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Chrome and Firefox updated with critical security fixes: a Firefox bug has public exploit code

Google and Mozilla both shipped browser updates in July for Chrome 150 and Firefox 152, closing a set of serious security flaws.

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Since the late-June stable release of Google Chrome 150, Google says it has patched 433 vulnerabilities from the initial release, another 27 on July 8, including CVE-2026-15112 and CVE-2026-15129, and 15 more on July 15, including CVE-2026-15764 and CVE-2026-15765. Mozilla Firefox 152 came out on June 16 with fixes for 40 vulnerabilities. Then Firefox 152.0.6, released on July 14, patched CVE-2026-15718, a critical JavaScript WebAssembly bug with public exploit code available, although Mozilla says there are no confirmed in-the-wild attacks.

A lot of these issues come down to use-after-free bugs and other forms of memory corruption. Those can let attackers crash the browser, run code through a malicious site, ad, or phishing link, chain multiple bugs together to break out of the sandbox, and in business settings go after credentials, session tokens, or other sensitive data through rogue extensions.

If you use Chrome or Firefox all the time, don’t sit on this update. Public exploit code already exists for some of these flaws, and a browser is exposed to the web constantly, so putting off updates is a bad bet.

You can install the updates from Google Chrome’s Settings > About Chrome and Mozilla Firefox’s Menu > Settings > About Firefox, then apply any pending updates and relaunch the browser.

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Apple’s 2027 iPhone outlook dims: higher prices and slower upgrades

KeyBanc has cut Apple to Underweight from Sector Weight, saying expectations for iPhone growth in 2027 have gotten too rosy.

The firm argues that the current consensus, around 8% iPhone growth in 2027, is too aggressive. Its own forecast now puts 2027 iPhone revenue growth at 4.9%, versus the market’s 8.3%.

KeyBanc sees three pressures building at once: higher iPhone prices, weaker carrier subsidies in the US, and slower replacement cycles as people hold on to their phones longer.

For gamers and power users, that may mean sticking with an older iPhone for another year or two. KeyBanc says those longer upgrade cycles are showing up in Latin America as well, not only in the US.

The firm also warns that rising component costs, especially memory-chip inflation, could make things worse. Reports have already linked the iPhone 18 Pro lineup to possible price increases of about $200, which leaves Apple trying to protect margins without hurting demand.

There’s another piece to this if you watch Apple stock. KeyBanc says Apple still hit a record 20% share of global smartphone shipments in Q2 2026, up from 17% a year earlier, even as total shipments fell to their lowest second-quarter level in 13 years. Even so, the firm doesn’t think those share gains will produce the kind of 2027 iPhone cycle investors are counting on. KeyBanc also sees risk across Apple’s other businesses, including Mac, iPad, Wearables, and Services.

Apple trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker AAPL.

GigaWiper malware surfaces on Windows PCs: it can spy and wipe

Microsoft first spotted GigaWiper in October 2025. It’s a Windows malware strain that blends remote-access Trojan behavior with disk-wiping attacks.

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Binary Defense took a closer look in March 2026 and analyzed the same malware under the name BLUERABBIT. Its researchers say GigaWiper is modular and stitched together from at least three older malware families, with code tied to Crucio ransomware and FlockWiper, which leaves one infection able to do two jobs at once: watch what’s happening on a system, then wreck it.

Binary Defense says GigaWiper can overwrite an entire physical drive, run a multi-pass wipe on the Windows drive, or pretend to be ransomware by encrypting files with a key that’s never saved. That kind of misdirection showed up in attacks like NotPetya, where victims could be led to believe recovery was still on the table when it wasn’t.

If you’re responsible for protecting businesses, government bodies, or critical infrastructure, pay attention to this one. Binary Defense links GigaWiper to an Iran-linked actor also associated with BLUEWIPE and SEWERGOO, known for targeting organizations in Israel, and the all-in-one design gives attackers a way to hold back obvious warning signs until later in the intrusion.

