PS6 will have home and portable models but handheld won’t be as powerful as PS5 GameCentral Published April 15, 2025 11:34am Updated April 15, 2025 11:35am What would a new PlayStation portable look like? (Nintendo/Sony) A series of new leaks suggest that there will be two versions of the PlayStation 6 but that the portable model will run PS5 games at a disadvantage. The idea of generations of console started to fall apart with the Nintendo Switch, as it arrived just five years after the unsuccessful Wii U and managed to dominate sales of both the PlayStation 4 and 5. There’s no guarantee the Switch 2 will do as well but many are describing it as the start of a new generation, that will eventually include a new Xbox (which Microsoft has already announced) and the PlayStation 6 (which Sony has only vaguely hinted at). Both new consoles are rumoured to have handheld forms, but it’s uncertain whether they’ll also have traditional under-your-TV models as well. However, Xbox seems to be hinting that they’ll have both and new rumours for the PlayStation 6 also indicate that there will also be a home and portable device. Is there going to be a new PlayStation portable? There have been leaks about a portable PlayStation 6 before and now new details have emerged that address the question of whether a portable console could be as or more powerful than the current PlayStation 5. Generally, that’s not thought to be possible, as there are inherent physical limitations for a portable, given the amount of heat it would generate (most of the PlayStation 5’s giant size is because of the huge fans it uses), the size of the motherboard, and the limited battery life that would result. That’s why the Nintendo Switch 2 is more comparable to the PlayStation 4 than 5, although it’s thought that it will be possible to run cut-down versions of current gen games, just as titles like Doom Eternal and The Witcher 3 run on the current Switch. If these new rumours are accurate though that’s not enough for Sony, with rumours suggesting that the portable PlayStation 6 will use two SoCs (system on a chip) and AMD’s UDNA architecture for the GPU (graphics processing unit); while the CPU (central processing unit) will use ZEN5 or ZEN6 AMD technology. This is what the inside of a PS5 looks like (Sony) The English translation of all that technobabble is that it will be very powerful, although of course that gets into the other inherent limitation of a portable console: price. What’s described sounds significantly more expensive than the £395.99 Switch 2, although exactly how much is not part of the rumours. It’s still unlikely a practical portable device could be as powerful as the PlayStation 5 and leaker Kepler has indicated that it is not, stating on the forum NeoGAF that it uses a 15W SoC on 3nm processors – which would limit its overall abilities. Kepler later clarified that the PlayStation 6 can run PlayStation 5 games but not at the same resolution or frame rate, ‘mainly due to lower memory bandwidth.’ He compared the power to somewhere between an Xbox Series S and a standard PlayStation 5 and there’s a lot more technobabble in the original thread, as Kepler answers questions from various fans. The PS5 will be seven years old by 2027 (Sony/Metro) There is, of course, no guarantee that any of this is true but Kepler does seem to know what they’re talking about and was correct about the PS5 Pro when they had similar leaked information about that. According to them the PlayStation 6 is ‘design complete’ and in ‘pre-Si validation’ (the processing of checking a design before physical chips are manufactured). According to them, ‘A0 tapeout’ is scheduled for later in the year, which is when the first iteration of a functioning chip is manufactured. When will the PS6 be released? Kepler then speculates, based on the process for the PlayStation 5, that this would lead to first party developers getting devkits (the modified consoles needed to make games) in the first half of 2026, with third parties getting them in the first half of 2027, and a launch in the second half of 2027. More Trending There has been much speculation already that the next gen Xbox and PlayStation consoles will be released by 2028, but it’s unclear from these rumours whether the portable PlayStation 6 would be released at the same time as the home console. Kepler mentions the SoC being ‘taped out’ a few months after the ‘regular PS6 SoC’ but it’s ambiguous as to whether that means the actual device will also arrive a few months after the home model. It’s also unclear how exactly Sony will market it. It wouldn’t make sense to call the portable a PlayStation 6 if it can only run PlayStation 5 games, and even then not at full capacity. That may lead Sony to call it something more ambiguous, like the earlier PS Vita or the more recent PlayStation Portal. Is a PS Vita 2 really happening? (Sony) Email gamecentral@metro.co.uk, leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader’s Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. GameCentral Sign up for exclusive analysis, latest releases, and bonus community content. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Your information will be used in line with our Privacy Policy

