Ubisoft is initiating a voluntary redundancy program at its Paris headquarters, targeting up to 200 jobs. This follows a massive corporate restructuring and a plummeting share price, with employee morale reportedly at an all-time low.
Microsoft just posted a monster quarter, with revenue hitting $81.3 billion and Azure growing 39%. A huge chunk of that profit, $7.6 billion, came from its stake in OpenAI. But the stock still dropped over 5% after hours. Why? The spending is getting absolutely massive.
Sebastiaan de With, the designer behind popular camera apps Halide and Lux, is joining Apple. This marks a return for him and comes as Apple’s design leadership sees major changes.
Origami Linux is a relatively new distribution that folds the COSMIC desktop environment into an immutable Fedora base. The goal is a beautiful and secure OS, with options for Arch and NVIDIA-specific versions too.
Blizzard is kicking off 2026 with a rapid-fire series of showcases for its biggest franchises. The events start this Friday with World of Warcraft and run through February 11th for Diablo’s 30th anniversary.
OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-5.2 Pro, has set a new record on a challenging suite of math problems. It solved previously unsolvable puzzles and boosted the overall success rate significantly. Yet, experts caution this is progress, not perfection.
Faced with the limitations and potential costs of “free” tiers from Vercel and Cloudflare Pages, one developer moved his Next.js SaaS app to a $7.70/month VPS. Using Coolify for deployments, he now gets 12GB RAM, 6 vCores, and unlimited traffic for less than a fancy coffee.
Cisco’s massive partner program overhaul, Cisco 360, officially went live. It replaces nearly 25 years of legacy structures with new designations and incentives aimed at pushing partners toward AI and complex solutions. Partners are optimistic but have some early critiques.
Old School RuneScape is getting its fourth raid, The Fractured Archive, in late 2026. Described as the game’s toughest yet, it will be soloable but daunting. The announcement also included a new limited-time League and a community-voted cow boss.
According to Digital Trends, Joobie is an emotionally intelligent AI companion designed by Hugbibi. It uses multimodal sensors to detect a user’s state and develops a unique personality over time. The device is scheduled for an official launch in the first half of 2026 after debuting at CES 2026.
