Microsoft has announced that it will be closing its Xbox Ambassadors program after 13 years of operation. The Xbox Ambassadors initiative served as a platform...

As a leader in digital creative tools, Adobe holds a significant responsibility to address the challenges posed by AI-driven deepfakes, misinformation, and content theft. In the first quarter of 2025, Adobe plans to introduce its Content Authenticity web app in beta, allowing creators to apply content credentials to their work, certifying ownership. This process goes beyond merely changing an image’s metadata, as that level of protection can easily be bypassed through screenshots. Adobe’s content credentials offer enhanced protection by employing digital fingerprinting, invisible watermarking, and cryptographically signed metadata to safeguard artworks, including images, videos, and audio files. Invisible watermarking alters pixels in a way that is imperceptible to the human eye, while the digital fingerprint encodes an ID into...

Bungie’s Destiny franchise is expanding to a new platform with Destiny: Rising, a fresh entry designed specifically for mobile devices. This free-to-play sci-fi RPG shooter will be a “brand-new adventure set in an alternate Destiny timeline,” according to a news release from developer and publisher NetEase, and will go through a narrative set in the franchise’s post-Dark Age era. Unlike the blank-slate Hunters, Titans, and Warlocks of Destiny 2, Destiny: Rising will introduce playable heroes known as Lightbearers—“a diverse roster of characters, each with unique abilities and stories,” NetEase explained. The mobile spinoff will feature a shared world similar to Bungie’s Destiny setting, offering single-player, cooperative, and competitive multiplayer experiences. This includes six-player Strikes, as well as PvE and...