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gamescom 2026: How to Watch and Daily Schedule of the Biggest Gaming Event
gamescom is back for 2026! IGN is the official partner and will be broadcasting live from Cologne, Germany August 25 – 30 with live coverage of everything from developer interviews to show floor demos to exclusive trailers and gameplay from incredible upcoming games, along with so much more. Read on below for all the information…
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Live updates: Florida, Alaska voters head to polls; federal trial opens in addiction suit against Meta
Florida voters head to the primary election polls on Tuesday to pick candidates for November contests. The governor’s mansion is up for grabs, along with a Senate seat and House races. Rep. Byron Donalds is favored to win the GOP nod for governor, though he faces challenges from Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, investment firm founder James…
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Round Hill is suing Suno and Anthropic for up to $1B apiece. It isn’t looking to settle.
Round Hill Music has filed copyright infringement lawsuits against AI music generator Suno and AI company Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern California, saying it will not settle either case. The independent music company, which owns or controls over 14,000 compositions and nearly 17,000 sound recordings, argues that both firms built valuable…
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Lindsay Clancy’s sister had ‘gut feeling’ something was wrong, but never reported concerns month before horrific killings: Live updates
The trial concerning Lindsay Clancy, accused of killing her three young children in Massachusetts, is continuing, with live updates revealing that her sister sensed something was wrong in the month before the deaths but did not report her concerns to anyone. The disclosure has drawn scrutiny to the warning signs that may have preceded the…
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Hulu’s Only 10/10 Sci-Fi Series Officially Confirms Key Final Season Update
Hulu’s sci-fi drama *Paradise* has officially wrapped production on its third season, creator Dan Fogelman confirmed via Instagram, keeping the show on track to return next year following the same annual release pattern as its first two seasons. The series, created by *This Is Us* writer Fogelman and starring Sterling K. Brown as Xavier Collins,…
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Reel-ing it in: Meta is paying influencers to promote teen accounts
Meta has been recruiting and paying parenting, lifestyle and mental health influencers to promote its teen safety tools whenever governments consider tighter regulation of children’s social media use, according to a report by the Tech Transparency Project. The advocacy group’s findings suggest the pattern emerged as a coordinated strategy: rather than lobbying directly against restrictions,…
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Order of the Sinking Star puzzle game launches October with credit updates
Thekla Inc has confirmed that Order of the Sinking Star, its follow-up to The Witness, will launch on 8 October for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Windows PC, alongside a resolution to concerns over how the puzzle game credits its influences. Led by Braid creator Jonathan Blow, the project draws on several indie Sokoban-style…
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Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
Security researchers at Varonis found a way to hijack Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise into silently leaking sensitive user data, such as passwords, simply by getting a target to click a link. Rather than reverse-engineering Copilot’s defences, the researchers interrogated the chatbot itself, repeatedly asking why it refused to auto-execute commands until it inadvertently revealed an…
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Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself
Security researchers at Varonis Threat Labs tricked Microsoft’s Copilot Personal AI assistant into revealing details of its own vulnerabilities, ultimately exploiting a flaw to exfiltrate sensitive data and corrupt its persistent memory. The technique, dubbed “meta-hacking”, involved socially engineering the AI’s reasoning engine by repeatedly questioning it about why a proposed attack wouldn’t work, prompting…
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Jason Kelce Has the No. 1 Solution to AI Data Center Energy Problem in Musical Beer Ad Where He Shows Off His Singing Chops
Retired NFL star Jason Kelce has made his singing debut in a comedic advertisement for a collaboration between drinks brand Liquid Death and Garage Beer, the company he co-owns with brother Travis Kelce. The ad, titled “Let’s Pee on AI”, humorously proposes that people donate their urine to help cool the vast data centres powering…