Sports

Everything to Know About Alpine Skiing at the Winter Olympics: Rules, Team USA

Alpine skiing at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics is built around high-speed, gravity-driven racing down some of the sport’s most demanding courses. Athletes such as Breezy Johnson in the Women’s Downhill and Mikaela Shiffrin in the Women’s Slalom represent Team USA; Johnson earned a gold medal on

AI

How ChatGPT's Lockdown Mode protects against prompt-injection attacks

Prompt injection attacks can insert malicious instructions into text prompts to alter AI outputs or steal confidential information. These threats affect anyone who uses AI tools, but they pose a particular risk to professionals who rely on them at work. OpenAI has introduced Lockdown Mode to reduce that risk. The

Culture

Celebs and shoppers say these are the world's most comfortable thongs — on sale

Hanky Panky’s Signature Lace Thongs are widely beloved; the brand once trademarked the soft style as the "world’s most comfortable thong." Right now at Bloomingdale's, buy three of the Leopard Lace Original Rise Thongs or Low Rise Thongs and get them for just $54

Culture

White House became a radioactive crater in Fallout 3 because there were no quests

Bethesda developers have been revisiting Fallout's creation, and one design anecdote stands out: Emil Pagliarulo says an envisioned subway network under Washington, DC, sounded cool until he realised endless tunnels would be dull. Many team members had lived in the capital, and that familiarity shaped the decision to

Culture

Shigeru Ban: building cathedrals and quake shelters from paper

“I don’t like waste,” says Shigeru Ban. He reclaims materials others discard — cardboard tubes, beer crates, styrofoam, shipping containers — and turns apparent fragility into structural ingenuity. His projects range from high-end boutiques to housing for refugees, blurring east and west, luxury and the everyday, and challenging ideas about what

Culture

Ezri Dax returns to Star Trek Online to face a Lovecraftian threat

Over the past 16 years Star Trek Online has been building what senior narrative designer Flo McQuibban calls “soft canon,” bringing TV stars into the game while creating new threats for them to face. The next event, Corruption, launches on March 10 to celebrate the free-to-play MMORPG’s 16th anniversary

Culture

Martin Scorsese's New 'Mandalorian and Grogu' Character, Explained

Martin Scorsese turns up in the new trailer for Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, lending his voice to a brief, comic cameo. The clip follows Din Djarin and his mentor as the New Republic sends them to locate Rotta the Hutt, and during the search Din stops at a

Culture

Rebecca Ferguson’s ‘Mercy’ Can’t Catch Up to a 35-Year-Old Cult Favorite

Nearing a month after its release in theaters worldwide, Mercy appears to have sealed its fate. The sci-fi film marks Timur Bekmambetov’s return to American features and uses the "screenlife" format, with Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson in the lead roles. Produced on a reported $60 million

Sports

Matt Wells: 'Win everything except the Fair Play Award' at Colorado Rapids

Matt Wells has taken his first head coach role with the Colorado Rapids after spells as an assistant at Tottenham under Ange Postecoglou, Thomas Frank and Scott Parker. He set the tone in preseason, shouting at players during a friendly to give them "very clean feedback," and believes

Business

NBCUniversal sues Group Black over alleged $35.8 million unpaid invoices

Comcast's NBCUniversal has sued Group Black, alleging the ad firm owes $35.8 million in unpaid invoices and guaranteed payments. The suit, filed February 11 in New York Supreme Court, stems from a partnership that gave Group Black exclusive rights to sell ads in Black-led shows on NBCU&

Science

The Role of Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos in TDAMM

The Role of Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos in TDAMM was the topic of a CRN SIG Seminar. The seminar took place on 25 Mar 2026. A post about the seminar was published. cosmic rays, neutrinos, tdamm, crn sig, crn, seminar, post, published, 2026, topic

Tech

Hytale's early access launch left farming and taming unfinished

Hytale’s rapid development push to launch earlier in January this year, only months after the team regained control of the project, left several features on the cutting room floor for the early access debut. Many areas were marked with WIP signs, magic was missing, and farming was almost non-existent

