Disney and OpenAI's new $1 billion partnership feels emblematic of the terrible times we're living through. In exchange for access to the generative AI firm's APIs and tools like ChatGPT, the studio plans to let users of OpenAI's Sora AI video generator create clips featuring hundreds of Disney-owned characters. Sora AI users will be able to generate as much uncanny Pixar / Marvel / Star Wars slop for themselves as they want, and Disney will share some of it in a special section on the Disney Plus platform. It's not hard to see where this is going to go.Disney CEO Bob Iger described the partnership as marking "an important moment for our i …Read the full story at The Verge.

Tonight, The Game Awards return, offering up a mix of exciting new video game announcements and an award-fueled celebration for the year's best titles. Games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Donkey Kong Bananza are up for the biggest awards, while new announcements related to Tomb Raider, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Night, Saros, and more are expected.

Nintendo amiibo figures have become a topic of discussion among Nintendo fans lately following the release of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on the Nintendo Switch 2. Normally, this would be a good thing as people have been purchasing new amiibo figures alongside a new game release, but not this time. Amiibo figures and their functionality with various games have gotten under the skin of Switch 2 owners, more specifically if they give buyers enough for the price they purchase them. This is something that's been debated about since amiibo figures were first released on the original Nintendo Switch.

President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick look on as White House artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto czar David Sacks speaks. On Thursday evening, with White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks looking over his shoulder, Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to grab unilateral power over regulating artificial intelligence for the federal government. The order can't by itself unilaterally override state AI laws, but it directs federal agencies to take steps to reduce or eliminate their influence, and discourage states from passing laws that the federal government might challenge, or put crucial funding for other programs at risk.It specifically calls out Colorado's recently passed consumer protection law, making the claim that "banning 'algorithmic discri …Read the full story at The Verge.

The next Star Wars game is coming from the director of Mass Effect and Knights of the Old Republic. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic was revealed during The Game Awards with a brief trailer that got Geoff Keighley so excited his voice started cracking. Like any announcement trailer, it was brief, featuring a spaceship landing on a rainy planet and a woman in white robes staring into the camera as a lightsaber zhooms to life. According to the trailer's YouTube description, Fate of the Old Republic is a single-player narrative game and the spiritual successor to the KOTOR series.Developed by Arcanaut Studios in collaboration with Lucasf …Read the full story at The Verge.

Ayaneo, a manufacturer best known its gaming devices, has revealed its first gaming-focused Android handheld -- and it looks a lot like Sony's iconic 2011 Ericcson Xperia Play.

We've seen Linux running off a few interesting things here at XDA. But have you ever witnessed someone install Linux on a floppy disk? And not just any distro, either; I'm talking one that came out recently?

Traveling with a lightweight computer setup usually involves a list of small compromises. I have tried tablets, compact Chromebooks, and even my phone paired with a portable monitor, yet none of them struck the right balance for getting real work done. For this trip, I packed a Raspberry Pi 5, a small keyboard, and the Elecrow CrowView Note 14 display that we recently reviewed. I expected a novelty experiment that might help me answer a few emails, but not much more.

If you have the option to choose a laptop with better specifications than you need, it's a good idea to get it. And we think that the MSI Summit 13 AI+ Evo laptop hits all the right notes, offering impressive power in a sleek chassis that comes in at a price that's also relatively affordable. Sure, this isn't some bargain buy, but it's still a good price if you're looking for a powerful laptop.

As far as SSDs go, this is by far the smallest ever -- and no, it's not just a fancy microSD card.

For a while now, my home network has felt a bit like an elaborate experiment; mostly stable, occasionally chaotic, and always one poorly timed migration away from my fiancée asking, “Why did the Wi-Fi just die?” My home lab had grown slowly and organically: a Proxmox machine here, a NAS there, a stack of self-hosted services, and whatever Docker container I was testing that week. Individually, they weren’t a problem. Together, they formed a noisy background hum of broadcast traffic, constant updates, and unpredictable workloads.

I spent years trying to find the right to-do list app for my needs, one that is multiplatform, syncs for free, can handle a variety of inputs from notes to links, and doesn't feel like it was adding features for the sake of it every few months. I've tried self-hosted to-do managers, commercial ones, and tried using other productivity tools that had to-do functions inside, but none of them stuck.