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Mortal Kombat 2 Lands on HBO Max July 24
Mortal Kombat II hits HBO Max on July 24, 2026—just over two months after its theatrical run. Here's what the numbers and timing tell us about WB's strategy.
Murati's Open Model and AI's Regulation Dilemma
Murati's Open Model and AI's Regulation Dilemma
Mira Murati's 975B Inkling model, Demis Hassabis's FINRA-for-AI proposal, and Liquid AI's post-transformer architecture reframe who controls frontier AI.
How One Solo Developer Manages 30 AI Agents at Once
How One Solo Developer Manages 30 AI Agents at Once
Kun Chen, a former big tech engineer, built a multi-agent orchestration system to manage dozens of AI coding sessions solo. Here's how it actually works.
Dual Internet Connections Are Still Needlessly Hard to Set Up
Dual Internet Connections Are Still Needlessly Hard to Set Up
IPv6 multihoming could let you plug two ISPs into one network and get automatic failover. Here's how close we actually are—and what's still broken.
AMD Instinct MI350P: 144GB HBM3E in a PCIe GPU
AMD Instinct MI350P: 144GB HBM3E in a PCIe GPU
AMD's Instinct MI350P brings 144GB of HBM3E and 3.6TB/s bandwidth to standard PCIe servers. Here's what it means for the mid-market AI infrastructure gap.
FCC Kills TV Ownership Cap in Win for Big Broadcasters
FCC Kills TV Ownership Cap in Win for Big Broadcasters
The FCC's vote to repeal the 39% TV ownership cap replaces a hard limit with "case-by-case review." We've seen this movie before — in radio.
Smart Sensors Are Changing Home Fermentation
Smart Sensors Are Changing Home Fermentation
From sourdough starters to homebrewed beer, smart sensor kits are giving fermentation hobbyists precision control once reserved for commercial producers.
MacBook Pro Redesign: OLED, Touch, Same Old Chip
MacBook Pro Redesign: OLED, Touch, Same Old Chip
Apple's biggest MacBook Pro redesign brings OLED, touchscreen, and Dynamic Island—but the same M5 chip. Is a $3,000 price tag justified by new hardware alone?
MLS Bets on a Post-World Cup Surge
MLS Bets on a Post-World Cup Surge
MLS commissioner Don Garber says the World Cup was always the plan. Now comes the harder part: turning a soccer moment into a soccer market.
World Cup Gave MLB All-Star Game Its Best Ratings Since 2018
World Cup Gave MLB All-Star Game Its Best Ratings Since 2018
MLB's All-Star Game drew 8.79M viewers on Fox—up 22%—with the World Cup acting as an unlikely lead-in. What does that actually mean for sports broadcast strategy?
Claude Honeycomb Leak: What the Opus 5 Rumors Mean
Claude Honeycomb Leak: What the Opus 5 Rumors Mean
A mystery model called Honeycomb appeared briefly in Cursor on July 8th, then vanished. Here's what the leak actually shows — and what it doesn't.
Project Pele: The Pentagon's Portable Nuclear Reactor
Project Pele: The Pentagon's Portable Nuclear Reactor
The Pentagon's Project Pele aims to power remote military bases with a containerized nuclear reactor. Here's what the technology promises—and what it can't yet answer.
Ancient Egyptian Princesses Were Trained Weapon Users
Ancient Egyptian Princesses Were Trained Weapon Users
New skeletal analysis of five Middle Kingdom mummies reveals ancient Egyptian princesses used bows and daggers — and a bias that buried that fact for decades.
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 Aborts at Launch
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 Aborts at Launch
SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 aborted at the last second when engines failed to ignite. What the scrub reveals about iterative testing, redundancy, and real stakes.
The Anaconda Plan Was Right. People Paid for It.
The Anaconda Plan Was Right. People Paid for It.
Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan was strategically vindicated — but the years it took to work were paid for in hunger, death, and bondage by ordinary people.
Homer's Odyssey and What Mortality Means Today
Homer's Odyssey and What Mortality Means Today
Homer's Odyssey is more than epic adventure — it's a philosophical argument for why a finite life matters, and why immortality might be the real curse.
How to Make a College Tour Actually Matter
How to Make a College Tour Actually Matter
College tour season is here. Here's how families can shift from passive observers to active explorers—and why who leads the visit changes everything.
Audie Murphy: Soldier, Icon, and Haunted Man
Audie Murphy: Soldier, Icon, and Haunted Man
Audie Murphy was America's most decorated WWII soldier. His battlefield heroism and Hollywood fame masked a man deeply scarred by combat and survivor's guilt.
Netflix Used Generative AI on 300 Titles in 2026
Netflix Used Generative AI on 300 Titles in 2026
Netflix disclosed in its Q2 2026 earnings that generative AI was used across roughly 300 productions. Here's what we know—and what's still murky.
London Games Festival 2027 Gets a New Central Venue
London Games Festival 2027 Gets a New Central Venue
London Games Festival moves to the Business Design Centre for April 2027. Here's what the venue shift means for fans, devs, and the festival's global ambitions.
ENGO Raises €5.1M to Scale AR Sports Glasses
ENGO Raises €5.1M to Scale AR Sports Glasses
Grenoble startup ENGO has raised €5.1M to expand its lightweight AR glasses for athletes. Here's what the funding tells us about the wearable tech race.
Thinking Machines Launches Inkling, Its First Open-Weight AI Model
Thinking Machines Launches Inkling, Its First Open-Weight AI Model
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines has released Inkling, an open-weight multimodal AI model built on DeepSeek's architecture—and the implications go well beyond benchmarks.
Xbox Workers Push Back as 1,600 More Jobs Loom
Xbox Workers Push Back as 1,600 More Jobs Loom
Xbox workers are organizing across six studio locations as 1,600 more jobs hang in the balance. Here's what the unions are demanding—and what it means for gaming.
Airport Behavior That Makes Flying Worse for Everyone
Airport Behavior That Makes Flying Worse for Everyone
From gate lice to baggage claim crowding, Mark Wolters of Wolters World maps the airport habits that slow everyone down—and why they persist.
Unexplained Infertility and the Weight of Not Knowing
Unexplained Infertility and the Weight of Not Knowing
When all the tests come back normal but pregnancy doesn't happen, unexplained infertility creates a unique psychological burden—here's what the research shows.
Netflix Used AI in 300 Titles. Here's What That Means.
Netflix Used AI in 300 Titles. Here's What That Means.
Netflix disclosed AI use in roughly 300 titles in its Q2 2026 earnings. We break down what that number actually tells us — and what it doesn't.
Hannah Cairo Disproved a 40-Year-Old Math Conjecture at 17
Hannah Cairo Disproved a 40-Year-Old Math Conjecture at 17
At 17, Hannah Cairo overturned the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture using a hypercube and a coin diagram. Here's what she actually did—and why it matters.
35 GitHub Projects Mapping the AI Agent Trust Gap
35 GitHub Projects Mapping the AI Agent Trust Gap
This week's GitHub trending list is less a catalog of tools and more a collective argument: developers don't fully trust AI agents yet—and they're building accordingly.
Do DMT Entities Point to Alien Consciousness?
Do DMT Entities Point to Alien Consciousness?
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman claims DMT entities may be real alien minds. The math is real. Whether it proves anything about consciousness is a different question.
Texas Is Becoming the Hub of Commercial Space
Texas Is Becoming the Hub of Commercial Space
From SpaceX's Starbase to Firefly's moon landing, Texas has become the center of commercial space. Here's what's driving the shift—and what it costs.