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• Most people forget their old accounts, but criminals never forget how to exploit them, report warns
• Zombie accounts are digital weak spots just waiting for password reuse to ruin everything
• Platforms like Groupon and Pandora are packed with logins that no one’s watching anymore

Forgotten accounts for apps you no longer use might not seem like your most pressing security concern, but new research has claimed they can be far more than digital clutter.

A study by Secure Data Recovery found 94% of respondents admitted to having one or more zombie accounts - accounts left unused for at least 12 months.

These neglected profiles often remain active and vulnerable, giving cybercriminals a quiet back door into users’ digital lives.

Pandora, Groupon, and Shutterfly lead the list of forgotten services

Pandora tops the list of abandoned services, with 40% of respondents admitting they still have unused accounts, with Groupon and Shutterfly following closely, reflecting a wider trend of users drifting away from once-popular platforms.

“That account you haven’t logged into for over a year? It’s still there,” the study notes, warning that abandoned profiles are ripe for hijacking.

These unused accounts aren’t limited to music or shopping, as photo-sharing platforms like Dropbox, Tumblr, and Flickr are also frequently forgotten - and the trend even extends to more sensitive categories, with dating apps such as Tinder, OkCupid, and Bumble ranking highest in abandonment. In the financial space, Acorns, Mint, and YNAB are often left idle, despite potential access to personal or financial information.

Many users simply forget these accounts exist, assuming that inactivity means deletion. In other cases, disinterest drives abandonment.

Facebook ranks highest in dissatisfaction, followed by Twitter/X and Amazon Prime Video. Some platforms failed to keep up with expectations, while others, like Prime Video, alienated users by adding ads.

Interestingly, Prime Video also appears on the list of most-missed services, suggesting users are divided in their views.

The consequences of ignoring these accounts go well beyond clutter.

Reusing passwords across sites, especially between zombie accounts and work or banking logins, creates serious risk.

Secure Data Recovery warns: “Having the same login for that eight-year-old Tumblr account and your active work email might not be in your best interest.”

How to stay safe

• To reduce risk, review the services you’ve signed up for - if you no longer use an app or website, delete the account.
• Never reuse passwords. A compromised old account using the same login as your current one can put your data at risk.
• Create strong, unique passwords for every account. A password manager can help you keep track of them.
• Also, check the privacy settings on accounts you still use. Some may be sharing more than you think. Adjust those settings to limit how much information is visible.
• Whenever possible, enable two-factor authentication for extra protection.
• Finally, use antivirus tools, especially on Android phones.
• A good free antivirus can warn you about unsafe apps and detect if your device has been compromised.

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• Recent rumors suggest Rockstar Games' GTA 6 will run at 60fps on Sony's PS5 Pro
• Sony and Rockstar are reportedly working closely together for the game's optimization on PS5
• 60fps on the base PS5 isn't completely out of the woods yet

The countdown clock to Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto 6 feels like it's ticking faster than ever, with a release date set for May 26, 2026 – and in the meantime, a new rumor may spell great news for PS5 Pro owners.

According to reputable leaker Detective Seeds on X, GTA 6 will run at 60fps on PS5 Pro as Sony engineers are reportedly working closely with Rockstar to help achieve the performance target. This comes from the Oblivion remake leaker, so it's safe to say there's a level of credibility here.

Detective Seeds suggests that there will be multiple graphical settings, but will reportedly only be available on the PS5 Pro, and not the base configuration. It doesn't sound completely far-fetched either, as it's evident that Sony and Rockstar have maintained a strong marketing partnership over the years, and that's rumored to continue leading up to GTA 6's launch.

Based on the leak, there are clear hints that 60fps on the base PS5 isn't completely off the cards; rumors also hint at Sony and Rockstar optimizing other titles for 60fps as well, which rings a bell, surrounding Red Dead Redemption 2.

Fans have been requesting a 60fps patch for the critically acclaimed title, so it would be surprising if this wasn't aimed at the base PS5 (especially since it has already been achieved via console exploits). The visual fidelity in GTA 6 is arguably vastly superior to Red Dead Redemption 2's, but the two are still in similar ballparks – so, if the base PS5 gets a 60fps patch for the 2018 title, could that mean the same for GTA 6?

(Image credit: Rockstar Games)Analysis: 60fps or not, I'm not paying $700 for the PS5 Pro

Surely, I'm not the only one who doesn't really care whether or not GTA 6 runs at 60fps on console or not? I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd love to see it available in some capacity, and this isn't me saying '30fps is perfectly fine, stop complaining. ' However, you better believe I'm not paying $700 for a PS5 Pro just to achieve that performance target.

I'd argue that Rockstar Games' GTA 6 is one of the only titles where I'd happily settle with high-quality visuals at 4K 30fps over 60fps (only if optimization for 60fps wasn't possible) on console.

