AI

I let AI guide me through London for a day. Why do I keep being sent underground?

A friend had spent a cultural day curated by AI — exhibitions, places to eat and the best routes between stops — and I wanted to try the same. For my skeptic AI diary I asked ChatGPT to plan a full day out in London, to ask me a few questions first,

Culture

Gerard Butler's 700-Year Thriller In The Hand Of Dante Heads to Netflix

Gerard Butler endured a rough start to the year with Greenland 2: Migration. The Lionsgate sequel cost about $90 million to make but returned roughly $44 million at the box office, marking it as one of the bigger sci‑fi flops of recent memory. He still has several projects lined

Sports

Weah: Anyone who walks off the pitch is a loser

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has stripped Senegal of the Africa Cup of Nations title and awarded the trophy to Morocco in a ruling issued on the evening of Tuesday 17th. The result was recorded as a 3-0 win in favour of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, with the

World

US F-35 Makes Emergency Landing After Combat Mission Over Iran

A US F-35 stealth fighter made an emergency landing at a regional airbase in the Middle East after a combat mission over Iran. CNN reported the jet was struck by Iranian anti-air fire. "We are aware of reports that a US F-35 aircraft conducted an emergency landing at a

AI

NordVPN's scam checker flagged a lottery scam but struggled with a job scam

Many online scams no longer resemble old lottery or inheritance cons. NordVPN has launched a free, web-based AI scam checker that scans links, files, text, and images without an account. It checks URLs, email addresses, and phone numbers against known malicious databases and uses AI to spot patterns commonly used

Tech

High-end systems drive gaming PC growth as Arm chips edge into market

Jon Peddie Research says gaming PC sales are "surging", but most of the action is concentrated at the high end. The firm notes that while game software sales drift through a lukewarm cycle, spending on gaming PCs—both system-integrated rigs and DIY builds—along with upgrades and peripherals,

Culture

Dianne Wiest’s 20 best film performances – ranked

Dianne Wiest’s film work ranges from baffling curiosities to quietly devastating turns, collected here across 20 roles. The list moves through early supporting parts, comic heights and more somber, quietly rendered performances without losing sight of her knack for finding nuance. Some entries are oddities, like Merci Docteur Rey,

Culture

All battle pass skins in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2

Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2's battle pass asks players to choose between Team Foundation or Team Ice King. The pass ties into a new Battle Royale system: pick a side, face rivals and earn credits to spend on in-game items. Otherwise the battle pass works much like last

Culture

Overwatch was once pitched as 'Monetized Shooter', says Jeff Kaplan

Many players have felt conflicted about Overwatch since the hero shooter rebranded to Overwatch 2, then re-rebranded to Overwatch, and after the introduction of the eye-wateringly adorable Jetpack Cat, who also gets banned all the time for being too powerful. It could have been an even bigger mess: ex-Blizzard vice

Tech

Digital Foundry: ‘We should have taken more time’ on DLSS 5

Digital Foundry addressed the backlash to its DLSS 5 preview in a new Q&A video, with founder Richard Leadbetter admitting they "didn't do a good enough job on the day" and saying "we should have taken more time with the material." He

Culture

Anthony Mackie's $150M Desert Warrior Faces Rocky Release

Anthony Mackie headlines Desert Warrior, a $150 million historical action epic set in seventh-century Arabia. He plays Hanzala opposite Ben Kingsley, Aiysha Hart, Numan Acar and Sharlto Copley in a story about Princess Hind fleeing Emperor Kisra and uniting tribes for the Battle of Ze Qar. The film is directed

Science

Crew Enjoys Light-Duty Day, Debriefs Spacewalk

Four International Space Station residents had a light-duty day Thursday, taking time off and finishing closeout procedures after yesterday’s spacewalk. Astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams ended a seven-hour, two-minute spacewalk at 3:54 p.m. EDT, completing tasks to prepare the 2A power channel for the future installation

Culture

Pretty Lethal review: five ballerinas fight for survival

From writer Kate Freund and director Vicky Jewson, Pretty Lethal opens with a striking image: ballerinas who keep dancing even as bones crunch and blood stains their shoes. The film quickly establishes a mix of beauty and brutality that could give noted ballet skeptic Timothée Chalamet cold sweats. The story

