Tech Radar

• Spotify will now reserve concert tickets for artists' biggest fans — the service is standing against Ticketmaster battles and scalpers by launching its own ticket priority system so you can automatically benefit if you really love a musician

  Spotify wants to take down ticket scalpers, and it's launching a new system that gives top fans the chance to score first-priority tickets.

• It's official: Warhorse Studios is officially working on a new open-world Lord of the Rings RPG alongside 'a new Kingdom Come adventure'

  Warhorse Studios has announced that its next projects are now in development, and they include a new Kingdom Come title and an open-world Lord of the Rings role-playing game.

• Spotify's huge new podcast makeover means you can now ask in-depth questions about the episodes you’re listening to, which sounds great — but the new 'generated' Personal Podcast feature will be more controversial…

  More new features are coming to Spotify's podcasts, including a search tool that dives deeper into your favorite episodes and a Personal Podcast generator.

• 12 products for keeping cool at work

  My strategy for productive working in 30°C+ heat

• Top arcade game maker leaks nearly 19 million user records via WeChat mini app

  Researchers found a new Elasticsearch instance containing plenty of sensitive data.