Sandfall Interactive’s debut game, *Clair Obscur: Expedition 33*, was a massive 2025 hit, selling over 5 million copies and winning a record nine awards at The Game Awards. Despite that success and the money to scale, the studio says it will stay small. Their philosophy? “Adapt the game to the team,
Clearwater Analytics is being taken private in an $8.4 billion deal led by Permira and Warburg Pincus. CEO Sandeep Sahai says the move will free the company from quarterly pressures to invest heavily in AI and an all-in-one platform.
The first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s *The Odyssey* has arrived, featuring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, and Anne Hathaway. But the online version is plagued by YouTube’s compression, a classic Nolan problem. The film hits IMAX on July 17, 2026.
Microsoft has officially paused its Windows Insider program for the holiday season. The final build of 2025, KB5072043, is now live, with no new previews expected until early next year.
The promise of AI in the workplace is huge, but a major skills gap persists. The solution isn’t just new hardware, but a focus on “everyday digital fluency” and building trust within organizations.
Wall Street’s top strategists are forecasting the bull market to continue into 2026, albeit at a slower pace. The average year-end target for the S&P 500 is 7,629, representing an 11.6% gain from current levels, according to a CNBC survey.
AI agents are being deployed rapidly, but a lack of guardrails is creating new risks. According to a PagerDuty executive, the key is balancing autonomy with human oversight and explainability. Security can’t be an afterthought.
According to a new paper, the first alien signal we detect won’t be a calm “hello.” It’ll more likely be a deafening, anomalous scream from a civilization in crisis. This “Eschatian Hypothesis” suggests we’re biased toward detecting extreme, terminal events, not typical neighbors.
KDE is making a definitive break from the old X11 display server. The upcoming Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive, a major milestone for the Linux desktop.
It’s been a brutal week for hardware startups. Three major players—iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes—have all filed for bankruptcy, each undone by a mix of tariffs, supply chains, and market shifts.
