Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II coming to PS5 this summer

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II coming to PS5 this summer

Publisher Xbox Game Studios and developer Ninja Theory will release Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II for PlayStation 5 this summer with “exciting new features,” the companies announced. Those same new features will be available on the same date as a free update for the Xbox Series and PC versions of the game. Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II…

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TechCrunch Week in Review: Coinbase gets hacked

TechCrunch Week in Review: Coinbase gets hacked

Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of news for you this week, including a hack at Coinbase; YC thinks Google is a ‘monopolist’; layoffs at Microsoft; and much more. Have a great weekend! Uh-oh: Coinbase says that customers’ personal information, including government-issued IDs, was stolen in a data breach. The hackers demanded…

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Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft’s layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code

Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft’s layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code

Coders were hit hardest among Microsoft’s 2,000-person layoff in its home state of Washington, Bloomberg reports. Over 40% of the people laid off were in software engineering, making it by far the largest category, Bloomberg found based on state filings. Relatively few sales or marketing positions were affected, Bloomberg added.  To be fair, coders are…

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Microsoft and OpenAI renegotiate investment deal: Report

Microsoft and OpenAI renegotiate investment deal: Report

News of the deal follows restructuring plans from OpenAI to focus on a public benefit corporation controlled by a non-profit organization. Tech company Microsoft and artificial intelligence firm OpenAI are reportedly in talks to renegotiate the investment deal between the AI firm and Microsoft, which is OpenAI’s biggest financial backer. According to a report from…

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