were part of this operation aimed at Minecraft players," one of the researchers told BleepingComputer.

"We've also seen 700 stars produced by approximately 70 accounts." Stars are used to boost the legitimacy of the repositories, thus improving the chances of infection.

The attack is split into two phases. The first phase targets Minecraft account tokens, and user data from both the Minecraft launcher, and some third-party launchers. It also steals Discord and Telegram information.

The second stage deploys a more “traditional” infostealer called “44 Caliber”, which steals browser data, VPN information, crypto wallet data, and more.

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Is FBC: Firebreak meant to be a commentary on the monotony of labor under late-stage capitalism? It's the only conceivable reason why a developer as esteemed and talented as Remedy Entertainment would create something that's so fundamentally miserable to play.

Review info

Platform reviewed: PS5
Available on: PS5, Xbox Series X and Series S, PC
Release date: June 17, 2025

A co-op shooter spin-off set in the weird and wonderful universe of the smash hit Control, FBC: Firebreak seems like it was designed from the ground up to be as frustrating as possible. From its artificially padded progression and small selection of levels to the bland cast of characters and poorly designed player abilities, there's very little to like here.

Sure, everything technically functions and seems to work as intended with minimal bugs, but that’s damning with faint praise when stacked up against the studio’s past line-up of ground-breaking experiences like Alan Wake 2.

Out of control

(Image credit: Remedy)

I booted up FBC: Firebreak feeling optimistic, as its core concept is certainly intriguing.

You play as a Firebreaker, specialized agents in the fictional Federal Bureau of Control (FBC) tasked with venturing into abandoned districts of the bureau’s HQ to contain rogue supernatural forces, in a team with up to two other players.

I absolutely adore the portrayal of the FBC in other Remedy games and was excited to learn more about its inner workings and explore new parts of the Oldest House (the mysterious, shifting brutalist skyscraper where the events of this game and Control take place).

Unfortunately, there’s no story content in FBC: Firebreak. You’re introduced to Hank, the leader of Firebreak, and his assistant Jerry, who exchange short quips as you navigate through the main menus, but that, on top of Hank’s occasional guidance during missions, is all you get.

Worse still, the dialogue is never particularly amusing, and the slapstick tone of these interactions feels a tad out of place. Control was not a massively serious game, but FBC: Firebreak really leans into its comedy to its detriment. It’s a game that seems more like it’s trying to ape Borderlands than actually expand on what made the source material so interesting.

It’s also a shame that the playable characters are all generic, masked goons. You can pick from a handful of distinct player voices, but it’s impossible to become invested in protagonists with no other identifiable characteristics.

Even the game’s unlockable cosmetic items fail to help them stand out. There’s nothing appealing about the prospect of grinding for hours in order to unlock a red helmet that nobody is realistically going to notice in an online lobby.

It’s like the developers knew this too, as unlocking cosmetics is often mandatory in order to reveal new shop pages with more useful items.

Dead end job

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This is one of many decisions seemingly made to pad out the game’s runtime, which would otherwise be incredibly short.

There are a total of only five missions, or Jobs as they’re called in-game, with each split into three stages. The first two stages are always very basic, often taking just five or so minutes to clear.

They both feel like pointless filler compared to the third, which offers similar but more substantial objectives and sometimes a big boss fight to top it all off. The first two stages are, of course, mandatory as there would be practically no reason to endure them otherwise.

The missions themselves are at least conceptually interesting, but fail to capitalize on their most unique elements in enjoyable ways. Paper Chase, for example, seems like a slam dunk with the novel idea of offices that have been taken over by swarms of supernatural sticky notes.

Sadly, the mission just boils down to mindlessly shooting surfaces covered in sticky notes as an on-screen number showing the remaining notes ticks down for around fifteen minutes.

Best bit

(Image credit: Remedy)

The hub area is home to your living quarters, a few rooms that can be extensively customized by spending a currency obtained on your travels. Placing objects to make the space your own is quite satisfying. Most can also be interacted with to see unique animations.

During every mission, waves of Hiss, humans possessed by a malevolent entity, beam in around you. I can count the number of unique enemies on one hand, with the same few enemy models popping up endlessly with no variation.

Even with the difficulty cranked all the way up, the pacing of these waves feels off-kilter, too, as there are frequent awkward stretches where there are no enemies on screen.

