Tech

Florida woman jailed 22 months for trafficking stolen Microsoft COA labels

Heidi Richards, 52, of Brandon, Florida, was sentenced to 22 months in US federal prison and fined $50,000 after being convicted of conspiring to traffic in illicit Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels. Richards and her employees harvested product key codes from tens of thousands of COA stickers, typed

Tech

MacBook Pro adds M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, prices rise

Apple has unveiled new MacBook Pro models powered by M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. The lineup starts $200 higher than the previous generation and adds higher baseline memory and storage, faster SSD read and write speeds up to 14.5GB/s, improved battery life and connectivity upgrades including Wi‑

Tech

Starfield reportedly launching on PS5 on April 7

Dealabs journalist Billbil-kun confirmed long-running rumours that Starfield will arrive on PlayStation 5 next month. The outlet gives an April 7 launch date for the space RPG. The report says a physical edition will be available at launch in Europe and expects pre-orders to open around March 18, 2026. An

Crypto

Gate hits 50 million users and signals structural maturity

Gate says it has crossed 50 million registered users worldwide and is using the milestone to signal ecosystem maturity, positioning itself as harder to break rather than simply the most popular. The update leans into liquidity credibility, proof-of-reserves optics, and regulated market access — the three boxes any exchange wants to

Politics

Silicon Valley-backed challenger enters race against Ro Khanna

Early Tuesday, Ethan Agarwal, a 40-year-old tech entrepreneur with no political background, announced he is running for California’s 17th congressional district, setting the stage for what may become one of the most lavishly funded primary challenges of the 2026 cycle. The contest centers on Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat

Culture

Game of Thrones movie in development from Andor writer Beau Willimon

Seven years after the series' divisive finale, a Game of Thrones feature film is officially in development at Warner Bros. Beau Willimon, known for Andor and as the creator of House of Cards, is attached as the writer. Details remain tightly held. The project is in development, but nothing

Sports

Tottenham lodge written complaint with PGMOL over inconsistent refereeing

Tottenham have sent a formal written complaint to Professional Game Match Officials Limited chief Howard Webb, saying a series of inconsistent decisions over contact in the penalty area is harming the club. The approach comes as interim manager Igor Tudor navigates a difficult run of results. The club’s concerns

Crypto

American Bitcoin Expands Hashrate, Deepens BTC Bet

American Bitcoin has added 11,298 ASIC miners, a purchase expected to bring roughly 3.05 exahashes per second to its operations once the machines are deployed at its Drumheller, Alberta site this month. The acquisition will lift the company’s fleet to 89,242 miners, representing about 28.1

Sports

Cam Newton says he's 'fine' with never getting married

Cam Newton, who shares nine children with three different women, said marriage isn’t for him. On a recent appearance on the "TalkLesShow" podcast he said, "I want to be around who want to be around me," and added, "I like volunteers. I don’t

Tech

Tripwire Interactive lays off 23 employees amid industry pressures

Tripwire Interactive, developer of the Killing Floor and Rising Storm games, has laid off 23 employees, moves the studio said were driven by the "business realities" of an evolving videogame industry. In a LinkedIn post the company wrote, "We regrettably confirm that our studio has recently undergone

Tech

Epic Games warns Fortnite players about V-bucks bot scam

Fortnite players have reported losing large amounts of V-bucks after Epic allowed creative island creators to offer in-game transactions. Much of the controversy centers on one map, Steal the Brainrot, which drew criticism in January over a prize wheel and loot boxes; Epic updated creator rules but new complaints have

Culture

John Marston actor completes Red Dead Redemption, breaks down at credits

It only took 16 years, but Rob Wiethoff, the man behind John Marston, finished a play-through of Red Dead Redemption, completing the main story this week. He posted the concluding part of his series on March 2, laughing through the climactic gunfight between Jack and Ross before the stylish closing

Tech

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen players are accidentally losing hours

