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Former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35‑year‑old Saudi national, pleaded not guilty in San Francisco federal court to a charge of intercepting oral communications after allegedly planting a sophisticated audio device in an executive conference room. Prosecutors say he installed the covert recorder to capture sensitive discussions and that he coordinated with a Saudi royal family member via WhatsApp. Alfozan was arrested on October 9, 2026, three days before a scheduled one‑way flight to Riyadh with his wife and [...]

PlayStation Store sleuth PlayStation Game Size has identified three intent tags—“joinSession,” “launchActivity” and “launchMultiplayerActivity”—inside the GTA 6 launch files, suggesting that Rockstar Games has at least a framework for GTA Online‑style multiplayer built into the upcoming title. While Rockstar has officially billed GTA 6 as a single‑player experience, the presence of these tags aligns with earlier court filings that referenced a “difficult” 32‑player session, matching the capacity of GTA 5 Online. The sleuth’s earlier prediction of a 210 GB download size proved [...]

Researchers at Acronis’s Threat Research Unit disclosed that a lone hacker operating from Hualien City, Taiwan, used a suite of locally‑run “abliterated” AI agents, dubbed BOSSAI, to exfiltrate emergency‑dispatch records from seven Taipei districts and patient data from a fire‑department platform. The attacker targeted over 100 organizations in at least 11 countries, successfully breaching roughly 10 entities in Taiwan, Mexico and Thailand, and harvesting data such as ECG readings, ambulance video, loan‑firm SQL tables, university records and [...]

Nicolas Cage praised the cancellation of Amazon’s live‑action series Spider‑Noir after its first season, saying his “high‑risk” portrayal of alternate‑universe Spider‑Man Ben Reilly would have “worn out its welcome” if extended. Cage told IGNO on the Madden red carpet that he was relieved the show ended, calling the eight‑episode run a “perfect season” and noting the character’s idiosyncratic nature. Spider‑Noir, which earned 11 Emmy nominations and a 92 % Rotten Tomatoes score, was axed due to its staggering [...]

LNbits, an open‑source Bitcoin Lightning wallet platform, warned all operators to shut down their servers after a series of attacks exploited a vulnerability in the software. One operator reported that an attacker used an unknown extension to siphon 2,285,545 satoshis (≈0.023 BTC) from his instance before the warning was issued. The project issued an initial advisory at 12:33 UTC, asking users to disable the Paywall add‑on, and followed with a full shutdown notice 80 minutes later. No patches had [...]

IBM has filed a patent for a quantum‑job scheduler that groups compatible circuits from multiple users to run concurrently on a single processor while reusing stored noise models for error mitigation. The software evaluates qubit availability, connection topology, execution time and user preferences, then matches jobs whose combined operations align with existing noise characterizations, reducing the need for fresh calibration measurements. The system can also prioritize jobs that can exploit still‑valid noise data, updating models as hardware [...]

Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of Super Smash Bros. and Kirby, told reporters at the Famitsu 40th Anniversary Festival that he will not retire while demand for his games persists. Although he described himself as “semi‑retired” in 2022 after nine years of continuous Smash development and the release of the final Ultimate DLC character, Sakurai said he remains “working at full throttle.” He noted increasing physical fatigue, including eye strain and a history of calcific tendonitis during the Smash project, [...]

Activision has opened a free trial of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’s extraction mode, DMZ, across PC (Steam and Battle.net), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. The trial runs until Wednesday, 11 November and grants access solely to DMZ, excluding the game’s multiplayer and campaign. Launched just two weeks after Modern Warfare 4’s 23 October release, the timing is unusually swift compared with previous titles such as Black Ops 7, whose Endgame mode received a free trial months after launch. The DMZ trial coincides with the [...]