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Call of Duty's Activision to make next Halo game as Xbox cuts more jobs
The news comes as part of a "reset" announced by Xbox in July, with 3,600 planned job losses overall.

Windows 11’s audio bugs won’t be fixed until October
Microsoft is still busy addressing the damage caused by updates released on September’s Patch Tuesday. The Windows audio issues in particular are proving stubborn and still remain unresolved. Don’t expect a fix soon, as Microsoft doesn’t intend to fix Windows 11’s audio issues until October’s Patch Tuesday. Until then, affected Windows...

Manhattan launches tiered Editions for growing firms
Growing firms will be able to add supply chain functions without reimplementation, as Manhattan's tiered software model targets easier scaling.

Honeywell flags OT cybersecurity visibility gap in industry
Incomplete asset inventories are leaving industrial operators exposed, with only 21% able to track every OT system despite 88% calling programmes mature.

Akamai warns of blind spots in workplace agentic AI
More than 40% of enterprise users have installed AI browser tools, leaving security teams struggling to spot permission changes and rogue agents.

Sir Sean Connery's family plans new filmmaking centre in Edinburgh
It will be named after the James Bond actor, who worked as a milkman in the Scottish capital before becoming a Hollywood star.

I’ve loved Razer’s weird little half-keyboard for 20 years. Cut the cord already
The year is 2007. After two semesters of watching my college roommate play PC games on his laptop while I devoured Smash Bros. Brawl and Twilight Princess on the Wii U, I was ready to jump into PC gaming. But a decade plus of controllers made a mouse and keyboard...

Can you take the 'London' out of London Fashion Week?
An initiative to show that LFW is "bigger than London" launched this year - but will it make a difference?

Want your laptop battery to last for years? Avoid these 9 mistakes
One of the most frustrating aspects of an aging laptop is how the battery life diminishes. Even super-long-lasting laptops eventually decay, and what once lasted a full day starts needing a charge before the work day ends. Before long, you’re using it plugged in all the time. But it doesn’t have...

Tim Westwood charged with two more sexual offences
The alleged sexual offences date back to 1991 and 2004.

Olas says new forecasting model matches GPT-4.1 benchmark
Forecasting error fell by about a fifth after Olas trained an open-weight model on 214,529 real prediction-market records.

Ugreen DXP4800 GT review: This Ryzen NAS makes 10GbE affordable
At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Two 10GbE ports, which can be aggregated via link aggregation Four SATA bays, two of which also accommodate U.2 SSDs RAM upgradeable to 64GB; ECC modules supported Metal chassis, magnetic dust filter, quiet fan UGOS Pro with Docker, VMs, and AI photo search Cons Full volume encryption not available Only 8GB of DDR4 installed...

Windows’ September update breaks File History. The fix is a rollback
Many users who have installed the latest September security patches for Windows have found that the “File History” feature no longer works—deleted or corrupted files can no longer be recovered. File History automatically saves copies of files, allowing users to recover accidentally deleted or corrupted files using older versions that were...

Watch: ‘Disgraceful’ moment Indian cricketers ‘bullied umpire’ to avoid all-time upset
Japan, who are the ICC’s 41st-ranked team in the format, put up a serious fight in the run-chase that went down to the wire at Sano Cricket Ground.

Harper Lee first edition novel found in Oxfam shop
An original US edition of To Kill a Mockingbird is found in an Oxfam store in west London.