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20K peak daily Steam players now hear the announcer call their actual name during key moments in The FINALS Season 12. The new Dynamic Commentary feature runs on AI and includes an anonymous mode to keep callouts generic.

A modder has recreated Middle-earth: Shadow of War's Nemesis System in Red Dead Redemption 2 with the enRage mod, which names every NPC and tracks individual rivalries across the O’Driscoll Boys, Lemoyne Raiders, and other factions.

Steam Next Fest 2026 opens with 8,202 demos, more than double last year's count. Concerns over undisclosed generative AI use, plagiarism, and discoverability are already surfacing among developers.

Funcom announced restructuring and layoffs after Dune: Awakening's console versions launched 22 September. Scott Junior, 25 years at the company, succeeds Rui Casais, who led for 11 of his 22 years there.

Two pallets from distributor Oderço are missing with no confirmed explanation from the airport, police, or tax authorities.

League of Legends Worlds 2026 Swiss Stage Round 1 matchups are set after the Los Angeles draw. Karmine Corp opens against Anyones Legend following its 3-0 Play-Ins win.

£270 million ValueLicensing claim against Microsoft advances after the Court of Appeal refused permission to take the second-hand license dispute to the Supreme Court. A 2013 internal deck labeled a Known Adverse Document remains undisclosed.

LOUD took a 3-1 Grand Final win over Vitality at Valorant Champions 2026. The Brazilian roster became the youngest to claim the title, averaging 20 years and five months in age.

Modern Warfare 4's campaign holds a 92 percent Very Positive rating on Steam from more than 3,100 reviews. It is the highest-rated Call of Duty in over a decade, compared with last year's Black Ops 7 at 37 percent.

Weblink International, an Acer subsidiary, has reportedly secured AvePoint agency rights in Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific region to expand its enterprise data governance and AI solutions portfolio.

NVIDIA App version 11.0.9.565 activates an MCP server by default, letting local AI agents launch games, apply graphics settings, start ShadowPlay recordings, and adjust power options. The toggle sits in Settings under Features.

World ID for Zoom is now live for enterprise customers, showing biometric "proof of human" badges after matching an iris scan from the Orb against a live selfie and the participant's video feed.

ICANN chair the body must enhance accountability mechanisms to stay credible as AI reshapes DNS traffic and threats. CEO Kurt Erik Lindqvist called for tighter links between strategy, prioritization, and implementation.

Anthropic opened its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore and signed a memorandum of understanding with the city-state's digital ministry on AI safety, security, evaluation, and adoption.

Tesla's Terafab project has drawn unconfirmed allegations of pricing pressure, demands for sensitive data, and recruitment of Samsung staff amid rising AI chip demand from both Samsung and TSMC.

XPENG G9L reaches 593 km WLTP range and under 4.9 s to 100 km/h in its three-row European version built in Graz. The model adds heated third-row seats and AI front seats with 176 sensors while dropping some two-row luxury features.

SpaceX announced it will acquire US 800MHz low-band spectrum licenses covering up to 14MHz of paired bandwidth from Grain Management. The deal remains subject to FCC approval.

Taiwan-based iBase Solution is expanding from industrial computers and energy storage into liquid-cooled prefabricated modular data centers. The move targets AI infrastructure EPC contracts.

The European Union plans automated measures to speed AI-related incident response while testing Chinese open-weight models for their capabilities and limits.

Hyundai Motor Group is forming an RX Business Strategy Team to oversee its global robotics efforts under the "Robotics Everything" banner and speed up Atlas humanoid mass production.

DigiTimes argues the EU's turn to minimum import prices for Chinese EVs, the same tool it once used against Chinese solar panels, risks repeating the mistakes of that earlier trade fight.

ByteDance Seed is recruiting 10 researchers in Beijing, Shanghai, and San Jose for its new Alignment & Preparedness department. The roles center on advanced-model safety, AI alignment, and emerging risks.

Tata's Dholera fab now faces customer and shareholder tests as India's semiconductor push broadens. Packaging, chip services, AI hardware and infrastructure investments are accelerating across the domestic ecosystem.

Inscryption is coming to mobile, Daniel Mullins Games announced during a Twitch stream marking the horror card game's fifth anniversary. No release date was given, and the studio said in a Reddit post that no new DLC is planned, Engadget reports.

Musk replied to a demo showing an elderly neighbor unable to read Tesla's screen, saying the company will add a large font option to the UI. The current Large text setting, introduced in 2023, already strains some layouts.

Slate's base EV truck has no built-in cellular, so it gets over-the-air updates through the owner's phone: the Slate app downloads the file, a USB transfer takes about a minute, and the truck finishes installing in around 45 minutes, Engadget reports.

Dataminer Doneda has shown off a massive prototype coliseum level that appears to have been cut from Dark Souls 2 early in development. The files also contain mines, an underground tower and crypt sections that may be tied to what became the Undead Crypt, PC Gamer reports.

After fans accused Battlefield 6 of AI-made cosmetics, Battlefield Studios says a correction update for the "Secuty" typo on the McNeil skin is planned for Season 5 Phase 2. The five-pistol Midnight Mirage outfit is an intentional nod to over-the-top action movie tropes, the studio said, per Eurogamer.

Alliance Arts canceled the Drunken Goddess Reflux demo planned for Steam Next Fest, saying it couldn't police footage under its publishing rules and feared the demo would make generative AI clones easy. The game has over 25,000 Steam wishlists; players can apply for closed tests on Who You's Discord ahead of its Dec. 8 launch, Polygon reports.

