ID@Xbox has paid indie devs more than $5bn since 2013

Microsoft has revealed it has paid developers in its ID@Xbox program more than $5 billion since it launched in 2013. ...
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Google to acquire cybersecurity firm Wiz in $32 billion deal

Google has agreed to buy cybersecurity company Wiz for $32 billion, making it the organisation’s largest acquisition to date. The ...
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Fed working group suggests scams information sharing network

A Federal Reserve-backed working group has recommended that the US payments industry set up an independent information exchange framework to ...
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Why Removing Technical Debt Is Important to Higher Ed Cybersecurity

Technical Debt Limits Visibility Into Higher Education’s Vulnerabilities Legacy systems, and the IT teams that manage them, tend to ...
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The Download: US aid disruptions, and imagining the future

Around 1,400 infants are being infected by HIV every day as a result of the new US administration’s cuts to ...
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Brains of parrots, unlike songbirds, use human-like vocal control

Due to past work, we’ve already identified the brain structure that controls the activity of the key vocal organ, the ...
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FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies

The Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission has removed four years’ worth of business guidance blogs as of Tuesday morning, including ...
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4 technologies that could power the future of energy

A major topic of conversation at the ARPA-E summit was geologic hydrogen—there’s a ton of excitement about efforts to find ...
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‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has spent the first six weeks of the new Trump administration turning ...
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