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Cyberpunk 2077 joins Xbox Play Anywhere: how shared licenses and saves work across console and PC

Cyberpunk 2077 officially supports Xbox Play Anywhere as of October 22, 2026. Eligible digital purchases now provide access to compatible Xbox and Windows PC versions of the game, while save synchronization preserves progression between devices. The announcement highlights three distinct aspects of digital gaming: software ownership, platform compatibility and the portability of player data.

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Meta faces EU and UK complaints over website crawling rights despite removing AI training language

Removing an explicit reference to AI training has not ended Meta's dispute with news publishers. On October 22, 2026, an advocacy group representing digital publishers and advertisers urged regulators in the European Union and United Kingdom to intervene over new commercial terms allowing automated access to websites associated with business accounts. Critics fear the language could support broad collection and commercial use of online content. Meta disputes that interpretation and says its crawling practices have not changed.

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Nasdaq plunges 2.6% as Wall Street questions the enormous cost of the AI boom

Artificial intelligence spending is no longer enough to reassure Wall Street. On Thursday, October 22, 2026, the Nasdaq Composite dropped 2.6%, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index lost 6.7%. Meta, NVIDIA and several other companies connected to AI infrastructure faced significant selling pressure. After months of enthusiasm about data centers and computing capacity, investors are asking a more financial question: when will these investments begin generating returns large enough to justify their cost?

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Games News

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.5 brings console mods, DLSS 4.5, FOV controls and ray-tracing optimizations

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.5 introduces cross-platform mods powered by mod.io, DLSS 4.5 support, revised AMD FSR options and performance optimizations targeting ray tracing and PS5 Pro. A console FOV slider, improved HDR rendering and selected display technologies are also included. The initial release is scheduled for October 22, 2026, while Nintendo Switch 2 and the Mac App Store version follow later.

AI News

Meta Muse passes 10 million sign-ups as shopping becomes a major opportunity for AI agents

Meta's personal AI agent Muse has passed 10 million sign-ups in the United States and Canada, according to figures shared by Mark Zuckerberg on October 21, 2026. Roughly a quarter of people who set up the service are using it daily, the company says. Shopping is already becoming an important activity, suggesting Meta wants its agent to do more than answer questions: it could eventually become a commercial intermediary between consumers and businesses.

Audio News

Goldmund Mimesis Statement: a three-chassis analogue preamplifier with an extraordinary price tag

Three substantial metal enclosures to select an audio source and adjust the volume: Goldmund has never been particularly interested in ordinary hi-fi design. Introduced in Geneva on October 19, 2026, the Mimesis Statement is the company's new flagship analogue preamplifier. Two independent power supplies and extensively separated stereo circuitry are central to its design. The published technical figures are striking, as are the prices reported by specialist publications. At this level of high-end audio, however, sophisticated engineering and demonstrably audible improvements are not automatically the same thing.

AI News

Uber rolls out ChatGPT Work to 30,000 employees as enterprise AI moves beyond pilot programs

Uber is moving its use of AI agents beyond limited experiments. On October 22, 2026, the company announced that ChatGPT Work would become available to more than 30,000 employees worldwide. OpenAI's enterprise agent can research information, work across connected applications and produce finished business deliverables. The rollout marks an important test for workplace AI: can a tool used successfully by a small pilot group deliver measurable value across an entire global organization?

Consoles News

How Atari plans to keep the VCS running after its servers shut down in February 2027

The Atari VCS digital store is scheduled to close on February 1, 2027. Atari plans an operating system migration designed to move essential functions to the local machine and eliminate dependencies on its infrastructure for authentication and software. A separate Home Brew application should enable community software installation. The technical details and deployment schedule have yet to be fully disclosed.

Games News

Once Human's Isles of Abyss brings DualSense features, SSD streaming and mobile sea fortresses to PS5

Once Human's free Isles of Abyss expansion arrives globally on October 22, 2026. Its PlayStation 5 version introduces DualSense haptic effects for maritime environments, adaptive triggers for naval equipment and SSD-assisted transitions between land and sea. The expansion also introduces mobile fortresses and a dedicated PvE scenario with its own progression rules.