Rockstar staff will vote on union recognition amid the launch of GTA 6.
Recognition of the IWGB Union at Rockstar will be put to an employee vote from November 12-26, which just so happens to coincide with the release of GTA 6 itself, on November 19.
The terms of the recognition deal were agreed following months of negotiations that took place even as the IWGB and Rockstar clashed over the firing…
Three bitcoin investors have thrown down $1 million challenges to Jason Calacanis after he declared the cryptocurrency would never reclaim its record high. One offered a decade-long wager, the other just two years, but Calacanis wants a shorter contest. Adding to the stakes…
Coinbase Denies Platform Intrusion as Vendor Data Leak Emerges
October 29, 2026
Coinbase is facing fresh security questions after a breach at analytics provider Amplitude exposed customer contact information, while unverified claims put the number of affected users above 70,000. The exchange insists its own systems and customer funds remain…
Ripple is approaching a projected $900 million annualized product revenue run rate as institutional custody and payment channels expand around XRP. Its growth strategy combines payments, trading, treasury management, and digital asset infrastructure.
Key Takeaways
Institutional XRP custody expands through BNY’s digital asset platform.
Ripple expects to reach its projected revenue run rate by…
Astronomers found a mysterious object beyond Neptune, and it could be a new dwarf planet
October 29, 2026
The powerful Vera Rubin Observatory has spotted what seems to be a dwarf planet circling the sun in the frigid depths beyond Neptune.
The icy object, known as 2026 ED138, is likely between 600 and 1500 kilometers (373 to 972 miles) wide, scientists say. It’s therefore…
Update for 4 p.m. ET on Oct. 28: Virgin Galactic unveiled its first Delta-class space plane on Wednesday (Oct. 28), revealing that it’s named Apeiron. You can read about it here.
Space tourists and citizen astronauts rejoice! A new suborbital spacecraft is about to…
Scientists have long known that when two black holes collide, they merge to create a more massive black hole. These events are so violent that they set the very fabric of space ringing with ripples called gravitational waves.
Now, new research suggests that the opposite may happen, too: single black holes may be able to split in two. But this can only happen if that progenitor black hole is…
Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows
October 29, 2026
Google is bringing ads in its AI-powered Search experiences to international markets, betting that generative AI can open up new revenue opportunities even as growth in its core search advertising business slows.
The announcement came Wednesday during Alphabet’s…
Google is making it easier for businesses to connect their apps to its AI experiences across Search and Gemini with the debut of its Connected Apps Platform.
Introduced in Gemini and Google Search earlier this year, connected apps let users securely link and interact with…
AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public
October 29, 2026
Former Yahoo CEO and early Google engineer Marissa Mayer is catching a lot of flak for how she uses AI. In an interview about her new app Dazzle, an AI assistant that learns from your camera roll, Mayer poses what she believes is an impressive flex for the product: It helped her come up with three bullet points about her 10-year-old daughter for a birthday presentation at school, describing her as…
