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Canva Redraws Its Workforce While Phone Hackers Eliminate the Need to Click

The design company announces changes affecting 1,271 employees, as a mobile attack campaign exploits the simple act of visiting a website.

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Canva Makes Its Workforce Smaller to Bring Its Plans Into Focus

Canva is making changes affecting 1,271 people, or 22 percent of its staff, CEO and co-founder Melanie Perkins announced. Some employees will see their roles change or be asked to relocate to centralized hubs, while others will leave the company. The announcement combines several kinds of disruption under one large number, so 22 percent should not be read as the share of staff being laid off. For a company known for helping people arrange attractive designs, the reorganization offers a less cheerful exercise in composition. A role can be moved, changed or removed, and the neatness of the final chart is unlikely to be much comfort to the people whose lives have to fit inside it. Centralized hubs may simplify a map for management while making a commute, a move or a job search much more complicated for an employee. Perkins described the changes as significant and acknowledged that the company would be saying goodbye to teammates and friends. The distinction between a changed role and a lost job matters to those affected, even if both can arrive in the same corporate announcement. A redesign may look clean from a distance, but the people being asked to rearrange their lives do not get an undo button.

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Zero-Click Phone Attacks Finally Make Doing Nothing a Security Decision

A large-scale campaign associated with Russian hackers has targeted iOS and Android users through compromised websites and fake sites impersonating legitimate portals. The attacks use n-day exploits, which take advantage of vulnerabilities that are already known, and include zero-click techniques that require no additional interaction from a victim. Simply visiting a compromised page can expose a vulnerable device. That makes the campaign an awkward fit for the usual advice to avoid suspicious links and attachments. A person can exercise care and still encounter a compromised site, while a convincing imitation portal can make the wrong destination look familiar. Known vulnerabilities also make software versions important: an exploit aimed at an older version does not necessarily work against a device that has received the relevant fix. Keeping a phone and its browser updated is a sensible way to reduce exposure to known security gaps. Checking an address before entering a familiar service can help with impersonation, although it cannot guarantee that a legitimate site has not been compromised. The campaign turns the great promise of frictionless browsing into a rather less reassuring slogan: no taps, no forms, no waiting. Unfortunately, the people offering that convenience are not the phone makers.

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Crypto's Expensive Interview Process Meets Steam's Even Longer Waiting Room

Binance describes a months-long attack, while Valve adjusts release rules as game reviews fall behind.

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Binance's $6.34 Billion Lesson: A Job Interview Can Open More Than a Calendar

Binance says attackers used fake job interviews and compromised tools in a campaign that culminated in the loss of $6.34 billion in digital assets on October 29. Its account links to FBI findings that North Korea was responsible for the theft. Binance describes an operation that unfolded over months, not a single bad afternoon. According to the exchange, the process began in June when a Wallet DevOps engineer downloaded a tampered Homebrew installation while seeking a popular AI coding tool through a search engine. Binance says it detected that anomaly and took action, but the episode exposed information about the engineer's colleagues. The company's account also describes fake job interviews as part of the attackers' approach. The case puts an expensive price on a familiar workplace problem: a request can look like ordinary career business while serving someone else's agenda. A search result, a software installation and an interview are all routine enough that none needs to arrive wearing a sign marked trouble. Security teams are left protecting not just the vault but the ordinary paths people use to get to work. The exchange's postmortem is also a reminder that detecting one suspicious event does not automatically reveal every consequence. The attackers had months to exploit access and information, according to Binance. In this hiring process, the most important qualification was apparently knowing how to make a stranger seem professionally relevant.

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Steam's Game Factory Discovers the Queue Does Not Generate Itself

Valve is changing Steam release rules as a surge of submissions, including many games made with AI, creates a backlog in its review process. The company aims to review new titles in three to five days, but waits have reached 12 business days. Some indie developers have missed launch dates by weeks. Valve says the new rules are intended in part to reduce re-reviews, which have contributed to delays when developers submit updated builds. The change addresses a bottleneck between finishing a game and getting permission to put it on the store. For a small studio coordinating a launch, that gap can disrupt plans even when the game itself is ready. The boom in submissions has given the storefront an unusual production problem. More tools can help people make more games, but they do not automatically supply the people and time needed to check them. A platform can celebrate the abundance of new titles and still discover that abundance has formed a line outside the door. Players may see crowded store pages, while developers see a calendar full of dates that depend on someone else's review schedule. Valve's fix is meant to keep that line moving, not to make every new game good. For now, the hottest piece of launch technology is the humble queue, a system that stubbornly refuses to be released in early access.

