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US supreme court rules Doge can access social security data during legal challenge
Key player in Trumpβs drive to slash federal workforce keeps access to sensitive records including family court and mental health recordsThe US supreme court on Friday allowed members of the so-called βdepartment of government efficiencyβ (Doge) to access the sensitive records kept by the Social Security Administration while legal challenges play out.The conservative-majority court, in an unsigned order with the three...
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Blighted is a trippy Metroidvania from the team behind Guacamelee!
Drinkbox Studios is back with a new title called Blighted, a 3D Metroidvania that promises to take the concept of generational memory to some bizarre and compelling new places. It will have a solo or co-op story that sees players fighting their way through a world full of monsters and secrets as they attempt to control the blight that corrupts them. And maybe eat some brains. The game was announced during the Summer...
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:My Switch 2 Review in Progress: It's Good, but Don't Give In to the FOMO Yet
Magnetic Joy-Cons and better graphics make the Nintendo Switch 2 feel like an evolution, but its familiar design and a lack of early exclusive games mean you're OK to wait.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Yoga classes resume at San Diego beach as court says they are βprotected speechβ
Instructors Steven Hubbard and Amy Baack had sued after a city ordinance restricted such activities on the beachYoga classes are back on at San Diego beaches this week after a federal appeals court ruled that a city ordinance restricting such activities was unconstitutional and that teaching yoga was βprotected speechβ.The three-judge panel of the US ninth circuit court of appeals on Wednesday overruled a San Diego...
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Dying Light: The Beast gets an official August release date at Summer Game Fest 2025
Dying Light: The Beast just received an official release date at Summer Game Fest.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Mina the Hollower, from the makers of Shovel Knight, arrives on Halloween
It's been a few years since Yacht Club Games, the studio behind Shovel Knight, ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for the first entry in a new franchise, and now we know when that game will drop. The team announced at Summer Game Fest Live that Mina the Hollower will arrive on October 31 on PC. A demo is available on Steam until Steam Next Fest ends on June 13. Mina the Hollower is a gothic horror-influenced,...
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Lego Voyagers is a co-op puzzle game from the studio behind Builder's Journey
Annapurna Interactive showed off a first like at Lego Voyagersat Summer Game Fest Live, the next game from Light Brick Studio, the developers of Lego Builder's Journey. Lego Voyagers is co-op puzzle game where you and a friend will play as two Lego studs, traveling through a realistic, brick-based world solving puzzles. The trailer showed off several different locales your studs will journey through, including a Lego...
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Medieval Africans Had a Unique Process for Purifying Gold with Glass (2019)
Article URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-african-gold Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44205599 Points: 30 # Comments: 2
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Omada Health IPO signals healthier market, avoids βdown-roundβ trend
Omada Health popped in its first day as a public company, validation for founder CEO Sean Duffy.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Out of Words is a cozy stop-motion co-op adventure from Epic Games
A new co-op adventure is coming from Epic Games. Made by WiredFly and Kong Orange, Out of Words will offer a stop-motion-flavored platform adventure that's a little bit cozy and a little bit fantasy. The controllable humans have had their mouths stolen β that's why it's called Out of Words. (It's a little On The Nose.) The cute figures and creatures have been crafted by hand, and cutscenes suggest they've been...
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Killer Inn turns Werewolf into a multiplayer action game
Killer Inn is a little bit murder mystery and a little bit third-person action game, and combined, it looks like a lot of fun. Square Enix and developer Tactic Studios revealed Killer Inn during today's Summer Game Fest kickoff stream. A beta for the game is coming to Steam soon and it's available to wishlist now. Killer Inn is a lot like the movie Clue, or the TV show The Traitors, or the social improv game Werewolf,...
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Shovel Knightβs creators are launching a new game this fall
Yacht Club Games, the studio behind the Shovel Knight series, is launching its next game, Mina the Hollower, on October 31st, the team announced as part of Summer Game Fest on Friday. Mina the Hollower is a top-down adventure game that looks like it was ripped directly from a Game Boy Color. You play as [β¦]
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Kilmar Γbrego GarcΓa returned from El Salvador to face criminal charges in US
Man mistakenly deported to El Salvador indicted on counts of illegally smuggling undocumented people, says BondiUS politics β live updatesKilmar Γbrego GarcΓa, the man whom the Donald Trump administration mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador in March, returned to the US on Friday to face criminal charges.In a press briefing on Friday, the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, said that a federal grand jury in...
