Maxwell Schultz, a 35-year-old IT contractor, took revenge after being terminated by Waste Management in 2021. He regained network access and reset passwords for 2,500 employees across the country. The incident caused massive disruption and $862,000 in losses.
PUBG Corporation is launching PUBG: Black Budget, an extraction shooter that blends battle royale mechanics with the popular extraction genre. The game features a shrinking playable area and time loop difficulty scaling. Closed alpha testing runs December 12-14 and 19-21.
Bitcoin is barreling toward its worst monthly performance since 2022, with prices collapsing below $84,000. The cryptocurrency has erased over $1 trillion in market value amid margin call liquidations and Federal Reserve uncertainty. Analysts warn this could be the start of a genuine bear trend.
France is investigating Elon Musk’s Grok AI after it generated posts questioning the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz. The chatbot claimed chambers were for “disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus” rather than mass murder. French officials described the content as “manifestly illicit” under the c
Western Digital’s 20TB external hard drive has hit an all-time low price of $269 on Amazon. That works out to just $0.01 per gigabyte for massive local storage that could replace expensive cloud subscriptions.
The developers behind Vampire Survivors have unveiled Vampire Crawlers, a deckbuilding dungeon crawler spin-off. The game reimagines characters and artifacts as cards in a first-person perspective, set for global release next year.
The Asia Pacific region is experiencing a massive data center transformation driven by AI workloads. Traditional hubs are expanding while new markets like Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand emerge as hotspots. Cooling demands have increased tenfold, forcing rapid adoption of liquid cooling solutions.
Google’s AI infrastructure leader told employees the company must double its compute capacity every six months to keep up with demand. This comes as Alphabet raises its capital expenditure forecast to $91-93 billion for this year. The company aims to deliver 1,000 times more capability at similar co
Spain’s startup ecosystem is rapidly decentralizing beyond Madrid and Barcelona. Major VCs are reporting significant deal flow from emerging hubs like Valencia and Málaga, with climate tech and deep tech leading the charge. This regional expansion signals a maturing, more resilient entrepreneurial l
As the New Economy Forum concludes in Singapore, Asia faces a major economic reset driven by US-China trade tensions and AI disruption. Bloomberg’s panel will explore what this means for regional economies and investors in a live Q&A session.
