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After spending many years as the public face of Overwatch, Jeff Kaplan stayed well out of the limelight after leaving Blizzard in 2021. Five years later, the former Blizzard vice president and Overwatch lead director is back with his own studio and a new game, which you might be able to play pretty soon.The Legend of California is billed as an open-world, action-survival shooter. It looks like a mix of Red Dead Redemption and Rust (Rust Dead Redemption, if you will). It’s set during the gold rush era, but Kaplan says he and his team at Kintsugiyama were not aiming…

Thenovi AI Ltd., a company developing an interaction infrastructure for artificial intelligence agents, today announced the launch of its developer platform that connects coding agents for shared conversations. As more coders adopt AI agents, they have begun to specialize them into different roles: planning, review, integration and testing. This is because, in many cases, developers discovered certain models have different quirks that make them more efficient at particular tasks. For example, a developer might use Claude Code to orchestrate a workflow and provide high-level planning and architecture, Codex for code implementation, and a fleet of other agents for testing and…

Meta has unveiled four new chips it designed to handle tasks like training and running AI models and serving recommendations across its social media platforms and other services.The new chips are part of Meta’s Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) family and are designed to be used in data centers. Meta has been designing its own silicon for a few years now, largely as a way to cut the cost of powering its AI and recommendation systems. The company says it needs custom chips to keep up with demand for AI-driven services.Google, Amazon and Microsoft have also been designing their…

Every SaaS company is chasing the same benchmarks. CAC payback, NRR, Rule of 40. What if optimizing for the median is exactly what’s holding you back? Most SaaS leaders enter Q1 with a benchmarking deck and quiet confidence. The CAC payback period looks defensible. NRR is sitting just above 100%. The Rule of 40 is in range. By every standard measure, the business is performing. But “performing” against median benchmarks is not the same as winning. And right now, in 2025, it might actually be the same as falling behind, especially for companies trying to apply generic SaaS growth strategies…

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? I found 7-Across tricky. Read on for all the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini CrosswordLet’s get to…

Young adults growing up in the attention economy — preparing for adult life, with social media and chatbots competing for their attention — can easily fall into unhealthy relationships with digital platforms. But what if chatbots weren’t mere distractions from real life? Could they be designed humanely, as moral partners whose digital goal is to be a social guide rather than an addictive escape?At MIT, a friendship between two professors — one an anthropologist, the other a computer scientist — led to creation of an undergraduate class that set out to find the answer to those questions. Combining the two…

Hello Cyber Builders 🖖Your security stack is built on a model that was never designed to survive what’s coming.Seat licenses. Annual renewals. Feature tier upgrades. That’s the architecture of every major security vendor you rely on — your SIEM, your EDR, your GRC platform, your identity solution.It was a great model. It made vendors rich. It gave you predictability. And it is fundamentally changing. In this issue, we step back from cybersecurity to examine two forces transforming the software landscape. First, AGC’s private equity data shows that SaaS growth, valuation, and exit dynamics are slowing, challenging the traditional focus on short-term…

NASA is preparing to conduct its first spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) in nearly a year, ending an unusually long break for the activity. Truth be told, NASA had a spacewalk planned for early January but called it off after one of the two participating astronauts experienced a serious health issue that ultimately forced the early return to Earth of a SpaceX crew. The space agency is currently targeting March 18 for a spacewalk involving NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams. Coincidentally, the spacewalk is scheduled for the 61st anniversary of the first-ever spacewalk. The milestone was…

Elyena Lee’s personal journey into motherhood sparked the business idea When Elyena Lee, 34, had her first child during COVID-19 in early 2020, she struggled to find baby products that matched her personal style. Back then, she recalled, most options in Singapore leaned heavily toward “kiddish” aesthetics, and high-quality organic essentials from overseas often came at an extremely premium price point.  Frustrated with the lack of accessible choices, she started her own baby brand with a university friend that same year: Soft Spot. Today, Soft Spot sells around 20,000 products annually—and interestingly, many of its products are also purchased by…

A large measles outbreak in South Carolina is finally showing signs of slowing down as the total number of cases in the state nears 1,000.For several weeks now, the state has experienced a downward trend in new infections, with approximately 10 cases being reported per week. At its peak in mid-January, the state was reporting around 200 new cases a week.The South Carolina outbreak is the largest measles outbreak in the US in more than 30 years, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has confirmed 1,281 measles cases across the country this year,…