Abu Dhabi’s state‑owned oil giant Adnoc announced it has activated contingency protocols to keep crude flowing despite the Iran‑US‑Israel conflict disrupting tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. The company is adjusting offshore production, leveraging the 1.5 million b/d ADCOP pipeline that bypasses the strait, and drawing on its international storage and trading network to meet customer schedules. By managing cargo timing and delivery extensions on a granular basis, Adnoc aims to preserve supply continuity without resorting to force majeure. UAE crude output stood at 3.53 million b/d in February, underscoring the scale of the operation.

Arcade Impact members SwolitaBot and SonGohanX turned their love of fighting games into a unique wedding, using Soul Calibur 2 as their real first dance. The duo co‑founded the regional tournament series The Beast in the East, where SwolitaBot now serves as...
RPG Site’s Tetracast episode 432 covered a wave of upcoming releases and industry shifts. Hosts highlighted the early‑access launch of Slay the Spire 2 and previewed Pokémon Pokopia, while announcing the July 10 release of the Sword Art Online action RPG Echoes of Aincrad....

Michael Crichton originally scripted Carol Hathaway’s death in the 1994 ER pilot, filming a drug‑overdose scene that would have ended Julianna Margulies’ role. Showrunner John Wells and director Rob Holcomb’s visual framing of the scene, however, highlighted the character’s importance to Doug...

Gravity’s Ragnarok franchise now spans more than a dozen mobile titles, ranging from full‑scale MMORPGs like Ragnarok M: Eternal Love to niche experiences such as Ragnarok Crush and Monster Kitchen. The company continuously rolls out regional launches across Southeast Asia,...

Marvel Heroes fans’ emulation server MHServerEmu released version 0.8.1, delivering major performance upgrades and new features such as autosave, achievement fixes, and the custom Ultimate Prestige system. The update also adds party map‑sync and a grace period before region boot‑outs. Lead...

A team of young Congolese geologists from the University of Kinshasa, known as Bana Kongo, earned the Impact and Exploration Award at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) 2026 Next Generation Explorers competition. Competing against roughly 40 international...

Zambia has risen to become the third‑most attractive mining investment destination in Africa, trailing only Botswana and Morocco, according to the Fraser Institute’s 2025 Annual Survey. Globally, the country improved to 25th place on the Investment Attractiveness Index, up from...

British broadcaster BBC will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the seminal 1990s drama *This Life* by re‑airing the entire series, beginning with season one on 18 March at 10 pm on BBC Four and simultaneously on iPlayer. The show, which follows a...

Royal Navy Merlin HM2 helicopters fitted with the Crowsnest airborne surveillance and control system have departed RNAS Culdrose for a self‑deployed deployment to Cyprus. The Thales Searchwater pulse‑Doppler radar can detect low‑flying UAVs such as Shahed drones at ranges up...

Ubisoft has slashed The Division 2 to $3, sparking a 400% surge in concurrent Steam players and pushing the title back onto the platform’s charts. The discount coincides with the launch of a timed Realism Mode in the Warlords of New...
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman answered a public query on Twitter in real time, rejecting the notion that the agency faces a budget shortfall. He highlighted that NASA receives roughly $25 billion annually, plus an additional $10 billion from the recent bipartisan funding...
Dr. Selene Castrejon runs a medical practice. She doesn’t have time for AI experiments that don’t work. Every hour matters. Inside the AI Business Lab® Mastermind, she built trained AI bots that now provide CFO-level insights and marketing strategy—saving hundreds of...
OG announced the loan of French rifler Alexandre “bodyy” Pianaro from 3DMAX, replacing Timur “FL4MUS” Marev on its active CS:GO roster. The move marks OG’s first roster change of 2026 as the Danish organization slides from a #49 debut ranking...

