The Pentagon issued several memos this week that impose strict fitness and grooming standards, lessen education requirements and upend the Defense Department’s processes for reporting discrimination and fraud, waste and abuse.
“It all starts with physical fitness and appearance,” Hegseth told hundreds of military leaders during a rare gathering of top brass at Marine Corps Base Quantico on…
PARIS — As Russia’s war in Ukraine raises the possibility of a major deployment on NATO’s eastern flank, France continues to face bureaucratic hurdles that could slow down the rush of troops and tanks to the region, according to the French general in charge of…
Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox has released the looter shooter’s first big balance update since it came out, and it makes a number of significant buffs across the board.
In a blog post, Gearbox said its goal is to “always provide players with the tools and means to…
I’m a huge fan of PlayStation’s first-party offerings. They’ve come to embody the sort of cinematic adventures I’ve always looked for when sitting down with a controller in my hand, feeling like genuine blockbuster events meant to be savoured. But where in the past this brand of glossy storytelling felt like new ground being trodden, I can’t help but feel that recently it’s become…
Starbreeze Cancels Co-Op Dungeons & Dragons Game Project Baxter, Lays Off Developers, and Doubles Down on Payday
October 3, 2025
Starbreeze has canceled Project Baxter, its co-op Dungeons & Dragons game, laid off a significant portion of its development team, and announced plans to double down on its Payday franchise.
Project Baxter was announced in December 2023 as an Unreal Engine 5 D&D game…
Ripple Launches New UC Berkeley Center for Digital Assets
October 3, 2025
Ripple is donating $1.3 million worth of its Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin to kick off funding for the new project.
Ripple, UC Berkeley Forge Alliance with New Digital Asset Research Hub
Imagine an average 1,000-acre Kansas farm capable of yielding roughly 40,000 bushels of…
Northern lights may be visible in these 12 US states tonight
October 3, 2025
Aurora watchers: don’t pack up your cameras just yet, as the northern lights may return for one last dazzling display tonight (Oct. 2) before conditions quiet down again over the weekend.
Over the past few nights, geomagnetic activity has repeatedly exceeded expectations, with a rather surprising G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm lighting up skies as far south as New York on Wednesday night…
Scientists have identified a lone planet with a ferocious appetite. Located in the Chamaeleon constellation roughly 620 light-years away, the rogue planet, named Cha 1107-7626, exists in the vast emptiness of space, far from the warmth of any star.
Rogue planets like this…
Saturn's moon Enceladus is shooting out organic molecules that could help create life
October 3, 2025
Complex organic molecules that form part of the chain of chemical reactions that can result in life’s building blocks have been found in the watery geysers of Enceladus, almost twenty years after the plumes were first sampled by NASA’s Cassini…
Allan Brooks never set out to reinvent mathematics. But after weeks spent talking with ChatGPT, the 47-year-old Canadian came to believe he had discovered a new form of math powerful enough to take down the internet.
Brooks – who had no history of mental illness or mathematical genius – spent 21 days in May spiraling deeper into the chatbot’s reassurances, a descent later…
