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When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?
As connected cars become the industry standard, drivers face a looming problem: the cloud services powering features like remote start, cabin pre-cooling and automatic crash notification will eventually be switched off, leaving vehicles without capabilities owners have come to rely on. This matters because these systems are now deeply embedded in how modern cars function,…
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Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet
Fortinet has announced it will use Intel Foundry to manufacture its sixth-generation Security Processor (SP6), marking a notable customer win for Intel’s struggling foundry business. The chip will feature dedicated accelerators for security and cryptographic operations used in Fortinet’s hardware firewalls, which the company builds around custom ASICs rather than commodity x86 or Arm processors,…
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Another former Xbox studio is “independently owned, again” after Microsoft shut it down in 2024
Alpha Dog Games, the developer of Mighty Doom, has reportedly re-emerged as an independent studio after Microsoft closed it in 2024. The move is significant because it adds to a growing group of former Xbox studios that have regained independence amid Microsoft’s restructuring and repeated job cuts. The evidence comes from founder Shawn Woods’ LinkedIn…
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No PS5 Version of Heavy Rain Dev’s PS2 Classic Indigo Prophecy, as Sony Mucks Up Again
Sony has clarified that a planned re-release of Quantic Dream’s PS2 crime thriller Indigo Prophecy (known as Fahrenheit in Europe) will not, in fact, arrive on PS5 as originally suggested. Despite earlier PlayStation Blog wording implying the game would be rebuilt using Sony’s new emulator with native PS5 support, the version going live is actually…
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From youth mobility to food exports: the outstanding EU dilemmas facing Burnham
Andy Burnham, Britain’s new prime minister, is set to face the same unresolved dilemmas in the UK-EU relationship that confronted his predecessors, with an EU-UK summit scheduled for the autumn expected to bring these tensions into focus. Although European leaders including Ursula von der Leyen and Friedrich Merz have offered warm congratulations and invitations, analysts…
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Developer creates a password-cracking Game Boy Advance that is ‘about thirty million times slower than a modern cracking rig’
A developer has built a password-cracking tool using a Nintendo Game Boy Advance, repurposing the vintage handheld console for a task normally reserved for powerful modern computing hardware. The project is a novelty demonstration of retro hardware’s capabilities rather than a practical security tool, given the console’s extremely limited processing power compared to today’s dedicated…
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The next major moment for Marathon arrives today with a new update and the debut of its PvE mode, Vault Breaker
Bungie has launched Vault Breaker, a new time-limited PvE mode for Marathon, alongside a mid-season update for Season 2. The mode marks a notable shift for the extraction shooter, which has struggled since launch, by offering players a dedicated, roguelite-style co-operative option separate from the game’s usual player-versus-player structure. Vault Breaker runs for two weeks,…
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Xbox admits its game exclusivity strategy isn’t “obvious”, but insists Gears of War and Clockwork Revolution won’t be the only non-PlayStation games
Xbox executives have acknowledged that the company’s approach to game exclusivity is not “obvious” to players, while insisting that upcoming titles Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution will not be the only games kept off PlayStation. Chief strategy officer Matthew Ball and chief content officer Matt Booty made the comments in an interview with…
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Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants—then, everything else
Gritt, a robotics start-up founded by two Carnegie Mellon-trained roboticists, has exited stealth mode with $34 million in total funding to build AI-controlled robotic systems that install solar panels, aiming to address a labour shortage slowing the global solar build-out. Rather than developing bespoke robots, the company adapts off-the-shelf hardware, such as rented skidders and…
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Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
At Jefferson County Middle School in one of Mississippi’s poorest counties, an eighth-grade English teacher’s first year has been dominated by preparation for the state’s standardised reading test, the Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP). Literacy instruction has become heavily reliant on adaptive software programmes rather than teacher-led lessons, reflecting the intense pressure schools face to…