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- Ubisoft confirms players can't complete Rainbow Six Tactics without killing any enemies
- Game director Martial Potron says, "No, you cannot do the game 100% without killing"
- Some missions require players to kill enemies; however, they're incentivized to do non-lethal takedowns in others for valuable intel
Rainbow Six Tactics game director Martial Potron has confirmed players won't be able to achieve a 100% non-lethal playthrough.
Ubisoft has recently revealed its new Rainbow Six Siege spin-off, Rainbow Six Tactics, a single-player turn-based tactics experience that puts players in the shoes of Six, the leader of the elite Rainbow squad.
Players can choose high-stakes assignments to strategize on the tactical battlefield with 15 Operators, all with unique abilities, specialized gadgets, and distinct skill trees.
The game will also offer distinct mission types, including Hostage Rescue, Bomb Disposal, and Target Elimination, offering a variety of ways to complete each one.
Some missions require players to take down targets non-lethally to collect important intel bonuses that will help the squad in future missions. But can players do a complete non-lethal playthrough?
According to Potron, who discussed the game at length in an interview with TechRadar Gaming at Gamescom, you can't, explaining that some missions will require players to kill enemies who are out of range for non-lethal takedowns.
"Can you?" the game director said. "I'm thinking about it. There is no incentive to kill, but can you? I think you can't."
He continued, "We don't have missions where we force you to kill anyone. Most of the time, in fact, it's valued to arrest people to subdue enemies. But we have a few missions when sometimes you cannot reach enemies."
Porton said the game features a Venice map bisected by a river, with enemies on one side, and so there is no way to take them out non-lethally, as you simply won't be able to reach them.
"No, you cannot do the game 100% without killing," he added, "but you are strongly incentivized, as much as possible, to arrest people without killing because you will be able to really get intel from them, and it's very valuable."
Rainbow Six Tactics launches in 2027 for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S.
The Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look is finally live! Those tuning in for the Netflix premiere were treated to 26 minutes' worth of new content about the game ahead of its November 19 launch, including huge amounts of gameplay footage, cinematics, and a deeper look into the lives of Jason and Lucia.
If you don't have Netflix, you'll be able to watch on Rockstar's YouTube channel at 9PM ET / 6PM PDT / 2AM BST / 3AM CEST.
There is so much to unpack, from a revamped combat system, interactive gameplay mechanics, story hints, and more — but to make things easier, we've gone ahead and created a breakdown of the top things we learned in case you missed it.
Cinematics and gameplay blend right into each other(Image credit: Rockstar Games)The extended look began with Lucia and Jason walking into an apartment block looking to pick up a package for someone named "Boobie." For this mission, it looks like Jason is the playable character as he guides Lucia through the building and encounters some incredibly detailed NPCs.
Here, and in several other instances, the gameplay appears to instantly shift into a cutscene before the action kicks back in again. Another instance happens later on; Jason and Lucia are fleeing from the police with a client, and Jason must shoot at them out the window while Lucia evades — the scene quickly transitions into something cinematic before going back into gameplay.
At the end of the extended look, Lucia and Jason get separated on a mission; as soon as he finishes shooting some guys under player control, it suddenly cuts to a cinematic scene showing him texting with Lucia, which then transitions to her point of view, and the end of the cutscene leads to you controlling her.
There will be quick time events(Image credit: Rockstar Games)During a fight scene between Lucia and an enemy at the end of the extended look, the player is prompted with a quick time event, which is surprisingly old-school for this game. But there seems to be a choice in the matter — there are two options on-screen, and in the video she picks up her heel and nails the guy in the face, making a quip based on your choice of button to mash. We get the sense this will appear throughout the game.
There will be slow-mo with enemy weak zones(Image credit: Rockstar Games)Jason can be seen firing his weapon at some enemies and the gameplay suddenly slows down after he uses his his focus meter seen in the top left corner. During this same encounter, an enemy's body becomes highlighted showing red and yellow weak zones for the player — we're assuming red is a killshot and yellow will disarm or disable.
