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Reuters sources say a consortium of Silver Lake Partners and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has approached Unity Software with a roughly $25 billion acquisition offer, made weeks before Unity's Q3 earnings. Unity is said to be weighing the proposal and has retained an investment bank, though no deal had been reached as of November 6, and neither side has confirmed the report.
GitHub published a changelog entry for a release titled 'Flawless UI-UX Skill 1.0.0,' part of its ongoing log of feature, improvement, and fix updates across its products. The entry does not provide further detail on the specific contents of this release.
Motorola has pushed a new software update to the Razr Fold (2026) that brings the October 2026 security patch, after the device had been stuck on August's patch. The update, confirmed via builds spotted on Reddit for both unlocked and Verizon models, does not include Android 17, leaving the foldable on Android 16 even as cheaper Motorola phones like the Edge 60 Fusion and Edge 60 Pro run the newer OS.
Veeam issued an advisory warning that its Linux-based Software Appliance virtual machines for Backup & Replication can intermittently fail to boot on hosts using certain AMD EPYC processors, including the 7262, 7302 and 7F72 models. The failure stems from a jitterentropy health check run during early boot in FIPS mode, which can fail on these chips and trigger a kernel panic, halting startup. The issue affects Software Appliance version 13.1 and later, and can recur after reboots or kernel-updating patches.
A former software product manager argues that companies should regularly audit their products, asking whether customer needs have shifted, what changes are warranted, and whether some products should be retired entirely. The author warns that simply adding features without removing outdated ones is a common mistake.
Palantir reported third-quarter revenue of $2.31 billion, up 96% year over year and ahead of analyst estimates, with adjusted earnings per share of $0.44. U.S. commercial revenue hit $984 million, edging past U.S. government revenue of $953 million for the first time, driven by enterprises adopting its AI software. CEO Alex Karp told analysts that commercial customers are now signing shorter-duration contracts that move faster to deployment before later expanding.
The New York Times and other newspaper publishers filed suit against Brave Software in federal court in New York, alleging the browser company scrapes copyrighted articles, bypasses paywalls, and resells the content through its search index and API to AI firms including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. The complaint estimates Brave has earned over $100 million from this activity while publishers received no compensation, and it alleges direct, contributory and vicarious copyright infringement plus DMCA violations for circumventing paywall protections.
ZeBridge is a new system that keeps a local PostgreSQL replica on each device, queues writes made offline, and syncs them through NATS once connectivity returns, with PostgreSQL remaining the final authority on conflicts. It targets multi-tenant B2B operational apps like fleets, depots and field teams rather than consumer apps, and offers a live demo plus a Docker Compose quickstart for testing.
A newly launched site called HackerChurn analyzes public Hacker News comments from the past three years to identify which software products users criticize most often. It lists 101 platforms that met a threshold of at least three complaints across two separate threads, totaling 1,551 negative comments, and notes 139 instances where commenters said they built their own replacement. Each complaint is linked back to its original Hacker News comment, with counts updated nightly using AI labeling.
Gearbox Software announced that its Borderlands series has sold more than 100 million copies total since launch, a milestone reached roughly a year after Borderlands 4 debuted on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC in September 2025. The latest game has received a year of post-launch content, including two story packs, five bounty packs, two new vault hunters, and additional features.
A software engineer writing under the 'clanker' label describes insisting on fully reviewing code generated by AI coding tools before shipping it, rather than trusting it blindly. The author says accountability for production failures rests with the human whose name is on the pull request, not the AI tool that wrote the code.
Abrigo took its Sageworks lending platform offline on October 30 after detecting irregular activity in its systems, affecting Online Portal Now, Sageworks Analyst, and Sageworks API. The company has since restored most functionality, though borrower-facing features remain unavailable, and it has not disclosed whether the incident involved a data breach.