HBO Is Making a ‘Baldur’s Gate’ TV Show
We’re going down, down, down by the river, and back to the city of Baldur’s Gate… albeit on TV, rather…
Doom Overtakes 3 Very Different Planets, Earth Included, in This Eerie Sci-Fi Short Story
io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue.…
Anthropic Launches New Model That Spots Zero Days, Makes Wall Street Traders Lose Their Minds
Anthropic, the makers of the popular and code-competent chatbot Claude, released a new model Thursday called Claude Opus 4.6. The…
Badlands’ Is Roaring Onto Hulu Next Week
Good news, Predator fans: soon you can double-feature 2025’s live-action Predator: Badlands with 2025’s straight-to-Hulu Predator: Killer of Killers, when…
OpenAI Enters a New Frontier: Trying to Make Money
For a while, OpenAI was considered to have the best frontier AI model in the business. Now that it has…
Xikipedia Wants to Take the ‘Doom’ Out of ‘Doomscrolling’
The act of scrolling is generally associated these days with the concept of doomscrolling: the hollow-eyed, passive trawl through a…
Scientists Tried Drilling Into Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ But the Ice Had Other Plans
One of Earth’s most dangerous glaciers has claimed a victim: a suite of instruments that became trapped deep within the…
Adafruit Warns New Ghost Gun Laws Could Have Unintended Consequences for 3D Printers
U.S. states are starting to introduce new bills aimed at stopping people from making 3D-printed “ghost” guns, but not everyone…
The First Trailer for Game Adaptation ‘Exit 8’ Is Seriously Creepy
Life often can feel almost comically repetitive. You wake up, get dressed, go through your daily routine, come home, eat,…
This Viking-Era ‘Execution Pit’ Has Stories to Tell
Archaeologists and students from Cambridge University have uncovered a mysterious mass grave in Cambridgeshire county. Their identities are unknown—but something…
