Arc, the much-hyped privacy-forward internet browser, won't be getting any more new features. This fact was announced months ago by its developer, The Browser Company, and clarified yesterday in a blog post in which the venture capital-backed entity that built Arc announced plans to focus on an as yet unreleased AI-based browser instead.For now, Arc will still be getting security updates, most of them inherited from the open-source Chromium project, but it's understandable that some dedicated Arc users may be looking for an alternative, and I know of a good one: the open source Zen Browser, currently in beta.Zen is beautiful in the same way Arc is, with its elegant vertical tabs located on the left side. Like Arc, it supports multiple workspaces and offers a compact mode with no toolbars or tabs. It also offers theming, split view, and link previews. Even better, it's built on the same browser engine as Firefox—and not Chromium—meaning it supports legitimate ad and privacy blockers like uBlock Origin. One Arc feature Zen lacks is any kind of AI integration; whether that's a downside or an upside will depend on your feelings about AI in your browsing experience.How to get started with the Zen BrowserWhen you install Zen it will offer to import your bookmarks, history, and even your passwords from another browser on your system. It then ask you to choose a color scheme, and select the key tabs you'd like to pin to the top of your workspaces. After that you can start browsing the internet, just the way you're used to. Arc users won't need to adjust much when switching to Zen—I daresay everything will feel pretty familiar.Credit: Justin Pot There are a couple of ways to customize Zen. In the settings you can choose between a single, multiple, or collapsed toolbar. If you want more fine tuning, there are Zen Mods, community-made plugins that let you customize all sorts of things about the user interface. More importantly, the browser offers full support for Firefox extensions, meaning you can also browse the Firefox Extensions gallery and install anything you want. Credit: Justin Pot The bottom line: Zen is a clean, speedy alternative browser. If you like Firefox but hate its UI, I recommend checking it out, and the same goes for anyone seeking an alternative to Arc that is still actively being developed. #arc #browser #dead #but #firefoxbased

According to Bloomberg, the next versions of Apple’s operating systems may be labeled by year, starting now. It makes sense. At this point, we’ve got VisionOS 2, watchOS 11, macOS 15, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. Instead, they might all be tagged 26 — even if they launch this year. It’s not the first tech company to align new products with the year of release. Samsung started naming its phones by year of release in 2020 with the S20, which followed the S10. We’ll learn for sure in under two weeks: WWDC kicks off June 9. — Mat Smith Get Engadget's newsletter delivered direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! The news you might have missed Fujifilm GFX100RF review: A powerful, fun camera that’s far from perfect Can you still buy a Switch 2 on launch day? Maybe Weber Smoque review: A simplified smart grill that’s still a workhorse Video Games Weekly: Grand Theft Auto is no friend to the queer community Volkswagen ID.Buzz review: A head-turning EV microbus with unfortunate flaws PlayStation’s DualSense Edge wireless controller is cheaper than ever Sony is discounting consoles, accessories, games and subscriptions. Engadget One of the standout deals of this year’s Days of Play sale is the PS5 DualSense Edge controller. You can pick one up for which is 15 percent off its usual price. The deal is available on Amazon and directly from Sony. The Edge resembles a regular DualSense controller, but there’s a lot more to it. For instance, there are function buttons below each thumbstick and rear paddles, and you can choose between a set of levers or shorter half-domes. If you haven’t jumped on the PS5 yet, the PS5 Pro also gets a discount. Continue reading. The new Opera browser can surf the web for you It’s not Chrome, Safari or Edge, but if you’re willing to be different… Opera has launched another… Opera browser. Neon is its first fully agentic browser. That means it’s baked in AI chat with users and can surf the web on their behalf.  It… clicks for you. It can even fill out forms and shop for you. If you’re feeling more ambitious, you can ask Neon to build websites, animations, even games, and it can continue chipping away at big projects while you’re offline. Will that all be enough to swing you away from all your Chrome plugins or Safari passwords? According to recent figures, just over 2 percent of internet users use Opera. You can try it for yourself now. Oh wait, no, there’s a waitlist. Continue reading. This gaming mouse has a tiny fan inside For the pro gamers. Pulsar Pulsar’s latest competitive gaming mouse features a premium tiny fan from Noctua, the renowned fan brand.. With a skeletal shell designed to enhance airflow, it’s for sweaty-palmed professional gamers. Like the original Feinmann mouse from Pulsar, it has a 32,00 DPI sensor and an ultra-fast 8,000 Hz polling rate. Due to the fan, it’s a little heavier than the original at 65 grams. And the price of dry palm calm? Continue reading.This article originally appeared on Engadget at #morning #after #apple #might #skip