I would be able to forgive most of this if the guns were actually satisfying to use. They aren’t. Generic appearances and sound effects aside, there are just six to choose from.

Poor balancing means that one, the bolt action rifle, is so terrible that you wouldn’t ever want it in your loadout. The pump action shotgun and revolver, in contrast, are by far the most effective of the bunch so there’s no real reason to ever use anything else.

In crisis

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Much of the game’s marketing has focused on the Crisis Kits - the three sets of abilities that you can choose in your mission.

There’s the Splash Kit, granting a water cannon that can wash off annoying environmental effects (of which there are several) or put out fires, the Jump Kit with an electrical device for quickly charging generators, and the Fix Kit which lets you quickly repair broken items by swinging a big wrench around.

You can still accomplish all these tasks without the respective kits, but the interactions take the form of highly repetitive button-mashing that gets old quickly. Every mission has some component that can benefit from a particular kit, so there’s no strategy in which one you pick. Each match has three players, so obviously you just need one of each. There are no real advantages or disadvantages of any of the individual kits, either, so it really is as simple as that.

Each kit can be upgraded up to three times to unlock new secondary and special abilities, including a powerful attack that provides a welcome break from the endless shooting.

However, this only feeds into the biggest issue with FBC: Firebreak: the fact that the first hour is unremittingly awful.

For some reason, you start out with broken gear that’s woefully ineffective. The water cannon, for example, can only blast a few drops of water at a time. Similarly, your firearms deal reduced damage. You have to grind through a game after game in this state until you have the currency required to get everything back in working order, not to mention pick up some of those abilities and some perks to boost your stats.

I don’t understand this decision at all, as it just makes for a horrendous first impression. It’s easy to imagine most players downloading the game, experiencing one or two slogging matches with their artificially weakened gear and abilities, and then just uninstalling it to play something more rewarding.

This, unfortunately, makes it very difficult to recommend FBC: Firebreak in its current state. If you could simply log on and play around with everything right away, it might be able to provide a couple of hours of co-op entertainment before the boredom sets in.

As it stands, you’ll be sick of what's there before even getting to experience its flagship features.

Should I play FBC: Firebreak?

(Image credit: Remedy)Play it if…

You can get it for ‘free’
FBC: Firebreak is part of PS Plus and Xbox Game Pass. If you are already subscribed to one of those services, it might be worth trying to see whether it’s tolerable for you and your friends.

It receives some patches
Some of the biggest problems with FBC: Firebreak could be addressed down the line with patches. If you’re reading this after the game has been out for some time, give it a go to see if things have changed.

Don’t play it if…

You’re expecting lots of lore
FBC: Firebreak contributes very little to the universe of Control and other Remedy games. If you’re a huge fan of the lore, you can safely skip this one.

You don’t have hours to grind
The start of FBC: Firebreak is a frustrating grind. Avoid it unless you have the time to invest in order to get to the less painful parts.View Deal

Accessibility

There is, unfortunately, no dedicated accessibility menu in FBC: Firebreak. The controls can be fully customized on console, though, and there are a number of options that allow you to toggle actions like aiming down sights. The game features subtitles throughout.

How I reviewed FBC: Firebreak

I played almost ten hours of FBC: Firebreak on PS5 and DualSense Wireless Controller in the build-up to launch using a copy provided by Remedy Entertainment.

I experienced every mission that the game has to offer at least once, trying out multiple weapons and each of the Crisis Kits. I played both solo and multiplayer, using the game’s built-in online matchmaking to play with random players, and participated in a few matches with other reviewers.

Throughout my time with the game, I compared my experience with my time in other online first-person shooter games of a similar scope, including Wolfenstein: Youngblood, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction, and Helldivers 2.

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AMD has begun shipping the Pensando Pollara 400 AI network card, part of the company's push for open, high-speed data center networking.

Designed for PCIe Gen5 systems, the card supports the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) standard, which aims to transform Ethernet for AI and HPC at scale.

The card offers RDMA support and is optimized for scale-out collective communication using RCCL, AMD’s alternative to NCCL.

