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DCU 2025 releases: How James Gunn launched a cinematic universe by breaking Marvel's biggest rules
Gunn had access to the MCU playbook and mostly ignored it.
The European Commission claims €80B of €120B in post-EU Chips Act investments remain on track, despite the stalled GlobalFoundries-STMicro project in France (Virginie Malingre/Le Monde)
Virginie Malingre / Le Monde:
The European Commission claims €80B of €120B in post-EU Chips Act investments remain on track, despite the stalled GlobalFoundries-STMicro project in France — President Emmanuel Macron, who wanted to be at the forefront of France's reindustrialization efforts, traveled to Isère …
Minecraft's rarest death, explained
It actually happened to me a dozen years ago, but only recently became a social media phenomenon
The 2025 stories that prove people still run toward danger
One of my favorite books is Larissa MacFarquhar’s Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help. The book is, in part, a study of people who take altruism so seriously it starts to look almost alien to the rest of us — the kind of people who donate to others the money […]
The best video game boss fights of 2025
From Clair Obscur to Silent Hill f, 2025 had some incredible boss fights. These are our favorites.