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007 First Light | Everything We Know Before Release | Gameplay, Story, Cast, TacSim, and Launch Details

Jack Sterling — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:30:00 GMT

IO Interactive's 007 First Light launches May 27, 2026 on PS5, Xbox, and PC. Full breakdown of Patrick Gibson as Bond, Spycraft mechanics, Lenny Kravitz as villain Bawma, Gemma Chan, vehicle integration, and TacSim replayability mode.

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AC Black Flag Resynced Is a Glorified Facelift | The Case Against Calling It a Remake

Jack Sterling — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Ubisoft's Black Flag Resynced cuts multiplayer, Freedom Cry, and the Abstergo modern-day layer while adding ray-tracing and QoL imports from AC Shadows. The 2013 skeleton, parkour jank and brain-dead AI intact, runs on a better GPU.

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Jujutsu Kaisen | Series Guide, Arc Breakdown & Anime 2026

OzoneNews Editorial Team — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:00:00 GMT

Complete Jujutsu Kaisen guide: Yuji Itadori, Gojo, Sukuna, MAPPA anime Season 3, Culling Game arc, cursed energy system, and manga arc chronology. 100 million copies sold globally.

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The Squeeze | Sony PS Plus and YouTube Premium Hit Subscribers with Silent Monthly Price Hikes

OzoneNews Editorial Team — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:00:00 GMT

Sony raised PS Plus monthly rates across all three tiers on May 20, 2026. Google notified YouTube Premium subscribers of a $2/month increase for June. Full breakdown of every new rate and the corporate strategy behind both moves.

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Destiny 2 Ends Active Development | Bungie Layoffs, Sony Write-Downs, and the Monument of Triumph Final Update

Jack Sterling — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:00:00 GMT

Bungie confirms Destiny 2 ends active development after June 9, 2026. Monument of Triumph restores Director UI, opens The Gauntlet boss rush, upgrades all Exotics to Tier 5, and bundles all legacy content. Sony write-downs exceed $700M.

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JWST Captures First Daily Cloud Cycle on Hot Jupiter WASP-94A b | Sand Clouds Form at Dawn, Vanish by Dusk

OzoneNews Editorial Team — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Webb's NIRSpec separated morning and evening atmospheric limbs on WASP-94A b 700 light-years away. Silicate sand clouds build overnight and fully vaporize above 1,000 degrees Celsius each day, per Science journal May 21, 2026.

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What Is the TAKE IT DOWN Act | Federal Law on AI Deepfakes and Nonconsensual Intimate Imagery Explained

Jack Sterling — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:00:00 GMT

The TAKE IT DOWN Act (Public Law 119-12) criminalizes AI deepfake pornography and NCII with up to 3 years in prison. 48-hour platform removal mandated. Full explainer with all provisions, exemptions, and first prosecutions May 20, 2026.

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Texas AG Paxton Sues Meta Over WhatsApp Encryption Claims | DTPA Lawsuit May 2026

OzoneNews Editorial Team — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Texas AG Ken Paxton filed suit in Harrison County on May 21, 2026 alleging Meta and WhatsApp deceive millions of Texans about end-to-end encryption. DTPA fines up to $10,000 per violation.

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First TAKE IT DOWN Act Arrests | DOJ Charges Two with AI Deepfake Pornography Targeting Celebrities and Officials

OzoneNews Editorial Team — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

DOJ unsealed the first TAKE IT DOWN Act complaints May 20, 2026. Cornelius Shannon, 51, and Arturo Hernandez, 20, face up to 2 years for AI deepfake pornography viewed millions of times.

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GTA 6 Pre-Order Date, Price & Bonuses | 2026 Guide

Michael Cripe — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT

GTA 6 pre-orders are expected to open before the November 19, 2026 launch. Here is what we know about pricing ($70-$80), editions, and pre-order bonuses from Take-Two and Rockstar.