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html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "; Itoosoft has released RailClone 7, the latest version of its 3ds Max parametric modelling plugin.The update introduces a new set of Spline Operators for manipulating splines in a wide range of ways, comprising 10 new nodes with 19 separate features. Users of the paid Pro edition get RailClone Systems, a new set of readymade procedural assets for generating common architectural structures like windows, curtain walls, and cabling. A popular parametric modelling tool for architectural visualisation work First released in 2010, RailClone makes it possible to generate complex 3D models by defining procedural construction rules using a node-based workflow.Users can create complex 3D models by repeating simple base meshes, or ‘Segments’, along splines, using Generators to arrange them into arrays, and Operators to control their properties. Although the workflow applies to visual effects or motion graphics, the plugin is most commonly used to generate buildings and street furniture for architectural visualisation projects. It is compatible with a range of third-party renderers, including Arnold, Corona, FStorm, OctaneRender, Redshift and V-Ray. RailClone 7: new multi-purpose Spline Operators RailClone 7 adds a new category of Spline Operators to the software’s graph editor.The 10 new nodes include Basic Ops, a new ‘multi-tool’ for performing common operations on splines, like transforming, breaking, combining, flattening or chamfering splines. A new Boolean node performs standard Boolean operations on regions bounded by splines. Other new nodes include Offset, for creating repeating clones of splines; Catenary, for creating the catenary curves generated by cables hanging under their own weight; and Conform, for projecting splines onto terrain. The images in Itoosoft’s blog post show potential use cases ranging from creating road networks to structures like wiring, railings and gantries. In addition, a new Draw Splines mode makes it possible to preview the result of spline operations directly in the viewport. New version-independent portable file format, and updates to point clouds Other new features include the Itoosoft Portable file format, making it possible to save RailClone objects in a file format independent of the version of 3ds Max used to create them.The point cloud display mode has been updated, with each RailClone object now using a fixed number of points, rather than point density being dependent on distance from the camera. According to Itoosoft, the new mode is optimized for modern GPUs and versions of 3ds Max. There are also a number of smaller workflow and feature updates, especially to macros, array generation, and handling of V-Ray Proxies when rendering with V-Ray GPU or Vantage. Pro edition: new RailClone Systems procedural assets Users of the paid Pro edition also get RailClone Systems, a new set of customizable readymade procedural assets for creating common architectural elements like windows, suspended ceilings, curtain walls, boardwalks, and cabling.You can see the new assets in the online preview of RailClone’s asset library. Price and system requirements RailClone 7.0 is available for 3ds Max 2022+. Feature support varies between the compatible renderers. New licences start at including one year’s maintenance. There is also a free, feature-limited Lite edition of the plugin. Read an overview of the new features in RailClone 7 on iToo Software’s blog Read a full list of new features in RailClone in the online release notes. Visit the RailClone product websiteHave your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X. As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we don’t post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects. #itoosoft #releases #railclone

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May 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Threat Intelligence The China-linked threat actor behind the recent in-the-wild exploitation of a critical security flaw in SAP NetWeaver has been attributed to a broader set of attacks targeting organizations in Brazil, India, and Southeast Asia since 2023. "The threat actor mainly targets the SQL injection vulnerabilities discovered on web applications to access the SQL servers of targeted organizations," Trend Micro security researcher Joseph C Chen said in an analysis published this week. "The actor also takes advantage of various known vulnerabilities to exploit public-facing servers." Some of the other prominent targets of the adversarial collective include Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. The cybersecurity company is tracking the activity under the moniker Earth Lamia, stating the activity shares some degree of overlap with threat clusters documented by Elastic Security Labs as REF0657, Sophos as STAC6451, and Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 as CL-STA-0048. Each of these attacks has targeted organizations spanning multiple sectors in South Asia, often leveraging internet-exposed Microsoft SQL Servers and other instances to conduct reconnaissance, deploy post-exploitation tools like Cobalt Strike and Supershell, and establish proxy tunnels to the victim networks using Rakshasa and Stowaway. Also used are privilege escalation tools like GodPotato and JuicyPotato; network scanning utilities such as Fscan and Kscan; and legitimate programs like wevtutil.exe to clean Windows Application, System, and Security event logs. Select intrusions aimed at Indian entities have also attempted to deploy Mimic ransomware binaries to encrypt victim files, although the efforts were largely unsuccessful. "While the actors were seen staging the Mimic ransomware binaries in all observed incidents, the ransomware often did not successfully execute, and in several instances, the actors were seen attempting to delete the binaries after being deployed," Sophos noted in an analysis published in August 2024. Then earlier this month, EclecticIQ disclosed that CL-STA-0048 was one among the many China-nexus cyber espionage groups to exploit CVE-2025-31324, a critical unauthenticated file upload vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver to establish a reverse shell to infrastructure under its control. Besides CVE-2025-31324, the hacking crew is said to have weaponized as many as eight different vulnerabilities to breach public-facing servers - CVE-2017-9805 - Apache Struts2 remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2021-22205 - GitLab remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2024-9047 - WordPress File Upload plugin arbitrary file access vulnerability CVE-2024-27198 - JetBrains TeamCity authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2024-27199 - JetBrains TeamCity path traversal vulnerability CVE-2024-51378 - CyberPanel remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2024-51567 - CyberPanel remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2024-56145 - Craft CMS remote code execution vulnerability Describing it as "highly active," Trend Micro noted that the threat actor has shifted its focus from financial services to logistics and online retail, and most recently, to IT companies, universities, and government organizations. "In early 2024 and prior, we observed that most of their targets were organizations within the financial industry, specifically related to securities and brokerage," the company said. "In the second half of 2024, they shifted their targets to organizations mainly in the logistics and online retail industries. Recently, we noticed that their targets have shifted again to IT companies, universities, and government organizations." A noteworthy technique adopted by Earth Lamia is to launch its custom backdoors like PULSEPACK via DLL side-loading, an approach widely embraced by Chinese hacking groups. A modular .NET-based implant, PULSEPACK communicates with a remote server to retrieve various plugins to carry out its functions. Trend Micro said it observed in March 2025 an updated version of the backdoor that changes the command-and-controlcommunication method from TCP to WebSocket, indicating active ongoing development of the malware. "Earth Lamia is conducting its operations across multiple countries and industries with aggressive intentions," it concluded. "At the same time, the threat actor continuously refines their attack tactics by developing custom hacking tools and new backdoors." Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post. SHARE     #chinalinked #hackers #exploit #sap #sql

