While the industry worries about the global DRAM shortage, the retro-hack scene offers the PS1 an unexpected birthday gift: a mod that multiplies its memory by eight, opening the door to ports that were unthinkable until now.
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An estimate relayed by Notebookcheck calculates the profitability gap between digital sales and physical sales for Sony. This sheds new light on the planned disappearance of discs.
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Ayaneo finally reveals the name of its Game Boy Advance-inspired handheld, while Retroid increases the price of its Pocket 5 and Flip 2 in exchange for more RAM. Overview of a segment that refuses to stabilize.
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A post on Goto10Retro, brought to the top of Hacker News today, tells the story of how a 1980s Commodore 64 served as a refuge for a troubled teenager. It's also a gateway to discussing a machine that shaped an entire generation.
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Coming into force on July 1, 2026, the new European tax on low-value parcels creates exactly the confusion that "parcel held" phishing campaigns thrive on. Numerama documents an already established wave.
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A recognized contributor to the Haskell scene publicly explains why he now codes with AI. Reaction: social banishment, hate mails, and the community rediscovering its own slogan.
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Mira Murati, former CTO of OpenAI, releases a frontier model with open weights from Thinking Machines - something her former employer has been promising for years without delivering.
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An AI coding that executes `rm -rf` on the production database, this wasn't supposed to happen again after the Replit fiasco. It just happened again, several times, with GPT-5.6 Sol.
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