Technology News for Thursday 29th May 2025

1. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 04 Patch Notes

Keep Your Enemies Close… Though he once had the chance to end Vikhor “Stitch” Kuzmin's reign of terror, Adler spared his nemesis after they met at the culmination of Black Ops Cold War. Kuzmin was later captured and locked up in an Icelandic CIA black ...

2. Nvidia Takes $4.5B Inventory Charge Due to Chip Trade Policy

U.S. restrictions on AI chip exports have effectively closed the $50 billion Chinese market to Nvidia, prompting a $4.5 billion inventory charge. Nvidia is building AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Taiwan and the U.S. to meet surging demand ...

3. Samsung's Galaxy 'Kill Switch' Completely Changes Your Phone

Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Follow Author. May 29, 2025, 12:46am EDT.

4. How Google AI Mode is undermining original journalism

Google has made it impossible for publishers to opt out of AI Mode without also hiding their sites from search. And by reducing publisher links to a side-panel, whilst providing readers with a detailed answer to their search question, it makes it unlikely ...

5. Nintendo Switch Online Magazine: May Edition

New tracks from the following games are now available exclusively for Nintendo Switch Online members on your smart device! Kid Icarus. Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield. Mario Kart 7.

6. What's in a name? A lot, according to Apple, as it rebrands iOS

Los Angeles | Apple is planning the most sweeping change yet to the names of its operating systems as part of a software overhaul that extends to all its devices. The future Apple operating systems will be identified by year, rather than with a version ...

7. UKAEA robotics project demonstrates viability of building large-scale infrastructure in space

The collaboration between the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and space technology firm Space Solar successfully demonstrated remotely operated dual-arm robots assembling key structural components for large-scale solar power satellites.

8. Game apologises after cancelling Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders

UK high street chain Game has apologised after it cancelled some pre-orders of the hotly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2. Gamers have waited years for the Switch 2 - the successor to one of the best-selling consoles in history - with the new model being ...

9. Rice-led research team develop super material that could change electronics

A research team led by physicists Ming Yi and Emilia Morosan from Rice University has developed a new material with unique electronic properties that could enable more powerful and energy-efficient electronic devices. ming yi Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice ...

10. China-linked hackers exploit Google Calendar in cyberattacks on governments

A China-based hacking group abused Google Calendar in a new cyber-espionage campaign targeting government entities, researchers have found. In a report released this week, analysts at Google attributed the campaign to APT41 — also tracked as Brass ...

11. After its third failed mission - what next for SpaceX?

Shortly before dusk on Tuesday, the world's most powerful rocket blasted off on a test flight from its launch site in Texas. Hopes were high for a successful SpaceX Starship mission after two explosive failed launches in January and March.

12. Instagram Keeps Polishing Its Edits App to Woo Video Creators

The developers working on Instagram's Edits—a video creation app and competitor to TikTok's CapCut—are still refining the mobile editing tool.

13. What is Google even for anymore?

Then Google expanded on that concept earlier this year with AI Mode, a chatbot-based search experience also powered by Gemini that looks an awful lot like ChatGPT and Perplexity. The company announced last week that AI ...

14. Italian steakhouse, Amazon office to anchor new Wynwood Plaza development

Wynwood Plaza, the new mixed-use campus under construction in Miami's art district, announced its newest tenant: Luca Steak, an Italian-style steakhouse from acclaimed chef Giorgio Rapicavoli. The latest: The full-service restaurant at the base of ...

15. Polymer membrane separates hydrocarbons, offering alternative to distillation

A new polymer membrane for separating hydrocarbons in crude oil might one day save huge amounts of energy by removing the need for fractional distillation. The polymer is similar to reverse ...

16. Thousands of ASUS Routers Hit by Persistent Backdoor

Someone - possibly nation-state hackers - appears to be constructing a botnet from thousands of Asus routers in hacking that survives a firmware patch and reboots. Nearly 9,000 routers have been compromised and the number is growing, say researchers.

17. This E-Tattoo for Your Face Gauges Mental Strain

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a wireless, ultra-thin, wearable device that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo and monitors brain signals and eye movements to gauge mental strain.

18. Google: China-backed hackers hiding malware in calendar events

Dive Brief: In October, Google's Threat Intelligence Group spotted Chinese government hackers from APT41 deploying malware ...

19. antigen-presenting cells mediate food tolerance

Oral tolerance to food antigens and the microbiota is maintained by peripherally induced regulatory T (pTreg) cells that suppress inflammatory responses in the gut. However, the subsets of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) that instruct regulatory versus ...

20. Google's New AI-Powered Search Has Arrived. Proceed With Caution.

Last week, I asked Google to help me plan my daughter's birthday party by finding a park in Oakland, Calif., with picnic tables. The site generated a list of parks nearby, so I went to scout two of them out — only to find there were, in fact, ...

21. 5 Ways to Get Your Focus Back

The ability to focus on what we need to do to accomplish our goals is largely guided by the prefrontal cortex, a.k.a. the executive center of our brains, says Charan Ranganath, PhD, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California ...

22. Northern Lights Forecast: 10 States May See Aurora Tonight After Spike

The Northern Lights may be visible overhead and/or in northern skies from 10 U.S. states on Thursday, May 29 through Saturday, May 31, 2025, after a spike in geomagnetic activity. The lack of moonlight (there was a new moon on Monday) and the effect on ...

23. This face tattoo can read your mind and could make you a better worker

Researchers have developed an e-tattoo to measure brainwaves and monitor a person's mental fatigue. They say the e-tattoo could help people in high-risk jobs, like air traffic controllers and truck drivers, avoid mental strain when working.