Vulcano 800G AI NIC targeting a 2026 launch

AMD says Pollara delivers around 10% better RDMA performance than Nvidia’s ConnectX-7 and about 20% better than Broadcom’s Thor2. In GPU-heavy clusters, these gains help reduce idle time and improve workload efficiency.

The NIC uses a custom processor with support for flexible transport protocols, load balancing, and failover routing. It can reroute traffic during congestion and maintain GPU connectivity during failures.

The card features a half-height, half-length design and supports PCIe Gen5 x16, offering multiple port configurations including 1x400G, 2x200G, and 4x100G. It supports up to 400Gbps of bandwidth and integrates monitoring tools to improve cluster-level observability and reliability.

AMD claims performance boosts of up to 6x in large-scale deployments, especially when scaled to hundreds of thousands of processors.

For individual workloads, the company reports up to 15% faster AI job performance and up to 10% improved network reliability through features like fast failover, selective retransmission, and congestion management.

With UEC Specification 1.0 now finalized, the company is targeting hyperscalers. Oracle Cloud will be among the first to adopt the technology.

Looking to 2026, AMD says it intends to launch the Pensando Vulcano 800G AI NIC for PCIe Gen6 systems (Pollara and Vulcano are the names of two volcanoes in Italy).

That NIC will support both Ultra Ethernet and UALink to enable scale-out and scale-up networking for large AI workloads. Vulcano is part of AMD’s Helios rack-scale architecture, set for 2026.

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28 Years Later reunites Alex Garland and Danny Boyle, and it’s everything you could hope for from this genius writing and directing duo.

It’s been more than two decades since we saw Cillian Murphy wandering around an abandoned London in the opening scene of 2002's 28 Days Later, and the impact of that movie on the post-apocalyptic horror genre can still be seen to this day.

At the time, that movie stood out for its pioneering take on the horror staple that is the zombie, imbuing the 'infected' with an especially terrifying trait: they were able to run. Before this, films like Dawn of the Dead had portrayed zombies as slow-moving, imbecilic creatures, which made the idea of sprinting monsters even more petrifying.

The first sequel, 2007's 28 Weeks Later, wasn't made by the original filmmakers and is not now regarded as canonical, so does not factor into the plot of the new movie 28 Years Later. Instead of the infected reaching Europe, as we saw at the end of 28 Weeks Later, in this telling the 'rage' virus, which escaped from an animal testing lab, has been contained by quarantining Britain from the rest of the world.

A recording of Rudyard Kipling's poem Boots features on the soundtrack of 28 Years Later, evoking parallels with Britain's historic wars (Image credit: Sony Pictures)

28 Years Later has a more folk-horror feel compared to the original, centering on a community of survivors who've made a home for themselves on Lindisfarne, an island separated from the coast of northern England, and from the infected, by a gated causeway.

It's here where we meet Alfie Williams' (His Dark Materials) character Spike, a young boy who's about to make what seems to be a rite of passage to manhood by accompanying his father Jamie, played by Aaron Taylor-Jonson (Kick-Ass), to the mainland for his first kill, the quarry being the infected.

Before they leave, the pair are reminded that the rules of their society mean they won't be rescued if they don't return. This adds a foreboding note to their journey, setting us up for our first encounter with the now-evolved infected, which have morphed into new variants that feel inspired by The Last Of Us.

The new infected include fat, crawling bloaters, pack-like families that can still sprint, and ripped 'alphas' that have evolved to be much smarter and bigger than the rest – and these new leaders aren't as easy to kill, even if Spike, like his father, is already a skilled archer.

The introduction of a baby raises a lot of questions about what this means for the lore of the film series (Image credit: Sony Pictures)

The movie soon shifts from a father and son's fight for survival to an equally fraught mission. When Spike sees a opportunity to save his sick mother Isla, who's played by the incredible Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), mother and son set off in search of a reclusive doctor who's rumored to live on the mainland.

Queue perhaps of the best performance of the movie, as we meet Ralph Fiennes' (Schindler's List; The Grand Budapest Hotel) Dr Kelson, surrounded by skulls and bones in one of the most elaborate graveyard shrines I've ever seen. The introduction of Fiennes' multi-layered character marks a turning point for the film, setting up events that will likely play a central role in the next film – 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – that's set to be released in January 2026.