Crypto

Pi Coin Hits Breakout Target as Sentiment Improves — 60% Rally Possible

Pi Coin swung sharply over the past month, falling nearly 38% between Jan. 14 and Feb. 11 before reversing and rallying as much as 58% into mid‑February, then pulling back. Investor sentiment fell from 9.06 in early December to nearly zero by Feb. 4, but it recovered to

Crypto

Dragonfly Raises $650M Fund as Crypto VC Landscape Evolves

Dragonfly Capital has closed its fourth fund, raising $650 million to back what it sees as the next phase of blockchain companies, fund general partner Rob Hadick posted on X. The firm signaled a move away from consumer apps toward more traditional financial products built on blockchain rails — including credit

Culture

10 Greatest Spy Thrillers of the Last 100 Years, Ranked

Spy movies and thrillers are a natural pairing, producing suspenseful, tension-filled stories that range from quiet realism to blockbuster spectacle. The list covers the genre across the last century, tracing a line from Hollywood’s Golden Age with films like Notorious to Daniel Craig’s Bond era with titles such

Sports

McClaren: Ten Hag refused to back down in standoff with Cristiano Ronaldo

Speaking on The Good, The Bad and The Football Podcast, ex-England boss McClaren admitted that Ten Hag refused to back down. "There was a lot of battles on that training field. There was a lot of, 'all I want you to do is this, this, this and this&

Business

JPMorgan lists 18 'mispriced' tech stocks to buy after AI sell-off

Fears that AI could replace dominant players sparked a broad sell-off across the tech sector, leaving some stocks that JPMorgan now calls "mispriced." JPMorgan surveyed its top equity research analysts to find companies punished by the market's AI replacement narrative but insulated from actual disruption. Analysts

Culture

The Opera ‘Monster’s Paradise’ Takes Satirical Aim at Trump

Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek’s new opera Monster’s Paradise, in Tobias Kratzer’s production, aims its satire at a Trump-like leader but leaves its most affecting moment to the end. A makeshift raft drifts on a flood as two vampiresses play out-of-tune Schubert on a piano whose keys

Sports

Taylor Swift Voices Support for Team USA's 'Blade Angels'

The Blade Angels are set to skate at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics — and Taylor Swift gave fans a preview in a February 16 video. With her 2025 song "Opalite" in the background, the pop megastar introduced the three Team USA athletes as "three American showgirls

Culture

Southern Charm's Salley Carson says she slid into Cooper DeJean's DMs

Salley Carson, 31, said on the "Not Skinny But Not Fat" podcast that she "just slid into Cooper DeJean’s [DMs]," calling him a "football player for the Eagles" and a "little 22-year-old." She added that DeJean, 23, is "dating, or

Tech

Nifty mouse comparison tool for conveying hand-feel

EloShapes.com presents a visual way to compare mice and mousepads by price, features and—crucially—shape, aiming to convey hand‑feel before purchase. The site includes a “Find Similar” feature that lists mice with comparable profiles and specs, ranked from “Same shape” and “Very similar” down to “Slightly Similar.

Culture

Where to Watch Robert Duvall’s Top Performances

Robert Duvall, whose screen presence was natural and grounded, died on Sunday at age 95. He was best known for playing rugged, capable men drawn from America’s past, present and possible future, and his quiet intensity made roles from the TV western Lonesome Dove to the cop drama Colors

Politics

Censoring Stephen Colbert's interviews is bad regardless of your political party

On Tuesday morning, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert posted an interview on its YouTube page with Texas state representative James Talarico, who is running for Senate in 2026. The segment did not air on Monday night’s Late Show because, as Colbert put it in the opening of the

Culture

Jesse Jackson's 1972 Sesame Street Visit

A young Black man sits on a brownstone stoop, hair in an Afro and a medallion around his neck, as children of different races gather on the set of Sesame Street in 1972. He leads a call-and-response—“I am!” “Somebody!”—that echoes a refrain Jesse Jackson used at rallies. Jackson,

Culture

Dwayne Johnson Bids Farewell to Danny DeVito on 'Jumanji' Set

Danny DeVito has finished filming on Jumanji 4, the final chapter of the franchise. DeVito joined the series in 2019 as Eddie Gilpin in Jumanji: The Next Level, and his last day on set prompted an emotional send-off from costar Dwayne Johnson. Johnson shared behind-the-scenes photos on Instagram, including one