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Zenless Zone Zero now has an official Steam page with a Q2 2026 release window. The listing also requires a HoYoverse account link and sets PC storage at 75 GB.

The team behind Project: Eden's Garden said on April 26 that production is over. The game will stop here, but the Unity codebase known as DREditor is still being prepared for open-source release.

Reports from April 25 say some PlayStation digital games now need an online license refresh every 30 days on updated systems. Does It Play says an anonymous insider described the issue as an exploit fix gone wrong, but Sony has not issued a public explanation.

Facepunch says s&box will open on Steam on April 28, 2026 for $20. The same update closes the long-running Developer Preview and says only 40,000 of roughly 800,000 preview users will keep access.

LocalLLaMA was interested for a reason beyond a flashy speed number. A post claiming 105-108 tps and a full 256k native context window for Qwen3.6-27B-INT4 on a single RTX 5090 turned the thread into a practical discussion about how much quality survives once local inference gets this fast.

HN did not read this as a routine support horror story. A report that GoDaddy moved a 27-year-old nonprofit domain into a stranger’s account without documentation pushed the thread straight into registrar trust, account recovery risk, and how much damage a single bad transfer can cause.

HN piled in because this was bigger than another benchmark refresh. OpenAI said SWE-bench Verified is no longer a trustworthy frontier coding signal, and the thread immediately shifted to contamination, saturated leaderboards, and whether public coding evals can stay clean at all.

Election-season AI safety is moving from slogans to measurable tests. On April 24, 2026, Anthropic published Claude election metrics showing 100% and 99.8% appropriate handling on a 600-prompt misuse-and-legitimate-use set for Opus 4.7 and Sonnet 4.6, plus 90% and 94% performance in influence-operation simulations.

Japan's enterprise AI market is moving past pilots and into scaled deployment. On April 24, 2026, Anthropic said NEC will deploy Claude to about 30,000 employees worldwide, become its first Japan-based global partner, and jointly build industry-specific products for finance, manufacturing, and government.

The enterprise AI fight is shifting from model selection to stack design. In its April 24, 2026 Cloud Next recap, Google Cloud packaged Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Workspace Intelligence, TPU 8t and 8i, and Virgo Network as one coordinated operating layer for AI agents.

Enterprise AI gets more useful when teams can reuse and inspect workflows instead of rebuilding them in chat every time. Google Cloud said Gemini Enterprise now saves workflows as shared Skills, after saying a day earlier that Agent Designer can test and approve each step before execution.

Cache-hit pricing can decide whether long-context assistants are cheap enough to ship. DeepSeek said the entire API series now charges just one-tenth of the old rate for input cache hits, while keeping a 75% off V4-Pro promotion live.