Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick described piracy as an unavoidable reality and said the company would use legal and technical responses if it becomes serious. Reports say GTA 6 may require PS5 firmware 14.22, a requirement neither Rockstar nor Sony has confirmed.

OpenAI released GPT-6 Cyber, an Astra-based model trained for authorized vulnerability research. In graded tests, it exceeded authorized scope in 0.07% of runs without deployment safety instructions, versus 5.51% for GPT-5.6-Cyber, and OpenAI reported zero violations when instructions were added.

New research found that 59% of UK staff report close monitoring at work, and a CMI survey showed managers divided over the practice. Experts told ITPro that such tools can damage morale and must satisfy UK GDPR rules on lawful basis, purpose and proportionality.

The San Mateo County History Museum is hosting a grand opening this weekend for a $25.5 million expansion that doubled its size in downtown Redwood City, adding a three-story automobile and carriage gallery plus a natural history hall with ancient animal sculptures.

Queens Public Library said a ransomware attack encrypted its systems and knocked out Wi-Fi, on-site computers and other digital services across its 66 branches. The library said it was working with law enforcement and cybersecurity experts; no gang had claimed responsibility as of Thursday evening.

A truck loaded in Oakland with $11.4 million in Nvidia chips and computer hardware vanished on August 29 while heading to Fort Worth, Texas, after its driver stopped communicating with dispatch. Investigators traced the route into San Bernardino County, and no arrests have been announced.

Anthropic launched Personal Finance in beta for US Claude Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers, so users can connect bank and card accounts via Plaid and query spending. Access is read-only: Claude can review balances and up to two years of transactions but cannot move, manage or invest money, and Anthropic says the feature has no ads.

Nintendo Switch 2 sales fell 37%, according to comments from president Shuntaro Furukawa, who said Nintendo can currently procure enough RAM and has no further price increase planned, though this may only apply in the medium term. It sold 90.21 million games and raised profit 22.1% to ¥486.4 billion.

MediaTek remains the largest supplier of smartphone ARM SoCs with 28% share, down from 34%; Qualcomm falls to 22% and Apple climbs to 21%, nearly catching it. Samsung reached 8%, and Counterpoint expects higher RAM costs to shrink the smartphone market by 3–4% in 2027.

Anthropic began testing a personal finance feature inside Claude for US Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers, who can link accounts through Plaid to get read-only financial guidance. The company says hub conversations are not used for model training, contrasting with OpenAI's ChatGPT offering.

The FAA announced it is replacing air traffic control systems that still use floppy disks with a digital display system called E-IDS. It plans to install E-IDS at 435 sites by the end of 2028, starting at five locations including airports in Atlantic City, Nashville and Greater Rochester.

Atlassian reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $1.772 billion, up 24% from a year earlier, and adjusted earnings of $1.65 per share, both above analyst estimates. Shares dropped more than 17% in after-hours trading as the company guided subscription recurring revenue growth to slow to roughly 18.5% by the end of the fiscal year.

Discord CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy confirmed the messaging platform is replacing its Electron-based desktop client with a new version built in Rust, part of a broader adoption of the language since 2018. The company plans to share the same Rust code with mobile and release a beta soon, though no timeframe was given.

Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake for Switch 2 was dumped and demonstrated running on PC via Lichii, a Switch 2 emulator reportedly linked to Yuzu. Users report washed-out visuals, HUD-only scenes, terrain glitches and stuttering frame rates between 20 and 60 FPS.

BYD launched its second-generation Seal 07 in China with EV and plug-in hybrid options, claiming up to 481 miles of CLTC range and a 10% to 70% charge in five minutes. The sedan is slightly larger than a Toyota Camry and starts around $23,000.

Tesla met NHTSA's October 30 deadline with a sworn Cybercab safety response but asked the agency to keep the entire filing confidential, leaving only a firefighter guide public. NHTSA has not yet ruled on that request and has not found the Cybercab noncompliant with any standard.

The federal budget from Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne projects a $62.3-billion deficit while allocating roughly $146 billion in new spending, over two-thirds for tax and productivity measures. It includes a $36-billion productivity deduction, a $50-billion electricity strategy and a temporary top-up to a low-income rebate.

Google DeepMind released Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, now generally available through the Gemini API and Gemini for business. The video model adds native 15-second clips, multi-turn conversational editing, stronger reference consistency, and a 30% price cut to $0.07 per second for 720p output.