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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Inbox: “KRAFTON Announces Donald Glover-Directed PUBG Live Action Series in Development at Netflix.”

That’s the subject line of a real press release I just got in my email. Glover will “direct, write, executive produce, and star in the series,” according to the announcement. Stephen Glover, his brother, will also be a writer and executive producer. No word on when the series might actually be out.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Indie hit Celeste was delisted on Xbox to “support the BDS boycott.”

That’s according to developer Maddy Thorson, who also said that TowerFall had been removed as well.

Earlier this month, Big Walk developers House House said that the game skipped Xbox to support the BDS movement.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Bungie shared a timeline for unvaulting Destiny 2 content.

Full production of restoring vaulted content is expected to begin in February, and from there, “we expect full production will be about 12mos. to fully complete the porting process,“ according to a blog post.

Bungie is also teasing updates to come about a Destiny 2 “celebration,” a project Bungie is calling Destiny “Legacy,” and something “Redacted.” The next major communications beat for Destiny is planned for February.

Bungie’s timeline image for unvaulting Destiny 2 content.
Image: Bungie
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Apple and OpenAI head to trial in July.

The judge in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI has set a trial start date of July 19th, 2027, as reported by 9to5Mac.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Google is seeing “lower monetization” in AI Mode ads.

However, the company has seen “promising results” with its ad experiments, chief business officer Philipp Schindler said on yesterday’s earnings call.

It’s also turning on AI Mode ads for more people and in more scenarios: ahead of that call, Google announced that it’s bringing ads in AI Mode to new countries and launching ads in follow-up queries in AI Mode in the US.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
GTA VI is Edge magazine’s cover story.

It’s packed with details and worth reading in full. There’s a lot of fascinating stuff about the game’s systems and seemingly incredible level of detail, but I was most intrigued by a tidbit about how quitting crime is a “a fundamental theme” of the game’s story:

“These games, maybe some people think, ‘Oh, they’re power fantasies’,” Nelson says. “Sure. But what if these characters want something else?”

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Windows 11 can perform a full system reinstall via the cloud.

The KB5127936 update includes a cloud rebuild feature that restores the OS and your device drivers from Windows Update when your PC is unable to boot. It requires an internet connection, but spares you from needing to keep a recovery USB drive handy, and doesn’t relying on the integrity of the current installation.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Samsung’s expecting the RAM shortage to last until at least 2028.

Memory executive Jaejune Kim said in the company’s latest quarterly earnings call that “tight supply conditions” will continue in 2028, driven by demand from AI. As it predicted, Samsung reported record quarterly revenue of 195.3 trillion Korean Won ($146.3 billion), and said its 2027 supply of HBM RAM is already sold out.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
LA is just replacing Flock with a different company’s license plate readers.

In July, the LAPD suspended its use of Flock’s cameras over concerns about how the company was handling its data. Now it’s rolling out hundreds of ALPRs from competitor Axon. The company has so far escaped the backlash Flock faced, but it’ll likely face growing scrutiny as it fills the gaps left by canceled Flock contracts.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Mistral AI has officially released its Large 4 (Le Chonk) model.

After making Large 4 available in a public preview earlier this month, Mistral is now releasing an improved version to everyone, which it says ranks as the “best open-weight model for coding.” The model offers advancements in cybersecurity-related tasks, like creating patches or reproducing vulnerabilities, and is more likely to refuse “malicious cyber requests” compared to other open models, according to Mistral.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Finland is investigating a Google data center site suspected of breaking environmental law.

Reuters reports that Finnish police said the criminal probe will look into “ambiguities and shortcomings in the drainage and water management at the construction site.” Google also reportedly cleared forests around the data center site near Muhos, Finland before completing required environmental impact assessments.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
A Duskbloods delay.

The Duskbloods — an ambitious, Switch 2-exclusive vampire-themed multiplayer game from FromSoftware — is no longer coming out this year. The studio says this will allow “time for final adjustments to game rules and balancing.” In the meantime, you could always read my profile on the studio from this summer.

FromSoftware can do anything

Andrew Webster
Anthropic is asking Wall Street to believe in AGI
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SemiAnalysis’ Joey Brookhart helps break down the Anthropic S-1 and why he thinks the company could be worth $10 trillion.

Nilay Patel
Anthropic’s business plan: Build God or die trying

Anthropic faces intense competitive pressure and huge fixed costs. Can Claude build itself fast enough to succeed?

Elizabeth Lopatto
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
“That’s what’s coming in November.”

