In a new interview, 'Wonder Man' star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II talks about the optics of canceling the show after season two had already been greenlit.

Riot Games is already winding down work on 2XKO, the free-to-play League of Legends fighting game, less than a year after its initial launch. Riot says "active development" will conclude at the end of 2026 because the company hasn't "seen enough players stick with the game to get to a path toward sustainability." Servers will stay online "beyond 2026," and Riot is unlocking all playable characters and refunding money spent on the game. 2XKO launched in an early access beta on PC in October 2025 and hit PS5 and Xbox Series X / S in January. But shortly after, Riot announced it would be cutting staff working on the game, saying at the time t …
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Genesis, Hyundai's luxury brand, just revealed its first full-size, three-row electric SUV for the US market, the GV90. And arguably it has some of the wildest designs and features in the auto market today. Right off the bat, the coach-style doors signal that things aren't what they seem with the GV90. When the front and rear doors open outward, the B-pillar disappears, creating an extra-large opening into the vehicle - because you're the kind of person who can afford it. Genesis is calling it the Neolun Arch Gate, "the world's first independently opening and closing hidden B-pillar coach door." But it's more than just that. To be sur …
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You probably wouldn’t be either, if your ex-employer was about to hand over 100 million company emails to one of the world’s most powerful tech companies.

The US treasury secretary says allies will need to decide whether they "are with us or against us".

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard “Level 5”
I’ve noticed that when King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard make their most radical genre shifts, like their album-length forays into metal and electronic music, they stick closer to their recurring lyrical obsession with manmade disasters. This could just be a response to the extremity of the sound – it makes some sense to pair metal with lyrics about environmental catastrophe, and for that to extend that into techno-based meditations on extinction. In any case, this does some favors in providing a through line in their body of work. Even when they don’t obviously sound like themselves, they’re still very much being themselves. Alien Metal is the band’s...

Pour freiner la croissance des dépenses de santé, le gouvernement avait annoncé il y a près d’un mois le doublement de 100 à 200 euros par an du montant maximum des franchises. La ministre de la santé a admis que ce choix avait pu apparaître « brutal ».

Whether your budget is $10 or $1,300, we've got tech and gear recommendations that will make the new semester more productive and entertaining.

Suck it, Bay Area.

The Emmy nominated actor best known for Beef and Riverdale will play the popular mentor figure.

European countries and Canada pile on pressure over Israel's plans to expand settlements in a strategically vital part of the occupied West Bank.

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg now owns an actual castle. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan bought Strancally Castle and its 440-acre estate in Ireland "several weeks ago," according to The Irish Times. While the exact price of the purchase is unclear, the family could have paid "anywhere between €20 million and €30 million" for the 16,000-square-foot castle, which was restored by its previous owners.
"Mark and his family are excited to continue caring for this historic home and look forward to spending time in Ireland, where Meta maintains its international headquarters," a spokesperson tells The Irish Times. The publication says "it is und...

Technology leaders don’t seem to understand society’s gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it.

Much like Apple’s once vaunted super-slim butterfly keyboard, today’s range of portable devices featuring flexible OLED displays – which can fold said display into a much smaller form factor – are a marvel of engineering.
The foldable phone after a dusty encounter. (Credit: iFixit, YouTube)
Unfortunately engineering can only do so much against fundamental flaws. In the case of both these flexible OLEDs and butterfly keyboards the main issue is that of dust intrusion, with a recent teardown by [iFixit] going over the reasons for this.
As test subject we got a Galaxy Z Fold 8, as an example of a modern-day foldable smartphone-tablet hybrid. This phone has an IP48 rating, meaning that it’s...

“More than 600,000 artworks and other cultural objects, mostly owned by Jews, were stolen by the Nazis leading up to and during World War II… But reclaiming these artifacts is often a long and fraught process. 'There's no central repository, no database that's telling you where that art is,' said Joel Greenberg, founder of Art Ashes, a nonprofit that helps families track down and recover art looted by the Nazis… A team at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley is aspiring to do just that, with a new AI chatbot that could help streamline the complicated process of getting these works back to their owners… Right now, the tool is only scraping records from one database — that of the Jeu de Paume...

