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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechSpot: Video Game History Foundation founder Frank Cifaldi recently supported claims that piracy is the only effective way to preserve video games. The comments lay the blame squarely on game companies' refusal to keep legacy content available or allow archivists to build legal repositories. Sony's announcement that all PlayStation games will be digital-only from 2028 onward has sparked concern that titles will become harder to preserve and more easily vanish, sin
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Former Nippon Ichi Software CEO Sohei Niikawa has objected to Sony's plan to end disc production, saying the company might as well eliminate hardware too. Read more ›
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London-based industrial AI platform Arrakis has emerged from stealth after securing a $30m (£22.5m) Series A funding round. Founded in 2026 by former Accel investor Rafael Quintanilla alongside co-founders Haroun Beltaifa, Romain Fouilland, and Mikhail Galkov, an alumni of Palantir, Delivery Hero, Revolut, Datadog, and ASML, Arrakis develops autonomous AI agents for core workflows across ... Read more ›
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Sega is the latest publisher to make its views about physical media clear, in the wake of Sony's controversial decision to kill off the manufacture and sale of discs by 2028. The president of the Japanese publisher, Shuji Utsumi, noted that he believes physical media is still important, though digital distribution is "crucial", mostly thanks to the "steadily increasing" number of people playing on PC. Read more Read more ›
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Primate Labs has officially released its latest cross-platform benchmarking app – Geekbench 7. The new version brings updated workload tests alongside redesigned benchmarking across the multi-core CPU and GPU departments. On the CPU side, Geekbench 7 features new media workloads for audio and video encoding, decoding, and processing. These tests better reflect regular use cases like video calls, screen sharing, and content consumption. For gaming, Geekbench 7 brings a new... Read more ›
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Street Group, a Manchester-based provider of vertical software and AI for the UK residential property sector, has secured a strategic growth investment from Hg, an investor in European and transatlantic software and services businesses. This values the company at over €233.8 million (£200 million). Street Group was previously backed by Manchester-based PXN Group, a venture ... Read more ›
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The order targets Bitchat, an offline Bluetooth mesh app built to relay encrypted messages and bitcoin transactions, as 'Cockroach Janta Party' protesters in Delhi use mesh tools to communicate through internet shutdowns. Read more ›
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'Truly a sight to behold': Samsung's 49-inch Odyssey OLED G9 is one of the best ultrawide monitors around, and it's now $700 off. Read more ›
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Astronomers have found strong evidence for a Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf, potentially marking the first convincing detection of a moon beyond our solar system. Read more ›
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Официальный self-hosted-вариант знакомого observability-стека — это под два десятка контейнеров: брокер, воркеры, кэш, отдельное аналитическое хранилище. Мне нужно было держать логи ошибок у себя, но для нескольких проектов такая инсталляция несоразмерна. Я решил выяснить, сколько из этого действительно необходимо — и собрал один Go-бинарник поверх PostgreSQL и ClickHouse, без Kafka и Redis. Внутри: почему брокер тут не нужен, как флаг --mode раскладывает систему по процессам при росте и почему перенос... Read more ›
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An unconventional FDA panel is assessing the safety and efficacy of previously-banned peptides. It could open up a multibillion-dollar market. Read more ›
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Analysis of satellite images of Myanmar shows dozens of alleged scam compounds have appeared in recent months, despite a purported crackdown on the criminal organizations. Read more ›
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“I think it should stand for artificial idiot,” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.” Read more ›
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On this day in 2006, AMD confirmed its acquisition of graphics chip firm ATI. AMD stumped up a cash-and-stock deal worth a total of $5.4B for the Canadian PC graphics innovators. Read more ›
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Microsoft restored streamer Joshua Khane's 25-year-old Xbox and OneDrive account after it was compromised by a hacker and then suspended, putting years of personal data, baby photos, and thousands of dollars in games at risk. IGN reports: While he was "extremely happy" and thanked Microsoft for its help recovering his account and all the invaluable information therein, he levied some criticisms toward the brand for its initial response, claiming it... Read more ›
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ABC News reports that White House teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez allegedly made more than $100,000 betting on Kalshi markets tied to what President Trump would say in speeches, using his access to prepared remarks and last-minute edits. ABC News reports: According to the sources, Kalshi alerted its regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to the suspicious activity on its "Mentions" market, where users can bet on whether specific words,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: Apple has reportedly sent legal letters to dozens of former Apple employees now working at OpenAI, telling them to preserve potentially relevant documents and communications as it continues to pursue its trade secret lawsuit against the AI company. The Financial Times (paywalled) reports that Apple has targeted around 40 former employees with legal preservation letters, acting on its belief that the alleged... Read more ›
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Anthropic is reportedly in very early talks to lease computing power from Meta in a potential deal worth around $10 billion. The discussions follow Anthropic's recent compute deal with SpaceX and come as Meta explores selling excess AI capacity as part of a broader push to turn its massive infrastructure spending into a cloud business. CNBC reports: Access to enough AI chips remains a challenge for firms like Anthropic, which... Read more ›
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The FBI arrested a Florida man accused of uploading fake Steam games containing malware that stole passwords, data, and cryptocurrency wallet credentials from victims. Prosecutors say the scheme infected about 8,000 people, compromised roughly 80 crypto wallets, and stole at least $220,000 through games that appeared legitimate but secretly carried malware. TechCrunch reports: On Tuesday, the FBI arrested Zyaire Wilkins, a 21-year-old Florida resident and student. On Wednesday, prosecutors accused... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Axios: Kimi K3, a massive new model by Beijing-based Moonshot AI, threatens the foundations of Americas AI boom. Its release Thursday dazzled developers, jolted Silicon Valley and reset the AI race overnight. Kimi immediately vaulted into the top tier of global AI, beating Anthropics Fable 5 and OpenAIs GPT-5.6 Sol in front-end coding tests by AI evaluator Arena. In Arenas broader text... Read more ›
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Linus Torvalds says the Linux kernel will not ban AI-assisted coding tools, and if anti-AI absolutists have a problem with that, they can "fork it" or "walk away." An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Writing in a lengthy post on the Linux kernel mailing list this week, Torvalds said that "Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can... Read more ›
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AWS says a billing software bug caused some customers to see wildly inflated estimated charges, including reports of accounts showing bills in the billions or even trillions of dollars. The Register reports: An open issue on the AWS Health Dashboard (archived copy at the time of writing) popped up at 1:33 am Pacific time on Friday informing users that Cost Explorer was "reflecting inaccurate estimated billing data." As of writing,... Read more ›
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Xi Jinping used his first appearance at China's World AI Conference to promote a vision of low-cost, broadly accessible AI and call for international cooperation rather than technological rivalry. "AI development should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation," he said. Bloomberg reports: His presence at the gathering, attended by scores of tech and government leaders, conveys a potent signal of China's... Read more ›
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"Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's Woz Ed foundation is partnering with Realbotix, best known for their RealDoll-branded artificial companions, to deploy AI-powered robotic tutors in classrooms," writes Slashdot reader Hentes. "The doll will serve as a sort of artificial teaching assistant, helping students who get stuck or generating lessons. Students will be assigned an ID code, allowing the robot to provide personalized mentoring." NYS Focus reports: "This deployment in a working... Read more ›
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