This minigame / explainer for the Switch 2’s features costs $9.99, but Nintendo’s video shows off a lot of the experience without costing anything extra, which could be good after the $449.99-plus charge hits buyers’ accounts.
Confirmed during Nintendo’s Direct event in April, and now live on the actual Switch 2. CD Projekt Red has confirmed which voiceover packs and subtitles are included with the game vs. available for free download if needed, but seeing it running in docked mode gives us an idea of the actual performance and quality throughout the game’s intro mission, which is miles ahead of where it was at launch a few years ago.
This YouTube video from Game Riot also confirms the game is really running from the cartridge, with only 2.4GB of storage allocated on the Switch 2’s storage.
We’ve already seen inside the Nintendo Switch 2, and here’s a video capture showing off the menus and eShop on the new console, as they’ve started to arrive across various continents.
No, it’s not a game, but it is something we’ll be spending a lot of time doing over the next few days and weeks, and at least so far, it looks a lot faster on this generation’s hardware. According to VGC’s Andy Robinson, logging in after a system transfer (and day one update download) is a lot like an Xbox, with all of your Switch 2 games ready to install.
Google is rolling out a new Gemini AI-powered feature to users with eligible Google Workspace or Google AI plans that pops up a “Catch me up” shortcut to go over recent edits in Google Docs, as well as comments on other types of files, complete with a warning that “Gemini may display inaccurate info.”
It’s supposed to roll out over the next couple of weeks, providing either a high-level summary across all of your files in the sidebar or overviews of changes to a specific file via a new activity indicator.
The New York Times is reporting on Ripple, a Washington Post initiative that’s apparently looking to open up its opinion pages to writing from “...from other newspapers across America, writers on Substack and eventually nonprofessional writers.”
That last bullet point would reportedly be assisted by the “Ember” AI writing coach with a paint-by-numbers approach to creating strong stories. As Liz’s thread goes on to point out, beyond the Forbes and Huffington Post echoes, it’s also a reminder of Tribune Publishing’s short “content curation and monetization engine” era as Tronc.
On the list of apparel-related data breaches, Adidas was early to the trend. Then, the Victoria’s Secret website was offline for a few days last week as it dealt with a “security incident.”
Now, Bleeping Computer has two more to add to the list, reporting that Cartier has sent emails to customers informing them that info like name, email address, and country of residence was stolen, and that The North Face has apparently suffered its fourth reported credential stuffing incident since 2020.
[bleepingcomputer.com]
A notification on Washington’s statewide Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) layoff and closure database says the exact number is 305. According to a statement from Microsoft to GeekWire, that number is in addition to the 6,000 layoffs it announced last month,
