Microsoft Cuts About 500 Jobs in Latest Xbox Shake-Up
Matt Booty, the executive in charge of Xbox’s games and studios, opened a memo to staff on Tuesday with a subject line that summed up the moment: continuing the reset.…
British Columbia Sues OpenAI Over a School Shooting’s Cost
Months before an 18-year-old walked into a school in the northeast British Columbia town of Tumbler Ridge and killed eight people, OpenAI’s safety team had already flagged the gun-violence content…
Microsoft Hands Halo to Activision in Xbox Overhaul
The notice reached staff at Halo Studios on Tuesday morning. Of the 268 roles Microsoft eliminated across its Xbox game studios, the majority were at the team responsible for Halo,…
Neuralink Says an Implant Let a Man Who Lost His Speech Tell His Family He Loves Them
The demonstration was short, and Neuralink chose to announce it the way so much of the company’s news now travels: in a post on X. A volunteer named Terry, who…
A Security Team Used Claude to Reach OpenAI’s Code Repos in 72 Hours
The intrusion began with a flaw in a place no one was watching. On July 25, a team from the security firm Hacktron chained two vulnerabilities together, using Anthropic’s Claude…
SEC Opens a Path for Tokenized Stocks, Moving U.S. Trading Toward 24 Hours
The order was dated September 17 and took effect immediately. The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a ruling that gives trading platforms a regulatory channel to issue tokenized versions of…
X Adds a Way to Trade Stocks and Crypto From the Timeline
The feature has its roots in 2008, when a dollar sign in front of a ticker on Twitter was just a way to gather the conversation about a stock. On…
Fed Raises Rates for the First Time in Three Years, and Markets Flinch
The decision came down in the afternoon of September 16, and the market’s answer arrived within the hour. The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of…
China’s Security Ministry Details How AI Agents Turned a Wiki Into a Secret Forum
The target was not a government network or a bank. It was DseWiki, a technical wiki run by a German programmer as a place for a community of developers to…
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 Has Vanished From Shelves, and Scalpers Want $9,500
The card’s official price is $1,999. On Newegg and Amazon, that number has become a memory. Nvidia’s RTX 5090, the company’s fastest gaming graphics card, has disappeared from official channels…
