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Creative Assembly says Alien: Isolation 2's protagonist is a Yutani employee, which offers 'a new perspective to the franchise' — 'Weyland-Yutani is an English-Japanese speaking company, and the Japanese side doesn't really get explored that much'

* Creative Assembly says Alien: Isolation 2's protagonist will offer "a new perspective to the franchise" * Blake is a Weyland-Yutani employee, with principal environment artist Archie Whitehead saying the Japanese side hasn't been explored a lot * Principal UI artist Laura Mouther says Blake isn'

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Microsoft says it will give DARPA on-site access to its latest quantum computing hardware, including the Majorana 2 chip, at its new Maryland research center

Sponsor Posts Get UAE eInvoicing ready with Zoho — The UAE announced its eInvoicing mandate on 30 October 2024, when the Ministry of Finance issued Federal Decree-Laws No. 16 and 17 of 2024, laying the legal groundwork for a national eInvoicing system. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365,

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Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms

Snorkel AI, a startup that helps AI labs and corporations build training data sets and simulated environments, has raised a $350 million Series E at a $3.5 billion valuation. The new round, which was led by Insight Partners and S32, valued the seven-year-old startup at nearly triple the $1.

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DoorDash Will Pay $131.5 Million For Missing And Miscalculated NYC Delivery Worker Wages

The company blames technical errors and a difference of opinion on how wages should be calculated for pay irregularities. rblfmr/Shutterstock New York City has announced that DoorDash will pay $131.5 million as part of an enforcement action for violating the city's minimum wage and delivery work

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Sources: Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for the AI czar position; other names include WH OSTP Director Michael Kratsios and OPM Director Scott Kupor

Sponsor Posts Get UAE eInvoicing ready with Zoho — The UAE announced its eInvoicing mandate on 30 October 2024, when the Ministry of Finance issued Federal Decree-Laws No. 16 and 17 of 2024, laying the legal groundwork for a national eInvoicing system. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365,

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Login.gov is now accepting mobile driver’s licenses

Douglas Rissing/Getty Images ByChristian Robles, Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW September 22, 2026 05:36 PM ET The feature builds on the federal government’s effort to mandate that agencies use the digital identity verification platform. * GSA * Identity Login.gov began widely accepting mobile driver’s licenses for digital identity

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AI’s next enterprise risk is generated sprawl

For years, technical debt was one of the most useful concepts in software. It gave technology leaders a simple way to describe a familiar trade-off: a team could build quickly by cutting corners and making compromises but would eventually come back to clean things up. The debt incurred had to

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KEONICS marks 50 years with a focus on regional technology infrastructure and AI

Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (KEONICS) has marked its Golden Jubilee, commemorating five decades of involvement in Karnataka’s technology ecosystem and outlining plans to expand technology infrastructure, digital services, skilling and AI initiatives across the state. The celebrations in Bengaluru included the launch of KEONICS’ new logo and

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Claude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge work

AI models are increasingly taking on work that extends far beyond a single prompt: building a feature across a codebase, investigating a complex issue, synthesizing hundreds of pages of information, or working through a multi-step business process. As that work gets longer, raw intelligence is only part of what matters.

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GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft Foundry

Today, we are expanding our GPT-6 series by welcoming GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to our generally available lineup in Microsoft Foundry. Building on the exceptional customer momentum of GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, this launch continues our work to deliver transformative capabilities in Microsoft Foundry that produce less

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Creative Assembly says Alien: Isolation 2's protagonist is a Yutani employee, which offers 'a new perspective to the franchise' &mdash; 'Weyland-Yutani is an English-Japanese speaking company, and the Japanese side doesn't really get explored that much'

Microsoft says it will give DARPA on-site access to its latest quantum computing hardware, including the Majorana 2 chip, at its new Maryland research center

Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms

DoorDash Will Pay $131.5 Million For Missing And Miscalculated NYC Delivery Worker Wages

Sources: Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for the AI czar position; other names include WH OSTP Director Michael Kratsios and OPM Director Scott Kupor

Login.gov is now accepting mobile driver’s licenses

AI’s next enterprise risk is generated sprawl

KEONICS marks 50 years with a focus on regional technology infrastructure and AI

Claude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge work

GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft Foundry

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Creative Assembly says Alien: Isolation 2's protagonist is a Yutani employee, which offers 'a new perspective to the franchise' — 'Weyland-Yutani is an English-Japanese speaking company, and the Japanese side doesn't really get explored that much'