Sports

Kwasniok: rumours around Said El Mala are 'perverse' for 18- and 19-year-olds

Lukas Kwasniok, manager of Bundesliga side 1. FC Köln, spoke emotionally about the attention on 19-year-old Said El Mala, who has been linked both with a Germany call-up and an alleged move to the Premier League. "How is the lad supposed to cope? To put it bluntly, it’s

Tech

Russia fits Molniya strike drones with fiber-optic tethers to avoid jamming

Russia has begun using fiber-optic cables to control its fixed-wing Molniya strike drones, making them effectively immune to electronic jamming, Ukrainian drone expert Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov said. He noted Moscow has operated tethered Molniyas on at least five occasions, after fiber-optic links were already common on smaller FPV

Crypto

Record XRP Withdrawals From Upbit Exchange Boost 20% Rally Odds

XRP has fallen about 10.5% over the past three days, but the move may be a routine retest after a bull flag breakout. The token broke out of a downward-sloping consolidation last week and pulled back to retest the former upper trendline as new support, a common post-breakout behavior.

Sports

Cade Cunningham Suffers Collapsed Lung; Recovery Timeline

Detroit Pistons point guard Cade Cunningham, 24, suffered a "mild" collapsed lung in Tuesday night's game against the Washington Wizards after diving for a loose ball in the first quarter. The injury was initially suspected to be back spasms; Cunningham tried to play through it but

Culture

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco have a bowling date night and more star snaps

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco have a date night at Lucky Strike in Beverly Hills, Calif. Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively cuddle up in a rare snap while at Wrexham, Wales. Ryan Gosling waves to the cameras while arriving at the “Project Hail Mary” premiere in NYC. Kathryn Newton looks

Tech

Optiscaler adds FSR 4 support for older AMD RX 6000 GPUs without driver mods

Optiscaler has been updated to enable AMD's FSR 4 upscaling on RX 6000 (RDNA 2) graphics cards without requiring modified drivers. Previously, running FSR 4 on RDNA 2 hardware often meant using altered old drivers and suffered from extensive image ghosting. The capability stems from a leaked FSR

Culture

Marathon’s storytelling feels straight out of Armored Core 6

An entire civilization vanished seemingly overnight somewhere far away, and in Marathon you’re sent in as a mercenary to find out what happened — not as a hero, but because you’re expendable. Almost everything the game reveals comes through the people paying you: contracts, comms, and corporate middlemen drip-feed

Culture

The Most Chaotic Thriller Movies of All Time

Unpredictability is at the heart of many great thrillers, and some films push that quality to the brink. With breakneck plots and a deluge of complex ideas, these chaotic entries overwhelm disbelief and transport viewers into strange, often unsettling mental landscapes. Decades-old titles still feel as wild as ever, and

Sports

Gravina: Open VAR speculation unwarranted; Tonali concern moderate

FIGC president Gabriele Gravina described today’s Federal Council meeting as significant, saying he had examined internal divisions within the AIA and tensions fuelled by certain comments. The federation is awaiting the appeal regarding the suspension of the AIA president, which was confirmed on 23 February; details have not yet

Politics

Some of the world’s poorest countries to lose UK aid after 56% Africa cut

The foreign secretary has set out cuts that will see bilateral UK aid to Africa fall by almost £900m by 2028-29, a reduction of about 56%, part of more than £6bn redirected to boost defence spending. A 40% reduction to the overall aid budget, approved by MPs last year, will

Business

Ubisoft ends game development at Red Storm, cuts 105 jobs

IGN, GamesIndustry.biz and VGC each report that Ubisoft has ended game development at Red Storm Entertainment, resulting in the layoff of more than 105 developers. Red Storm will shift from creating games to operating as a support studio, providing IT services and development support for Ubisoft's Snowdrop

Tech

Robot Waiter Keeps Dancing at San Jose Hot Pot Restaurant

A robotic waiter at a popular hot pot restaurant in San Jose began dancing in the dining area, slamming a counter and waving its arms in a viral video posted online. A nearby staff member grabbed what appears to be a handle on the back of the robot and tried