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GitLab Restructuring May 2026 | Workforce Reduction, Flattened Management, 60 Autonomous Teams, Agentic AI Pivot

Jack Sterling — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:00:00 GMT

GitLab CEO Bill Staples announced a once-in-a-generation repositioning on May 11, 2026: up to 30% country reduction, three management layers removed, R&D into 60 autonomous teams, CREDIT values retired. Voluntary separation closes May 18. June 2 earnings call. June 10 GitLab Transcend.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series Review 2026 | Blackwell Architecture, DLSS 4, Performance and Value Verdict

Jack Sterling — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Full 2026 review of the RTX 50 Series Blackwell GPU lineup. RTX 5090 achieves ~2x RTX 4090 in ray tracing. DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation doubles frame rates in 85+ titles. Tier-by-tier value verdict: 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, 5070, 5060 Ti.

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Steam Machine 2026 Launch Leak | Four SKUs, Two Steam Frame Variants, Reservation Queue Confirmed

Jack Sterling — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Steam client code reveals four Steam Machine SKUs and two Steam Frame variants for 2026. Valve activates the same reservation queue used for the Steam Controller. 512GB and 2TB storage tiers confirmed. Full pricing unannounced.

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Nintendo Switch 2 Price Hike to $499.99 September 2026 | Star Fox June 25 and Multiple Unannounced H2 Titles Confirmed

Jack Sterling — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed the Switch 2 rises from $449.99 to $499.99 effective September 1, 2026, citing permanent memory cost, exchange rate, and oil price increases. Star Fox launches June 25 as a full remake with Joy-Con 2 mouse mode. Multiple unannounced H2 2026 titles confirmed.

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Forza Horizon 6 Leak May 2026 | Playground Games Issues Franchise-Wide and Hardware Bans

Jack Sterling — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Playground Games confirmed a 155GB Forza Horizon 6 build leaked on May 11, 2026. The studio announced permanent franchise-wide and hardware-level bans for pirated builds ahead of the May 19 launch on Xbox, PC, and Game Pass.

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California BASED Act Dead | Apple and Google Defeat Antitrust Bill in Five Weeks

Conan Boyle — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Senate Bill 1074 died on a 3-3 committee tie on April 20, ending the most ambitious state-level antitrust effort against app store dominance in the country after tech lobbyists dismantled it in roughly five weeks

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AI Usage-Based Pricing 2026 | How HubSpot, Salesforce, and Workday Rewrote the SaaS Billing Playbook

Jack Sterling — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Goldman Sachs analysts say enterprise software companies are now selling 'a unit of labor' instead of a seat, reshaping deal sizes, budget lines, and the relationship between software cost and actual AI consumption

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X Money Enters Public Early Access | 6% APY, Visa Card, xAI Concierge

ObjectWire Tech Desk — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elon Musk's financial super-app migrates creator payouts from Stripe, launches P2P payments via DM, and faces Senate scrutiny over frozen-asset risks and blocked state licenses

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Enola Holmes 3 Netflix Release Date July 1, 2026 | Malta Setting, New Dr. Watson, and a Wedding Veil

Conan Boyle — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Netflix confirmed the third installment in the Millie Bobby Brown detective franchise alongside first-look photos from Malta, a new Dr. Watson played by Himesh Patel, and a storyline built around Enola and Tewkesbury's impending marriage

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Tether and Fasset Launch World's First Gold-Backed Visa Card | XAU₮ Now Spendable Anywhere

Conan Boyle — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The April 27 launch converts physical gold into a daily spending currency at the point of sale, backed by $2.67 billion in Swiss vault reserves and reaching 125 countries through Fasset's neobank infrastructure

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Trump Softens Prediction Market Criticism | CFTC Files First-Ever Insider Trading Case

Conan Boyle — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Days after calling the world a casino, the president reversed course as federal charges, a NY AG lawsuit, and a Kalshi enforcement wave hit the industry simultaneously

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Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 | AGE 1000, West City, PS5 2027

Jack Sterling — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 officially revealed at Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2026. Set in AGE 1000 West City, built from Akira Toriyama designs, releasing on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC Steam in 2027.

