Back in December last year, Ayaneo officially announced the Next 2, the gaming handheld powered by AMD's Strix Halo Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU, with no potential launch date. Until now. The company's CEO announced that the Next 2 will be available starting July this year, but fell short of an exact date. As for [] The post Ayaneo Next 2 Strix Halo To Launch This Month; Starts From RM12,210 appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

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CNN reports: Prehistoric human relatives, nicknamed "hobbits" due to their short stature, may have been scavengers, rather than skilled hunters capable of taking down big game or building cooking fires, according to new research. The study adds to growing evidence that Homo floresiensis, which had a brain only slightly bigger than that of a chimpanzee, wasn't as advanced as scientists previously believed.... The researchers believe that much like how Komodo dragons hunt water buffaloes today, ..

At the very start of the month, PlayStation announced that there will be no more discs for games releasing from 2028 onwards. Which means that unless a new medium is released, physical games will be codes in boxes. More recently a message sent to developers and publishers via a private developer portal looks to be [] The post PlayStation Tells Publishers New Games At Retail Will Use Digital Codes appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch: Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial from Google asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? With the tagline "Group project, but make it 1776," the ad depicts a largely unseen Thomas Jefferson mid-draft when he gets a nagging text from Ben Franklin, leading to a very Google-centric collaboration process. Edits are suggested in Google Docs, a meeting gets ..

Last month we learned that WhatsApp started testing a green dot on Android to indicate that a contact is online. The Meta-owned company has now started testing this feature on iOS as well. This revelation comes from the folks at WABetaInfo, who discovered the development on beta version 26.26.10.72 of WhatsApp for iOS. If you are a WhatsApp beta user on iOS with the latest version of the app installed, you'll see a small green circle at the bottom- right of a contact's photo in the "Contact ..

It seems things are continuing to change for OPPO-affiliated brands OnePlus and realme. Following whispers of the former scaling back its global operations, a recent report by Smartprix has claimed that OxygenOS and realme UI are being discontinued. Furthermore, future devices will run ColorOS. Citing a highly reliable and seasoned industry insider, the publication stated [] The post OnePlus And realme Reportedly Switching To OPPO's ColorOS For Future Devices appeared first on ..

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Subsea cables. Ukrainian power stations. Russian oil refineries. Even airports, water-desalination plants and Amazon data centers. They've all become targets in wartime, notes the Wall Street Journal, and around the world now arguments "are already brewing between companies and governments over new regulations and potential costs." In Germany, powerful associations representing private companies and municipal utilities have pushed back against new standards for physical protection, warning they ..

Chinese startup Z-Trak Space wants supercritical CO to replace traditional launch pad ignition systems for small rockets.

South Carolina's pine forests "have spent centuries hiding a secret as old as America itself," reports CBS News: In August 1780, British and American soldiers clashed there, leading to a terrible defeat for the Continental army [fighting for the 13 colonies rebelling against England]. Battlefield archaeologists Jim Legg and Steve Smith have been studying the site for decades, but recently, they made a shocking discovery: The sandy soil was home to several sets of remains buried in shallow ..

An X user @samhenrigold unearthed a reference inside the iOS 27 source code that mentions a new Apple wearable device with model number B790. The reference itself isn't very revealing, but it confirms that the device supports features related to Visual Intelligence. Visual Intelligence is a new feature that allows users to ask Siri about an object using the default Camera app on iOS 27-running iPhones. The feature is available on iPhone 15 Pro and newer. Unfortunately, we have no clue which ..

YOFC demonstrated 51.3 Tb/s hollow-core transmission over 206.5 km, aiming to ease growing AI networking pressures worldwide soon significantly.

As America began celebrating its 250th birthday Saturday, 842,000 homes reported power outages, notes ABC News. Figures from tracking site PowerOutage showed states in America's Northeast and Midwest were impacted by severe weather and extreme heat. That number, which will fluctuate throughout the day as crews work to restore power, is for households, meaning that the number of people impacted by these outages is likely to be much larger... Millions of Americans, however, will be contending ..

