Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, the upcoming “spy RPG” from the studio behind Disco Elysium, launches on PC on May 21st. I got to play it last month, and it felt very much like a spiritual successor to Disco but with a heavy dose of spy thriller vibes.
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The bundle, Proton Workspace, includes a new end-to-end encrypted video chat service called Proton Meet. But even encryption can’t guarantee the company will keep your payment info private from government requests.
Apple started testing the feature with its iOS 26.4 betas, but at the time, the company said the feature would actually arrive in a “future update.” Encrypted RCS messages are back with the first iOS 26.5 developer beta, 9to5Mac reports, so perhaps they will launch publicly on iOS soon.
The Embracer-owned studio, behind games like Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, says that the cuts are “a result of changing project needs and impacts across production and support teams.” Studio head David Anfossi is also leaving the company.
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The little character inspired by the Finder logo has been briefly featured as part of Apple’s marketing for the MacBook Neo, but on Monday, the company uploaded three new videos to its TikTok account starring the mascot. I love it.
The cute 3D platforming game starring a frog is getting a “2+ hour photography game” where you’ll help out a “conspiracy theorist” owl. It looks like a fun twist on a video game photo mode.
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A New Social’s Bridgy Fed tech has been linking microblog posts and accounts across services like Mastodon and Bluesky for a while, but now that ability applies to more macro content as well:
….users on platforms like Mastodon will see the announcement with the article attached, but platforms that support long-form like WordPress and Ghost will get the whole article, and both will be treated as the same post across the Fediverse.
By joining the beta test and connecting a Beehiiv account to AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude, its paying customers can ask the chatbots for help with things like a grammar check on posts or insights on subscriber lists and specific performance details. Down the line, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) link will let people use AI chatbots to directly draft posts or send offers to particular groups of subscribers.
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