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Sweeping, strafing and suppression: Total War: Warhammer 40,000 threatens to blow up Total War’s combat fundamentals
Creative Assembly’s Total War: Warhammer 40,000 appears set to substantially change the series’ traditional combat model, particularly its handling of ranged units. A developer livestream showing an Imperium-versus-Orks battle suggested a more fluid, autonomous style of warfare, drawing comparisons with faster real-time strategy games such as Dawn of War. Units can use multiple weapons according…
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Kagi Brings Back Old-School Search, One Human-Made Website at a Time
Kagi is expanding beyond its paid, privacy-focused search engine with a “Small Web” project designed to surface websites created and curated by people. The initiative responds to concerns that search and online publishing are increasingly shaped by advertising, algorithms and AI-generated material, and aims to recreate some of the discovery associated with the early web.…
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Microsoft pressures LG into killing unwanted McAfee ads
Microsoft says LG has agreed to immediately disable McAfee trial pop-up notifications shown to some Windows 11 users after connecting LG monitors. The intervention matters because the complaints concerned software and advertising being introduced through a driver-update process without users clearly choosing to install LG’s app first. Reports dating back to 2024 said connecting an…
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Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine
The European Commission has fined Google €890 million for breaching the EU’s Digital Markets Act, making it the largest fine issued under the law and surpassing Alibaba’s record set four days earlier. The penalties concern Google favouring its own services in search results and failing to adequately tell Play Store users about alternative app stores…
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Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it
A new analyst at an IBM mainframe support team in the 1990s eliminated recurring overnight call-outs by automating a routine data-formatting fix. Although this improved the batch-processing workflow and let him sleep uninterrupted, a colleague objected because the reduced incidents meant less paid overtime. The analyst, referred to as “Lionel”, was supporting overnight COBOL batch…
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Thick as Thieves won’t be getting any more content updates: ‘To be frank, this is not the outcome that any of us want’
The developers of Thick as Thieves have announced that the game will receive no further content updates. They described the decision as unwelcome, suggesting it ends planned support despite not being the outcome the team wanted. The announcement signals that players should not expect new gameplay content or ongoing expansion for the title. The article…
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‘It’s Being Written, Is the Short Answer’ — Zach Cregger Gives an Update on the Aunt Gladys Prequel | Comic Con 2026
Zach Cregger has confirmed that a prequel centred on Aunt Gladys from *Weapons* is being written, following growing interest in the character after the 2025 film’s release. He said the original film deliberately kept Gladys’s past mysterious, but the new story will explore her origins through twists, mysteries and horror elements; it remains in development…
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Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours
Microsoft’s West US Azure region suffered an outage lasting almost five hours after routine network maintenance mistakenly removed IP routes between a datacentre and Microsoft’s wide-area network. The disruption affected 27 Azure services and prevented traffic entering or leaving the Californian region, underlining how maintenance errors can affect supposedly resilient cloud infrastructure. The incident began…
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Is the ‘no wars’ president about to start another one?
The article examines whether Donald Trump, who has presented himself as a president opposed to new wars, may significantly escalate the US conflict with Iran. It matters because a larger attack could deepen an already costly regional war, increase risks to US personnel and shipping, and further test his domestic political support. Trump was reported…
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An FDA Panel Just Endorsed These Unproven Peptides
An FDA advisory panel narrowly recommended allowing compounding pharmacies to make four unapproved peptides, despite FDA scientists advising against their use because safety and effectiveness evidence is limited. The recommendation could bring some widely marketed “wellness” and injury-recovery treatments closer to regulated prescription access, but it does not amount to FDA approval and has prompted…