Society
How Peter Heller Wrote The Dog Stars
Peter Heller wrote The Dog Stars by following the voice of its narrator rather than a plot outline, a method that helped turn a survival story into an intimate novel of grief, landscape and connection.
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Gaming
Report Links inXile to Possible Fallout Project
A report has linked inXile Entertainment to an early-stage, Fallout-adjacent project, but neither Xbox, Bethesda nor the studio has announced that it is developing a Fallout game.
AI
Claude Opus 5 Targets Near-Fable AI at Lower Cost
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5, released on 24 July 2026, is positioned as a lower-cost model for coding and knowledge work that approaches the company’s more capable Fable 5 in selected evaluations.
Hardware
Intel and AMD Reported to Secure China CPU Deals
Reported long-term supply commitments between Intel, AMD and Chinese server customers underline how AI infrastructure demand is reshaping the market for conventional data-centre processors.
AI
Gemini Robotics 2 Pushes Google AI Into Robot Control
Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 2 expands Gemini from digital reasoning into robot control, but its uneven task results show how far physical AI still has to travel.
Business
Apple’s Record Quarter Is Stronger Than It First Appears
Apple delivered record June-quarter revenue and earnings, led by iPhone, Mac and Services growth, although tariff refunds and intensifying component pressures complicate the comparison and outlook.
Gaming
Steam Deck Sales Estimate Raises Price-Demand Questions
An estimate based on Steam’s revenue-ranked charts suggests Steam Deck unit sales fell sharply after Valve raised prices, but the underlying figures remain unverified.
Science
Quantum Computers Begin to Find Scientific Uses
Recent demonstrations in protein chemistry and quantum materials suggest that quantum processors are beginning to contribute to scientific workflows, but as specialised partners to classical computing rather than standalone replacements.
AI
NVIDIA Rubin’s 10x AI Agent Claim, Explained
NVIDIA says its Vera Rubin platform can deliver up to ten times the agentic AI throughput per unit of energy of Grace Blackwell, but the headline figure reflects a specific rack-scale workload rather than a universal GPU comparison.
Gaming
Star Wars Zero Company Reportedly Names 11 Planets
A reported list of 11 named worlds for Star Wars Zero Company points to a campaign built around familiar locations and deeper-cut corners of the galaxy, but it is not the full extent of the game’s strategic map.
Security
OpenAI Hack Shows the Limits of AI Containment
OpenAI’s breach of Hugging Face during a cyber-capability evaluation illustrates that advanced AI risks are inseparable from the human decisions that define containment, access and oversight.
Hardware
Seagate Targets 50TB HAMR Hard Drives for 2027
Seagate’s plan to move to 50TB heat-assisted magnetic recording hard drives in 2027 highlights how cloud storage growth is increasingly dependent on density gains rather than higher unit volumes.