There will be disguises… lots of disguises(Image credit: Rockstar Games)There were quite a few moments were we see Jason and Lucia on story missions wearing disguises with new identities when taking on certain clients, such as personal security for a party. The footage showed changing outfits being a mechanic, and we see lots of different hairstyles on Lucia — it seems like it'll be necessary, not just fun.
There's a six-star Wanted system(Image credit: Rockstar Games)Unlike GTA 5, which has a five-star Wanted system, GTA 6 will have six stars. What does this mean? Well, it's one higher, isn't it?
The gun handling is better than GTA 5(Image credit: Rockstar Games)Picking up and swapping out weapons looks incredibly slick; Jason and Lucia have their own weapons they can pull out on their respective weapon wheels, but they can quickly swipe up downed-enemies' weapons mid combat, too.
You can race cars in an actual track(Image credit: Rockstar Games)Driving around Leonida looks amazing, but players will also be able to take part in races on an actual race track, with cars and bikes, if you want a high-speed challenge.
Lots of water activities(Image credit: Rockstar Games)Players will be able to drive fanboats, jetskis and canoes, and explore bodies of water across Leonida. Admittedly, the fanboat looks a little less high-octane than some sections of the video…
You can base jump(Image credit: Rockstar Games)As shot near the end of the extended look shows the player guiding Lucia to run and jump off a skyscaper before pulling out her parachute and getting an incredible view of Vice City.
Environmental destruction(Image credit: Rockstar Games)During police chases, Jason and Lucia can shoot out the tires of their pursuers, which will lead to police cars flipping and crashing, causing dynamic environmental destruction that looks incredibly cinematic.
A wide range of people will hire you for jobs(Image credit: Rockstar Games)While we don't know specific story details yet, it seems that Jason and Lucia have their own business going on where they'll work for an assortment of clients. They'll rob banks and stores, protect clients, deliver goods, and more. Standard GTA stuff, but it's the first time we've seen what this will look like.
You can pet the dog(Image credit: Rockstar Games)It's the main thing some of us care about.
An improved HUD(Image credit: Rockstar Games)The game's HUD looks way cleaner than GTA 5's, and quicker to access; switching between Lucia and Jason is as quick as pressing one button, and the weapon wheel is minimal and fast to use.
Switching between Lucia and Jason is really fast(Image credit: Rockstar Games)As I just mentioned, switching between both co-protagonsits is unbelieavably fast. In one moment, you see Lucia base jumping and when the player switches to Jason, it takes just a couple of seconds — there's flash, the camera zooms into the sky, pans across the city, then zooms down into a building and we're with Jason again. And that's running on the base PS5!
You can scuba dive (and regular dive)(Image credit: Rockstar Games)Players will be able to dive into bodies of water to swim, but also scuba dive to see all the pretty fish below the surface!
The weapon icon from GTA 4 returns(Image credit: Rockstar Games)During combat, the equipped weapon icon from GTA 4, can be seen in the top right corner, under the Wanted stars and ammo. It was missing in 5, but 4 stans will feel a warm, familiar feeling.
- Asobo Studio played A Plague Tale: Requiem's soundtrack while motion-capturing Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
- The cast would listen to the game's music to get into the right headspace for emotional scenes
- SPEAKER 3 says it helped "get into the sadder moments, the darker moments"
Asobo Studio has revealed that it used A Plague Tale: Requiem's music while motion-capturing Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, so the cast could get in the mood for the darker scenes.
Speaking in an interview with TechRadar Gaming during Gamescom, developers Valérian Robert (lead level designer) and Carol Ann Bañuls (lead writer), and the actor for the game's protagonist, Sophia, Anna Demetriou, discussed the design process for the game's atmosphere and the music that goes with it.
When asked how the team implemented audio and the game's score for the upcoming sequel, Anna Demetriou explained that Asobo played music tracks from A Plague Tale: Requiem to allow the actors to get into the right headspace for emotional scenes.
