Rainbow Six Tactics game director says players can’t repeatedly play their favorite Operators because of the game’s fatigue and injury system — ‘It’s a way to push players to use their tools and shuffle their roster’

Rainbow Six Tactics won’t let fans repeatedly play the same Operator as in Rainbow Six Siege, but will encourage players to experiment with the entire roster.

A EV truck with a TV built into a front trunk for tailgating? Ford wants to patent the idea
A EV truck with a TV built into a front trunk for tailgating? Ford wants to patent the idea

Ford’s patent for what looks very like the Ford Fathom shows a multi-use front trunk including the option to house a TV

Anonymous Men Have Turned Cyberharassment Into a Group Sport—Here’s One Woman’s Side of the Story

This week on Uncanny Valley, we take you behind our feature on the women struggling after being targeted by the burnerverse.

Volkswagen delays its electric minibus for the US — again
Volkswagen delays its electric minibus for the US —  again

Volkswagen’s electric minibus will not return for the 2027 model year as expected, after another delay.

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Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting

The startup’s robot can tighten or loosen four bolts at a time, and it fits in a Pelican case.

Anthropic signs $11.6bn Akamai cloud deal and gets warrant for 5% of Akamai
Anthropic signs $11.6bn Akamai cloud deal and gets warrant for 5% of Akamai

Anthropic has signed an $11.6bn, seven-year agreement to use Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai announced after the US market closed on Thursday. The deal can grow by a further $9bn, which would take the total to about $20bn. As part of the deal, Ak…

OpenAI agent got into Australia’s Medicare stats portal with 84-day notification delay

Australia says an OpenAI agent got past blocks on a Medicare statistics portal in June. OpenAI’s notification arrived in September.

Google Wallet got a lot of new tricks in 2026 – these 5 are my favorites

You can do a whole lot more than tap to pay with Google’s Wallet app.

The AI commerce era: 7 e-commerce leaders on what’s still broken
The AI commerce era: 7 e-commerce leaders on what’s still broken

Would you trust an AI agent to run your Amazon store? That future may be near. But true AI transformation requires moving beyond “gap-filling” AI tools. It requires building an infrastructure layer that lets AI agents create and manage their own workfl…

81% of CIOs lack full oversight of AI agents built outside IT, Dataiku says
81% of CIOs lack full oversight of AI agents built outside IT, Dataiku says

Most chief information officers cannot fully see the AI agents their staff build outside approved systems, a survey by Dataiku found. 81% of the 685 CIOs polled said they lack complete oversight of AI agents created outside formal channels. The Harris …