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "; Boris FX has begun its 2025 updates to Silhouette, its roto and paint software.Silhouette 2025 adds new AI tools for refining mattes, generating depth maps and fixing glitches in video, and a new 3D Scene node for importing scenes with tracked 3D cameras. A VFX-industry standard tool for rotoscoping and roto paint work First released 20 years ago, and acquired by Boris FX in 2019, Silhouette is a rotoscoping and paint tool.The software is widely used in production for movie and broadcast visual effects, winning both a Scientific and Technical Academy Award and Engineering Emmy Award in 2019. As well as the original standalone edition, Silhouette is available as a plugin, making the toolset available inside Adobe software and OFX-compatible apps like Nuke and DaVinci Resolve. New AI tools for refining mattes, generating depth maps, and fixing glitches Silhouette 2025 introduces new AI-based features for automating common tasks.The 2024 releases added an AI-based matte workflow, with the Mask ML node automatically generating a mask for a significant object – like a person or animal – in a frame of video, and Matte Assist ML propagating it throughout the rest of the footage. They are now joined by Matte Refine ML, a new node for processing hard-edge mattes into “natural, detailed selections”, creating better results when isolating hair or fur. In addition, new Depth Map ML and Frame Fixer ML tools generate depth maps from footage, and semi-automatically fix artifacts like scratches, camera flashes, or dropped frames. You can read more about them in our story on Continuum 2025.5, Silhouette’s sibling tool. New 3D Scene node lets users work with tracked 3D cameras Other new features in Silhouette 2025 include the new 3D environment.The 3D Scene node makes it possible to load a scene with a tracked 3D camera in FBX or Alembic format, or to perform a 3D track using Mocha Pro or SynthEyes. It is then possible to place cards in 3D space and paint directly on them in the viewer, while a new Unproject/Reproject node allows for fuller composites. Other new features When using a PowerMesh from Silhouette’s Mocha module to track deforming organic surfaces, it is now possible to paint on undistorted frames using a new PowerMesh Morph node.In addition, it is now possible to merge custom node setups into a single Compound node, which can be reused between projects or shared with collaborators. Prices up since the previous release The price of the software has also risen since Silhouette 2024.5, although the increases aren’t as large as with some of Boris FX’s other recent product updates.For the standalone edition, the price of perpetual licenses rise by to Subscriptions rise by /month, to /month, or by /year, to /year. For the plugin edition, the price of perpetual licenses rise by to Subscriptions rise by /month, to /month, or by /year, to /year. Price and system requirements Silhouette 2025 is available as a standalone tool for Windows 10+, Linux and macOS 12.0+, and as a plugin for Adobe software and OFX-compatible tools like Nuke.Perpetual licences of the standalone cost ; the plugin costs Rental costs /month or /year for the standalone; /month or /year for the plugin. Read a list of new features in Silhouette 2025 on Boris FX’s blog Have your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X. As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we don’t post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects. #boris #releases #silhouette

