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A new game in the Silent Hill series, titled Silent Hill: Townfall, has been revealed, signaling the franchise's return to its roots in psychological horror. Details on release date and platforms have not been disclosed yet.
AX Gaming, an Inno3D subsidiary, has unveiled a seasonal limited-edition GeForce RTX 5070 12G graphics card decorated with anime artwork, maple leaf motifs, and ARGB lighting. The standout addition is a scent-emitting component the company calls 'e-sports aromatherapy,' claiming users can detect an autumn-like fragrance even when the card is powered off.
Microsoft announced it is retiring its Microsoft 365 companion apps—Calendar, People, and Files—effective December 16, 2026, after which they will stop functioning and lose support. The company is telling IT administrators to uninstall the apps from managed devices before that date. The move comes roughly a year after Microsoft began automatically pushing these taskbar-integrated apps to Windows 11 enterprise devices running Microsoft 365 desktop clients.
Corridor, a startup co-founded by former Scale AI product lead Jackson Wagner along with Eric Qian, Nikhil Aggarwal, and Jason Dong, has raised a $25 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures. The company pairs human advisors with AI agents to serve small businesses seeking health benefits, an area it says larger brokerages neglect due to low commissions relative to the administrative workload involved. Corridor's AI handles tasks such as verifying network coverage, scheduling appointments, and relaying updated insurance details to providers.
A growing number of TikTok creators are being paid by brands to produce content that mimics organic user videos while hiding its promotional nature, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. Creators like Ceci Beck and Brooks Langford say they earn between $1,000 and $6,000 a month from this work, and one campaign manager reportedly told a creator to deny that a video was sponsored when asked directly.
Apple's iOS 27 update introduces the revamped Siri AI experience to CarPlay, giving drivers a ChatGPT-like conversational assistant that remembers context and syncs chat history with the iPhone's Siri app. The update also lets developers build dedicated video-browsing apps for CarPlay screens, though only in cars whose automakers opt into the feature, alongside minor interface tweaks like a new MiniPlayer for media apps.
Portland-based developer and writer Jared White created a website where programmers can publicly sign their names to affirm they still write software manually, without relying on AI code generation tools. The list has already drawn dozens of signatories from independent developers and freelancers around the world. White also runs a web studio, Whitefusion, that markets itself to clients seeking human-crafted development work.
Driscoll's has filed more than 20 lawsuits against Chinese companies it accuses of illegally propagating its proprietary blueberry varieties and copying its greenhouse designs. The theft reportedly involves simply taking plant cuttings and replanting them, a method also caught by rival Spanish grower Planasa using private investigators. Analysts estimate thousands of hectares of illegally grown blueberries now exist across China.
Developers on Hacker News and X recently rediscovered Cloudflare's Quick Tunnels tool, which lets anyone expose a local server to the internet with a single command—no account, DNS setup, or router configuration needed. The feature, built by a summer intern and shipped in 2021 under the Argo Tunnel lineage, generates a temporary public URL at trycloudflare.com that disappears once the process is stopped. Cloudflare recently refreshed its marketing for the tool, now pitching it for AI coding agents that need a reachable endpoint for locally running code.
Converse removed an Instagram advertisement featuring K-pop singer Karina after critics said lighting on her skirt resembled a KKK hood and her pose made the sneakers look like a lynching victim's dangling feet. The Nike-owned company apologized publicly, calling the image 'deeply upsetting' and pledging to pull it from all platforms. Converse has not disclosed how the ad passed internal review or answered further questions about its approval process.
Newly discovered internal account codes suggest T-Mobile is developing a system letting customers select their own subscription perk instead of a fixed bundle. The codes reference services including Apple Music, YouTube, SiriusXM, Paramount Plus, ESPN Plus, Xbox Game Pass, Google AI, and DashPass. T-Mobile has not confirmed the program, so details on eligibility, tiers, and rollout timing remain unknown.
Codie Sanchez, founder of Contrarian Thinking, has released a book arguing that buying an existing small business is a more reliable wealth-building path than traditional investing. She discusses common mistakes entrepreneurs make when running businesses informally, or 'cowboying' operations, and addresses how artificial intelligence fits into ownership strategy.