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Roborock F25 Ultra on Amazon for $499 after 38% discount — Kotaku.com

Roborock F25 Ultra on Amazon for $499 after 38% discount

Kotaku reports the Roborock F25 Ultra, a wet-dry vacuum and high-temperature steam mop, has launched on Amazon and is on sale for 38% off, reduced from $799 to $499. The F25 Ultra pairs 22,000Pa of suction and 33 Newtons of downward pressure with 187°F hot water and 356°

Hytale adds dinosaurs in update four days after release — Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net

Hytale adds dinosaurs in update four days after release

Pcgamer reports that Hytale received a sizable update adding dinosaurs just four days after the game's release. The game is finally playable after a long run through development hell and has already earned enough to fund two years of further development. Senior editor Christopher Livingston wrote in his

Facepunch COO offers $25 million to buy New World as Amazon plans closure — Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net

Facepunch COO offers $25 million to buy New World as Amazon plans closure

Pcgamer reports Facepunch Studios chief operating officer Alistair McFarlane has offered to buy Amazon's MMO New World for $25 million as the game is scheduled to close on January 31, 2027. The seriousness of the offer is uncertain: the article says it might have begun as a joke

Switch 2 Edition and Update 3.0 add hotel, Slumber Islands to Animal Crossing — Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net

Switch 2 Edition and Update 3.0 add hotel, Slumber Islands to Animal Crossing

Gamesradar reports that Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Nintendo Switch 2 Edition and Update 3.0 introduce several new features and modes that have drawn the writer back into the game. Highlights include a Resort Hotel mode run by the Kapp'n family that asks players to decorate themed

Amazon lists Samsung 32-inch Odyssey G50D at $249, 42% off — Kotaku.com

Amazon lists Samsung 32-inch Odyssey G50D at $249, 42% off

Kotaku reports Amazon is offering the Samsung Odyssey G50D 32‑inch QHD gaming monitor at a 42% discount, lowering the price to $249 from $429, and a red "Deal Selling Fast" button on the product page could indicate the promotion is ending soon. The monitor includes QHD resolution,

Microsoft fixes Copilot flaw that exposed user data via a single click — Cdn.arstechnica.net

Microsoft fixes Copilot flaw that exposed user data via a single click

Microsoft has fixed a vulnerability in its Copilot AI assistant that let attackers harvest sensitive user data with a single click on a legitimate Copilot URL. The researchers who demonstrated the issue were white-hat security experts from Varonis. Varonis said the multistage attack exfiltrated data including the target’s name,

Amazon will shut down New World servers in January 2027 — Kotaku.com

Amazon will shut down New World servers in January 2027

Kotaku reports Amazon will retire its in-house MMO New World, taking its servers offline in January 2027. The news drew public criticism from Facepunch Studios’ COO Alistair McFarlane, who wrote on X, '25m, final offer Amazon Games,' and added, 'Games should never die.' When asked what

Wikimedia to sell priority API access to AI companies; content stays free — Cdn.arstechnica.net

Wikimedia to sell priority API access to AI companies; content stays free

The Wikimedia Foundation is offering paid, enterprise-grade API access that gives AI companies priority access to Wikipedia’s data, and the foundation says the site’s content remains freely available. An update on January 16, 2026 corrected earlier wording that implied these deals licensed Wikipedia’s content; companies are paying

Amazon cuts price of Bose SoundLink Micro (2nd‑gen) to $99 — Kotaku.com

Amazon cuts price of Bose SoundLink Micro (2nd‑gen) to $99

Kotaku reports Amazon is selling the 2nd‑generation Bose SoundLink Micro speaker for $99, a 23% drop from its usual $129 price. Delivery is free and the discount applies to all color options, including black and pink. The pocketable speaker includes an upgraded strap and an IP67 rating that makes

No Rest for the Wicked sells one million on Steam; four-player co-op due next week — Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net

No Rest for the Wicked sells one million on Steam; four-player co-op due next week

Pcgamer reported that Moon Studios announced Thursday that No Rest for the Wicked has sold one million copies on Steam in early access and will receive four-player co-op next week. The game is a top-down soulslike with a painterly look often compared to Diablo. Moon Studios says multiplayer will use

Director says Clair Obscur's commercial success was unexpected — Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net

Director says Clair Obscur's commercial success was unexpected

Gamesradar reports the director of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 said the French RPG's commercial success was completely unexpected, even to many people at the studio. The debut from French developer Sandfall Interactive has shifted over five million sales as of last year, won more game of the year

Govee floor lamp 2 discounted to $128 on Amazon — Kotaku.com

Govee floor lamp 2 discounted to $128 on Amazon

Kotaku reports that Govee’s floor lamp "2" is on sale on Amazon, reduced from about $160 to $128 after a limited-time 20% discount; multiple color options, including black, blue, and silver, are also listed as discounted. The 60-inch lamp offers 1,725 lm brightness and adjustable 2,

Mandiant publishes tables to aid attacks on legacy Net-NTLMv1 authentication — Cdn.arstechnica.net

