Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports
Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports

It’s a wild time for retro gaming. Thanks to decompilations and recompilations of classic titles, those games are becoming unshackled from their proprietary code and original hardware to be ported to new devices or updated in ways to completely change the original game. Ever imagined skateboarding in Call of Duty? Or playing the original Halo right […]

BYD’s flagship electric SUV has now topped 10,000 sales for 3 months straight
BYD’s flagship electric SUV has now topped 10,000 sales for 3 months straight

BYD’s full-size flagship electric SUV is off to a strong early start, with more than 10,000 units sold in its first three months on the market.

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Lucid (LCID) Q3 deliveries drop 7% as it slashes production by 38%
Lucid (LCID) Q3 deliveries drop 7% as it slashes production by 38%

Lucid (LCID) delivered 3,806 vehicles in the third quarter, down 7% from a year ago. It built only 2,954, a 38% cut from the previous quarter and its lowest production since early 2025.

The automaker says that’s on purpose. New CEO Silvio Napoli is …

This startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions
This startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions

People in Utah can now use AI to get a prescription for acne treatment. On Monday, healthcare startup Nolla Health announced that users in the state can scan their faces using its app, allowing its AI system to analyze acne severity and autonomously write a prescription, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The service is launching […]

Hyundai is testing a smaller electric SUV — could it be the IONIQ 4? [Video]
Hyundai is testing a smaller electric SUV — could it be the IONIQ 4? [Video]

A disguised Hyundai SUV has been spotted out testing, giving us an early look at what’s thought to be the IONIQ 4, or possibly the IONIQ 1.

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Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage
Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage

Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it “can confirm that we have discovered some activity” by “rogue” OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms. The activity includes edits to Wikimedia wikis, “unsuccessful attempts” to “exploit” the Etherpad note-taking tool that the Wikimedia Foundation […]

Hyundai CEO says only a ‘level playing field’ can minimize damage from China
Hyundai CEO says only a ‘level playing field’ can minimize damage from China

There’s been a lot of doom and gloom from the auto industry lately when the subject of China comes up. Automaker CEOs, in particular, warn that allowing low-cost, high-tech Chinese electric vehicles to be sold in the US would effectively spell the end of their businesses. Hyundai CEO José Muñoz is not as pessimistic as […]

OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex
OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex

An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking “matched or exceeded” other approaches like Google DeepMind’s SynthID for text, which is also the basis for the watermarking Anthropic announced in August. Like OpenAI, Anthropic […]

Velotric Summit 2 mixed-terrain e-bike first discount, Lectric XPeak 2 off-road e-bike new $1,299 low, Segway e-bikes $2,200 savings, more
Velotric Summit 2 mixed-terrain e-bike first discount, Lectric XPeak 2 off-road e-bike new $1,299 low, Segway e-bikes $2,200 savings, more

We’ve got a bunch of official Prime Day sales packed into today’s weekly Green Deals kickoff, starting with the Velotric Fall Prime Day Sale with up to $550 e-bike savings that has given us the first discount on its Summit 2 Hybrid Mixed-Terrain e-bike…

The Kia PV5 makes for a ridiculously cool dump truck
The Kia PV5 makes for a ridiculously cool dump truck

Kia’s electric van might look even cooler as a dump truck. The PV5 was made into a dump truck, and it works.

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