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Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia announced the PlayStation Portal Player Midnight Black, a Japan-exclusive model that changes the product name from PlayStation Portal Remote Player to PlayStation Portal Player to reflect gameplay beyond Remote Play. The device also adds additional internal storage for future functionality, though Sony says it will share details about that feature later.
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November 9, 2026

James Gates has sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in San Francisco Superior Court after prosecutors dropped charges against his wife in a poisoning case. The lawsuit says ChatGPT helped Cheryl Harris Gates plan an alleged attack and conceal evidence during their marital problems.
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November 9, 2026

A diagram shared by Fixed Focus Digital suggests the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e will use 4,430 mAh batteries, with the two models differentiated mainly by their rear camera setups. Apple has yet to confirm either phone's specifications.
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November 9, 2026

Researchers have demonstrated Deep-TEMPEST — a method that uses a neural network to reconstruct an image from an HDMI monitor based on the cable’s side-channel radio emissions.
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November 9, 2026

Square Enix will show more of Dragon Quest RPG: The Cursed Tree and the Chosen Isle on November 10, 2026, when the game's full announcement trailer premieres at 11:00 a.m. UTC. The new Dragon Quest mobile RPG is in development for iOS and Android. The Japanese announcement describes the game as a team-based RPG with the series' familiar turn-based battles. Square Enix hasn't shared specific details about how the combat will work.
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November 9, 2026

AMD is resetting its priorities: data centers are becoming the company’s main focus, while the gaming business is taking a back seat. CEO Lisa Su said this in an interview with Yahoo Finance. According to her, the rise of AI is pushing partners to scale up server capacity and buy more AI chips.
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November 9, 2026

Red Dead Revolver gains keyboard-and-mouse support, gamepad support through SDL3, and gyro aiming for compatible motion-sensing controllers in an unofficial PC port. It's available to download now.
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November 9, 2026

In South Korea, NVIDIA and the Ministry of Science and ICT are betting on the practical deployment of sovereign AI—from chips and data centers to robotics, startups, and workforce training. The company shared more details about the program in a piece on expanding the collaboration, which also mentions AI agents and security tools.
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November 9, 2026

Windows Latest found and compiled the native WinUI 3 Registry Editor sample on a Windows 11 PC, giving a closer look at Microsoft's open-source experiment before any official release plans. Microsoft's open-source Microsoft.UI.Reactor repository contains a Windows 11-style Registry Editor sample, but the company hasn't announced plans to release it to users or replace regedit.exe. The story was first reported by Windows Latest.
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November 9, 2026

PlayStation Plus members in the UK, France, or Germany can now claim eight new perks across every subscription tier, including free trials, store discounts, and a movie credit. announced by Sony, the offers are also available to members on a free trial.
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November 6, 2026

Elon Musk says Gigafactory Texas will be retooled for the Cybercab, with Cybertruck output set to taper off around the middle of 2027. He announced the plan in an X post on November 6, 2026. The announcement concerns the Texas factory; Musk did not say whether Cybertruck production will end entirely or move elsewhere.
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November 6, 2026

Microsoft may be preparing a more substantial Windows 11 release than usual, with Windows 11 27H2 reportedly set to replace or significantly update core components. According to reporting by The Verge columnist Tom Warren, the change could make the 2027 release a much bigger transition than recent updates.
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November 6, 2026

Rayne's next adventure will play out in comics rather than games: a new BloodRayne series will launch with a first issue set immediately after BloodRayne 2, and a Kickstarter campaign is due in the first quarter of 2027. Planned rewards include exclusive editions of the first issue, alternate covers and themed merchandise. One selected fan will also get the chance to inspire a character in the comic — though Rayne will kill that character in the story.
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November 6, 2026

An unidentified developer connected Claude to a wired telephone from the 1990s, using the handset and physical buttons as a voice-driven interface for the AI. Instead of chatting in an app, a user can pick up the phone, speak a task, and get a call back with Claude's report once the work is finished.
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November 6, 2026

Warby Parker's first Intelligent Eyewear collection is slated to go up for preorder on November 12, 2026, ahead of Google's own launch announcement. The company expects to ship the glasses during the holiday season, but it has not given a specific delivery date or price.
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November 6, 2026

HONOR has opened pre-orders in China for the HONOR 700 series after showing off a lineup built around a small rear display integrated into the camera module. The HONOR 700, HONOR 700 Pro, and HONOR 700S all share a nearly identical design, centered on a large rectangular rear camera island with two vertically arranged lenses and a secondary screen.
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November 6, 2026

Microsoft disclosed an out-of-bounds read in Paint on October 13, 2026, and says it could let an attacker run code on a PC over a network. It received a severity score of 8.1 out of 10, but Microsoft classified it as "Important," rather than "Critical."
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November 6, 2026

Instead of opening a separate mini app, Telegram 13.2 lets bots run HTML, CSS, and javascript directly inside chats. These interactive HTMLBubbles can respond to user and bot actions, bringing small games and other tools into the conversation itself.
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November 6, 2026