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CBP One Parole Revocation | Trump Second Attempt, May 6 Hearing

Jack Sterling — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Trump administration filed new CBP One parole termination notices April 24, 2026, one month after Judge Burroughs ruled the first attempt violated the APA. A May 6 hearing will determine if DHS can proceed.

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Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition | Cooling Guide, 200W TDP 2026

Jack Sterling — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition review and build guide: 200W TDP, 270W PPT, 208MB cache, 2nd-gen 3D V-Cache under-core architecture. Cooling tiers, Eco Mode, and AIO recommendations for April 2026.

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Anthropic $40B Deal | $30B Milestones, IPO Plan, Claude vs Gemini

Jack Sterling — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Inside the Google-Anthropic $40B compute-for-equity deal: the three milestone categories unlocking $30B, Claude Code vs Gemini SWE-bench benchmarks, and Anthropic's planned October 2026 IPO.

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CIPS vs SWIFT | China's Cross-Border Payments Network Is Replacing Dollar Rails in War Zones as Petroyuan Goes Live at Hormuz

Jack Brennan — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

At least two confirmed yuan payments for Strait of Hormuz transit tolls had cleared through CIPS-linked banks by late March 2026, providing the first live proof-of-concept for China's campaign to normalize RMB settlement at geopolitically sensitive trade chokepoints

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BHP Breaks Ranks with Big Four Miners | Agrees to Yuan-Linked COREX Index in Iron Ore Contracts with China

Jack Brennan — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

BHP accepted a 26% weighting for Beijing's COREX portside index in long-term Jimblebar fines contracts with state-backed China Mineral Resources Group, the first time a major global miner has conceded Chinese yuan benchmarks in a long-term supply agreement

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Google Leads $40 Billion Investment in Anthropic at $350 Billion Valuation | Cloud Giants Race for AI Compute Anchor

Jack Brennan — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Alphabet committed $10 billion upfront with $30 billion in performance-linked milestones to Anthropic, days after Amazon pledged $25 billion, as the world's largest cloud providers compete to lock in the Claude AI platform as a long-term infrastructure tenant

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Independent Researcher Wins Q-Day Prize with First 15-Bit ECC Quantum Attack on Record | Bitcoin Cryptography Under Scrutiny

Jack Brennan — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15-bit elliptic curve private key using cloud quantum hardware and a variant of Shor's algorithm, claiming 1 Bitcoin from Project Eleven in the largest public quantum attack ever recorded against the cryptographic standard protecting over $2.5 trillion in digital assets

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Sam Altman Apologizes to Tumbler Ridge After OpenAI Failed to Report Shooter's ChatGPT Account to Police

Jack Brennan — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

OpenAI's automated systems banned Jesse Van Rootselaar's account in June 2025, eight months before she killed eight people, but leadership determined the activity did not meet the threshold for a police referral, a decision now at the center of a negligence lawsuit and a Florida criminal investigation

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ESA Confirms Corrosion on NASA's Cancelled Lunar Gateway HALO and I-HAB Modules

Jack Brennan — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The European Space Agency acknowledged corrosion on both habitation modules built by Thales Alenia Space, two days after NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told Congress the damage would have pushed Gateway operations beyond 2030

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Trump Evacuated from WHCA Dinner After Shots Fired | Sanders Calls It $4 Billion Kleptocracy as Meme Coin Gala Implodes

Jack Brennan — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Secret Service rushed President Trump offstage at the Washington Hilton as gunman Cole Tomas Allen was apprehended, hours after Senator Sanders released a $4 billion kleptocracy report targeting Trump crypto profits and Gulf business deals

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DeepSeek V4 | $20B Valuation, Tencent Funding Talks

Jack Sterling — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

DeepSeek is raising its first outside round at a $20B+ valuation with Tencent and Alibaba bidding. V4, a 1.6T-parameter open-source model, launched the same week as funding talks intensified.