House of Pipu and Marta / Menhir ArquitecturaSave this picture!Houses, Renovation•Vilafranca del Penedès, Spain Architects: Menhir Arquitectura Area Area of this architecture project Area:  168 m² Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2024 Lead Architects: Roger Giralt, Ernest Planes More SpecsLess Specs Save this picture! Text description provided by the architects. This is a plot between party walls, 3.5 meters wide and 35 meters long, with a buildable depth of 22 meters, a generous depth that becomes an opportunity for the project. From the existing construction, which consists of a ground floor, mezzanine, first floor, and attic, we retain only the street facade, some strategic slabs, and the load-bearing party walls. We dismantle and restore the elements we keep to highlight the quality and texture of their materials, which will help give identity to the home.Save this picture!Save this picture!The heights of the existing floors are very low, and the level of the backyard garden is situated between the floors, which compels us to design the new home with a sectional approach where each room is placed at a specific height. The different platforms define the program. The house is experienced as a succession of spaces that transition from less to more private, intertwined through both horizontal and vertical pathways.Save this picture!Save this picture!The walled patio with its high party walls captivates us from the start. A garden sheltered by three slender mulberry trees reaching for the sun. We decided to place the living room within this garden.Save this picture!We will cover this new space with a one-way reinforced concrete slab, made on-site. A new heavy element that will rest on the thick stone walls. The space is enclosed with a large glass wall open to the garden, and we separate it from the existing building with a patio where we transplant one of the mulberry trees.Save this picture!The roof of the new pavilion will be finished with a green roof, with private access from the main bedroom on the upper floor. The lightweight staircase vertically connects the entire home. To enhance this journey, we leave the party wall stone exposed, accompanying us from the foyer to the attic.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The interior facade faces southeast, and we design it predominantly with glass to enhance direct solar gain in winter, while protecting from the summer sun with Alicante shutters and the estate's own walls. The house is climate-controlled with underfloor heating using aerothermics, and the entire envelope—floor, facade, and roof—is carefully worked on, avoiding thermal bridges and paying special attention to air tightness.Save this picture! Project gallerySee allShow less About this officeMenhir ArquitecturaOffice••• Published on April 15, 2025Cite: "House of Pipu and Marta / Menhir Arquitectura" [Casa d'en Pipu i la Marta / Menhir Arquitectura] 15 Apr 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1029093/house-of-pipu-and-marta-menhir-arquitectura&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save世界上最受欢迎的建筑网站现已推出你的母语版本!想浏览ArchDaily中国吗?是否 You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01141-9Resource constraints hobble analyses of how digital technologies affect mental health, and take a huge toll on the scientists working to make the online world safer.

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Apple is developing new techniques to analyse user data patterns and aggregated insights to improve its artificial intelligence (AI) features. The Cupertino-based tech giant shared these differential privacy techniques on Monday, highlighting that these methods will not breach users' privacy. Instead, the company is focusing on gathering data such as usage trends and data embeddings to measure and improve its text generation tools and Genmoji. Notably, Apple said that this information will be taken only from those devices that have opted in to share Device Analytics.Apple Wants to Learn from User Data Without Breaching PrivacyIn a post on its Machine Learning Research domain, the iPhone maker detailed the new technique it is developing to improve some of the Apple Intelligence features. The tech giant's AI offerings have been underwhelming so far, and the company claims one of the reasons for that is its ethical practices around pretraining and sourcing data for its AI models.Apple claims that its generative AI models are trained on synthetic data (data that is created by other AI models or digital sources and not by any human). While this is still a fair way to train large language models (LLMs), as it does provide them with knowledge about the world, since the models are not learning from the human style of writing and presentation, the output could come off as bland and generic. This is also known as AI slop.To fix these issues and to improve the output quality of its AI models, the tech giant is now looking at the option to learn from user data without really looking into users' private data. Apple calls this technique “differential privacy.”For Genmoji, Apple will use differentially private methods to identify popular prompts and prompt patterns from users who have opted in to share Device Analytics with the company. The iPhone maker says it will provide a mathematical guarantee that unique or rare prompts will not be discovered and that specific prompts cannot be linked to any individual.Collecting this information will help the company evaluate the types of prompts that are “most