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B&H Photo is temporarily selling Sony's WF-1000XM6 noise-canceling earbuds in black for $238, a $92 markdown and an all-time low price. The deal is currently exclusive to B&H, as other retailers are not discounting the earbuds.
A new guide clarifies that the orange light on a PlayStation 5 is a normal indicator rather than a warning sign, while outlining other symptoms that suggest the console needs repair. It identifies overheating and GPU failure as the most common PS5 problems, detailing symptoms like unexpected shutdowns, loud fans, and screen flickering or static.
Sony has filed a patent for an AI system that predicts a game's next frame using the most recently completed frame, optional motion vectors, and recent controller input, rather than waiting for two finished frames as some frame-generation methods do. The system runs a jointly trained encoder-decoder alongside the graphics pipeline, generating a predicted frame while the GPU renders the next one. The filing includes no performance data on latency or visual quality.
Sony has told UK customers it will not deliver the Android 17 upgrade it had promised for the Xperia 10 VI when the midrange phone launched over two years ago. The company cited a technical assessment that found the device's storage configuration couldn't support an adequate Android 17 experience. Sony says it will still provide security updates through June 2028 and that other Xperia models' update plans are unaffected.
Sony's LinkBuds Clip open-ear earbuds are selling for $158 on Amazon, matching the discount price seen during Prime Day. The earbuds feature an open-ear design and offer up to 37 hours of total battery life with the charging case.
Sony has introduced three new Walkman portable media players for audiophiles: the NW-ZX900 starting at $1,899.99, the NW-WM1AM3 at $2,999.99, and the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3 at $5,899. All three use Sony's DSD Remastering Engine to upsample standard audio and feature gold-plated rear chassis designed to reduce electrical interference, while the two priciest models add hand-soldered copper wiring and the top model's entire body is made of gold-plated oxygen-free copper.
B&H Photo is offering Sony's WH-1000XM6 noise-canceling headphones in silver for $328, a $130 discount, as part of its Deals of the Day promotion running through the rest of today. The price undercuts what Amazon and Best Buy have charged even during seasonal sales, including the recent Prime Day event.
Sony has announced that Mafia: The Old Country, Horizon Forbidden West and Poppy Playtime: Chapter 2 are joining the PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium catalogs. Most titles arrive October 20, with Poppy Playtime: Chapter 2 following on October 27. PlayStation Plus plans start at $11 a month and include access to a rotating library of games.
A hobbyist website has compiled a database of 2,669 unique sealed compact cassettes spanning 1963 to 2010, organized by brand and year of production. The collection covers major manufacturers including Sony (365), TDK (372), Maxell (268), and Fuji/Axia (219), along with regional variants from the US, Europe, and Japan. The site also details product line-ups such as TDK's AD/SA/MA series and Sony's HF/UX/Metal tape formulations.
Sony has unveiled the ECM-W5, a $400 wireless microphone system with one receiver and two transmitters that can record 96kHz audio and stream directly to Sony's Alpha cameras via the Multi Interface Shoe, or to phones and PCs via USB-C. Each $120 transmitter has 64GB of onboard storage, 11 hours of battery life, magnetic mounting, and supports 32-bit float recording for gain-free audio capture across up to four tracks. Pre-orders open now, with shipping set for November.
Overdrive, an unofficial PS5 storefront offering more than 1,600 pirated PS4 and PS5 games for jailbroken consoles, has gone offline after its developer reportedly received a cease-and-desist notice from Sony. The project went viral after modder Edigax shared it on social media, but within hours of its removal, multiple forked versions appeared on GitHub, with one already listing over 1,800 titles.
Overdrive, a homebrew storefront offering more than 1,600 free PS4 and PS5 games for jailbroken consoles, went viral after a demonstration video from the account Edigax drew nearly 8 million views on X. Sony reportedly responded with a cease-and-desist letter that took the original project offline, but within a day two new GitHub repositories—a fork and a clone—appeared to replace it.