A former Rockstar animator has weighed in on the two biggest questions surrounding GTA 6: price and release date. Mike York expects a $70 base price and a firm November 2026 launch, countering analyst predictions of a $100 game.
Microsoft’s Xbox console sales are getting crushed, with hardware revenue down 29% year-over-year. The company’s new strategy abandons the console race, focusing instead on an open system across PC, cloud, and even rival platforms.
The open-source graphics driver ecosystem is heating up. A new Vulkan driver for PowerVR GPUs and the Rusticl OpenCL driver are showing serious progress, which is great news for Linux hardware support.
In a massive data scrape, the shadow library group Anna’s Archive claims to have downloaded metadata for Spotify’s entire library. The trove includes info on 256 million tracks and 86 million actual song files. This move blurs the lines between digital preservation and outright piracy.
Spotify is taking action against a shadow library site that claims to have scraped nearly its entire music catalog. The site, Anna’s Archive, says it’s sitting on 300 terabytes of data for 256 million tracks.
ETAS is bringing its key calibration and simulation tools to the Microsoft Azure cloud for the first time. The move is aimed at helping automotive engineers speed up development and testing cycles. This is a notable shift for a traditionally hardware-reliant part of the industry.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is openly dreading the idea of taking his company public. In a new interview, he called the prospect of being a public company CEO “zero percent” exciting, even as rumors point to a potential $1 trillion IPO.
Microsoft has enabled hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11 25H2 and Windows Server 2025. The feature, announced at Ignite 2025, leverages new CPU and SoC tech to slash encryption overhead, promising near-native SSD performance.
In a major strategic shift, TSMC is reportedly planning to produce cutting-edge 2nm semiconductors at its second Kumamoto plant in Japan. This move, likely accelerated by competition from Japan’s Rapidus, would position the fab to meet future AI chip demand from clients like NVIDIA. The Japanese gov
Security researchers warn that hackers are tricking users into entering codes on Microsoft’s real login page, granting attackers instant access. This method bypasses traditional MFA and phishing defenses entirely.
