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- The final Star Wars Zero Company trailer has been released
- The trailer has confirmed the return of Captain Rex, and fans are hyped
- Star Wars Zero Company launches on August 27
Bit Reactor has released the final trailer for Star Wars Zero Company, which confirms the return of another fan-favorite Star Wars character.
Last month, the studio revealed the Zero Company cast and confirmed that Anakin Skywalker will be in the game, voiced by The Clone Wars actor Matt Lanter (I've played as him in my preview, and he's awesome).
Now, fans can also look forward to seeing the return of yet another fan-favorite character, Captain Rex, leader of the Grand Army of the Republic's 501st Legion, as revealed in the game's final trailer.
Rex appears for a split second, gearing up for a fight, suggesting he could arrive during a story-central battle.
Bit Reactor hasn't confirmed if the Clone Trooper will be playable, but I certainly hope so. Fans are also sharing their excitement, since it's been far too long since Rex has been involved in any Star Wars stories.
"You're as beautiful as the day i lost you," one fan wrote on X, as another replied to the trailer, "OUR BOYYYY IS BACK. CAPTAIN REX IS ACTUALLY BACK."
"REX LETS FREAKING GOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" someone else wrote.
It won't be long before fans get to meet Captain Rex again, because Star Wars Zero Company launches on August 27 for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Series S.
Bit Reactor has confirmed that the game will take up to 40 hours to finish, but it won't have a New Game Plus mode.
I've played more than 15 hours of Star Wars Zero Company, and I'm hugely impressed with the story so far, the isometric turn-based tactics combat, and customization.
"Some Star Wars fans who have never played a TBT game might feel put off from trying out Zero Company, so the question is: Can fans unfamiliar with the TBT genre still enjoy this game? I would say absolutely!" I wrote.
"As a massive Star Wars fan and someone who enjoys TBT but has never played XCOM, Zero Company easily made me familiar with the mechanics and, so far, offers a cohesive experience that combines the joy of Star Wars storytelling with compelling tactical gameplay."
- MGI Engineering unveils cruise missile-like drone system, capable of speeds of 466 MPH and designed to operate autonomously in GPS blocked environments
- The TigerShark can carry a 300 kg payload, with a range of 900 km
- Parent company MGI Engineering has worked with Formula 1 teams, Formula E cars, and developed a car that won at the Dakar Rally
A British engineering company usually associated with Formula 1 and other motorsports has built an affordable “one-way effector” (meaning single-use) strike drone, essentially an intermediate-range cruise missile. MGI Engineering’s TigerShark is deployed from a ground-based vehicle with a rocket-assisted launch, whereby its onboard propulsion takes over and the rocket is detached.
Capable of delivering a 300-kilogram payload, the TigerShark uses GPS for navigation but is also designed to reach its target in terrain where GPS is unavailable or jammed.
The TigerShark is intended to be launched in multiples, with a swarm of the drones intended to attack targets, aiming to overwhelm air defense systems.
Complementary technologiesBased in Witney in Oxfordshire, MGI Defence — part of MGI Engineering — first unveiled the TigerShark at the DSEI exhibition in 2025. It now aims to bring the TigerShark to market within months, aiming to sell it to Britain’s strategic allies as a drone-based alternative to traditional cruise missiles.
Designed for faster assembly and delivery, the TigerShark can solve the problem of shrinking defense budgets, too, costing far less than Storm Shadow or Tomahawk cruise missiles.
As a one-way effector, the single-use drone is designed with a rocket-assisted propulsion for launch while twin turbojet engines drive the 661-pound payload to its target up to 900 kilometers (559 miles) away. Reaching speeds of up to 750 km/h (466 mph), the TigerShark can operate despite GPS jamming, thanks to inertial navigation.
This is one aspect of a pair of technologies used in conjunction to assure GPS-free targeting. While inertial navigation tracks position based on motion and speed from the launch point, a terrain-mapping system ensures what the TigerShark sees below matches its intended route, and makes adjustments. So, even if GPS is jammed, the TigerShark should reach its target.