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Sam Altman and Greg Brockman's Paywalled Podcast Unlocked for $100,000 | Altman Takes Aim at Anthropic

Jack Brennan — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Nevada manufacturing CEO Jim Belosic paid $100,000 to free the paywalled Core Memory episode featuring Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, their first joint podcast appearance, after journalist Ashlee Vance publicly floated the idea

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IMO and the Strait of Hormuz | Iran's Ship Seizures and What the World's Shipping Regulator Can Do

Marcus Webb — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Iran seized two MSC-affiliated vessels and attacked a third on April 22, three days after the US Navy seized an Iranian cargo ship, producing what analysts now call a dual blockade at the world's most critical oil chokepoint

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WBD Paramount Shareholder Vote | CNN, CBS, $110B Merger Analysis

Jack Sterling — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Warner Bros Discovery shareholders vote April 23 on a $110B Paramount Skydance merger that would merge CNN and CBS News, create a $50B debt load, and reshape American media.

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JetBlue Surveillance Pricing Lawsuit | Personal Data Used to Set Fares 2026

Jack Wang — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

JetBlue faces a federal class action lawsuit alleging it uses cookies, tracking pixels, and third-party data brokers to inflate ticket prices based on individual browsing behavior — a practice regulators call

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Samsung Labor Crisis | 40,000 Workers Protest in Pyeongtaek as AI Chip Supply Hangs in the Balance

Jack Wang — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The largest labor demonstration in Samsung Electronics history erupted April 23, 2026, threatening a supply chain that powers the global AI revolution and pitting one of South Korea's most vital exports against its own workforce

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Microsoft's First-Ever Buyout | 'Rule of 70' Plan Targets 8,750 Workers in Massive AI Pivot

Jack Wang — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

In a historic first for the company's 51-year history, Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement packages using an age-plus-tenure formula to systematically replace institutional veterans with AI-native talent

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TerraPower Breaks Ground | America's First Advanced Nuclear Reactor Era Begins in Wyoming

Jack Wang — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

On April 22, 2026, TerraPower began nuclear component construction on its Natrium sodium-cooled reactor in Kemmerer, Wyoming — the first non-light-water reactor to break ground in the United States in over 40 years

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Apple's Post-iPhone Future | Gurman Reveals 6 Secret Product Categories in Development

Jack Wang — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

From AI AirPods with infrared cameras to a $1,000 tabletop robot, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has mapped Apple's full Ambient AI pivot for the John Ternus era

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Bob Iger Returns to Thrive Capital | Former Disney Boss Joins Josh Kushner's $15B VC Firm

Jack Wang — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

One month after handing Disney's CEO role to Josh D'Amaro, Iger officially rejoins Thrive Capital as an advisor to guide investments in OpenAI, A24, and the generative AI era

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NVIDIA Earth Day 2026 | 5 Breakthrough AI Initiatives Saving the Planet

ObjectWire Tech Desk — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

From kilometer-scale storm forecasting to orangutan bioacoustic monitoring, NVIDIA is deploying Physical AI across five major environmental fronts for Earth Day 2026

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NVIDIA, Google Cloud | Vera Rubin A5X, Agentic AI 2026

Jack Sterling — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

NVIDIA and Google Cloud announce Vera Rubin-powered A5X instances scaling to 960,000 GPUs, Gemini on Google Distributed Cloud, confidential Blackwell VMs, and agentic AI via Nemotron.

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Cluster Bakugo Season 16 | My Hero Ultra Rumble Skill Set

Jack Sterling — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Cluster Bakugo arrives in My Hero Ultra Rumble Season 16 as a Technical Class overhaul. Full skill breakdown, meta tier list, team synergies, and gacha pull guide for April 2026.

