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Valve kills its retail gift card program due to scammers

For years, Valve's physical Steam gift cards have been the closest you could come to buying a Steam game at a brick-and-mortar store. Now, Valve says it is phasing out the production of new retail gift cards, citing a losing battle against scammers exploiting the hard-to-track payment method. PC Guide was among the first to note the end of Valve's retail gift card program, which was quietly announced in a recent update to a Steam support page.

Newegg Promo Code: 10% Off in June 2026

Newegg currently has promo codes and deals on gently used, refurbished, new and hard-to-find electronics, gaming products and more. Remaining one of the biggest online-only retailers in the US for the last 20 years, Newegg is a leading global online retailer for PC hardware, home appliances and all things tech, as well as providing help with businesses’ e-commerce needs. In the last decade, Newegg has expanded its online retail presence, selling everything from PC parts to refurbished vacuum...

Signet City is a new 'fungalpunk' RPG from the creator of Citizen Sleeper

Signet City is a new 'fungalpunk' RPG from the creator of Citizen Sleeper Who wants Joy Division and mushrooms? Following an early teaser in May, Citizen Sleeper creator Gareth Damian Martin has revealed Signet City. Martin describes their new game as a "fungalpunk" RPG.

Multi-View Speech Representation Learning for Parkinson's Disease Detection Using Context-guided Cross-modal Attention

arXiv:2606.09271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that frequently causes speech impairments associated with hypokinetic dysarthria. As speech production relies on the precise coordination of complex neuromuscular mechanisms, speech analysis has emerged as a promising non-invasive and cost-effective biomarker for early PD detection. Recent deep learning approaches have shown encouraging results; however, most existing methods...

Persona 5 Royal is one of many additions to Xbox Game Pass for June

Persona 5 Royal is one of many additions to Xbox Game Pass for June The subscription is also getting some indie projects that are worth a look. Xbox has announced the next set of titles coming to its Game Pass subscription in early June. One of the highlights is Persona 5 Royal, which is the 2020 version that added a third chapter and a few other extra tidbits to the original groundbreaking JRPG from 2016.

Physically-Constrained Mamba-SDE for Remaining Useful Life Prediction under Irregular Observations

Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate Remaining Useful Life prediction is critical for industrial predictive maintenance. However, real-world deployment is challenging due to the irregular nature of sensor observations, characterized by asynchronous sampling, burst missingness, and temporal jitter. Compounding this issue, purely data-driven models often generate physically implausible degradation trajectories that violate the irreversible nature of damage accumulation.

That an app 'Fits on a Floppy' is still a useful measure in 2026

Summer Game Fest 2026: All the news from gaming’s busiest week

Get ready for some gaming news. It’s officially June, which means splashy new events from PlayStation, Xbox, and gaming hype man Geoff Keighley. But this season doesn’t just feature the big tentpole shows; there will be a bunch of smaller events, too, and they might feature some promising games as well.

Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could

Now, that's a lot of word processing. But under the hood it's still at least PDP-8 adjacent, even considering its oddities and incompatibilities, and you can make it do many of the things a full-size Eight can. We'll take this basic unit, convert the floppy drives to solid state, tap the video output, and put it through its paces.

Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014)

Most of what we’ve heard about Werner Herzog is untrue. The sheer number of false rumors and downright lies disseminated about the man and his films is truly astonishing. Yet Herzog’s body of work is one of the most important in postwar European cinema.