In a lot of ways 28 Years Later is a coming-of-age story that grapples with themes of loss, grief, and survival, making it a lot different to the societal breakdown that was the focus of 28 Days Later. The themes running through both films, though, are underpinned by Garland's unsparing exploration of what makes us human.

Much as 28 Days Later did with its flower-painting scene, 28 Years Later at times employs a dream-like aesthetic – look out for the galaxy of stars (Image credit: Sony Pictures)

Despite the time between the two films, 28 Years Later pays homage to the original by including the same lingering wide shots, and by featuring the iconic and unsettling track In the House – In a Heartbeat by John Murphy, while also setting the scene for the next chapter.

The opening scene of 28 Years Later, which shows a group of children watching Teletubbies before they have to flee an attack by the infected, may seem disconnected from the rest of the film, but it all makes sense when Spike unknowingly encounters Jack O'Connell's (Eden Lake) character, who wears the same cross we saw one of the children being given, in the closing scene.

This sets up the film series to go forward on a much more larger scale, as it introduces us to different strands of survivors that will no doubt be a big part of the next two movies. As the first of this new trilogy, 28 Years Later is a captivating watch with multi-layered filmmaking, phenomenal performances, and a story that hits closer to home than it might, initially appear.

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Hisense's superb mini-LED TVs are available with some great prices for both US and UK buyers right now.

In the US, Amazon is offering the Hisense U7N 75-inch mini-LED TV for just $799.99. That's the lowest we've ever seen, and far below the $1,499.99 launch price back in October 2024.

Meanwhile in the UK, Amazon is also offering low prices on Hisense. The 55-inch Hisense U7N is £599 on Amazon UK. Once again that's far below the original launch price, which was £1,299 last summer. It's been this low for a few weeks now, and it's a lot of TV for not a lot of money.

Today's best Hisense U7N deals

This is a very impressive specification for an equally impressive price. The U7 Series is a mini-LED TV with up to 1,500 nits of brightness, quantum dot colors, 4K 144Hz game mode, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, IMAX Enhanced and Filmmaker Mode. It also has AI-powered upsampling and detail enhancement. It has a good mini-LED backlight for impressive and even contrast, which means the picture quality will hold up at 75 inches – not true of all affordable TVs.View Deal

This great TV is now £700 less than when it launched last year, and it's no less impressive a year on. It has quantum dot technology for vivid colour reproduction, IMAX Enhanced, Dolby Vision IQ and Dolby Atmos, and of course it comes with all the key streaming apps. This price is for the 55-inch model but there are good prices on other sizes too, so for example the 85-inch model is down from £1,599 to £1,400 and the 65-incher is down from £849 to £799. Click through to the deal to see those options on the Amazon page.View Deal

Why this Hisense makes sense at these prices

Pretty much all TVs are at their most expensive when they launch and then plummet quite dramatically within a fairly short space of time, and that's exactly what's happened with these sets: they launched in 2024, and both are now available for a fraction of what they cost then.

And the tech inside them hasn't really dated: you're looking at mini-LED quantum dot displays with fast refresh rates for gaming, and all the key audio and video features such as Dolby Atmos, IMAX Enhanced, Dolby Vision IQ and so on.

Both TVs here have 40W sound systems with built-in subwoofers, smart audio decoding and Hisense's Hi-View Engine Pro, which uses the power of AI and deep learning to constantly optimize the picture to deliver the best color, clarity and detail. And both have 144Hz Game Mode Pro.

The 75-inch US deal is particularly good because we've never seen this TV at this size at this price: it's nearly half off, and that means you're getting a massive TV with a very impressive spec for a very low price.

That mini-LED screen is very bright, delivering over 1,500 nits of brightess, and as a mini-LED TV owner myself I can attest that such screens are excellent for gaming, TV, movies and sports in all lighting conditions.

The risk with large cheap TVs is that the LED lighting isn't premium enough to maintain a good-looking picture at that size, but that's not the case here – it's a great-value big TV.

The UK 55-inch deal isn't to be sniffed at either: once again it's half the price you'd have paid last year. £600 is a relatively tiny sum for a 144Hz mini-LED with Filmmaker Mode, IMAX Enhanced, a built-in subwoofer and gamer-friendly features such as ALLM and VRR. There are two HDMI 2.1 ports for your next-gen consoles or PC, all the key streaming apps, and hands-free control too.

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