The latest episode of Channel 9’s travel series Postcards showcases a mix of urban and regional attractions across Victoria and South Australia. Livinia Nixon explores the World‑Heritage Naracoorte Caves and a family‑run Padthaway Estate vineyard, while Lauren Phillips uncovers Melbourne laneway...
On Prasad’s last few weeks as CBER chief: 1. It was absurdly inappropriate to bring a large group of reporters together and rail on a pending application “on background” 2. The walk back of the Moderna RTF was a bad...
The war in Iran has caused the biggest disruption in oil production in history. Whether it becomes the long-feared “nightmare scenario” for energy markets (and the global economy) now depends on the duration of the conflict. My @FT column: https://t.co/uKMsVXBCQY
Affluent residents and preservation groups are fighting to keep a surface parking lot at 375 Lafayette Street in NoHo, using landmark designation to block a proposed 19‑story, 200‑unit mixed‑income tower. The developers, Edward J. Minskoff Equities and Edison Properties, have...
Tip of the hat to Eddy, Oliver and the Apple team on their approach to distributing the new F1 rights. Fan first strategy, unlocking availability beyond their owned and operated platforms is good for everyone. Excited that @Tubi is part...
Chinese PV Industry Brief: Polysilicon prices slide amid low operating rates #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/JsM63FU7l1

EA Sports' FIFA 26 (FC 26) has launched the FUT Birthday Fiesta 2 tournament, offering players a tiered set of rewards for progressing through rounds and meeting performance objectives. Winners of each knockout stage receive rare gold player packs ranging...
Impact of creatine supplementation on menopausal women’s body composition, cognition, estrogen, strength, and sleep https://t.co/8ZqpAr94uG
Iran would have been better off stuffing them in warehouses, garages etc. Centralizing all your crap (that is already road mobile) in places with a couple entrances and exits beneath a mountain is a problem when going against the USAF/IAF.
dLocal and Open English have launched Bre‑B, Colombia’s government‑backed real‑time payment rail, as an instant checkout option for the e‑learning platform. The integration lets students pay via bank‑linked llaves or QR codes, confirming transactions in seconds and eliminating the need...

Updated maps from the past few days showing Russian advances along the border in Sumy oblast, Hryshyne, and Huliaipole. https://t.co/2fOTZjg6ww https://t.co/vh0Uy67YYp
Whenever fuel surges like it has, we see a rash of small carrier bankruptcies. Large fleets and big brokers benefit from high fuel prices due to fuel surcharges, smaller truckers get creamed.

Paramount Global agreed to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in a $110 billion deal, one of the largest media mergers in recent memory. The transaction arrives amid slowing subscriber growth and rising content costs, prompting heightened scrutiny from U.S. federal, state and...
Your committee did brilliant work hearing out the issues from all perspectives, Dr. Fry. It was a delight to experience and a fruitful outcome for a free and plural press - and democracy. You provided journalism a boost while an...
Two rising leaders in New York and Los Angeles are pushing for a fundamental revolution in urban housing politics: A unified progressive movement centered on renters instead of homeowners https://t.co/xC3VrNCfNM

The Pokémon Presents stream on Feb. 27 unveiled Mega Garchomp Z for Pokémon Legends: Z‑A, marking the latest addition to the franchise’s Mega Evolution line. Introduced in 2013, Mega Evolutions let roughly 90 Pokémon temporarily boost stats by about 100 points, but the mechanic...

The Crude Oil ETF spiked 33% over the last week, the biggest weekly gain in its history. This was a 6-sigma event, which (assuming a normal distribution) is only supposed to occur once every 4,039,906 years. So we shouldn't see another spike...
Should the US Navy Start Targeting & Seizing Iranian Tankers 1⃣Sea Power vs Seapower 2⃣How did the US Torpedo Global Shipping? 3⃣Convoying in the Past 4⃣Current US Naval Situation 5⃣Potential Strategy for the US H/T: @ed_fin @gCaptain @LloydsList @ianellisjones Video: https://t.co/XpwiR2J9Cb

Nick McKenzie’s 60 Minutes investigation uncovers alleged wage theft at MA Services, a leading Australian security and cleaning contractor founded by Micky Ahuja. The report claims thousands of vulnerable migrant workers were paid below the legal minimum wage and denied entitlements...