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Palantir Shares Slide After Manifesto Calls for AI Arms Race

Alfasa — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Palantir Technologies published a sweeping 22-point manifesto on April 18 distilling CEO Alex Karp's doctrine on AI deterrence, remilitarization, and national service. Shares slid Monday as backlash intensified from critics, researchers, and protest organizers already targeting the company's government contracts

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OpenAI Demos Cyber AI Model for Federal Agencies, Five Eyes

Jack Brennen — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

OpenAI spent the past week briefing U.S. federal agencies, state governments, and Five Eyes intelligence partners on GPT-5.4-Cyber, a defensive cybersecurity model the company wants to distribute more broadly than Anthropic's restricted Mythos initiative

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Bond App Launches to Replace Doomscrolling with AI-Powered Memories

Marcus Webb — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Bond, built by veterans of Google DeepMind, Meta, OpenAI, TikTok, and Twitter, launched out of stealth on Tuesday with no ads, no follower counts, and no infinite scroll, positioning itself as the defining social platform of a post-feed era

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GameStop Pokemon Power Packs | The Digital Card System That Is Genius, Shady, and Selling Out

ObjectWire Gaming Desk — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

GameStop repacks Pokemon cards into tiered packs, stores them in a PSA digital vault, takes a cut on every trade, and hid a $29,000 Charizard somewhere in the system to keep people buying

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Microsoft Embeds Anthropic Mythos AI into Its SDL Framework

Jack Brennen — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Microsoft is formally adopting Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview for vulnerability detection across its enterprise software portfolio, making it one of the first major technology companies to integrate the restricted model into its internal engineering process

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Tokenized Trading 24/7 | Wall Street's Iran Crisis Gap

Daniel Park — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

NYSE sat closed while oil gained 7.8% on blockchain platforms, accelerating Wall Street's push toward round-the-clock tokenized market infrastructure

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Everything Known About Forza Horizon 6 as of March 2026

ObjectWire Editorial Team — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Japan open world, 550+ cars, May 19 release — here is every confirmed detail from Playground Games and Xbox.

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Nvidia Groq $20B Inference Deal | LPX Platform, 3GW OpenAI Commitment at GTC 2026

ObjectWire Technology Desk — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Nvidia licensed Groq's full LPU patent portfolio for $20 billion on December 24, 2025, the largest deal in its history, and will unveil the LPX inference platform at GTC March 2026

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Apple Set to Announce at Least Five New Products in Early March 2026 Via Multi-Day Press Releases and Special Experience Event

ObjectWire Technology Desk — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Apple plans to unveil at least five new hardware products between March 2 and March 4, 2026, through a series of press releases rather than a traditional keynote, culminating in hands-on Apple Experience sessions.

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AWS Temporarily Shuts Down UAE Availability Zone mec1-az2 After Objects Strike Facility, Sparking Fire

ObjectWire Technology Desk — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The fire department cut power to the affected zone and generators while emergency crews extinguished the blaze. Other Availability Zones in the UAE region remained operational.

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Cursor Launches

Alfanasa — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Anysphere removes the human starting gun. Slack messages, GitHub pull requests, production alerts, and cron schedules now trigger autonomous coding agents inside Cursor.

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Nintendo Kicks Off MAR10 Day 2026 with 40th Anniversary Power-Ups

Conan Doyle — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

From the first-ever Nintendo Switch 2 sale and Virtual Boy classics returning on Switch Online, to Brie Larson voicing Rosalina and a Lunchables Golden Ticket sweepstakes — here is your complete field guide to the biggest MAR10 Day yet.

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Yamanaka Factors Can Reverse Cellular Aging Markers in Studies | But Not Yet Safely in Whole Humans

ObjectWire Science Desk — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Partial reprogramming with OCT4, SOX2, KLF4, and c-MYC resets cellular age clocks in laboratory and animal studies, but full-body rejuvenation remains unachieved and carries risks including potential tumorigenesis.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy States AI Will Reduce Headcount in Many Long-Standing Roles While Creating New Ones

ObjectWire Technology Desk — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The comments followed a $110 billion funding round for OpenAI at a $730 billion valuation, with Amazon committing $50 billion and announcing a multi-year strategic partnership.

