Xbox is putting monthly time limits on cloud gaming
Beginning in November, Microsoft’s Xbox will put monthly cloud-gaming limits on its Game Pass plans, the company announced in a blog post. Right now, eligible subscribers can stream games without a monthly hour limit. Starting in November, the $22.99-a-month Game Pass Ultimate subscription will include 15 hours of cloud gaming each month. Premium members who
Drones deployed over Thailand’s ‘sin city’ for USS Abraham Lincoln visit
Drones have been deployed in the Thai city of Pattaya to boost security amid the influx of thousands of American military personnel on shore leave. Around 5,000 sailors started arriving in Pattaya, known as Thailand’s “Sin City,” on Wednesday following the docking of the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group, which had been at sea for
ISRO launches advanced earth observation satellite for strategic data
ISRO on Friday made its way into history books yet again with the successful launch of the country’s first ever imaging satellite in geo-orbit, placing the over 2,300 kg payload into a precise orbit using a GSLV rocket. The EOS-05 satellite was successfully placed in the intended sub-geosynchronous transfer orbit, about 18 minutes after it
Nvidia’s $12.9 billion Hugging Face bet is about more than AI models
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, in a deal that will bring one of the largest platforms for open AI models, datasets and applications under the chipmaker’s ownership. According to Nvidia, Hugging Face has more than 18 million developers, researchers and creators, with over 3 million models, 500,000 datasets and 1
OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring
Aswarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents.OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as executives grappled with the fallout from the July breach of the open source repository Hugging Face.During the Hugging Face breach,
OpenAI hit with 30 more lawsuits
Sam Altman’s OpenAI is facing another major legal challenge over the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada. The ChatGPT maker is reportedly facing 30 new lawsuits over allegations that it failed to act on warning signs linked to the attacker. The fresh complaints were filed in a California court by Edelson PC, the law firm
AI boom is testing tech firms’ climate pledges
Technology companies are stepping up their climate commitments but not fast enough to counter rapidly inflating energy needs linked to the artificial intelligence boom. Published by the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA), sustainable development NGO, the report monitors the emissions and climate commitments of 200 major tech companies worldwide.
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash Cyber
Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Flash for coding and agentic tasks, alongside restricted Flash Cyber for vulnerability discovery, automated patching and trusted security defenders globally. Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, just three weeks after its previous Flash release. While both share the same core intelligence, they serve different purposes.
UK summons Russian official over ‘attempted drone attack’
The UK has taken a decisive stance alongside Germany as it summoned the Russian charge d’affaires in condemnation of an attempted drone attack. The explosives were found close to Ukrainian cargo planes. Investigators believe they did not explode because of a faulty detonator. On Wednesday, German investigators identified two suspects they accuse of carrying out
WhatsApp deepens fintech play in India
Messaging giant WhatsApp launched a bill payments feature native to the app in India on Thursday.The launch of bill payments by WhatsApp in India comes at a time when the entity is already live on India’s real-time payments system, Unified Payments Interface (UPI), further deepening its presence in the market.The bill payments feature would allow