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Retailers are cutting prices on smartwatches during Amazon's Prime Day event, with discounts on popular models that track sleep, steps and other health metrics. Shoppers looking to buy a fitness-focused wearable are being pointed to the sales window, as such devices rarely see price drops this large outside of major shopping events.

Long-time Slashdot reader Andreas(R) has announced Northstar, a minimalist web browser written entirely from scratch in C. The browser is available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. The announcement, shared via Slashdot, is drawing attention from internet and browser enthusiasts curious about a from-scratch alternative to mainstream browsers, at a time when most browsers rely on shared engines like Chromium.

US immigration firm Pabian Law has released a weekly video explaining year-round immigration options for foreign nationals seeking employment in the United States. The segment focuses on work visas available outside of limited application windows, aiming to help employers and workers understand which pathways remain open at any point during the year.

The itch desktop game client has been released in version v26.22.0, an update to the app used to install and launch games from the indie marketplace itch.io. The release is being discussed in Linux gaming circles, where the itch client is a common alternative alongside Steam, including on the Steam Deck and with Proton for Windows-only titles.

A personal finance discussion is circulating about parents planning to give their two children $300,000 this spring. The timing matters because Medicaid imposes a five-year look-back period on asset transfers: gifts made now would be outside the window by 2031, so if either parent later needs nursing home care, the money would not count against Medicaid eligibility. Commenters are weighing the legality and ethics of deliberately structuring gifts around the look-back rule.

A new entry in the Ape Escape series is reportedly in development at the studio behind Sonic Mania. The report, carried by IGN, suggests a long-dormant Sony platforming franchise may be getting a revival handled by an outside team rather than an internal PlayStation studio. No official announcement, release window, or platforms have been confirmed so far, and fans are awaiting word from Sony or the developers involved.

Manchester United teenager JJ Gabriel is reportedly planning his next steps for the January transfer window, with the club said to be preparing an 'XXL salary package' to keep hold of him. The report from the Manchester Evening News suggests United are moving quickly to secure the highly rated young player's future amid outside interest.

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen for detecting cosmic neutrinos, according to initial reports. Halzen is known for leading IceCube, the neutrino observatory buried in ice at the South Pole that in 2013 became the first to detect high-energy neutrinos arriving from outside the solar system, opening a new window on the universe. Reactions from the physics community are expected to follow as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences releases its full citation.

A Linux gamer reports that the Witcher 3 remaster appears not to support ray tracing on Linux: the option can be toggled in the settings menu, but it resets to off every time the settings are exited. They expect their Steam Machine would struggle to run it anyway, and are asking whether ray tracing support on Linux is genuinely missing or broken.

The Miami Dolphins' game against the Minnesota Vikings will again receive limited broadcast coverage in the late afternoon window, according to the latest NFL coverage map. Fans outside key regional markets may be unable to watch the matchup on local television, renewing familiar complaints about late-window scheduling and national distribution of certain games.