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It’s only in Europe where Nintendo is discontinuing Switch 1, and likely to do with the Right to Repair laws we have here
Nintendo has confirmed that its decision to stop selling the original Switch console applies only to Europe, and will not affect the console’s availability in the rest of the world. The move, which takes effect from mid-February 2027, appears to be linked to the European Union’s new Right to Repair rules, which require manufacturers of…
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Disney’s Live-Action ‘Moana’: First Reactions From Premiere
Disney’s latest live-action remake, Moana, held its world premiere at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, prompting a wave of early social-media reaction ahead of the film’s theatrical release on 10 July. Although full critics’ reviews were embargoed until 8 July, press and attendees were permitted to post brief impressions, and the…
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Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
French AI startup ZML has released ZML/LLMD, an inference-server product that lets a range of open-source large language models run across chips from multiple vendors — including Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, Apple Metal and Intel Arc. The launch matters because inference — the processing of prompts, as opposed to model training — has become a…
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Virgin Media fined £28m for preventing customers from cancelling contracts
Virgin Media has been fined £28m by the UK telecoms regulator Ofcom for repeatedly obstructing customers who were trying to cancel their contracts over a period of almost three years. It is the largest fine Ofcom has ever issued under its consumer protection rules, and it matters because the watchdog found the obstruction was deliberate,…
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‘The Kitchen’ Director Alonso Ruizpalacios at BAM: ‘We Need More Trojan Horses’
At a masterclass during the Bogotá Audiovisual Market (BAM), Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios reflected on resilience, co-production and the growing role of artificial intelligence in filmmaking. The session, presented by Mediapro and delayed by an hour after Colombia’s World Cup defeat to Switzerland, saw the director address a subdued audience by reading Elizabeth Bishop’s poem…
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Trains face heat-related delays as Sheffield temperatures climb sharply this week
The article’s text could not be retrieved, as the supplied link leads only to a Google sign-in and cookie-consent page rather than the news report itself. As a result, no details from the piece are available to summarise. Based on the headline alone, the story concerns train services around Sheffield facing heat-related disruption as temperatures…
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SWFC News: Dawson, Valery hint and little glimpses – Wednesday at St George’s Park – thestar.co.uk
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Who am I? Guess World Cup star No 31
The BBC has published the latest edition of its daily “Who am I?” football quiz, number 31 in the series, challenging readers to identify a mystery World Cup star. The game is part of the broadcaster’s regular sports quiz output and is themed around the Fifa World Cup 2026. Players must guess the footballer in…