Dominic Preston

BioWare’s much-maligned live service shooter is shutting its servers on January 12th, 2026. It’ll be playable until then, though you can no longer purchase in-game premium currency, and it’ll disappear from EA Play on August 15th. EA says there have been no layoffs as a result, though jobs were lost at BioWare in January.

Elon Musk’s AI company has been granted a permit for 15 natural gas turbines to power a Memphis data center, along with limits on their emissions, which include smog-forming nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide.

The company’s second US chip plant — initially planned for a 2024 start — has been delayed to 2026, which Nikkei Asia reports is down to a lack of local customers. The company was just awarded $4.7 billion in US funding from the CHIPS Act.

Turns out Roku streaming sticks have a host of secret menus accessed through cheat code-esque combinations of button presses on the remote.

Swiss minimalist phone manufacturer Punkt says it’s working with German company Gigaset on a line of “fully European-built mobile devices,” with the first to launch in Q4 this year.

The company will appeal the payout, which will otherwise go to Android users in California whose cellular data was used to transmit information back to Google for uses like targeted advertising.