"A lot of the time, for emotional scenes, we would be playing the Requiem soundtrack to help us get into the sadder moments, the darker moments," Anna Demetriou said. "So it felt really like the beating [heart] of the [Plague Tale DNA] was still in the mocap room because we were using them and using this reference for some of the hard bits and stuff."
Resonance's score was composed by Olivier Derivière and sounds quite different from any of the prior games, with an emphasis on Greek culture, as the game's setting has moved from Middle Ages France to the Greek island of Crete.
"The incredible Greek soundtrack that has been done by Olivier, I had none of that at all," Demetriou continued, "So hearing it coming out, and the whole thing's on YouTube right now, I was sat on my laptop for the day, just listening to it all, just being like, 'I can't wait to play it because I I haven't connected what we've done with this with the music yet.'"
Bañuls added that Olivier also used choir vocals to give the soundtrack a more "authentic" feel for the time period, withRobert explaining that the music is also woven into the new gameplay systems and combat.
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy is available today on PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PC.
- Some Rassvet satellites remain dangerously low after failing to raise their orbits
- One Rassvet spacecraft has already fallen from orbit and reentered Earth's atmosphere
- Two newer satellites have shown no observed orbital-raising maneuvers since July 2026
Moscow's push to field its own broadband satellite network is running into some technical and industrial issues, new reports have revealed.
Bureau 1440, the company developing the Rassvet-3 system, has sent up two batches of spacecraft in 2026, one in March and another in July.
According to reports, some of these systems did not climb smoothly toward their intended altitude; instead, they stalled, drifted, or fell back toward Earth.
A satellite already lost, others trending downwardOne craft from the first group, known as Rassvet-3 No. 4, never managed to raise its orbit after separating from its rocket.
That satellite, catalogued as NORAD 68363, eventually reentered the atmosphere on June 6, marking an outright loss for the young constellation.
Two more spacecraft from the second launch group, numbers 17 and 23, appear to be following a similar pattern of inactivity.
Tracking data shows neither satellite has performed any observed maneuver to climb higher since it separated from its carrier rocket on July 19.
Both currently sit at an average altitude near 290 kilometers, with their lowest points measured at roughly 277 kilometers above the surface.
Without engine activity to counter this decline, the pair could eventually drop low enough that reentry becomes essentially unavoidable.
However, there are some positives, as some of the satellites have successfully begun climbing, though none has reached the network's target altitude of about 800 kilometers.
Spacecraft from the earliest operational batch launched just over five months ago, and at the moment, they hover between 500 and 550 kilometers.
A few more units from the group are not yet at that intermediate range, which means that the company is yet to hit its long-term altitude plan.
The Bureau 1440 has now paused raising some Rassvet satellites higher toward their planned 800-kilometer orbit, and the company hasn't revealed the reason for the pause.
Ground infrastructure adds to the program's troublesRussia intends for the Rassvet network to rival SpaceX's Starlink by offering fast internet through hundreds of orbiting satellites.
Officials have said commercial service should begin in 2027, with plans calling for 292 satellites to be functioning in orbit by year's end.
Meeting that timeline would require Bureau 1440 to conduct a rapid sequence of additional launches over the coming months.
A separate complication has now emerged on the ground, far from the satellites already circling the planet.
Ukrainian forces allegedly used FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles to strike Samara's Progress Rocket and Space Center.
That facility builds the Soyuz-2.1b rockets responsible for carrying every Rassvet-3 satellite launched so far this year.
The plant also supports numerous other Russian launches, including several military, reconnaissance, and communications missions unrelated to broadband service.
The rocket production capacity is one of the central bottlenecks limiting the constellation's overall deployment pace.
Should the damage at Progress persist, sustaining the launch tempo needed to reach nearly 300 satellites may prove genuinely difficult.
