33 Immortals preview: A multiplayer game that feels great to play solo

Playing 33 Immortals for the first time is like going to a party at a coworker’s friend’s house. The first few minutes are marked by curiosity, light suspicion and a constant hum of awkwardness, b [...]

Apple removed an app that archives videos of ICE arrests

Apple has removed Eyes Up, an app that collects and archives videos of Immigration Customs and Enforcement arrests, 404 Media reports. The app's removal follows similar action taken against ICEBl [...]

Software engineers' new job isn't writing code — it's designing the boundaries AI agents can't break

If you look at the commit histories of modern data platforms, something profound has shifted over the last two years. The friction of writing syntax has collapsed. With Cursor, Claude Code, and agenti [...]

$26,000 lab monkeys are the strange measure of China’s biotech boom

The clearest sign of China’s drug-development surge is not a molecule but a monkey. The price of a research primate there has climbed toward 150,000 yuan, roughly $26,000, and it keeps rising. That [...]

Surfing sand and sea, herding beasts and other new indie games worth checking out

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. It's been a very busy week in that realm, thanks to Gamescom. Before we jam through a few of this week's new rele [...]

The internet is worried about Punch the monkey. The zoo says hes OK.

A viral video of Punch, the baby monkey who clings to a stuffed animal, sparked panic online. The zoo says the incident is normal behavior. [...]

I've just added two new horror movies to my 2025 watchlist after seeing the trailers for The Monkey and Until Dawn

The Monkey and Until Dawn join this year's line up of horror movies I'm excited for. [...]

Texas authorities have made multiple arrests in an NVIDIA GPU smuggling operation

The Southern District of Texas announced the seizure of more than $50 million in NVIDIA GPUs bound for China in violation of US export laws. Authorities arrested two businessmen, one of them the owner [...]

Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 capable of generating images and 20-second video with audio — but in limited release to start

Black Forest Labs (BFL) is expanding its FLUX family beyond image generation with today's launch of FLUX 3, a multimodal frontier model trained to understand and generate images, or combined audi [...]