Scottish Open first round
-5 R McIlroy (NI), R Hojgaard (Den), P Cantlay (US), T Kim (Kor), B Wiesberger (Aut); -4 B Koekpa (US), MW Lee (Aus), M Thorbjornsen (US), K Kitayama (US), A Ayora (Spa), O Lindell (Fin), A Novak (US)
Destiny 2
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It’s been weeks, but fans are still mourning the end of Destiny 2, which has reached its end of service and even gotten its last hotfix after hundreds of layoffs of the team supporting the game at Bungie. There does not seem to be any way that decision will be reversed, but fans want to know how and why Sony would abandon this historic IP completely.
Abbey in the Valley
The quiet yet stunning track takes its name from a village located in Powys, Wales
Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien has finally released his spectral song, “Abbeycwmhir,” which was previously only available on an exclusive seven-inch vinyl. The song arrives two months after the release of O’Brien’s sophomore solo record Blue Morpho.
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Published Jul 9, 2026, 10:54 AM EDT
The game's full release has more new content and changes than Steam can handle
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For the most part, the long-awaited and worst-kept secret, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, is very faithful to one of my favourite games from 13 years ago. And anything that's brand-new, like some islands, the ship officers, and an extended story, fits in pretty seamlessly, almost like they were there in the original.
At a time when AI backlash and data center protests are making headlines, Anthropic’s Claude is rolling out a new feature that subtly makes the case for why you should keep using it.
Joanna Pettet, the London-born actress who played one of the eight Vassar graduates in Sidney Lumet’s The Group and a spy put to work by her father, David Niven’s James Bond, in Casino Royale, has died. She was 83.
David Hearn, a former Olympic canoe racer, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to damaging Washington’s reflecting pool after a $14.7m renovation project.
Hearn, a three-time US Olympian, was indicted last week on a single felony count of property destruction. He appeared in local superior court in Washington DC to enter the plea after he was criminally charged over the incident in mid-June.
We’ve talked before about the hot IPO summer, but with SpaceX just launched to public markets and Anthropic and (maybe) OpenAI soon to come, it can be easy to miss the sheer scale of what’s happening.
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: Jul 9, 2026 2:50pm UTC
The hotly anticipated Godzilla Minus Zero has a new teaser trailer, this time showing a desperate humanity dropping a nuke on the main monster itself.