Land-based salvoMGI has announced that the drone is available from October 2026, and will be manufactured in the UK with export licenses to friendly countries.
The company states that “TigerShark enables defence forces to engage defended or distant targets with speed, precision, and autonomy, without relying on satellite navigation or real-time control. Its guidance suite combines inertial navigation with GPS-free terrain mapping for reliable operation in GPS-denied and spoofed environments.”
“Built for coordinated launch and rapid deployment, TigerShark can be fired as a salvo from a land-based vehicle launcher to overwhelm or degrade enemy defences. Its modular payload bay supports a wide range of mission types, from warhead delivery to electronic disruption.”
The TigerShark will enter increased production in late 2026, with MGI Defence aiming to sell to allies needing a more affordable and faster acquisition alternative to traditional intermediate-range cruise missiles.
ChatGPT has a new interactive quiz feature, designed to make testing yourself a more active part of using the chatbot.
Instead of asking ChatGPT to explain something and then nodding along because everything looks familiar, you can have it put you on the spot. It's part of OpenAI's steadily expanding learning toolkit, building on Study Mode and other features.
I picked five subjects where I felt reasonably confident, but it turned out to be a very efficient way to locate the holes in my knowledge.
How to use the quiz featureThe quiz feature is available to anyone. You just need to prompt ChatGPT by asking for it. I decided to start with a quiz about AI itself, specifically its history. But I didn't want to just have very basic questions, so I made sure to ask for the quiz to be at a certain level. And while you can ask for a short essay answer format, I opted for the classic multiple-choice style, and for help with where I went wrong.
My exact prompt asked ChatGPT to: “Quiz me on the history of AI at a college level with 10 multiple-choice questions. Don’t show me the answer until I respond. Explain anything I get wrong and give me my score at the end.”
The one-question-at-a-time format made a bigger difference than I expected. A conventional online quiz often gives you a page full of questions, followed by a score and perhaps a few explanations once you are finished. Here, ChatGPT reacted after every answer, briefly explained the result, and moved on.
I'll admit I was surprised at how difficult it became, but despite some errors, I did reasonably well, and actually learned some new facts.
(Image credit: ChatGPT)I decided astronomy should be next. I have spent plenty of time reading about space, looking through telescopes, and collecting facts about stars, planets, and black holes, so I felt pretty safe. Unfortunately it felt like the AI took me telling it that ordinary solar system trivia was too easy after a few questions as some kind of personal insult.
“Make the remaining questions harder,” I told it, and ChatGPT took this to heart, with me facing questions on orbital mechanics and astronomical measurements that I barely got half right. Still, it's good to know that you can adjust the difficulty level on the fly.
That flexibility is something a fixed quiz cannot really offer. I could even tell ChatGPT exactly what was making things too easy, such as obvious wrong answers, and ask it to make all four choices plausible.
I decided I deserved something easier after that and chose 1990s pop culture. I grew up in the decade and figured it would be a breeze even if I asked for a high level of difficulty. I asked it to mix television, movies, music, video games, and technology questions, but to make it a little harder by "including questions that require more than just remembering titles. I managed a perfect score, despite not remembering exactly the composition of certain boy bands of the late 1990s and having to guess the right answer.
AI study buddyI went for a more highbrow form of entertainment next with a quiz about Shakespeare, specifically asking ChatGPT to "avoid extremely famous quotes and obvious questions about plays like identifying the leads of Romeo and Juliet."
The questions about secondary characters and plot details made me glad it was multiple choice. If I were taking a real class on Shakespeare, I'd tell ChatGPT to note where I was failing and come back for further questions on it. I could even upload my notes to make sure I was being tested on what the class is covering.
(Image credit: ChatGPT)My final category was world geography. At the suggestion of ChatGPT, I adjusted my prompt to make the quiz more dynamic in difficulty. I told the AI to "increase the difficulty of the questions every time I get three answers in a row correct."
