Microsoft has not ruled out spinning off its Xbox division into a separate company. The Information reported that options under consideration include turning Xbox into a wholly owned subsidiary, forming a joint venture with outside partners, or selling the business outright. No decision is imminent, but new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Microsoft CEO Satya […] This story continues at The Next Web
Final Fantasy VII Revelation, the conclusion to the remake trilogy, will launch in spring 2027. That is just three years after the second game, Rebirth. By modern AAA standards, where five years or longer is typical, that is fast. Director Naoki Hamaguchi told Bloomberg the reason is simple: 95% of the development team stayed together […] This story continues at The Next Web
Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday update quietly fixes one of Windows Search’s longest-standing irritations. The search box now finds files with as few as two characters, down from the previous three-character minimum. Files named Q3, V2, or any other short label are no longer invisible. The update also changes how results are ranked. Local files […] This story continues at The Next Web
The FBI has revealed a 22,000 square-foot replica town on its Huntsville, Alabama, campus built to train law enforcement in simulating and investigating real-world cyberattacks. The Kinetic Cyber Range opened in February 2025 and has trained more than 1,400 students, including FBI personnel and partners from other federal and local agencies. The facility features fully […] This story continues at…
Andrew Yang thinks the biggest startup opportunity of the next decade is not building AI. It is lowering the cost of living for the people AI is about to displace. In a TechCrunch interview, the former presidential candidate and UBI advocate laid out a thesis: as AI compresses wages and eliminates entry-level jobs, the market […] This story continues at The Next Web
The US Justice Department has cleared Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery without requiring any changes to the deal. The agency said the merger “is not likely to harm competition or American consumers” after an eight-month antitrust review. No divestitures, behavioural remedies, or concessions were imposed. The deal combines two of Hollywood’s […] This story…
A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. New York’s attorney general served the company with a subpoena on Friday demanding documents on advertising, user engagement and retention, consumer and health data, its treatment of minors and seniors, deep-learning models, and internal […] This story…
The US government has ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its two most capable AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, in what appears to be the first time Washington has forced a commercial AI product offline. The directive, which Anthropic says it received at 5:21pm ET on 12 June, cites national security authorities and demands […] This story continues at The Next Web
Eighty residents of towns near SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company’s constant rocket launches are physically destroying their homes. The lawsuit accuses SpaceX of negligence, gross negligence, and trespass based on the Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984. One plaintiff showed Reuters her home in Port […] This story continues at The…
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