Portland utility PGE is pitching electric commercial trucks as grid assets that can discharge power during peak demand. Electric school buses stand out, a PGE manager said, because their schedules are predictable and they sit parked for long stretches, Electrek reports.

Tesla's new Automatic Collision Evasion can take evasive action even when FSD isn't engaged, but only on HW4 cars with a paid FSD subscription switched on, a CleanTechnica writer notes.

Pure Xbox's early Xbox Series X impressions of Samson praise its open-world city of Tyndalston but call the old-school GTA-style missions hit-and-miss. The Xbox release has drawn a warmer reception than the PC launch, and developer Liquid Swords is reportedly facing bankruptcy.

Apple plans a retail store reset for Nov. 6, a hint at new Mac release timing, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.

Clive Barker told Dread Central that Hellraiser: Revival is a "wake-up call" for anyone adapting a franchise like Hellraiser. "I'm proud as f**k at the end result," he said. "I was fearful at one point that the game would be overly censored, but I'm genuinely astonished by how far they've been able to push it."

Stablecoin growth slows when U.S. banks raise deposit rates, a Bank for International Settlements working paper finds, and the effect was stronger for Circle's USDC than Tether's USDT.

Tenebris Somnia pairs 2D retro visuals with live-action horror sequences.

Minneapolis is considering an ordinance that would require human monitors inside autonomous vehicles, effectively banning driverless operations. San Diego's city council passed a resolution seeking to block Waymo from the airport, while Austin firefighters want dedicated towing protocols for Tesla Cybercabs, which lack steering wheels and pedals.

Liquid Swords, developer of the open-world game Samson, has reportedly been declared bankrupt after months of unpaid wages.

OnlyFans creators say Meta restricts their Instagram accounts for adult content while allowing its Muse AI agent to sext users in the adults-only app. One performer with over 100,000 followers called the policy unfair.

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OpenCode says 1.4% of its Console users, those who had stored their own AI provider API keys there, were hit in an intrusion it links to a distillation attack. Some users on Reddit report unauthorized charges, including €355 on one Anthropic account, Frandroid reports.

Circle says it kept about 7 cents of net profit per revenue dollar in the first half of 2026, after $819 million of its roughly $1.4 billion in revenue went to distribution and transaction costs. In a blog post, it said the remaining $473 million covered compliance, liquidity and product development, as Coinbase-backed rival Open USD passes reserve income to partners after a management fee.

OpenAI lists 27 robotics openings as it develops a humanoid robot, with CEO Sam Altman calling its brain a bigger challenge than its body. He told Fortune he expects a cool demo in 2027 but says robots walking the streets are still a few years away.

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RTX Spark laptops starting at $2,399 are now available with NVIDIA Blackwell RTX graphics. • Up to 128GB unified memory • Up to 1 petaflop of AI compute • Systems from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI

A Delaware jury awarded Qualcomm $2 in its licensing dispute with Arm. Arm prevailed on five counts to Qualcomm's two, leaving a five-year royalty freeze that could total billions still undecided.

Austin Robotaxi rides now run 6 a.m. to midnight after the second one-hour extension in two weeks. A six-hour overnight gap remains before 24/7 service.

An anonymous Reddit leaker claims a remaster of the 2004 RPG Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is in development, stressing it is not a remake. The claim is unverified.

Wells Fargo's tokenized deposit system is already processing cross-border payments in two minutes or less, CFO Michael Santomassimo said, though volume is still small. Goldman Sachs sees tokenization expanding its trading business, while Morgan Stanley expects it to increase demand for wealth management advice.

Barry Sloane, the actor behind Captain Price, thanked fans and asked them to avoid spoilers as early reactions to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's campaign turned positive. Players have called the story mode one of the series' more brutal entries, Steam reviews sit at Very Positive, and IGN scored the campaign 8/10.

EE announced iPhone Handoff at £5 per month on standard plans or free with Full Works Plus, the first UK carrier to detail pricing. The feature is coming soon.

Meta removed language from its commercial terms that experts said permitted scraping content from any domain, including news sites, to train its AI products. The company clarified the terms applied only to ads and business products and do not override robots.txt signals.

SpaceX agreed last week to buy 800 MHz spectrum for $8 billion, on top of the nearly $20 billion EchoStar spectrum deal it struck last year. Paired with FCC approval for 15,000 next-gen Starlink satellites, it's a serious bid to compete with AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile.

AMD SVP Jack Huynh says Ryzen AI Halo gives developers more room to experiment with AI models locally, as AMD pitches a future where AI runs across both local devices and the cloud.

Early reactions to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's campaign call it the best since the original trilogy, with players citing a blend of modern entries and classic storytelling. IGN's review noted a consistently strong set of missions.

Yelp says it only allows AI agents that pay for its data licensing program, Delta Air Lines is blocking them from booking tickets, and JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab are blocking agents from accounts over security concerns. Some users also report agents losing access to Cars.com and Amtrak, and Amazon banned Perplexity's shopping agent last year.

81.15% positive on Steam from its campaign early access, Modern Warfare 4 posts the highest Call of Duty rating since Black Ops III in 2015. The figure rests on roughly 900 reviews so far.

BULKHEAD says it's looking at significantly bringing forward Season 3 in WARDOGS after the Season 2 wipe failed to deliver a fresh start. The studio said players reached end-game gear in days and called its faster progression the wrong call.