What Makes Plus Renamer So Useful? We didn’t just want a renaming tool. We wanted one that actually saved time and didn’t feel clunky. Renamer is fast, flexible, and built to handle real workflow pain points. Here’s what it can do: Rename selected items in one click Use smart tokens like: $name – Keeps the original name New_$name becomes New_Cube $type – Inserts the item type$type_## becomes Object_01, Object_02 ## – Adds zero-padded index numbers Asset_## becomes Asset_01, Asset_02 $abc / $ABC – Adds alphabetical sequencesTile_$abc becomes Tile_a, Tile_b, Tile_c Mat_$ABC_Texture becomes Mat_A_Texture, Mat_B_Texture Match and Replace names How to Use It Renamer lets you clean house in seconds. Rename everything consistently, so your scenes are readable, maintainable, and ready for handoff. Open Plus Renamer from the Plus Library menu inside C4D Select your targetsSet your naming pattern Click the corresponding Rename pattern That’s it. No fuss. And if you change your mind, simply undo it. We Built This for Us. Now It’s Yours. Plus Renamer is part of a growing set of workflow plugins and scripts we’ve built to fix the real pain points in Cinema 4D. And it’s available now inside the Greyscalegorilla HUB. If you’re a Plus member, just open the HUB, install or update, and you’ll see Renamer under the Plugins tab in Cinema 4D. Not a Plus member yet? Learn more and join here. #clean #your #c4d #projects #with

There is another game artists focused Humble Bundle, joining yesterday’s 3D Artists Tools & Brushes Bundle, this one is the Flipped Normals Extreme Add-Ons Bundle for Blender & ZBrush. This is a collection of add-ons for both Blender and Brush. It is important to note the following: Free lifetime updates are not included in the bundle purchase. All creators have included coupon codes in the bundle, so you can purchase directly from their shop at a discounted price to receive updates and full support. As with most Humble Bundles, the Flipped Normals Extreme Add-Ons Bundle for Blender & ZBrush is organized into the following tiers: 10$ Tier Fit Curve Blendshop – Layer-Based Compositing / Color Grading Tool – Blender 4.0+ Geo Sign 1.0 – Sign Generator Blender Addon Power Maps ZBrush Plugin Model Enhancer – ZBrush Plugin 20$ Tier Wrap Gen – Generate Fully Customisable WrapsFit Lattice Real Cloud 1.0 – Cloud Creator / Blender Addon + 200 VDB Assets Power Shapes ZBrush Plugin ZBrush – Mask & Delete Plugin 30$ Tier Lazy VFX 1.0 – VDB Assets & Blender Addon Better Lighting V2 – Light Presets & Gobos Library Fluid Kit – Water Generator & Water Assets Library Lazy Forest V2 – Forest Generator Addon + Trees & Plants Library Physical Starlight And Atmosphere Physical Celestial Objects – Procedural Planets Physical Open Waters Spline Brush – Turn Splines into Brush Strokes Light Wrangler: Essential Lighting Add-On For Blender Quad Maker Power Modeler ZBrush Plugin Easy Mesh ZBrush Plugin Power Primitives ZBrush Plugin Power Text Brush Maker ZBrush Plugin Real-time Hair ZBrush Plugin Torn Pro – ZBrush Plugin UV-Pro Mastering UV Unwrapping – ZBrush Plugin ARMORED MIRROR Zbrush Plugin Geo-Scatter 5.5 Using links on this page to purchase the bundle helps support GFS. You can access the  3D Artists Tools & Brushes Bundle here and the Flipped Normals Extreme Add-Ons Bundle for Blender & ZBrush here. If you’d like to see coverage of a specific asset in action in video form please do let me know on the GFS discord server. #extreme #addons #bundle #blender #zbrush

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "; Architectural visualization artist and tools developer Antoine Bagattini has released Baga River Generator, a new tool for rivers to 3D scenes in Blender.The add-on, co-created with artist Laura Mercadal, lets users create detailed rivers simply by drawing freehand paths in the viewport. Add good-looking 3D rivers to Blender scenes by drawing them in freehand To judge from the promo video embedded above, workflow in Baga River Generator is pretty much as simple as selecting a preset, then drawing a path in the viewport.The add-on then generates a detailed 3D river along the course of the path, complete with water, banks, and surrounding terrain, populated with rocks and plants. There are four presets available – a desert environment, and three with surrounding vegetation – and the add-on comes with over 30 different readymade environment assets. If you want to create your own looks, the terrain is fully parametric, making it possible to adjust the width and depth of the river channel and height of the surrounding land. You can also create or edit scatter layers, to control how the environment assets are distributed. There are some limitations in the initial release – the vegetation isn’t animated, and the water doesn’t have any foam or turbulence – but the results in the video look pretty good, and the output can be rendered with both the Cycles and Eevee render engines. Price and system requirements Baga River Generator is compatible with Blender 4.2+. It costs To install it, you need the GeoPack system in BagaPie, Bagattini’s free Blender modifier, which is now available as an Extension directly inside Blender. about Baga River Generator on the plugin’s Superhive page Have your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X. As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we don’t post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects. #baga #river #generator #lets #you