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Critical 16-Year-Old UEFI Flaw Can Run Code Before Secure Boot on Network-Booting Servers
A critical 16-year-old EDK II flaw allows crafted ICMP messages to crash PXE boots or enable pre-boot code execution on specific firmware builds.
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DOOMSDAY IS COMING! 🎬 LOOK: Marvel Entertainment drops a new trailer for the upcoming "Avengers: Doomsday" movie, featuring Chris Evans as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, and a look at...
Forget the vinyl revival – I'm getting excited about CD players again
Time spent testing in 2026 has reminded me just how much I’ve missed the humble disc player
Ubisoft plans cuts at German studios, adding to wave of workforce reductions
Ubisoft is planning to reduce its workforce in Germany, where it operates a trio of studios, by about 100 workers, Game File has learned. The company wants to offer employees buyouts to, should enough people accept, avoid having to lay anyone off. “In Germany, we initiated discussions with the Works Council last week regarding a proposed voluntary departure plan across Ubisoft Dusseldorf, Ubisoft Berlin & Ubisoft Mainz,” a company rep told Game File. A “works council” is a union-like group representing employees. “The voluntary plan is the primary measure being proposed to support the intended organizational changes,” the Ubisoft rep added. The company declined to confirm the scale of the potential headcount cut. Of the impacted studios, Mainz might be the best known to the public. It leads development of the Anno series and shipped the well-reviewed strategy game Anno 117: Pax Romana in November 2025. Berlin and Dusseldorf operate as support studios within Ubisoft’s creative network. Berlin recently supported the development of Rainbow Six Siege and the Rayman Legends Retold remake. Dusseldorf also contributed to those projects, as well as The Settlers and Ubisoft-branded escape rooms. Dusseldorf is the biggest of the three studios, with some 400+ workers, compared to just over 100 at the other two, a source familiar with the reductions and the teams told Game File. More than half of these new reductions of about 100 people are expected to happen at Dusseldorf. The planned cuts were announced at a town hall for the German studios on Tuesday of last week. In an email follow-up, the studio group’s managing director, Benedikt Grindel, said the cuts were intended to “best position our German studios for the future... with a clearer focus on their role, capabilities and organizational setup needed for the work ahead.” The email was an echo of the past. In January 2025, Grindel had emailed the Ubisoft developers in his region (or studio “zone”) to explain that a round of 185 cuts at the time, including about 65 at Dusseldorf, were “essential to improve our operational efficiency and ensure the long-term sustainability of our studios, the zone and the company.” A half-decade of continued job cuts Ubisoft has been aggressively cutting its headcount for years. At the end of September 2022, it had 20,729 workers. By the end of March 2026, that total was down to 16,590. Studio management is trying to trim costs as it grapples with a changing industry and a drought of releases, let alone hits. The company announced earlier this year that it had reduced its costs since 2022 by “nearly €325 million” ($362m) and planned to lower them through 2028 by another €180 million ($200m). In June the company said it was closing down its Winnipeg and Belgrade studios and cutting roles in its Barcelona team. Even commercial and creative success hasn’t spared studios from this ongoing company-wide contraction. As Game File was nailing down details around the proposed cuts in Germany, Ubisoft management was informing workers of cuts in its Singapore studio, which shipped a hit remake of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag this past July. Some 70 positions in Singapore are being eliminated “to align the studio with upcoming production needs,” per a company rep’s statement to Game File. In early 2024, a large team in the Singapore studio launched the multiplayer pirate game Skull & Bones. It performed poorly but has been supported with regular content updates since. Many of Ubisoft’s studios around the world are heavily subsidized via regional grants and tax breaks. Singapore had been among them for years, but received no such local assistance in the 12 months ending this past March. News of the Singapore cuts broke today alongside word that Ubisoft is also proposing the closure of RedLynx, pending negotiations with officials. The Finnish studio behind the motorbike series Trials was founded in 2000 and sold to Ubisoft in 2011. As reported by VGC (and corroborated by Game File), Ubisoft management told employees it could not come up with a new, sustainable assignment for RedLynx. The 2025 workforce at Ubisoft Dusseldorf were straight-up cuts. This time, Ubisoft is hoping the reductions at its trio