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A UK engineering firm has been awarded a £190 million contract to remove eight 800-tonne boilers at Dungeness A, accelerating decommissioning and reducing long-term site risks.
ONE Championship will host a live martial arts double-header on October 30, featuring The Inner Circle 36 and ONE Friday Fights 176 across multiple global platforms and time zones.
Phantom Blade Zero launches globally on October 28 or 29 with simultaneous release times varying by region, following positive early reviews.
Meta’s personal AI agent Muse launches in Singapore, integrating with local services to assist with shopping, travel, and daily tasks while prioritizing user control and data security.
A new Crisis Recovery Café in Lower Hutt offers peer-led mental health and addiction support without referrals, aiming to ease pressure on emergency departments.
Rockstar employees will vote on union recognition from November 12–26, coinciding with the console launch of Grand Theft Auto 6, potentially making the IWGB the largest UK game industry union.
A new charter school in Auckland’s North Shore will open in 2025, offering military-style education for Years 7 to 10 students, led by the team behind Vanguard Military School.
Discord will make messages in discoverable servers searchable via Google starting mid-December, raising privacy concerns about AI training and data harvesting.
Sui and Aptos, both Move-based chains from Meta’s Diem project, diverge primarily in data models—Sui’s object-centric approach versus Aptos’s account-centric model—leading to distinct execution and performance...
Sui and Solana compare their parallel execution models—Sui’s object model versus Solana’s Sealevel—highlighting tradeoffs in finality, safety, and developer experience.
McDonald’s will revive its Pokémon Happy Meal promotion in late 2025, featuring exclusive toys and trading cards after an eight-year hiatus, following leaks of the upcoming campaign details.
Factory’s Droid coding agent now integrates directly with Jira, enabling autonomous coding tasks to be executed and tracked within the same platform, reducing manual context rebuilding for developers.
Snowflake and Oracle will offer Snowflake on OCI as a native service, integrating Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for unified data and AI workloads.
Snowflake launches automated Snowpipe setup via CoCo, enabling non-engineers to connect cloud storage data sources to tables using natural language, reducing setup delays for AI applications and agents.
Dan Ayoub, former Halo studio head, has been promoted to lead Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Digital Games, succeeding John Hight after his departure in July.
Warhorse Studios disclosed a serious cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to its systems and data, with investigations and remediation underway.
Databricks introduces Vital Skills to equip its Genie Code AI coding agent with healthcare and life sciences domain expertise, improving reliability on specialized tasks while maintaining governance and integration with...
UK Rockstar staff will vote on union recognition from November 12–26, coinciding with GTA 6’s launch, following a prior layoff dispute and tribunal.
Marketers now track brand visibility in AI-generated answers as traditional search declines, with Profound, Semrush, and HubSpot AEO compared for engine coverage, analytics, and pricing to guide tool selection.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced concludes major updates with a new game plus mode, nightmare difficulty, and revived animations from the original game.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is emerging as a critical discipline as AI-powered tools reshape how users discover brands, requiring marketers to track visibility in AI-generated answers rather than traditional search...
Epic Games will update its EULA to permit AI training on outputs from Unreal Engine and MetaHuman, though developers may still restrict this for individual projects.
Hugging Face introduces LFM3, a family of specialized multimodal models designed for on-device deployment, featuring improved agentic capabilities and reduced parameter counts compared to predecessors.
The UK government has announced new measures to protect more leaseholders from high costs of fixing building safety defects and to hold manufacturers accountable for unsafe products.
Warhorse Studios, developers of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and a Lord of the Rings RPG, disclosed a cyberattack compromising systems and data, with investigations ongoing and authorities involved.
The UK government has approved the Great North Road Solar and Biodiversity Park, a major solar and battery storage project with up to 800MW capacity, following a six-month public examination process.
A new Hugging Face study finds large language models often fail to reliably judge the novelty of research ideas, with minor prompt changes causing accuracy swings of over 50 percentage points.
Google DeepMind unveils Genie 4, a multimodal world model that generates photorealistic, interactive simulations with real-time audio, physics, and natural language control for research and development applications.
PlayStation announced Aloft and Conan Exiles Enhanced will launch on PS5 in early 2027, with Aloft including all PC Early Access updates and Conan Exiles Enhanced offering free upgrades for existing owners.
Google introduces Genie 4, a world model enabling real-time interactive simulations with natural language control and native audio generation, building on Gemini capabilities.