Nintendo just released an odd little game onto the SNES Virtual Console that was previously exclusive to Japan. The simply-titled Mario & Wario is a point-and-click puzzle game that finds the plumber on the search for his brother after his money-obsessed doppelganger drops a bucket on his head. That’s the actual plot.
Players lead the bucket-headed Mario through 100 levels, each of which are filled with point-and-click puzzles set in a sidescrolling world. The original game was controlled via mouse and this Virtual Console release is no different. Switch owners can simply plug in a USB mouse to get going but Switch 2 owners have a niftier option.
You may remember that the new console’s Joy-Con controllers can flip over and be used as a mouse. Mario & Wario is another use case for this concept, after Drag x Drive and a minigame in Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour. The game is available right now for Nintendo Switch Online members.
That’s not the only title that hit Virtual Console today. The SNES platformer Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind is available to play, as is the SNES fighter Fatal Fury Special. That one includes characters from both the original game and Fatal Fury 2.
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Discord, the latest company to be hit with a data breach, is on the defensive after the group responsible for the attack made statements to Bleeping Computer regarding the extent of the intrusion. Because the company is refusing to pay a ransom demand, it could mean the release of sensitive data impacting several million users, including government
Discord says that hackers made off with images of 70,000 users’ government IDs that they were required to provide in order to use the site.
Like an increasing number of sites, Discord requires certain users to provide a photo or scan of their driver’s license or other government ID that shows they meet the minimum age requirements in their country. In some cases, Discord allows users to prove their age by providing a selfie that shows their faces (it’s not clear how a face proves someone’s age, but there you go). The social media site imposes these requirements on users who are reported by other users to be under the minimum age for the country they’re connecting from.
“A substantial risk for identity theft”
On Wednesday, Discord said that ID images of roughly 70,000 users “may have had government-ID photos exposed” in a recent breach of a third-party service Discord entrusted to manage the data. The affected users had communicated with Discord’s Customer Support or Trust & Safety teams and subsequently submitted the IDs in reviews of age-related appeals.
Lyft is partnering with San Jose-based Tensor Auto. Lyft says it has reserved “hundreds” of Tensor robotaxis and will operate its own fleet. The other piece of the partnership: Tensor will make its Robocar “Lyft-ready” straight out of the factory.
Shipping the Robocar with Lyft’s platform will allow a futuristic form of passive income for owners in regions with level 4 regulatory approval. “Traditional car ownership means a vehicle loses value as it sits idle most of the time,” the companies wrote in a press release. “Tensor Robocars flip this model, turning personal luxury vehicles into productive assets that can generate income around the clock.”
Tensor plans to deliver its first Robocars by the end of 2026. The company says the “Lyft-ready” autonomous vehicle (AV) will include over 100 sensors. (That includes 37 cameras, five lidars, and 11 radars.) Eight NVIDIA chips, based on Blackwell GPU architecture, help it interpret sensor data. Tensor says the computer is capable of 8,000 trillion operations per second.
This is far from Lyft’s first AV partnership. Among others, it teamed up last month with May Mobility to launch an autonomous fleet in Atlanta. Lyft also plans to match users with Waymo rides in Nashville starting next year. However, Bloombergnotes that the Tensor partnership is Lyft’s first where it will purchase its own AV fleet.
Tensor spun out of the Chinese robotaxi company AutoX. The company says it divested and discontinued its China operations to focus exclusively on the US-based Tensor. The Robocar will be produced in Vietnam through a partnership with VinFast.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/evs/tensors-robocar-will-be-lyft-ready-out-of-the-factory-182010143.html?src=rss
The Rubik’s Cube has been reinvented with more games and many more screens for much more money.
What has long been cherished as a simple toy yet complex puzzle requiring nothing but a healthy amount of twisting, turning, and patience has been rebooted for the 21st century. Naturally, that calls for a few dashes of technology.
Differing from the original Rubik’s Cube, which has six faces that each contain a 3×3 grid, the Rubik’s WOWCube, made available for preorder today, as spotted by The Verge, has six faces with 2×2 grids.
Zwift Unlocked is set to be one of the biggest event series on Zwift—and it started this week. In our top video, learn everything you need to know about this fresh tour!
Additional picks this week focus on getting started on Zwift, one rider’s comeback to Zwift racing, a Zwift Racing League win, and a review of the Zwift Ride.
Zwift Unlocked | Tour Preview, Stage Routes & Gear Unlocks
Hear from Bike Bonk Biff about the new Zwift Unlocked series.
Zwift: Your Ultimate Guide (2025)
Adam from Road to A shares a complete guide for anyone looking to get started on Zwift.
My Brutal Comeback to Zwift Racing
Thomas Martinez, aka TheCyclingTatooist, makes his Zwift Racing League debut with his team of Zwift influencers. Can they fight to a spot on the podium?
I Finally Won a Zwift Racing League Race! The Training Actually Worked
Ollie, aka Not Tadej Pogacar, finally won a Zwift Racing League race. In this video, he goes over the race and how he prepared.
Zwift Ride – Expensive Junk Or a Gamechanger?
Burgess and his bike shares a review of the Zwift Ride, covering the positives and negatives of his experience.
