How a new instrument could reveal the secrets of the stars — MOONS, which was built by a team lead from Scotland, has started its work at the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
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Stock Rally Cools Ahead of BOJ, RBA Decisions | The Asia Trade 6/16/2026 — "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" brings you everything you need to know to get ahead as the trading day begins in Asia. Bloomberg TV is live from Tokyo and Sydney with Shery Ahn and Haidi Stroud-Watts,…
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Chess engine analyzed 50 million positions to find the worst move that still wins — the pawn structure decisions that don't matter until they do.
The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates! — A Pirates fan looks at 40.
EN World: D&D & Tabletop RPG News & Reviews — EN World: D&D & Tabletop RPG News & Reviews
Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 — A big Steam Deck price hike.
Gerrymandle — Draw districts and win the election. A new puzzle every day.
NBC is turning Wordle into a TV show - Engadget — The NYT's word game has been pretty much everywhere else.
Free Online Logic Puzzles, Sudoku, Nonograms, Kakuro & More | Puzzle Lair — Puzzle Lair brings Sudoku, Killer Sudoku, Calcudoku, X-Sudoku, Kakuro, Ripple Effect, Crossmath and Nonogram together in one clean, free site. Solve daily logic puzzles, track your stats and climb…
The BBC Tetris Companion — Overview and history of the BBC Bridge Companion home game console, and a brief overview of a composite video mod, repairs, the design of a game cartridge PCB, and the development of a new puzzle game for the obscure system.
Nvidia finds that simple linear math can replace costly AI model handoffs — <p>When an agentic AI system hands a task from a small model to a larger one — or back down again — it pays a steep tax: the receiving model has to recompute the entire conversation from scratch,…
donjon; Fantasy Tools — A collection of random generators for Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop role-playing games
Thranpages :: How Did I Do :: SimCity 3k in 4k — SimCity 3000 is the best SimCity. Its only problem is that it doesn't run well on contemporary systems. Not to worry, here's a complete guide to a perfect game of SimCity 3000 on modern Windows:...
Why did the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows have a special sticker announcing that it also had Tetris? - The Old New Thing — A contingency plan.
Anthropeum — A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
The Moomin Strategy for Living with Uncertainty — “All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured.”
Capture One Mobile 4.0 brings desktop-grade denoising and healing tools to iPhone and iPad — The August update adds Enhanced Denoise, Color Balance, Heal & Clone and Keywords to Capture One's iOS app, features that previously forced mobile shooters back to a desktop to finish…
These Employees Like Their A.I. Boss. Its Shop Is Kind of a Disaster. — A new study of a bot running a first-of-its-kind San Francisco store finds it is really friendly, but not very smart.
Dolmenwood — Dolmenwood is a fantasy RPG built around the acclaimed Old-School Essentials rules, presenting a familiar game with a lavishly detailed world inspired by the fairy tales and eerie folklore of the British Isles. Streamlined rules and helpful introductory materials…
Amelia Dimoldenberg to close doors of Chicken Shop Date — Amelia Dimoldenberg announces she will end her popular YouTube series after more than a decade.
People Without Kids Now Utilize 529 Accounts — Bloomberg's Sarah Foster joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Money." In 2022 Congress tweaked the rules covering 529 plans. Now, people without kids are now able to pour money into those accounts after hitting the annual limits for…
Misfits Attic Announces Duskers 2.0 Funded By Stray Signal — Duskers 2.0 Teaser Trailer Released Into The PC Gaming Show
‘I wanted that Raiders of the Lost Ark excitement – you could die any minute’: how we made hit video game Prince of Persia — ‘There was no animation software in those days. So I videotaped my brother David running, jumping and climbing in a car park’
Pixel 11 series hands-on: HiLight is a miss, Magic Capture is a hit — Some new features are good, others less so. So it goes.
Donalds Looks to Build on DeSantis Legacy — Republican Rep. Byron Donalds is on Bloomberg This Weekend and tells hosts Joe Mathieu and Carol Massar that affordability will be central to his campaign for Florida governor, proposing changes aimed at property taxes, insurance,…
BASTIONLAND — Inventive tabletop design.
Studio Barnes and Ch_studio to convert former KKK building in Texas into arts centre — <p>A team including Studio Barnes and Ch_studio has revealed designs for the 1920s building once used by the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan in Fort Worth, Texas, into a "catalyst…
What's the difference between MagSafe and Qi wireless charging? — Magnets work the same whether you use an iPhone or Android device, but there are some nitty gritty differences in standards you should be aware of.
