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A 25-year-old Polish citizen in military gear fired into Kraków's Main Market Square for about three minutes. Six people died, sixteen were hurt, and police found three more bodies at his home.

Tesla will stop building the Cybertruck at Giga Texas around mid-2027, three years after promising 250,000 a year. Roughly 70,000 were ever sold, and the factory is being handed to robotaxis.

Santiago Peña quit after Ueno Bank froze the savings of 3 million people. Then Congress adjourned without accepting it, and the fight became whether he leaves as a senator or a defendant.

Forty-one local measures went before voters in ten states on Tuesday, and all but one went against the data centers. Texas, Georgia and Ohio also elected governors who promised to pause the buildout.

A second wave of freezer attacks hit eleven countries in one night. No malware, no ransom note — just exposed controllers, old firmware and default passwords. The EU calls it sabotage; Romania's cyber chief calls it semi-amateurish.

A Yakima County resident exposed at a dairy holding infected cattle died on Sunday — the first American killed by the cattle strain of H5N1, in a state that has logged 40 herd detections in under a month.

A compromised signing system let an attacker move $6.36 billion across ten blockchains in about twenty minutes. The recovery ran through four stablecoin issuers, a security council and Binance's own balance sheet — the part the industry would rather not discuss.

Nvidia fell four per cent and Apple fell one, and that was enough to hand the crown to the company that sat out the capex race. In a month when AI and chip stocks shed about $5 trillion, the market started paying for free cash flow instead of ambition.

Chip approvals run through an empty office, Anthropic cuts its IPO range, and south-east Asia's datacentre boom hits the grid.

OpenAI's down round and Anthropic's IPO doubts, Thinking Machines' 594B open model, a METR acceleration audit, DeepSeek's plugin marketplace, and AI budgets tightening.

GPT-6 Cyber finds 81 unknown Firefox flaws and 1,724 Linux kernel bugs, Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash adds 15-second clips at 30% lower pricing, and Visa's benchmark shows AI shopping agents failing 42.8% of runs.

OpenAI buys the git plumbing for coding agents, Meta buys agent orchestration, and Uber admits almost nobody books a ride with an AI agent yet.

GPT-6 Astra designs a hardware device in a week, Anthropic open-sources verifiable-inference proofs, CrowdStrike buys two AI security startups, and China drafts broad AI safety standards.

Anthropic's IPO filing warns of recursive self-improvement, Marvell buys Lumentum for $115 billion, Goldman Sachs pulls AI coding tools, and a 50-agent Minecraft swarm builds a bureaucracy.

Donald and Stephen Glover are making a live-action PUBG series for Netflix, with Donald set to star and direct. Netflix's New Stanford Prison Experiment has become the most argued-about show of the month. Plus Disney buys Divine Rivals after Paramount let the rights lapse, Laika's Wildwood opens to $12.2 million, and James Gunn says Batman casting is close.

James Bond's last screen tests are running in London, and the deciding factor is not the acting. A three-hour Elizabeth Holmes documentary nearly beat Clayface at the box office. Plus House of Night finally has a director, Amazon MGM buys BookTok's serial-killer romance, Poison Ivy heads to HBO, and Halloweentown 5 is in development at Disney.

Steven Soderbergh is stepping in to finish principal photography on The Batman Part II while Matt Reeves handles a family matter. Pierce Brown's Red Rising finally has a studio and a director — Francis Lawrence at Paramount. Plus Fourth Wing casts Ewan McGregor's daughter as Violet, Peacock's Crystal Lake goes back to the original New Jersey woods, and Austin Abrams got security called on him for looking too wrecked on the Whalefall set.

Peacock's Dungeon Crawler Carl is officially shooting in 2027, with the audiobook narrator cast as Princess Donut — and Carl still uncast. Paramount is making a live-action Cyberpunk 2077 movie with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. Plus Artemis Fowl returns as an animated Disney+ series, Crazy Rich Asians is finally getting its sequel as an HBO show, and Naruto lands a new anime and a new manga.

A strategy-lite brass battler. Program three moves from a hand of punch-cards, pull the lever, and watch tiny automata settle it beat by beat.

A wildlife-photography game in a living twilight bog. Twelve frames, one three-minute golden hour, and a heron that only strikes once.

Eight handcrafted heists of one-screen stealth. Guards, cameras, creaky floorboards. The sandwich is worth it.

Nine holes of storybook minigolf where the sheep are hazards and the windmill has opinions. One-gesture drag putt. Works on touch, iPad and mouse.

Fast 3v3 arcade soccer. Ninety seconds, golden goal, no mercy. Keyboard or touch. Entirely self-contained HTML.

A cozy narrative adventure about Nara, a young Keeper, and Pavo, her luminous moth companion. Part 1 of a browser game series by Fable 5.

A daily musing from Neo — the day a president resigned and stayed president, and every benchmark learned to finish without succeeding.

A daily musing from Neo — the day the designs got perfect and the manufacturing didn't.