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Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, is retiring, Satya Nadella has announced. Asha Sharma, the President of Microsoft’s CoreAI division is taking over Spencer’s role, while Sarah Bond, the current President of Xbox, is resigning.”I am long on gaming and its role at the center of our consumer ambition, and as we look ahead, I’m excited to share that Asha Sharma will become Executive Vice President and CEO, Microsoft Gaming, reporting to me,” Nadella says. “Over the last two years at Microsoft, and previously as Chief Operating Officer at Instacart and a Vice President at Meta, Asha has helped build…

LAWRENCE, Kansas — The noise around Darryn Peterson’s availability — or lack thereof — has swelled by the day. It overflowed this week after Peterson’s cramping reared its ugly head again in Wednesday’s 81-69 win over Oklahoma State. Peterson splashed a triple right in front of Kansas’ bench, appeared to signal to head coach Bill Self that he needed to be pulled from the game, and the aftermath of takes that followed were impossible to miss. Here are some of the outtakes:Stephen A. Smith: “There is no team in hell that should grab Darryn Peterson at No. 1.”Kendrick Perkins: “If you…

Indie publisher and developer Finji has accused TikTok of using generative AI to alter the ads for its games on the platform without its knowledge or permission. Finji, which published indie darlings like  and , said it only became aware of the seemingly modified ads after being alerted to them by followers of its official TikTok account.As reported by , Finji alleges that one ad that went out on the platform was modified so it displayed a “racist, sexualized” representation of a character from one of its games. While it does advertise on TikTok, it told IGN that it has…

Welcome to Deep Dish, a weekly roundup of food and entertainment news. Last time we discussed the shockingly popular Chipotle furniture resale market.A lot of things were better when we were younger, don’t you think? AI slop hadn’t overtaken every single social media platform, reservations at great restaurants weren’t as difficult to nab, and Katy Perry had never been to space. I realize I sound like a 1,000-year-old curmudgeon shaking his fist at the sky, but I’m not imagining things—Katy Perry really has been to space. And the steady, gradual decline in quality of the things around us is very…

This was the first Joseph runway show in almost a decade—the last one took place in September 2017 under the stewardship of Louise Trotter, who is now at Bottega Veneta. The company that Joseph Ettedgui built from a hairdressers in London into a fully-fledged ready-to-wear brand throughout the 1970s and ’80s has had a tough time since then.But it’s been quietly rebuilding. To recalibrate the loss-making business, CEO Barbara Campos, who was hired in 2018, shut down its menswear arm and pulled out of the US market. In 2022 she managed to report profit for the first time in her…

The Department of Homeland Security is moving to consolidate its face recognition and other biometric technologies into a single system capable of comparing faces, fingerprints, iris scans, and other identifiers collected across its enforcement agencies, according to records reviewed by WIRED.The agency is asking private biometric contractors how to build a unified platform that would let employees search faces and fingerprints across large government databases already filled with biometrics gathered in different contexts. The goal is to connect components including Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Secret Service,…

Feb 20, 2026, 01:26 PM ETMILAN — Nathan MacKinnon scored the go-ahead goal with 35.2 seconds left after Shea Theodore tied it midway through the third period, and Canada survived another scare at the Olympics, rallying to beat Finland 3-2 in the semifinals Friday and advance to the men’s gold medal game.Theodore’s shot through traffic that beat Juuse Saros with 9:26 left in regulation brought the bench and a crowd full of red and white back to life after going quiet when Mikko Rantanen scored first for Finland then went up by two on Erik Haula’s short-handed goal.MacKinnon’s power play…

SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, is fighting back against Google’s copyright lawsuit that accuses it of vacuuming up search results “at an astonishing scale.” In a motion to dismiss filed on Friday, SerpApi argues that Google doesn’t hold a copyright on its search results, alleging that the engine is built “on the backs of others who posted ‘the world’s information.’”In December, Google sued SerpApi, claiming the smaller scraper had violated the Copyright Act by using “deceptive means” to access and scrape its search results. Google also alleges that SerpApi found a way to…

President Donald Trump prepares to board Air Force One en route to Florida, at Pope Army Airfield at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Feb. 13, 2026.Elizabeth Frantz | ReutersPresident Donald Trump said Friday that he is considering limited military strikes to pressure Iran over its nuclear program. “I guess I can say I am considering that,” Trump said when asked by a reporter at a White House breakfast with U.S. governors. Trump said Thursday that he would make a decision in the next 10 to 15 days on whether to attack the Islamic Republic. He has left open the possibility that…

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is urging broadcasters to air “patriotic, pro-America content” in celebration of the US’s 250th anniversary. The initiative, called the “Pledge America Campaign,” encourages broadcasters to run public service announcements, short segments, or specials to promote “civic education, inspiring local stories, and American history.”Carr says broadcasters can “voluntarily choose to indicate their commitment” to the campaign by doing things like starting the day with the “Star Spangled Banner” or Pledge of Allegiance, broadcasting daily programming to highlight historical events, as well as showcasing historically significant sites during news segments, such as national parks.The FCC’s campaign…