The malware goes after Windows systems and falls into the same geopolitically charged wiper pattern seen in the 2026 Stryker attack, which reports say wiped more than 80,000 devices across 79 countries, and in the late-2025 DynoWiper attempt against Poland’s energy sector.

inZOI on PS5 is now delayed to 2027: Krafton wants a proper console release

Krafton has pushed the PlayStation 5 version of inZOI into the first half of 2027, instead of the 2026 window people were expecting. The company says it wants more time to tighten up performance, rework the controls, and make the interface feel like it actually belongs on PS5. For now, inZOI is still playable in Early Access on Steam, while the PS5 version is being saved for a full release.

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Krafton says this isn’t a case of taking the current PC build and dropping it onto console. The team is reworking the menus around a controller, adjusting the game for DualSense, and trying to make sure performance stays steady on Sony’s hardware in a living room setup. If you’ve been waiting for the console version, that’s the big part: inZOI is still unfinished on PC, but the PlayStation 5 edition is meant to arrive as the complete release.

inZOI comes from South Korea’s inZOI Studio and runs on Unreal Engine 5. It launched on Steam on March 28, 2025. Krafton says the game sold more than 1 million copies in its first week, making it the fastest-selling game in the company’s history, and it also climbed past 87,000 concurrent players on Steam. If you’ve been looking for something to fill the gap after Life by You was canceled, the delay may still be easier to swallow than it sounds. Player reviews have been especially positive about the visuals, the more realistic look, and the amount of customization. At the same time, some players feel the simulation still needs more depth and stronger emergent storytelling, and most of the online reaction to the delay has been supportive anyway.

So if you want to jump in now, inZOI is available in Early Access on Steam. The full PlayStation 5 version is now scheduled for the first half of 2027.

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NBA 2K26 2KTV answers page appears early: it looks like a placeholder

An NBA 2K26 2KTV answers page went up early, before NBA 2K26 launched, and it’s one to take with a grain of salt. 2KTV is NBA 2K’s weekly in-game show, but this page doesn’t read like a real live guide yet.

There’s barely anything in the body beyond “The first of many,” so a supposed full Episode 1-35 list looks less like something active and more like an SEO placeholder waiting to be filled in.

The title itself isn’t far-fetched. 2KTV, the weekly in-game show tied to NBA 2K, usually blends developer updates, feature spotlights, interviews with players and creators, community clips, and trivia connected to modes like MyCAREER and MyTEAM. A season also tends to stretch into the high 30s or low 40s, so that part tracks.

Still, if you usually search for 2KTV answers to stack VC, this page isn’t worth your time yet. The right answers normally earn small VC payouts that can go toward MyPLAYER upgrades, cosmetics, animations, and MyTEAM packs, and those little amounts do add up over time. Even so, plenty of players now mostly see 2KTV as a VC source, and some feel the whole format has gotten stale.

For anything real, you’ll have to wait for NBA 2K26’s actual rollout. Fans and media were broadly expecting that in fall 2025, and most of the early talk around the game has centered on more skill-based gameplay, more control in players’ hands, a harsher “Green or Miss” shooting feel, and visual upgrades such as better lighting, sharper shaders, and a cleaner broadcast presentation.

Until 2K actually starts airing weekly NBA 2K26 episodes, any roundup claiming to have “all answers” is speculative at best.

Nintendo Music adds Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise soundtrack

Nintendo refreshed Nintendo Music on June 26, 2026. The update adds Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise to the app’s catalog for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, bringing in 25 tracks and 43 minutes of music.

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Those songs come from Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise, the paid DLC that launched on November 5, 2021. In it, players join Lottie’s Paradise Planning team and build vacation homes and community facilities. The main Animal Crossing: New Horizons soundtrack was already on Nintendo Music, so this plugs the last big hole and rounds out the game’s full catalog on the service.

If Animal Crossing music is already part of your regular rotation, this one’s an easy add to the queue. For fans, the bigger draw is that Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise finishes off one of Nintendo’s biggest modern soundtracks. It also brings a Lottie-themed playlist, which suits the DLC’s calm, design-focused mood.