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Tiny Episodes Attract Big Money as AMD Sets Another Record to Chase

NBCUniversal backs an Indian microdrama company, and AMD forecasts another revenue high after a record quarter.

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EloElo Raises $80 Million to Make the Cliffhanger a Full-Time Business

Indian company EloElo has raised $80 million in a Series C round from Hornbill Capital and NBCUniversal, bringing its total fundraising to $130 million at a reported $500 million valuation. Its Story TV app has more than 33 million monthly active users, according to Sensor Tower figures cited in the reporting. More than 118 million people watch microdramas each month in India. The investment gives a major US media company a stake in a format that has spread across India, China and the United States. These serialized vertical videos make room for drama in the spaces normally reserved for waiting in line or pretending to listen to a meeting. The installments are short, but the audience can keep moving from one to the next. That is a pleasing arrangement for a business built around attention. An ending can arrive quickly, followed just as quickly by another reason not to stop watching. The old television cliffhanger needed a week to build suspense. Its vertical descendant can fit a crisis, a revelation and the invitation to continue into the time it takes to find the remote. The funding reflects interest in the scale of that habit, not proof that every brief episode will become a lasting hit. Still, investors have found a format that treats a spare minute as prime time. The shortest part may be the episode; the ambition behind it is anything but.

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AMD Reports Its Best Quarter and Gives the Next One a Larger Assignment

AMD reported record quarterly revenue of $13.4 billion, with CEO Lisa Su calling the third quarter of 2026 the largest and most profitable in the company's history. The chipmaker forecast another revenue record of $17 billion for the following quarter. Its data center business is central to the results, as demand for computing infrastructure continues to draw attention and spending. The distinction between the two figures is important. The $13.4 billion is a reported result, while $17 billion is management's prediction for a quarter that had not yet been completed. The outlook gives investors a view of what AMD expects, not a second record already on the books. It is a demanding time to be a superlative. A company can announce its best quarter ever, pause for applause and then assign the next quarter an even bigger number. The record gets a brief moment on the podium before being handed a target and told to keep moving. For the wider technology market, AMD's results show how significant data center spending has become to a major chip supplier. They do not guarantee the same pace forever, and the forecast remains a forecast. Still, there is no mistaking the mood of an earnings call where a historic high arrives accompanied by an estimate for an even higher one. The trophy apparently comes with a performance review.

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Nintendo Sends an Old Hero Into Fall While Apple Gives the Mini a Bigger Bill

A Switch 2 remake revisits Ocarina of Time, and the latest iPad mini adds an OLED display and faster processor.

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Nintendo Gives Ocarina of Time a New Look and an Appointment With the Fall Calendar

Nintendo is launching a Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time this fall, 28 years after the original appeared on Nintendo 64. The remake has a more realistic visual style and arrives ahead of Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto VI, placing a familiar adventure in a crowded season for major game releases. The original helped move Zelda into 3D. Revisiting it now gives Nintendo a well-known title for its newer hardware and gives players another way to encounter a game that many already associate with an earlier generation of consoles. The more realistic look is a visible change, even for people who can still find their way around the old version from memory. There is something wonderfully efficient about putting a game famous for time travel back on the release calendar decades later. The adventure returns dressed for the present, while the audience supplies years of emotional investment before the first menu appears. New players get a famous game; returning players get the chance to find out which memories are clearer than the old graphics. The fall timing also puts nostalgia beside the industry's appetite for the next enormous release. Nintendo does not need an unfamiliar hero to compete for attention when it has one who has been waiting patiently in the catalog. Apparently the safest way to prepare for the future is to bring a very popular piece of the past.

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Apple Makes the iPad Mini Faster and the Upgrade Decision Less Small

Apple's newest iPad mini adds an OLED display and an A20 Pro chip, with upgrades that come at a cost. Apple says the processor is up to 2.7 times faster in graphics and up to 4.5 times faster in AI workloads than the A17 Pro in the previous model. Those are company performance claims, and the size of any benefit depends on the task. The new lineup keeps three storage configurations. The 512GB model adds a CPU core and a dual 16-core Neural Engine. Both generations support Apple Intelligence and Siri AI, although the newer chip should be better suited to demanding on-device AI work. A buyer interested mainly in the display has a different calculation from one looking for more processing capacity. Apple does not refresh the mini every year, so a new version can arrive carrying several years' worth of improvements at once. The company has perfected a particular rhythm: wait long enough for the old model to become familiar, then present a new one with a screen and a list of numbers that make patience feel both wise and expensive. For people whose current tablet handles reading, video and ordinary apps comfortably, the improvements may be less urgent than they look on a comparison chart. For others, the display and extra capacity could be the point. Either way, the smallest iPad has become very good at making a large case for itself.