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Microsoft Unveils Project Helix | Next Xbox Will Run PC and Console Games Natively

Alfanasa — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma confirmed the next-generation Xbox hardware will play both Xbox and PC games, positioning it as a direct competitor to Sony

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How to Accept USDC for Your Service Business in Texas (and Report It Properly)

austin-web-services.com — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

USDC transactions settle on blockchains in minutes with fees often below $0.01, while the IRS treats digital assets as property. Here is what Texas service businesses need to know about setup, conversion, accounting, and compliance.

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Eledon Pharmaceuticals Overview: Clinical-Stage Biotech Focused on CD40L Pathway Therapies

ObjectWire Health Desk — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Eledon Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ELDN) develops tegoprubart, an IgG1 anti-CD40L antibody designed to prevent organ transplant rejection with its mission of One Transplant for Life.

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Federal Agencies Raised Concerns About Grok Safety and Reliability Before Pentagon

ObjectWire Technology Desk — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

GSA officials described Grok as sycophantic and susceptible to manipulation through biased or faulty data, potentially introducing systemic risks to federal operations.

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KSI Becomes Co-Owner of Dagenham & Redbridge FC | Vows to Take Sixth-Tier Club to the Premier League

ObjectWire Sports Desk — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Sidemen founder acquired a 20% stake in the National League South club on March 3, 2026, calling the move a ‘full-circle moment’ referencing his Race to Division One FIFA series. Former Premier League striker Andy Carroll also joined as a shareholder five days earlier.

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My Hero Ultra Rumble Season 15: Tokoyami, Neo Academia & Patch 1.14.0 | Full Review

ObjectWire Editorial Team — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Season 15 launched January 21, 2026, dropping Fumikage Tokoyami with the Dark Shadow Quirk, a rotating Neo Academia stage, and events loaded with free rewards running through March 25.

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Hulu Releases Red Band Trailer for Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice | Vince Vaughn and James Marsden in an R-Rated Time-Travel Comedy

ObjectWire Entertainment Desk — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Hulu published the official red band trailer on March 1, 2026, for the action-comedy starring Vince Vaughn and James Marsden as criminal best friends caught in a time loop involving a cannibal assassin. Theatrical release is set for April 18, 2026.

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Paramount Skydance Agrees to Acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in $110 Billion Enterprise-Value Deal

ObjectWire Editorial Team — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The all-cash acquisition at $31 per share — a 42% premium — would merge two of Hollywood

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GTA 6 Pre-Orders May Be Imminent as PlayStation Database Lists Title IDs | Take-Two Assures Sony and Microsoft No Further Delay

ObjectWire Editorial Team — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Two backend title IDs surfaced in the PlayStation Store on March 1, 2026, while Take-Two Interactive privately told Sony and Microsoft the November 19 release date will not slip.

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Valve Wins Jury Verdict Under Washington Patent Troll Prevention Act -- Private Companies Can Enforce the Law

ObjectWire Editorial Team — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A federal jury awarded Valve $152,093 against Display Technologies, LLC on February 17, 2026, marking the first U.S. jury verdict finding liability under a state patent troll prevention statute. The court confirmed private companies can sue without waiting for the state Attorney General.

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NY AG Letitia James Sues Valve Over Counter-Strike Loot Boxes -- Gabe Newell Responds

ObjectWire Editorial Team — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed suit against Valve Corporation, alleging Counter-Strike 2 loot boxes constitute illegal gambling under New York law. Some CS skins have sold for over $1 million. Valve CEO Gabe Newell issued a two-word response.

