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A new Borderlands game just dropped, and it's free

Despite its mobile platform, fans say this looks and plays like a mainline Borderlands game. A campaign, co-op, and more are live

The 3 best new sci-fi and fantasy books out in April 2026

With the change in season comes a bevy of new books to keep you busy now, or to stock up on until it’s finally time to hit the beach.

NASA’s Artemis II mission to fly around the far side of the Moon

Humans haven’t set foot on the Moon since NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Now, the space agency is racing to get back to the lunar surface under the umbrella of its Artemis program — a nod to the Greek goddess and twin sister of Apollo, whose name was given to NASA’s first program to […]

An Ohio man is the first convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing real and AI-generated explicit images of 10+ victims (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
An Ohio man is the first convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing real and AI-generated explicit images of 10+ victims  —  An Ohio man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing both real …

Pete Hegseth preaches “maximum lethality.” What has that meant in Iran?

Even before the Trump administration went to war with Iran, it was talking differently about its approach to combat.  President Donald Trump relabeled the Department of Defense to something more in line with his values: the Department of War. His Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, promised to deliver on a philosophy of “maximum lethality.” For many […]