The London Solicitors Litigation Association kicked off two programs to boost diversity and help younger lawyers level up. LSLA president Nikki Edwards from Howard Kennedy announced the Judicial Shadow Scheme and a new mentoring program at their annual dinner. The shadow scheme lets four members per term hang out with judges for a day starting early next year, which beats the existing year-long judicial assistant gigs that cost firms way more time and money.
Edwards called out Mr Justice Henshaw for running the shadow program and Mr Justice Waksman for advancing the idea. The mentoring thing pairs people from different firms and career levels, and sign-ups drop in January. Edwards is only the second woman to lead the group in its 73...
Ghost Story Games dropped another developer blog about Judas three months after the last one, with Ken Levine and his team confirming the game is still in the works but offering zero info on when it might actually drop. The studio shared fresh concept art of the main character and let lead narrative designer Drew Mitchell, lead artist Karen Segars, and studio art director Nathan Phail-Liff explain how they built this spiritual successor to BioShock around player choices and reactive storytelling.
Mitchell explained the team wanted less linear narratives that respond to what players do, which meant creating characters with conflicting goals who all care about your decisions. The protagonist started as a blank slate before evolving into...
Samsung exec Kang Min-seok tried defending why the Galaxy Z TriFold uses last year's processor instead of the newest flagship chip from Qualcomm. The VP claims the company wanted a polished product and picked the older silicon for that reason, but the math tells a different story. With just 100,000 units planned for production, Samsung would pay roughly 280 bucks per chip for the latest version versus 220 for the previous generation, which saves them around six million dollars total.
The device costs 2,447 dollars and only comes in one color option. Buyers are getting charged premium prices for hardware that lags what other flagships are packing right out the gate. The excuse about wanting a finished product falls flat when you realize...
Apple just hit a massive sales peak with the latest batch of phones, but analysts from IDC say the company is about to kneecap itself by shuffling launch dates around. The firm expects iPhone shipments to drop over four percent when the base model gets pushed from fall into spring, which breaks the usual release pattern. The Cupertino giant plans to drop the Pro models and a foldable device during its normal autumn window, then wait until months later to ship the cheaper versions.
The timing shift comes right as Apple grabbed first place in China for multiple months straight and looks set to steal the global crown from Samsung for the first time in over ten years. Memory shortages will hammer the entire smartphone industry next year...
Epic pulled the horror game Horses from its store literally one day before launch after previously approving it multiple times. The company claimed the indie title from Santa Ragione violated policies around inappropriate content and animal abuse, slapping it with an Adults Only rating that blocks it from the platform. The developer says none of that stuff actually exists in the game since all nudity gets pixelated out, and the story actively criticizes violence rather than promoting it.
Santa Ragione got ghosted when they tried appealing the decision, receiving only an automated rejection without any specific examples of what Epic found objectionable. The studio already received approval weeks earlier for its final build, and the...
Bungie dropped the Renegades expansion for Destiny 2, and Steam numbers are sitting at around 66,000 concurrent players. That beats the depressing October lows and the sub-2,000 counts from right before launch, but it still falls short of what Edge of Fate pulled on its first day when 108,000 people showed up. The studio knows players are checked out compared to where things stood a few years back.
Edge of Fate flopped commercially even with higher launch numbers, and Renegades might not crack that peak despite having Star Wars branding attached. The devs admitted they screwed up after The Final Shape released and are hoping this expansion starts turning things around. Whispers about Destiny 3 keep floating around as the potential...
Someone dug up a hidden Apple Health icon buried inside the latest ChatGPT app update for iPhones, and the file name suggests OpenAI might be cooking up an integration between the two services. The feature would apparently let ChatGPT tap into your health data to spit out personalized wellness advice when you ask questions about your body.
ChatGPT already connects to Peloton through its app settings, so adding Apple Health would follow the same playbook. Apple is planning a massive overhaul of its Health app that will drop with the next major update, bringing personalized coaching powered by machine learning, curated expert videos, and nutrition tracking features.
If this partnership actually happens, it will probably launch alongside...
PC makers are eating losses right now because they kept laptop prices steady while memory costs exploded. Anonymous supply chain folks told a Korean outlet that vendors have been burning through old inventory to avoid passing the pain to customers, but that stockpile is running dry. Next-generation machines will cost at least 20 percent more across the board.
Samsung and SK Hynix are dumping most of their DRAM production into AI chips like HBM instead of consumer RAM sticks and laptop memory. Manufacturers have to pay way more to even get allocation for regular products, and the memory giants are prioritizing fat profit margins from data center buyers anyway. Intel Panther Lake and AMD Gorgon Point laptops are going to be brutal on the...
GALAX put out a promo video for their HOF Gaming lineup, showing off years of overclocking records and teasing what the RTX 50 cards can do. The company makes some of the only high-end cards left with dual 16-pin connectors, like the RTX 5090D HOF OC, and they packed the new series with fancy cooling tech and white PCBs.
The commercial mixes traditional animation with AI-generated stuff to flex the creative horsepower these cards bring. Their team handled most of the animation manually, but they let AI tools handle character work like the racing driver, plus the music and lyrics. The video shows the graphics cards as race cars grinding through challenges to demonstrate performance improvements.
GALAX positions these cards as serious...