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In a video posted to the official PlayStation YouTube channel this morning, AMD and Sony detailed a few major advancements in AMD’s GPU architecture developed under the two companies’ Project Amethyst collaboration—advancements that point toward strong path tracing performance on both PlayStation 6 and AMD’s upcoming RDNA 5 architecture. While
Monarch Money is one of our favorite budgeting apps and, fittingly enough, there’s a way for newcomers to save money on a subscription right now. If you use the code WELCOME at checkout, you can get an annual plan for 30 percent off. It typically costs $100, but you can get 12 months of access for $70 with this code.
There are some key caveats here. The discount is only for new users, and it can’t be combined with other offers. The code only works when you sign up through the web. You can’t redeem it through the Monarch mobile app.
We feel that Monarch has a steeper learning curve than some other budget trackers and that certain aspects of the app are slightly more complex than they probably need to be. But it offers a great deal of customization and granularity, which outweighs our misgivings.
On the main dashboard, you’ll see your net worth along with your latest transactions, spending versus the previous month, your income so far for the month and details about upcoming bills, your investments and goals you’ve set. There’s also a link to a month-in-review page, which offers an in-depth overview of what’s been happening with your money that month. You’ll also be able to take a peek at how your net worth has changed over time.
Monarch can connect to your bank and track Apple Card, Apple Cash and Savings accounts. It can pull in your transactions and balance history automatically and detect your recurring expenses and income. The app can even keep your car valuation up to date. While it might take a little work to set up Monarch (and you might have to tweak things here and there), it’s a detailed budgeting app that can help you keep better track of your income, expenditure and net worth.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/one-of-our-favorite-budgeting-apps-has-30-percent-off-annual-plans-right-now-174011690.html?src=rss
Memoreum, a new VR sci-fi action horror game reminiscent of Dead Space, is out now on Quest.
Developed by Patient 8 Games over the last four years, Memoreum is a VR action horror game set in the year 2311. You play as Dr. Otto Hudson after awakening from a stasis pod, discovering your ship’s inhabitants have succumbed to the Ichor Infection. As such, you’re tasked with uncovering the mystery behind this outbreak while being guided by a scrambled voice.
Tasked with defeating these powerful infected monstrosities, Memoreum gives you five core weapons ranging between an SMG, rifle, sniper, pump shotgun, and auto shotgun, alongside additional variants and a selection of exotic weapons too. Boss fights are also featured, and Patient 8 Games confirmed the campaign has three different endings.
Though UploadVR received pre-release access to Memoreum, our review on Quest 3 needs more time before we can share our full impressions. We’ll bring you our review as soon as we’re able to, which will also factor in the game’s day one patch. Until then, you can check out our previous hands-on impressions from last year, where we came away impressed.
Memoreum is out now on the Meta Quest platform, while PlayStation VR2 and Steam versions will follow at a later date.
Despite its increasing popularity, the Rust programming language is still
supported by a single compiler, the LLVM-based rustc. At the 2025 GNU Tools
Cauldron, Pierre-Emmanuel Patry said that a lot of people are waiting
for a GCC-based Rust compiler before jumping into the language. Patry, who
is working on just that compiler (known as “gccrs”), provided an update on
the status of that project and what is coming next.
Pulsing beats and endless droids combine in RAGER, an enjoyable cyberpunk rhythm fighting game entering early access today on Meta Quest 3 and SteamVR.
One of the best things about VR is fighting games. I love just about every type of immersive game out there, but brandishing a katana to slice a cyber death knight is one of my favorite things to do with a headset on. I initially took an early look at RAGER’s Steam demo to see what it can offer as a rhythm game, but I’ve come away pleasantly surprised at what else is in store with the early access release.
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In your first playthrough, RAGER measures the user’s height and heads right into a tutorial. There you are given red swords for both hands and an explanation on how to strike each target. Sample cyber-henchmen slowly advance towards you with targets outlined on how to swing at them or block the advance. Either hold up your sword to block as directed or swing when prompted to score. A third obstacle for ducking and sidestepping is provided by a bulky robot with arrows pointing in which direction to move. The tutorial highlights these aspects well, then giving you a chance to imitate the action to get the hang of it.
A “test what you know”-style level loads after, and you’re treated to some pulsing synthwave music to match against battling henchmen. Targets will pile up as the music gets more intense. You’ll find yourself ducking and swinging at multiple enemies simultaneously when things get busy enough. The test level doesn’t go too fast to overwhelm you on your first time out but provides enough speed to push the limits just enough. Once the test is over, you’ll have the option to return to the main menu or advance to the next stage.
RAGER’s main menu
The main menu is a sleek, minimal design that encases the user in a gray tower with glowing gold outlines. There are hardly any comfort settings to speak of presently; it needs more comfort options, so I’d like to see that arrive with a future update. A calibration feature sets the height, while the scoring button explains how movements are graded. Freestyle mode is currently locked while a main campaign mode is available to play.