If I was worried about getting cocky, that addition kept me very humble. The first six questions I breezed through, but enhancing the difficulty twice left me lost hunting for obscure mountains and the location of deep-sea trenches.
After I finished, I asked ChatGPT to analyze my answers, and the AI claimed it could distinguish between a silly mistake and a repeated gap in my knowledge. If I repeatedly struggled with a particular period, concept or kind of question, it offered to do a new round of questions focusing on that.
One crucial fact to remember is that ChatGPT can still get things wrong and hallucinate answers even in a quiz. If an answer seems off, you should check it independently. For more casual learning, the AI did quite well. You still have to do the studying yourself, but if you run out of practice questions, ChatGPT can help you keep studying ahead of any classroom quiz.
- The Cherokee Nation has placed a moratorium on new data centers on tribal lands
- Citizens say they are concerned about the impact of new projects on the local areas
- Data centers projects on non-tribal land will not be granted support by the Cherokee Nation unless they are given early consultation
Hyperscale data center development has been banned on tribal lands owned by the Cherokee Nation following a poll of its citizens.
The poll was run by a task force headed by Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr., and found that 64% of the 1,593 respondents were opposed to the construction of data center campuses within Cherokee Nations lands, which cover about 6,963 square miles across 14 counties in Oklahoma.
Citizens' concerns returned in a 37-page report focused heavily on water consumption, air quality, noise, and cultural resource protection.
Cherokee Nation data centers require early consultationThe report also stated that data centers seeking approval to be built on non-tribal land within the reservation will require an early consultation with the Cherokee Nation, and will not be supported unless this early consultation takes place.
"Our primary responsibility is to protect our citizens and tribal communities from these threats, so we will not support any hyperscale data centers on our reservation without proper consultation," Hoskin said.
As there are no Oklahoma state rules requiring data centers to register, the number of planned and operational data centers is unknown. But estimates vary. CleanView places the number of planned and operational sites at 41, while the US Data Center Map says there could be as many as 51.
What we do know is that every hyperscale project within the state is on non-tribal land. Google’s Pryor campus has operated since 2011, but is undergoing expansion as part of a $2 billion investment in the Stillwater and Pryor campuses.
The citizens of the Cherokee Nation seem to share the same concerns as many other Americans, with fears of job replacement, environmental damage, and rising energy bills also being prevalent as reasons for AI data center opposition.
Other tribes, such as the Seminole Nation and Kickapoo Tribe, have already passed their own bans on data center projects within their territory.
Via Tom's Hardware
In June, Apple unfortunately had to raise prices on its MacBook and iPad lineups due to surging RAM and component costs. Ever since the price hike, discounts have been rare, which is why today's deal on Apple's 11-inch iPad Air is a welcome surprise.
The retailer has the 2026 iPad Air M4 on sale for $649 (originally $749), which is the lowest price we've seen since Apple's price increase. So while we've seen the iPad drop to $519.99 before, the base price is now $749, which is a whopping $150 more than its starting cost of $599.
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In our iPad Air M4 review, we called the tablet the iPad most people should buy, thanks to its performance and price. Released in March, it packs a powerful M4 processor that Apple claims is 30% faster than its predecessor, delivering laptop-like performance and powering Apple Intelligence. The tablet also features an 11-inch LED display, Wi-Fi 7 support, LTE or 5G connectivity, and now includes 12GB of RAM. You also get 12MP front and rear cameras, Touch ID, and all-day battery life.
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More of today's best Apple deals at AmazonThe AirPods 4 are Apple's cheapest AirPods, and you can find them on sale for $99, which is the lowest price we've seen this year and $30 shy of the record-low. The AirPods 4 feature a new design for all-day comfort and feature Apple's H2 chip, which supports personalized spatial audio and voice isolation. You also get a redesigned case with 30 hours of battery life and support for wireless charging via USB-C.