The Switch ports of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen add a soft reset: pressing all four face buttons on a Joy-Con at once sends the game back to the main menu. That shortcut is a useful time-saver for Shiny hunters, cutting several seconds out of the reset process and helping with

Business

On-Chain Trader Nets $2M Shorting Silver as Jane Street Stokes Debate

An anonymous on-chain trader known as 0x007 made $2.04 million by shorting silver near its recent top, a move that came just days before a sharp selloff. Silver had surged past $96 per ounce before collapsing, a swing that wiped value from precious metals and rippled through equities and

World

South Sudan risks return to full-blown civil war as violence escalates

South Sudan is reeling from an escalating conflict between the government-aligned army and opposition forces and allied groups, raising the risk of a return to full-blown civil war. Violent confrontations between the military loyal to President Salva Kiir and insurgents believed to be allied with suspended vice-president Riek Machar have

Business

Paramount Deal Brings Harry Potter and Taylor Sheridan Under One Streamer

Paramount has agreed to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in a deal estimated at $110 billion, a move that will bring the companies' libraries together and combine Paramount+ and HBO Max into a single streaming service. The merger pairs HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series with Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone

Sports

Rodrygo ruled out for season with ACL and meniscus rupture

Real Madrid forward Rodrygo has been diagnosed with a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament and a rupture of the external meniscus in his right leg, effectively ending his domestic season and ruling him out of the upcoming World Cup. Scans after the La Liga loss to Getafe confirmed the

Culture

Gardeners’ go-to tools for spring: secateurs, hori hori and more

In my garden, the celandines are popping, the blackthorn buds are breaking, and the bees are beginning to bumble. These seasonal omens signal the start of tasks to come: seeds to sow, shrubs to prune and perennials to chop back and divide. Being well equipped makes every bit of difference,

Politics

Trump: Iran is 'running out of launchers'

President Donald Trump said Iran was running out of missile launchers and that its attacks could continue "for a while." He made the remarks in a roughly four-minute phone call, arguing Tehran's military capacity is being steadily degraded. "They're running out and they&

Sports

Major League Baseball Leagues & Divisions, Explained

A new weekly series, Sunday Night Baseball, will highlight some of the biggest MLB matchups each week, with analysis and commentary from some of the best baseball experts in the business. Major League Baseball has 30 teams split into two leagues of 15: the American League and the National League.

Tech

Find what's slowing your Linux boot in seconds with systemd-analyze

If your Linux distribution uses the systemd init system, it already includes a tool called systemd-analyze that helps identify what is slowing boot times. Running systemd-analyze shows kernel and userspace times, for example: "Startup finished in 6.669s (kernel) + 30.368s (userspace) = 37.037s" and "graphical.target

Culture

One Piece hits 600 million, Oda seals series secret in sunken chest

One Piece has surpassed 600 million copies in circulation. To mark the milestone, creator Eiichiro Oda wrote down the true secret of the One Piece — the treasure sought by Monkey D. Luffy — sealed the note inside a small treasure chest and sank it in the ocean until the series ends.

Culture

Players prefer 384,866 'drinkable cheeseburgers' over 9,152,844 PvP deaths

Marathon concluded its Server Slam beta ahead of a full launch on March 5. Bungie released a stats summary showing players killed 9,152,844 enemy Runners and destroyed 129,160,928 PvE bots during the event. They also extracted 384,866 drinkable cheeseburgers. Despite the name, drinkable burgers are

Culture

Slay the Spire 2 Arrives as March Releases Pile Up

March has arrived, and the first half of 2026 is entering peak release season. Indie offerings such as Scott Pilgrim EX and Planet of Lana II: Children of the Leaf land alongside first-party console debuts like Marathon and Pokémon Pokopia. Many might wish those releases had been nudged back so

Tech

X begins testing standalone X Chat app on iOS

Social network X has released an initial beta of a standalone X Chat app for iOS, opening access to 1,000 users through Apple’s TestFlight. The beta reached full capacity two hours after the announcement. xAI product designer Michael Boswell said the company will expand the beta “soon” and