Video Games Weekly: It's weird that esports is segregated by gender

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (Or, I dunno, Thursday), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video ga [...]

The trust paradox killing AI at scale: 76% of data leaders can't govern what employees already use

The chief data officer (CDO) has evolved from a niche compliance role into one of the most critical positions for AI deployment. These executives now sit at the intersection of data governance, AI str [...]

Trump administration adds note rejecting 'gender ideology' to government websites

Newly restored pages on the websites of government agencies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) now include a disclaimer [...]

2026 Olympics: How to watch the Winter Games Closing Ceremony today

The Closing Ceremony for the 2026 Winter Games is this Sunday. (Li Jing/Xinhua via Getty Images)<br /> <br /> <br /> Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images<br /> <br /> [...]

Nintendo Miis are post-gender on Switch 2

We are on the eve of the Nintendo Switch 2 launch, and a few last-minute details are still trickling in. Like many other Nintendo consoles, you'll create a Mii to represent you during setup. With [...]

The Control Gap: Enterprise AI organizations have an ownership problem, not a technology problem — and most are governing it by hand

AI portfolios are expanding far faster than the ability to govern them across enterprises. Most organizations run a contested field of platforms, each claiming to be the “primary” AI layer; few co [...]

Court orders the CDC and FDA to restore deleted web pages related to gender identity

US District Judge John D. Bates has ordered (PDF) the Center for Disease Control and Food and Drug Administration to restore the web pages and resources they had previously removed to comply with Pres [...]

The attack that hijacked Claude Code came through Sentry. Datadog, PagerDuty, and Jira have the same exposure.

A single fake error report hijacked Claude Code in controlled testing — the agent ran the attacker's code with the developer's full privileges, and not one alert fired. EDR, WAF, IAM, and [...]

MFA verifies who logged in. It has no idea what they do next.

Every MFA check passed. Every login was legitimate. The compliance dashboard was green across every identity control. And the attacker was already inside, moving laterally through Active Directory wit [...]