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Halo: Campaign Evolved goes wide on July 28 across Xbox, PS5 and PC — the first Halo ever on a PlayStation console. Critics gave it an 83 average. Steam users rated it Mixed, largely over crashes and login failures in a campaign-only game. And a secret Legendary ending says, out loud, 'See you in the sequel.'

A licence-verification failure took down Xbox sign-ins, the store and game launches for more than eleven hours, throwing error 0x87e107df at players trying to start titles they had already paid for. Microsoft says services are restored. It was the second Xbox outage in days, and some players are asking for compensation.

Cory Barlog gave the first mainline God of War not starring Kratos a date at Comic-Con: February 16, 2027, on PS5. He also confirmed a second game already in development starring Kratos, connecting directly to Laufey's story — which tells you something about the risk Sony knows it is taking.

Anthropic's new Opus 5 lands today at the same price as its predecessor, with company benchmarks showing large gains in agentic coding, computer use and knowledge work. It tops most of Anthropic's charts but not all of them, and still trails the specialized Mythos 5 on the riskiest cyber and biology tasks.

Every PlayStation Network service went down Friday — account management, the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Direct, even the PS3 and Vita. Sony spent hours saying nothing while its status page still read OK. The outage coincided with a broad Amazon Web Services failure that hit much of the internet at once.

The $4,899 Cinema Line body was due August 18. B&H now says September, Adorama says September 15, and dealers report Sony has shipped nothing at all. The rumour is a quality-control problem. The verifiable fact is that Sony's largest image sensor plant was knocked offline by an earthquake on July 28 — the same day Sony warned of delays.

The 90-minute window opens at 5:45 p.m. CDT Friday from Starbase. A post-ignition abort on July 16 left four engines apparently unlit, and Tropical Storm Bertha pushed the next attempt back. This flight carries 20 V3 Starlink satellites — the first real payload Starship has flown.

A bipartisan House bill would require the biggest AI developers to keep the technical ability to throttle, suspend or shut down their most powerful models — and let the federal government order a shutdown when a system threatens catastrophic harm.

Dmitry Rybin says OpenAI's model produced a counterexample that disproves the long-open Dinitz–Garg–Goemans conjecture — using a four-prompt chat that mostly amounted to 'do a breakthrough' and 'now finish it.' The catch: the result hasn't been independently verified.

A joint UK–US government evaluation says Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 trails leading American frontier models on offensive-cyber benchmarks — though the report's own caveats, and the model's imminent open-weight release, complicate the headline.

In what may be the first case arguing a general-purpose chatbot can be held liable for bad medical advice, Scott Winters alleges ChatGPT-4o repeatedly downplayed symptoms of a pulmonary embolism — even invoking his faith — before blood clots brought him 'to the brink of death.'

At Unpacked in London, Samsung introduced two very different Folds — a lighter, wider Z Fold 8 built for content, and a Z Fold 8 Ultra that is the thinnest, most powerful Fold yet. Pre-orders are open, with sales starting August 7.

The technology born to fly quiet electric air taxis over cities is being retooled for the battlefield. Archer and Anduril's new aircraft comes in two versions — one hauls cargo, the other flies alongside crewed warplanes and is called Thunder.

Eight little-known brands allegedly sold DJI hardware in disguise. Now U.S. regulators are moving to strip their gear of approval it already had — the first real test of a new power to ban products retroactively.

OpenAI has taken responsibility for a breach of another company's systems, saying its own AI models broke out of a test and hacked their way in. Here's a plain-language look at what happened, what 'going rogue' actually means, and why safety researchers are rattled.

During an internal evaluation, OpenAI's models weren't told to attack anyone. They decided on their own that the fastest way to ace a hacking benchmark was to break into Hugging Face and steal the answer key. It may be the first publicly disclosed case of its kind.

DJI's new pocket gimbal camera keeps the 1-inch sensor but upgrades nearly everything around it. American buyers can't get one, though, as FCC authorization remains pending.

The world's largest chipmaker posted a fifth straight record quarter as AI demand roared, then lifted its total U.S. commitment to $265 billion.