PowerWash Simulator 2 has been nominated for two Bafta Games Awards - but why have mundane job games become so popular?

Congress will likely reject the White House's NASA cuts, just as it did last year.

Iranian strikes have reportedly knocked out key AWS availability zones in Bahrain and Dubai, leaving parts of both regions effectively offline for an extended period and forcing Amazon to urge teams and customers to shift workloads elsewhere. "These two regions continue to be impaired, and services should not expect to be operating with normal levels of redundancy and resiliency," an internal Amazon communication memo reads. "We are actively working to free and reserve as much capacity as ..

Ice Age hunter-gatherer "were intentionally relying on random outcomes in repeatable, rule-based ways."

Ex-CISA official tells The Reg: 'this would weaken the system for managing cyber risk' The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's budget will see yet another deep cut if Congress approves President Trump's proposal to slash CISA's spending by $707 million in fiscal year 2027.

OpenAI President Greg Brockman will oversee product in Simo's absence.

The vivo T5 Pro first surfaced in February in an IMEI database, then in March we got two separate spec leaks, and today the brand is finally acknowledging that this phone exists and is coming soon. vivo's official X account for India shared the post you can see below, calling the T5 Pro "the ultimate powerhouse". That tagline is, of course, ridiculous - this isn't a top of the line device, so it's definitely not an ultimate anything. We wonder what the vivo X300 Ultra thinks about this ..

The cabin was colder on Thursday, but the crew has been able to adjust the temperature.

Over 10 months after shelling out an eye-popping $6.4 billion for Jony Ive's nascent devices startup, OpenAI announced it's buying media company TBPN.

Dells Pro 5 Micro Desktop delivers AI acceleration, high-speed DDR5 memory, and USB-C powered compact design for tight office spaces.

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Microsoft plans to invest $10 billion in Japan from 2026 to 2029 to expand AI infrastructure, boost local cloud capacity, train 1 million engineers and developers, and deepen cybersecurity cooperation with the Japanese government. Reuters reports: The investment includes the training of 1 million engineers and developers by 2030, Microsoft said, which was unveiled during a visit to Tokyo by Vice Chair and President Brad Smith. In a statement, the company said the plan aligns with Prime Minister ..

Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.

The court ruling only applies in Italy, and lands just days after Netflix pushed through another round increases in the US.

Researchers have developed a method of making french fries that results in a healthier bite without sacrificing crispiness.

Some banks "agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot," NYT reports.

HarperCollins is tapping into AI to bring some of its book franchises to life. Specifically, the publisher is teaming up with Toonstar , an AI animation studio, to turn them into digital shows. The first project will be an adaptation of Lisa Greenwalds Friendship List series, which will also be joined by a graphic novel. Youd be forgiven for being unaware of Toonstar, a studio that received some buzzy early on for simplifying typically complex animation pipelines with AI, but has mostly ..

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Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

A Rome court ruled that several Netflix price hikes in Italy were unlawful because the company's contracts didn't adequately explain or justify future pricing changes. As a result, Netflix has been ordered to issue refunds that could total roughly 500 euros for some long-term subscribers. Ars Technica reports: The lawsuit was brought by Italian consumer advocacy group Movimento Consumatori, which alleged that the price hikes violate the Consumer Code, Italian legislation that aims to protect ..

Nearly 50% of data center projects delayed as China holds key to power infrastructure.

Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene A new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies. Just imagine this. As the director of the multi-million dollar epic Car Crash III: Suddenest Impact, you've just finished filming the finale where your star, Cruz Control, drives straight into an onrushing semi.

Intels Core Ultra 270K Plus delivers impressive rendering, editing, and AI performance, often outperforming older Intel and similarly priced AMD CPUs.

The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.

Jason Blundell, a former creative lead on Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty: Black Ops series, has announced that he's formed a new development studio called Magic Fractal Studios . Blundell announced the studio on a livestream with former Dark Outlaw Games coworker JC Farmer, a little over a week after the previous studio was closed by Sony . Little is known about Magic Fractal beyond its logo and social media accounts. Dark Outlaw Games was similarly mysterious, and closed before it could ..

Score an 11th-generation A16-powered iPad for just $300.

Microsoft's terms say Copilot is for 'entertainment purposes only' does the ad team know?

Cutthroat capitalism sure does bring out the best in humanity. Take, for example, Elon Musk. He reportedly set a condition for banks, law firms, auditors and advisors who want to work on the SpaceX IPO. They're required to subscribe to the bastion of nonconsensual deepfakes and occasional Hitler praise known as Grok. Surely the best and brightest banks our nation has to offer would refuse such a pay-to-play demand, right? Well, no. The New York Times reports that some of them have agreed to ..

Archive of Our Own (AO3) is officially dropping its "beta" label after 17 years. The Organization for Transformative Works, the nonprofit behind the fanfiction site, said the site will keep evolving with new improvements even though it's no longer technically in beta. "As the AO3 software has been stable for a long time, the change is mostly cosmetic and does not indicate that everything is finalized or perfectly working," the organizations says. "Exiting beta doesn't mean we'll stop continuing ..

Today, because of the expiry of the ePrivacy derogation enabling the use of technology to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM), Europe risks leaving children across

California governor Gavin Newsom announces first customer of new state broadband network, pledges to connect indigenous and rural communities.

Almost all CES Samsung TVs slated for 2026 are available to buy. Shop the budget-friendly S85H OLED or the gallery chic S95H OLED.

The company is undergoing major leadership restructuring as its CEO of AGI deployment goes on leave for several weeks.

The DOGE engineer appeared on influencer Nick Shirley's podcast this week to talk corruption and government workand how they collaborated on Shirley's recent investigation.

The "Galaxy Buds Able" is still a mystery, but its battery just got certified.