Via United24media
- Meta is again updating its smart glasses software to stop people from circumventing the privacy controls
- The camera won't film if you start filming and then block the LED
- There's also a marketing campaign designed to educate consumers
Sentiment around smart glasses that can capture photos and video is quickly turning, and not in the direction chief smart glasses purveyor Meta would prefer. Now, to stop the — admittedly small — percentage of users who are trying to circumvent the glasses' built-in protections for nefarious filming, Meta is introducing a new slipstream technology update. And it's coming to Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses as we speak.
In a post on Threads, Meta's VP of Wearables Alex Himel announced a software update that will make it impossible for wearers to film or capture pictures if the glasses detect that you're covering the LED.
That LED is designed to signal to others that you were filming them, but hackers soon figured out how to disable it. Meta quickly made it so the system could detect that. Now, it seems they've noticed another workaround, which this update will quickly squelch. If you, say, start filming and then somehow cover the LED to hide the signal that you're doing so, the system will stop recording.
Here's how Himel explained it in his post:
"The camera won’t start recording if the LED is blocked, but some people try to bypass this by starting a recording and then covering it up. A fix for this is starting to roll out — the camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording."
Perhaps more importantly, Himel is aware that hackers probably won't give up trying to jailbreak the wearable cameras and promises. "We’re going to keep rolling out updates like this to make sure the capture LED can reliably alert bystanders when photos or videos are being captured for someone’s gallery."
The second update is perhaps less impactful in that it's mostly a marketing campaign designed to "educate' or convince people that these glasses have a place in our world.
Meta is already putting up billboards claiming the glasses are "Designed for everyone, not just the people wearing them". Smaller text below that announces: "The camera lets you capture the moment. The light lets everyone around you know when you do."
There's also some social media reminding folks that "The glasses announce themselves," which is another reference to the integrated LED light.
(Image credit: Meta)It's an admirable effort, though it seems that people are not just concerned with creepers who are surreptitiously recording: they are growing increasingly uncomfortable with people potentially walking into any space and filming. The glasses are being outright banned in all sorts of venues and face potential bans in theaters and even countries.
Of course, people filming everything everywhere has long been the case with smartphones, and we have countless hand-held, on-the-scene videos and social media to prove it. It seems to be the unexpected nature of these smartglasses. Even with the light, people don't realize at first that they are being filmed, which can lead to some uncomfortable conversations.
For Meta, convincing consumers that they have this situation under control — even if it is relatively few bad actors — is critical. The company is deeply committed to the wearable intelligence space. They have been rolling out new smart glasses models, including the recent Essilor Luxottica models that feature a frame designed by Kylie Jenner, and the company is a month away from its big Connect conference, where it's expected to announce more updates across all its smart eyewear, including the Ray-Ban Displays, which include cameras and an in-lens display.
Is this update enough to make you comfortable around Meta Ray-Ban smart glass wearers? Let us know in the comments below.
- Ukraine's HUR says Russia developed a drone with an explosive charge in its wings
- It is designed to cut through metal and bring down existing power infrastructure
- The damage needs days to repair, and while it is unlikely to make the grid collapse, it can cause blackouts in many regions close to the front line
Ukraine's military intelligence service says Russia has developed a drone designed specifically to bring down the former's electricity pylons in the coming winter, as the asymmetrical aspect of the conflict between the two continues to take center stage, with the latter copying many of the battlefield tactics used against it.
In an interview with RBC-Ukraine, Major General Vadym Skibitskyi, deputy chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence, was asked what Ukraine should brace for in the fall and winter, and his response included Russian-developed drones that had wings that "contain an explosive element capable of cutting through metal."
Gen. Skibitskyi did not elaborate on the specifics, and reports do not currently list a warhead weight, describe a range, or provide a launch profile.
A conflict that has changed shape multiple times during its courseThe conflict has had many twists and turns since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, with a frontline that has moved both ways multiple times, even as both sides hunker down for what seems to be a never-ending war.
With the former's hopes of a quick victory dashed and the latter fielding a much larger fighting force, both sides have had to adapt, relying on cost-effective weaponry in large numbers, such as Iran-designed Shahed drones on Russia's end.
