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- A remake of Silent Hill has been announced at the Konami Press Start livestream
- The game is being made by Konami in partnership with Bloober Team, which made Silent Hill 2 Remake
- The broadcast also offered a new look at Silent Hill f
Konami has announced that a Silent Hill remake is in development in partnership with Bloober Team.
The publisher shared the news during today's Konami Press Start livestream as the final surprise announcement of the show, alongside a very short teaser trailer showing the game's title accompanied by the game's iconic theme music.
"We are currently working with Bloober Team on a remake of 'SILENT HILL', which was released for PlayStation in 1999," Konami said on X / Twitter.
Unfortunately, there's no release date just yet, but the game will likely be available on PC and PlayStation 5.
Bloober Team also worked on Silent Hill 2 Remake, which was released last year to critical acclaim.
『SILENT HILL』リメイク制作中1999年にPlayStationにて発売した『SILENT HILL 』のリメイクをBloober Teamと制作しています。ぜひ音声とともに動画をご覧ください。詳細は今後の続報をお待ちください。#SILENTHILL #サイレントヒル pic.twitter.com/qMeX67FyR5June 12, 2025
The reveal of the Silent Hill remake followed a behind-the-scenes look at Konami's upcoming game, Silent Hill f. Series producer Motoi Okamoto and several other developers made an appearance to showcase a series of new gameplay clips and cutscenes.
Konami also explained that the new entry was created with the idea of "Find the beauty in terror" and that the story will "tackle a type of theme that's never been explored in the Silent Hill series before". What that theme is, we'll have to wait and see.
Silent Hill f launches on September 25 for PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PC.
It's confirmed that Silent Hill f is a standalone title in the Silent Hill timeline, and that newcomers will need no prior knowledge of the franchise to experience the horror game.
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- The music player has double DACs and quad amplification
- Amazingly affordable at just $199
If like me you miss the days of cute portable music players like the iPod mini, HiBy has just the thing: a super-cute and very small double-DAC audio player called the R3Pro II.
The R3Pro II comes in a choice of orange, silver, black or green; the orange one really reminds me of my much-missed Sony Ericsson Walkman phone with its orange highlights, while the others conjure up memories of multiple iPods.
Don't let the cute design fool you, though: the specs here are serious. According to HiBy you're looking at a "quality pocket cannon, performance monster". And the specs back that up.
Inside there are dual Cirrus Logic CS43198 DACs and quad OPA1622 headphone amps capable of driving high-impedance headphones through either the 4.4mm balanced or 3.5mm stereo jacks.
The green and orange models come with an Ultrasuede fabric back; other colors have a matte finish (Image credit: HiBy)HiBy R3ProII: key features and pricingThose amps and DACs are powered by a 4,000mAh battery with PD2.0 fast charging, and put out up to 480mW of power.
You're not limited to listening on the best wired headphones, though. The player is certified for both wired and wireless Hi-Res Audio and supports DSD256, PCM at up to 32-bit/384kHz and MQA 8X. Bluetooth is 5.1 and there's Wi-Fi too; you can have up to 2TB of storage via microSD.
You've got aptX and LDAC to beam high-quality sound to the best wireless headphones, and the R3Pro II also works with AirPlay and DLNA for Wi-Fi streaming. It has USB-C audio, USB to S/PDIF, and line outputs for connections to other audio equipment.
There are slightly different materials depending on your color choice: the green and orange ones have an Ultrasuede back, while silver and black are matte.
The specs suggest a fairly expensive device, but no: the R3Pro II is just $199. I'd expect it to cost around £199 or just under if it comes to the UK, and the US price converts to around AU$300 in Australia – though we don't have confirmation of an international release yet. Hopefully it'll come, because we could be looking at a new budget winner for our list of the best hi-res audio players.
You might also like- Get ChatGPT Plus for 3 months at a discounted 50% off rate
- This easy trick is accessible via ChatGPT's official website
- ChatGPT Plus gives you access to OpenAI's best models and all the latest features such as Sora
ChatGPT is free to use, but if you want access to OpenAI's latest AI models and tools like the video generation platform Sora, you'll need a ChatGPT Plus account.
