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Memo: Microsoft's Xbox division to shut down multiple Bethesda studios and consolidate teams to prioritize high-impact titles and invest in Bethesda's portfolio (Wesley Yin-Poole/IGN)
https://www.i…

Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda - IGN
Microsoft has closed a number of Bethesda studios, including Redfall maker Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda, IGN can confirm.

Being a Backend Developer Today Feels Harder Than 20 Years Ago
https://dzone.com/articles/backend-development-feels-harder-today-than-20-years-ago

Memo: Microsoft's Xbox division to shut down multiple Bethesda studios and consolidate teams to prioritize high-impact titles and invest in Bethesda's portfolio (Wesley Yin-Poole/IGN)
https://www.i…

Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda - IGN
Microsoft has closed a number of Bethesda studios, including Redfall maker Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda, IGN can confirm.

Studies (not just the one referenced in this article) keep showing that after the initial hype the lack of trustworthiness of "AI" systems (and the companies building them) is leading to trust in these systems going down across the board.
This is a very healthy development, let's keep it going to bring technological development and "innovation" on a track that's no longer leading towards social, political and ecological destruction.

Exclusive: Public trust in AI is sinking across the board
The drop is global, but people in developing countries view the technology more favorably.

The Justice Department today unsealed an indictment charging Russian national Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the administrator and developer of the LockBit ransomware group.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-charges-russian-national-developing-and-operating-lockbit-ransomware

Know any iOS devs who truly love testing, are meticulously detail-oriented (and don't mind the redundant wordplay), want to work on something interesting (or maybe even much bigger than “interesting”), and are looking for work?
We’re looking for someone someone like that.
https://matter.xyz/jobs/ios-develope…

Jobs at Matter | iOS Developer — QA Focus

Epic says Apple has reinstated its developer account, clearing the way for its Epic Games Store in the EU; Tim Sweeney says the move followed a swift EU inquiry (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/08/epic-sa

Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account, clearing path for Epic Games Store on iPhone - 9to5Mac
After a whirlwind of events, Epic Games says Apple has reinstated their App Store developer account. The move clears the...

DatologyAI, which aims to help researchers better curate AI training datasets, raised a $46M Series A led by Felicis, after a $11.65M seed in February 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformati…

Ex-DeepMind and Meta AI Researcher Raises Nearly $50 Million To Help Developers With LLMs’ Secret Sauce
For all that’s leaked about the sizes and architectures of the advanced large language models developed by OpenAI and its ilk, we still don’t know what data they were trained on.A pessimist might say that’s because of the numerous lawsuits LLM developers would face if the amount of copyrighted ...

Amazon launches Bedrock Studio in public preview, a web tool to help orgs experiment with and collaborate on generative AI models and then build AI-powered apps (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/07/bedr

Bedrock Studio is Amazon's attempt to simplify generative AI app development | TechCrunch
Amazon has launched a new tool, Bedrock Studio, designed to make it easier for developers to refine and launch generative AI-powered apps.

Salesforce releases Einstein 1 Studio, letting developers customize its Salesforce Einstein Copilot assistant, released in beta last week, at TrailblazerDX (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/salesforce-

Salesforce aims to blaze new generative AI trail for developers with Einstein 1 Studio
Einstein 1 Studio provides a set of tools that can enable developers to customize the Salesforce Einstein Copilot gen AI assistant.