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Amazon has the AirPods 4 with active noise cancellation on sale for $148.99, which is the best deal you can find right now. The AirPods 4 feature a new comfortable design, handy controls, and Apple's H2 chip, which supports personalized spatial audio and voice isolation.
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This is another fantastic Apple deal, just in time for the new school season. Amazon has the Apple Watch Series 11 on sale for $299, just $20 more than the record-low price. The thinnest Apple Watch yet, with a wraparound LTPO3 OLED display, it looks great and packs Apple Intelligence-powered smarts and a boosted battery, clocking in at 24 hours of average use.
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Apple's latest base iPad is $50 off at Amazon, bringing the price to $ 399.99. The biggest upgrade over the previous generation is the newer A16 chip for faster performance, and you'll also get double the standard storage (128GB instead of 64GB). Other features include a sharp 11-inch Liquid Retina display and solid 12MP front- and rear-facing cameras, making this iPad the best for casual streamers and scrollers.
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The MacBook Neo is in stock in all colors at Amazon, with a small $10 price cut. While we've seen the budget MacBook drop to $589.99, this is the best deal we've seen since the price hike in July. It's also an incredible price for a feature-packed MacBook with an A18 Pro chip, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage.
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- Ordinary Wi-Fi networks can reportedly identify people without cameras or consent
- KASTEL researchers achieved nearly 100% identification accuracy across 197 volunteers tested
- Wi-Fi signals can reportedly reveal people from different viewing angles
A new study suggests that ordinary Wi-Fi networks could be repurposed to identify individuals without cameras, sensors, or their knowledge or consent.
Researchers from KASTEL, the Institute of Information Security and Dependability at KIT, tested the approach on 197 volunteers in controlled conditions.
Their system reportedly achieved nearly 100% identification accuracy regardless of a person's viewing angle or the way that person walked.
A method that needs no extra hardwareThe technique relies on beamforming feedback information, a type of signal that connected devices routinely send back to a router.
This information is transmitted without any encryption, meaning anyone within range of the network could potentially intercept and read it.
By analyzing these radio signals over time, the system reportedly builds images of people from multiple viewpoints inside a space.
Earlier wireless sensing methods often required specialized equipment, such as LIDAR sensors or detailed measurements of channel state information from a network.
By contrast, the researchers say a standard, unmodified Wi-Fi device is entirely sufficient to carry out this new identification process.
"By observing the propagation of radio waves, we can create an image of the surroundings and of persons who are present," said Thorsten Strufe, a professor at KASTEL, KIT's Institute of Information Security and Dependability.
"This works similar to a normal camera, the difference being that in our case, radio waves instead of light waves are used for the recognition.
A user does not need to carry a phone, smartwatch, or other Wi-Fi-enabled device for the system to work.
Turning off one's own device would reportedly not prevent identification, since other active Wi-Fi devices nearby could still be used.
Privacy concerns extend beyond conventional surveillanceThe researchers argue that widespread wireless networks could create privacy concerns because they operate throughout homes, offices, restaurants, cafés, and other public environments.
Felix Morsbach noted that intelligence agencies and cybercriminals already have simpler methods, including compromising CCTV systems and connected video doorbells.
“The omnipresent wireless networks might become a nearly comprehensive surveillance infrastructure with one concerning property: they are invisible and raise no suspicion,” Morsbach added.
Compared with existing surveillance options, such as CCTV footage or connected video doorbells, wireless signals leave no visible trace behind.
Professor Strufe cautioned that this same invisibility could make the technology particularly attractive within certain authoritarian political systems around the world.
"The technology is powerful, but at the same time entails risks to our fundamental rights, especially to privacy," said Strufe.
Ordinary routers could potentially enable people to be recognized without their knowledge during routine movements, and this could be dangerous in the wrong hands.
Therefore, widespread deployment could make individual encounters difficult to distinguish from ordinary wireless activity.
The researchers argue that privacy safeguards should be incorporated into Wi-Fi technology before such capabilities become widely and easily exploited.
