Why Are Fortnite’s Player Numbers Falling So Hard This Season?

September 11th, 2026 08:07 PM

Ever since Fortnite started publicly posting player numbers back in 2023, the doomsayers have come out in full force any time there's a decline in concurrent or average player numbers. We're in exactly one of those situations right now, as player counts for the game's main mode, Battle Royale, have fallen significantly since Chapter 7 Season 4 started on August 14. After the summer season saw a big bump in engagement, thanks to some combination of the sprite-focused gameplay and the nearly...

US rapper Lil Durk found not guilty of murder-for-hire scheme

September 12th, 2026 02:00 AM

Prosecutors accused musician, born Durk Banks, of putting bounty on fellow rapper in retaliation for friend’s killingChicago rapper Lil Durk has been acquitted of all charges in a murder-for-hire scheme, in which a man was fatally gunned down in 2022.Prosecutors had accused Lil Durk, born Durk Banks, of putting a bounty on Atlanta rapper Tayquian Bowman’s life in retaliation for the 2020 shooting death of Banks’s friend, fellow Chicago rap star King Von. Continue reading...

More JFrog Artifactory bugs under attack, and all 3 have patches

September 11th, 2026 05:43 PM

JFrog Artifactory instances continue to get hit hard. Multiple attackers are exploiting three JFrog Artifactory bugs to gain administrative control over vulnerable instances - in some cases, just days after the vendor published a patch - and then using this illicit access to install malicious plugins and backdoors. The three vulnerabilities are: CVE-2026-42018 is a high-severity, improper authentication flaw that can return an internal anonymous-user token to an unauthenticated caller when...

OpenAI Is Beefing With Mathematicians, Will No Longer Sponsor Caltech ‘Mathathon’

September 12th, 2026 01:05 AM

"We do not anticipate that this will affect the event in any substantial way," the Mathathon team told Gizmodo.

Federal Judge Poised to Dismiss Lawsuit Challenging Trump’s Library

September 12th, 2026 01:16 AM

The judge, in halting the pretrial fact-finding process, said President Trump’s claim of immunity could “dispose of the entire case” involving the library to be built in Miami.

Male Fruit Fly Brain Trained to Play Doom

September 12th, 2026 01:00 AM

Last week, Google announced that it managed to produce a detailed 3D reconstruction of an adult male fruit fly's brain and central nervous system. A few days later a software engineer at Coinbase said the fly brain was being trained to play the original Doom. "Each Doom frame stimulates sensory neurons," says Alex Wormuth. "Neural activity is mapped to game controls. Damage triggers a stimulus to two PPL101 dopamine cells as reinforcement." Since then, the digital brain model has been...

DevOps’ Three Ways Were Never About Tooling

September 11th, 2026 09:25 PM

Somewhere along the way, DevOps became a tooling conversation. Ask someone how mature their DevOps practice is and the answer will often involve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure as code, observability, deployment frequency, or some combination of the above. All valuable tools, but that is often where the conversation ends. They compartmentalize DevOps principles to a niche scenario and ignore those same principles when it comes to team dynamics, organizational design,...

Dabble Promo Code FOXNEWS: Pay $5 get $50

September 12th, 2026 02:32 AM

The Dabble promo code FOXNEWS for September 2026 gives new users the chance to play $5 and receive $50 in bonus cash (some versions credit it with no deposit). 1x playthrough; bonus funds are non-withdrawable, your winnings are, and expire within ~14–30 days depending on the offer. The offer is open to new customers who are 21 or older in Dabble's ~26 states and D.C., and it takes only a few minutes to claim.Last updated: Sept. 11, 2026Dabble’s starting offer of Play $5...

Firefighters say this antioxidant helped them - their union warns it could be risky

September 12th, 2026 01:04 AM

Glutathione, an antioxidant, has been offered as a treatment at some of the largest US wildfires in recent years.

1840s Greek Revival home gets a beautiful makeover in Woodstock, Vermont

September 11th, 2026 07:05 AM

Henley Design beautifully transformed this 1840s Greek Revival home into a 3,500 square foot family haven, situated in Woodstock, Vermont. The property spans an 1840s Greek Revival main house and a reimagined 1960s guesthouse. The project team collaborated with the homeowners to reimagine their residence, blending New England formality with California ease—embracing knotty pine, mixing […] The post 1840s Greek Revival home gets a beautiful makeover in Woodstock, Vermont appeared first on...