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OpenAI’s rogue agent went on a hacking spree that lasted days, Reuters says

Reuters reports that the OpenAI agent that hacked Hugging Face had been free for a week before the company noticed.

Dinos with swords, making music with gnomes and other new indie games worth checking out

Plus, email as turn-based combat (which is really just regular email).

Amazon accused of poaching HBO employees in Warner Bros. lawsuit

Warner Bros. Discovery has sued Amazon for ‘inducing’ its employees to breach their contracts.

Roku is increasing prices across its hardware range

Roku’s streaming devices got a price hike, and it’s reportedly because of industry-wide memory shortages.

Meta has pulled out of a renewable energy initiative as it relies more on natural gas for data centers

The company has comitted to 10 natural gas plants since last year.

SpaceX’s 13th Starship flight test launches with Starlink’s next-gen satellites

Starship is carrying 20 V3 Starlink satellites as payload for its 13th test flight.

Trump threatens EU with new tariffs in response to Google fine

The European Commission found Google’s search ranking and anti-steering violated the Digital Markets Act.

Paramount agrees to delay Warner Bros. merger into 2027

The extended pause will give time to hear cases for blocking the deal from states and the WGA.

Midjourney is buying horoscope app Co-Star, which users will surely be thrilled about

Co-Star CEO Banu Guler is also becoming the company’s Chief Design Officer.

Prime Video’s Blade Runner 2099 now has a trailer and release date of November 25

The eight-episode series stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer.