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Magic the Gathering community stunned as Path of Exile co-creator shows one of the biggest collections in the world, including 14 Black Lotuses, years after selling his cards to “fund the company”
Grinding Gear Games co-founder Jonathan Rogers, best known as one of the creators of the action RPG Path of Exile, has surprised the Magic: The Gathering community by revealing that he owns one of the largest and most valuable card collections in the world. The revelation is notable because Rogers had previously sold off a…
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Explosive report finds $230M in alleged K-12 education fraud amid Trump’s crackdown: ‘Especially hideous’
A coalition of state financial officers has published a report claiming to have identified roughly $225 million in alleged fraud across US schools over the past six years, spanning nearly 90 cases of embezzlement, fake invoices, inflated enrolment, bid-rigging and kickbacks. Obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital, the report by the State Financial Officers Foundation…
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding aftermath takes wild turn as alleged trash goes up for sale
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce married on 3 July at Madison Square Garden in New York, in front of 1,000 guests, in one of the most tightly guarded celebrity weddings in recent memory. Despite the secrecy, a steady stream of details has since emerged, and the aftermath has taken an unusual turn, with sellers reportedly…
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New BBC Boss Matt Brittin in the Hot Seat (Literally) as He Answers MP Questions on Everything From the Licence Fee Model to Fresh Scandals
Matt Brittin, the newly appointed director-general of the BBC, faced his first grilling by MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, roughly six and a half weeks into a job widely described as a “poisoned chalice” after top candidates reportedly turned it down. The two-hour session matters because the committee is weighing the BBC’s…
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Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet
General Intuition, a New York-based artificial intelligence startup, has closed a $320 million funding round that values it at $2.3 billion, backed by investors including Jeff Bezos, Coatue, Eric Schmidt, and researchers from MIT and Google DeepMind. The company argues that large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude, while strong at text, struggle to…
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Bad Bunny Gets the Last Laugh, Nabs Super Bowl Emmy Nod After Right-Wing Meltdown
Bad Bunny has earned his first-ever Emmy nomination for his 2026 Super Bowl LX halftime performance, recognised in the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) category. The recognition is notable because it follows a wave of criticism from conservatives who had objected to the NFL choosing the Puerto Rican star as headliner, giving his nomination the feel…
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Lego Releases Five New Pokémon Sets, Including Arcanine, Rayquaza and Munchlax Builds
The Lego Group has partnered with The Pokémon Company to launch five new build-and-display sets, expanding its existing Pokémon range with fan favourites Arcanine, Rayquaza and Munchlax. The collection also includes an Up-Scaled Red Minifigure and an Iconic Trainer Moments Poké Ball, and all items are now available for pre-order, marking the latest in a…
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Guide: 50+ Digital PS3, PS Vita Games to Buy Before It’s Too Late
Sony is preparing to close the PlayStation Store on two of its legacy platforms, the PS3 and PS Vita, over the coming year, giving owners only a limited window to make final digital purchases. This matters because a number of titles were released solely in digital form, are rare or expensive as physical copies, or…
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Tattle-tale self-driving car drove children to POLICE after they fired Orbeez pellets out of its windows while swigging booze on back seat, cops say
Two 15-year-olds were detained by San Mateo police in California after the driverless Waymo taxi they were riding in reported them to authorities for allegedly drinking alcohol and firing toy guns from the vehicle. The incident, which took place on a Monday afternoon, highlights how autonomous vehicles fitted with internal monitoring can intervene in passenger…
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Rochdale grooming gang ringleader Shabir Ahmed ‘almost certain’ to lodge human rights claims to avoid being deported, Tories warn
The Conservatives have warned that Shabir Ahmed, the ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang, is “almost certain” to lodge human rights claims to block any attempt to deport him from Britain. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said the Pakistani-born 73-year-old is highly likely both to file and to win appeals under the European Convention on…