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Playground Games will bring Forza Horizon 6 to PlayStation 5 on January 26, slightly later than its originally planned 2025 window. The PS5 release will include a Premium Edition option with early access, and will launch alongside the game's first expansion.
Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, the three OpenAI safety researchers fired last week for allegedly sharing confidential information with an outside AI safety organization, have published an open letter rejecting OpenAI's account of their dismissal. Addressed to OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee, Safety Advisory Group, and Mission Advisory Council, the letter argues their termination was executed and communicated abruptly, leaving colleagues afraid to collaborate with outside experts as they previously did.
A new retrospective revisits Brian De Palma's 1974 cult film 'Phantom of the Paradise,' which follows a composer transformed into a monstrous figure after the music industry steals and exploits his work. The piece argues the film represents the creative peak of the horror-musical genre, a hybrid rarely attempted since.
Director Alex Gibney has released a four-part documentary titled 'Musk' examining the life and career of Elon Musk, running roughly four hours in total. A review describes the film as engaging but prone to hyperbole in its portrayal of the tech entrepreneur.
Let's Encrypt will cut the default lifespan of its free SSL/TLS certificates from 90 to 64 days starting February 10, 2027, with a testing phase opening October 14, 2026 for admins to trial the change. The certificate authority also plans a further reduction to 45-day defaults in 2028.
California is set to pass an emergency regulation this month banning quartz countertops containing more than 1% crystalline silica, according to a New York Times report. The rule targets a material linked to silicosis, an incurable and potentially fatal lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust released during cutting or drilling.
A federal jury sided with Alek Schott in his lawsuit against Bexar County and its sheriff, awarding him $76—one dollar for each minute he was detained. Schott was pulled over in March 2022 on a pretextual claim of lane drifting, but the real trigger was a WhatsApp tip from a contact with access to automated license plate reader data, who flagged his travel pattern as suspicious.
Electronics billionaire Barre Seid, 94, has reportedly continued paying workers to feed animals in a Chicago park despite fines and official warnings. Critics say the practice has drawn large numbers of rats, and officials have labeled the situation a public health hazard.
A San Francisco software engineer went viral after sharing that he lets a chatbot read stories to his baby, remarking that 'parenting hits different when you work in AI.' The post has fueled online discussion about the growing role of AI tools in everyday parenting tasks, alongside a cited survey finding that 90% of parents say AI makes raising children easier.
Lettering artist Jessica Hische designed the icon and logotype for Meta's new AI assistant Muse and announced the project in her newsletter, acknowledging that people have strong feelings about both AI and Meta. The post drew sharp criticism from fellow designers on Threads, some of whom accused her of selling out, scrutinized her finances, and posted images of her home.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced an agency-wide initiative under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. focused on identifying vaccine-related injuries. The plan includes a new NIH clinic for patients reporting post-vaccination health problems, which quietly opened October 5 with Kennedy in attendance, plus a proposal to pay doctors for submitting reports to the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin publicly supported researcher Justin Drake's call for the crypto industry to prepare for 'bunker mode,' a gradual migration of funds to new wallets whose public keys remain hidden. Drake's warning followed OpenAI's release of hundreds of new mathematical findings and a separate project where 10,000 AI agents solved the Navier-Stokes equation in 88 hours, prompting fears that elliptic curve cryptography securing wallets could be broken by advanced AI before quantum computers pose a threat.