Specifically, they are calling for protections to be written into the forthcoming IEEE 802.11bf wireless standard currently under active development.
Via ScienceDaily
After a youth spent awkwardly toting my possessions about in handbags, I have turned into a backpack convert. I now love nothing more than a well-designed rucksack; one that's comfortable to wear, well-built and has spaces to keep everything organized. Oh, and obviously it needs to look good too. And so while I've now accumulated plenty of backpacks for every occasion, I have found my head turned by the North Face sale running at Amazon right now.
There are massive discounts of a huge range of everyday options in all kinds of colors. Almost all have a padded laptop sleeve in the back as well as a selection of useful pockets for things like water bottles, pens, notebooks, keys and phones. Impressively, they all come with the stamp of approval from the American Chiropractic Association, thanks to their ergonomic designs. I think they'd make the perfect packs for students heading off to university, but they'd also made a great choice for commuting adults.
I've rounded up the best discounts below, starting with the unisex options, and moving on to women's designs for those with a smaller frame.
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- The exposure is concentrated in machine-to-machine hardware rather than phones, affecting six of eight cellular modules but only three of 18 handsets, with no iPhone or Pixel among them
- Every attack requires the attacker to already control the SIM, and while Qualcomm has produced a hardened configuration disabling the interface by default, no vendor had published a public advisory yet
A malicious SIM card can instruct the device it sits in to run commands of an attacker's choosing, and on the cellular modules embedded in electric vehicle chargers, industrial routers, and car telematics units, essentially allowing it to take the entire device over.
Researchers from the University of Birmingham and the German security firm Fuzzware demonstrated this against a commercial Autel EV charger, achieving code execution driven entirely SIM card-issued commands.
One malicious SIM card to rule them all?The work focuses on a standardized feature called Proactive SIM, which as a feature, is not malicious; it's a standard in a cellular specification that lets a SIM push commands to a device rather than acting as a passive identifier for one's identity on a network.
The problem is one specific command in that set, RUN AT, which asks the modem to execute an AT command, the modem control language dating to the 1981 Hayes Smartmodem that every vendor has since extended with its own additions.
The support extender essentially gives a SIM module its own general-purpose console on devices that lack safeguards to prevent such an attack.
Tomasz Piotr Lisowski and Dr Marius Muench of Birmingham, working with Fuzzware's Kristian Covic, built a toolkit called CATana to find out what a hostile card could do with that console.
The team tested 26 devices, 18 smartphones and eight cellular modules, and found the SIM AT interface exposed on nine of them. The exposure is overwhelmingly concentrated in machine-to-machine hardware: six of the eight modules accepted the command, compared with just three of the 18 phones: the Oppo Find X5, the Oppo Reno 14 F 5G, and the Asus Zenfone 9. This makes it not exactly a Simjacker-esque exploit but still one that needs to be taken seriously.
All nine devices that accepted the command run a Qualcomm chip or modem, but five others that do were not vulnerable to the attack. The researchers first shared the reports with Google, Oppo, Quectel, Semtech, and Qualcomm in March 2026, and with the GSMA in May. Qualcomm has since built a hardened configuration that switches the interface off by default, which the researchers say will be the default on future devices.
The attack vector, however, is limited because, to leverage it, the attacker must already control the SIM itself. Knowing a victim's contact number is not enough; the attacker needs physical access to the SIM slot. The exploit is real and concerning, but it has limited utility compared to a remote one for smartphones.
The IoT side is more concerning, however: unattended equipment with an accessible SIM tray can now potentially be exploited, and physical swaps might be easier than with something more personal, like one's personal phone. The card essentially talks to the equivalent of a Linux computer, one that the paper calls a rich attack surface for hostile SIM cards.
For now, the irony is that while modern smartphones have largely retired the surface this attack vector exploits, the machine-to-machine world has not, and the equipment least likely to receive a firmware update is the equipment most exposed currently.