A new GTA VI clip in the latest episode of South Park shows Jason grabbing a bag of dog poop off one of Leonida’s beaches and whacking an NPC in the face with it. You can try it yourself when GTA VI comes out on November 19th.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Meta will now notify parents if their child searches for self-harm-related terms on Facebook.

These alerts, which Meta first brought to Instagram in February, also apply to conversations about self-harm with its AI chatbot across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram.

If you or anyone you know is considering self-harm or needs to talk, contact the following people who want to help: In the US, text or call 988. Outside the US, contact https://www.iasp.info/.

Image: Meta
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Bluesky is restricting links to the massive DHS leak.

On Wednesday, the nonprofit DDoSecrets published a database of more than 41,000 employee records stolen from the DHS. Bluesky, which has strict policies against sharing someone’s personal information, tells Wired that it’s blocking links to the archive because they contain people’s email addresses and phone numbers “shared without their authorization.”

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Jensen Huang and the AI spies.

The New York Times reports that US intelligence officials believe an executive at one of Nvidia’s data center customers, Megaspeed, may be a “Chinese intelligence asset,” and has a “close relationship” with Nvidia CEO Huang. Details are sparse in the article, especially on how close that relationship was — Nvidia says she’s just one of “thousands of customer executives” Huang meets every year.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
JerryRig the Trump phone.

JerryRigEverything belatedly got hold of a Trump phone for a midterm special durability test, including a blunt recounting of the president’s track record so far. It features more evidence that the T1 Phone is an HTC in disguise, including a repeat of iFixit’s clever trick of swapping motherboards to prove the phones are identical inside and out.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
This cargo was delivered from orbit by a giant SpaceX hockey puck.

The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has successfully tested SpaceX’s disc-shaped Starfall reentry capsule in an effort to determine the viability of point-to-point rocket cargo deliveries. Starfall carried AFRL-developed cargo pods that were recovered after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, containing essential survival kits that might be needed on real emergency missions.

<a href="https://x.com/AFResearchLab/status/2114723191901782017">AFRL posted on X:</a> “Each pod contained representative mission equipment to study the effects of temperature, shock, and vibration of the cargo environments during launch and reentry.”
<a href="https://x.com/AFResearchLab/status/2114723191901782017">AFRL posted on X:</a> “Each pod contained representative mission equipment to study the effects of temperature, shock, and vibration of the cargo environments during launch and reentry.”
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AFRL posted on X: “Each pod contained representative mission equipment to study the effects of temperature, shock, and vibration of the cargo environments during launch and reentry.”
Image: US Air Force Research Laboratory
AI has come for Arizona’s water

Industry has drained the state’s water reserves for decades. Data centers are the breaking point.

Gaby Del Valle
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Cinema 4D will “soon” turn sketches into 3D models.

Developer Maxon is teasing a new AI tool generating a model based on an uploaded image, alongside options to reference text and sketches. It’s not clear how the image and sketch options will differ, but 3D creatives are reacting in the comments with other questions: Will it let you turn anyone’s art into a model?

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Just a smidge thinner.

The new touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro’s redesigned chassis is only slightly thinner than the Mini LED model — especially comparing the 14-inchers, shown here. It’s when you pick them up that you really notice and can appreciate the lighter weight.

Your wallet will be much lighter too.

<em>The 14-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED Display (left) is 0.02 inches / 0.5mm thinner than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 (right).</em>
<em>The 14-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED Display (left) and the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 (right).</em>
<em>You gotta love a light-up lid though.</em>
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The 14-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED Display (left) is 0.02 inches / 0.5mm thinner than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 (right).
Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
iFi’s wireless headphone dongle can transmit audio to your car’s stereo, too.

Similar to Twelve South’s recently launched Airfly View dongle that can connect wireless headphones to non-Bluetooth devices, iFi is introducing a new version of its UP Travel dongle that can wirelessly receive audio, too. The $129 UP Travel Max adds Bluetooth 5.4 and support for the aptX Lossless codec, plus Auracast for broadcasting to an unlimited number of listeners with compatible headphones.

Correction: The Airfly View can also wirelessly receive audio.

The iFi UP Travel Max dongle against a white background.
Image: iFi
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Epic is using AI to help build Unreal Engine.

Epic’s VP of development, Marcus Wassmer, told This Week in Videogames that “we are definitely using AI to develop code and features for Unreal Engine.” Wassmer says that the UE team has seen benefits like “faster” development of features, and the ability for engineers to “explore ideas” that they haven’t had “the time to tackle.”

CEO Tim Sweeney said this month that Epic is retooling for “maximum AI acceleration,” and the company said it “vibe coded” its updated games launcher.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
This week in the big AI data center buildout.

AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects: