Culture

Marathon's Cryo Archive unlocks after massive ARG

Marathon players finally unlocked the game's first-ever raid experience, Cryo Archive, after a two-week ARG. Bungie confirmed Thursday that the endgame zone opened following "a massive community effort orchestrated by #breach-protocol in the official Marathon Discord." The developer released a launch trailer narrated by Ben Starr

Culture

Donkey Kong Bananza programmer recommends 'destructive meditation'

Donkey Kong Bananza isn't just one of the best games of 2025 and a delightful reimagining of Nintendo's leading gorilla. No, it's also a meditation aid — a way for you to focus on whatever's weighing on you while you mindlessly destroy the

Tech

Death Stranding 2 leaks on Steam and is being pirated

Death Stranding 2 is already being pirated on PC after Steam mistakenly made unencrypted game files available ahead of launch. The title doesn’t use Denuvo, which helps performance but left it more vulnerable to copying. Out March 19, Hideo Kojima’s open-world walking-sim shooter will get updated features and

Culture

Matt Damon & Kevin Smith's 'Dogma' Streams Strong on Apple Ahead of Sequel

While Matt Damon has recent hits like Oppenheimer, Air, and Netflix's The Rip, one of his earliest films is enjoying a digital comeback as fans await a sequel. Dogma is the third most popular movie on Apple TV's digital streaming chart, trailing Leonardo DiCaprio's

Culture

Lie to Me: A Three-Season Crime Drama That Still Resonates

Tim Roth’s performance in the Fox series Lie to Me remains one of his most intriguing turns. Premiering in 2009, the show ran for three seasons and built a devoted following by placing Roth’s Dr. Cal Lightman—a deception expert inspired by psychologist Paul Ekman—at the center

Culture

Nicole Sullivan Guest Stars on Chicago Med

Nicole Sullivan turns up in Season 11 of Chicago Med, bringing her trademark humor to the Emergency Department as Gail Spinner in the episode "The Cost of Living." Her presence offers a touch of comic relief amid high-stakes cases and scene-stealing guest turns. Sullivan first rose to fame

Business

Buzz kill: US breweries shutter as craft-beer fanfare fades

Chris Bell began brewing as a student at the University of Colorado Boulder, worked at Long Trail and Avery, and opened Call to Arms Brewing Company in Denver in 2015. The brewery earned a gold medal at the 2018 World Beer Cup and drew strong local praise and a 4.

Culture

Brad Pitt goes incognito on set of The Riders in Athens

Brad Pitt, 62, looked nearly unrecognizable while filming his latest project, The Riders, in Athens. He sported silvery facial hair, a blue-and-brown multicolor flannel shirt and blue cargo pants, paired with a baseball cap, aviator shades and a black sling bag; at one point he waved to cameras as he

Tech

Play Crimson Desert with a controller

Crimson Desert is vast and ambitious, but its default keyboard controls feel cumbersome and awkward. You notice it early on when the game asks you to perform Blinding Flash during the intro, and it only becomes more apparent as dozens of inputs and combos pile up. That doesn't

Tech

Best Steam Spring Sale deals of 2026

The 2026 Steam Spring Sale runs through March 26 and offers hundreds of discounts across indie and AAA titles, from award-winning newcomers to long-running classics and niche RPGs. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is on sale for 20% off, dropping to $39.99 and including Sandfall's free DLC with

Tech

Turn an old iPhone or Android into a security camera in 4 steps

Old phones can make low-cost home security cameras: they have a decent camera, Wi‑Fi, storage and a battery, though they may stop receiving security updates over time. For a free or cheap solution, repurposing an unused iPhone or Android can provide live view, motion alerts and two-way audio without

Culture

Schwarzenegger Could Return as Dutch in a New Predator

Arnold Schwarzenegger said Fox Studios has “rediscovered” him and that he’s been sent a script for Commando 2, while Christopher McQuarrie is attached to a new Conan. Most notably, the actor revealed he has discussed with director Dan Trachtenberg the possibility of returning as Dutch in a new Predator

Culture

US rapper Afroman cleared after police sued him over raid footage

Chart-topping US rapper Afroman has been cleared after Ohio police sued him for defamation, emotional distress and invasion of privacy over videos that used footage of a 2022 raid on his home. Officers searched the house for drugs, trafficking and kidnapping; no evidence was found and no charges were filed.

Sports

Vanoli: I'm glad Kean got angry — he wanted to play

Fiorentina’s 2-1 victory over Rakow saw the Viola secure their place in the quarter-finals of the Conference League. After the game, manager Paolo Vanoli addressed Kean’s reaction to being substituted, noting the Italy international had not taken the change well. “I’m pleased because he’s an important

Politics

Millions of student-loan accounts will move from Education to Treasury

The Education Department reached an agreement with the Treasury Department to shift oversight of the federal student-loan portfolio, beginning with accounts in default. The interagency deal covers the roughly $1.7 trillion portfolio and will allow Treasury to collect on defaulted debt and support borrowers who have defaulted. Nearly 9

Tech

Caves of Qud co-creator wants games to use untapped CPU and network power

Caves of Qud simulates a surreal science-future where characters can sprout new limbs, apes and crabs have shifting reputational dynamics, and a concrete wall can gain personhood through items that grant sentience. Its systems-heavy procedural generation and simulations produce situations that can’t be pre-baked. Bucklew says even that level

Culture

Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 episode 11 exposes tragic irony of the Culling Game

Episode 11 of season 3 cements Megumi Fushiguro’s status as a brilliant battle strategist while underscoring the ironic cruelty of Kenjaku’s Culling Game. The strongest sorcerers find their power hollow inside a system designed to kill or break them, and the series frames strength less as mastery of

Science

Second Annual Space Weather R2O2R Meeting in Boulder, CO

You are cordially invited to participate in the Second Annual Space Weather Research to Operations to Research (R2O2R) Meeting, which will be held on Monday, April 27, 2026 in Boulder, CO, as a side meeting to 2026 Space Weather Workshop. The Space Weather Program Office is honored to host this

Culture

The Scariest Animal Attack Movies Ever Made

Creature features can be a ton of fun when done right, and are often scarier when they feature real animals as opposed to fantastical monsters. At their best, animal attack movies are not just about survival, but about vulnerability, instinct, and the fragile line between control and chaos. A range

Sports

Flying start after halftime sends Mainz 05 into Conference League quarter-finals

19 March 2026 will go down in Mainz’s club history: for the first time the Bundesliga side has reached the quarter-finals of a European competition. In the Conference League round of 16 second leg, Mainz 05 beat Sigma Olomouc 2–0 (0–0) and, after a 0–0 draw

Tech

CD Projekt Red's mysterious new IP Hadar enters early pre-production

CD Projekt Red confirmed during its 2025 earnings conference that its shadowy project Hadar has entered preliminary pre-production stages. The studio first revealed Hadar in 2022 with few details, saying it would be made "entirely from scratch" and that it was still in the "earliest stages of

Crypto

Bybit launches yield product for tokenized gold XAUT

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has launched a yield-bearing product that lets holders earn interest on Tether Gold (XAUT), converting a traditionally passive store of value into an income-generating asset while maintaining exposure to gold prices. Bybit said the offering is part of its push into tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). Tether Gold’

Sports

SC Freiburg stage stunning comeback to reach Europa League quarter-finals

SC Freiburg reached the quarter-finals of a European competition for the first time after overturning a first-leg deficit, beating KRC Genk 5–1 in the Europa League second leg to win 5–2 on aggregate. Matthias Ginter, Igor Matanovic, Vincenzo Grifo — who became Freiburg’s all-time leading goalscorer with his

AI

Google tells staff it's 'leaning more' into national-security AI contracts

At a January Google DeepMind town hall, leaders told employees they were confident the company’s work with the Department of Defense aligned with its AI principles and that Google was "leaning more" into national-security contracts. Tom Lue, DeepMind’s vice president of global affairs, said the company

Culture

Kelli Giddish on Her Sisterhood With Mariska Hargitay on SVU

Season 27 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has been a wild ride, and Captain Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) is reunited with her longtime partner Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish). Rollins briefly left in Season 24 to become a criminology professor, then returned to the NYPD as an Intelligence Unit