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Skydance CEO David Ellison and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz told staff in an Oct. 26 memo that the company is launching a Voluntary Buyout Program for eligible employees as it merges Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. The same memo imposes a mandatory five-day-a-week in-office policy companywide, with layoffs still expected as Skydance pursues over $6 billion in annualized cost savings within three years.
The horror-tinged DC film 'Clayface' debuted as the top-grossing movie at the domestic box office this past weekend, beating out other new and holdover releases. Specific revenue figures were not detailed in the source report.
Denmark's former Ministry of Digitization has reportedly ended a pilot program that had 38 employees using the open-source Collabora suite instead of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. The trial, launched in 2025 by then-minister Caroline Stage to reduce reliance on American technology, wound down before February 2026, with staff citing formatting, blank page, and track-changes problems.
A 38-person pilot at Denmark's digitalization ministry testing Collabora, an open-source office suite integrated with cBrain's F2 case-handling system, has ended without adoption. Internal records obtained by Ingeniøren show testers faced persistent formatting bugs, missing fonts, blank documents and printing errors, and no staff currently use the replacement software.
Politico reports the Defense Department has spent months assembling a new agency, internally called the Technology Support Office (TSO), by merging two smaller classified intelligence programs running since 2023. The unit is designed to help disrupt or sabotage foreign technology programs seen as threats to U.S. military superiority, though it lacks legal authority to conduct clandestine operations itself. Politico says it interviewed 12 current and former national security officials, since TSO is barely documented in public Pentagon records.
Travis Knight, director of the 'Masters of the Universe' film, has voiced disappointment with how Amazon handled the movie's rollout to audiences. He suggests the studio's approach fell short regardless of whether viewers watched in theaters or at home.
Linux kernel maintainers have decided to remove the requirement that patches created with help from large language models carry an 'Assisted-by' tag in the changelog. Instead, developers agreed that information about AI involvement in a patch should go into the cover letter rather than the permanent changelog record.
Microsoft is increasing its return-to-office mandate for Xbox employees within 50 commuting miles of its Puget Sound campus from three to four days a week, effective February 1, 2027. The change was announced in an internal memo from Xbox chief people officer Jacinda Chislum Pearson, who cited employee feedback and a desire for more in-person collaboration. Employees with existing remote-work exemptions will need to reapply for them.
A new documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, titled 'You Can See Everything,' drew thousands of sellout showings during its opening weekend in U.S. theaters. It ran despite a crowded box office that included Paramount's 'Street Fighter' reboot, which took the top spot with $31 million from 3,575 theaters.
Director James Cameron publicly acknowledged 'Avengers: Endgame' for surpassing 'Avatar' as the top-grossing film. Cameron's comments framed the achievement as a milestone worth celebrating rather than a rivalry.
Microsoft now primarily sells Office through its Microsoft 365 subscription rather than one-time purchases, with a standalone license available for $180 but limited to one PC. The Family subscription plan includes 1TB of cloud storage per user, but Microsoft has added AI features to its plans and raised prices without an option to opt out of AI tools.
Estonia has released the source code for IVXV, its online voting platform, in a public repository for review. The maintainers say the repository mirrors the exact code used in legally binding elections, though it is not used for active development. Actual development is overseen by Estonia's State Electoral Office, which directs further inquiries to valimised.ee.