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PlayStation Plus Extra has added the 2025 action title Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound to its catalog, alongside Dungeons of Hinterberg and Sniper Elite: Resistance. The release is staggered, with Japan and the U.K. gaining immediate access, while U.S. subscribers can download the games at noon PST. All three titles are already available to users in other regions. Sony’s announcement highlights the platform’s expanding library of high‑profile games across action, RPG, and tactical shooter genres.

Sheets.works has launched “Apple in Colour,” an interactive archive cataloguing 341 Apple product colors released over nearly thirty years. The collection includes iMacs, iPhones, iPads, iPods, HomePods, and the (PRODUCT)RED Mac Pro, each tagged with its release year and official Apple color name or number. The site builds on the team’s prior timelines of Apple devices, offering a visual celebration of the brand’s bright palette and its charitable partnership with (RED). Visitors can explore the full catalog online. [...]

The European Commission has launched Q-VERSE, a 36‑month Horizon Europe project funded with €5 million, to create a vendor‑agnostic quantum software stack. Coordinated by Fraunhofer FOKUS, the 13‑partner consortium will build an open, hardware‑agnostic platform that decouples high‑level quantum application development from specific QPU architectures. Using the Eclipse Qrisp framework, the stack will standardize intermediate representations (OpenQASM + LLVM‑based QIR), provide dynamic backend discovery, and expose gRPC/REST APIs for job orchestration. Work Package 4, led by Simula Research [...]

Tesla postponed the outdoor unveiling of its redesigned second‑generation Roadster to October 15, 2024, citing severe weather forecasts that could jeopardize the event in Waco, Texas. The delay follows multiple earlier reschedulings, including a planned April Fools’ Day show. The Roadster, which incorporates SpaceX cold‑gas thrusters for limited flight capability, has long been a high‑profile project with a $200,000 base price and a limited “Founders Series.” Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, has repeatedly promised a launch but remains [...]

A security advisory revealed that versions of the official MCP Python SDK could send OAuth credentials—including client secrets, authorization codes, and PKCE proof keys—to a malicious server’s token endpoint. The flaw allows attackers to obtain valid access tokens with the app’s permissions. The issue is fixed in SDK releases 1.30.0 and 2.2.0, but users of certain providers must also specify the issuer to fully mitigate the risk. No attacks have been reported, and the vulnerability is rated [...]

The iconic TARDIS set used in Doctor Who was demolished at Bad Wolf studios as the series enters a prolonged hiatus. The set, which debuted in the 60th‑anniversary specials and featured in Ncuti Gatwa’s seasons, had been retained after the final season’s production ended. Its removal follows the BBC’s announcement that Bad Wolf will not continue the show and that a new production partner is being sought, with a potential return slated for 2028‑2029. The demolition was confirmed by Bad Wolf’s Jane Tranter [...]

C12 and Thales unveiled QuantumTrack, a hybrid quantum‑classical system that achieves real‑time multi‑target radar tracking. The solution matched the best classical solver’s time‑to‑solution while outperforming quantum annealers by roughly 100× on C12’s Callisto emulator. QuantumTrack earned the 2026 Quantum Effects Award for Quantum Computing Hardware and has reached Technology Readiness Level 5, with a planned TRL 6 demonstration on a physical processor. The partnership aims to deploy the technology in defense radar and unmanned traffic management systems. [...]

Casey Affleck, known for his brief role in Oppenheimer, revealed at the Zurich Film Festival that he called Christopher Nolan to resolve a debate about Tenet. Affleck, who shared a scene with Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer, explained that he and his son were arguing over the film’s confusing plot. He rang Nolan, asked a question that could have been answered online, and felt embarrassed when Nolan’s response was “obviously” correct. Affleck has not contacted Nolan again. [...]