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    Ridley Scott says he’s still working on his Prometheus and Alien: Covenant sequel.

    He told the LA Times it would see Michael Fassbender’s David creating a “brave new world for himself.” As one of the sickos that liked those movies, I’m pumped, but not holding my breath. There’s a sequel to Romulus and a second season of Earth on the way too, plus a new Alien: Isolation game.

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    Sony Xperia 10 VIII: Same specs, new price.

    The new midrange Android phone has almost exactly the exact same design and internals as last year’s Xperia 10 VII apart from two meager upgrades: a brighter display and louder speakers. Oh, and at €599 / £549 (around $700-750), it’ll also be € / £150 more expensive when it launches in Europe in “mid-to-late September.” Thanks, RAMageddon.

    <em>Those two rear cameras are the same, with a 50-megapixel main and 13-megapixel ultrawide.</em>
    <em>The display is apparently 50 percent brighter, but otherwise similar: a 6.1-inch, FHD+, 120Hz OLED.</em>
    <em>It’s the same inside too, with a Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 chipset and 5,000mAh battery.</em>
    <em>This “Frozen White” finish is new, at least.</em>
    <em>And “Misty Lilac” too.</em>
    <em>“Frosted Gray” sounds new, but it looks pretty damn similar to last year’s “Charcoal Black.”</em>
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    Those two rear cameras are the same, with a 50-megapixel main and 13-megapixel ultrawide.
    Image: Sony
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    Dominic Preston
    Xiaomi just launched its second flagship phone chip.

    The Xring 03 is, a little confusingly, the follow-up to last year’s Xring 01, which appeared in the China-only 15S Pro phone and Pad 7 Ultra tablet. The 3nm chipset, apparently produced by TSMC, has the usual CPU and GPU bumps, plus mobile-first support for LPDDR6 RAM.

    Render of Xiaomi Xring 03 chip
    Xiaomi will have to manufacture the Xring 03 at serious scale if it wants true independence from Qualcomm.
    Image: Xiaomi
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    Dominic Preston
    Huawei’s next slab phone will be a wide boi too.

    The Pura X View will launch next week in China, but Huawei has already revealed its design, including a broad 16:9.5 aspect ratio display. It looks a little like Huawei’s Pura X flip phone did when unfolded, but in a regular slab format. After last month’s Galaxy Z Fold 8, we’re truly in the wide phone era.

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    Huawei Pura X View product render
    Image: Huawei
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    GitHub explains its latest outage.

    The Microsoft-owned developer platform was down for hours on Monday, which is becoming a bit of a habit. “If you were trying to ship software that day, we let you down,” CTO Vlad Fedorov says, blaming the outage on a capacity failure after traffic hit “a new peak.”