Microsoft updated the Xbox PC app for Xbox Insiders on November 5, adding a redesigned interface with new navigation, refreshed sections, and improved search. The changes also promise faster performance, with Microsoft saying Home, Store, and Game Pass pages load up to 65% faster and in-app windows open more quickly.
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November 6, 2026

NVIDIA's DLSS 5 became available in Hogwarts Legacy on November 5, 2026, but players say the official implementation is too restrained and are turning to unofficial mods for a stronger effect. The game offers a toggle for the technology, but no option to adjust how intensely it processes the image — a limitation that has left some players wanting more control.
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November 6, 2026

Motorola has opened preorders for the Signature 27, a flagship smartphone that pairs a 7,000mAh battery with GrapheneOS support. The phone's display is also rated at 12,000 nits, but Motorola says that peak brightness applies only to a small area of the screen; US preorders start November 19, 2026, ahead of sales on November 26.
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November 5, 2026

Sebastian Cardoso, founder of Game Studio Unlocked, found that half of the closures in his study of 303 acquired PC and console studios happened within five years of an acquisition. Overall, his analysis found that one in three of those studios was eventually shut down, while 60.8% declined or closed. Cardoso spent about three months gathering the data. The story was first reported by Game Studio Unlocked.
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November 5, 2026

To celebrate 20 years of the GeForce 8800 GTX, NVIDIA has put an interactive anniversary demo on Steam that revisits the card's 2006 debut and its $599 launch price. The GeForce 8800 GTX was NVIDIA's first graphics card with CUDA support, helping push GPU computing beyond graphics rendering.
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November 5, 2026

CPUID has pushed out CPU-Z 3.02, adding identification for AMD's Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card and support for Intel's unannounced Razor Lake processor family. The changelog does not say which Razor Lake variants CPU-Z recognizes or how extensive that support is.
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November 5, 2026

Bluetooth 7.0 is now official, bringing High Data Throughput (HDT) that should make wireless links faster and more efficient. The new standard raises Bluetooth LE speeds from 2 Mbps to 7.5 Mbps, while Bluetooth SIG says it is also designed to reduce power consumption and improve connection stability.
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November 5, 2026

Bloomberg reported that Apple is weighing further cuts to its internal AI spending limits after reducing many engineers' daily allowance from $300 to $200. Some teams could see their cap fall to $100, though that change has not been rolled out companywide. The story was first reported by Bloomberg.
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November 5, 2026

Huawei's Pura X View may soon get a rival from Xiaomi: insider Digital Chat Station says the company is testing a non-folding phone with an unusually wide display. The prototype is also said to use a fingerprint scanner built into the side button.
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November 5, 2026

Jose Coixao, the developer behind the Prolapse exploit, said that further testing found the method does not cause memory corruption on PlayStation 5. That makes a jailbreak for firmware 14.00 and 14.10 far less likely, even though Prolapse was originally aimed at those versions.
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November 5, 2026

Sony has published its financial report for the second quarter of fiscal 2026. Despite a noticeable drop in PlayStation 5 shipments, the company’s gaming division continues to increase revenue. Game sales, digital content, and network services drove the growth, lifting PlayStation’s operating profit by 83%.
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November 5, 2026

AMD has added FSR Upscaling 4.1.2 to the October 2026 Microsoft Game Development Kit for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, giving developers access to two machine-learning upscaling models for their games. The Xbox release includes Full INT8 and Lite INT8 models. Lite takes up less than half the space of Full and has a lower upscaling cost, while both models run on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.
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November 5, 2026

At WSJ Tech in Napa Valley on November 4, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick brushed off concerns that the company is overly dependent on Grand Theft Auto 6, pointing to the strength of its wider portfolio instead. The interviewer raised the issue after noting that Take-Two shares were more than 20% below their record high, despite the excitement around the game.
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November 5, 2026

Nintendo has published its financial report for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026. As of September 30, 2026, worldwide sales of Switch 2 reached 26.35 million units, and the original Switch reached 157.20 million. In July–September, 2.67 million new consoles and 15.04 million games for them sold; for the previous model, the figures were 0.61 million units and 31.92 million copies of software. Total software sales for Switch 2 reached 73.21 million, and for Switch, 1.59 billion.
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November 5, 2026

In a new statement, STJV says it wants employees and their representatives to have a say in Arkane Lyon's future if Microsoft moves ahead with a sale or closure.
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November 5, 2026

Corsair canceled a customer's $8,999.99 order for a Millennium Gaming PC with a GeForce RTX 5090, then listed the same configuration for $11,399. The buyer, @msuiche, reported the cancellation, saying Corsair's notice cited "one or more issues" with the order and offered no option to update the payment method.
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November 5, 2026

ASUS is pushing external GPU docks further with the ROG XG Station 3, which pairs a desktop graphics card with a laptop or compact PC over Thunderbolt 5. The connection offers up to 80 Gbps of bidirectional bandwidth, and Bandwidth Boost can raise display traffic to 120 Gbps in one direction.
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November 4, 2026
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