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The lore-YouTuber-to-book-publisher pipeline is alive and well. Borderlands 4 has another busted exploit, and fired Rockstar devs aren’t going quietly. Welcome to the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news and culture. According to a handful of Polymarket weirdos, Half-Life 3 has a 56 percent chance of being announced before 2027 but only a 7 percent chance of arriving before the end of 2025. Fans are getting ready either way. Elden Ring‘s unofficial YouTube lore master is putting out a 400-page book Michael “VaatiVidya” Samuels’ YouTube channel is where everyone who loves FromSoftware games but can’t make…
iPadOS 26 finally came with the updates we’ve been begging for, the ones that were supposed to turn the iPad into a true laptop replacement. For years, we’ve been shouting: “Just make iPads run macOS, will you?” Turns out that we may not really want that. Or, Apple just fumbled the ball, again.The new iPadOS 26 can finally handle multiple windows in a more natural, desktop-like way. You no longer need to learn to use the dizzyingly clunky Stage Manager. The Files app has been reworked to finally be useful. And the Preview app from macOS came in to finally…
I attended the Concours of Elegance 2025 on Friday, 5 September, which was the Owners’ and VIP Day. I had been looking forward to the event with great excitement. This show always has a relaxed, leisurely atmosphere and a wonderful selection of highly desirable cars. It’s one of the highlights of my year when it comes to car events – a show I would never want to miss. As always, I took plenty of photos at Concours of Elegance. A few are in the gallery below, while over 100 more can be found in my photo album on our Facebook…
Other Hall Effect Keyboards to ConsiderAsus Falchion Ace HFX Photograph: Henri RobbinsAsus Falchion Ace HFX for $200: The Falchion Ace HFX (7/10, WIRED Recommends) has a lot of unique features, and underneath them, it’s genuinely a solid Hall effect keyboard. Small details like a touchpad and a physical rapid-trigger switch, paired with big-ticket items like an 8,000-Hz polling rate and one of the better customization software available, make this keyboard both intuitive for daily use and powerful for high-speed gaming. It feels good to type on, looks good, and can be customized extensively without needing to close your game or…
Disney+ has Star Wars and Paramount+ has Star Trek, so it’s about time Amazon gets its own sci-fi franchise with “star” in the title. Prime Video has just greenlit a TV revival of the iconic Stargate franchise, . This will be the fourth major TV show in the series, following the first movie.We don’t know anything about the plot and where it fits into the decades-long mythology but we do know that the showrunner is Martin Gero. He’s a veteran of the IP, having cut his teeth in the industry while working on Stargate: Atlantis back in the early 2000s.…
Faculty Advisors: Daniel Sousa, San Diego State University Graduate Mentor: Megan Ward-Baranyay, San Diego State University Robert Purvis, Western Kentucky University Lichens, a symbiotic relationship between a fungus (mycobiont) and green algae or cyanobacterium (photobiont), occur globally with great variability in form and function. On the North American west coast, Ramalina menziesii is a robust lichen with net-like morphology found across three distinct biomes. In the mediterranean climate of coastal California, R. menziesii can survive with thallus water content as low as 13%, making the lichen a powerful medium for wildfire spread. As a late-successional community member, changes in wildfire…
Samsung’s Galaxy Ultra phones have always been about big specs and standout displays. But the latest Galaxy S26 Ultra rumors hints at something more: a new Flex Magic Pixel feature, a hardware-level, privacy screen that makes the display hard to read from the side. Yep, you should be able to toggle this with just a tap, no actual screen protector required.This is the kind of subtle and practical innovation that could give Samsung’s flagship a real competitive edge beyond just the specs.Come to think about it, Samsung’s Ultra models have always relied on displays and camera hardware to stand out.…
If there’s one thing I really appreciate about Deadpool VR, out now exclusively on Quest 3 and Quest 3S virtual reality headsets, it’s how the first-person action-shooter lets you know right away what it is. The opening minutes of the game feature Neil Patrick Harris as Wade Wilson aka Deadpool, carrying out his wild plan to use a jeep filled with explosives to blast open a hole in a large aircraft taken over by an evil group of ninjas. If you like what this opening offers, the rest of the game only gets better. But if you can’t stand Deadpool…
Zoë Schiffer: So shifting gears, our next story deals with another inescapable fact of modern life, which is scam text messages. Brian, how many scam texts or calls would you say you receive in a given week these days?Brian Barrett: I mean, how many have I received during this recording? It is incessant, and that’s not even counting the political ones, which are legit but annoying. No, they are constant, Zoë. It is the most consistent communication I have in my life is from scammers.Zoë Schiffer: Yes, same. So, we don’t really have a way to know for sure, but…
It’s well-documented that many students use ChatGPT to do their homework for them, and now OpenAI would like teachers to use it to write those student’s homework, too. The company hopes to entice K-12 school employees to work with its AI models via the newly announced ChatGPT for Teachers, a version of the AI assistant that’s secure enough to be used in a school environment and free until June 2027.OpenAI pitches this new ChatGPT as a way for educators to create material for the classroom, “and get comfortable using AI on their own terms.” ChatGPT for Teachers includes unlimited messages…