It’s also one more sign of how Nintendo is using weekly drops to make Nintendo Music feel like a real extra for its 38 million Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, according to Nintendo. That carries a little more weight with a game that had sold nearly 50 million copies by early 2026, based on Nintendo’s own sales figures, even if the app still doesn’t do a great job of properly crediting composers and musicians.

Nintendo Music comes at no extra charge with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. The app launched on October 31, 2024, and after its June 1, 2026 expansion, it now supports web playback, tablets, Apple CarPlay, and Android Auto.

Persona 4 Revival changes Yosuke line: romance hopes take a hit

Persona 4 Revival is still slated for February 18, 2027, but fans are already arguing over a small script change that hit a nerve with longtime players. In Persona 4 Golden, Yosuke says to the male protagonist, “you do seem to be great with your hands…,” and players say Persona 4 Revival swaps that out for wording that sits closer to the original Japanese. That fits with Atlus’s recent habit of leaning toward more literal localizations, even when that means cutting back on the extra ambiguity the English script used to add.

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For anyone still hoping Atlus might finally do a Yosuke romance route, that change lands hard. Fans have been circling the unused romance content buried in the original game’s data for years, so seeing one of the most talked-about bits of subtext disappear reads, to a lot of people, like a pretty blunt signal that a same-sex route isn’t happening.

Not everyone is hung up on the romance part.

Some fans are just bummed to lose a weird, memorable little character beat from Persona 4 Golden’s English version. The line is drawing even more scrutiny because people were already watching Persona 4 Revival closely after Persona 3 Reload. Add in the fact that Persona 4 Revival is replacing the entire English voice cast while the original Japanese actors are coming back, and every change was probably going to get picked apart anyway.

Persona 4 Revival launches on February 18, 2027.

No Law announced for PS5: a denser cyberpunk shooter due in 2026

Neon Giant and publisher KRAFTON have unveiled No Law, a cyber-noir first-person shooter for PlayStation 5. It’s aiming for a 2026 release, and its big pitch is clear: skip the oversized maps and build a smaller open world with more going on in every corner.

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The studio says Port Desire follows a “density over scale” approach. In practice, that means a city packed with detail and built to react, with handcrafted locations, environmental storytelling that actually matters, limited procedural generation, and more than 3,000 dynamic NPCs, rather than a giant map stuffed with empty filler. No Law is being built in Unreal Engine 5, with Nanite, Lumen, dynamic lighting, and changing weather all feeding into a city that feels busier and more alive.

The story follows Grey Harker, a former soldier pulled back into violence after trying to put together a quieter life. Neon Giant also says player choice can seriously reshape what happens. You can even kill key story characters and still finish the single-player campaign. At the moment, the team says there no plans for multiplayer or co-op.

If you want something that sounds a little more deliberate and personal than the standard Cyberpunk 2077 comparison reel, this one probably deserves your attention.

For now, No Law is slated to launch on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S in 2026.

DualSense haptics now work wirelessly on PC: DSX beta brings Bluetooth support

DSX, a PC app on Steam, just added something wireless haptics and adaptive triggers over Bluetooth in a new beta: wireless haptics and adaptive triggers over Bluetooth. So if you use Sony’s PlayStation 5 controller on PC, you can finally get its best features without keeping a USB-C cable plugged in.

Sony still doesn’t officially support this on PC. DSX apparently gets around that by making your computer think it’s connected to a wired DualSense, then sending the haptics and trigger data over Bluetooth anyway. Until now, the options were pretty limited. Stay plugged in, or mess with DIY fixes like a Raspberry Pi Pico adapter.

The timing matters, too. Sony keeps bringing more first-party games to PC, and a lot of those ports make heavy use of DualSense feedback. Valve says daily controller use on Steam has tripled since 2018. PlayStation controllers now account for 26% of all controller gaming sessions on the platform, according to Valve.

So far, early impressions from Digital Foundry and PC Gamer have been positive. There are still a few open questions, though, especially around accessibility benefits and whether reliable unofficial support like this could shape how developers think about advanced controller features on PC.

If you use a DualSense on PC, this beta is probably worth trying. You can get DSX on Steam for PC.

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