Tech

Destiny 2's final update draws over 164,000 players on Steam

It's the day of Destiny 2's final live service update, and players have swarmed into the shooter to celebrate the game and make their demands for Destiny 3 known. With a peak of over 164,000 Steam concurrents so far today (via SteamDB), Destiny 2 is

Culture

First look: Brad Pitt's Heart of the Beast arrives Sept. 25

First look action photos for Heart of the Beast have surfaced, and the Brad Pitt thriller is slated to arrive Sept. 25. Pitt plays James Belmont, a Special Forces officer whose plane crashes in the Alaskan wilderness, leaving him stranded with his combat dog, Odin. The film frames a survival

Culture

Fans revisit Code Veronica's campy voice acting ahead of remake

Capcom announced the Resident Evil: Code Veronica remake during Summer Game Fest 2026, prompting fans to revisit the 2000 Dreamcast original after 26 years. The reveal has renewed interest in the game's story and in whether updated gameplay and performances will change its tone. Online clips have drawn

Science

Flight Dynamics Research Facility

The Flight Dynamics Research Facility (FDRF) is a large, subsonic wind tunnel with a vertical test section for flight dynamics research, including stability, controllability, free-fall, aircraft spin and spin recovery testing of atmospheric vehicles. The FDRF will be a highly versatile and cost effective vertical wind tunnel for conducting free

Culture

Zelda: Ocarina of Time Teaser Prompts 'Hire This Man' Jokes

On June 9, during Nintendo’s Summer Game Fest–adjacent Direct, the company released a very short teaser for its remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, due on Switch 2 in 2026. The clip offered only a few seconds of Link’s new appearance. Those few seconds

Culture

Eric Kripke Apologizes After Backlash to The Boys Finale

The Boys concluded with Season 5's eighth episode, and the series finale proved divisive. While it included several expected deaths, many viewers felt the final confrontation lacked the spectacle teased earlier and did not live up to the promised "scorched earth" showdown between Billy Butcher and

Crypto

Solana Institute urges CLARITY Act developer protections

Solana Institute CEO Kristin Smith has urged the US Senate to pass the CLARITY crypto market structure bill with developer protections intact, saying open-source developers and blockchain infrastructure providers should not be regulated as financial intermediaries. In a thread on X, Smith wrote the legislation “has a real shot at

Culture

Which Horror Villain Could You Actually Survive?

A short eight-question quiz matches your instincts and habits to one of five horror villains: Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Pennywise, or Chucky. It calculates which antagonist you have the best chance of surviving by testing how you react under pressure. Questions probe setting, first instincts, survival assets, the

Sports

Harry Kane: Christian Eriksen faces 'some decisions' after on-field collapse

Harry Kane has offered support to former Tottenham team-mate Christian Eriksen after the Denmark midfielder clutched his chest and fell during a friendly against Ukraine, an incident that echoed his cardiac arrest at Euro 2020. The England captain said he had been in touch and expressed relief that medical intervention

Business

Salesforce offers up to 30 weeks of severance to laid-off US employees

Internal documents show that eligible U.S. workers can receive up to 30 weeks of severance as the company begins another round of layoffs. Notifications began Monday and were tied to a regulatory notice in California, amid concerns that AI tools could replace traditional software such as the company’s

Culture

Howie Mandel body-slammed the Golden Buzzer for Yu Hojin's act

Magician Yu Hojin returned to America’s Got Talent for a third time on Season 21 with a new ensemble called Hundred Fingers. Dressed in black, the 10-member group—literally 100 fingers on stage—performed precise sleight-of-hand: wands, cards and feathers appeared, floated, transformed, vanished into puffs of smoke and

Culture

Jennifer Lopez wipes away tears at son Max's graduation

Jennifer Lopez was seen wiping away tears at her son Max’s high school graduation on Friday. She wore a pastel green floral dress with a gray cardigan, nude heels and carried a matching Hermès Birkin bag. In photos, Lopez embraced the 18-year-old, who wore a tie-dye shirt, tan pants

