The Switch 2’s flagship title just got its second patch tonight, following a day-one update for Mario Kart World that enabled the camera and online play.
This new 1.1.1 patch is a smaller update to address glitches that could disable items or controls, or cause the game to shut down suddenly.
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We’re barely recovered from meeting the 2025 Corvette ZR1, and now Chevrolet has announced a regenerative hybrid variant (no plugging in here), dubbed the ZR1X. This 2026 Corvette model takes the E-Ray’s EV modes and all wheel drive setup, turns up the horsepower, and puts it in a package with the ZR1’s LT7 V8, along with some other tweaks for maximizing performance on the road or the track.
This ‘true American hypercar’ with 1,250 horsepower will go from zero to 60 mph in under two seconds, GM estimates. No price announced yet.
That’s according to The Telegraph film critic Robbie Collin, who also said, “It felt less like watching a blockbuster in the modern sense than the greatest game of dressing up in the desert anyone ever played.”
The Hollywood Reporter points out that George Lucas has been tweaking the flick going back to its rerelease in theaters in 1981, along with this YouTube report from Cinema Savvy detailing “so many little things” that are different. If you want a better blend of the updates without CG fluff and “Greedo shot first,” you may have to wait for Harmy to get back from his honeymoon.
The Wall Street Journal reports that on Sunday, an internal memo from executive editor Matt Murray notified employees about an attack on on its email system, possibly by a foreign government. It also cites unnamed sources saying that the Microsoft accounts targeted included reporters on the national security and economic policy beats including some who write about China.
CNN says the outlet reset all employee logins on Friday, that Murray said they don’t believe it has had any impact on customers.
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The Verge reporters show the scene from Saturday’s mass protests across the US and one in the UK.
There was prominent placement along the route for some of the Big Tech companies backing Trump’s military parade, as long as they haven’t been removed from the list of sponsors for America250.
9to5Mac and MacRumors point out that Apple just launched a new service program targeting a specific issue, and this time, it’s M2 Mac Minis built between June 16th, 2024, and November 23rd, 2024. That would be just before new M4-powered units supplanted the line.
According to Apple, “a very small percentage of Mac mini (2023) devices with the M2 chip may no longer power on.” Owners experiencing the issue can check eligibility here with their serial number or browse the complete list of active service programs.
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Yesterday, a global outage on the Google Cloud platform knocked out Google Home, Spotify, Snapchat, and even some Cloudflare features, and today the company released a mini incident report as it continues to investigate.
For Cloudflare’s part, its report says the Google failure took out a central data store for one of its services.
From our initial analysis, the issue occurred due to an invalid automated quota update to our API management system which was distributed globally, causing external API requests to be rejected. To recover we bypassed the offending quota check, which allowed recovery in most regions within 2 hours. However, the quota policy database in us-central1 became overloaded, resulting in much longer recovery in that region.
Through four days, at least, after moving 3.5 million units over the weekend. You’ve heard our thoughts on the system, what are yours?
Nintendo Co., Ltd. (HQ: Kyoto, Minami-ku, Japan; Representative Director and President: Shuntaro Furukawa, “Nintendo” hereafter) announced that its new game system, Nintendo Switch 2, sold over 3.5 million units worldwide in the four days following its release on June 5, 2025*. This is the highest global sales level for any Nintendo hardware within the first four days.
