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The Atari 800XL is back as a $220 retro machine with a real keyboard, HDMI, and a working cartridge slot
Posted on Monday October 12, 2026
Atari's latest foray into retro gaming is The 800XL, a "faithful" recreation of the original 800XL 8-bit computer first released in November 1983. The 25 built-in games should provide enough thrills for Atari aficionados. The machine also offers wider compatibility and expansion options for both commercial and homebrew Atari software.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Open-source project moves one step closer to letting you run PlayStation 5 games natively on PC
Posted on Monday October 12, 2026
AnyPS5 has successfully decoded the GPU instruction set used by the PS5's "Oberon" SoC, which pairs an 8-core AMD Zen 2 CPU with a custom RDNA 2 GPU. The developers note, however, that only instructions recognized by the decoder were counted, while decoded opcodes absent from AMD's public list were not.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Vibe coder brings PS2 game disc support to jailbroken PS5 consoles
Posted on Monday October 12, 2026
PlayStation 2 emulation is alive and well, even on the latest PlayStation 5 models. A vibe-coding enthusiast recently demonstrated the trend by sharing a new PS2-based "experience" that can allegedly run original PlayStation 2 games directly from the PS5's Blu-ray drive. Needless to say, the recently released PS5SX2 emulator largely...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Hackers hit European supermarket refrigeration systems, spoiling food and forcing stores to dump stock
Posted on Monday October 12, 2026
A spokesperson for the supermarket chain told Bloomberg that attackers infiltrated controls for the cooling systems and activated the defrost mode, which heated them to 50 degrees Celsius, or 122 degrees Fahrenheit. Roughly six hours passed before employees noticed. By that time, all of the food in the coolers had been ruined.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Police are using AI to locate homes from a single interior photo, and even a picture of a washing machine can be enough
Posted on Monday October 12, 2026
The tool, which is called Raven, is being used by the Los Angeles Police Department and Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office (MDSO), reports 404 Media. Made by a company called Graylark Technologies, Raven had been called GeoSpy before its new home-identification features were added.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia may be killing off the RTX 5090 as AI chips take priority over gaming GPUs
Posted on Monday October 12, 2026
According to MEGAsizeGPU, Nvidia has "confirmed" that the GB202 chip will not be used to build new RTX 5090 cards anymore. All future GB202 supplies are going to be exclusively used to make more RTX Pro Blackwell-based models, the leaker later confirmed with a new tweet.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
California sues major 3D-printing filament maker over claims it deliberately catered to ghost gun enthusiasts
Posted on Monday October 12, 2026
The complaint, which was filed on October 5 in San Diego County Superior Court, acknowledges that 3D printing filament is not illegal. However, it alleges that Polymaker intentionally marketed its product toward ghost gun aficionados so they could turn its filament into a regulated "firearm precursor part."Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot telltale signs of AI-generated footage
Posted on Monday October 12, 2026
Nikon's 16th annual Small World in Motion contest is open to any movie or digital time-lapse photography taken through the microscope.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
An engineer built a Flock-like camera to detect police cars, says officers visited him afterward
Posted on Monday October 12, 2026
Anthony Sistilli described Peel Regional Police's visit last month in a YouTube video that he recently posted. His project uses automatic license plate recognition, or ALPR – the technology police use to record passing vehicles and search for them later. But Sistilli designed his camera to pick out police vehicles...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
82% of approved electronics are tested in China, but the FCC wants that figure down to zero by 2028
Posted on Monday October 12, 2026
The restrictions would cover test labs and certification bodies in countries that deny reciprocal treatment to their US counterparts. Chairman Brendan Carr says fewer than 4% of electronic devices are tested in American labs.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »