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A new email from Sony says that PlayStation will require players to verify their age later this year to keep using communication features like messages and voice chat. Insider-Gaming reports: The initiative comes from the goal of providing "safe, age-appropriate experiences for players and families while respecting their privacy" and providing "meaningful control over their gaming experiences." The age-verification process will be implemented globally, and players will need to verify their age to continue u
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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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Sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg the fundraiser is expected to close in the coming weeks and the final amount might vary. Read more ›
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Lately I have been doing a lot of reflecting — mostly about the years I feel I wasted. Not in a dramatic, woe is me sort of way. More like the wince you get looking at an old photo and remembering how you used to do your hair. The biggest one for me is this: ... Read more Read more ›
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Entain is calling on England’s new soccer watchdog to intervene against Premier League clubs taking sponsorship money from gambling operators… Continue reading Entain presses football regulator over illegal gambling sponsorships at Premier League clubs Read more ›
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Algorithmiq, a quantum software company, has raised €18 million in funding and moved its global headquarters from Helsinki to Milan The round was led by United Ventures and Italian institutional investor CDP Venture Capital, with continued participation from Inventure VC. This funding round brings Algorithmiq’s total funding to €36 million. The company claims this represents ... Read more ›
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GenAI is exposing human risk gaps, forcing cybersecurity to shift from awareness to behavior. Read more ›
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Switch 2 users found a clever trick to watch YouTube through a hidden browser. Nintendo blocked it within hours, even when there is still no official streaming app nearly a year after launch. Read more ›
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Тема ИИ хайпует всё больше и больше, но настоящие геймеры знают, что ИИ с нами уже очень давно, он активно соперничает с нами в соревновательных играх и выдаёт задания в RPG… Или это другое… Есть ли что-то общее между игровым и нейросетевым ИИ? Читать далее Read more ›
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Investors look beyond bitcoin volatility towards long term AI infrastructure and data center revenue opportunities. Read more ›
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Edinburgh-based global entertainment tech company Esk has raised £2.6m in a round led by Maven Capital Partners. Esk produces live experiences for blue-chip brands such as Netflix, Paramount and BAFTA. The business specialises in licensing IP from rightsholders and transforming it into live entertainment formats, providing services to promoters and venue operators on an international ... Read more ›
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Marco Rubio has been having a moment — the kind that makes people wonder if he might be a candidate for president sooner than later. On Tuesday, he took over press secretary duties while Karoline Leavitt was on maternity leave and fielded questions for more than 45 minutes, happily trading rap lyrics with reporters along the […] Read more ›
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The concept draws on the same physics as the bola, a weighted throwing weapon used for centuries by South American herders. Read more ›
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America’s aging electric grid is struggling to meet modern demands—especially amid the AI boom. Overhauling it will be no small feat. Read more ›
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There’s a deep, forbidding moat that surrounds Nvidia—and it has nothing to do with hardware. Read more ›
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For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad. Read more ›
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IPO-bound insurtech unicorn Acko turned profitable in FY26, posting a net profit of ₹43.6 Cr in FY26 compared to a… Read more ›
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The Independent reports that "more than a third of children in the UK have found a way around age verification measures" for social media sites and other online platforms. And new research from online safety organisation Internet Matters "suggests one in six parents have helped their child to get past age verification checks, with children reporting 'tricking' platforms into thinking they are older. " Parents also said they had caught... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In a makeshift demonstration kitchen in Concord, California, cooking oil splatters in and around a frying pan, which catches fire on an unattended gas stove. Within moments, a smoke detector wails. But in this demonstration, something less common happens: An AI-driven sensor activates and wall emitters blast infrasound waves toward the source of the fire in an attempt to put it... Read more ›
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Astronomers have identified 27 potential new circumbinary planets -- worlds that orbit two stars, like Star Wars' Tatooine. "To date, only about 18 circumbinary planets ... had been identified in the universe," reports the Guardian. "More than 6,000 planets have been discovered that orbit single stars, like Earth does around the sun." The Guardian reports: In a timely publication for May 4, also known as Star Wars Day, scientists have... Read more ›
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GameStop has made an unsolicited $56 billion cash-and-stock offer to buy eBay (paywalled; alternative source), with CEO Ryan Cohen arguing he can turn the marketplace into a far larger Amazon competitor. "EBay should be worth -- and will be worth -- a lot more money," Cohen said in an interview. "I'm thinking about turning eBay into something worth hundreds of billions of dollars." The Wall Street Journal reports: Cohen said... Read more ›
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Anthropic is reportedly nearing a roughly $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hellman & Friedman, and other Wall Street firms to sell AI tools to private-equity-backed companies. "The investors aim to create a company that acts as a consulting arm for Anthropic and helps teach businesses -- including the private-equity firms' portfolio companies -- how to incorporate AI across their operations," reports the Wall Street Journal. Anthropic, Blackstone,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg's Ashley Carman: Welcome to the modern era of podcasting in which thousands of new shows are released into the world every day with a sizable portion likely being AI-generated. Figuring out exactly which ones fall into that growing category is becoming more difficult just as the industry is starting to take this issue seriously. In only the past month or so, Amazon... Read more ›
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AMD is preparing expanded HDMI 2.1 support for Linux, following earlier delays after the HDMI Forum rejected an open source implementation of HDMI 2.1 as proprietary technology. As GamingOnLinux reports, AMD developer Harry Wentland submitted a patch series to the Linux kernel mailing list, noting that it brings "HDMI FRL support to the amdgpu display driver" and that "DSC is still being tested and will be sent out later." A... Read more ›
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Google's Pixel 11 lineup could see RAM cuts or lower starting configurations because of the global memory shortage, with leaks suggesting the base model may drop from 12GB to 8GB while Pro models could add 12GB versions below the current 16GB tier. The Verge reports: There will be 16GB configurations available for each, but adding a lower-spec model could mean the 16GB version is getting a price hike. However, the... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A new, bipartisan bill introduced (PDF) by Democratic Senator of California Adam Schiff and endorsed by the biggest AI developers in the world -- including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft -- would change the K-12 curriculum to shoehorn in "AI literacy," something that young people and teachers alike already hate in schools. The Literacy in Future Technologies Artificial Intelligence, or LIFT AI... Read more ›
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The Trump administration is reportedly considering an executive order to create a working group that could review advanced AI models before public release. The shift follows concerns over Anthropic's powerful Mythos model and its cyber capabilities, with officials weighing whether the government should get early access to frontier models without necessarily blocking their release. The New York Times reports: In meetings last week, White House officials told executives from Anthropic,... Read more ›
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