Each level adds more difficulty as you are thrust into this journey, defeating varied enemies in a glitchy cyberpunk world. Weapons alternate for every stage, sometimes returning with a switched hand configuration. When you fail to block an attack, the enemy “crashes” into you as your screen briefly flashes with red. One boss battle involves fighting a large, nightmarish drone with tentacles that snake towards me with an indication of how I should hit or block the attack. Dubstep pulses through the boss fight as I fend off this behemoth to finish the campaign.
Speaking of music, there’s a difference between RAGER’s enthusiastic dubstep-glitchy-rock and more muted rock tracks often found in immersive fitness apps. This won’t bring the house down with too nasty of a drop, but it’s engineered well enough for a good time with a powerful swing of a sword or mace. Dubstep and synth don’t have to be the end, though. I’d love to see RAGER pair up with various artists to bring in different music genres and keep the fun going.
The drone boss of the first campaign
There is no lack of quality in RAGER’s production value, offering a major improvement from the original demo. The game runs well while keeping the UI design efficient and tasteful. Often times while fighting, I sometimes admire the armor of each cyber henchman approaching me. Even when I’m preoccupied with a flurry of enemies, I still notice the reactive lights flickering to the music.
There are times when I almost feel overwhelmed by the enemies, and instead of fearing a Game Over screen, I simply think, “oh, sh*t.” But it’s the good version of that feeling, the kind where you feel your heart beat faster not just out of physical exertion, but out of a tiny yet thrilling bit of fear. That’s what makes a fight in RAGER enjoyable. You can feel the failure on the other side of the blade, and you’re barely skirting past it to launch the next attack.
Beyond a lack of content in Early Access, I can’t fault much else with this title. This version of RAGER features three different sets of stages to fight through, each containing four levels of increasing difficulty with one boss fight at the end. My first run didn’t yield the highest score, so I’m eager to get back into the game and improve.
With a full pace of strikes, blocks, and ducks, RAGER makes me feel like I’m engaging with an immersive fitness routine that’s straight out of a movie. The gamified approach to what’s essentially a cardio workout keeps your heart pumping without thinking too much about it. All you know is you’re an action hero in a cyberpunk world, and you’ve got plenty of enemies to cut down.
New to Prime Day? We have a primer on everything you need to know. Sales are accurate at the time of publication, but prices and inventory are always subject to change.
If you’re a content creator or enjoy capturing your adventures (and the scenery that comes with them), a durable and high-quality action camera is a must for smooth, hands-free footage. Right now, the rugged and feature-rich GoPro Hero13 Black Ultra Wide Edition is 31% off for Prime members, dropping it to its lowest price ever.
An upgrade to the Hero12 black, this model adds Wi-Fi 6 and a longer-lasting 1,900mAh battery (up from 1,720mAh), built-in GPS, an improved HDR profile, new slow-motion options, and a wider vertical FOV that will appeal to adventurers and vloggers alike. At 5.6 ounces, it’s compact enough to carry all day or mount to a vehicle, helmet, or even a pet. It has a sleek, minimalist appearance compared to its predecessor and a durable chassis that can handle being dropped, knocked around, or used underwater (up to 33 feet deep) without a case.
Compared to the standard Hero13, this model comes with an ultra-wide lens for a broader field of view. It has dual LCDs (a 1.4-inch front screen and 2.3-inch rear touchscreen) with 5.3K video resolution and 27 MP sensor resolution. The rear display may feel a bit cramped, so using a selfie stick or tripod may make operation easier, but you can also control settings from the Quik app or use simple voice commands. While this cam received an Excellent rating from PCMag, the tester noted that the display isn’t bright enough to cut through glare on sunny days and struggles in low light settings. That said, the interface is still intuitive, with configurable presets for Video, Photo, and Time Lapse modes that make it easy to switch color profiles, lens views, frame rates, and more.
It charges via USB-C, but has wireless features like integrated GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi 6 for smartphone pairing, and wireless file transfers. It also connects to select wireless earbuds and keeps audio separate from the built-in mic, letting creators mix ambient audio in with narration during the editing process. One standout feature is GoPro’s HyperSmooth stabilization system, which makes handheld video footage look like it was shot on a powered gimbal or Steadicam. It also launched alongside an updated accessory ecosystem, adding creative flexibility, though at an extra cost.
Ultimately, theGoPro Hero13 Black Ultra Wide Edition delivers impressive picture quality, durability, and video clarity. Plus, its significant updates to its predecessor make it ideal for people who haven’t owned a GoPro or are used to an older model.
Looking for something else? Retailers like Walmart and Best Buy have Prime Day competition sales that are especially useful if you don’t have Amazon Prime.
Walmart’s Prime Day competition sale runs from Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. ET through Oct. 12 and includes deals up to 50% off. It’s an especially good option if you have Walmart+.
Best Buy’s Prime Day competition sale runs from Sept. 27 through Oct. 12, and has some of the best tech sales online. It’s an especially good option if you’re a My Best Buy “Plus” or “Total” member.
Target’s Prime Day competition sale runs from Oct. 5 through Oct. 11, and it has deals going up to 50% off. You can become a Circle member for free.
Kevork Kechichian says x86 giant’s contributions should benefit Intel firstOver the years, Intel has established itself as a paragon of the open source community, but that could soon change under the x86 giant’s new leadership. …