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Apps Collect Permissions While New Hires Collect AI Management Duties

A settings check can limit unnecessary access, and graduates face questions about learning the basics alongside new tools.

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Your Flashlight's Privacy Ambitions May Be Brighter Than Its Beam

Smartphone apps often need permissions to use features such as the camera, microphone, location or photos, but some may hold more access than their jobs require. Phone settings let users inspect those permissions and change them. A quick review can reveal old approvals that seemed reasonable at installation and have since been forgotten. The sensible test is whether a permission fits the app's purpose and the way you use it. A camera app has an obvious reason to request camera access. A simple utility asking for unrelated personal information deserves a closer look. The review does not require treating every request as malicious, only remembering that the word allow is not a lifetime contract. A phone can accumulate apps over years, along with permissions granted in a hurry. Each request arrives on its own little screen, politely separated from all the other requests. Together they can make the settings menu look like a guest list compiled by someone who never learned to say no. Users can remove access they do not want and restore it later if an app genuinely needs it for a feature. Some functions may stop working without the relevant permission, which is a useful reason to check rather than simply switch everything off. The humble flashlight might not need a biography to do its job, but the permission screen will still ask as though it is interviewing for one.

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Graduates Get to Manage AI Before Anyone Has Explained the Office

Graduates are spending more time managing AI tools, raising a question about whether they are missing other kinds of early-career experience. The concern is not simply that technology has entered the workplace. It is that work once used to learn an organization and its routines may change as new employees are asked to oversee automated output. Reviewing a machine's work can itself require judgment. Someone has to decide whether an answer makes sense, whether it fits the task and whether it needs revision. But the opportunity to develop that judgment may depend on having enough experience with the underlying work to recognize a problem in the first place. That creates a neat corporate paradox. The junior employee is offered a role that sounds impressively supervisory, while still needing a chance to learn the basics being supervised. A first job may come with an AI assistant before it comes with a clear explanation of how the office works. Employers and graduates face a tradeoff between using tools that can speed up tasks and preserving opportunities to practice those tasks. Managing AI can be part of a useful education, but it is not automatically a substitute for every other kind of experience. The new title may look excellent on a resume. The more difficult question is whether the person holding it gets enough chances to learn what the title is supposed to mean.

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The Easy USB Port Takes Its Time as Safari Rearranges the Clutter

Front desktop ports can be slower than rear ones, while Apple's browser updates offer vertical tabs and more Siri controls.

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Your Desktop Puts the Convenient Port Where the Bandwidth Might Not Be

The front USB ports on a desktop computer are easy to reach, but they often cannot match the speed of ports on the back. The difference can matter when transferring large files or using an external drive. Actual performance depends on the ports and devices involved, so a front connector is not automatically slower in every setup. That caveat makes the problem particularly suited to a small experiment. A user can compare a similar transfer through front and rear ports and see whether the difference matters on that machine. The easy-to-reach port may be perfectly adequate for a keyboard or a quick connection, while a faster rear port may be preferable for a large backup. The arrangement is a quiet triumph of computer design. The port presented most graciously to the human hand may not be the one best suited to the job that makes waiting most noticeable. To get the best transfer, the user may have to go around the back and negotiate with a tangle of cables. None of this makes front ports useless. Convenience is a feature, especially when a device is connected only briefly. It just has competition from speed, and the winner depends on the task. The desktop offers a choice between reaching comfortably and finishing quickly, then hides the full terms behind the desk.

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Safari Turns Tabs Sideways So Your Unfinished Reading Has More Room

Apple is adding vertical tabs and Adaptive Dark Mode to Safari in iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3 and macOS Golden Gate 27.3. The December updates also expand Siri's browser controls, including organizing tabs and clearing history for particular sites. A later feature is planned to let Siri answer questions about content across multiple open webpages. Vertical tabs sit on the left side and use icons by default to save space, with an option to widen the bar to show site titles. That gives people another way to arrange their browsing rather than squeezing every open page into a horizontal strip. It may be especially appealing to anyone whose tab bar has become a row of tiny, nearly identical symbols. The assistant features add a different promise: less manual sorting and clearing. Siri can help manage the browser, though the later cross-page question feature is not part of the same immediate set of controls. Organization remains the theme, whether the helper is a sidebar or a voice request. The update gives accumulated tabs a dignified new filing system. Pages saved for later can now stand neatly at attention instead of lying across the top of the screen. The browser cannot make a person read them, but it can make the growing collection look remarkably intentional. That is progress of a sort, and it comes with a wider sidebar.

