Some people are fans of the Philadelphia Eagles. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Philadelphia Eagles. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: Philadelphia Eagles. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) Your 2024 record: 14-3. Super Bowl champions. It didn’t have to be this way. …
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The Battlefield 6 open betas proved exceptionally popular earlier this month for many, but a significant portion of the PC playerbase were met with a daunting wall to play thanks to the game’s Secure Boot requirement. This technical hurdle is in place for the game’s anti-cheat, a kernel-level bit of software dedicated to curbing a rising cheating problem across online …
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As a former (NA) MX-5 owner myself, I was rather excited at the prospect of the RF. It sounded like all the MX-5 stuff I loved, but with less risk of someone slashing the hood, and maybe a more refined interior. The weather mostly sucked while we had the RF, so the roof stayed up a lot. Credit: Jonathan Gitlin …
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As Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 finally gets a release date it looks like it will hit – 21st October 2025 – so comes news you’ll have to pay to access two of the six clans in the game. Clans here act like your character class, determining what kind of gameplay role your character will adopt, as well as …
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Once more unto the breach. Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku’s daily round-up of news, interesting stuff, and more, is here. This morning we’re looking at a second screen for the Switch 2 and a wider Steam, we’ve got good news about that new Mafia game, and the devs behind Battlefield 6 are making some changes to the beta. Oh, and don’t worry, …
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Chatbots are genuinely impressive when you watch them do things they’re good at, like writing a basic email or creating weird futuristic-looking images. But ask generative AI to solve one of those puzzles in the back of a newspaper, and things can quickly go off the rails. That’s what researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder found when they challenged …
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Tour de France leader Tadej Pogačar had nothing but praise and best wishes for rival racer Remco Evenepoel after the Belgian was forced to quit the race on stage 14 on the slopes of the Tourmalet. Third overall in 2024, Evenepoel had once again been running third behind Pogačar in 2025 and leading the Best Young Rider’s competition when he …
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