How Donkey Kong toppled Atari — Atari could have had the NES but walked away over Nintendo's deal with Coleco
World Cup winners to receive US-style championship rings, FIFA says — Players' rings will be limited edition of 2,026 individually numbered pieces, with the rest available for public sale.

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Kanter Freedom ejected after confrontation with Sky's Cloud — Ex-NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom was ejected from Sunday's game between the Fever and Sky after a verbal altercation with Chicago's Natasha Cloud.
Paradise Pawn — When Dad and I went to Dallas for Mom’s funeral, Dad gave me my own disposable camera with twenty four pictures on it. I used up two taking pictures out the window of the plane. I remember thinking…
Why Pope Leo quoted Gandalf in his response to the rise of AI. — In a moving message this weekend, Pope Leo XIV spoke out against the rising tide of AI and urged his followers to recommit to a radical humanism. The message—delivered in the form of an encyclical …
German Exports Unexpectedly Increase as US Sales Rebound — German exports unexpectedly rose in May, extending their run of growth to a fourth straight month thanks to a sharp rebound in shipments to the US.
Wordle today: The answer and hints for May 11, 2026 — Here are some tips and tricks to help you find the answer to "Wordle" #1787.
OpenFOV — Webcam head tracking for iRacing — OpenFOV uses your webcam to control iRacing's in-game FOV. Unlocks VR-style functionality for your monitor!
Sly Flourish: Run great tabletop roleplaying games. — Weekly articles with tips, tricks, tools, and advice for game masters written by the author of Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master.
Dungeon Scrawl by ProbableTrain — A simple and effective grid-based mapping tool to help you set the scene for any battle. Play in your browser

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“I Hope to Die Laughing.” On Tom Drury’s The End of Vandalism — Roughly a decade ago, shortly after I moved from Seattle to a nearby suburb, I slid into a bipolar mixed episode for a period of a month or so before it descended into straight depression. During m…
NYT's Wordle to become a TV game show | TechCrunch — The popular mobile puzzle game will become a TV game show next year.

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Plato’s Symposium Is Actually About Love — I have been obsessed with dinner parties since I was eight or nine. At this age my greatest desire was to get my mum to let me stay up for the ones she threw for her friends. Once I even succeeded.…
'PS5 Has Put a Dampener on Gaming': 45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC — Big ooft
NBC is turning Wordle into a TV show - Engadget — The NYT's word game has been pretty much everywhere else.
Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures - Dexerto — The Stop Killing Games campaign has been dealt a major setback after the EU declined to force publishers to keep discontinued games playable.
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NASA transfers ownership of Maryland woodland to the US Fish and Wildlife Service — A rare 2026 story of good news for the planet.
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our quintet of quality reviews this week includes Hannah Gold on Missouri Williams’s The Vivisectors, Rand Richards Cooper on Joyce Carol Oates’s The Frenzy, Jenessa Abrams on Emily LaB…
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Cyber attack shut down small power plant — The government says at no point was there a risk to the UK's energy system during the attack in July.
A speedrunner just beat a 20-year-old game record by doing something the original developers literally patched out in 2004. They found the patch notes and reversed it.

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August 12, 2026 – Apple exec changes, more — Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts...

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Photos: Khamenei funeral procession under way in Tehran — Iranians mourn along procession route before burial in Mashhad during weeklong ceremonies.
Neil the Seal - 3D Browser Game — A free browser game where Neil barrels through suburban Tasmania, pushes cars, flattens fences, and causes lovable mischief.
Lit Hub Daily: June 15, 2026 — Emily Temple reads every summer reading list (so you don’t have to). | Lit Hub Reading Lists Everything you didn’t think you needed to know about how squids have sex. | Lit Hub Nature D…
OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack — The state is investigating whether OpenAI’s ‘inability or unwillingness to ensure the safety of its products’ endangers citizens.
Kobold Plus Fight Club - The first rule of Kobold Fight Club is 'Yip Yip!' — Encounter building for 5e.
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How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms — Close to Thiepval, a small French village in Picardy with about a hundred inhabitants, stands one of the most poignant memorials to the millions killed in World War I. More than fifty meters tall, …
AI-driven memory crunch jolts India's smartphone market | TechCrunch — India's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.
‘Once Upon a Time in Harlem,’ ‘Rehearsals for a Revolution,’ ‘Barbara Forever’ Receive 2026 Albie Awards — 'Once Upon a Time in Harlem,' 'Rehearsals for a Revolution,' and 'Barbara Forever' will all receive 2026 Albie Awards.
Airport Simulator — The sky (and your endurance) is the limit!
Sea Monster Villages and Soul Traders: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books — This month’s list comes to you from smoky orange skies and toxic lettuce, so what better time to distract ourselves with haunted seaside villages, mysterious salt pillars, and demon hunters? Robert…
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Lit Hub Daily: July 1, 2026 — Get ready for part two! These are the 258 books we’re most anticipating in the second half of 2026. | Lit Hub Reading Lists We’re begging you to let Maggie Gyllenhaal adapt The Bell Jar…
An Edinburgh Fringe Veteran on His Favorite Spots Around the Festival — Comedian Phil Wang tells us where to eat and drink throughout Fringe this year—plus the best shows you can still book.
Today's Hurdle hints and answers for May 12, 2026 — Everything you need to win.
The Healing Power of Watching the Boys of 'Jackass' Do Incredibly Stupid Things - Longreads — "Johnny Knoxville and his band of merry pranksters got me through one of the worst weeks of my life."
Number Gacha — Can you get all 100 numbers?
Best vacuum deal: Take 27% off the Shark PowerDetect Pet Plus Clean & Empty — The cordless stick vacuum has powerful suction with a self-emptying base.

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Unleash Your Hero! | Paizo — Pathfinder Second Edition is easier to learn and faster to play, with deep character customization options that let you build the perfect character.
A Chorus of Poets: On the Possible Existence of Multiple Homers — Dawn touches the sky with her rosy fingers, and I realize that I forgot to put the bin out. I turn on the radio, and the news is full of stories about powerful men with fragile egos catapulting the…
Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2 — Here are three true statements about the game of Slay the Spire 2 (in single player): If you pick Neow's Bones in the Underdocks, the random curse is ~54% likely to be Debt.* It is impossible to receive Rebound from the Trash Heap…
The Pi-hole mistakes that can expose your entire browsing history — Your PI-hole sees everything you do on the internet; don't accidentally leak it.
Here's a dirty trick for speedrunning 'SpongeBob' — It’s called the “gamer gunk theory.”
Google I/O 2026 AI and Android XR Highlights — Gemini and Android XR took center stage at Google I/O.
It's not about physical vs digital games, it's about ownership — PlayStation announced that they will stop making disks. People are rightfully mad about this, but it's not actually about physical media. It's about owning your games.
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.