Sony sparked a backlash among gamers with its decision to phase out physical game discs. Now Nintendo is reassuring its customers that it has no plans to follow suit anytime soon. “We go off what the consumer prefers, and take that into account very heavily,” Bill van Zyll, VP and general manager for Nintendo in Latin America, said in a recent interview. “We also have a platform that was just launched. We’re barely just over a year into [Nintendo Switch 2]. It’s got both digital and physical—that capability. There’s no plans to ditch physical.” Van Zyll’s comments are more of…
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The Trump administration has done everything it can to slow the growth of EVs. But in an ironic twist, Trump’s war in Iran is boosting the EV industry globally. After the U.S. attacked Iran in late February and the price of crude oil soared, global EV sales also surged. A new report from Ember, an energy think tank that is tracking EV sales in 56 countries, found that 49 of them have hit new records for EVs this year. [Image: Ember] Between March and August, EV sales in New Zealand grew 165% compared with the previous six months. In Chile,…
I’ve been having a lot of conversations with industry leaders lately about the prevalence of so-called “shadow AI.” They’re worried about the risks of unapproved AI tools at work, and most come to me wanting to know how to rein in their employees. But that’s looking at the problem backwards. Their concern is well founded. Among organizations surveyed in IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026 that had experienced a data breach, 43% reported security incidents involving shadow AI, up from 20% the previous year. And the problem isn’t going away. In our own recent survey, we found that…
This is a classic example of how people who rise to the top of one field are complete idiots when it comes to everything else. Lt. General Keith Kellogg served as National Security Advisor to former Vice President Mike Pence and later as Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia. He is Co-Chair at the Center for American Security, America First Policy Institute, USA, which is a Neocon think tank. The ignorance of this guy is just stunning. He has made no effort to look at the facts, or more likely, he knows the facts and is deliberately no discussing…
Hackers usually go after your data. In France, they went after the frozen peas. A cyberattack on refrigeration systems hit more than 400 supermarkets in France, forcing some stores to throw out food, according to The New York Times. About 300 Intermarché and Netto stores were affected, along with 80 Coopérative U and 30 Monoprix locations. The attack targeted systems from three companies that remotely control refrigerators, according to France’s National Cybersecurity Agency. So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the hack, and Paris prosecutors have yet to identify the culprits. Dominique Schelcher, head of French grocery chain Coopérative…
Brussels apparently believes it can dictate what an industry produces without accepting responsibility when the economics cease to work. Renault is now warning that European production could fall by approximately 300,000 vehicles unless there is greater flexibility around the 2030 emissions requirements. Volkswagen describes the mass market business as under “enormous pressure.” BMW’s global deliveries fell 6.4% in the third quarter, with China down by a quarter. Competition is fierce, customers have choices, and these companies cannot finance a transformation indefinitely by producing vehicles at inadequate margins. Look at how the target changed. The agreement reached in 2018 called for…
Key Takeaways “Ghost jobs” are advertised positions that companies never mean to fill. In the U.S., more than a third of job listings, or 36%, had been sitting online for at least 30 days. Companies can post “ghost jobs” for many reasons, including collecting résumés for future openings or advertising openings to appear to be growing to impress investors. You send off your résumé, wait for a reply and get nothing. Weeks later, the company is still advertising for the same job. It’s easy to wonder what went wrong with your application, but the company might not have been hiring…
Finland wants the European Union to stop issuing tourist visas to Russians until Moscow ends its war against Ukraine. Finland’s Foreign Ministry says Schengen countries issued close to 500,000 tourist visas to Russians in 2025. Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen declares that “Russian citizens should not be issued tourist visas,” adding, “The same must finally happen at the EU level.” Her argument is that Russians should not enjoy European freedoms while their country attacks Ukrainian homes. But who, exactly, is being held accountable here? The person applying for a holiday visa did not necessarily order the invasion, support it, or possess…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI is shifting performance testing from reactive to predictive. Instead of waiting for failures, AI can detect anomalies, catch regressions and adapt tests to changing real-world usage patterns. AI performance testing requires a rethink of your infrastructure. You need integrated data architectures. Your AI needs access to performance metrics, user behavior, logs and business context, all in one place. AI augments rather than replaces engineers. The real ROI comes from automating repetitive analysis and testing so engineers can focus on judgment-heavy work. AI in performance testing has moved past the…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways When customers complain, better messaging isn’t always the answer. Recurring complaints can reveal problems that no marketing campaign can fix. When the same complaint keeps appearing, marketers should ask: Are we failing to deliver the promise, or are we making the wrong promise? Reviews, social posts, support conversations and sales calls are valuable sources of intelligence. The point isn’t to react to every angry customer. It’s to look for patterns. When customers complain, companies tend to focus on the complaint. They respond to the bad review. They apologize on social…