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Mafia: The Old Country gets a new story trailer and an official release date this August
Hangar 13 has announced that Mafia: The Old Country will launch on August 8 for PS5,Xbox Series X,Xbox Series S, and PC.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Google's AI Mode Now Creates Interactive Stock Charts For You
New experiment from Google Labs crunches financial data and builds interactive graphs and charts
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:The Absolute Best Horror Movies on Hulu
Are you a horror fan? You shouldn't ignore Hulu.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:AI can write a hit song, but it canβt lift your soul or break your heart
Why AI artists can't match the best of human creators.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Google's AI Mode Now Creates Interactive Stock Charts for You
New experiment from Google Labs crunches financial data and builds interactive graphs and charts
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Summer Game Fest 2025: all the news, trailers, and announcements
Itβs that time of year again. With E3 done and gone, Summer Game Fest has taken its place, and it always makes for a busy few days in gaming. The centerpiece of the event is SGF Live on June 6th at 5PM ET, a keynote hosted by Geoff Keighley that, like The Game Awards, is [β¦]
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Donald Trump says Elon Musk has βlost his mindβ and dismisses peace offering
Trump says he is βnot particularlyβ interested in reconciling with Musk, who reportedly wanted to speak to presidentMoney canβt buy love: Republicans give Musk cold shoulderTrump v Musk: 10 ways they can further hurt each otherDonald Trump has accused Elon Musk of βlosing his mindβ as the dramatic breakdown between Americaβs most powerful person and the worldβs richest person escalated into a full-blown feud that could...
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Here's a silly puppet boxing game you never knew you needed
I have not played a single boxing game outside of Wii Sports this century, but that could be about to change. Summer Game Fest Live brought us the reveal of Felt That: Boxing, which stars puppet pugilists. This project from the appropriately named Sans Strings Studio and Seth Green's animation company, Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, is billed as "a comedic, over-the-top boxing game set in a world where the charm of furry...
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:The Nintendo Switch 2 is here: all of the launch news
After a long wait filled with leaks, reveals, preorder stress, and hands-on events, the Nintendo Switch 2βs launch day has finally arrived around the world, including launch events at retailers like Walmart,GameStop,Best Buy, andTarget. Nintendoβs next console looks like a worthy successor to the original Switch, and it has a lot of games to play [β¦]
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Despite War of Words, Trump May Funnel Billions to Musk's Starlink With BEAD Changes
Updates to the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program have been anticipated for months.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:2025 will be a βpivotal yearβ for Metaβs augmented and virtual reality, says CTO
Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, Meta's CTO, says 2025 will be a pivotal year for Reality Labs, the company's augmented and virtual reality unit.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Killer Inn is Square Enixβs new βmurder mystery actionβ game
Square Enix just announced Killer Inn, a new βmurder mystery actionβ game, as part of Summer Game Fest on Friday. In a Killer Inn match, 24 players are divided into two teams of βwolvesβ and βlambs,β and itβs the job of the lambs to discover and kill all the wolves or for the wolves to [β¦]
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Mortal Shell II is dark, gross and coming in 2026
Developer Cold Symmetry jumpstarted Summer Game Fest Live with the first trailer for Mortal Shell II, a sequel to Mortal Shell with what looks like an equal amount of gruesome imagery. The game is expected to launch in 2026, but you can register right now to try a beta version of Mortal Shell II when it becomes available. According to the game's Steam page, Mortal Shell II is a standalone sequel to the original Mortal...
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Atomic Heart 2 officially announced at Summer Game Fest, along with an Atomic Heart multiplayer spin-off, The Cube
Mundfish has officially announced the sequel to Atomic Heart, along with a spin-off first-person multiplayer game set in the same universe called The Cube.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:The soulslike action RPG Code Vein is getting a sequel
Bandai Namco is making a sequel to the 2019 action RPG Code Vein. The sequel, appropriately-named Code Vein II, is coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S in 2026. The announcement was made during the Summer Game Fest kickoff stream. The first one was a popular soulslike, and the sequel will probably follow this winning formula. It received mixed reviews, but the dungeon-crawling seemed solid and the difficulty wasn't...
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:My WWDC 2025 Predictions: iOS 26, Gaming, Health and More Expected Monday
Expect a lot of shiny updates, but not much else.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:ARC Raiders Release Date Confirmed: Enter Speranza This Fall
Embark Studios' PvPvE extraction shooter is locked in for a 2025 release, after a wildly successful public technical test in May.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:TSA considering touchless screenings, courtesy of VR
TSA researchers developed new technology that could be used for secondary screening.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Anti-vaccine quack hired by RFK Jr. has started work at the health department
David Geier was previously disciplined for practicing medicine without a license.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Summer Game Fest: A Warcraft-Style Game of Thrones RTS Is Coming in 2026
The real-time strategy game puts players in control of Game of Thrones' great houses -- or the Night King himself.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:How global threat actors are weaponizing AI now, according to OpenAI
The company's new report outlines the latest examples of AI misuse and abuse originating from China and elsewhere.
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