“Chinese companies control two-thirds of the global market for air conditioning, according to researcher Euromonitor International. And they’re growing fast, particularly in Europe. Exports of AC units from China to the European Union hit $3.8 billion in the first half of 2026, up 43% from a year earlier, customs data show. TCL says orders from Europe climbed more than two-thirds in the first half from the same period last year, with sales of portable units surging by more than 90%. Haier reports its sales in France, Germany and the UK more than doubled in June from the same month last year. And Midea says AC revenue in four key European countries rose more than 70% in the first half.” From...

“From helping doctors detect cancer to guiding self-driving cars through traffic, many modern imaging systems rely on near-infrared light, producing a crisp picture when visible light would scatter and yield a blurry picture. But near-infrared systems struggle when light passes through materials like deep tissue or dense fog, succumbing to the same scattering effect where photons deviate from their path. Existing near-infrared imaging systems also rely on specialized detectors made from expensive materials, limiting their affordability and widespread use. University of Rochester researchers have now developed a lower-cost imaging system that overcomes both challenges. Using inexpensive silicon-based...

“Victorian wildlife officers will spend the coming weeks catching and vaccinating penguins against the devastating strain of bird flu spreading through Australia, in a mammoth effort said to be unprecedented in its scale. It is a race to save a world-famous penguin colony from a worst-case prediction that the H5 bird flu strain could kill thousands of birds… The vaccination program unveiled last week — and beginning today — is unique because of its focus on wild animals. With a target of more than 5,000 vaccinated penguins across St Kilda and Phillip Island, Victorian officials say the scale is unprecedented for wildlife.” From ABC Australia.
The post Victoria Begins Vaccination Program for Wild...

“'Exoskeletons were really targeted as: function is lost, and we need to replace this function,' says Taylor Dick, a neuromuscular biomechanist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Today, researchers and companies are increasingly talking about augmentation instead: adding a fraction of the force needed for a movement. A powered brace might take some load off an arthritic knee, and robotic shorts could make an older person’s daily walk less exhausting. Other exoskeleton devices are designed for a wide range of users, including young adults hoping to go farther and faster. Last October, Nike unveiled a prototype ‘powered footwear’ system called Project Amplify, which is aimed at...

Roblox is promising more changes to its child safety features following testing from Australia's online safety regulator, eSafety.
eSafety has been looking into concerns that the company hasn't been in compliance with Australia's Online Safety Act, including "allegedly failing to have sufficient measures in place to prevent contact between adults and children under 16." While Roblox has put some new safety measures in place, eSafety's testing this year found that the platform "continued to put children at risk, including allowing contact between children and adult strangers."
eSafety's testing found that: adults could send connection req …
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Another day, another sad thing to report about our compromised Federal Communications Commission. Chairman Brendan Carr has followed through on his 2025 threat to kill long-term broadband speed goals established during the Biden administration, which aimed for eventually getting us to gigabit download and half-gigabit upload speeds. How dare we dream of spreading great download and upload speeds across the country! It's wild that 13 years after Comcast said Americans don't need gigabit internet we're somehow back in this conversation. Especially since the private sector has delivered, albeit unevenly, on super high speeds in certain areas; …
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Dans leur déclaration conjointe, les quatre pays européens dénoncent le développement du projet East 1, pour lequel Israël souhaite construire 3 400 logements en territoire palestinien.

Throughout the '60s, Vann Molyvann gave the country a national identity with his New Khmer architecture style. 100 years after he was born, a new generation is finding inspiration in his legacy.One of Phnom Penh’s newest coffee shops sits inside a four-story oasis at the center of town. Under a parabolic roof, the upper floors of the cube-like building are rotated 45 degrees to reduce street noise, while double-layered walls and an array of openings help keep it cool in Cambodia’s tropical heat. In the café, which is found on the ground floor overlooking a palm-tree filled garden, twenty-somethings sit with their laptops and sip coffee while talking in hushed voices. Part of the draw for the young crowd...