of German studios will largely come from workers taking a payout to leave. The company offered such voluntary dismissals at its Massive Entertainment studio (The Division) a year ago. For the German studios’ buyouts this time around, Ubisoft and the Works Council had discussed a formula that’d pay a worker’s monthly salary multiplied by 1.5 and by the number of years they’ve worked at the company, according to Game File sources. The formula is still subject to negotiations with the Works Council and has not yet been part of an official offer to workers. It could be adjusted up or down, and it could be supplemented with additional bonuses. Asked about the floated payout formula, a Ubisoft rep told Game File, “The terms of a potential voluntary departure program remain subject to negotiation with employee representatives. No final agreement has been reached, and we won’t comment on specific proposals while discussions are ongoing.” Game File is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe Item 2: Epic’s AI adventures Epic Games (Fortnite, the Unreal engine) is all-in on using AI to try to transform the way it makes video games and game-making tools. It’s leaders appear to be undeterred by any resistance among gamers and some game developers around generative AI—and instead emboldened by advances, particularly in AI-assisted programming. A recap of the last three days: On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Epic management told workers last week that development of an upcoming game combining Star Wars and Marvel characters would be “AI first.” Employees would be expected to use AI models such as Claude to code the game. A manager told Epic’s developers there would be “[n]o more hand-written code” and that art for the game would be “generated with full AI workflows,” per the outlet. Just ahead of that story running, Epic founder Tim Sweeney tweeted: “We have a huge pivot underway here at Epic, moving developers around to retool for maximum AI acceleration. The aim isn’t to do the same stuff with fewer people, but to enable everyone here to build MORE and BETTER stuff, and to bring the benefits to all teams using Unreal.” In a follow-up, Sweeney predicted that most game development processes would be at least three times faster a year from now than they were in January 2026, thanks to AI. To a person on X who told him he was failing to read the room, Sweeney said: “Much of the room wants it to be 2016 again, but it’s not. Our job, as the provider of tools and technology to much of the industry, is to design for the present that is and the future that will soon be.” On Wednesday, Epic announced it was releasing a faster launcher for its Epic Games Store marketplace. It did so by stating in a blog post as clear as could be that the launcher is an AI-enabled, vibe-coded project: Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that’s way faster and more responsive than the current one, and has a new look. Programming is hard? That was unexpected phrasing from a company founded by a legendarily great programmer. Back in 2011, Sweeney told me that he’d picked up programming quickly as a kid and rejoiced at the power it gave him. “I could look at any program that anybody else had written and, with enough effort, build something cooler.” Item 3: The Xbox Labs experiment (and one of the people behind it) Microsoft’s Xbox division, which is flooding the zone with announcements lately, yesterday revealed a new internal tech-tinkering team called Xbox Labs. In the words of Xbox boss Asha Sharma Labs is “a small group of game makers, engineers and scientists whose job is to turn emerging ideas into things our players and developers can experience.” Conventional wisdom coming out of the announcement is that Labs is a team that’ll focus on ideas driven by generative AI. In her announcement, Sharma cited some of the dizzying achievements in tech and gaming over the past month as AI agents and other AI tools have been deployed to swiftly figure out how popular games work, then rebuild them and mix them up. She mentioned seeing ”games rapidly decompiled and rebuilt to run on hardware they were never originally designed to support” and said “[p]erhaps more surprisingly, we’ve seen many of the biggest games in the world have been remixed into the source code of another.” (Minecraft plus Elden Ring, for example, or Fortnite + Super Monkey Ball + Overwatch + Diablo + others.) Sharma also cited the work of Windows PC games being ported to run in browsers, a seeming reference to a recent AI-assisted fan port of Halo. Or perhaps Call of Duty or GTA. Sharma didn’t use the specific term “AI” in her memo, but she came close, citing AI “agents” and their potential for game-making tools that Labs could help craft: I think XBOX has an important role to play here. Coding became the first major workload for agents because they can write, run, and test software. Games share many of those same properties, and people spend more than 72 billion hours a year playing XBOX