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Rare, fully-functional Nintendo Famicombox retro consoles were discovered in a Japanese love hotel

Nintendo’s 1986 commercial-use Famicombox is rare, but a Japanese love hotel reportedly has one in almost every room.

Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini

DeepMind’s award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.

OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services

OpenAI’s investigation starts shedding light on the activities of its rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face.

Valve says Steam Machine reservation-holders aren’t being leapfrogged

Valve says that no one on its Steam Machine waitlist is leapfrogging over anyone currently holding a reservation.

xAI is challenging a new Minnesota law banning ‘nudify’ apps

Elon Musk’s xAI has filed a lawsuit to block Minnesota’s new law that would ban apps that can generate nonconsensual intimate imagery from being enforced.

The US is banning foreign-made humanoid robots and power inverters

It’s part of a national security strategy to kickstart domestic production of emerging technology.

eBay and its former execs settle cyberstalking case brought by journalist couple

Ina and David Steiner will receive compensation after a 2019 campaign to silence their critiques of the company.

Fired Tesla manager says Full Self-Driving cars were ‘rolling hazards’

A new lawsuit accuses Tesla of overextending the safety operators overseeing its robotaxis.

AI company employees petition US government for regulation

A thousand workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and more have signed the letter.

Double Fine lays off about a third of its employees

Double Fine lays off about a third of its staff.