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Curator-turned-publisher Pantaloon has unleashed a subscription service that fans of indie games might be interested in digging into. The Playbill is a take on Xbox Game Pass, albeit one that focuses on “bold and bizarre” titles.  The initial lineup features third-party games such as Buckshot Roulette, Silt, Ex Sanguis and Cabin Factory. Those sit alongside Pantaloon’s own games: Sub-Verge, Occlude, It Takes a War, Boxroom, Rolla and the delightful music creation sim Offbeat. Much like Game Pass offers first-party Xbox titles (save for new Call of Duty offerings) to subscribers on day one, the Playbill will gain all of Pantaloon’s…

Swiss robotics startup Enact Intelligence today announced that it has raised $30 million in pre-seed funding. The capital was provided by a consortium that included Yann LeCun, one of the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence researchers. He was joined by Mistral AI SAS Chief Executive Arthur Mensch, Hugging Face Inc. co-founder Thomas Wolf and several venture capital firms. Enact, officially Eta Robotics AG, was launched earlier this year by CEO Manuel Yves Galliker. The executive earlier held engineering roles at robotics startups Physical Intelligence Inc. and 1X Technologies AS. The Enact team also includes former employees of Google DeepMind, Amazon.com…

Buyers’ remorse has never been higher- stuck with soft metrics, they’ve ad impressions to show for pipeline performance. Even in the midst of this fiasco, what could be the top demand gen agencies doing right? You talk of awareness, and just maybe, your CEO will care that a video shared on your brand’s LinkedIn last week gained 1000 views and 300 likes. The content is performing well. But video views and social impressions rarely convert into bottom-line numbers. That’s the part they’ll ask you- how does this connect back to measurable outcomes? Marketing is already in a budget crunch, and…

There’s a reason Americans have cited energy costs as one of the biggest issues on their minds during this year’s elections: A new survey by Consumer Reports found that, among Americans who’ve lived in the same home for more than three years, the vast majority are paying more for energy now than three years ago — and it’s affecting their budgets. Three out of four surveyed families reported that the utility rate increases have resulted in strained household finances. Over a quarter of these US customers said their bills rose by 20 to 49%, while 6% of respondents reported rate…

The Nintendo Switch 2 has reportedly been jailbroken, and AI helped crack the code. Developer Sammy Hajhamid, aka pepsipu, used OpenAI’s Codex to help exploit the console, even modding Mario Kart World with the likes of Peter Griffin and Hatsune Miku. But before anyone celebrates an unlocked Nintendo playground, there’s a catch: the exploit is tethered, not a full-blown custom firmware jailbreak. AI helped crack the Switch 2, but it wasn’t a one-click job Pepsipu’s technical write-up describes a project that took roughly two weeks of work. Codex helped investigate vulnerabilities and develop parts of the exploit, while the developer…

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. According to quarterly results published by Blackbox Research, anxiety over jobs has jumped up to the highest level since the company started polling Singaporeans in 2023, with 21% of respondents considering it an important issue right now (up from a low of 13% in July last year). It’s not a surprise, as even the Ministry of Manpower acknowledged recently that slowdown in hiring is affecting both fresh graduates as well as older, retrenched workers looking for a new job. Both are seeing extended waiting times and fewer…

The internet’s mad scramble on Wednesday to patch a pair of critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a widely used web scripting language, was already too late to stop every attack, newly released details reveal.Wednesday’s release of fixes for two critical vulnerabilities in PHP caused administrators and security staff to race to identify and patch vulnerable websites and apps, while attackers inevitably reverse engineered the fixes to learn how to exploit the flaws. Some governments and other groups even proactively took key websites down in anticipation of the release, so they wouldn’t be targeted before they could apply the patches.But in addition…

Watchtower Labs co-founders, from left, Souren Aghajanyan, John Morman, and Akhil Iyer. (Watchtower Labs Photo) Watchtower Labs, a Bellevue, Wash.-based defense tech startup, emerged from stealth Wednesday with $35 million to build AI software that helps military planners make faster decisions about logistics and operations. Shield Capital and Conviction co-led the seed round, with participation from Founders Fund and In-Q-Tel, the investment arm that supports the U.S. intelligence community. It’s the first outside funding for Watchtower, which was incubated inside Shield. Watchtower was co-founded by CEO Akhil Iyer, a former Marine Corps infantry and special operations officer who said that…

Meta Platforms Inc. was ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties today after a jury found the company had misled its users on how it protects and uses their data. In what is one of the largest fines ever leveled against a tech giant, a jury in a Santa Fe, New Mexico, found the company guilty deceiving its users. The case, going back 10 years, is related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal when Meta was Facebook Inc. Following a two-week trial last month, the jury ruled against Meta, concluding that the company had committed 43 million violations of the state’s…

Incident response in a defense setting involves a hard tradeoff. If you fail to contain a genuine intrusion, the attacker can reach more systems. If you act too aggressively on an uncertain alert, you can take down an essential application or operational dependency. A security tool generating an alert does not make either outcome acceptable.Fidelis Network supports that decision through threat detection, investigation context, configurable security rules, and integration with response technologies. It supports preventive actions through applicable network, email, and web enforcement configurations, and it can share findings with other tools to coordinate response.The deployment details matter here. Passive…