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Citroen has revived its 2CV name on a new electric concept car shown at the Paris Motor Show, featuring retro styling reminiscent of the original model. The car is not yet for sale, but Citroen plans to bring a production version to showrooms by 2028.
A developer known as Sword released version 2.01 of PS5SX2, a tool that lets jailbroken PlayStation 5 consoles run PlayStation 2 games from the console's Blu-ray drive. The software dumps disc contents to internal storage before launching titles, and an experimental feature allows loading PS2 game dumps via an external USB Blu-ray drive, potentially extending support to digital-only PS5 models. The tool requires hacked firmware and builds on existing open-source emulation code.
A tech industry leader with over two decades of experience, including roughly ten years in leadership, argues that faster work enabled by AI tools is taking a toll on team wellbeing. The piece draws on personal management experience to make the case that output speed and employee morale are closely linked.
A collection of 34 leaders shared the small personal rituals they rely on to stay energized and focused during business travel. The habits cover ways to manage the physical and mental strain of frequent trips for meetings and conferences.
8BitDo has released the Ultimate 2, a $70 wireless controller for Switch 2 that includes a charging dock, a 2.4G USB-C dongle and spare key caps. The gamepad features TMR joysticks, Hall effect triggers with six total shoulder inputs, adjustable haptics, three custom button profiles and full remapping support.
A GitHub programmer built NvidiaWatch, a website that compiles Nvidia driver release notes and forum feedback to track the status of 462 reported driver bugs. The site gives each bug and each driver release its own page, showing fixed, open, and carried-over issues, plus a chart summarizing how many problems were resolved per update. The creator first shared the project in late September and posted an update on r/Nvidia this week.
Following Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian data centers, a Cloudflare chart showing a drop in Yandex-related bot traffic spread widely on social media, with many assuming it showed Russian disinformation bots going offline. Researcher antibot4navalny says the data actually reflects a decline in Yandex's own web crawler activity, not social media bot farms, and that broader Russian bot traffic was largely unaffected. A separate chart claiming to show a drop in pro-AfD online activity, shared by EU lawmaker Tomáš Zdechovský, has been flagged by computer scientist Raphael Wimmer as possibly AI-generated.
Columbus Day, observed alongside Indigenous Peoples' Day, falls on Monday, October 12, 2026, and is recognized as a federal holiday. Banks, the U.S. Postal Service, and stock markets such as the NYSE and Nasdaq are expected to close, while many retailers including Costco and CVS plan to remain open on normal schedules.
Reporting has raised questions about whether companies other than Flock Safety operate similar automated license plate recognition networks that collect and share vehicle location data. The discussion centers on how widespread such surveillance infrastructure may be across the industry, not just at one vendor.
A cyberattack has reportedly hit Danfoss-made refrigeration controls used by Intermarché, Leclerc and Coopérative U stores in France, forcing fridges and freezers into continuous defrost cycles at around 50°C instead of their normal two-hour daily cycle. Coopérative U president Dominique Schelcher confirmed the attack began overnight Monday, called it 'extremely serious,' and said teams were working to restore systems while an investigation is launched. Electronic shelf pricing and deliveries have also reportedly been disrupted.
A Russian repair specialist known as VIK-off examined an RTX 4090 bought as a bare PCB for about 30,000 rubles ($350) and discovered it contained a fake GPU die soldered on via BGA along with counterfeit memory chips mimicking GDDR6X markings. Closer inspection revealed the die's contact area didn't match a real processor and the solder mask degraded during cleaning, while the memory chips were actually GDDR6 rather than GDDR6X, with VIK-off suggesting the board may actually be a repurposed RTX 3090 Ti PCB.
Attackers remotely triggered automatic defrosting functions in Danfoss refrigeration controllers overnight, raising fridge temperatures at an estimated 250 to 350 stores across chains including Intermarché, Coopérative U, Carrefour Market, Monoprix, Leclerc and Super U. Coopérative U president Dominique Schelcher confirmed the incident, saying teams were working with refrigeration specialists to resolve it, while the Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation into food losses and reported fires linked to the attack.