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Royal London is preparing to hand a substantial chunk of its IT operations to IBM, with hundreds of jobs expected to go by year's end. Staff were briefed in September by the company's chief technology officer, and sources say the work is headed to India. It's a familiar story in financial services — cost pressure winning out over institutional knowledge, and real people paying the price.
Shifting to gaming, Epic appears to be rethinking the very foundations of how developers build inside Unreal Engine. At Unreal Fest Tokyo in two thousand twenty six, the company previewed what Unreal Engine six might look like — and the headline is striking: no C plus plus, no Blueprints. That's a fundamental departure from the tools that defined a generation of game development, and the industry will be watching closely.
And on a quieter but meaningful note, StreetComplete — the community mapping app that lets everyday people improve OpenStreetMap by answering simple questions on their phones — has finally landed in the iOS App Store. It's been an Android staple for years. Its arrival on iPhone opens collaborative, open mapping to an entirely new audience of contributors.
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