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Microsoft has canceled a lot of projects over the past few years, but none live in the imagination quite like Project Blackbird, an online loot shooter RPG from the studio behind The Elder Scrolls Online. It was one of the casualties of the tech giant’s cost-cutting in the summer of 2025, despite then–Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer reportedly having loved what he played of it. Former ZeniMax Online Studios head Matt Firor recently shed more light on the project and that pivotal decision, which caused him to leave the company, in a new interview. “Making games is always a heartbreaking…

Hundreds of workers in Ireland tasked with refining Meta’s AI models have been told that their jobs are at risk as the company embarks on a sweeping new round of layoffs, according to documents obtained by WIRED.The affected workers are employed by the Dublin-based firm Covalen, which handles various content moderation and labeling services for Meta.The workers were informed of the layoffs over a brief video meeting on Monday afternoon and were not allowed to ask questions, according to Nick Bennett, one of the employees on the call. “We had a pretty bad feeling [before the meeting],” he says. “This…

NVIDIA is releasing a new variant of its 5070 GPU for laptops. Nestled in a blog post about the latest version of its Game Ready Drivers, the company notes its partners will soon start selling 5070 laptops with 12GB of VRAM, alongside the 8GB model that NVIDIA has offered since the launch of the 50-series.”Demand for GeForce RTX remains strong, and memory supply is contrastrained. In order to maximize memory availability, we are releasing the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU 12GB configuration with 24Gb G7 memory. This gives our partners access to an additional pool of memory to complement the…

Millions of people watched the historic launch of Artemis II and were captivated by the mission’s 10-day journey around the Moon as NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen ventured farther into space than any human before. Part of the public’s ability to experience the mission in high-definition was due to laser communications. Laser, or optical, communications systems use invisible infrared light to transmit more data in a single downlink than traditional radio frequency systems. During Artemis II, NASA tested an optical communications system to demonstrate the benefits laser communications can…

The much-hated and controversial video game DRM tech Denuvo has seemingly been completely and utterly cracked thanks to a new technique created by crafty pirates and modders. And now that the once impossible-to-defeat DRM has been bypassed, Borderlands publisher 2K is fighting back with Denuvo’s help and reportedly implementing new 14-day online check-ins for games on PC. As recently reported by Tom’s Hardware, on April 27, a large Reddit thread tracking which games using Denvuo DRM still needed to be cracked or bypassed officially hit zero. (This list tracks games that don’t require an online server connection, not MMORPGs and…

When Iranian missile and drone attacks on the United Arab Emirates began earlier this year, cybercrime laws also came into focus as the conflict played out in the sky—and online. Authorities announced arrests linked to misleading videos, AI-generated clips, illegal filming, and the spread of misinformation.For many residents, the reaction was one of surprise: How could a screenshot, forwarded video, or social media post become a criminal matter? The answer lies in legal frameworks that were already in place.During ordinary times, many forms of online misconduct can carry penalties under the UAE’s cybercrime laws. But during crises, emergencies, or disasters,…

Games Done Quick, the charity video game speedrunning series, is making its European debut in a live event at Germany’s Gamescom this summer.GDQ’s marathon event will run for the duration of the three-day show in Cologne, starting August 28-30, and will feature popular runners and an on-site live audience. The event will be broadcast on Twitch and YouTube, with programming kicking off at 4am ET (one for all you early risers) daily and running until 2pm.”We’re thrilled to expand Games Done Quick globally and to bring a live event to gamescom in Germany, an opportunity that’s incredibly meaningful to our…

A prototype of a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster was tested in a special chamber at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in February 2026. With further development, thrusters like this could be part of a nuclear electric propulsion system powering human missions to Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to the test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. On Feb. 24, for the first time in years and at power levels exceeding any previous test in the United States, a team fired up an electromagnetic…

Last week, Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive laid off an at-the-time undisclosed number of its employees. It claimed that these individuals were largely affiliated with “mobile and casual external development projects” and were being let go due to a decrease in demand for such projects. But the company also confirmed to Kotaku that developers on its flagship horror franchise Dead by Daylight were among those laid off, and the timing of the cuts, so closely following both a recent union push at the company as well as unrest over changing policies, has some questioning the motives behind the cuts. Alongside…

Greg Hogan, an affiliate of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), will serve as acting assistant commissioner of the Technology Transformation Services (TTS), a unit within the General Services Administration (GSA). There, he will oversee Login.gov, the government’s secure login and identity service.Gregory Barbaccia, the federal chief information officer and acting director of TTS, wrote in an email to TTS staff that Hogan will be focused on growing Login.gov’s user base, with the ultimate goal of the product “becoming a world-class identity platform recognized beyond the federal government.” Until earlier this year, TTS was led by Thomas Shedd, a…