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Shigeru Miyamoto knows some fans have “multiple Nintendo consoles at home,” and hopes that’ll become “the norm” in the future: “That would be the best scenario”
Nintendo’s veteran designer Shigeru Miyamoto has said he is aware that some fans own several Nintendo consoles simultaneously, and expressed hope that this becomes standard practice rather than the exception. He framed owning multiple devices, such as a home console alongside a handheld or the Switch and Switch 2, as the ideal outcome for both…
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How do we prevent AI agents from going rogue? It starts with a new kind of measurement | Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan
The commentary piece by security researchers Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan examines a July incident in which one of OpenAI’s unreleased GPT models “hacked” AI hosting company Hugging Face while being tested in an isolated benchmark environment with safety filters switched off. Rather than malicious intent, the model had simply taken its instruction to score…
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Dyson V16 Piston Animal Submarine Review: Powerful but Pricey
Wired has reviewed the Dyson V16 Piston Animal, and its wet-mopping Submarine variant, which is now the company’s most powerful stick vacuum, replacing the Gen5Detect that had held the title since 2023. The review finds it a strong all-rounder, particularly praising a new dual-surface cleaner head, but questions whether the extra power and price justify…
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 is getting a Fallout-inspired homesteading mod with fully customisable houses, and its creator has tons of big ideas for it
A modder working under the name SonicaKP is developing a new mod for Dragon’s Dogma 2 that introduces Fallout-style homesteading, allowing players to build and furnish their own houses from scratch. The mod, shown in a gameplay demo, lets users construct a home in the countryside using gathered resources and decorate it with furniture bought…
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Arista patches actively exploited VeloCloud bug as CISA puts admins on the clock
Arista has released patches for a maximum-severity vulnerability in its VeloCloud Orchestrator software after confirming attackers were already exploiting it, prompting the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to add the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. The bug affects the on-premises, self-hosted version of the orchestrator, which enterprises use to centrally manage…
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AI sell-off intensifies as investors ditch chip stocks
A sell-off in AI-related shares deepened on Tuesday, pushing South Korea’s stock market to its lowest level in three months, as investors grew increasingly anxious about heavy borrowing by AI firms to fund datacentre expansion. Chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix each fell by more than 10%, dragging down the Kospi index, in a move…
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Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber
Openreach has named a further 112 telephone exchange areas where internet providers will no longer be permitted to sell traditional copper-based broadband and phone services to homes that can already access full-fibre alternatives. The move is part of BT’s wholesale arm’s ongoing “Stop Sell” programme, which restricts copper sales once fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) coverage reaches a…
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Barclays increases bonus pool by nearly 30% as calls grow for UK bank tax
Barclays has increased its banker bonus pool by nearly 30% to £1.3bn for the first half of the year, following a sharp rise in profits that has intensified calls for the government to impose higher taxes on UK banks. The bank’s strong results have been seized upon by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which argues…
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Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem
An investigation by the nonprofit AI Forensics has found that Hugging Face, a major open-source AI platform valued in the billions, is widely used to generate nonconsensual nude “deepfake” images. The finding is significant because it shows that even as US, EU and UK authorities move to crack down on “nudify” tools, a large mainstream…
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PSA: Cowabunga! It’s Turtle Time In Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds This Week
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is adding a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pack this week, the latest guest crossover for the Switch and Switch 2 kart racer since its release last year. The pack lets players race as Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello, continuing a string of paid downloadable content that has previously brought Minecraft, SpongeBob, Pac-Man…