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Football Daily | Tottenham and the rapid disappearance of their club hype man
Tottenham Hotspur have made a woeful start to the new Premier League season, sitting bottom of the table after just two matches, despite the club having spent heavily over the summer following a narrow escape from relegation last term. The club’s confident pre-match rhetoric before their first home game was quickly undercut by another defeat,…
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Officewide revolt at Sydney Water as damning letter details pay crisis behind closed doors: Software debacle sparks suicide threats as four key execs are named
Staff at Sydney Water, the government-owned utility serving Sydney, have accused senior executives of mishandling a botched payroll software rollout that has left workers underpaid or unpaid for two months, prompting a union to demand the executives be stood down without pay. The Australian Services Union says the disruption has forced low-paid staff to choose…
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Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed
Microsoft has launched a preview service allowing customers to establish private, high-speed connections between its Azure platform and Amazon Web Services, addressing multicloud networking friction that both companies had previously downplayed. The new offering, Azure Multicloud Interconnect, works alongside AWS’s equivalent service, AWS Interconnect – multicloud, letting organisations link infrastructure across the two rival clouds…
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AC Black Flag Resynced Update 1.0.7 Available to Download Now
Ubisoft has released update 1.0.7 for Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced on PS5, now live after being detailed a day ahead of launch. The patch focuses on visual refinements and behind-the-scenes fixes rather than new content, though Ubisoft has also confirmed a New Game+ mode remains in development for a future update. The 1.53GB download…
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CEO of Saudi Arabia’s Savvy Games Group Brian Ward steps down after overseeing billions in mobile gaming acquisitions
Brian Ward has stepped down as CEO of Savvy Games Group, the Saudi Arabian state-owned gaming investment vehicle, after overseeing roughly $38bn in acquisitions including Niantic and Scopely. His departure comes shortly after Saudi Arabia’s $55bn leveraged buyout of Electronic Arts, the largest acquisition of its kind in gaming history, which reportedly sparked internal concern…
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Sonos introduces new headphones, soundbar, and software in its biggest announcement in years
Sonos has unveiled its biggest single announcement since 2024, revealing two new products — the Ace Ultra headphones and Beam Ultra soundbar — alongside a major software overhaul called Sonos 27. The update leans heavily into artificial intelligence, introducing an in-house voice assistant, a system for connecting third-party AI models, and the ability to create…
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Laid off id Software developer says crunch on Doom: The Dark Ages’ Revelations DLC was “brutal” with up to 17-hour days
A producer who worked on Doom: The Dark Ages’ Revelations expansion has described the crunch leading up to its July release as “brutal,” with days stretching up to 17 hours, only for several id Software staff to be laid off in the same week the DLC launched. The layoffs were part of Microsoft’s wider cuts…
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Free Roku app turns smartphones into replacement remotes
The free Roku mobile app allows smartphones to function as a fully-featured replacement for a lost or dead Roku remote, offering an alternative to buying a new one. Available for both iOS and Android, it connects over the home Wi-Fi network and requires no purchase, subscription or complicated setup, making it a practical fix for…
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Sonos unveils new products at September Open House event
Sonos is holding an “Open House” event to unveil its latest product lineup, with the launch first flagged by chief executive Tom Conrad during the company’s July earnings call. Conrad had teased that Sonos was building an “operating environment for AI in the home,” drawing on 20 years of work to create audio hardware capable…
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33-hour BGP hijack of Softaculous traffic prompts security scramble
Hosting software vendor Softaculous has told customers of its Softaculous and Virtualizor products to reset their credentials and check their servers for malware following a 33-hour BGP hijacking attack that redirected traffic to systems operated by an attacker. The incident, which began on 28 August, saw an unrelated network announce a more specific version of…