Au cours des vingt dernières années, révèle une étude scientifique relayée par plusieurs médias, la fonte des glaces a permis à de nouvelles espèces de baleines d’investir l’est du Groenland, une zone qui leur était autrefois inaccessible. Ce qui pourrait avoir des conséquences importantes pour l’écosystème de la région.

At least 17 people were killed in the "massive attack" overnight on Ukraine's capital, as mayor Vitali Klitschko warns hot water supply has been disrupted.

Over the years poly(lactic acid) (PLA) – also known as polylactide – has become a popular thermoplastic for a variety of reasons. One of these reasons is that it’s easily produced from a renewable resource, i.e. lactic acid, with the resulting polymer even being compostable if you assume that your compost pile hits a steady 65°C or more, well above the polymer’s glass transition temperature (Tg).
That said, PLA by itself is a pretty crummy material, being exceedingly brittle and inferior to common alternatives like PET(G) in many metrics. Over the decades much research has gone into figuring out this material, its amorphous and crystalline states, as well as how to use plasticizers, copolymers,...

CLiC smart glass brings new flexibility to biophilic design by preserving natural light and a sense of openness throughout the home.Biophilic design is often associated with its most visible elements: indoor plants, natural materials, organic forms, and colors drawn from the landscape. But its deeper purpose is to strengthen the relationship between the home and the natural world around it. That relationship can be felt in the movement of daylight across a room, the shifting colors of a view, or the ability to notice a change in the weather without stepping outside. These moments give a home a sense of rhythm, keeping interiors connected to the time of day and the seasons beyond their walls. And that rhythm...

Alessandro Rapinese issues the prohibition for the historic city centre after an encounter with a cyclist last month.

Alors que le gouvernement est pris en défaut après la cyberattaque visant le site des impôts, l’enquête judiciaire portant sur un autre piratage d’envergure, celui des serveurs de Beauvau, révèle que tout est parti de la simple compromission d’identifiants d’un agent du ministère de l’agriculture en Bourgogne.

Les jeunes internautes vietnamiens demandent justice après la mort d’une jeune femme de 18 ans, tuée il y a plus d’un an à la suite d’un accident de voiture provoqué par un ancien membre de l’Assemblée nationale. Ils dénoncent un système judiciaire à deux vitesses.

L’adaptation par Netflix du roman de l’Australienne Miles Franklin plaît à la presse du pays. Mise en ligne le 13 août, “Ma brillante carrière” offre un remake assez classique mais bien mené du récit d’époque avec une héroïne éprise de liberté. Et l’actrice qui l’incarne est particulièrement attachante.

Pour combattre l’insécurité, le président ultraconservateur José Antonio Kast entend réformer la Constitution et faire approuver un paquet de mesures controversé. La création d’un nouvel “état d’exception” de 240 jours suspendant les libertés publiques inquiète la presse mais recueille le soutien d’une majorité des Chiliens.

Set on 40 acres, the residence was lovingly crafted by a woodworker using materials sourced from the surrounding mountains.Location: 2603 Winona Rd, Grants Pass, Oregon  Price: $899,000 Year: 1975 Footprint: 2,897 Square Feet (3 Beds, 2 Baths) Lot Size: 40 Acres From the Listing: "In the mid ’70s, a Cal Arts student purchased a 40-acre wooded parcel with panoramic views of Walker Mountain and the surrounding hills, just north of Grants Pass, up a half-mile driveway surrounded by trees. The property was transformed under the skill of a talented artist/builder, from a modest Craftsman-inspired home into a family compound full of architectural wonder. The main residence is filled with stained-glass windows,...

À Bordeaux, le mercure a dépassé les 40 °C à six reprises depuis le début de l'année 2026, selon Météo-France. Crédits : Jean-Luc Ichard / iStock L'été 2026 a fait franchir à l'Europe un nouveau seuil de chaleur. Entre le 15 juin et le 15 août, des régions où vivent 80 millions de personnes ont dépassé les 40 °C au moins une fois. C'est ce que révèle le 20 août une analyse de l'AFP, fondée sur les températures maximales quotidiennes de l'Observatoire européen de la sécheresse et les données de population du Joint Research Centre. Ce niveau d'exposition est deux fois plus élevé que lors de l'été 2003, resté comme l'un des épisodes caniculaires les plus meurtriers du continent....

