Month: December 2024

San Francisco-based illustrator and concept artist Nick Acosta has given the internet an incredible gift in the form of a 4K 60FPS remastered trailer for the Star Wars Holiday Special. Some say you simply cannot be basing your opinion of the divisive film on that scratchy old bootleg VHS copy you have laying around–you must witness it with the best modern technology has to offer.

Upon release, the 1978 disco-era Star Wars Holiday Special was universally panned by critics and fans, and it’s never been hard to understand why: There are agonizingly long segments in the misshapen variety show where Wookiees speak to each other in their native language with no subtitles, what plot there is makes no literal sense, and one of the highlights is Bea Arthur’s turn as Mos Eisley c…

Maltese games studio AvatarUX has announced the signing of a deal that will see it begin supplying its complete portfolio of immersive video slots to the new Light & Wonder iGaming arm of Scientific Games Corporation.

The Valletta-headquartered innovator used an official Monday press release to declare that the pact is destined ‘greatly expand the global reach of its immersive slot portfolio to operators in new markets’ including North American jurisdictions such as the Canadian province of Ontario.

Accumulation alliance:

AvatarUX asserted that this fresh agreement with Light & Wonder will involve all eight of its titles featuring the popular PopWins and MultiPop mechanics being offered to online casino aficionados in ‘major markets across the globe’ vi…

Canadian lottery, online casino and sportsbook operator Kings Entertainment Group Incorporated has announced the signing of a definitive all-share agreement that is to see it merge with iGaming compatriot Sports Venture Holdings Incorporated.

The Vancouver-headquartered firm used an official Wednesday press release to detail that the arrangement will result in the company behind the Bet99-branded online casino becoming its latest wholly-owned subsidiary and possessing a new senior secured non-interest bearing credit facility worth approximately $3.9 million.

Optimizing overhaul:

Established in 2005, Kings Entertainment Group Incorporated is responsible for the online lottery domains at WinTrillions.com and LottoKings.com and declared that the newly-…

Over the free spin week, all depositing players  will be granted 30 free blackjack bets worth $2 each. These free bets will be available in the Blackjack 21 section of the operator’s web page. Players may use these to win up to $250 under the 25X wagering requirement.‌

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Check your passwords, people, because if there was ever a good reason to not reuse the same password, or even variants of the same password, then the latest version of the RockYou collection of leaked or stolen passwords must surely be it. With almost 10 billion unique passwords, the dataset is the largest source of genuine login details, from all around the world, making the risk of cyberattacks as high as it’s ever been.

The astonishing number was reported by Cybernews (via Sweclockers) after the updated dataset was posted on a forum used by hackers. Back in 2009, social media company RockYou suffered a data breach in which 32 million user accounts were compromised. Over a decade later, in 2023, a 100 GB text file titled RockYou2021 was posted on hacking forums.…

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The launch of Arrow Lake marks a new chapter in Intel’s history as it’s essentially the first desktop processor in its ranks that isn’t made by Team Blue itself. The multiple tile design, first introduced with Meteor Lake in the mobile sector, is predominantly manufactured by TSMC—only the base tile and packaging are handled by Intel.

That’s not the only change on show here and we’ve covered the important changes in detail elsewhere. It’s suffice to say that the new Core Ultra 200S series of CPUs is a new world for Intel as they are so different to previous desktop designs.

The Core Ultra 5 245K (and the GPU-less 245KF) is currently the baby of the Arrow Lake line-up and it’s basically a Core Ultra 9 285K with two P-cores and eight E-cores disabled. T…