Normally, ChatGPT Plus costs $20 (£20 / AU$30 a month), but one Reddit user (u/PrettyRevolution1842) has shared an excellent and easy trick to get 3 months of the service for half price.
With this quick trick, you'll get ChatGPT Plus for $10 (£10 / AU$15 a month) for 3 months, although in order to be able to get this discounted rate, you'll need to be subscribed already to ChatGPT Plus.
That said, even if you subscribe to ChatGPT Plus at the full price rate for 1 month before following the steps below, you'd still be getting four months of Plus for $50 (£50 / AU$75) instead of $80 (£80 / AU$120).
How to get 3 months of ChatGPT Plus for half price- On desktop, go to ChatGPT Settings
- Click Manage My Subscriptions
- Select Cancel Plan
- Accept the 50% off for the next 3 months offer
It's as easy as that, you'll now have a discounted rate of ChatGPT Plus for the next three months. Just remember to cancel auto-renewal so you aren't caught with some hefty fees after the promotional period ends.
ChatGPT Plus offers extended limits on messaging, access to OpenAI's best research and reasoning models like OpenAI o3, OpenAI o4-mini, and OpenAI o4-mini-high, access to new features before free users, and more.
If you're still unsure, read our guide: Is ChatGPT Plus actually worth it?
You might also like- Figma unveils new AI tools for developers and designers
- Figma Make finally rolls out to all users with Full Seat
- Code layers comes to Figma Sites
Over the past week, Figma has made good on its many promises revealed at its Config 2025 event.
After announcing the release of four new products - Figma Make, Figma Sites, Figma Buzz, and Figma Draw - the company has now launched a few new updates for developers and designers, alongside the full rollout of its big content ideation tool Figma Make.
According to Figma, these updates are all about “bridging the gap between design and code” with the help of new AI tools. So, what can users expect now?
What’s new in Figma?For me, the most exciting new release is Figma Make. Finally out of beta, it’s available now to those with a Full Seat.
Figma Make is effectively an overarching design tool that spans the entire platform, and a massive leap for content ideation, where users can start with a blank canvas or copy and paste from Figma Designs, collaborate on new ideas, and then bring those designs over to other Figma tools like Sites to refine the concepts.
According to the company, Figma Make is fully capable of helping users create “an agentic AI interface, a business newsletter, and even games.”
When I attended a press briefing at Config London, I was struck by how Yuhki Yamashita, Figma’s Chief Product Officer, repeatedly mentioned how the premise here is being able to quickly conjure up ideas, throw them out if they don’t work, then start anew.
At the time, he said, “Our thought experiment was, how can we make it so easy for you to go from the idea into your head to something that is actually you can put in front of users and validate really quickly. And if it doesn't work, that's great. You can then move on to the next idea, or you can keep iterating from there.”
But it’s not the only big rollout users can now try. Figma has also released a new Dev Mode MCP Server, which is currently in beta.
Eagle-eyed Figma-watchers will have clocked an early demo of this during Microsoft Build’s opening keynote.
The company describes the MCP Server as a way to deliver design context from Figma - think variables and styles, that sort of thing - into their preferred LLM, IDE, or agentic coding tool, making sure that AI-generated code aligns with the users’ codebase.
And finally, code layers are now rolling out across Figma Sites, the AI-powered website builder. Here, users with pretty much any technical ability can customize websites and build site interactions and animations using AI prompts, presets, or raw code.
I was pretty impressed when I saw Figma Sites in action at Config, where AI prompts were used to transform static text into animated text that reacted to cursor movements. It’s designed in such a way that even a non-designer can easily edit content.
At Config, Yamashita promised bigger things were afoot, saying, “we wanted to make sure that we could support scaled use cases, too. With these kinds of content, it's much easier if we have a CMS, so that a non-designer can come in and comfortably edit that content in a way that's familiar to them. And this is something that's coming soon.” Looks like it’s finally arrived.