games, roughly five times the estimated time spent writing code worldwide. We’ve spent 25 years learning how to make great games, and I want our game makers to help shape what these new technologies make possible. As we learn, we’ll share the tools we build with developers across the industry, just as we always have. When I asked an Xbox rep if Labs was an AI-centric team, they said genAI was not the focus, describing it as having a broader mandate for using new tech in new ways in gaming. As an example, they pointed to Xbox’s recently launched disc-to-digital gaming usage rights program. Microsoft didn’t specifically name anyone involved full-time in Xbox Labs yesterday, but on social media and LinkedIn, I spotted Adrian Mato IDing himself as leading the creatio of tools at Labs and talking up the launch. Mato first caught my attention in late September, when he said on X that he was “starting to build a new team at Xbox focused on products and tools for how games get built and distributed as agentic tools become more capable.” At the time, he framed AI-based tools as a supplement to traditional game dev tools. “I don’t think we need to replace them,” he said. Since then, he’s publicly shown interest in AI and in games. He’s recently spent some of his X feed marveling at the power of AI agents and praising the lighting in the latest Gears of War. Following the Labs announcement yesterday, he enthused about the Xbox Labs’ stylish landing page. He wrote: “We built some fun tools to art-direct shaders in real time, experimented with interactive ASCII art, and sprinkled in lots of tiny details. “Move your mouse to leave a colorful trail that reveals the original footage, or interact with the video to trigger bursts of particles. “A lot of love went into making it all feel just right. “More to come”
LaValle Joins Ferguson Medical Group - Sikeston
Saint Francis Healthcare System is pleased to welcome Savannah LaValle, LMSW to Ferguson Medical Group - Sikeston.
Inside Gore-Tex’s Testing Lab: The Science Behind Everest-Ready Materials
As it celebrates 50 years in business, the American company invited media inside its product innovation and quality lab in Germany… - Modaes Global
Chris Hemsworth’s Transformers, The Diplomat & More Netflix Releases This Week
Netflix’s new TV and movie releases for the week of October 12-October 18, 2026, include Transformers One, The Diplomat Season 4, and others. Directed by Josh Cooley, Transformers One is an animated s...
‘Survivor 51’ star Rob Antonson insists ‘I’m not a quitter. I’m just not.’
‘Survivor 51’ player Rob Antonson looks back at his controversial exit and insists ‘I’m not a quitter. I’m just not. I’ve never quit anything in my life.’
Red Bulls visit clubs in the region
Karim Konate, Frans Krätzig & Co surprise youth teamsWe are always where football is lived and breathed - even over the international break! As part of our FC Red Bull Salzburg at Your Club series, o...
Rogers Completes Acquisition of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment
Will invest to build championship-calibre teamsWill invest to deliver world-class experiences to fans and customersBecomes global communications, ...
Rogers Completes Acquisition of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment
Will invest to build championship-calibre teamsWill invest to deliver world-class experiences to fans and customersBecomes global communications, sports and entertainment leader TORONTO, Oct. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rogers Communications Inc. announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE), increasing its ownership of MLSE to 100%. Rogers acquired the remaining 25% ownership stake in MLSE from Kilmer Sports Inc. for C$4.35 billion. “We’re pr
Case Mgmt Profiles – Broward Health North – Genesis Siliezar-Orellana, MSW
For Genesis Siliezar-Orellana, MSW, social work is about making sure patients feel heard, seen and supported. She attended Florida Atlantic University, earning both her undergraduate degree and Master of Social Work, before coming to Broward Health North as a social work intern, where she completed eight months of clinical training. She joined the hospital’s team […]
Case Mgmt Profiles – Broward Health Imperial Point – Jasmine Perez, MSW, LCSW
Helping patients prepare to leave the hospital involves much more than arranging a discharge. Jasmine Perez listens to what patients and their families need, identifies potential barriers and helps make sure they have what they need for a safe transition. Perez, a licensed clinical social worker at Broward Health Imperial Point, has spent her four-year […]
Argentina's Kirchner challenges fraud conviction at UN, seeking political return
Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who is under house arrest, has asked the United Nations Human Rights Committee to review her corruption conviction and suspend the lifetime ban on holding public office that currently prevents her from running for election in 2027, her lawyer said on Tuesday.