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Game Studios Await Bidders While Security Firms Shop for AI Oversight

Xbox considers offers for Arkane, and CrowdStrike plans to buy two startups focused on AI systems.

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Arkane's Blade Awaits a Buyer While Its Studio Becomes the Negotiating Table

Xbox is considering offers for Arkane, the studio behind a Blade game, with Ubisoft among the possible buyers. At least two other companies have also pitched themselves as potential owners, according to the reporting. No completed sale is established, and the studio's future remains unsettled. A change of ownership can have consequences beyond the name on a company chart. The organization that owns a studio can shape priorities, resources and decisions about projects. For players interested in Blade, the immediate fact is narrower: several companies are discussing a possible future for the developer and its game, and the outcome is not yet known. The situation turns a creative endeavor into a corporate courtship. Bidders can present their visions for a studio while the people who actually make games wait to learn which vision, if any, becomes official. It is an unusual stage of development where the most anticipated announcement may concern the building around the game rather than the game itself. Ubisoft's interest does not mean it has acquired Arkane, and the presence of other suitors leaves room for several outcomes. A possible deal is not a release schedule, either. For now, fans have a title and a set of competing offers to follow. The studio's next chapter is being discussed by companies eager to own it, while the audience waits to see who gets to turn the page.

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CrowdStrike Goes Shopping for Tools to Watch the AI It Wants Companies to Trust

CrowdStrike says it will buy Fiddler AI and Dreadnode in deals worth nearly $500 million as the market for securing AI agents grows. Fiddler makes software for observing AI agents, while Dreadnode helps companies automate AI security testing. The two planned purchases address different parts of the same business problem: organizations deploying AI systems want to see what they are doing and test how secure they are. The price shows how much value a security company places on those functions. It does not mean that either product can eliminate every risk associated with an AI agent. Observation and testing are distinct jobs, and the announced purchases reflect an effort to add both capabilities rather than a single magic switch labeled safe. The market has found a familiar technology rhythm. First companies get excited about systems that can do more on their behalf. Then they shop for ways to monitor and test those systems. The assistant arrives with a promise to reduce work, followed by an entire category of work dedicated to keeping an eye on the assistant. For businesses considering AI agents, the deals underline the importance security vendors attach to oversight as adoption expands. For CrowdStrike, the nearly $500 million shopping trip is a bet that watching the new workforce will be a substantial business of its own. Even the automated future, it seems, will have an audit department.

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Nvidia Offers the Past an Upgrade While AirPods Ask Ears to Adapt

DLSS 5 comes to RTX Remix for older games, and small-eared listeners have options for adjusting their earbuds.

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Nvidia Gives Old Games a Modern Makeover and Calls It Enhancement

Nvidia is bringing DLSS 5 to RTX Remix, its platform for remastering classic games with modern graphics. The feature has been controversial, and its arrival adds another option for people who want to change the appearance of older titles. RTX Remix is aimed at updating games rather than leaving every visual element exactly as it was. That is both the attraction and the source of debate. Players who remember a game's original look may value the particular style that came with its technical limits. Others may welcome an opportunity to revisit the same setting with a more contemporary presentation. Neither preference requires pretending that a new visual treatment is identical to the old one. The word enhance does a lot of work here. It suggests that the past has been waiting patiently for a renovation crew, even when some of its admirers are quite attached to the original wallpaper. A classic can be a beloved work, a technical artifact and a promising candidate for a graphics upgrade at the same time. For anyone interested in remasters, the choice is partly about what makes a game feel familiar. Modern graphics can offer a different way to experience an old title, but the result may not match a player's memory. Nvidia has provided another tool for changing the view. The difficult part remains getting everyone to agree on what the view ought to be.

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AirPods Promise a Seamless Fit After Your Ears Finish Negotiating

People with small ears may need to adjust Apple AirPods carefully to find a comfortable, secure fit. The available approaches depend on the model, including trying different ear tips where the earbuds support them. A small change in position can also make a difference to how the device feels and stays in place. Fit matters because an earbud that slips or becomes uncomfortable is less useful during calls, music or exercise, regardless of how polished the rest of the product may be. The best arrangement is personal: ears are not manufactured to a single specification, even if a product advertisement would prefer they were. The process can make a premium accessory feel like a tiny furniture assembly project. Turn it slightly, try another position, consider another tip and see whether the result stays put. The product is designed to disappear into daily life, but first the owner may have to spend some time thinking very specifically about the shape of an ear. If a fit remains uncomfortable, another design may suit the listener better. The point of adjustment is to make the product work for the person, not to declare that every person must work for the product. Wireless audio has eliminated a cable, but it has not eliminated the ancient problem of finding something that actually fits. At least this fitting session does not require a charging case for the ear.