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Beast Games Season 2 Winner Tyler Lucas (167) Was Priced In on Kalshi Before the Finale Aired

ObjectWire Editorial Team — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Tyler Lucas won $5.1 million in the Beast Games Season 2 finale on February 25, 2026. Prediction markets had him at 83-94% before the episode streamed. Five days before the finale, Kalshi had already sanctioned a MrBeast editor for insider trading on Beast Games markets.

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Vance Freezes $259 Million in Minnesota Medicaid Funding in First Action of Trump

ObjectWire Editorial Team — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

CMS places $259.5 million in quarterly Medicaid matching funds on hold for Minnesota, citing $243.8 million in unsupported claims and $15.4 million tied to unverifiable immigration status — the largest single-state deferral since 2017.

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Seedance 2.0 Global Launch Delayed Amid Hollywood Copyright Backlash

ObjectWire Tech Desk — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

ByteDance's multimodal AI video model launched in China on February 12 — generating cinematic clips of Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Disney characters. The cease-and-desist letters arrived before the global rollout could.

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UBC Researchers Develop First Topical CRISPR-Based Gene Therapy for Skin Disorders

ObjectWire Science Desk — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Lipid nanoparticles carry a CRISPR base editor through the skin surface to repair faulty genes — no injections, no viral vectors, and up to 30% restoration of normal skin function in human models

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Mastercard Shares Drop Below $500 as AI Disruption Note and Tariff Concerns Hit Payments Sector

Alfansa — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A viral research note warning that generative AI could displace 15–25% of traditional card transaction volume — combined with renewed tariff uncertainty — sent Mastercard to its first sub-$500 close since April 2025, erasing $18.4 billion in payments sector value in a single session.

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F1 Chief Says Apple TV Will Surpass ESPN

ObjectWire Sports Desk — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Stefano Domenicali, speaking ahead of the 2026 season opener in Melbourne, says Apple

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Apple to Begin Manufacturing Mac Mini in Houston, TX at Foxconn Facility

ObjectWire Technology Desk — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The compact desktop will become only the second Mac line assembled in the United States — joining the Mac Pro in Austin — as Apple accelerates domestic manufacturing amid trade pressures

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Hetzner Cloud vs DigitalOcean 2026 | Which VPS Wins on Price, Performance, and Bandwidth?

ObjectWire Tech Desk — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A spec-for-spec breakdown of two of the most popular cloud providers for developers, covering pricing, included bandwidth, compute power, and the exact workloads each platform is built for

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Xbox Co-Creator Says Microsoft Is

ObjectWire Technology Desk — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Seamus Blackley — one of the engineers who built the original Xbox — believes Microsoft is quietly winding down its gaming identity as the company goes all-in on generative AI, and that the newly installed head of gaming was put in place to manage the brand

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Sidemen Inside Season 3: Netflix Spring 2026 Release Confirmed with Full Cast and Production Details

ObjectWire Editorial — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Sidemen have wrapped filming on Season 3 — Netflix confirms spring premiere window with a 12-person cast drawn from reality TV, streaming, and sports

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Anthropic Says Chinese AI Labs Used 24,000 Fake Accounts to Copy Claude

ObjectWire Technology Desk — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax allegedly made more than 16 million coordinated prompts to extract and replicate Claude

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Blue Owl Halts Fund Redemptions, Sparking Private Credit Selloff

Alfansa — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

$295B asset manager permanently gates retail fund amid $1.4B asset sale; El-Erian warns of 'canary-in-the-coalmine' moment for $3T private credit sector

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Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 Sells Fresh Wave of SaaS Falloff

ObjectWire Technology Desk — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A mid-tier model with near-flagship performance at unchanged pricing. The market didn

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Elemental Royalty (ELE) Completes Merger, Lists on TSX, and Introduces Tokenized Gold Dividend

ObjectWire Editorial — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The first publicly listed gold company to offer dividends payable in Tether Gold (XAUT) — a watershed moment for blockchain-based commodity finance.