Perhaps you could say that's my excitement for its eventual launch on PC speaking, since I know much higher frame rates will inevitably be available – but if I could play Final Fantasy XVI on PS5 on its quality graphics mode, a fast-paced action RPG game, without it ruining the experience, then I can easily do the same with the arguably the most anticipated game of all-time.

Again, I must stress that 60fps should become a priority for developers on console, but I don't think it will be the end of the world if that doesn't happen for GTA 6 on the base PS5.

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• Security researcher find unencrypted database belonging to Australian fashion brand
• It contained names, email addresses, phone numbers, and more, of at least 3.5 million people
• SABO is warning users to be on their guard

Australian fashion brand SABO leaked sensitive data on millions of its customers by keeping an unencrypted, non-password-protected database on the internet, available to anyone who knew where to look.

Jeremiah Fowler, a security researcher known for discovering these types of leaks found a 292 GB archive, containing 3,587,960 .PDF documents containing names, physical addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and other personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to both retail and corporate SABO customers.

The number of entities whose information was leaked could be around 3.5 million, but it could also be - fifty times as many.

Locking the database down

“In one single PDF file, there were 50 separate order pages, indicating that the total number of potential customers is higher than the total number of PDF files in the database,” Fowler explained.

The information was generated via an internal document management storage system, designed to track sales and returns, as well as the corresponding domestic and international shipping documents.

Since the file dates range from 2015 to 2025, it is safe to assume that some of the information is outdated, and some is highly relevant.

Fowler reached out to SABO with the information, and the database was locked down “within hours”. However, the company never replied to the researcher’s email, so we don’t know for how long the database remained open, who maintained it, or if someone managed to find and exfiltrate the information before he did.

SABO is an Australian fashion brand, designing and selling exclusive collections of clothes, shoes, swimwear, sleepwear, and formal attires. It is primarily an Australian brand, operating in the country. However, it also sells its products online and allows for worldwide shipments.

It currently has three stores in the country and has reported an annual revenue of $18 million for 2024.

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Review information

Platform reviewed: Nintendo Switch 2
Available on: Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
Release date: June 5, 2025

Namco’s Ridge Racer is my favorite racing game series of all time. A stellar blend of arcade drifting, superb visuals, and vibes-driven soundtracks have made it a legendary racing franchise, particularly with entries like Ridge Racer Type 4 for the original PlayStation, and Ridge Racer 6 on Xbox 360 - both of which remain my favorites in the series to this day.

It’s a franchise that has been long-dormant to my chagrin, with the last mainline entry - Ridge Racer Unbounded - coming from FlatOut and Wreckfest developer Bugbear Entertainment in 2012. And honestly, the less said about that game, the better.

Now, developer Hamster has injected some life into the series once again, with a fantastic port of the original Ridge Racer for Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Arcade Archives 2 Ridge Racer is a package featuring the 1993 arcade version of the game, with a handful of modes and plenty of settings for customizing your experience.

It is very light in the content department, though. You’re not getting anything like Type 4’s 300+ cars or Ridge Racer 7’s tremendous campaign. As you might expect for an arcade racer of its time, you’re getting one track, a single car, and a half-dozen music tracks. If that relative lack of content is an issue, you might want to give Arcade Archives 2 Ridge Racer a miss.

That’s not to say that there aren't at least a few things to do. The track varies and extends based on your selected difficulty, as well as the car’s top speed. The ‘Original’ mode packs in plenty of customizable options to tailor your experience, and chasing online leaderboard times is a moreish endeavor. For $16.99 / £14.99, there’s a good amount on offer for the low cost of entry.

Slide through the curves

(Image credit: Hamster Co.)

Ridge Racer is perhaps the arcade racing game in its purest form. Similar to peers like Daytona USA, you’re tasked with completing a number of laps, while doing your best to pass other cars and hit checkpoints within the time limit, thus granting you a time extension - valuable seconds needed to continue the race.

Ridge Racer comes in four flavors of difficulty, each changing things up quite significantly. Novice offers a simplified course layout over two laps. Intermediate is the same course extended to three laps with a higher top speed. Advanced includes the full course layout, while Time Trial (shortened to T.T. in-game) pits you against a single driver on the full course with an even higher top speed.

Even though there’s just one track, it’s a visual treat even today, and it’s impressive just how much variety is packed into a single circuit. The full course takes you through a city, beachside resort, construction site, countryside, and more over just a couple of minutes. Lovely environmental touches like planes flying overhead and the time of day gradually shifting make for an atmospheric racing experience, too. Blasting through it all at around 220km/h is a real treat, especially once you’ve nailed down the drifting and handling.

Drifting, in particular, is definitely the pioneering gameplay feature of the Ridge Racer series, and that started as early as this first entry. The trick is to let go of the throttle and feather the brakes while turning, thus whipping your car around tight corners without losing much speed.

