Tech

Todd Howard acknowledges fan 'anxiety' over Fallout 5 silence

Todd Howard says he feels the "anxiety from fans" about the studio's silence on Fallout 5, a quiet that has continued even amid peak Fallout TV show hype. He stresses that development is ongoing and that there will be news in due course. In Game Informer&

Business

Nintendo Isn’t Freaking Out About the RAM Shortage, Yet

Investors and analysts pressed Nintendo during its earnings Q&A over whether the company will raise the price of the Switch 2 because of spiking memory prices amid AI-fueled shortages. RAM is through the roof and graphics cards are getting delayed, but Nintendo says it is keeping a cool

Tech

How to use Lockdown Mode: iPhone feature that blocked FBI access

Lockdown Mode is an extreme iPhone security feature that drastically limits functionality to stop targeted attacks. It is meant for people facing serious threats — reporters, politicians, activists — and has drawn attention after court records reportedly show agents were unable to extract data from a seized journalist's phone while

Crypto

Tether Freezes $500 Million in Assets Linked to Turkish Gambling Ring

Tether has frozen more than $500 million in digital assets tied to an alleged illegal gambling and money‑laundering network in Turkey. The freeze targets assets reportedly owned by Veysel Sahin, whom Turkish prosecutors accuse of running a sprawling illegal betting network, and stands as one of the largest single‑

Culture

Stranger Things Drops From Global Streaming Charts

Netflix's lineup is anchored by a few flagship shows, and the streamer’s biggest release so far this year was Bridgerton, which returned for Season 4 with a 52% viewership increase and reached the top of the streaming charts. That surge has pushed another flagship, Stranger Things, off

AI

WordPress launches Claude connector for back-end site data

WordPress launched a new Claude connector, enabling site owners to share back-end data with Anthropic’s chatbot system. Users can control what specific data they want to share, and access can also be revoked if and when the user chooses. Notably, Claude is given read-only access, meaning it won’t

Sports

Cole Palmer hat-trick seals Chelsea win over Wolves in 100th appearance

Chelsea swept Wolves aside in a decisive first-half display as Cole Palmer bagged a hat-trick. The England forward, who has had his fair share of critics amid reports he was seeking a way out of Stamford Bridge, buried two penalties and smacked home a third on his 100th appearance for

Crypto

Bitcoin, altcoins rally: is it a dead cat bounce?

Bitcoin recovered sharply above $69,000 after plunging to $60,000 on Friday, reopening the door for a retest of the breakdown level at $74,508. The drop pushed the Crypto Fear & Greed Index to 9, its lowest since June 2022. Veteran trader Peter Brandt said the decline had

Culture

Gisele Bündchen shows off wedding ring for the first time

Gisele Bündchen finally showed off her wedding ring for the first time since marrying Joaquim Valente. She was spotted flashing a simple gold band while stepping out for a bike ride with her 1-year-old son in Miami, dressed in a white sweatshirt and gray sweatpants and accessorized with a white

Culture

Blitzball thrives in Final Fantasy 14 thanks to fan-built 140-page ruleset

Blitzball lives inside Final Fantasy 14 through a fan-run league that built a rules document over 140 slides long. It reads like its own tabletop-RPG system, with lanes, classes and mechanics for blocking, diving, tackling and taunting, yet matches move quickly thanks to clever use of the game's

Culture

NeverEnding Story II is terrible but revived theatrical Bugs Bunny shorts

The end of the 1984 fantasy film The NeverEnding Story is triumphant: Bastian is absorbed into the book, told he can restore Fantasia with as many wishes as he wants, and flies back on Falkor to a fully restored world. The sequel, The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter, is

Business

Musk merges xAI into SpaceX as he tries to win over Wall Street

Elon Musk this week combined SpaceX, his rocket and satellite company, with xAI, the artificial intelligence and social media business he controls. He says the merger will let SpaceX move A.I. data centers into orbit to tap abundant solar power and sidestep terrestrial bureaucracies — a vision that many found

Culture

Lumineth Battletome reshapes how the faction plays

At first glance the latest Lumineth Realm-Lords update looks underwhelming: a new Battletome, a Battleforce box of older models, and a single new miniature. As a Lumineth player I admit I sighed, but the new book quietly brings substantial changes to how the army functions. The biggest addition is a

