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Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: New PlayStation games will no longer be released on discs from January 2028, the gaming giant has announced. Sony said in a blog post new games would still be able to be bought in shops, but they would come with a digital code. It comes just days after Rockstar announced the hotly-anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI would similarly launch without a physical disc.
It marks a significant moment for the gaming industry, which has in recent years begu
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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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Europe has emerged as one of the world's leading centres for open-weight AI, with companies including Mistral, Black Forest Labs and Helsing contributing to a growing ecosystem focused on open models ... Read more ›
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Samsung recently wiped its Instagram feeds, but now the company is posting again, teasing its upcoming foldables. The company is going hard on the “new shape” for Galaxy Z Fold 8, which will be the wide body foldable that we’ve seen already quite a few times. We have gone ahead and linked to a few... Read the original post: Samsung Begins Teasing ‘New Shape’ for Galaxy Z Fold 8 Read more ›
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Lara Balazs, CMO of Adobe, interviewed at the 2026 Cannes Lions, said CMOs need to disrupt themselves in response to constant change. Read more ›
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Xbox may offer a way to preserve physical game purchases in an increasingly digital future. Read more ›
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I hate to break this to you, but the US wireless carrier you subscribe to will not hesitate to remind you that your loyalty means nothing. They don’t care if you’ve been with them for 15 years, pay your bill on time, have multiple active lines, and regularly finance phones to lock you in for... Read the original post: Your Loyalty to Verizon and T-Mobile is Meaningless Read more ›
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I am not a psychologist or a doctor, and this should not be taken as advice. The studies I mention are findings from particular groups of people, not settled science or universal rules about everyone, and nothing here is a substitute for talking to someone qualified about your own head. In the evening I often ... Read more Read more ›
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The incident could disrupt a key part of the defense company’s rocket motor business, which designs and tests prototype motors for military customers. Read more ›
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Financial data companies such as FactSet and Moody’s appear to have made progress reassuring investors that they won’t be replaced by finance-focused AI tools. But investors may have new questions these days around how the uncertainty of AI costs will affect usage of these businesses’ products.Investors were spooked when Anthropic and others touted AI products for finance and other professions earlier this year. Companies like FactSet, Moody’s, S&P Global and... Read more ›
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Hyundai and Kia have unveiled an in-vehicle sanitization system that uses far-ultraviolet light to kill bacteria and viruses inside a car cabin, even while passengers are present. The technology, called Plasma Care UVC, is what the companies describe as the first system of its kind designed for production vehicles. Conventional ultraviolet sterilization poses a risk […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Microsoft is reportedly testing a feature to digitize physical games going back to the Xbox One with digital copies tied to the owner of the physical disc. Read more ›
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Есть на ютубе видео на пятьдесят минут с гордым названием «худший язык программирования всех времён». Не удивлюсь, если вы подумаете, что оно про C++. Оно действительно про плюсы и я его смотрел где-то с полгода назад, ну как смотрел... пробежался на x2 с перемотками, мало ли что обиженный джун там наговорил, но добрый @alyokhinопять про него напомнил, и теперь я его посмотрел полностью. И знаете что самое неприятное? Если убрать... Read more ›
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Есть целый класс Java‑багов, которые компилятор пропускает, а тесты на счастливом пути не ловят: код синтаксически корректен, но делает не то, что вы имели в виду. В статье разбираем пять таких самых частых ситуаций, которые встречаются у начинающих разработчиков. Читать далее Read more ›
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A surprising discovery is overturning a long-held assumption about how the brain’s movement center works. Researchers found that two key cerebellar cell types—thought to be tightly linked—often don’t behave in predictable ways, even though one directly influences the other. The finding suggests scientists may have been relying on the wrong signals when studying disorders such as dystonia, ataxia, and tremor. Read more ›
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"This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me," Alex Karp declared on national television. Read more ›
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Selling server infrastructure would put Meta in competition with Amazon and Google. Read more ›
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Apple will be using two modems in the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, according to new revelations from leaked schematics and documents that were stolen from Apple supplier Tata in a cyberattack. In the US, the company will keep using a Qualcomm modem, and the reason seems to be all about the fact that it supports mmWave 5G, whereas Apple's self-developed modems still don't. On the other... Read more ›
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OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeno, OpenAI's first custom AI chip, designed primarily to handle inference for ChatGPT and other services. It's a major step in OpenAI's plan to "build the full stack behind its models and products," says OpenAI. "By designing more of the stack ourselves, we can serve more intelligence with greater efficiency and keep pushing advanced AI toward broader access." CNBC reports: The chip with Broadcom is... Read more ›
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Rockstar Games has revealed the price of Grand Theft Auto VI to be $79.99, and confirmed that the physical versions of the game won't include a disc. Instead, they'll contain a one-time download code when it launches November 19. "Not only is that a disappointing decision for people who like to own physical games, but given the scale of the next GTA, it also sets a bad precedent for the... Read more ›
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Meta has paused its Model Compatibility Initiative that tracked employee mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screen content to train AI agents, after some of its collected data became accessible to more employees than intended. Meta says it has no evidence the information was improperly accessed and will not restart the program until it is confident in its safeguards. Wired reports: Meta rolled out the Model Compatibility Initiative (MCI) tool in... Read more ›
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Slate Auto says its stripped-down electric pickup will start at $24,950 before fees, with the base model's estimated range increased from 150 to about 205 miles. The company has started taking preorders on Wednesday. "The aggressive pricing -- half the average cost of a new car in the United States -- puts Slate in position to capture a share of the lowest end of the new car market, which has... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: [T]he payment company Stripe, founded by brothers Patrick and John Collison, says it will fund a new $500 million nonprofit whose goal is preventing both the common cold and the flu. Its eventual aim is to get rid of respiratory viruses altogether. The new organization, called Intercept, will use grants and investments to back prevention approaches, including vaccines, as well... Read more ›
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NASA's Perseverance rover has detected complex organic carbon in ancient Martian mudstones. The measurements were taken by the rover's Sherloc instrument and the organic carbon that was identified was from the Bright Angel outcrop, "a dried-up river that carried water into the planet's Jezero crater billions of years ago," notes The Guardian. From the report: The form of carbon detected, known as macromolecular carbon or MMC, can originate from living... Read more ›
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joshuark shares a report from Car and Driver: A new study conducted by the New York Times shows that the increase in vehicle hood height seen over the last two and a half decades, mainly due to the rise in popularity of large SUVs and trucks, has resulted in several thousand deaths that otherwise may not have happened. The study shows that while automakers and regulators have focused on occupant... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google spent the last few years locked in a legal grudge match with Epic Games, which claimed that Google's stewardship of the Play Store was anticompetitive. Now, the companies are thick as thieves, and Google is beginning to implement app store changes as agreed in its settlement with Epic. The lower developer fees and new payment options that Google promised are... Read more ›
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Micron has signed 16 "strategic customer agreements" (SCAs) that include a floor price the company says comes with "a very robust gross margin for Micron, well above our peak quarterly margins in any past cycle." Most of the deals run through 2030 and cover about 40% of Micron's revenue. The Register reports: Micron CEO, president and chairman Sanjay Mehrotra explained the SCAs in prepared remarks delivered during the company's Q3... Read more ›
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After Ford's automated quality-control systems and AI tools fell short, the automaker hired 350 veteran engineers over the past three years to mentor younger staff and reprogram the underperforming technology. "Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it's only as good as the information you use to train it," Charles Poon, Ford's vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, told reporters on a call Wednesday. "Over prior years, we didn't pay... Read more ›
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