Nailing it here feels incredibly satisfying, especially when the game punishes you with quite severe speed loss if you hit a wall or another driver. Drifting would be refined in future entries, but it's impressive how good of a job Namco did in this first outing.

Drift into the lead

(Image credit: Hamster Co.)

So what other modes are on offer in Arcade Archives 2 Ridge Racer? If you want to challenge the online leaderboards, there are a few ways to do so. Hi Score Mode is a true-to-arcade experience where you must achieve the best race time you can on a single credit.

Caravan Mode has you racing for five minutes straight, with your score recorded in distance traveled. In both Hi Score and Caravan, you’re also able to choose your difficulty, each of which has its own leaderboard. Finally, Time Attack Mode is a gauntlet that has you setting times in each of the game’s four difficulties consecutively.

Best bit

(Image credit: Hamster Co.)

Chasing down faster times in the game’s various online leaderboards is a shockingly addictive experience. This is where most of the replay value lies, too, especially as there’s just a single track to race on that evolves depending on the difficulty you select.

There’s a good amount to do, then, if you’re a high score chaser, and plenty of varied ways to go about it. What you might notice, though, is that outside of Original Mode, track position doesn’t really matter. It’s all about going as fast as you can, setting the fastest times, or going as much distance as you possibly can.

Original Mode is the most malleable of the bunch. It’s the most casual of the modes, offering save states, and is the only mode that actually pauses when you hit the pause button. You’ll also have the option of playing Japanese or English ‘SD’ or ‘DX’ ROMs, with the only major difference being DX’s addition of a clutch button, mimicking the arcade cabinet releases.

There are plenty of settings, too. Full button layout customization is offered, as well as various display settings, including wallpapers for the 4:3 resolution, screen layout with the option for widescreen, and various CRT filters (though I much preferred to play without these for cleaner image quality).

You can also choose from six distinct music tracks before loading into a race. Ridge Racer is known for routinely having some of the best soundtracks to grace the genre, though I can’t say that’s the case in this first entry.

The rave-inspired music ranges from tolerable to borderline insufferable, and had me pining for the pristine blend of funk, house, and UK garage found in Ridge Racer Type 4. Though special mention does have to be given to Speedster - Track 5 - which houses an iconic sample that's also used in the Jet Set Radio soundtrack. That's plus points in my book.

Ridge Racer also has the dishonor of featuring what is perhaps the series’ most irritating announcer. Delivering lines with the overly charismatic cadence of an American game show host, you’ll hear “hey, somebody’s right on your tail!” countless times during a single race.

Should you play Arcade Archives 2 Ridge Racer?Play it if...

You want an authentic arcade racer experience
Ridge Racer was arguably the breakout arcade racer of its day, and while it lacks the wealth of content enjoyed by its many sequels, there’s a purity here that’s hard to find in contemporary racing games.

You love the thrill of online leaderboards
Chasing the best times possible in Ridge Racer is where most of its fun lies. The game is perfect for quick pick-up-and-play sessions, especially on the Switch 2’s handheld mode.

Don't play it if...

You were expecting more content
As mentioned, a single track and car is a far cry from what future Ridge Racer games would offer. I’m seriously hoping for a full-fledged series compilation release in the future, because this original game is definitely the series in its most basic form.

Accessibility

There aren’t really any contemporary accessibility options in Arcade Archives 2 Ridge Racer. Being able to adjust screen and button layouts depending on your preferences is nice, but there’s not a whole lot beyond that.

How I reviewed Arcade Archives 2 Ridge Racer

I’ve clocked in four hours of playtime in Arcade Archives 2 Ridge Racer so far. That’s more than enough to experience each of its modes many times over, and most of that time was spent climbing the online leaderboards for each mode.

I played the game on Nintendo Switch 2, using the Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller to play in docked mode. Though the vast majority of my playtime was spent in handheld mode, usually on lunch breaks or just before settling in for the night.

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• A new app turns Apple's trackpad into a weighing scale
• The results with the TrackWeight app are surprisingly accurate
• There are certainly limitations here, though, including the need to keep a fingertip on the trackpad while weighing an object

If you ever need a set of weighing scales in a pinch, it's possible to use your MacBook, believe it or not.

Tom's Hardware noticed a new app for macOS that turns the humble MacBook trackpad into a compact weighing scale, one that is surprisingly accurate, as illustrated in a demo video clip posted on X (see below).

You can turn your Mac trackpad into a weighing scale pic.twitter.com/KxbHrVfag3July 21, 2025

Krish Shah developed the app called TrackWeight, which uses Apple's Force Touch sensors to give you an approximate weight for any object placed on the trackpad.

Now, there's a caveat in that as you can see in the video, it's necessary to rest your finger on the trackpad while weighing - because as Shah explains, trackpad pressure recordings are only generated when capacitance is detected by the MacBook (meaning your finger, or any other conductive object).