Business

Streamer receives $180,000 after long Destiny 2 loan dispute

In 2022 Jake Strauss, who streams as GernaderJake, loaned $100,000 to Evolve PCs, a boutique PC maker then owned by Destiny 2 streamer Ari "TripleWreck" Smith, to keep the business running while it awaited investment. Smith missed the January 1, 2023 repayment deadline, and later in 2023

AI

Kingdom Hearts fans allege AI use in collection's box art

Kingdom Hearts fans have raised concerns that the box art for the newly announced Kingdom Hearts Collection was AI-generated after spotting unusual illustrative quirks. Observers flagged discrepancies including Donald Duck appearing to have four fingers on one hand and five on the other, chains arranged in impossible configurations, a clock

Culture

Destiny 2 draws biggest crowd in years as final update launches

Bungie's Monument of Triumph update, a final sendoff that ends active development on Destiny 2, launched on June 9. Players returned in numbers not seen since the Final Shape expansion: SteamDB recorded a concurrent Steam peak of 165,856 at the time of writing, up about 9,000

Culture

Quick crossword No 17,502

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Culture

Reckless Ben Says He Can’t Release Part 3 After Court Issues TRO

Reckless Ben’s investigation into the Mansell family’s missing $200,000 Lego Star Wars collection has been halted after he was served a temporary restraining order by the Utah Fourth Judicial District Court. In a video published on June 9, he said a judge allowed Bricks & Minifigs Franchising

Tech

Best early Prime Day TV deals: Samsung, Sony and more

Amazon Prime Day is just two weeks away, but markdowns are already available on top-rated TVs from Samsung, Hisense, Sony, TCL and others, with savings of up to $2,000. Deals range from premium OLED models to budget-friendly second screens, and include discounts on cutting-edge tech like the TCL Micro

Health

FDA approves first new sunscreen ingredient since 1999

The FDA has approved bemotrizinol (BEMT), an ingredient used in European and Asian sunscreens for over 20 years. The move is being billed as the first upgrade to US sunscreen this century and promises more efficient, smoother-feeling formulas. BEMT is a chemical UV filter that absorbs both UVA and UVB

Culture

Geno Ploeger Channeled His Idol Mat Franco in His AGT Audition

A longtime dream is on the verge of coming true for Geno Ploeger, the 21-year-old protégé of America's Got Talent champion magician Mat Franco. On Night 2 of Auditions for AGT Season 21, Arizona native Ploeger finally got his chance to show off the magic skills he'

Tech

WWDC 2026: Siri AI, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence and more

Apple's WWDC 2026 opened at Apple Park, kicking off a week of reveals about Siri AI, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence and developer demos. The keynote also marked Tim Cook's final WWDC before he hands the role to John Ternus on September 1. Much of the presentation

Culture

Billy Bob Thornton on his full-frontal 'Landman' scene

Billy Bob Thornton, 70, said he wasn't bothered by a full-frontal moment in Landman when speaking at the Newport Beach TV Fest. "I don't know what the reaction was," he said. "But obviously before we filmed, it was kind of like, 'Whoa,

Tech

Vanillaware's 23-year PC shun ends as Muramasa remake heads to Steam

Vanillaware revealed Muramasa: Revenant Blades during the Nintendo Direct. The game is a revamped version of 2009's Muramasa: The Demon Blade, which was originally a Wii exclusive, and is scheduled to arrive on Steam in 2027. Founded in 2002, the studio had not released a PC title until

Culture

Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy and Persona dominated Summer Game Fest 2026

With Nintendo’s final Direct on June 9 closing a week of showcases, JRPGs emerged as the clear winners. Big-name Western titles such as God of War Laufey and Gears of War: E-Day drew attention, but the biggest momentum went to Japanese role-playing games. In the last seven days Square

Culture

Exodus leans on well-written companions to shape player choices

In a post-Baldur's Gate 3 landscape, Exodus places heavy weight on its companions. Drew Karpyshyn, the narrative director, says the team wants them to feel like real people with pros and cons, to have conflicts among themselves and with the player, and to grow alongside Jun; their individual