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In the wake of Stadium’s death, Overwatch’s Quick Play Hacked weekend makes me hope 6v6 returns permanently
An Overwatch writer argues that a limited-time “Quick Play Hacked: 1-3-2” test weekend, which temporarily restored 6v6 team play with a flexible third slot for either a second tank or extra damage hero, produced some of the best matches they’ve experienced, prompting hope that Blizzard makes the format permanent. The piece comes as Blizzard’s Stadium…
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Canadian wildfires rage as Trump warns Carney again over ‘poisoning’ US air
US President Donald Trump has again warned Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney over wildfire smoke drifting into the United States, telling him during Sunday’s World Cup Final to bring the fires under control and suggesting Canada “should pay some damages” for the impact. The remarks escalate tension between the two countries after Trump threatened new…
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Europe’s ‘green ideology’ climate agenda risks crushing its industry, environment minister warns
Czech Environment Minister Igor Červený has warned that Europe risks crippling its own industrial base if it does not soften its aggressive climate agenda, cautioning that manufacturers are increasingly shifting production abroad. Speaking to Fox News Digital during his first visit to the United Nations, he argued that European leaders need to respond to voters…
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Adobe crams multiple AI tools into its experimental camera app
Adobe is adding a suite of generative AI tools to Project Indigo, its experimental smartphone camera app, in a feature set called AI Playground. This marks a shift for the app, which originally focused on giving mobile photographers a “natural SLR-like look,” and now embraces AI-driven editing and creative assistance at the point of capture.…
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David Zaslav’s Next Act: Summer Camp Owner
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is stepping in to buy Mohawk Day Camp, a nearly century-old summer camp in Westchester County, New York, after its parent company collapsed into bankruptcy. The camp, along with dozens of others across the north-eastern United States, had been left in limbo when the brothers who owned its holding…
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Sylvia Bugg Dies: PBS Programming Chief & Longtime Nonfiction TV Exec Was 55
Sylvia Bugg, PBS’s Chief Programming Executive and General Manager for General Audience Programming, has died unexpectedly at the age of 55. PBS chief executive Paula Kerger announced her death over the weekend, praising her decades of work across public media, though no cause of death has been given. Bugg had shaped much of PBS’s output…
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Adobe’s ‘natural look’ camera app embraces generative AI
Adobe has updated its Project Indigo camera app, which was originally designed to give iPhone photos a “natural, SLR-like” look, with a new suite of generative AI editing tools called “AI Playground.” The move is notable because it marks a shift for an app that had built its reputation on authentic, computational photography for “camera…
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Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Athropic researchers
AI infrastructure startup Infinity has raised $15 million at a $100 million valuation, with backing from Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic. The company is developing software designed to let AI chips run models more efficiently, aiming to break Nvidia’s grip on the market, which stems largely from its proprietary CUDA…
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Arca to release surprise album XXXXX in July
Arca has announced her first full-length album in nearly five years, titled XXXXX, following her 2021 record kiCK iiiii. In the interim she released standalone singles such as “Puta,” “Sola” and “Chama,” alongside production and remix work, including a contribution to Madonna’s Confessions II, making this a notable return to a complete album format for…