The obvious drawback here is that the weight of your fingertip is going to register in the reading provided, too - so rest it on the trackpad as lightly as possible. By all accounts, the weight given is still pretty accurate - though I wouldn't recommend taking it as an exact reading, given the above catch.

The app uses the Open Multi-Touch Support library to tap into trackpad events in macOS, which includes the crucial pressure readings from the pad. Interestingly, Shah explains (on GitHub) that "the data we get from Multi-Touch Support is already in grams" which is handy.

Analysis: other caveats and compatibility

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This is a neat little trick for MacBooks, but there are some limitations, including, as observed, the accuracy, which is not going to be spot-on, but looks close enough to be a good estimation.

Also, weighing metal objects is problematic (due to their conductivity, they'll likely be detected as a finger press), so they will require a small piece of cloth (or paper) to break contact with the trackpad (again, potentially interfering with the reading slightly).

Clearly, you can't weigh large items on a trackpad, either, though the developer of the app claims to have successfully weighed a 3.5kg object without damaging the MacBook. Which is good going - I wouldn’t try that myself, mind, or indeed weighing luggage as the dev warns us against in tongue-and-cheek fashion.

If you're wondering about compatibility, you'll need a Force Touch trackpad on your Apple laptop, which means a MacBook from 2016 or newer (or a MacBook Pro from 2015). You'll also need to be running at least macOS 13 (to have the necessary Multi-Touch Support library) and have App Sandbox disabled (to grant low-level access to the trackpad data). As ever, install any third-party software at your own risk, should you regard this project as anything more than a curiosity.

Interestingly, old iPhones with 3D Touch could also be used to weigh objects (capacitive ones) - and seemingly very accurately in that case.

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• A 120-meter ship could soon host thousands of AI GPUs with direct seawater cooling
• The project depends on reused ships to cut both building costs and environmental damage
• MOL and Kinetics promise flexibility, mobility, and power abundance through powerships and offshore renewables

The idea of putting an AI-powered facility on a ship used to sound like science fiction - and not long ago, there was even a failed attempt by Del Complex to build a floating "AI nation" that would run itself using artificial intelligence.

Now, shipping heavyweight Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Kinetics, the energy transition unit of Karpowership, are aiming to realize something far more grounded.

The companies are working together to build a mobile floating data center that could house thousands of AI GPUs while addressing digital infrastructure bottlenecks.

MOL and Kinetics outline plans for a floating AI data center

The two firms recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop what they describe as “the world’s first integrated floating data center platform.”

The structure will be hosted aboard a retrofitted vessel, supported by a power supply that includes power ships, floating power plants developed by Karpowership, as well as other sources like solar farms, offshore wind, and onshore grids.

“This project represents a major step toward our vision at Kinetics, delivering innovative, efficient, and sustainable infrastructure solutions that meet the energy needs of today and tomorrow,” said Mehmet Katmer, CEO of Kinetics.

“By pairing mobile power generation with floating data infrastructure, we are addressing critical market bottlenecks while enabling faster, cleaner, and more flexible digital capacity expansion.”

The data center is projected to offer between 20 and 73MW of capacity, cooled by direct water systems drawing from seas or rivers.

It would be mounted on a 120-meter-long ship, with network plans that include submarine cables and land-based internet exchanges.

“This MOU represents an important step forward in using the MOL Group's assets and extensive expertise in ship operations to rapidly build digital infrastructure while minimizing environmental impact,” said Tomoaki Ichida, Managing Executive Officer of MOL.

"Moving forward, we will continue to expand a diverse range of social infrastructure businesses centered on the shipping industry.”

A mobile, sea-cooled, power-rich platform that bypasses land constraints and permitting headaches offers an attractive alternative to overburdened terrestrial data centers.

The flexibility is notable, but the scale of the ambition raises questions, and this warrants skepticism.

Although the idea sounds perfect on paper, its real-world execution could face the same issues that has plagued similar utopian infrastructure concepts.

The MOU promises operations by 2027, contingent on “successful feasibility studies and ongoing technical developments.”

Those feasibility studies will need to prove that issues like network latency, physical relocation risks, regulatory uncertainty, and long-term maintenance can be reliably addressed.

Cost and sustainability arguments hinge heavily on the reuse of existing ships.

“In addition to reducing construction costs,” the project claims, “the use of existing onboard systems... is expected to reduce initial investment costs.”

By avoiding new builds, the developers believe they can also cut the environmental toll of raw material extraction.

The practical advantages, such as speed of deployment, mobility, and independence from strained land-based grids, are not in doubt.

“Even in areas experiencing power shortages, offshore data centers can begin operations immediately,” the developers note.

But whether this system will prove reliable, scalable, and economically sound in the long term remains to be seen.

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