‘Doom’ 6.66 unloads a host of hellish updates free of charge

Hell is about to be unleashed for a very affordable price. Bethesda’s “ultimate” edition of Doom rolls out to PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 with the new 6.66 update . How’s that for a nice, round, hellish number? The update unlocks all the multiplayer DLC for everyone, offers skill-progression Runes in multiplayer and also comes with a new progression system. Instead of random loot unlocks in multiplayer, you’ll get to work toward specific upgrades. Not only that, but you can grab the whole new edition, including the SnapMap level editor and arcade mode , for $14.99. If you just want to try it out, there will be free weekends on each platform this month, as well. The developer also overhauled “most” of the in-game heads-up display, “including better callouts for challenges, awards and scoring.” The new kill card screen should also make it easier to know more about how and why you died, along with who exactly destroyed you. “Players will also discover numerous improvements throughout the menus and user interface, ” writes the developer in a blog post , “including completely revised post-match summaries as well as updates that better illustrate player status in lobbies, highlight the new progression options and status, and better outline weapon, equipment and demon characteristics.” If the $15 price doesn’t convince you to launch yourself into hell, you can give the title a test run for free at 12pm ET on July 20 for Xbox One, 1pm ET on the same day for PC and then at 12pm ET on July 27th for PlayStation players. Via: Polygon Source: Bethesda

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132 Google Play apps tried to infect Android users with… Windows malware

Enlarge (credit: Palo Alto Networks ) It’s a mystery that left researchers scratching their heads: 132 Android apps in the official Google Play market attempted to infect users with… Windows malware. The apps, which were spawned by seven different developers, mostly contained carefully concealed HTML-based iframe tags that connected to two heavily obfuscated malicious domains. In one case, an app didn’t use iframes but instead used Microsoft’s Visual Basic language to inject an entire obfuscated Windows executable into the HTML. The apps were equipped with two capabilities. One was to load interstitial ads, and the other was to load the main app. The main apps loaded WebView components that were configured to allow loaded JavaScript code to access the app’s native functionality. An example of one infected app’s user interface and underlying code. (credit: Palo Alto Networks ) That was a lot of work considering that the Windows-based malware was incapable of executing on an Android device. On top of that, the two malicious domains in the iframes—brenz.pl and chura.pl—were taken over by Polish security authorities in 2013. So what, precisely, was going on? Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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Yosemite Transformation Pack Makes Your Windows Desktop Look Like OS X

Windows: With the release of Yosemite , even the most diehard fans of Microsoft’s OS at least once thought about moving to Mac OS X. Reasons may be different, but in case they are the appearance and style, then there is a nice solution that you can try out. Read more…

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Yosemite Transformation Pack Makes Your Windows Desktop Look Like OS X