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The upcoming ‘Upin & Ipin Universe’ open world game is set to be released on consoles, PC and Nintendo Switch. — Picture via upinipinuniverse.com

‘Upin & Ipin Universe’: Iconic animated twins enter gaming world with open-world adventure (VIDEO)

Microsoft on Sunday unveiled its first Xbox-branded handheld gaming devices, touting them as a way to play its vast library of titles anywhere. — Picture via Xbox.com

Game anywhere: Microsoft takes on Nintendo with new ‘Xbox Ally’ consoles

Tech-giants including Google, Microsoft and Amazon will team up with UK government to train 7.5 million workers in AI skills — AFP pic

UK partners with tech giants to train 7.5 million workers in AI skills

Apple will showcase plans for its coveted devices and the software powering them at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicking off tomorrow in Silicon Valley. — Reuters pic

WWDC watch: Apple under pressure to prove it’s still got ‘intelligence’

The 3D Printing Challenge was one of the most highly participated events, attracting a large number of enthusiastic participants. — Picture courtesy of Malaysia Techlympics

Malaysia Techlympics 2025 aims for 1.7 million participants nationwide

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman yesterday slammed the NYT court order as ‘bad precedent’ and vowed to defend user privacy. — Reuters pic

OpenAI fights back in NYT copyright lawsuit over ChatGPT data freeze

Takeshi Hakamada, the founder and CEO of ispace, Inc, attends a press conference in Tokyo June 6, 2025. The Japanese company said it had aborted a mission to the Moon after losing contact with its lander Resilience during a daunting final descent. — AFP pic

Japanese company aborts Moon mission after losing contact with lander

(From left) Shubhanshu Shukla, Tibor Kapu, Gyula Cserenyi (partly obscured), Slawosz Uznanski, and Prasanth Nair reviewing materials during emergency fire training at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas. — AFP pic

Space yoga and national dreams: India sends first man on ISS aboard SpaceX

A sign pointing towards Starbase is seen on the road outside Brownsville, Texas on May 28, 2025. — AFP pic

Elon Musk’s controversial Starbase city rises in Texas, but critics raise alarm on pollution, zoning and ‘colonisation’ of sacred land

Darrell Zimmer purchases a Nintendo's Switch 2 console at a midnight opening of a Best Buy store on June 05, 2025 in Pembroke Pines, Florida. — AFP pic

Switch 2 finally lands: ‘Shocked’ fans score coveted console as Nintendo braces for record sales despite high price tag

Anthropic was said to have been training its models on Reddit content since at least December 2021. ― Reuters pic

Reddit sues AI firm Anthropic for ‘illegally’ scraping millions of posts to train chatbot Claude

X announced last year that it would no longer block 'consensually produced and distributed' adult content.—  AFP pic

Tanzania blocks X over ‘porn and homosexual’ content, citing clash with national laws and culture

This photograph taken in Beziers, southern France, on June 4, 2025 shows the access pages of pornographic sites Pornhub, Youporn and Redtube. — AFP pic

Pornhub, YouPorn and RedTube go dark in France amid row over age verification and user privacy

A man checks out the special sales corner for Nintendo Switch 2 in front of an electronics retailer in Tokyo on June 5, 2025. With shops planning midnight launch parties after a run on pre-orders, Nintendo releases the Switch 2 on June 5, hoping to score record early sales for the games console. — AFP pic

Nintendo bets big on Switch 2 with record 2.2 million pre-orders in Japan, as fans queue worldwide for midnight release

Parsa and Rohan Parhizkar take home the Gold Award and Best Young Inventor title for their AI-powered Minecraft project, proudly representing SK Putrajaya Presint 8-1, guided by their teachers Mohamad Nazren Firdaus, Mohd Farhan, and Dr Mohd Asraf. — Picture from Minedu AI

Malaysian brothers win best young inventors, launch AI startup with Google

Yoshua Bengio launched LawZero, a non-profit organisation intended to mitigate the technology’s inherent risks.

Fearing AI misuse, tech godfather Bengio sets up group to monitor rogue agents that could ‘greatly harm humanity’