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The consumer movement Stop Killing Games "has come a long way in the two years since
YouTuber Ross Scott got mad about Ubisoft's
destruction of The Crew in 2024," writes the gaming news site PC Gamer. "The short version is, he won: 1.3 million people signed the group's petition, mandating its consideration by the European Union, and while Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot reminded us all that nothing is forever, his company promised to never do something like that again." (And Ubisoft has since updated The Crew 2.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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lectrified vehicle sales hit new highs around the world as 50 countries saw quarterly records in Q2 of 2026. Read more ›
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Igor Runets has been transferred to a pre-trial detention facility from house arrest as he faces accusations of failing to deliver on a contract. Read more ›
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For most people, the Tab A1 Plus checks all the boxes and is the best budget tablet you can buy, but don’t expect power or long-term Android support. Read more ›
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‘The whole thing is just a really, really big bummer’ — Qobuz’s Managing Director on the scourge of AI-generated audio in streaming, and why he still refuses to call it music Read more ›
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Toronto vape tech company has now raised $56 million USD through financing and strategic investment. Read more ›
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Poor Joe... she's never going to have an easy day at work. But, when does Lioness season 3 episode 1 land on Paramount+? Read more ›
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The AI industry’s investors and critics don’t agree on much. But many in each camp share at least one basic conviction: America’s top labs are about to make a killing. Capital markets have signaled their faith in Anthropic and OpenAI’s impending hyper-profitability, valuing each at nearly $1 trillion. Many of Silicon Valley’s progressive adversaries also […] Read more ›
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Fintech Revolut will give its retail customers access to ChatGPT Go as part of a new partnership with OpenAI. ChatGPT Go is a medium tier subscription for the AI chatbot that typically costs users a monthly fee of £7. It allows higher usage limits than a free account as well as file uploads, document analysis ... Read more ›
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Sam Altman said people should keep stretching their brains as AI takes on more complex work and personal tasks. Read more ›
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We've been hearing about the Galaxy Tab S12 series for the past few months, and Samsung has confirmed that it's coming this year without getting specific. This confirmation came from Samsung executive Daniel Araujo during the company's Q3 earnings call while replying to a question about the financial difficulties faced by Samsung's mobile unit during the RAM crisis. Araujo said, “To manage this (financial difficulty), we’re focused on maintaining strong... Read more ›
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The DCG-owned company previously cut 35% of staff in January 2023 citing tough market conditions. Read more ›
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Уважаемые хабровчане, всем привет! Меня зовут Алина Акиншина, я генеральный директор Онлайн Патента. И я к вам с отличной новостью. В городе Москва запущена уникальная программа поддержки предпринимателей — в 2026 году компании могут бесплатно получить услуги по подготовке патентной заявки. Оплатить нужно будет только пошлины, а получить услугу может практически любой бизнес (ИП или компания) с местом регистрации в столице. При чем тут мы? Всё просто, Онлайн Патент является... Read more ›
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Хабр, привет!В прошлом году мы уже рассказывали тут, как R-Vision SOAR помогал командам защитников на Standoff 16 автоматизировать реагирование на инциденты, работая в условиях непрерывных атак. Тогда мы впервые представили продукт на одной из самых масштабных кибербитв страны, где по масштабу инфраструктуры условия близки к корпоративной среде, но плотность атак и скорость развития событий значительно выше.На Standoff 17 мы решили расширить сценарий участия и впервые представили R-Vision SIEM, систему упра Read more ›
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Ryan Stewart, a brand marketing manager at Tinder, said he pitched his own role after interning at the dating platform. Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Verisign is finally bringing web domains to the internet after a decade of fighting. Verisign says the .web top-level domain has finally been delegated into the DNS root, clearing the way for public registrations later in 2026. Until now, consumers could not buy normal working .web domains, despite the extension attracting a record $135 million winning bid in 2016. The launch could make .web one of the more... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC News: It's rare that cancerous tumors can spread from one individual to another. But a genetic study suggests that's what's happening with melanoma tumors among catfish in Quebec and the northeastern U.S. The discovery represents the first known transmissible cancer in fish and one of very few transmissible cancers ever found, reported the study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. Julie... Read more ›
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Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to block U.S. access to Chinese open-weight AI models or risk crippling the next generation of U.S. startups. Politico reports: On Wednesday, the newly-formed Little Tech Association sent letters to President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others in the administration with its appeal, marking the first coordinated effort by Silicon Valley's wider... Read more ›
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Scientific American reports that the 2026 Fields Medals went to four mathematicians for work ranging from the theory of knots to the motion of fluid: The Fields Medals went to Hong Wang of New York University and France's Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies (IHES), Yu Deng of the University of Chicago, John Pardon of Stony Brook University and Jacob Tsimerman of the University of Toronto. In the awards' 90-year history,... Read more ›
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Ford will become the first automaker to embed Apple Maps directly into its vehicles, starting with an all-electric midsize pickup built on its new Universal Electric Vehicle platform. "The pickup -- with Ford testing preproduction models on roads now -- is expected to start at $30,000 when it comes to market in 2027," reports the Detroit Free Press. "Ford has said several other EVs off that platform will follow, including... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Many gamers have been lamenting Sony's recently announced decision to halt sales of physical game discs in 2028. However, new data revealed by Circana analyst Mat Piscatella highlights how years of stark economic trends helped lead Sony to that decision. In a social media thread Thursday morning, Piscatella shared insights into Circana's tracking data on physical game sales in the U.S.... Read more ›
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Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video, adding a new "Games" tab where Prime members can play titles like "Hogwarts Legacy," "EA Sports FC 26," "Indiana Jones and the Great Circle," "Clue," and "Taboo." The games will be available starting today on Fire TVs in the U.S. and U.K., with additional supported devices and countries in the coming months. TechCrunch reports: With this move, Amazon is... Read more ›
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The European Union fined Google more than $1 billion for allegedly using Google Play and Search to steer users toward its own services and apps at the expense of competitors. The Associated Press reports: Google had recently lost its appeal of a $4.5 billion antitrust fine imposed by the EU for throttling competition and reducing consumer choice through the dominance of its mobile Android operating system. The European Commission, the... Read more ›
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LG is removing a McAfee pop-up ad from its LG Monitor App Installer after criticism that some LG monitors were silently installing the app through Windows Update and showing ads on every boot. Microsoft says LG agreed to disable the McAfee pop-up, but the broader issue remains: Windows allows certain peripheral companion apps to install automatically without notifying users. Ars Technica reports: Following Gamers Nexus' video, a Microsoft representative stated... Read more ›
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Oracle has signed a 10-year Pentagon contract worth up to $7 billion to provide on-premises software, licenses, maintenance, and consulting for branches of the military. CNBC reports: The contract covers the use of Oracle software in on-premises data centers for branches of the military, the U.S. intelligence community and the Coast Guard, according to a statement. The Central Intelligence Agency was Oracle's first customer. A five-year base period for the... Read more ›
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