This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains “the Xbox guy.” In the run-up to Xbox’s 25th anniversary, he’ll be sharing his memories from the platform’s first quarter-century.

Newcastle United have signed forward Matias Fernandez-Pardo from Lille for an initial £51.4m.

Fernandez-Pardo flew into Tyneside on Monday night to have a medical and sign a long-term contract.

The 21-year-old said he was "very proud to be at such a big club" following talks with head coach Matthias Jaissle.

Rob Green is the chief digital officer of Insight Enterprises, a Fortune 500 Solutions Integrator.

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​Enterprise software has been pronounced dead before. Back in February, in a single week, a $300 billion software selloff was billed as the beginning of the “SaaS-pocalypse.” With Gartner’s recent estimate that up to $234 billion in enterprise application spending is exposed to “agentic arbitrage” between now and 2030, it is a safe bet the SaaS obituaries are not finished. But what if the obituary incorrectly identifies the deceased?

Aaron Mitchell is CEO of HeroDevs, a company that provides Never-Ending Support for end-of-life open-source software.

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​The recently released "Open Weights and American AI Leadership" letter has reignited the debate over whether increasingly capable open-weight AI models should remain broadly accessible and how they should be governed. But the real story isn't the models themselves. It's what they reveal about how AI is changing the economics of software security.

Key Preview Takeaways:

• The build I was shown was exceptionally early – shockingly so.
• There are systems upon systems upon systems, as you’d expect from Paradox.
• The Ancients are perhaps the most fascinating folk you’ll encounter in the wasteland.

I don't know about you, but my plans for the apocalypse involve hiding in a comfy bunker and playing hundreds of hours more of Paradox grand strategy games like Crusader Kings 3. And now I'll be able to play out the apocalypse during the apocalypse with the studio’s first new grand strategy game franchise since 2019's Imperator: Rome, Afterworld. Set in a not too far future North America that has been devastated by an intentionally vague cataclysm, it combines RTS and grand strategy elements as you rebuild the world in any image you desire – from terraforming to cannibalism. And that's an enticing proposition.

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California's Digital Age Assurance Act is due to take effect at the very start of 2027, bringing in sweeping age-verification checks by system providers. As part of it, operating systems will have to do age checks on users to lock down certain functions, which had led some Linux developers to go full crisis mode in response. Well, good news, the Assembly Bill 1856 amendment has just passed and it exempts open-source operating systems from compliance.

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A dark wall appears from behind the buildings at Gyirong, on the Chinese side of the Nepal-Tibet border. At first, it looks almost like a black cloud. Then it gathers shape and speed: water, mud, boulders, ice and rock surging down the valley. The timestamp on the CCTV footage reads 10:59:53 local time.

The pressure of the occasion, the scrutiny he will face, the deftness with which he handles questions, the attacks, the barbs, the asides, will all be key to how the public perceive him.

The Owen sisters may be back in “Practical Magic 2” 28 years after Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock first played the sibling witches, but that doesn’t mean the first movie’s outing doesn’t still sting a little.