You can check out the newest tools from Figma by clicking here and navigating to the Products section.
You might also like- Security researchers Aim Labs discovered an LLM Scope Violation flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot
- The critical-severity bug allows threat actors to exfiltrate sensitive corporate data by sending an email
- Microsoft says it has fixed the issue server-side, but users should be on guard
Microsoft has fixed a dangerous zero-click attack in its Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) model which could have allowed threat actors to silently exfiltrate sensitive corporate data without (almost) any user interaction.
Cybersecurity researchers Aim Labs, who found the flaw, known as an “LLM Scope Violation”, and dubbed it EchoLeak.
Here is how it works: A threat actor sends a seemingly innocuous email message to the target, which contains a hidden prompt that instructs Copilot to exfiltrate sensitive data to an attacker-controlled server. Since Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365, that data can include anything from intellectual property files, to business contracts and legal documents, or from internal communications, to financial data.
Critical vulnerabilityThe researchers note the prompt needs to be phrased like speaking to a human, so that it bypasses Microsoft’s XPIA (cross-prompt injection attack) defenses.
Later, when the victim interacts with Copilot and asks a business-related question, the LLM will pull all of the relevant data (including the attackers’ email message) and will end up executing it. The files are stored in a crafted link or an image.
The bug was assigned the CVE-2025-32711 identifier, and was given a severity score of 9.3/10 (critical). It was fixed server-side in May, meaning users don’t need to do anything. Microsoft also said that there is no evidence that the flaw had been exploited in the past, and none of its customers were impacted.
Microsoft 365 is one of the most popular cloud-based communications and online collaboration tools, combining office apps (Word, Excel, and others), cloud storage (OneDrive and SharePoint), email and calendar (Outlook, Exchange), and communications tools (Teams).
Recently, Microsoft integrated its Generative AI model, Copilot, into Microsoft 365, allowing users to draft and summarize emails, generate and edit documents, create data visualizations and analyze trends, and more.
Via BleepingComputer
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- The first iOS 26 developer is out now ahead of its public beta launch in July
- One of its upgrades is a new option called 'Keep Audio in Headphones'
- This should reduce auto-switching problems for wireless headphones
If you're tired of your iPhone automatically switching to every other Bluetooth device other than your headphones, then iOS 26 has a treat for you – a new option to make the audio stay connected to your wireless headphones.
As spotted by MacRumors, the new iOS 26 developer beta has a long-awaited new option called "Keep Audio in Headphones" in the iPhone's Settings. The new option will seemingly live in the Settings > General > AirPlay & Continuity section and is specifically designed to stop headphones from making unwanted connections to nearby devices.
Apple's description of the feature says "when using AirPods or other connected headphones, keep audio in your headphones when other playback devices like cars and speakers connect to iPhone."
This happens to me all the time, whether it's my audio automatically switching to in-car speakers or to my iPad when it's being used by someone else. Clearly, I'm not alone in finding this annoyance frustrating, so Apple's thankfully including this new option in iOS 26, and it'll hopefully make it to the software's final release in September.
A bit old in the BluetoothThere are currently workarounds (like the option above) for controlling AirPods auto-switching, but this new iOS 26 one should work across a broad range of Bluetooth devices. (Image credit: Apple / Future)Bluetooth is now over 25 years old, so in some ways it's miraculous that the short-range wireless tech works as well as it does – yet it's also frequently frustrating.
Without the option of prioritizing the order of your preferred Bluetooth devices, it can often feel like auto-switching has a mind of its own. So, this setting, while not exactly one of the biggest iOS 26 features, it's definitely a welcome quality-of-life tweak.
Not that it's the only frustrating Bluetooth-related issue we have to grapple with. As our colleagues at What Hi Fi? recently noted, it's high time audio manufacturers started standardizing their Bluetooth pairing processes, too.
Of course, these are very much first-world problems, but at least Bluetooth 6.0 is now rolling out to bring more refinements to the now-ancient tech. These include improved filtering and efficiency, which should bring battery life benefits, along with a feature called Channel Sounding to help improve the accuracy of 'find my device' services from the likes of Apple, Google and Samsung.