representative of a real user engagement.” Essentially, Apple will be looking into the kind of prompts that lead to satisfactory output and where users repeatedly add prompts to get to the desired result. One example shared in the post included the models' performance in generating multiple entities.Apple plans to expand this approach for Image Playground, Image Wand, Memories Creation, and Writing Tools in Apple Intelligence, as well as in Visual Intelligence with future releases.Differential Privacy in Apple Intelligence's text generation featurePhoto Credit: AppleAnother key area where the tech giant is using this technique is text generation. The approach is somewhat different from the one used with Genmoji. To assess the capability of its tools in email generation, the company created a set of emails that cover common topics. For each topic, the company generated multiple variations and then derived representations of the emails, which included key dimensions such as language, topic, and length. Apple calls these embeddings.These embeddings were then sent to a small number of users that have opted in to Device Analytics. The synthetic embeddings were then matched against a sample of the users' emails. “As a result of these protections, Apple can construct synthetic data that is reflective of aggregate trends, without ever collecting or reading any user email content,” the tech giant said. In essence, the company would not know the content of the emails but could still understand how people prefer their emails to be worded. Apple is currently using this method to improve text generation in emails, and says that in the future, it will also use the same approach for email summaries.

Top 7 Cybersecurity Threats Nigerian Businesses Face in 2025 and How to Avoid Them3 min read·Just now--IntroductionCyber threats are growing in scale and sophistication, and Nigerian businesses — both large and small are increasingly being targeted. In 2025, the digital landscape is more connected than ever, and with that comes more vulnerabilities.Whether you’re an SME owner, IT lead, or enterprise decision-maker, understanding today’s threats is the first step to securing your business. Here’s a look at the top 7 cybersecurity threats Nigerian businesses face in 2025. and how to avoid them.Ransomware Attacks: Ransomware remains one of the most crippling threats. Hackers encrypt your data and demand payment to release it. Businesses in Nigeria, including hospitals and fintechs, have experienced operational shutdowns due to ransomware.How to Avoid It:Regular data backups.Employee training.Advanced endpoint protection (EDR)Use of UTM and DNS protection tools.Our cybersecurity suite includes endpoint detection and disaster recovery to ensure you bounce back without paying a ransom.2. Phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC): Phishing emails have evolved — they look like legitimate messages from colleagues or partners and trick users into clicking dangerous links or sharing sensitive data.How to Avoid It:Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)Train employees to recognize phishing attempts.Use email security filters.-Regular simulated phishing tests3. Insider Threats: Sometimes, the threat comes from within — disgruntled employees or careless insiders can accidentally (or intentionally) leak sensitive data.How to Avoid It:Implement strict access control.Use Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools.Monitor user behavior.Conduct regular auditsAt Tros Technologies we offer a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) system that prevents unauthorized data transfers in real time.4. Poor Password Hygiene & Credential Theft: Weak or reused passwords are goldmines for attackers. Brute force attacks and password spraying are still very common.How to Avoid It:- Use a password manager.- Implement password policies (e.g., minimum length, complexity)5. Unsecured Devices & Remote Work Risks: The rise of remote and hybrid work has opened new cybersecurity gaps. Personal devices and public Wi-Fi are hotspots for attacks.How to Avoid It- Provide secure, company-approved devices.- Use VPNs.- Apply endpoint and mobile device management solutions6. Supply Chain Attacks: Cybercriminals are now targeting vendors, partners, or third-party service providers to gain access to your business data.How to Avoid this:- Vet your vendors for compliance and security.- Monitor all data sharing channels.- Use threat detection and monitoring systems7. Lack of Compliance with Data Protection Laws: The Nigerian Data Protection Act (NDPA) is now enforced. Non-compliance could lead to legal, financial, and reputational risks.How to Avoid It:- Conduct regular compliance audits.- Implement robust data governance practices.- Appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO)- Use tools like DSAR automation for compliance handlingTros Technologies helps businesses meet NDPA and GDPR compliance through tailored solutions.Cyber threats are no longer a matter of “if” but “when” Nigerian businesses in 2025 must move beyond basic antivirus software and adopt multi-layered security frameworks that evolve with the threat landscape. Tros Technologies offers complete cybersecurity solutions — from DNS protection and endpoint detection to data loss prevention and compliance automation. Contact us today for a free consultation.

