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03 Feb 2026 12:00pm GMT

The original Switch is officially Nintendo's best-selling console of all time after surpassing the DS handheld in lifetime sales. From a report: In its latest earnings release, Nintendo reports that the Nintendo Switch has, as of December 31, 2025, sold 155.37 million units since its launch in 2017, compared to 154.02 million units for the 2004 Nintendo DS. In November, Nintendo reported that the Switch and DS were neck and neck. We expected the holiday sales period would see the Switch surpass the DS, even with Nintendo announcing that primary development would focus on the Switch 2. Nintendo previously said that it would continue to sell the original Switch "while taking consumer demand and the business environment into consideration." Nintendo has to keep selling the Switch if it wants to dethrone Sony's PlayStation 2 as the best-selling video game console of all time. The PlayStation 2, discontinued in January 2013, sold more than 160 million units over its 13-year lifespan.

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03 Feb 2026 11:30am GMT

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03 Feb 2026 9:37am GMT

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03 Feb 2026 9:30am GMT

NASA spent most of Monday trying to overcome hydrogen leaks on the Artemis II rocket.

03 Feb 2026 8:06am GMT

sinij writes: Automakers have increasingly implemented door handles that retract into the bodywork for aerodynamic reasons, but they are now off limits in China. My issue is with electronic-only door latch mechanism. It should be possible to open the door from both inside and outside the car in case of complete power loss.

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03 Feb 2026 7:01am GMT

Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired his AI startup xAI in an all-stock deal that values the combined entity at $1.25 trillion, ahead of what would be the largest initial public offering in history. SpaceX pegged its own valuation at $1 trillion -- a markup from the $800 billion it commanded in a December secondary stock sale -- and priced xAI at $250 billion based on a recent $20 billion funding round that valued the two-year-old AI company at $230 billion. SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen told investors on a call Monday that shares in the combined company would be priced at $527 and that xAI shares would convert into SpaceX stock at a roughly seven-to-one exchange rate. The company is still targeting a June IPO expected to raise as much as $50 billion, surpassing Saudi Aramco's $29 billion listing in 2019. Musk said the least expensive way to do AI computation within two to three years will be in space. "Global electricity demand for AI simply cannot be met with terrestrial solutions, even in the near term, without imposing hardship on communities and the environment," he wrote. SpaceX filed last Friday for permission to launch up to a million satellites into Earth's orbit. xAI merged with Musk's social media platform X last March in a $113 billion deal, and Tesla announced a $2 billion investment in xAI last week.

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03 Feb 2026 3:46am GMT

Romero, Carmack, and colleagues discuss an oft-forgotten piece of PC gaming history

02 Feb 2026 10:57pm GMT

Sony has made streaming anime pricier since buying Crunchyroll.

02 Feb 2026 10:31pm GMT

Git 2.53 introduces maintenance "is-needed", expands repo tooling, and ships performance work in diff, packs, and object database internals.

02 Feb 2026 6:10pm GMT

Linux From Scratch reluctantly confirms a systemd-only future, ending System V init development due to mounting maintenance pressure and upstream changes.

02 Feb 2026 4:28pm GMT

Origami Linux is a new experimental Fedora Atomic-based distribution using rpm-ostree and the COSMIC desktop.

02 Feb 2026 11:11am GMT