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How to buy the Nintendo Switch 2: Stock updates for Walmart, Target, Best Buy and more

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . You can finally buy the Nintendo Switch 2 in the US. The $450 console officially went up for sale on June 5, and several retailers have offered it both online and in-store in the week since. While millions of people have been able to snag the device, online inventory dried up fairly qu

Alaska Just Issued Its First-Ever Heat Advisory—and It Won’t Be the Last

The National Weather Service (NWS) office in Fairbanks, Alaska, issued a heat advisory on Thursday, June 12. It’s never had to do that before. Heat advisories are new to both the Fairbanks and Juneau NWS offices, which implemented the use of these notices on June 2. Until now, Alaska weather officials exclusively issued Special Weather Statements to notify the public of potentially hazardous heat. The change comes as Alaska continues to warm at nearly twice the rate of the lower 48 states, with

Tesla's long-awaited robotaxi service is coming to Austin this month

Something to look forward to: Robotaxi services are widely seen as the next major breakthrough in transportation, with Alphabet-owned Waymo already expanding its self-driving taxi operations across several US cities. Now, Elon Musk has announced that Tesla is finally ready to launch its long-awaited autonomous cab service in Austin, Texas, later this month. Replying to an X user asking about when public rides would begin, Musk said the launch date is "tentatively" set for June 22, but the actua

Elon Musk says Tesla robotaxi rides in Austin 'tentatively' set to begin June 22

Earlier on Tuesday, Musk shared a video on X showing that Tesla was testing driverless vehicles on the roads of Austin without a human safety supervisor behind the wheel. The eight-second clip showed the latest version of the Model Y SUV, painted black with a white "Robotaxi" graffiti-style logo painted on it, navigating an intersection and pausing to allow pedestrians to traverse a crosswalk. "We are being super paranoid about safety, so the date could shift," Musk wrote. In a post on X , Mus

Tesla will start offering public Robotaxi rides in Austin on June 22, says Elon Musk

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says that Robotaxi service is "tentatively" set to begin in Austin, Texas on June 22. This comes after the company said last month that it had already begun testing driverless Model Ys in Austin. Shortly after that, Bloomberg reported that Tesla had internally discussed a launch date of June 12, though the only publicly shared timeline has been sometime in June . The first Robotaxi Model Y operating without a person in the driver's seat was spotted on South Congress in Austi

FBC: Firebreak headlines June's PS Plus additions

Remedy's multiplayer spin on Control is coming to the PlayStation Game Catalog. Sony's June PS Plus additions start with the day-one arrival of FBC: Firebreak. Other entries this month include the latest Battlefield entry and sticky-ball Katamari fun. FBC: Firebreak lets you and up to two others team up to kick some Hiss ass. Play as a government employee who volunteered to take out extra-dimensional monsters. But the wicked delights really kick in when you enhance your plain ol' guns with supe

Phishing attack hides JavaScript using invisible Unicode trick

A new JavaScript obfuscation method utilizing invisible Unicode characters to represent binary values is being actively abused in phishing attacks targeting affiliates of an American political action committee (PAC). Juniper Threat Labs that spotted the attack reports that it took place in early January 2025 and carries signs of sophistication such as the use of: Personalized non-public information to target victims, Debugger breakpoint and timing checks to evade detection, Recursively wrapp