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It may not be Black Friday yet, but the holiday shopping blitz is already well underway with some significant discounts on games and gaming devices. Steam is in the middle of its Autumn Sale that runs until December 4 and includes a discount on the LCD Steam Deck. No, its not the OLED Steam Deck, but Steam is offering the 512GB Steam Deck with a 25 percent discount that brings the price down to $336.75. Steams sale also offered the smaller 64GB LCD model with a 15 percent discount for less than $300 but theyve already run out of stock. This may be the best time to pick up a Steam Deck since last summer. In June, Steam knocked down the price of the 64GB variant to just under $300 and the 512GB version for under $400. The 64 and 512GB models are discontinued and wont be available once Steam runs out of stock. The 256GB LCD model is sticking around for a little while longer for those gamers who cant afford the fancier versions. If youre going to buy a Steam Deck, youll need some games to play on it. Steam Autumn Sale also includes some sweet deals on games like Baldurs Gate 3 for $47.99 and Total War: Warhammer III for $23.99 and early access to Supergiants Hades II for $26.99. Steam also has some cool discounts on older games that youve been meaning to play like Double Fines Psychonauts 2 and Ubisofts Assassins Creed: Odyssey for $6 each, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order for $4 and Cities Skylines for $3.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/steams-autumn-sale-sees-deep-discounts-on-lcd-steam-decks-and-select-games-202918983.html?src=rss
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European investigators believe a Chinese-owned commercial ship deliberately dragged its anchor to sabotage the two undersea telecommunications cables cut in the Baltic Sea earlier this month. However, Western law enforcement and intelligence officials told The Wall Street Journal that they dont believe the Chinese government was involved. Instead, the probe is focused on whether Russian intelligence persuaded the vessels captain to carry out the operation. For the past week, NATO warships from Denmark, Germany and Sweden have surrounded the 225-meter-long Yi Peng 3. The ships Chinese owner, Ningbo Yipeng Shipping, is reportedly cooperating with investigators. The shipper allowed the commercial vessel to be stopped in international waters. The WSJ says Swedish and German authorities are negotiating with the owner to access the ship and its crew. International maritime laws prevent NATO from forcing the vessel to sail into one of their ports. European investigators believe the Yi Peng 3 dragged its anchor for over 100 miles along the Baltic seabed from November 17 to 18. They reportedly viewed satellite and other data showing that the vessel moved significantly slower than usual while weighed down by the anchor. It severed two data cables: one connecting Lithuania and Sweden and another between Finland and Germany. After cutting the second cable, the ship reportedly zig-zagged, raised anchor, and continued. Officials said the ships transponder was shut down during the incident. Investigators told theWSJ that their review of the anchor and hull showed damage consistent with that account. Its extremely unlikely that the captain would not have noticed that his ship dropped and dragged its anchor, losing speed for hours and cutting cables on the way, a senior European investigator told the WSJ. An analytics company specializing in international shipping told the paper that the likelihood of accidental anchor dragging appears minimal. The Yi Peng 3 sailed solely in Chinese waters from December 2019 to early March 2024. At that point, it suddenly began carrying Russian coal and other goods and began stopping in Russian ports. When the Danish Navy stopped it, it was carrying Russian fertilizer. In September, the US issued a warning about a heightened risk of Russian interference with undersea data cables.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/investigators-say-a-chinese-ships-crew-deliberately-dragged-its-anchor-to-cut-undersea-data-cables-195052047.html?src=rss
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Threads is readying a feature inspired by Blueskys Starter Packs, according to reporting by TechCrunch and others. Chris Messina, who invented the hashtag, posted a screenshot of the tool to the social media app. He also says you can see an early version of the tool yourself by pasting "installedbarcelona://recommended_follow_lists" into Safari on iOS if you have the latest Threads app. We gave this a shot and, lo and behold, it worked. Meta/Threads For those who have yet to wander over to Bluesky, Starter Packs are curated lists of people to follow that help newcomers get started on the app. These packs can be built in a number of different ways. Engadget has one with many of its writers and editors, myself included. Come for the promise of tech news, but stay for random photos of my cats. The version likely coming to Threads looks to work in a similar way. The lists of users are handpicked by people on Threads and can be about pretty much anything. Messina showed off a list called NBA Threads," as seen above. The feature has become so popular on Bluesky that theres even a searchable database, complete with over 37,000 of these bundles of humans. The packs can also be shared directly in feeds, though we dont know if Threads will allow that. Bluesky Bluesky has responded to this move with snark, writing on Threads that if this app is going to keep copying our features, you might as well just join Bluesky. For those who have been paying attention, Threads has been paying homage to all kinds of pre-existing Bluesky features in recent days and months. The platform recently rolled out custom feeds and the ability to change the default feed to people you follow. This is like Sega and Nintendo all over again, only with pithy messages instead of genre-defining gaming classics. Why is Threads so eager to mimic some of Blueskys most popular features? Well, the latter has seen tremendous growth spikes over the last couple of months, recently hitting 20 million users. Folks are fleeing the sinking ship that is X in droves and looking for a replacement app. Threads wants to be the one. Bluesky also wants to be the one. You know the drill. Threads may be acting like the underdog here by adopting some of Blueskys features, but it actually has a massive head start. The platform recently announced that it had over 35 million signups in November alone.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/starter-packs-are-the-latest-bluesky-feature-that-threads-is-going-to-shamelessly-adopt-193159548.html?src=rss
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