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Summary Character customization will return in Nioh 3, including a photo mode and audio options. Players can switch between Samurai and Ninja Styles, each with unique strengths and weaknesses. Nioh 3 will have bigger and more open areas to explore, not open-world, but still expansive. Nioh started as a secret project named Oni, announced in 2004, which was then officially renamed Ni-Oh when it was shown off for the PS3 in 2005. Then the project went back to the drawing board, and many thought it was canceled. It did not reappear until 2015, when it became Nioh followed by a…

A crypto wallet tied to the defunct dark web marketplace Alphabay was reportedly behind the donation of $31 million worth of Bitcoin to Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, according to blockchain analysis.Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis told WIRED for a June 5 report that it had tied the 300 Bitcoin (BTC) donated to Ulbrich earlier this month to Alphabay, a predecessor to Silk Road that operated from 2014 to 2017.Chainalysis suggested that the funds came from a major vendor on the platform who would have had access to such substantial amounts.“We have reasonable grounds to suspect that these funds originated in…

CNN  —  The office of Argentinian President Javier Milei denied a bombshell series of reports that alleged the country’s intelligence agency had approved a new plan that could enable the surveillance of journalists, politicians and economists. The reporting, by journalist Hugo Alconada Mon in the newspaper La Nación, looked into a leaked national intelligence plan by Argentina’s State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE) that he says outlines general intelligence objectives such as preventing terrorism and combating organized crime, but is also filled with “generalizations, gray areas and ambiguities,” the report reads. “For example, the SIDE has the power to gather information on…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer suggested it’s helpful to consider stocks sitting at new 52-week highs to better understand market trends and themes. He picked out several companies that have recently made the “new high” list which he thinks are indicative of the mood on Wall Street.”You can learn a lot about a market from looking at the stocks that make it to the 52-week high list,” he said. “It’s a rarefied group by nature, and it speaks loudly about what works and, of course, what doesn’t.”Cramer was not surprised there aren’t many major tech names that have reached new highs recently.…

Summary “Nintendo Switch 2 Edition” game cartridges can be played on the original Switch. Consider purchasing Switch 2 Editions for future upgrades to gain access to upgraded versions. Early adopters of the Nintendo Switch 2 have discovered something interesting about the way Switch 2 Edition game cartridges work. This Nintendo Switch 2 detail may be important for original Nintendo Switch owners to know. The Nintendo Switch 2 has now rolled out, and gamers are learning everything there is to know about the new system and its games. For example, those players have learned that Mario Kart World is missing local…

Anysphere, the maker of AI coding assistant Cursor, has raised $900 million at a $9.9 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported. The round was led by returning investor Thrive Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, and DST Global. The massive round is Anysphere’s third fundraise in less than a year. The 3-year-old startup secured its previous capital haul of $100 million at a pre-money valuation of $2.5 billion late last year, as TechCrunch was first to report.  AI coding assistants, often referred to as “vibe coders,” have emerged as one of AI’s most popular applications, with Cursor leading the category. Anysphere’s…

Lending platform Maple Finance is expanding to the Solana network in a bid to reach a broader class of users. According to a June 5 announcement shared with Cointelegraph, the company is deploying its syrupUSD yield-bearing stablecoin to Solana-based platforms Kamino and Orca. The coin had previously been available only on the Ethereum blockchain. Maple’s Solana integration is launching with $30 million in liquidity, which the company says will establish “a deep and stable foundation for lending, trading, and collateral provisioning” in the ecosystem.Related: Solana lacks ‘convincing signs’ of besting Ethereum: SygnumThe integration was powered by an integration with Chainlink’s…

Perplexity received 780 million queries in May, CEO Aravind Srinivas shared on stage at Bloomberg’s Tech Summit on Thursday. Srinivas said that the AI search engine is seeing more than 20% growth month-over-month. “Give it a year, we’ll be doing, like, a billion queries a week if we can sustain this growth rate,” Srinivas said. “And that’s pretty impressive because the first day in 2022, we did 3,000 queries, just one single day. So from there to doing 30 million queries a day now, it’s been phenomenal growth.” Srinivas went on to note that the same growth trajectory is possible,…

Anthropic co-founder and Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan said his company cut Windsurf’s direct access to Anthropic’s Claude AI models largely because of rumors and reports that OpenAI, its largest competitor, is acquiring the AI coding assistant. “We really are just trying to enable our customers who are going to sustainably be working with us in the future,” said Kaplan during an onstage interview Thursday with TechCrunch at TC Sessions: AI 2025. “I think it would be odd for us to be selling Claude to OpenAI,” Kaplan said. The comment comes just a few weeks after Bloomberg reported that OpenAI…

CNN  —  Do you yearn for long days and short nights? Then this could be the best day of the year for you and your fellow sunlight seekers. The summer solstice falls late in the day on Friday, June 20 in the United States (it will already be Saturday, June 21 in Europe). It’s the longest day and shortest night in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s also the first official day of summer. Our ancient ancestors certainly took note of the yearly occasion. Some of their monuments were aligned to precisely mark the summer solstice light (looking at you Stonehenge). Pagan celebrations…