Mental and Behavioral Health Profiles – Memorial Regional Hospital
Growing up in the Caribbean, Jenny Boodlal-Sookraj, MSW, witnessed firsthand how stigma often prevented people from seeking mental health support. That experience inspired her to pursue a career in social work, where she is committed to reducing stigma, promoting awareness and empowering individuals to seek the support they need. As a social worker and case […]
Swimnerd Celebrates 10 Years in Business
To say thank you, we’re offering our biggest scoreboard deal ever.
Baltimore archbishop urges women religious to model renewal of American political culture
"The world needs women who have been seized by Christ. It needs women whose lives bear unmistakable witness to the truth that God is real."
Arrest made after early morning shooting at Dothan business
The victim got shot in the back while fleeing the property.
She spent years as a caregiver. The emotional toll mounted quietly.
As a teenager, she was an Oakland Raiders cheerleader. Now, like millions of Americans, she spends her days as a caregiver.
Robert Downey Jr. returning as Iron Man in new ‘Avengers’ project with Disney
Robert Downey Jr. returning as Iron Man in new Disney project at Disneyland, where an ‘Avengers’ ride will unite him with Anthony Mackie, Chris Hemsworth, and Jeremy Renner.
Report: Aaron Donald exploring media space, developing docuseries
Aaron Donald has signed with a management team to "grow his business, brand partnerships and overall profile" in media and entertainment.
Mariners wait out Giants, win 4-3 in extras
“There is nothing I can do to make it better. Just wait.” That’s Julio Rodríguez explaining why his concussion was more difficult for him than prior injuries. Julio’s a player that thrives on being at the center of things, always hustling, always giving the game everything he has. So when Nolan Schanuel’s errant throw hit […]
“RuPaul's Drag Race” star reveals queen dropped out of “All Stars 11 ”cast“ ”before filming (exclusive)
Jasmine Kennedie tells EW which one of her franchise sisters exited before filming — and the queen in question responds!
“The Five Star Weekend” cast on how women are 'siloed' away from each other in Hollywood — but not on their show
Jennifer Garner, Gemma Chan, Regina Hall, D'Arcy Carden, and Chloë Sevigny star in the upcoming Peacock series based on Elin Hilderbrand's best-selling novel.
Double The VRAM Of An RTX 3070
Modern games are quite often limited by the amount of volatile memory available to the GPU. Games can require many gigabytes of data during the rasterization process. So the obvious solution for be…
Mets shutout Padres behind solid outing from Christian Scott
Jared Young and Luis Torrens homer as Mets add to Padres’ rough stretch.
The Design of Mood Swings, Part 1
Mark digs into the 28-year game design history of Mood Swings by explaining the initial shape of the game.
A global spotlight on suicide prevention in health care
Henry Ford Health’s Brian K. Ahmedani, PhD, MSW, was named to the TIME100 Health list, spotlighting Zero Suicide and its growing impact worldwide.
Introducing Mood Swings
Mark introduces and shares excitement for his brand-new trading card game, Mood Swings.
DeSantis floats Florida map that could give GOP up to four more House seats
The redistricting plan proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, if approved, would let Republicans regain their lead in the national gerrymandering arms race.
Jigi Dinero has the latest in entertainment headlines
Drake sent fans in a frenzy to find out his new album release date, plus other top stories from Jigi.
Britain's JD Sports says chairman Higginson to step down
British sportswear retailer JD Sports Fashion said on Wednesday its chairman Andrew Higginson will step down from the role in July.
Sign up now for the Bulls Camp matchday special!
On 3 May v Sturm GrazThe Bulls Camp Matchday Special is back, bringing you a day packed with football action!When? Sunday 3 May 2026. The day will begin with an entertaining training session on the gr...
The Science Of Taper As Preparation For Swim Performance
After months of research, Cooper Gill found that taper matters more than most people think, and the biggest factor isn’t fitness, it’s fatigue.
