Epic Games introduced Epic Parties, a voice chat system that works across Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, and the Epic Games app, regardless of the hardware players use. Users can start a call in one app and carry it seamlessly into another, and the chat can keep running in the background while playing other titles or using mobile devices. Accepting an Epic Party invite also automatically groups friends into the same Fortnite lobby.
Karyann Parkinson, a law student in Williamsburg, Virginia, let her 5-year-old son Sam walk roughly half a mile alone to a nearby pond within their gated community, a route he had safely traveled many times before. A passerby reported the child to security, triggering a police and Child Protective Services response that led to charges against Parkinson. A judge convicted her last week of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a first-degree misdemeanor carrying a six-month suspended jail sentence, and CPS placed her on the state's child abuse registry for seven years.
Claude experienced a widespread outage on September 3, 2026, with many users reporting they could not access the AI assistant starting around 10:02 AM ET. Anthropic confirmed by 12:27 PM ET that the issue had been fixed and all models were back to normal operation.
A newly published Entrepreneur op-ed identifies five recurring operational strains that emerge as small businesses expand, drawing on a Federal Reserve Small Business Credit Survey and a Robert Half hiring survey. The piece argues these pressures—hiring shortfalls, slower customer response, cash flow constraints, breaking systems, and diluted culture—consistently surface once a company moves from a small team to a larger one. It frames these not as reasons to avoid growth but as predictable hurdles that leaders can prepare for in advance.
Ruba Borno, who leads AWS's Global Specialists and Partners organization, is using AI agents to run her own team's operations while also guiding AWS customers on how to integrate AI into their businesses. Her approach treats internal adoption as a demonstration of the practices she recommends to clients seeking to apply AI advances for measurable business results.
Aesto LLC, which runs Aesto Health's data migration and archiving service for healthcare providers, revealed that an unauthorized actor accessed its AWS infrastructure between December 2 and 18, 2025. The breach, confirmed internally on May 26 after forensic review, exposed sensitive records for over 9.5 million people including Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and medical information tied to 29 healthcare clients such as VillageMD and Together Women's Health.
A new NBER working paper examines how New York City's congestion relief zone, launched January 5, 2025, affected emergency medical service response near the toll boundary at 60th Street. Using half a million EMS dispatch records and traffic camera data, researchers found hospital transport times fell by 54-59 seconds and total EMS travel time dropped by roughly 63-70 seconds within a 5-kilometer band around the zone's edge.
Entrepreneur magazine, working with Statista, is collecting recommendations from founders, startup employees, investors and service providers about their favorite business tools and services across finance, legal, HR, marketing, product and tech support. The findings will be compiled into a ranking of the most valued startup resources, to be published in an upcoming issue of Entrepreneur magazine.
A new essay traces how media mogul Steve Ross built his fortune not through glamorous entertainment deals but by acquiring a series of mundane businesses—limousine rentals, parking lots, cleaning services, and building trades—before rolling them into Kinney Services and eventually using that platform to acquire Warner Bros. The piece highlights the overlooked, unglamorous groundwork that preceded his transformation into one of America's best-paid executives, earning $78 million in 1990.
Berlin's government has been hit by a hacking incident in which attackers are reportedly demanding a ransom, according to Mayor Kai Wegner. Wegner said state police, prosecutors and federal security agencies are urgently investigating who is behind the breach and determining what data was compromised.
The European Commission classified ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms after each surpassed 45 million average monthly EU users. This designation subjects all three to the Digital Services Act's toughest compliance requirements, joining 28 other services already under this heightened oversight.
The European Commission classified OpenAI's ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox as very large online platforms under the Digital Services Act after each surpassed 45 million monthly EU users. This status brings tougher requirements including removing illegal content and safeguarding minors' privacy and security, with a deadline of end of December to comply.
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