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A Beam Reaches Orbit as Broadband Funding Gets Tangled in the Fine Print

Orbital Matter tests construction in space, California disputes a federal condition, and Sonos adds music presets.

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Orbital Matter Prints a Beam, and Space Data Centers Acquire Their First Piece of Furniture

Orbital Matter has 3D-printed a rigid beam in the vacuum of space, an in-space construction first that could help enable future orbital data centers. The achievement is a test of making a structural component in space rather than launching every piece in its final form. A beam is not a working data center. It is a much smaller step toward the possibility of building larger structures away from Earth, where launch and assembly impose unusual constraints. Any future orbital facility would still face questions about power, operations and access. The appeal is easy to see: a printer that can make useful structures in orbit could change how designers think about the size and shape of things sent into space. The comic leap is equally tempting. Technology has produced one rigid beam, and the imaginary real estate brochure already has room for a server farm with an excellent view.

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California Wants Broadband Funds Without the Federal Side Order of Scrapped Laws

California is seeking federal broadband funds while rejecting a Trump administration condition that the state scrap its own broadband laws. The state has called the demand preposterous, setting up a dispute over the terms attached to support for internet access. The disagreement matters for projects and communities that depend on public funding to extend service. It also concerns who gets to set the rules around that expansion: federal officials offering money or a state defending its existing laws. The fight gives the phrase connected government a complicated meaning. One side wants the funds and objects to the condition; the other has attached the condition to the funds. Both the money and the fine print are doing a great deal of work before a connection reaches anyone's home. For residents waiting on broadband, the policy dispute is less abstract than the paperwork makes it look.

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Sonos Adds Presets So the Speaker Can Begin Before the App Committee Meets

Sonos is rolling out an app update with Presets and early access to its 27voice AI assistant. A preset can start music at a chosen volume in a particular room, with a shortcut on the home screen. That gives households with multiple speakers a quicker way to repeat a favorite setup. The voice assistant is entering an early-access stage, making it a less settled feature than the preset shortcut. Sonos is inviting users to try another way of controlling audio while also making a basic task easier to reach in the app. The preset is refreshingly direct: choose the music, the room and the volume, then keep the shortcut. The assistant represents the larger ambition to make the speaker respond more intelligently. One feature saves a few taps; the other asks users to welcome an AI into the conversation about those taps. The playlist, meanwhile, would like to start.

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Security Updates Need Security While Browsers Find More Places to Float

Attackers compromise cPGuard updates, Google disrupts a TV-box botnet, and Bethesda gives its next Elder Scrolls a name.

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cPGuard's Update Route Delivers the Trouble It Was Supposed to Prevent

Attackers compromised the update infrastructure for the cPGuard web security suite and used it to distribute a backdoor and a data-stealing script. The incident turns a trusted delivery route into the problem: users expect security updates to strengthen protection, not carry unwanted code. The attack targets the confidence that makes automatic updates useful in the first place. A guard at the door is less reassuring when the trouble arrives through the guard's own delivery service.

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Firefox Tests a Tiny Window Big Enough to Hover Over Your Priorities

Mozilla is testing Mini Window in Firefox Nightly, letting users move a webpage or part of a tab into a small, always-on-top window with most browser controls removed. The feature is intended to keep content visible while someone works in another app. It is still a test, not a promise that every Firefox user already has it. Multitasking gains a compact companion, while the spreadsheet gains a neighbor that insists on sitting in front.

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Google Retires the Secret Second Job on 1.3 Million TV Boxes

Google says it dismantled a botnet secretly running on 1.3 million Android TV boxes and cut ties with the company behind the campaign. The network used streaming hardware in a way its owners did not knowingly authorize. The case shows how a device bought for entertainment can also become part of an unseen network. The box was supposed to provide an evening's viewing, not take on a side job for someone the household never hired.

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Bethesda Gives Elder Scrolls VI a Name to Keep Fans Company While They Wait

Bethesda confirmed that The Elder Scrolls VI is titled Sentinel during a video marking the studio's 40th anniversary. The company said development continues and that it will be some time before it is ready to share more. For fans accustomed to waiting for news, the title is a concrete detail, not a release date. The studio has supplied a name and a location while keeping the rest of the journey at a respectful distance.

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