A hidden DNS record tricked Claude Code into opening a reverse shell during routine error recovery, bypassing every standard security scanning tool completely.

This week's science news.

Microsoft is apparently shifting its profits to countries with low taxes and out of countries where they have many more employees and significant sales. Back in 2005 Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer even said that a low corporate tax rate "is part of the overall advantage of doing business in Ireland," remembers long-time Slashdot reader theodp. (Ballmer added "It would be disingenuous to say otherwise.") But in 2026 the EU now requires a country-by- country compliance report, and the New York ..

At the end of 2025, the FSF launched LibrePhone project, which is working to "better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by a great majority of (if not all) system on a chip designs available today." The FSF's summer newsletter shares this update: We started with researching the proprietary files in Android phones supported by the Lineage project, an Android-based volunteer-led mobile phone operating system with much free software already in it. Our current, primary focus is ..

Wearables are best at noticing breaks from your body's usual patterns. Those outliers can hint that something warrants further investigation with your doctor.

Microsoft plans a broad post-quantum migration by 2029 as concerns over future decryption risks increase globally.

"The owner of AOL and other tech businesses hit Wall Street with a $1.7 billion initial public offering Wednesday," reports the Associated Press: The company is getting $1 billion in proceeds, while the rest is going to shareholders. The stock surged 39.7% in its first day of trading under the symbol "BSP" on the Nasdaq, giving it a market value of $25.2 billion. Among the company's well-known holdings are the event creation and ticketing company Eventbrite, and the video hosting service ..

The company's robotaxi roadmap mentions future expansions to Orlando and Tampa.

An enthusiast is DIYing his own Steam Machine through ancient, lost methods known as cables that turn his existing PC into the perfect couch gaming setup. As expected, the Steam Controller 2 is also involved, alongside Bazzite.

EchoStar's satellite pay-TV unit Dish DBS has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, reports Reuters. The move also applies to its wireless subsidiaries, according to the article, and "facilitates the wind-down of Dish Wireless's 5G network operations following an unexpected delay in a spectrum license sale to AT&T...; under which EchoStar agreed to sell about 50 megahertz of its nationwide spectrum for $23 billion." Some context from Deadline.com: Charlie Ergen, who co-founded EchoStar and ..

TNB Electron continues to turn on more EV chargers and the latest location is in Melaka. The charge point operator has just announced the opening of its new 120kW DC Charger at Wisma TNB MITC, Ayer Keroh. As usual, they are offering complimentary charging during its operational testing period (5th July). For its new EV []

NASA has made contact with LINK, the robotic spacecraft made for the Swift Boost mission.

The Yahoo Boys author Carlos Barragn will join Kate Knibbs to answer your questions about Nigeria's romance scammers.

At Agibot's UK launch event, an executive for the Chinese company spoke on its bold vision for the future of work.

In an interview, Disney Imagineering explains how it rethought the audio production process for Soarin Across America by bringing the mixing console into the ride vehicle.

Anthropic says Claude Science will let scientists consolidate tools and data within a single secure environment.

The incident is also being investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Shortly after increasing the lifetime version of the Plex Plan to $749.99, Plex has now introduced a new five-year option. One charging $249.99 for streaming media from your Mac to your iPhone. Plex logo On July 1 , Plex significantly increased the cost of its Lifetime Plex Plan from $249.99 to a staggering $749.99 . While consumers will have missed the boat to get the old pricing, they can still spend $249.99 on something that's not quite as everlasting. Subscribers can sign up for a new ..

Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: AI security researchers have uncovered a structural security flaw dubbed GuardFall that allows decades-old Bash shell tricks to bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents. By exploiting shell behaviors such as quote removal and variable expansion, attackers can hide malicious commands in repositories, README files, Makefiles, or other content consumed by AI agents. If executed particularly in auto-approve or CI environmentsthe commands can steal ..

Some Apple devices are about to get much more intelligent, while others are getting left behind.

Sony successfully built a PlayStation 1 console that fit inside a controller but had to cancel the project after game studios were unhappy with the royalties they would make from the project.