Mandiant publishes tables to aid attacks on legacy Net-NTLMv1 authentication

Mandiant has published tables intended to speed attacks against the legacy Net-NTLMv1 authentication protocol, the company said. The tables provide per-byte hash results for the known plaintext challenge 1122334455667788, which Mandiant says makes compromising accounts trivial in environments that still use Net-NTLMv1. NTLMv1 dates back to Microsoft’s 1980s release

Division executive Julian Gerighty leaves Ubisoft for Battlefield Studios — Kotaku.com

Division executive Julian Gerighty leaves Ubisoft for Battlefield Studios

Kotaku reports Julian Gerighty, executive producer on Tom Clancy’s The Division, has parted ways with Ubisoft after almost 27 years, an exit announced by Ubisoft studio Massive Entertainment earlier today; Massive wished him good luck on his new "adventure" at Battlefield Studios. Massive also told fans not

Amazon’s Best-Selling Happrun Projector Is $85 for Prime Members — People.com

Amazon’s Best-Selling Happrun Projector Is $85 for Prime Members

People reports that Amazon's best-selling Happrun HD Bluetooth projector, which has more than 8,800 five-star ratings, is on sale for Prime members for $85. The compact projector has a native 1080p resolution (full HD, not 4K), measures 9.5 inches wide by 8.3 inches deep by

OpenAI to test banner ads in ChatGPT as company reports large cash burn — Cdn.arstechnica.net

OpenAI to test banner ads in ChatGPT as company reports large cash burn

OpenAI will test banner ads in ChatGPT, placing them at the bottom of answers and separated from the conversation history, the company says. The move comes amid intense financial pressure: OpenAI does not expect to be profitable until 2030 and has committed to spend about $1.4 trillion on data

Brigador Killers footage shows Syndicate-like stealth; in-development build on Itch — Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net

Brigador Killers footage shows Syndicate-like stealth; in-development build on Itch

Pcgamer reports that new footage of Brigador Killers, the sequel to isometric mech sim Brigador, makes the game look markedly different from its predecessor and evokes Syndicate and original Grand Theft Auto; the original Brigador is 10 years old this year. According to the Steam page, you play as a

Rackspace to raise email-hosting prices; partner reports hikes up to 706% — Cdn.arstechnica.net

Rackspace to raise email-hosting prices; partner reports hikes up to 706%

Rackspace Technology will raise the price of its Rackspace Email product effective March 2026, a change partners and customers say will be steep — Laughing Squid says it faces a 706 percent hike, and one reseller said previously negotiated reseller pricing “seemed to vanish” after Rackspace notified them of the new

Size Five's Earth Must Die to launch Jan 27 with notable voice cast — Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net

Size Five's Earth Must Die to launch Jan 27 with notable voice cast

Pcgamer reports Size Five Games will release the comedy adventure Earth Must Die on January 27. Players take the role of VValek Lizardtongue, an alien heir who loses control of the kingdom of Tyrythia after an invasion of robotic Terranoids that killed his father and then sets his sights on

How to add a cheap or free backup carrier to your iPhone or Android — Zdnet.com

How to add a cheap or free backup carrier to your iPhone or Android

ZDNET's Lance Whitney explains how to add a backup carrier to an iPhone or Android using either an eSIM or a second physical SIM, noting that cheap prepaid plans or free promos can make a backup line affordable and that a backup can keep calls, texts and data

Run Windows 11’s built-in battery health report via PowerShell — Zdnet.com

Run Windows 11’s built-in battery health report via PowerShell

ZDNET's Kyle Kucharski outlines how to run Windows 11’s free battery health report to check a laptop’s battery condition. The report is generated from PowerShell and produces an HTML file you can open in your browser. To create the report, open the Windows search bar, type

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google launch new AI tools for healthcare — Zdnet.com

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google launch new AI tools for healthcare

Three major AI labs — OpenAI, Anthropic and Google — have released new healthcare-oriented tools that let users and developers apply generative AI to health records, medical text and imagery. OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Health on January 7, a ChatGPT feature that lets users upload health records from apps such as Apple Health

Brothers in Arms mod restores hundreds of Witcher 3 cut lines, adds Yennefer scene — Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net

Brothers in Arms mod restores hundreds of Witcher 3 cut lines, adds Yennefer scene

Pcgamer reports that the Brothers in Arms mega-mod for The Witcher 3 has restored hundreds of cut voice lines and other missing content, including a newly restored Yennefer romance scene and additional choices for key quests. The Witcher 3 already contains nearly half a million words of script and about

ZDNET picks Samsung QN90F as top 85-inch TV after January update — Zdnet.com

ZDNET picks Samsung QN90F as top 85-inch TV after January update

ZDNET updated its roundup of the best 85-inch TVs and selected the Samsung QN90F as its top pick, citing improved picture quality, a 120Hz refresh rate and advanced audio features. The review highlights the QN90F's Neo QLED panel, Neo Quantum HDR+, Dolby Atmos and Samsung's Object