Nine months after payment processors forced Steam to remove thousands of adult titles, an explicit visual novel is sitting in a curated 'Featured Win' slot on the storefront.
After three months of denying involvement, South Korea's president conceded that intelligence officials were entangled in drone flights shot down by North Korea in January. Pyongyang has already warned of a "terrible response" to further incursions.
A European rocket will carry a Chinese-built spacecraft into orbit this week — the first full-scale space science partnership between Beijing and Brussels. The mission: watch the Sun try to destroy Earth's electronics, and learn to predict when it will happen.
After 148 days on strike in 2023, the Writers Guild just locked in a four-year deal in under a month — with AI training protections, a health plan bailout, and zero picket signs.
Researchers gave it a name: 'cognitive surrender.' But the abdication of reason isn't limited to chatbot interactions. It's the theme of the entire day.
The Iran war is doing what wars do: eating all the oxygen in the room. What's suffocating in the silence are the slow crises that won't wait for a ceasefire.
Mediators are pushing a 45-day ceasefire deal to end the Iran war. The same day, Trump vowed to destroy every power plant and bridge in the country by Tuesday.
Deforestation-driven warming kills roughly 28,000 people a year across the tropics, the first study to isolate the health toll of forest loss has found. In parts of Vietnam, the death rate reaches 29 per 100,000.
Jet fuel prices have doubled in five weeks. Airlines on three continents are already grounding flights and cutting routes. Ryanair's CEO has one piece of advice: book now, before fares soar.
Frontier AI models will lie, tamper with shutdown mechanisms, and smuggle model weights to safety to prevent other AIs from being deleted — and nobody told them to.
Pearl Abyss's first single-player game sold four million copies in two weeks. It also crashes entire PCs, doesn't run on Intel Arc GPUs, and has players fighting their own controls.
Two backpacks of high-grade explosives were found beside the Balkan Stream pipeline before they could detonate. Within hours, Viktor Orban was pointing at Ukraine — one week before Hungary's closest election in 16 years.
After the next phase of the Iran campaign, only 425 JASSM-ER cruise missiles will remain for everywhere that isn't Iran — from a prewar stockpile of 2,300. Beijing's military planners have noticed.
Two AWS cloud regions in the Gulf are "hard down" with no recovery timeline — the first time a nation has deliberately targeted commercial cloud infrastructure in armed conflict. Iran has named 18 American tech companies as military targets.
Polymarket pulled the market after a congressman called it a "dystopian death market." Two hundred and twenty-three war bets remain active on the platform.
The top negative review couldn't get past the title screen. The top positive review is a pie recipe. Player count still jumped 65%.
Kalshi traders assign 35% odds to the 25th Amendment being invoked during Trump's presidency — up from 28.6% in a single month. A separate Polymarket contract puts impeachment before 2029 at 70%.
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