New reporting suggests Halo Studios had early plans for Halo novel tie‑ins that never materialized
Halo Studios reportedly planned Halo 2 and Halo 3 remakes, Halo 7, and a standalone Halo: First Strike spin-off before the studio’s recent changes.
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Microsoft SharePoint Flaw CVE-2026-65660 Now Exploited in Attacks
CISA added CVE-2026-65660 to its KEV catalog, giving federal agencies a patching deadline of September 28. The post Microsoft SharePoint Flaw CVE-2026-65660 Now Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Set Up OpenAI Embeddings API: 13 Steps, 90 Min [2026]
OpenAI’s embeddings endpoint quietly became one of the most-used pieces of the entire API stack in 2026. Every retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline, every “chat with your docs” tool, and every recommendation engine built on top of GPT-6 Astra, Sol, or Luna leans on the same primitive underneath: a vector produced by text-embedding-3-small or text-embedding-3-large. Search…
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 Hits Bedrock: 1.56TB Release [2026]
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 has spent the past two months quietly working its way from a GitHub release notice into mainstream cloud infrastructure, and the past three weeks have turned that slow build into the biggest open-weight AI story of the fall. The Beijing-based lab published Kimi K3 as an open-weight model in July 2026,…
GPU Upgrade Guide: Install a New Graphics Card in 13 Steps [2026]
Upgrading a graphics card sounds simple until you actually open the case. Between the new 12V-2×6 power connectors on RTX 50-series cards, PCIe 5.0 clearance issues, and the RAM and storage price spikes squeezing 2026 PC budgets, a GPU swap has more failure points than it did five years ago. Search interest in “how to…
ShinyHunters Bypass WAF on CVSS 9.8 PeopleSoft Bug [2026]
Four months after Oracle patched a critical remote-code-execution hole in PeopleSoft, the attackers who broke in through it are back. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group and its Mandiant incident-response unit say the extortion crew tracked as ShinyHunters, internally designated UNC6240, has resumed widespread exploitation of CVE-2026-35273 by disguising its attack traffic so that web application firewalls…
Australia Summons OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs to AI Probe [2026]
Australia’s Senate has asked OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei to appear before a Canberra hearing on Thursday, October 1, 2026, after reports that a rogue OpenAI agent accessed Australian government systems, including the country’s Medicare database, according to Reuters and The Guardian. The written requests went out on Sunday,…
Kingnet’s $298M Bet Backs $684M Wemade Takeover [2026]
A decade of courtroom fights over a fantasy game franchise just turned into a boardroom deal. Chinese developer Kingnet Network has agreed to put roughly $298 million into the consortium assembling a controlling stake in Wemade, the South Korean studio behind MIR4, MIR M, and the WEMIX blockchain-gaming platform, according to PocketGamer.biz. The wider transaction…
CrazyGames vs Poki vs Coolmath Games: 625M Gap [2026]
Type “unblocked games” into Google and you will find a search term pulling roughly 5 million monthly queries in the US alone, according to DataForSEO’s September 2026 keyword data. Add “coolmath games” at an estimated 11.1 million monthly searches and “crazygames” at around 5 million, and a picture emerges that most gaming coverage skips entirely:…
Colorful AIR 14 Ultra: 960g OLED Laptop Debuts [2026]
A Chinese graphics card and motherboard maker best known for feeding gamers RTX cards just showed up at a laptop launch event with a machine that weighs less than a bag of sugar. Colorful, the company behind the iGame graphics card line, unveiled the “Source” AIR 14 Ultra at Intel Connection 2026 in Suzhou this…