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Apple Launches Full Video Podcasts to Challenge YouTube Industry Dominance

ObjectWire Technology Desk — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Native video is coming to Apple Podcasts this spring — a seamless watch-or-listen experience that puts Apple on a direct collision course with YouTube and Spotify.

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Team USA Wins Two Skiing Silvers at Milano Cortina Olympics

Object Wire Staff — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Alex Hall delivers in freestyle slopestyle while Ben Ogden ends 50-year cross-country medal drought

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Team USA Wins Five Medals Across Five Sports at Milan Cortina

Object Wire Staff — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Historic day features first-ever mixed doubles curling medal and breakthroughs across multiple disciplines

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Musk Confirms xAI Layoffs Amid Company Reorganization

Object Wire Staff — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

AI company restructures operations as competition intensifies in the artificial intelligence sector

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Alphabet Raises $32B in 24 Hours with Rare 100-Year Bond

Object Wire Staff — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Historic multi-currency bond sale includes ultra-rare century bond—first from tech company since Motorola in 1997

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Malinin Surges Into Lead in Olympic Men

Object Wire Staff — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Two-time world champion executes two quads and signature backflip to dominate short program at Milano Cortina

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USA Sweeps Gold, Silver in Women

Object Wire Staff — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

American freestyle skiers dominate the podium at Milano Cortina 2026 in spectacular moguls performance

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Swiss Skier von Allmen Wins Third Gold, Joins All-Time Greats

Object Wire Staff — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

24-year-old Franjo von Allmen becomes only the third male Alpine skier to win three events at a single Winter Olympics

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The Dawn of the Orbital AI Era: SpaceX and xAI Move the Cloud to the Stars

ObjectWire Technology Desk — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Moving AI training and inference from terrestrial data centers to the vacuum of space to solve the bottlenecks of land, power, and thermal management.

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Financial Gravity: How the CME Rules Gold, Bitcoin, and Global Markets

ObjectWire Financial Desk — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Overshadowed by the Federal Reserve, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange wields 'the gravity of the financial world,' manipulating the house rules to dictate price action.

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OCTANE Album Review | Don Toliver ft. Ye, Travis Scott, Young Thug

ObjectWire Music Desk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Don Toliver delivers his most ambitious project yet with star-studded features and top-tier production. ObjectWire Score: 8/10.

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OCTANE

ObjectWire Music Desk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Don Toliver delivers a high-octane ride with Ye, Travis Scott & Young Thug

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Apple Delays iPhone 18 to 2027, Prioritizing Foldable Launch

ObjectWire Technology Desk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

U.S. tech giant shifts strategy to focus on premium models and first-ever foldable iPhone amid supply chain pressures and memory chip cost surge

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ER-100 FDA Clearance | First Human Trial of Partial Epigenetic Reprogramming for Optic Neuropathies

ObjectWire Science Desk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Life Biosciences receives IND clearance on January 28, 2026 for the first-ever human clinical trial of AAV2-delivered OSK Yamanaka factors targeting retinal ganglion cell rejuvenation in glaucoma and NAION

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TikTok Announces USDS Joint Venture LLC to Address U.S. Security Concerns

Sarah Chen — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Platform unveils unprecedented partnership structure with American tech firms and security experts to maintain U.S. operations

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The Sidemen

ObjectWire Editorial — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Complete profile of the Sidemen — KSI, Miniminter, Zerkaa, TBJZL, Behzinga, Vikkstar123, and W2S. History, net worth, charity events and more.

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Minnesota: Summer of Love, Fraud Investigations & Political Coverage

ObjectWire — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Comprehensive coverage of Minnesota news — from the historic 2020 Summer of Love protests to major fraud investigations

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Nick Shirley Drops Second Part of Fraud Investigation

ObjectWire — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

New revelations in the Minnesota Feeding Our Future fraud case — Part 2 of the investigation series

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ARK Raiders | Nexon Co-op Extraction Shooter