The Pentagon awarded $7.8 billion in contracts to Lockheed Martin and RTX Corporation at the end of July to produce thousands of new missiles for the Air Force and Navy, as well as a host of international allies.
The contracts include $3.5 billion to RTX Corporation for the AMRAAM Air-to-Air missile, reported to be the largest contract in the history of the AMRAAM missile program. The contract…
Army plans to grow Patriot battalions, plus one for Guam
August 6, 2025
The Army is planning to grow its operational Patriot air-and-missile defense force from 15 to 18 battalions, plus a composite battalion which includes Patriot capability in Guam, an Army spokesperson told Defense News in a statement.
In 2023 the service announced a plan to…
After almost 20 years of the MCU’s dominance—where characters like Gamora and Groot have miraculously become household names and command the careers of A-list actors—we’ve suddenly found ourselves in a period of nostalgia for Marvel’s ramshackle 1990s…
Here's Everything We Know So Far About Phasmophobia's Terrifying New Map, Nell's Diner
August 6, 2025
Phasmophobia developer Kinetic has finally lifted the veil on its next small map — and it’s a diner. Nell’s Diner is described as a run-down, retro restaurant complete with a “classic diner counter, comfy booths, and a kitchen preparing some less-than-savoury encounters.” Apparently, every meal at Nell’s “is an (un)happy meal.”
While we don’t have a…
Microsoft has announced Wave 1 of the Xbox Game Pass August 2025 lineup, which includes Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Citizen Sleeper 2, and more.
As revealed in a post on Xbox Wire, out today, August 5, is Rain World (Cloud, Console, and PC) across…
Free alternatives may exist for Microsoft Office components, but sometimes they can’t stand in for the original. And as a student, the new cost of $100 per year for a Microsoft 365 Personal account is pretty expensive—but fortunately, you may not have to pay to use the…
Want ad-free streaming without paying through the nose for Netflix or HBO Max? Roku’s new budget streamer serves up a tempting selection of movies and TV shows for a lot less, provided you can deal with some caveats.
Slated to launch today, Howdy costs just $3 a month for unlimited ad-free streaming, a price that undercuts Netflix’s cheapest—and ad-supported—plan by $5 a month.
That low…
Interest in Sonos’s smallest portable speaker is heating up—literally—following word that at least one of the units came close to catching fire.
A Sonos user on Reddit posted images of the “singed” and “bulging” USB port on the back of his Roam, a portable…
OpenAI is getting back to its roots as an open source AI company with today’s announcement and release of two new, open source, frontier large language models (LLMs): gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b.
The former is a 120-billion parameter model as the name would suggest…
Anthropic released an upgraded version of its flagship artificial intelligence model Monday, achieving new performance heights in software engineering tasks as the AI startup races to maintain its dominance in the lucrative coding market ahead of an expected competitive challenge from OpenAI.
The new Claude Opus 4.1 model scored 74.5% on SWE-bench Verified, a widely-watched benchmark that tests AI…
