Blockchain Nieuws: 25 augustus 2025

November 15, 2025, 1:26 AM EST. Rockstar Games announces a native PS5 port of Red Dead Redemption, arriving December 2 alongside a free digital upgrade for PS4 owners. The remake, developed with Double Eleven and Cast Iron Games, supports saves from the PS4 during mid-playthrough. The PS5 edition includes all Game of the Year Edition content, plus the zombie expansion Undead Nightmare, and targets a smooth 60fps, improved visuals, HDR, and up to 4K resolution. PS Plus Extra/Premium subscribers can access Red Dead Redemption via the Game Catalog on release. Originally released in 2010 to critical acclaim (Metacritic average ~95), the game remains beloved, with the PS5 version promising classic story and expanded technical polish.

November 15, 2025, 1:24 AM EST. The Nvidia Shield TV is not done yet: the Shield Experience 9.2.2 update is rolling out to all Shield TV and Shield TV Pro devices. Nvidia emphasizes accessibility, adding improvements that enhance compatibility with assistive technologies, a pairing alert sound for the Remote and Controller, Bounce Keys to prevent stray presses, and an Accessibility Key Repeat option. The update also brings TalkBack TTS in 23 European languages and an accessibility timeout in the UI settings. It fixes an audio dropout issue with Disney+ and continues the trend of long-term support for a device first released nearly a decade ago. Despite chatter about a new model in 2025, Nvidia keeps refining the current platform, remaining one of the best streaming boxes today.

November 15, 2025, 1:20 AM EST. Alibaba.com's cross-border arm is rolling out an AI subscription service and exploring tokenized, stablecoin-like payments for cross-border trades, potentially with JPMorgan. Kuo Zhang told CNBC the division will monetize AI through a new AI-powered subscription and is studying tokenization of payments to speed global deals. The effort complements Alibaba's growing Qwen models used across the group. In addition, Alibaba.com unveiled AI Mode, an enhanced search that lets buyers compare suppliers on pricing, logistics, and production capabilities to boost efficiency and global trade. The plan aims to open a new revenue stream with subscriptions of about $20/month or $99/year (pricing not finalized). Alibaba's B2B unit has seen supplier activity rise, signaling momentum for its AI-driven cross-border strategy.

November 15, 2025, 1:18 AM EST. OPPO's Reliability Lab is designed to translate 'quality' into a real standard. In China, OPPO subjects devices to extreme environmental tests - from the Double 85 chamber to IPX8/IPX9 water exposure and cold for 168 hours - reinforcing over twenty common failure points. The company's approach goes beyond specs, linking hardware, software, and after-sales support under the Apex Guard framework. Innovations like ColorOS 16's unified animation engine and Trinity Engine reduce jitter and heat, while Sensor-Offload lowers power spikes during long recordings. Long-term simulations-48, 60, 72 months-and aerospace-grade materials aim to keep performance closer to day one longer. OPPO demonstrates durability is a system-level objective, not a single feature.

November 15, 2025, 1:16 AM EST. .NET 10 is GA, delivering the most productive, modern, secure, and high-performance platform yet. The release speeds runtime and compiler work with a faster JIT, new hardware paths (AVX10.2, Arm64 SVE), and improved NativeAOT, plus memory reductions from loop inversion, stack allocation, and write-barrier changes. It ships C# 14 and F# 10 with cleaner, more maintainable code, including field-backed properties, span conversions, null-conditional assignment, collection expression extensions, partial constructors, and ref struct interface support. Libraries gain post-quantum cryptography, TLS 1.3 on macOS, lighter allocations for HTTP/socket I/O, and safer JSON serialization. The new cloud-native framework, Aspire, strengthens orchestration of fronts, APIs, containers, and data stores, with better workflows and multi-language integration. AI capabilities span Microsoft Agent Framework, Microsoft.Extensions.AI, and Model Context Protocol support for agentic workflows.