Digital Foundry examined Capcom’s Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil Village on the newly released Switch 2. The analysis finds RE7 runs almost identically to its PS4 counterpart, with minor black‑level and color issues but overall visual improvement. Village also looks better...
The vast majority of folks don’t need charging this fast. But awesome that we can do it and I hope people know this will cost $0.99/kWh in infrastructure. For most folks level 1 and level 2 charging works.

The 13th Zambia International Mining and Energy Conference (ZIMEC 2026) will convene March 25‑26 in Kitwe, bringing together government officials, financiers, and global mining experts to chart Zambia’s mining and energy transition. With mining accounting for roughly 70% of export...

Overhype Studios released a first roadmap for Menace, its XCOM‑style early‑access title, but provided only high‑level feature lists and no concrete dates. The plan outlines continual additions such as weapons, items, enemy variants, UI tweaks, and three themed squad‑leader drops,...
I've known @dmgorenstein for 2 decades and have always found him to be extraordinarily thoughtful – not afraid to ask tough questions and to grapple with nuance and, yes, tradeoffs. It was great to chat with him on his @tradeoffspod...
The Prospector’s and Developers Association of Canada’s annual PDAC conference underscored the Ring of Fire’s strategic value, spotlighting its massive chromium deposit that could satisfy global demand for a century. Ontario Premier Doug Ford is aggressively promoting the northern Ontario region...

Granblue Fantasy: Relink – Endless Ragnarok will launch on Nintendo Switch on July 9, 2026. Cygames released the first “Meet the Crew” trailer, spotlighting the swordswoman Beatrix. The game promises dynamic, party‑based combat with link attacks, chain bursts, and an...
Patent Fights, GLP-1 Turf Wars, and the FDA Tightens the Screws | Ep. 952 https://t.co/v0fulR3NfB https://t.co/9gGdkAVvlv
Kuwait’s state‑owned oil company KPC announced a precautionary cut to crude output and refinery runs after the Strait of Hormuz effectively shut down oil exports amid escalating conflict between the US, Israel and Iran. The firm issued a force majeure...

CMA CGM announced a suite of new freight‑all‑kinds (FAK) rates and surcharges that take effect on April 1, 2026, covering Mediterranean origins to Australia, New Zealand and North America. The carrier also introduced a Peak Season Surcharge (PSS) for China‑to‑East‑Africa routes from March 15...
Cosh, on the Globe Ed Board Norwailing is excellent. I would add to his AB context that Norway too was expecting a very short-lived resource and their production has, indeed, declined from peak. AB is still hitting record production month...
Air War Against Iran Enters Week Two Iran continues to target its neighbors' oil production as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is nearly at a stand still. Latest: https://t.co/EOkyezfgoC

American Airlines will launch four new winter transatlantic routes to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Edinburgh and Lisbon using its Airbus A321XLR. The narrow‑body jet, capable of carrying 155 passengers, will operate from Philadelphia between late January and late March, filling seasonal demand that...

British startup Skycutter topped the Pentagon’s ‘Drone Dominance Gauntlet I’ with a 99.3‑out‑of‑100 score, eclipsing U.S. competitors in a trial aimed at fielding 30,000 low‑cost expendable UAVs. The company’s SC‑1200 heavy‑lift, hydrogen‑powered SC Gryphon and backpack‑deployable SC‑ISR platforms impressed evaluators...

Pitchfork has introduced a weekly deep‑dive series that examines previously unreviewed songs, debuting with David Wise’s "Stickerbrush Symphony" from Donkey Kong Country 2. The feature explores Wise’s composition process, the track’s role in the Bramble Blast level, and its lasting...

Lance Sweets was originally intended to stay on *Bones* as a mentor to inner‑city youth, but John Francis Daley left to co‑direct the film *Vacation*. Production delays forced showrunner Stephen Nathan to rewrite the arc, resulting in Sweets’ on‑screen death...

The Trump administration has drafted GSA guidelines that would force AI vendors to grant the government an irrevocable license for "all lawful use" of their systems. The draft also bans ideological or partisan bias in AI outputs and requires companies...