- US Marines have been training to handle drone attacks, using rifles, shotguns, and grenade launchers
- The simulated threats used small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS), consumer drones typically equipped with explosives, or used for recon
- The exercise aimed to build confidence in US Marines with their standard-issue weapons
When troops are in the field and facing drones without electronic countermeasures, there is only one response possible. To ensure confidence and decisiveness in combat with sUAS attacks (small Unmanned Aerial Systems), US Marines have been training in the skill of taking out a consumer-sized drone with small arms and light weapons.
A three-day event held in Twentynine Palms, California, featured operatives from the 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions training in C-sUAS (counter-small Unmanned Aerial Systems) tactics, with drones from the US Marine Corps’ Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group, 7th Marine Regiment, and 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion.
Kinetic weapons used in dealing with the simulated drone threat included automatic rifles, shotguns, and grenade launchers.
Realistic threatWhile electronic countermeasures were available to the assembled Marines, the use of small arms and light weapons has drawn attention. The soldiers were targeted by well-trained drone pilots, presenting a real challenge, rather than a duck shoot.
“The pilots that we had were really good,” said US Marine Corps Capt. Faith Richardson, a platoon commander with TTECG. “Those Marines were a huge contributor. We tried giving the training audience a realistic look at the threat, and having proficient, well-trained pilots was really important.”
Weapons used by the Marines included M27 automatic rifles firing 5.56mm rounds, M1014 combat shotguns using 12-gauge shells, and M32A1 and M320 grenade launchers equipped with 40mm antipersonnel rounds. The sUAS craft were flying at over 90 miles per hour, with attack runs coming as close as 20 meters from the Marines.
Drone threats have increased in prominence over the past decade thanks to the proliferation of off-the-shelf components and consumer drones.
As Richardson adds, “Small unmanned aerial systems have been around for a while, it’s just more prevalent in the battlespace today because it’s more cost-effective.”
Combating a prolific threatAiming to build confidence in combating sUAS attacks, the training took place alongside other exercises, including urban combat, with personnel evaluated on how they detected and defeated sUAS.
“Everywhere in the modern world, in all conflicts, the sUAS threat is becoming more prolific on the battlefield," added US Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Kevin Jares is an instructor with Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group. "We’re figuring out ways, with the squad’s organic weapons, to combat that threat and how to survive in today’s modern battlefield.”
The event seems to have been a success, and the results were deemed good enough for classroom and practical sessions on tactical responses to sUAS and C-sUAS to be included in future Service Level Training Exercises.
Many pioneering pieces of fiction in the 21st century have come to accurately define the relationship between humans and AI before the contemporary explosion of modern intelligent systems. These include the film 'Ex-Machina', various episodes of 'Black Mirror' and, of course, 'Her'.
PrescienceStarring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson as the AI agent Samantha, 'Her' was a fresh and mature approach to the way that humans and AI may coexist in the future.
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Ten years after its release, with ChatGPT gaining popularity and transformer-based AI improving on every level, Altman approached Johansson's agent to ask permission to use her voice for the marketing of GPT-4 on its planned launch in 2024.
Johansson declined, but Altman pushed on with a voice, dubbed 'Sky', that was near-indistinguishable from the actor's, essentially suggesting the technology that OpenAI had created was on a par with the fictional tech in the film. That's why, in a statement, Johansson expressed her anger and intention to get the voice taken down.
Future nostalgiaJohansson considered the offer, with Altman telling her that her voice "could bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives". It would also "help consumers to feel comfortable with the seismic shift concerning humans and AI".
She hired legal counsel, and OpenAI agreed, after two letters, to take down the 'Sky' voice. The incident raised deep concerns over the early potential for AI to replace the likeness of actors, which could undermine their careers and livelihoods.
It was also a dark reminder that deepfakes are becoming increasingly easy to create, and that it's not only harmful users, but AI companies and executives that can so brazenly co-opt another person's identity for their own purposes.