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Former Xbox exclusive role-playing game Avowed is coming to PlayStation 5, and it'll be released on the game's first anniversary: 17th February 2026 (note: the original PC and Xbox Series S/X release happened on 18th February 2025 but it's only a day's difference). Read more
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Microsoft is testing a new Windows policy that lets IT administrators uninstall Microsoft Copilot from managed devices. The change rolls out via Windows Insider builds and works through standard management tools like Intune and SCCM. BleepingComputer reports: The new policy will apply to devices where the Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot are both installed, the Microsoft Copilot app was not installed by the user, and the Microsoft Copilot app... Read more âș
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Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to "triple your crypto," according to a thread on Reddit. The Betterment account says in an X thread that this was an "unauthorized message" that was sent via a "third-party system." Here's [âŠ] Read more âș
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In October, Apple caved to pressure from the Trump administration and removed ICEBlock â and similar apps which crowdsourced the location of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement activity â from its App Store. Apple's stated rationale? The apps could "be used to harm law enforcement officers." But armed-to-the-teeth ICE officers donât need protection from civilians. Apple had that exactly backward.That became impossible to ignore on Wednesday, when ICE agent Jonathon Ross... Read more âș
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X is suing music publishers and their trade group, the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), accusing them of attempted coercion in their ongoing battle over licensing, as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. The Elon Musk-owned platform accuses music publishers of colluding with the NMPA to "coerce X into taking licenses to musical works from [âŠ] Read more âș
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"What happened to the police body cameras?" one Uber driver in Minnesota asked a Border Patrol agent. Read more âș
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Since X's users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple's and Google's app stores. The fact that it hasn't happened yet tells me something serious about Silicon Valley's leadership: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are [âŠ] Read more âș
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A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing. Read more âș
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The president uses digital media to get his message across â but he really loves old media like newspapers and cable TV. Read more âș
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"We're in the singularity. We're at the top of the roller coaster, and it's about to go down." Read more âș
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Billionaireâs xAI start-up lacks adequate safeguards, say experts, but many AI models are trained on troubling material Read more âș
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The first video I saw of the Minneapolis shooting was bad enough. Shortly after I saw it, I had the terrible realization that there were multiple people in the clip holding their phones up - another angle was bound to surface. Within minutes, a second video was all over social media, and it was even [âŠ] Read more âș
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'KPop Demon Hunters' will make fans wait for merch and a sequel, but its breakout bop now has even more alternate versions available. Read more âș
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Longtime Slashdot reader chicksdaddy writes: CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, isn't just about shiny new gadgets. As AP reports, this year brought back the fifth annual Worst in Show anti-awards, calling out the most harmful, wasteful, invasive, and unfixable tech at the Las Vegas show. The coalition behind the awards -- including Repair.org, iFixit, EFF, PIRG, Secure Repairs, and others -- put the spotlight on products that miss the point... Read more âș
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OpenAI and SoftBank will each invest $500 million in SB Energy, a SoftBank-backed data center developer thatâs building a site for the Stargate project. As part of the investment, the companies have agreed to work together on data centers using designs developed by OpenAI, according to a Friday ... Read more âș
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How much alcohol should you drink? The US government now vaguely, in effect, says just donât drink too much. And what qualifies as too much? Well, thatâs up to you. As part of the new federal dietary guidelines released this week, the Trump administration eliminated the previous specific recommended limits on alcohol consumption â two [âŠ] Read more âș
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Hi readers, this has been a breakneck news week. Hereâs one big story that shouldnât get lost in the shuffle: After Venezuela, President Donald Trump [âŠ] Read more âș
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Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot has taken a big step forward, giving us a glimpse of how humanoid robotics is moving beyond traditional design limits. Read more âș
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Get a lifetime of pro-level mobile scanning with iScanner for just $27.99 with code FLASH through Jan. 11. Read more âș
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Charlie Brooker's series will return to Netflix for another round of (inevitably) eerily timely episodes. Read more âș
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Troy Baker, one of the most well known actors working in video games, believes generative AI could have a positive effect overall on performing arts. Baker thinks it'll cause a reaction whereby people will seek out "authentic" experiences more - live shows, live theatre - and turn away from "gruel that gets distilled to me through a black mirror". Read more Read more âș
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Netflix has today confirmed that the fifth season of The Witcher will air on the streaming service this year. It follows Season 4 in rapid succession - that series having launched at the end of October last year. Read more Read more âș
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2025 has been the worst year on record for Xbox console sales in the UK. Read more Read more âș
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The analyst who forecasted a Witcher 3 expansion release in 2026 has told me they're "100 percent certain [CD Projekt Red] will release significant new content this year". Read more Read more âș
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43.8 million player votes later, the winners of the 2025 Steam Awards have been announced, with Hollow Knight: Silksong securing top prize, Game of the Year. Read more Read more âș
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall will focus on what those at the studio personally think is "cool" for its next game, rather than feel any pressure to focus on what anyone else thinks it should do. Read more Read more âș
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A patent filed by Sony over a year ago has resurfaced, and shows the company has ideas for an AI 'ghost' that could assist players if they get stuck in a game. Read more Read more âș
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Silent Hill 2 Remake and Chronos: The New Dawn developer Blooper Team kicked off the new year with a mysterious word: remosdneulserorehsoovamceyerd. Read more Read more âș
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Capcom cut an entire chapter in which you played as Ashley in the opening of Resident Evil 4 Remake. Read more Read more âș
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The Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) and Rockstar Games have traded more blows following a preliminary tribunal hearing this week. There, the IWGB asked a judge to grant the fired Grand Theft Auto 6 developers interim relief. Read more Read more âș
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