Tech

Save $100 on Bose Ultra Open earbuds at Amazon

As of June 12, select colors of the Bose Ultra Open earbuds are back to their lowest-ever price at Amazon: $199, a $100 discount off the $299 list price. Colors reduced to $199 include white smoke, black, desert gold, driftwood sand, midnight violet, and moonstone blue. Open earbuds suit listeners

Sports

Why Rayan Cherki draws comparisons with Zinedine Zidane

Lebeouf, another World Cup winner from 1998, said Cherki is "a little bit like Zizou. The skill that he shows reminds me sometimes of Zinedine. It's true. But of course, you can put also Maradona in there and all those players who know how to work."

AI

Why Anthropic rattled the AI industry this week

Anthropic changed course after a developer backlash and said it will no longer secretly degrade Fable 5 responses when users ask for help on frontier AI model development. Instead, those requests will be routed to a less-good model, Opus 4.8, and developers will be told. "We apologize,"

Sports

LA Grand Prix: Sha'Carri Richardson and Tara Davis-Woodhall Lead Star Field

Last weekend's Texas Grand Prix on the USA Track & Field Tour showcased some of the world's top athletes at one of the year's biggest outdoor events. This weekend brings the follow-up: the LA Grand Prix, the second of two gold-level events on the

Crypto

VanEck bets BNB’s real-world usage can stand out in a crowded crypto ETF market

VanEck recently launched the first U.S. spot BNB ETF, trading under the ticker VBNB on Nasdaq. The fund gives investors exposure to BNB through traditional brokerage accounts and has attracted roughly $2 million in assets since launch, VanEck Director of Digital Assets Product Kyle DaCruz said on the Public

Tech

Crimson Desert patch 1.11 raises pet cap to 100

Crimson Desert's 1.11 update expands the game's pet systems: players can now register up to 100 pets and summon as many as 50 at camp. The patch also adds a dedicated map icon for baby wyverns. Pets continue to follow into combat and loot defeated

Culture

Dark Souls inspired Destiny's tough early enemies, ex-lead says

Niles Sankey, Destiny world design lead, says one of the game's early challenges was inspired by Dark Souls. While working on the Cosmodrome he deliberately placed the "skull health bar knights" to hide mysterious areas behind high-level foes, echoing Dark Souls' lesson about where not

Sports

The biggest race in the world? The 24 Hours of Le Mans is this weekend

More than 350,000 spectators will watch 62 cars compete, day and night, in the 94th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. First held in 1923, the event mixes permanent track and public roads and remains a proving ground for road-relevant technology—disc brakes, hybrid systems, brake-by-wire, direct

Tech

Louis Rossman sues Samsung over denied replacement for 990 Pro SSD

Louis Rossman, a tech YouTuber and consumer rights advocate, is suing Samsung after a 4 TB 990 Pro SSD he bought failed and the company said it could not replace the drive, even though the model appears in stock on Samsung's Amazon store. Rossman says he bought the

AI

Anthropic to make Fable 5 downgrades visible after backlash

Anthropic released Fable (technically “Fable 5”), a more restricted version of its powerful Mythos tool, and said it would block certain risky research in areas like cybersecurity, biology and chemistry. For some flagged requests the model visibly downgraded to Opus and told users, but for frontier work such as high-end

Tech

The Wolf Among Us 2 director reveals the sequel's darker tone

The long-delayed sequel to Telltale Games’ 2013 detective title has survived studio closures, engine changes and layoffs and now appears on track for a 2027 release. A live demo at Summer Game Fest showed the project working in a rebuilt pipeline after the studio rebooted the game a few years

Tech

Bungie disables Marathon endgame mode Cryo Archive after revive bug

Bungie has disabled access to Cryo Archive after players discovered an exploit that left downed characters unable to be revived. The mode is a Destiny-like endgame raid added in Marathon Season 2 for a more intense PvP challenge and higher rewards. "As a precaution while we investigate why some