Une étude portant sur des personnes âgées de plus de 100 ans, publiée par une équipe japonaise, révèle que leur système immunitaire continue de s’adapter.

L’inspection générale des finances a publié, jeudi, le rapport que le gouvernement lui avait demandé sur les conséquences d’une application prolongée en 2027 d’une loi de finances spéciale. Un document que l’exécutif devrait largement mobiliser pour tenter de convaincre le Parlement d’adopter un budget.

The baby blue built-in maximizes utility in the compact 753-square-foot space.Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here. Project Details: Location: Lastres, Spain Architect: Extrarradio Footprint: 753 square feet Builder: Luis Galera Photographer: Sara Cuerdo / @saracuerdo From the Architect: "The intervention takes place in a traditional house in the historic center of Lastres, an area where local architecture combines thick masonry walls, small openings, and timber structures. Over time, the house had accumulated partitions, additions, and ceilings that reduced the free height and...

For as popular as Atari was in their heyday, it wasn’t until well after they were on their famous decline that they released their first handheld, the Atari Lynx. In retrospect, competing with the Game Boy was not going to be a recipe for success even without considering their other problems as a company, and as a result was their penultimate console before exiting the market completely. But [Nick]’s most recent project asks what the world would have been like with an Atari handheld from their golden era, and has been working on this miniaturized version of the 2600.
Unlike any modern emulators which can easily handle Atari 2600 games in almost any form factor today, this console is doing it all with as...

Paris, et plus particulièrement le quartier de la Défense, est le plus grand centre d'affaires de l'Union européenne - Crédits : DKart / iStock Les grandes entreprises européennes ne se résument pas à un seul pays ni à un seul secteur. Pour les classer, on retient le plus souvent leur capitalisation boursière, c'est-à-dire la valeur totale de leurs actions en circulation sur le marché. En clair, plus les investisseurs accordent de valeur à une société sur les marchés financiers, plus sa capitalisation est élevée. Les données présentées ici reposent sur le classement CompaniesMarketCap consulté le 20 août 2026. Elles constituent donc une photographie à cette date : la valeur d'une...

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Le plus haut sommet des Alpes n’est momentanément plus accessible par aucune des trois principales voies normales. La conséquence des températures extrêmes qui fragilisent glaces et parois.

En France, la loi relative au droit à l'aide à mourir a été promulguée le 18 août 2026 et publiée au Journal officiel le lendemain. L'Assemblée nationale l'avait définitivement adoptée le 15 juillet, avant sa validation par le Conseil constitutionnel le 14 août, avec trois réserves d'interprétation (voir plus bas). Sa mise en œuvre effective dépend toutefois encore de décrets d'application. Les conditions d'accès à l'euthanasie ou à l'aide au suicide diffèrent toutefois largement en Europe. Plusieurs pays, comme les Pays-Bas et la Belgique, ont légalisé l'euthanasie active depuis plus de vingt ans. D'autres, comme l'Allemagne, l'Autriche ou l'Italie, autorisent seulement certaines formes...

People have lived in space stations for decades now, but something is wrong with them. Where are the big rotating wheels? You know the ones. They show up in old paintings of the future and, perhaps most memorably, in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Spin a great wheel in space, and people can stroll around inside with something that feels suspiciously like gravity. It seems like an obvious idea.
It is also an old idea. Much older than actual spaceflight, in fact. But to find the beginning of the space station, we have to go back to a time when powered aircraft were still several decades in the future.
A Moon Made of Bricks
In 1869, Edward Everett Hale published The Brick Moon in The Atlantic Monthly. The moon in...

Le 11 août 2026, le Conseil des oulémas d’Indonésie (Majelis Ulama Indonesia, MUI) déclare que le port de vêtements féminins par des hommes lors des festivités du 17 août, jour anniversaire de la proclamation de l’indépendance de l’Indonésie, est interdit par la sharia, la loi islamique. Un épisode de plus dans un pays où la population musulmane est la plus nombreuse du monde mais où l’homophobie ne cesse de croître.

