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EA closes legendary RPG studio BioWare following its $55 billion buyout
Posted on Wednesday October 21, 2026
In a letter to staff on Wednesday, EA announced the closure of BioWare's Edmonton studio, its last, as part of broader cost-cutting layoffs. The storied RPG developer had begun early development on the next Mass Effect, informally known as Mass Effect 5, which has now been canceled.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Sony's latest PS5 firmware got cracked, just in time for GTA 6's November release
Posted on Wednesday October 21, 2026
Just a few weeks after the massive "Relapse" exploit incident, someone has apparently already broken Sony's latest PlayStation 5 firmware update. A developer based in South Korea claims to have defeated the security protections in PS5 firmware version 14.10, which Sony recently released to close the Relapse exploit.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
OpenAI says its AI agents disabled safety guardrails, and then lied about it
Posted on Wednesday October 21, 2026
In a blog post disclosing the incidents, OpenAI said that, in the first case, an agent powered by GPT Sol 6.1 disabled automatic alerts after a team member asked it to create evaluation tasks using employee feedback collected via Slack. The agent was instructed not to send any messages about...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
iPhone Duo roundup: Apple gets the hardware right, but is it worth $2,000?
Posted on Wednesday October 21, 2026
Apple's long-awaited foldable is off to a strong start. Reviewers agree that the iPhone Duo gets much of the hardware right, with a polished design and an impressive folding display. But for $2,000, it remains a first-gen product with compromises, and one that will struggle to convince most iPhone users to make the jump.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Two web emergencies in one week: guessable certificate keys and critical PHP bugs that leaked before patches
Posted on Wednesday October 21, 2026
Eight intermediate certificates issued by India-based certificate authority eMudhra were found to have private keys so weak they can be calculated from the certificates themselves. Those certificates chained to roots trusted by Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Windows, as well as by operating systems and countless software trust stores. Anyone holding...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia reportedly refused some neoclouds access to GTC Berlin for adding AMD and TPU chips
Posted on Wednesday October 21, 2026
SemiAnalysis' latest "shocking" rumor allegedly confirms what the firm had already revealed in June. Several neocloud providers have reportedly been denied access to GTC Berlin, Nvidia's upcoming conference covering AI, GPUs, and related technologies. The Jensen Huang-led company apparently disapproves of cloud providers adding AMD GPUs, TPUs, and other third-party...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia GeForce drivers add support for Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery
Posted on Wednesday October 21, 2026
Nvidia's latest Game Ready driver adds support for Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery, which aims to reduce shader compilation stuttering by delivering precompiled shaders for supported games, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and Gears of War: E-Day. As our recent testing shows, shader stuttering remains a major headache for PC gamers, but efforts to eliminate it are gaining momentum.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
PSA: PHP patches two critical flaws, server admins urged to update
Posted on Wednesday October 21, 2026
PHP has released emergency security updates addressing two critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to remotely execute code without authentication. With PHP powering nearly 70% of all websites, the potential impact is enormous. Apache deployments are particularly vulnerable, and security agencies are urging immediate updates.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Meta suspends Muse sharing after sensitive documents turn up in shared chats
Posted on Wednesday October 21, 2026
Each shared conversation had a hostname containing a descriptive title and a random identifier. Both could appear in searchable DNS records, giving researchers the information they needed to reconstruct the link and open the page.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Spotify is asking Family plan members to scan a QR code to prove they live with the account owner
Posted on Wednesday October 21, 2026
Spotify revealed the new family plan verification process on an updated support page. The streaming service may ask some Premium Family members to verify that they live with the person managing their plan, using a QR code check that requires both people to be in the same place.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »