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Jay Peters

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    Diablo IV’s first expansion is titled Vessel of Hatred.

    It adds two new regions to the game and a new class. The expansion is set to arrive in late 2024, but Blizzard plans to share more details this summer. You can get a brief but vague glimpse in Blizzard’s teaser trailer it revealed at BlizzCon.

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    Jay Peters
    Mauga is officially Overwatch’s next hero.

    Mauga is a new tank joining with Overwatch 2’s 8th season. Blizzard revealed his debut trailer at BlizzCon.

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    Jay Peters
    Phil Spencer is here!

    The Xbox (and now-fully-acquired Activision Blizzard) boss is onstage as part of the opening ceremony for BlizzCon. He name-dropped StarCraft!

    Phil Spencer at BlizzCon.
    Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
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    Jay Peters
    Facebook is making it easier to publish Instant Games.

    Now, you can publish them without a Facebook review. Facebook won’t organically surface those games, which will be available as part of the app’s “Play Lab” tier, but the reduced friction could make it easier to get early feedback on a game that may not be ready for a full launch just yet.

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    Jay Peters
    Okta’s breach investigation missed key information for two weeks.

    In a Friday news dump blog post, Okta chief security officer David Bradbury revealed that a threat actor had access to files for 134 customers. Stolen session tokens from support logs were used to hijack sessions for 5 Okta customers, of which three have been publicly identified: 1Password (which first alerted Okta of the problem), BeyondTrust, and Cloudflare.

    For a period of 14 days, while actively investigating, Okta did not identify suspicious downloads in our logs. When a user opens and views files attached to a support case, a specific log event type and ID is generated tied to that file. If a user instead navigates directly to the Files tab in the customer support system, as the threat actor did in this attack, they will instead generate an entirely different log event with a different record ID.

    Not a great look for an identity management company that is supposed to prevent this exact problem.

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    Jay Peters
    The Be-nope Studio.

    Samsung appears to have given up on the Bespoke Studio that lets you customize certain Galaxy Z Flip and Galaxy Watch devices, according to SamMobile. “As of this writing, some Bespoke Studio pages are still online but they no longer offer an option to buy any Galaxy devices,” SamMobile reports, and that’s what I’m seeing, too.

    Don’t worry, though: You can still use the Bespoke Design Studio to make a custom Samsung fridge.

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    Jay Peters
    What year is it?

    Fortnite has gone back in time, and Ninja has more than 76,000 people watching him, DrLupo, CouRageJD, and timthetatman squad up for the new season. Ninja is nearing hour 23 of his Twitch stream.

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    Jay Peters
    Threads on the web is getting better.

    Instagram chief Adam Mosseri shared some nice smaller features you can take advantage of on Threads on the web, including the ability to tweak alt text on photos and videos. Still waiting on ActivityPub integration, but I’ll take these nice improvements in the meantime.