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Battlefield 6’s Open Beta has launched into early access, but players are having to wait to get in, being met with server queues of over 270,000 in some cases. The beta went live at 1 AM PT on August 7, and the devs addressed the server queue issue a couple of minutes before. “Since this is Battlefield’s biggest Open Beta …

There’s a huge queue to get in the Battlefield 6 Open Beta before it even starts. After IGN reported how thousands of people were sitting on the Battlefield 6 Open Beta menu screen on Steam yesterday, August 5, today, just hours before the open beta launches for those with early access, EA has had to trigger the kind of queue …

This week, OpenAI released its long-awaited open weight model called gpt-oss. Part of the appeal of gpt-oss is that you can run it locally on your own hardware, including Macs with Apple silicon. Here’s how to get started and what to expect. Models and Macs First, gpt-oss comes in two flavors: gpt-oss-20b and gpt-oss-120b. The former is described as a …

2025 US Open prize money sets record for largest purse in tennis history  US Open Tennis 2025 US Open prize money  ATP Tour U.S. Open singles winners will get a record $5 million each  NBC News U.S. Open makes tennis history with $90 million announcement  Yahoo Sports US Open prize money pool increases to record $90M, largest in tennis history  USA Today Source link

The Royal Society has been publishing more than half of its content open-access by charging article-processing fees.Credit: Nigel Bowles/Alamy The UK Royal Society is converting eight of its journals to the ‘subscribe to open’ (S2O) publishing model, starting next year. The not-for-profit publisher, which produces ten titles, including the world’s first peer-reviewed journals, announced the decision today. The S2O model …

Trump Advisers Push for a Temporary Fed Governor to Fill Open Seat  Bloomberg.com White House searches for a new BLS chief with ‘credibility’ and ‘experience’  NBC News Trump is about to make two key appointments. Faith in the economy is at stake  CNN After BLS firing, Trump leaves clean-up job to successor  Politico Trump Just Got a Fresh Shot at Bending the Fed to …

Microsoft is making OpenAI’s new free and open GPT model, gpt-oss-20b, available to Windows 11 users via Windows AI Foundry, the tech giant’s platform that lets users tap AI features, APIs, and popular open-source models on their computers. The company said in a blog post that gpt‑oss-20b is “tool-savvy and lightweight,” adding: “Optimized for agentic tasks like code execution and …

OpenAI released a new free and open GPT model yesterday that can run on a PC, and now Microsoft is making that easy to do for Windows users. The lightweight gpt-oss-20b model is now available on Windows AI Foundry, and will be coming soon to macOS, too. You’ll need a PC or laptop with at least 16GB of VRAM, so …

Officials Move to Open Inquiry on Trump’s ‘Russia Hoax’ Grievance  The New York Times MAGA expectations soar after DOJ orders Russia grand jury probe  Axios Attorney General Bondi orders prosecutors to start grand jury probe into Obama officials over Russia investigation  CNN Comey, Brennan and Clapper took efforts to ‘delegitimize’ Trump’s 2016 victory, says Sean Davis  Fox News US Attorney General orders grand jury …

Stocks were set to rebound on Wednesday as investors looked past President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threats and more data that pointed to U.S. economic weakness. Futures tracking the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 169 points, or 0.4%. S&P 500 futures were up 0.3%, and contracts tied to the Nasdaq 100 climbed 0.2%. All three of the blue-chip indexes finished …