Embroidery designs, drawings, and even a tiny detail from a book cover were lifted from the British designer’s archives at The Huntington and put to use for the new floor covering collection.The beloved Arts & Crafts designer (and socialist activist) William Morris prized handcraft, promoted joy and dignity in labor, and borrowed visual inspiration from the natural world. Disillusioned by the Industrial Revolution, he advocated for a return to the medieval guilds, where craftspeople were responsible for every step of design and production. "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful," he once said. He furnished his own home, The Red House, which is outside of...

Hack Twins : Un nouveau casino apparaît chez deux groupes de pirates informatiques différents.

En 2025, le produit intérieur brut des 27 États membres de l'Union européenne s'est élevé à environ 18 800 milliards d'euros à prix courants. Après avoir subi une importante récession en 2020 à cause de la pandémie de Covid-19, l'économie européenne a retrouvé puis dépassé son niveau d'avant-crise. À prix courants, le PIB de l'UE est passé d'environ 13 900 milliards d'euros en 2019 à 18 800 milliards en 2025. Une hausse d'environ 35 %, qui reflète à la fois la croissance de l'activité économique et l'augmentation des prix. L'économie allemande est de loin la plus importante de l'Union, avec un PIB de 4 469 milliards d'euros, suivie par celle de la France (2 991 milliards d’euros)....

Fuite Stripe : ZATAZ confirme au moins 200 Français concernés et propose une vérification gratuite et humaine.

Last September, we reported that a filmmaker named Matthew Schneider obtained a DMCA subpoena through a California federal court, seeking information from Cloudflare on several prominent private trackers.
These trackers, including PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, KaraGarga, HDBits, and Beyond-HD, allegedly shared several of his works without permission. At the time, multiple sources informed TorrentFreak that several of the “infringing URLs” submitted as evidence did not point to working torrent pages and used URL structures that didn’t match the targeted sites. The films could not be found on several of the trackers either.
After that, the docket went quiet, until last December, when the person...

The Poolease X1 can collect leaves from the pool floor, but dirt, silt, walls, and steps are all beyond its pay grade.

The Ting FX EP-2350 by Teenage Engineering is a standalone microphone with a few extras, including samples and built-in effect presets that can be modified by the user. It also has a distinctive design, and [Sam Holland] does an in-depth teardown that offers some insights that are worth keeping in one’s back pocket. The large, side-mounted lever in particular is an interesting bit, but more about that in a moment.
Inside the device is a single PCB, which has a cutout in the middle for a pair of AAA cells. A Raspberry Pi 2350 drives the device’s functions, supported by various components which [Sam] identifies, although he mostly looks at everything from the perspective of a mechanical engineer as he...

The app now allows men to make the first move, suggesting its women-first positioning was limiting growth. It joins other dating apps now throwing everything at the wall in a bid to stay relevant.

I put top-rated USB car chargers to the test for fast charging, value, heat, and safety. These are the best I found.

Tina Peters was convicted of seven counts related to election interference in 2024. Now, she’s fielding an offer from a county that’s become a hotbed of voting-related conspiracy theories.

L'extrémisme violent nihiliste (ou Nihilistic Violent Extremism, NVE en anglais) désigne la perpétration d'actes de violence étrangers à toute visée idéologique cohérente et nourris par une misanthropie assumée. Les auteurs de ces actes cherchent à provoquer l'effondrement de la société en semant le chaos. Leurs victimes sont choisies pour leur vulnérabilité ou pour l'effroi que […]

Découvrez Vera : l'outil conversationnel qui mobilise plus de 150 sites de fact checking. Évidemment, Conspiracy Watch en fait partie 😉

Lucas Ansel’s stop-motion short reveals a few fellow-drinkers’ deepest desires in this reimagined Shouts & Murmurs classic.

Yellow polka-dot bikini: you were deeply affected by a Yoplait Light commercial as a youth and consider this suit to be the physical manifestation of confidence.

In the delicious heat, a summer breeze came and they fought as the woman sucked her ice cream through the bottom of her cone.

The New Yorker writer sings the praises of a little-known Canadian television series set at a Shakespeare festival—which happens to be her favorite show of all time.