Culture

‘We can’t give up on Afghans’: Lyse Doucet on The Finest Hotel in Kabul

Lyse Doucet first checked into Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel on Christmas Day 1988 as Soviet troops were withdrawing, expecting a brief stay. She remained for almost a year, and the hotel became her first Afghan home and, decades later, the subject of her first book, The Finest Hotel in Kabul,

Tech

Beats Studio Pro up to 51% off on Amazon

The Beats Studio Pro are Apple’s flagship over-ear headphones from the Beats line, offering active noise cancellation and a transparency mode that run on both iOS and Android. Amazon has them at $170, a $180 reduction from the $350 list price — a 51% discount. USB-C handles charging and lossless

Culture

Why Jesse Eisenberg Didn't Return as Mark Zuckerberg for The Social Reckoning

Aaron Sorkin says Jesse Eisenberg chose not to return for The Social Reckoning, the companion piece to 2010's The Social Network. Sony released the first trailer this week, and the new film casts Jeremy Strong as an older Mark Zuckerberg. Sorkin spent three days trying to persuade Eisenberg

Culture

Niall Horan says dinner-party meet-cute inspired Dinner Party

Niall Horan celebrated the release of his fourth studio album, Dinner Party, during a June 10 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The singer and the host caught up on the album and its title track, which Horan said draws directly from a night he found compelling. "

Culture

Tim Allen tells Jimmy Kimmel he 'hates' birthday gift

On Thursday's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy Kimmel handed Tim Allen an early birthday present after Allen said he wanted a 'real tank' like Jay Leno. Kimmel gave him a book on tanks; after unwrapping it Allen said, 'Oh, look at that!' and

Tech

ProtoArc EM25 review: budget MX Master lookalike that falls short

The ProtoArc EM25 aims to be a budget alternative to Logitech’s MX Master line, borrowing the ergonomic chassis, extended thumb rest and twin scroll wheels while keeping a low price. It looks promising on paper, but clumsy control implementation, noisy, edgy-feeling skates and a general lack of refinement undermine

Science

SpaceX Dragon to depart International Space Station June 16

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station on Tuesday, June 16. Live undocking coverage begins at 11:45 a.m. EDT on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel, with viewing options available across a variety of online platforms, including social media. Dragon

AI

Chet Faliszek says AI couldn't have made Team Fortress 2

Chet Faliszek, one of the writers behind Left 4 Dead and Half-Life, left Valve in 2017 and has since become a prolific TikTok personality. In a video uploaded on Thursday evening, he argued that Team Fortress 2 could never have been made by artificial intelligence. Faliszek framed his objection around

Tech

Fabled Legacy codes (June 2026) for Gems, Dawnbreak Coins, and more

Fabled Legacy codes can give you a useful boost in this RPG dungeon crawler as you team up with friends to explore the depths for loot and secrets. They top up in-game currencies so you can reroll gear or buy cosmetics to change your appearance in this Roblox experience. Current

Crypto

Metaplanet Strikes Deal for Siiibo Securities to Build Bitcoin Yield Products

Metaplanet announced it has agreed to acquire Siiibo Securities in a 2.1 billion yen ($13.1 million) share transfer deal to form a securities arm. The Tokyo-listed Bitcoin treasury company will take 100% ownership of the licensed financial instruments business, and after closing—expected in July—Siiibo Securities will

Tech

RPG Maker users race to save 14 years of forum resources

Gotcha Gotcha Games, the Kadokawa-owned subsidiary that holds the RPG Maker IP, has announced the 14-year-old RPG Maker Forum will close on December 11, 2026. A new site called RPG Maker Guild will replace it, but Gotcha Gotcha Games says it will not be archiving the original forum’s contents.

Culture

How The Mandalorian and Grogu Sets Up the Sequel Trilogy

The Mandalorian and Grogu is the first Star Wars film to bridge the gap between Return of the Jedi and the sequels, filling an interesting role within the film canon. The period between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens covers 32 years, and spin-offs like

Culture

Which Sci‑Fi World Would You Survive?

Which Sci‑Fi World Would You Survive? Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you'd actually make it out of alive. The quiz probes your instincts: do you pull on every thread until you understand the system, stop asking questions and start stockpiling, keep