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Gregg Mayles, the director of Sea of Thieves and designer on Donkey Kong Country, has announced that he's left Rare. News of Mayles' exit was first reported in July 2025 during a rash of layoffs and game cancellations across Xbox Games Studios, but the short poem he shared on X today makes it official.

With a 36-year tenure at the studio, Mayles saw its transition from an exclusive Nintendo


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American's new AI tool is promising, but it has its limitations that may frustrate travelers.
  • American Airlines built an AI tool that recommends vacations and flights based on specific prompts.
  • I like the tool, but it doesn't handle nuance well and suggests nonexistent flights and places.
  • Customers could use the tool as a research engine and

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There's hardly ever such a thing as truly free money. We pay for everything, in some way: with labor, with time, with suffering.

So getting a payment from a tech or social media settlement isn't exactly free — it's likely the company messed up in some way and it legitimately owes you that cash — but it certainly can feel like getting free money. And if you're already using the tech or platform


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National Guard soldiers are to assist five cities with their cyber defenses as part of a new US Army effort.
National Guard soldiers are to assist five cities with their cyber defenses as part of a new US Army effort.
  • The Army National Guard launched a pilot program to defend cities from cyberattacks.
  • US cities have experienced crippling cyberattacks on utilities and public systems recently.
  • The program comes amid a larger push within the DoD to beef up cyber



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It's that beautiful time when Netflix viewers worldwide tune into Love is Blind and wonder, "How is everyone missing all these red flags?"

Season 9 of Netflix's blockbuster dating show, in which couples pair up after getting to know each other sight unseen, kicked off Oct. 1. And just like with prior seasons, Season 9 is not skimping on the drama. From Patrick and Kacie's bizarre breakup to Anna



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TikTok seems to be abnormally focused on what the lion does or does not concern itself with these days.

It's become a meme to post about the lion or lioness — meaning yourself — and what does or does not concern them. Most of the time, in the TikTok trend, the lion's (or lioness') concerns are either relatively trivial or outside what you might expect from a so-called grindset online figure who'd


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  • An internal list shows Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's 36 direct reports.
  • Huang is known for having many direct reports and said he had 55 last year.
  • Huang has previously said that having more direct reports helps with information flow.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has 36 direct reports as of October, according to an internal list obtained by Business Insider, offering a




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ChatGPT might soon get a lot "friendlier" with users — literally and figuratively. According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the company plans to introduce age-gating to the LLM, marking a clear distinction between how minors and adults will interact with the chatbot.

The update stems from a post Altman shared on X Tuesday, where he addressed growing frustration over the GPT-5 update over the summer