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Nintendo’s Switch 2 bundle that includes a game is $50 off

Discounts on the Nintendo Switch 2 are rare, but they do happen on occasion. There’s one happening now, actually, on the company’s $499.99 console bundle that includes a digital game (Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, or Pokémon Pokopia). Usually, the bundle saves you $20 or $30, depending on the game you choose, but for $449.99 at Amazon (discount reflected at checkout), Nintendo is effectively giving you a game for free. Nintendo Switch 2 “Choose Your Game” bundle Where to Buy: $529.99

Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs

A group of 26 former Meta employees is suing the company over claims that it used AI tools to unfairly target workers on leave with layoffs, as reported earlier by Reuters. In the lawsuit, the employees allege Meta determined which workers to dismiss based on performance data collected by a "constellation" of internal AI tools, but failed to exclude those on parental or medical leave from its ranking system: The result was that employees who took protected leaves were disproportionately selected

Adobe Patches Critical ColdFusion Vulnerabilities

The ColdFusion security defects could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or elevate their privileges. The post Adobe Patches Critical ColdFusion Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Compliance Reporting Without Losing the Spreadsheet or the Control

Compliance-reporting teams keep spreadsheets in the loop for a practical reason: a workbook lets domain experts inspect assumptions, formulas, source rows, and intermediate values without reading a line of application code. That transparency is genuinely useful, and it's a big part of why replacing Excel outright so often fails to stick. The trouble starts once that workbook becomes part of a repeatable, audited reporting process — a regulatory filing, an IFRS report, a periodic compliance submi

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S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/S-P-downgrades-Oracle-to-BBB-only-one-notch-above-junk-level-11363472.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909768 Points: 303 # Comments: 302

Boston Dynamics tries using ‘robot dogs’ for deliveries

See Spot carry. | Image: Boston Dynamics Boston Dynamics' robotic quadruped Spot has already found work doing routine factory inspections and patrolling the ruins of Pompeii, but what about deliveries? The company is testing a new conveyor belt accessory that allows Spot to carry packages from a vehicle and autonomously unload them on a customer's doorstep in an effort to reduce a delivery driver's workload. While attempts have already been made to expedite and automate deliveries using whee