You might also like- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is getting an online multiplayer mode called Fox Hunt
- Fox Hunt is a "completely original online battle mode"
- Director Yu Sahara said the mode is set in the same world as the main game, but "gameplay is completely different"
Konami has announced that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will have an online multiplayer mode called Fox Hunt.
Revealed during the Konami Press Start livestream today, the publisher said that Fox Hunt is a "completely original online battle mode" that will play differently from 2008's Metal Gear Online.
Fox Hunt, which is being directed by series veteran Yu Sahara, takes place in the same world as the main game and will offer "hide and seek" mechanics, mixed with stealth and survival elements.
Sahara explained that although the multiplayer shares the same world with the main campaign, "the gameplay is completely different".
"When we say Metal Gear multiplayer, many fans will probably think of Metal Gear Online, but Fox Hunt will be its own new type of mode. We very much appreciate all the long-time fans of MGO who have always wanted to see it make a comeback, but the landscape of multiplayer games has changed a lot since MGO.
"It took a lot of careful consideration to think about what a new online mode should look like. Based on the iconic stealth and survival elements of the Metal Gear series, we are taking camouflage and hide and seek to the next level.
"We challenged ourselves to make something unique that is more than just a shootout. We’ve used that back-and-forth tension of staying hidden or searching out the enemy to create an online experience unique to Metal Gear."
Sahara confirmed that more information about Fox Hunt will be revealed soon.
Alongside Fox Hunt's reveal, Konami also shared a new gameplay trailer for the main game, the PC and PS5-exclusive Ape Escape mode, as well as the first look at the Bomb Snake battle. This Snake vs Bomberman mode is exclusive to Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.
Secret Theatre is also returning, but this version will task players with locating Secret Theatre videos as collectibles, which are carried by soldiers.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater arrives on August 28 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
You might also like...- Utran’s PCIe 5.0 card holds 28 M.2 SSDs, reaching a total 224TB capacity
- Delivers 109GB/s read speed using Broadcom switch and advanced cooling
- Ideal for AI workloads, but overkill for most enterprise storage needs
Utran Technology has introduced a new PCIe 5.0 add-in card which feels more like a GPU than a storage solution.
Unveiled at Computex 2025, the device can host up to 28 NVMe Gen5 M.2 8TB SSDs in a single slot, delivering 109GB/s sequential read speed and a total storage capacity of 224TB.
Two versions of the 28x M.2 Host Card: HM-5281A and HM-5282A will be available - both use the Broadcom AtlasII PEX89144 switch to handle internal bandwidth and connectivity. The HM-5281A uses a single PCIe Gen5 x16 upstream link, while the HM-5282A doubles that with two x16 links, bringing total bandwidth up to 1024 GT/s.
Surprise hot plug supportCooling comes via a high-pressure fan and radiator combo. Although it has a dense footprint, the layout is built for rack-scale deployment. In theory, eight cards could deliver nearly 1.8PB of flash inside a single server.
Both models run on an EPS 8-pin connector and support surprise hot plug, meaning the system can detect and manage the 28 M.2 drives even if they’re swapped in unexpectedly. This is particularly useful for testing or dynamic environments. You'd need to take care doing so in real-world deployments though, especially as the card itself isn't hot-swappable.
28x M.2 Host Card also lacks card-level power loss protection, so you’d need to rely on SSDs that include their own safeguards.
The card does, however, support USB terminal control for firmware updates and system monitoring.
Supported operating systems include Windows, Windows Server, and Linux, making it relatively flexible at the software level.
It's hard to argue with the raw numbers - 109GB/s read speed and sub-millisecond latency are unquestionably impressive - but outside of certain HPC or AI use cases, it's frankly difficult to see a wide audience. Even in dense environments, this level of performance might outpace most storage needs.
Utran says it plans to begin shipping its 28x M.2 Host Card in summer 2025.
Via Tom's Hardware
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