GTA VI launches 19 November on PS5 and Xbox: pre-load from 12 November, $79.99, no PC date

Binance says $6.3 billion theft began with a fake job interview and a poisoned coding test

Binance says hackers the FBI links to North Korea took about $6.3 billion on 29 October after months of work: a tampered installer in June, a fake recruiter and coding test in September, and an internal AI tool on 20 October. About 98% of losses are replaced.

Prateek Rawat•4 hours ago5 min

DeepSeek reportedly plans 160,000 Huawei Ascend chips and V5 training on them; Arm slides on AI chip worries

DeepSeek plans at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips at a roughly 1 GW Inner Mongolia site and reportedly aims to start pre-training V5 on them from late 2026, say unconfirmed reports. Arm shares fell about 14% in two sessions to 2 November after Intel's weak outlook.

Subhash Gupta•18 hours ago5 min

GTA VI is 16 days away: teen survey says 7 in 10 console owners plan to buy; 45 million launch sales seen

With Grand Theft Auto VI due on 19 November for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, a Piper Sandler survey of about 9,000 teens says about seven in 10 console owners plan to buy it. The firm sees launch sales above 45 million units and kept its $290 target on Take-Two, whose shares rose about 1.5% premarket.

Prateek Rawat•1 day ago4 min

Apple posts record quarter under Ternus: $114.5 billion revenue, iPhone $57.6 billion; margin guidance weak

Apple reported fiscal Q4 revenue of $114.48 billion, up 12%, and EPS of $2.10, both above estimates, in its first results under CEO John Ternus. iPhone revenue was $57.58 billion and Mac rose almost 24%. Shares slipped after hours as Apple guided December gross margin to 45-46% on memory costs.

Subhash Gupta•1 day ago5 min

Apple reports fiscal Q4 results today, Ternus's first as CEO: what to watch as memory costs squeeze margins

Apple reports fiscal Q4 results after the US close on 2 November, its first under CEO John Ternus. Analysts expect revenue of about $113.4 billion, up 10.7%, and EPS of $1.99, with memory-chip costs pushing gross margin guidance to 47–48%. Services growth could be the slowest in over three years.

Amita Sahani•1 day ago2 min

Valve admits Steam has an 'AI slop' and cloning problem but says it won't police which tools developers use

Valve's Steam team acknowledged in an interview at Steam Indie Connect in South Korea that low-quality and cloned games, many built with AI tools, are flooding the store, especially during Next Fest. It will not restrict tools and plans better discovery instead. No new rule was announced.

Reyaansh Agarawal•2 days ago2 min

EA pauses Sims spin-off Project Rene to focus on Project Evergreen, reported rework of The Sims 4

EA has paused Project Rene, the online-focused Sims spin-off announced in 2022, to concentrate on Project Evergreen, per an internal email reported on 21 October. Evergreen is reported to be a reworked, single-player-leaning Sims project. A 2027 release target is an unconfirmed insider claim.

Subhash Gupta•2 days ago2 min

DeepSeek releases open-source 'Super-Agent' prototype to rival Claude Code; it watches developer chats

DeepSeek's Harness team released a prototype of Super-Agent, an open-source coding agent aimed at Anthropic's Claude Code, which can monitor developer group chats and suggest fixes unprompted. It was announced on WeChat; DeepSeek warns sessions run with full access and advises a separate OS account.

Amita Sahani•2 days ago2 min

Bungie: 'In no way is the Destiny plan contingent upon Marathon'; fans told not to buy it as a donation

Bungie's Head of Product, Josh Deane, said on 30 October that Destiny's plans do not depend on Marathon and told players not to buy Marathon as a donation, after a 29 October update was read as tying the two. Marathon: Symbiosis is due in December and the next big Destiny update in February.

Amita Sahani•3 days ago2 min

Path of Exile 2 leaves early access on 11 December: free to play on PC, PlayStation and Xbox

Path of Exile 2 reaches version 1.0 on 11 December 2026, ending early access, and will be free to play on PC, PlayStation and Xbox. The sword-using Duelist class is expected at launch. Registrants get microtransaction codes after launch; ExileCon is on 7 and 8 November.

Amita Sahani•3 days ago2 min

Tampered Claude Code extension on Cursor's marketplace carried SSH backdoor; up to 5,000 users may be affected

A trojanized Claude Code extension, version 2.1.313, was served on Cursor's marketplace on 29 October for about 11 hours, with a loader that adds an SSH key and persistence. Cursor says at most 5,000 users were affected and Anthropic did not write it; a clean 2.1.314 is out.

Prateek Rawat•3 days ago3 min

Death Stranding Isolations: Kojima's hand-drawn animated series gets first teaser, streams on Disney+ in 2027

Kojima Productions showed the first teaser of Death Stranding Isolations, a hand-drawn 2D animated series streaming on Disney+ in 2027, at its 10th-anniversary event in Tokyo on 30 October. It tells a new story set just after the first game, directed by Takayuki Sano.

Subhash Gupta•3 days ago2 min