Communicating About Measles for Health Professionals
Join our upcoming webinar to get the latest data, learn evidence-based communication approaches, and get practical tools to help professionals navigate conversations about measles vaccination, respond to concerns, and support informed decision-making.
This Action Crime Thriller Just Shot to #1—and the Cast Is Absolutely Loaded
A star-studded crime thriller has quietly climbed to the top of Prime Video’s most-watched list, but, somehow, it flew completely under the radar. Find out more about the chart-topper here.
Cavaliers Deep Dive, Lakers Lose Luka + Sky Trade Thoughts
Regan Smith Previews China Open, Viewing it as a "Business Trip"
The itinerary will be packed, arriving 2 days prior to the competition and having media obligations the day before the 4-day meet starts.
New Details Emerge on Donald Trump's Upcoming College Sports Executive Order
Sources tell Yahoo Sports the upcoming executive order will address employment, transfers, eligibility, collectives, and Olympic sports.
Epstein used his ties to Nobel laureate scientists to try to rebuild his image
A 2006 conference for physicists in the U.S. Virgin Islands that included a trip to Jeffrey Epstein's private island shows how he used his wealth to build relationships with prominent scientists.
Talarico wins Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Texas
Talarico, a state lawmaker, positioned himself as an effective messenger to moderates and disaffected Republicans in his win over Rep. Jasmine Crockett.
Victor Wembanyama goes off for 25 points in first 8 minutes of Spurs' blowout win over Lakers
Spurs star Victor Wembanyama goes off for 25 points in first-8 minutes alone in blowout win over Lakers
Victor Wembanyama does it all on the basketball court. On Tuesday he put his scoring hat on.
Victor Wembanyama goes off for 25 points in first-quarter vs. Lakers
Victor Wembanyama does it all on the basketball court. On Tuesday he put his scoring hat on.
Luka Dončić exits Lakers game vs. 76ers with left hamstring soreness
The Lakers are holding their breath on Luka Dončić.
Luka Dončić exits Lakers game vs. 76ers with left leg soreness
The Lakers are holding their breath on Luka Dončić.
Georgia Handles Business with In-State Emory at Home with Senior Day Sweep
Georgia controlled the meet from start to finish, piling up 32 victories while sweeping both the men’s and women’s duals in Athens.
Müller Lifts Boston Past New York In Shootout
Alina Müller’s pair of shootout goals helped the Fleet edge the Sirens and extend its lead atop the standings.
Everything to know about ‘Crime 101’ starring Chris Hemsworth, in theaters February 13
The problem with the Fox broadcast
Analyzing the flaws of modern baseball broadcasts and making baseball more cinematic
Transfer portal chaos hits college football as 25% of FBS players enter
With more than 3,350 players -- roughly 25% of the FBS -- in the transfer portal, the sport is operating as unregulated free agency with no calendar, no enforcement and no leadership
Chris Hemsworth had to be told to stop defending his villainous character
Chris Hemsworth knows that a good actor has to empathize with his character — no matter how wicked. But one supervillain proved a bridge too far when he began to defend him during the press tour.
Cavs at Spurs: How to watch, odds, and injury report
The Cavaliers will look to get out of their funk against Charlotte.
The ‘Cookie and Coal’ awards for 2025 in Georgia politics
Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Patricia Murphy reflects on who has been naughty and nice in Georgia politics for 2025.
Chris Hemsworth says caring for his dad with Alzheimer's has reshaped his priorities as a father
Regardless of the experiences and material things that money can offer, at the end of the day, kids "just want your time," Chris Hemsworth said.
First-Ever College Sports Collective Bargaining Agreement Released By Athletes.org
The four-year proposal includes a revenue-sharing template agreement and “school-specific revenue-sharing percentage based on pro rata revenue per sport."
CT LEND Fellows Train to Improve Health Care for People with Developmental Disabilities
Three School of Social Work MSW students are learning to assist children and adults with neurodevelopmental disabilities as 2025-26 Connecticut Leadership E ...
Trump vows to release "perfect" MRI results after Gov. Walz questions his health
"If they want to release it, it's OK with me to release it," said Trump, who added he had "no idea" what part of the body was scanned.