The Angry GM | RPG Advice with Attitude — The Angry GM delivers advice to players and dungeon masters of fantasy role-playing games with humor, snark, and attitude. Game masters and players are sure to find something of use, whether they are playing AD&D, D&D 3.5, D&D 4E, 5E, Pat
Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc. — Jay Peters: Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked people from playing their…
Agentic Context Management: Solving Agent Memory and Cost by Treating Them as Lifecycle and Architecture Problems — Production AI agents' failures are less often due to an inability to reason well and more often because they cannot manage what is in their reasoning context:…
this person mapped out every secret in half-life 2 by replaying it 40 times. the obsession is honestly kind of beautiful.
Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week — Is the Epic Google case finally over?
Linux gaming is getting faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features — As time goes on, fewer games than ever are unplayable on Linux
Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth games: "it gets very hard to tell what’s light, what’s shadow, what’s dark, what’s safe" — Realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth games, says Clint Hocking of Splinter Cell and Far Cry fame.
Collections: Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? — At long last, Relic Entertainment has announced that Age of Empires 4 is coming. Strategy gamers rejoice! I am excited – I played the first one back in ’98 (I may be dating myself here)…
What to know about South Carolina’s election to replace Lindsey Graham — Tuesday's special election will pick a Republican challenger for the midterm Senate race transformed by Graham's death.
Odd Lots: Trucking Is Booming and Drivers Aren’t Happy About It — In the last year, freight companies have seen a significant upturn in business. But in addition to growing demand, the industry has also experienced new constraints on the supply side, with the US administration…
Rock Paper Shotgun — PC gaming news, previews, reviews, opinion.
Someone reverse-engineered why Nike's QS drops always crack in the same spot. The material science explanation actually makes sense.
Yen’s $103 Billion Short Risks Unwind Below 155, JPMorgan Says — A further unwind of sizable short positions could accelerate the yen’s gains if it strengthens past 155 per dollar, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. strategists.
Landfill collapse kills 30 in Guinea’s capital after heavy rains — A mound of waste collapsed at a landfill in Conakry, Guinea, after heavy overnight rains, engulfing nearby homes.
Home - Archives of Nethys: Pathfinder 2nd Edition Database — The Pathfinder rules reference.
Bessent’s Bond Gains Wiped Out as 30-Year Yields Jump Once Again — The yields on the longest-dated US government bonds shot back to levels seen just before Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shocked markets last month by expanding a buyback program in an effort to halt the rise.
A good – and bad – week for Italy's art police and museum security — On Friday, Italian police said they'd recovered three paintings stolen from a museum near the city of Parma. By Saturday night, thieves in Sicily had made off with four more masterpieces.
Open5e — Free and open-source library of 5e rules, monsters, spells, etc. Powered by the Open5e API
UK-made drones strike targets inside Russia — The drones have been used for the first time in mainland Russia to hit military and industrial targets.
MTG Bench: Testing how well LLMs can play magic | MTG Auto Deck — MTG Bench tests how well LLMs can play Magic.
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Anker's New MindBase Home Hub Runs AI Locally, Doubles as NAS — Anker today announced the launch of Anker MindBase, an AI home hub meant to work with almost 100 Anker devices and Matter-enabled smart home devices from other companies. It works alongside HomeKit, and is equipped…
Djokovic suffers in heat as Tirante inflicts shock defeat — Novak Djokovic struggles with the heat and humidity as he falls to a shock defeat by Argentina's Thiago Tirante in the second round of the Cincinnati Open.
Trump Vows to Double Canadian Auto Tariffs, Escalating Fight — Bloomberg's Melissa Shin said that negotiators in both Canada and the United States understand how important the auto sector is both countries as President Trump vowed to double existing tariffs on the Canadian auto…
Best robot vacuum deal: Save $100 on Tapo RV50 Pro Omni — Make floor-cleaning fully automated.
Bitcoin (BTC) Becomes Mainstream Thanks to IBIT, MSBT and ETF Process — It’s becoming easier for investors to swap Bitcoin holdings for ETF shares.
Netanyahu says his ties with Trump are ‘fine’, takes aim at Turkiye — In Fox News interview, Israeli prime minister lauds US alliance and argues that Ankara should not receive F-35 jets.
Fashion Empire Azzas 2154 to Split Two Years After Failed Merger — Azzas 2154 SA, one of Brazil’s largest apparel exporters, will split into two independent publicly traded companies as its main shareholders seek to end a months-long dispute over governance and strategy.
Twins call up top prospect Jenkins with Buxton's status unclear — The Twins have called up top prospect Walker Jenkins, with the status of All-Star center fielder Byron Buxton unclear.
Study Shows AI Hitting Paychecks, Not Payrolls — Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok says early labor-market data suggest AI’s first impact is appearing more in wages than employment. In a study of hundreds of occupations, Slok found that jobs with higher exposure to AI have…