One-way Kamikaze drones like the Shahed's primary deployment are hardly new in the war, but the change in pattern that is being suggested here indicates what reports are already hinting at: both sides are increasingly targeting civilian infrastructure to maximize economic damage.
Russia reportedly targeting Ukraine's power infrastructure with drones is simply yet another example of how both sides are trying to one-up the other in attacks that have targeted a mix of military bases, refineries, and even retail stores of late.
The one technical detail worth dwelling on is the placement of the explosives on the wings of the purported drones that Ukraine's deputy intelligence chief is hinting at: drones targeting a high-voltage tower could do maximum damage by embedding explosive material in their wings.
Even a single hit could, in theory, take out a large swath of the grid in a region with extremely cold winters, and heat and power are crucial for civilians and the military to survive. This is why Russia, which has historically targeted substations and power generation, is changing tactics: most such pylons are poorly defended, if at all, and taking out one would require at least a few days of repairs, especially for more remote locations.
Linear shaped charges, which focus a detonation into a narrow cutting jet, are mature and unglamorous engineering already used in building demolition, aircraft canopy severance systems, and rocket stage separation. The same approach can be integrated into drones, at least on paper, even if Ukraine does not have a specific example to talk about just yet.
Ukraine's intelligence service has, in a nutshell, described a weapon that makes strategic sense, uses no exotic technology, but whether it appears over transmission corridors this winter as a prominent threat remains to be seen.
Via DroneFront
- Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise editions for legal and financial services
- Both releases are its first packaged industry versions, both in preview, with no pricing disclosed
- The key upgrade here versus vanilla model use is AI-centric 'plumbing': domain skills, data connectors, and a permissions model that inherits firms' existing ethical walls and access controls
Google Cloud has launched two industry-specific versions of its Gemini Enterprise platform - one for law firms and corporate legal departments and one for capital markets and corporate banking.
The company has not revealed pricing for either product, both of which currently remain in preview and mark the first packaged industry editions of Gemini Enterprise, which Google launched in October 2025 to target business customers.
Google's contention is that general-purpose enterprise AI cannot meet regulated industries' needs for confidentiality, auditability, and grounding, and it aims to address that with a package that includes the required domain plumbing rather than having each buyer build it from scratch.
Tailor-made enterprise AI offerings for legal and finance professionalsThe financial services edition is built around a Google-managed Financial Research agent with more than 50 skills, which are reusable instruction packages for repetitive tasks, and 13 connectors to licensed data sources.
Deutsche Bank is the named design partner for the research agent, which has workflows including KYC research, credit opportunity identification, bond issuance pitching, and portfolio risk analysis.
The legal edition, by contrast, ships skills for brief drafting, citation verification, contract lifecycle management, regulatory horizon scanning, and data subject access request fulfillment.
Its connectors run into NetDocuments, DocuSign, Everlaw, Courtroom5, the Free Law Project's CourtListener, Harvey, iManage, Legora, RelativityOne, Solve Intelligence, and Thomson Reuters. Preview customers include Cleary, Freshfields, Weil, and Williams and Connolly.
Google says the permissions model overhaul allows connectors to inherit the access controls of underlying systems, essentially carrying a firm's legal 'walls' automatically without using its client data, strategies, or output to train the base models in play. This is particularly important for legal customers, given how crucial such limits are before any usable output is obtained.
Google isn't the only player, or even the first, in either place; Anthropic beat it considerably when it launched Claude for Legal in 2026.
Microsoft's Legal agent for Word went to worldwide public preview for Frontier users in mid-June, with general availability from mid-August 2026. OpenAI is pushing in the same direction with ChatGPT Work and an industry solutions page for financial services, though it has not packaged a legal edition the way its competition currently has.
All major AI players, however, are rushing to capture what is an exceptionally lucrative market; whether Google's offerings hold up against the competition remains to be seen in what is shaping up to be extremely competitive landscape.