Tech

HP 15.6-Inch Business Notebook Now $380, 55% Off

The HP 15.6 FHD Business Notebook offers a large screen and extra features for users who don’t have room for a desktop tower. It is available for $380, down from a regular $840 — a $460 reduction, or 55% off. Inside is a 13th‑generation Intel Core i3 processor

World

BBC Persian journalists say Iran monitoring them and targeting their families

Exiled Iranian journalists working for the BBC said their movements are being closely monitored by the state and that family members in Iran have been interrogated and persecuted for their reporting. Relatives were threatened with arrest and the seizure of assets unless the journalists stopped covering unrest, and some parents

Culture

Ben Stiller Says David Bowie Cameo Was a Career "High Point"

Ben Stiller says sharing a scene with David Bowie on his 2001 comedy Zoolander was a "high point" in his career. Stiller, who played male model Derek Zoolander, recalled: "Having worked with so many different people over the years, it's really one of the high

Culture

Clint Eastwood western fades from Tubi top 10 after unexpected run

Sergio Leone’s 1966 epic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, starring Clint Eastwood, became one of the ten most-streamed movies on Tubi in the U.S., but has since faded into the background on the free streamer. The drop offers an opening for younger viewers to rediscover a

Sports

Lamine Yamal wonder and Lewandowski help Barcelona to 3-0 win

Lamine Yamal scored a brilliant long-range goal, and Robert Lewandowski and Marc Bernal also found the net as Barcelona beat Mallorca 3-0 at the Spotify Camp Nou. Hansi Flick's side had to shake off a difficult opening before clicking through the gears to record a routine win. Mallorca

Culture

Star snaps of the week: Elizabeth Banks, Snoop Dogg, Charli xcx and more

Chloë Grace Moretz shows off her new friend while Down Under to take in the Australian Open tennis tourney. Timothée Chalamet celebrates winning best actor at last week’s London Critics’ Circle Film Awards with a frothy pint of Guinness. "Vampire Diaries" star Nina Dobrev is kissing toxins

Culture

Yoshi finally gives birth on-screen in new Super Mario Galaxy movie teaser

Yoshi, Baby Mario's foster father and adult Mario's horse, is the headlining new character in the Super Mario Galaxy movie, which appears to be a neverending tapestry of references for theater-attending videogame players to point at and whisper, "I remember that guy" to their

Sports

Newcastle United v Brentford – Premier League live

Early on Harvey Barns sent a long-range effort just wide and VAR spent a lengthy spell reviewing a challenge that looked like Kieran Trippier tugging back Lewis-Potter, a moment that left Newcastle fortunate as play continued. Newcastle arrive after four games without a win, three of those against PSG, Liverpool

Culture

Fallout season 2 finale mirrors classic game progression

Season 2 of Fallout has been a wild stretch — deathclaws, feral ghouls in Elvis getups and big reveals that made parts of the season feel like a covert Fallout 4 adaptation. Only a couple of weeks pass on screen, but Lucy MacLean, Maximus and the Ghoul have all changed enough

World

A Mosque Bombing Undercuts Pakistan’s Bid for Security

In recent years Pakistan arrested, jailed or killed dozens of Islamic State militants along its border with Afghanistan and was praised as a “phenomenal partner” by a U.S. official after extraditing the suspected plotter of a 2021 attack in Kabul that killed 13 Americans. A suicide bombing on Friday

Culture

Brendan Fraser's Mummy sequel could see Oded Fehr return

We might be getting a less family-friendly Mummy movie this year, thanks to director Lee Cronin, but once that’s all wrapped up the next take on the moaning, groaning monster will revisit the franchise led by Brendan Fraser. It was confirmed in November last year that both Fraser and

Politics

Pelosi to Endorse Jack Schlossberg, Again Backing a Kennedy for Congress

Ms. Pelosi is planning to endorse Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy, in his run for New York’s 12th Congressional District, making a rare foray into a crowded Democratic primary. The Manhattan district is an affluent quasi-rectangle that includes Times Square, Central Park, the United Nations and