Author: kumbhorg

The sale of gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) for $55bn (£41bn) to a group of buyers including Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has been finalised.The American company is known for making and publishing best-selling games such as EA FC, formerly known as Fifa, The Sims and Mass Effect.The investors, who include Affinity Partners – led by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner – are taking EA private, meaning all of its public shares will be purchased and it will no longer be traded on a stock exchange.It is thought to be the largest leveraged buyout in history, meaning a…

The Security and Exchange Commission’s outgoing commissioner, Hester Peirce, has expressed optimism that the long-awaited Clarity Act will pass.  Speaking on CoinDesk’s The Policy Protocol show, the regulator said that passing the law would help the SEC in drafting regulation.  Lawmakers are pushing to get a vote on the crypto market structure bill — or Clarity Act — before the Senate goes to recess. Some Republicans have bemoaned that Democratic members of the senate are deliberately dragging their feet with the bill.  The Senate has 4 days to pass the CLARITY Act before recess. 👀Contact your Senator and tell them…

Former rugby star Joe Marler is to become the first ever celebrity Gladiator on the BBC’s popular entertainment series. The 36-year-old, who also took part in the first series of Celebrity Traitors, will be known as Mauler and face contenders when the fourth series of Gladiators begins in 2027. “Mauler will see you now,” Marler said in a video posted on Instagram, external announcing the news, recorded in the Gladiators dressing room.The BBC said Marler will make his debut with a series of “special appearances packed with power, personality and plenty of surprises”.Filming for the fourth series is currently under…

FIFA president Gianni Infantino (AP Photo) Gianni Infantino has received public backing from a small group of national football associations as pressure continues to mount over his future as FIFA president following the collapse of the controversial FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal.While several major football nations and governing bodies have withdrawn their support after the failed World Cup commercialisation plan, reports indicate that six countries have now emerged as Infantino’s most prominent supporters ahead of FIFA’s presidential election next year.Support shrinks after failed World Cup proposalInfantino’s standing within world football has weakened considerably since FIFA abandoned plans to establish the…

Entrepreneur and content creator Ankur Warikoo has sparked a conversation on resilience after sharing his response to a 35-year-old professional facing a career setback. Through practical advice on taking responsibility, learning consistently and focusing on small, actionable steps, Warikoo underscores that rebuilding a meaningful life begins with changing one’s mindset, not dwelling on past mistakes. What do we fear the most in life? Many would say failure. Others might answer losing someone or something precious. Ironically, failure is something every one of us encounters at some point in life.The child who once feared failing a Class 5 mathematics examination may…

Galaxy Research has linked at least 1,596 BTC, worth over $102 million, to a flaw in COLDCARD wallet seed generation.Investigators are tracking at least 15 attacker patterns, while a larger suspected set approaches 2,055 BTC.A vulnerability in COLDCARD hardware wallets has been linked to the theft of at least 1,596 Bitcoin, pushing the estimated value of confirmed losses above $102 million (at current bitcoin price of $64,203).Galaxy Research’s latest investigation, published on Aug. 3, traced the high-confidence theft set across roughly 7,300 Bitcoin addresses. The activity includes three major theft waves and at least 14 smaller incidents reported or confirmed…

I’ve nev­er quite under­stood why the phrase “revi­sion­ist his­to­ry” became pure­ly pejo­ra­tive. Of course, it has its Orwellian dark side, but all knowl­edge has to be revised peri­od­i­cal­ly, as we acquire new infor­ma­tion and, ide­al­ly, dis­card old prej­u­dices and nar­row frames of ref­er­ence. A fail­ure to do so seems fun­da­men­tal­ly regres­sive, not only in polit­i­cal terms, but also in terms of how we val­ue accu­rate, inter­est­ing, and engaged schol­ar­ship. Such research has brought us fas­ci­nat­ing sto­ries about pre­vi­ous­ly mar­gin­al­ized peo­ple who made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to sci­en­tif­ic dis­cov­ery, such as NASA’s “human com­put­ers,” por­trayed in the book Hid­den Fig­ures, then dra­ma­tized…

Best believe that Rebecca Welton is bejeweled when she walks in the room. In fact, bejeweled is exactly how Hannah Waddingham’s Ted Lasso character ends up in the premiere episode of the Apple TV show’s fourth season after stumbling upon Dazzle Me Moi, a local Kansas City boutique blessed by Taylor Swift’s influence. As Rebecca, Keeley Jones (Juno Temple) and Leslie Higgins (Jeremy Swift) visit Ted (Jason Sudeikis) in Kansas City to try to convince him to return to England to coach AFC Richmond’s new women’s team, the ladies embark on a shopping spree. And though Rebecca is initially put…

And so the doors close on another year of the Fantasia International Film Festival—my seventh or eighth year covering in general, and the third covering for this site (and, blissfully, in person). It’s always a surreal experience to be back in Montreal each year, seeing the same faces and fellow critics I’ve admired and called friends, or even worked with as editors and employees (Horror Queers co-host Joe Lipsett, who used to edit for me at The Spool) and coworkers and publicists, albeit from afar. (Of course, it’s also nice when fellow Chicagoans accompany me to the fest; looking at…

“Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong.” That’s the jarring admission of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in his 1995 memoir In Retrospect about how poorly the Kennedy and Johnson administrations handled the Vietnam War. It is rare for a public figure to admit wrongdoing, and the frankness of his confession makes it all the more striking. The mistake was, in fact, enormous. Ten years into the Vietnam War, the United States struggled to make progress against an entrenched enemy. In an effort to break the enemy’s resolve, McNamara championed a bombing campaign that lasted three years and killed tens of…