Yesterday, Ubisoft confirmed that Rainbow Six Siege had been compromised and that it had shut down the game’s servers and marketplace while it resolved the issue. The hackers managed to gain control over a significant chunk of the game’s systems, including the ability to ban […]
Year: 2025
Google Pixel Watch 4 Revives Smartwatch Appeal with Elegant Design, Long Battery, and Seamless AI Integration
The Google Pixel Watch 4 didn’t just win me over as a gadget; it quietly fixed almost every reason I stopped caring about smartwatches in the first place. For years, I bounced between different wearables, always ending up disappointed. Either the battery died before my […]
LG announces new UltraGear evo gaming monitors with AI upscaling
LG unveiled a whole new line of gaming monitors ahead of CES on Friday. The UltraGear evo line are all high-end monitors covering a range of technologies, but united by 5K resolution and AI upscaling. The three flagships under the new branding are the 39GX950B, […]
Zelenskyy and Trump Meet in Florida Amid Intensifying Ukraine-Russia Conflict and Freezing Kyiv Conditions – 12/28/2025, 8:28:35 PM
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is meeting US President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida to discuss a peace plan for the Ukraine-Russia war, amid fresh Russian strikes on Kyiv that killed at least one to two people, injured dozens, and left residents without power or […]
Kelli Anderson’s Pop-Up Book Brings Alphabet’s History to Life with Interactive Design Magic
Alphabet is not just a set of symbols; in Kelli Anderson’s new pop‑up book Alphabet in Motion: How Letters Get Their Shape, it becomes a living biography of our species’ ways of thinking, making, and seeing.[3][1] This large-format, two-volume work turns the history of typography […]
You need to read the subversive cosmic horror novella The Ballad of Black Tom
Things that HP Lovecraft was good at: Creating a mythos. Building atmosphere. Things that HP Lovecraft was bad at: Writing dialog. Creating compelling characters. Not being a racist. As a fan of horror in general, I can’t pretend that Lovecraft isn’t an important touchstone. But […]
The terrible Nintendo controller that helped make VR happen
The Nintendo Power Glove was not good. It’s important that you know that. The Power Glove was ambitious, impressive, even important – one of the very first mainstream devices that let you control a game using your body instead of just your thumbs – but […]
Ubisoft shuts down ‘Rainbow Six Siege’ servers following hack
Yesterday, Ubisoft confirmed that Rainbow Six Siege had been compromised and that it had shut down the game’s servers and marketplace while it resolved the issue. The hackers managed to gain control over a significant chunk of the game’s systems, including the ability to ban […]
The best PS5 games from 2025
In this new era of console… inclusivity? driven by Sony and mostly Microsoft bringing their exclusives to other platforms, it’s getting harder to highlight games that make a singular console shine. Indeed, the top-performing games year after year on both PlayStation and Xbox are multiplatform […]
US Airstrikes Target ISIS Camps in Nigeria Amid Tensions Over Christian Killings – 12/28/2025, 12:25:05 PM
US military strikes ISIS militants in Nigeria. On Christmas, the US conducted airstrikes on two ISIS camps in northwest Nigeria, following President Trump’s warnings over the killing of Christians; the operation was a collaborative effort with Nigerian intelligence and approval from President Tinubu.[1] Ukrainian President […]