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eBay is cutting about 800 jobs.
  • Companies such as eBay, Amazon, and Atlassian have said they're trimming staff this year.
  • Pinterest, for one, cited AI as a factor in its decision to shed less than 15% of its workforce.
  • See the list of companies letting workers go in 2026.

The first quarter of 2026 is halfway through, and layoffs are well underway.

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In 2024, Microsoft caused a lot of head-scratching and general bemusement with the launch of its "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign. Now, though, it appears the quandary over what is and isn't an Xbox has been resolved. Game Developer noticed that the original blog post on Xbox Wire that kicked off the whole affair has been removed. It seems Xbox will be going a new direction with its future



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Journalist Julia Angwin is one of the writers whose likeness was used in Grammarly’s “expert review” feature. | Photo: Eóin Noonan / Sportsfile via Getty Images
Journalist Julia Angwin is one of the writers whose likeness was used in Grammarly’s “expert review” feature. | Photo: Eóin Noonan / Sportsfile via Getty Images

For months, Grammarly has been using the identities of real people (including us) for its "Expert Review" AI suggestions without getting their permission, and now it's facing a lawsuit from one of the journalists included, as



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NBCUniversal is laying off staffers as the Showmax streaming service shuts down.
  • NBCUniversal is planning to cut dozens of employees as the African streamer it jointly operated with Canal+ shuts down.
  • Showmax was an "expensive failure," said Canal+, which owns 70% of the venture.
  • NBCU employees were informed about the change on Wednesday.

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The three active cores at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant experienced meltdowns.
  • March 11, 2026, marks 15 years since the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
  • Cleanup and recovery efforts have been ongoing since the incident.
  • While some surrounding areas in the region have recovered, many still remain in a destroyed state.

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The folding iPhone might come with an inner display the size of an iPad Mini, according to Bloomberg.
The folding iPhone might come with an inner display the size of an iPad Mini, according to Bloomberg.

Apple's rumored foldable iPhone will come with an iPad-style interface that will allow users to view apps side-by-side, according to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Gurman also reports that the outer display will be around the size of a small iPhone. The inner display will


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Humble has teamed up with Frictional Games for a new bundle of PC games that pushed the horror genre forward. The bundle includes the Penumbra Collectors Pack, all four Amnesia titles (The Dark Descent, A Machine for Pigs, The Bunker, and Rebirth), and Soma, which I consider to be its opus in terms of visual aesthetics. All six games are $15 each and redeemable on Steam (buying the same



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Superhuman has taken its writing assistant Grammarly on quite the merry-go-round ride regarding its approach to AI tools. In August, the company launched a feature called Expert Review that would offer feedback on your writing, offering AI-generated feedback that would appear to come from a famous writer or academic of note. These recreations were based on "publicly available information from



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Apple still hasn’t confirmed a foldable iPhone, and the company’s latest round of product announcements didn’t change that. Apple launched several new devices last week, but there was still no mention of a folding iPhone. Even so, the steady stream of leaks and analyst reports hasn’t slowed. Over the past few months, supply-chain sources and leakers have continued to sketch out Apple’s possible


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Valve wants players to know that it plans on fighting New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit, which last month accused the company of promoting "illegal gambling" through its in-game loot boxes. In an email sent to Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 players in New York, Valve says it's "disappointed" in the lawsuit's claims, arguing that mystery boxes are "widely used