China funding UK research and sending it to Beijing's spies, MI5 warns
More than 100 academics linked to British institutions have unwittingly assisted China's espionage operations against the UK via a front company working for its intelligence and security services, MI5 has warned.
Nations League: How much money do clubs get for players?
Uefa has said 611 clubs will benefit from the current cycle of payments.
This will likely rise to more than 900 when including the full Euro 2028 tournament, as was the case in the 2024 competition.
How to get your money's worth from Xbox Game Pass Ultimate - Engadget
If you don't value day-one releases or the other perks on offer, Ultimate might not be the tier for you.
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Nintendo Officially Launches Zelda 40th Anniversary Concert Ticket Sales
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Jen Glennon is a New York-based journalist and editor with more than a decade of experience covering games and entertainment. She has previously worked at Kotaku, Inverse, and Newsweek. Jen joined Polygon in 2025 and has a relentless appetite for Final Fantasy, Yakuza, and Costco rotisserie chicken.
One-Pot French Onion Pasta Is the Cozy Fall Dinner I'm Making on Repeat
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‘Digger’ Review: Tom Cruise and Alejandro G. Iñárritu Are a Match Made in Showboating Hell in a Shallow Satire Insufferably Pleased With Itself
At last, a climate crisis satire so smug and bombastic it makes Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up seem almost innocuous. Digger is basically what happens when you put two outsize egos together with nobody holding the reins to keep their most self-indulgent impulses in check. Piloted by a spectacularly obnoxious Tom Cruise, who evidently spent hours in the makeup chair each day to look his age, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s wannabe Dr. Strangelove is a heavy-handed cataclysm scenario built around the blunt point that any attempt to halt global warming this late in the game is pure political theater.
It’s the End of the World as We Know It, and Tom Cruise Feels Weird
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What exactly is the biggest movie star on the planet up to in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s wild, ambitious Digger? You don’t want to know
Tom Cruise believes in the healing power of the movies. He wants us to all come together, under one roof — or several roofs, if it’s a multiplex — and bask in the projected glow of shadows on a wall. The star has dedicated himself with the fervor of a holy crusader to the notion that, to quote his ex-wife, we are not just entertained but reborn when the lights go down and our collective dreams show up onscreen. And in these most troubling of ages, when artificial intelligence threatens our very existence and truth has become a battleground, the star wants to offer a salve, if not salvation. He wants us to laugh, and cry, and feel that, even though we seem to be hurtling ourselves headfirst into the void, we can always find common ground at a theater. Cruise is determined to put the “art” back in catharsis.
Sundance Institute Reveals Doc Fund Grantees
A new wave of nonfiction projects have officially gotten a boost from Sundance Institute.
The nonprofit revealed the roster of global recipients selected to receive documentary fund grants for 2026. In total, 19 filmmaker-led projects got a thumbs up to receive more than $1 million in unrestricted funding to support their process from development and production to post-production. (Four of the 19 projects are in development, 12 are in production and three are in post.) Grants are made possible by the Open Society Foundations, the John Templeton Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Free People.
Discord's new resource-light 'Game Mode' doesn't mention anything about reducing memory usage
Comms app Discord is a notorious resource hog. So, news that a resource-light "Game Mode" for Discord is in the works is definitely welcome. The catch? Early sightings indicate the new mode will reduce "Discord's CPU and GPU usage while a game is running." Notably, there's no specific mention of reducing the app's memory footprint. Doh!
Microsoft shares might be rangebound. Here's how you can still make money
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The beauty of trading options is you can make money if a stock goes up, down or nothing at all. Shares of Microsoft are presenting such an opportunity right now.