Apple is taking a new approach to training its AI models – one that avoids collecting or copying user content from iPhones or Macs. According to a recent blog post, the company plans to continue to rely on synthetic data (constructed data that is used to mimic user behaviour) and differential privacy to improve features like email summaries, without gaining access to personal emails or messages. For users who opt in to Apple’s Device Analytics program, the company’s AI models will compare synthetic email-like messages against a small sample of a real user’s content stored locally on the device. The device then identifies which of the synthetic messages most closely matches its user sample, and sends information about the selected match back to Apple. No actual user data leaves the device, and Apple says it receives only aggregated information. The technique will allow Apple to improve its models for longer-form text generation tasks without collecting real user content. It’s an extension of the company’s long-standing use of differential privacy, which introduces randomised data into broader datasets to help protect individual identities. Apple has used this method since 2016 to understand use patterns, in line with the company’s safeguarding policies. Improving Genmoji and other Apple Intelligence features The company already uses differential privacy to improve features like Genmoji, where it collects general trends about which prompts are most popular without linking any prompt with a specific user or device. In upcoming releases, Apple plans to apply similar methods to other Apple Intelligence features, including Image Playground, Image Wand, Memories Creation, and Writing Tools. For Genmoji, the company anonymously polls participating devices to determine whether specific prompt fragments have been seen. Each device responds with a noisy signal – some responses reflect actual use, while others are randomised. The approach ensures that only widely-used terms become visible to Apple, and no individual response can be traced back to a user or device, the company says. Curating synthetic data for better email summaries While the above method has worked well with respect to short prompts, Apple needed a new approach for more complex tasks like summarising emails. For this, Apple generates thousands of sample messages, and these synthetic messages are converted into numerical representations, or ’embeddings,’ based on language, tone, and topic. Participating user devices then compare the embeddings to locally stored samples. Again, only the selected match is shared, not the content itself. Apple collects the most frequently-selected synthetic embeddings from participating devices and uses them to refine its training data. Over time, this process allows the system to generate more relevant and realistic synthetic emails, helping Apple to improve its AI outputs for summarisation and text generation without apparent compromise of user privacy. Available in beta Apple is rolling out the system in beta versions of iOS 18.5, iPadOS 18.5, and macOS 15.5. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is attempting to address challenges with its AI development in this way, problems which have included delayed feature rollouts and the fallout from leadership changes in the Siri team. Whether its approach will yield more useful AI outputs in practice remains to be seen, but it signals a clear public effort to balance user privacy with model performance. (Photo by Unsplash) See also: ChatGPT got another viral moment with ‘AI action figure’ trend Want to learn more about AI and big data from industry leaders? Check out AI & Big Data Expo taking place in Amsterdam, California, and London. The comprehensive event is co-located with other leading events including Intelligent Automation Conference, BlockX, Digital Transformation Week, and Cyber Security & Cloud Expo. Explore other upcoming enterprise technology events and webinars powered by TechForge here.

Season 2 of HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation kicked off on Sunday with the long-awaited premiere, and for the next month and a half, new episodes will air weekly. Though Season 2 is not expected to cover the entirety of The Last of Us Part 2, it’s still looking to be a packed batch of episodes, and HBO has released a new trailer to offer a glimpse at what the weeks ahead will bring.  From tense encounters with different types of Infected and personal drama between Ellie, Joel, and others to explosive conflict between the WLF and the Seraphites in Seattle and more, plenty is coming up that fans of the source material will be familiar with. As the season’s first episode indicated, however, the show will seemingly continue to expand on The Last of Us Part 2’scontent with its own additions. Check out the trailer below.  Season 2 of The Last of Us has six more episodes left in its ongoing second season, with the next set to premiere on April 20. A third season has also already been officially greenlit.