KOMINORU Design’s Small House on a Corner Lot offers a refined solution in a city where space is at a premium. Occupying just 30 square meters in Nakano City, Tokyo, this three-story wooden home showcases how thoughtful design can transform a compact footprint into a comfortable living space. By leveraging building regulations and the unique advantages of a corner lot, the Tokyo-based team achieved an 80% building coverage ratio. The semi-fireproof classification further enabled vertical expansion, resulting in an open and airy home. Through precise planning and a keen sense of light and volume, the architects have created a residence that is both efficient and remarkably spacious for its size. Designer: KOMINORU Design The Small House on a Corner Lot achieves an elegant balance between structural expression and fire safety, a challenge often faced in dense urban environments. Rather than concealing the home’s wooden framework for the sake of code compliance, the architects specified robust 120mm-wide columns and beams. This careful selection allowed portions of the timber structure to remain partially exposed, celebrating the natural material while still adhering to strict fire safety regulations. The ceilings are designed to sit atop these exposed beams, subtly elevating the perceived height of each floor. This thoughtful detail creates an enhanced sense of openness and verticality, giving the interiors a light and airy feel that belies the home’s compact footprint. It’s a sophisticated interplay of traditional craftsmanship and technical precision. The design team also skillfully capitalized on the building’s unique site constraints to maximize both utility and comfort. By utilizing the sloping sky exposure plane along the south side, they carved out a compact rooftop terrace—an outdoor retreat that wouldn’t have been possible without a nuanced understanding of local zoning rules. On the north side, a steeper slope set by a 1:1.25 regulation presented a spatial challenge. Here, the architects transformed a potential limitation into a functional asset, using the lower, angular space beneath the roofline for storage. The bathroom, a room used less frequently throughout the day, is cleverly tucked beneath this slanted section. A custom bathtub is perfectly integrated into the angular void, optimizing every centimeter of available space while maintaining a streamlined and cohesive interior. The result is a home that turns constraints into opportunities, seamlessly blending aesthetic appeal with practical living solutions. KOMINORU Design reinterprets the tall, narrow profile of its Small House on a Corner Lot as an efficient, passive climate system. A ventilation window positioned at the rooftop draws air upward through the home’s vertical core, functioning much like a modern wind tower. This allows for natural airflow throughout the interior, minimizing the need for mechanical cooling and promoting a comfortable living environment year-round. The design also rethinks the presence of greenery in a dense urban setting by adopting a vertical approach to landscaping. With limited ground space, the architects introduced planting above the eaves and elevated the garden to the second floor. This solution brings tree branches and foliage into direct view, offering residents a connection to nature more commonly found in detached homes with traditional gardens. The post This Japanese Tiny Home Maximizes Small Spaces & Redefines Urban Living In Tokyo first appeared on Yanko Design.

Feather-light, and punching above its weight.

The newest frame in Aura’s lineup has the same aspect ratio as your phone, and you can use it in portrait or landscape orientation.

Macworld The Mac mini has never been the flashiest part of Apple’s lineup, but that’s exactly what makes it great. It’s the kind of device you set up once, rely on every day, and barely think about because it just quietly gets everything done. Right now, you can grab a Grade “A” refurbished M2 Mac mini with 8GB RAM and 512GB SSD for $140 off plus free shipping. Powered by Apple’s impressive M2 chip, this compact desktop packs a serious punch. The 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and 16-core Neural Engine make multitasking, 8K video playback, and creative workflows feel effortless. Whether you’re working from home, editing content, or just want a smooth, stable Mac experience, this little machine delivers. The Mac mini also includes modern essentials like Wi-Fi 6E and Thunderbolt 4 for fast, future-proof connectivity. HDMI support allows for external displays up to 8K resolution, and the whole unit fits neatly into just about any workspace thanks to its whisper-quiet, minimalist design. Get the Mac mini M2 for $459.99 (MSRP $599) while it’s still in stock. Apple Mac mini M2 (Early 2023) 8GB RAM 512GB SSD (Refurbished)See Deal StackSocial prices subject to change.

Whisky's developer has announced all further work on the app has ended, closing off one way to play Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs.All work on the WINE-compatible Whisky has ended.Issac Marovitz, developer of the popular WINE front-end app Whisky for macOS, has announced no futher development or maintenance will occur. It will not be upgrading to WINE 8+, and further fixes to specific apps and games won't be added in the future.The Whisky maintenance notice also states that "Occasional updates may still come if macOS fundamentally breaks the main app, as it did in 15.4." Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

One of the most popular genres tackled by indie game developers tends to be the survival game. The kind of game where you’re thrown into an alien world with little to work with except maybe a small backpack, and you have to get to work in building shelter to survive whatever horrors the game might throw at you. Ultimately, you end up with a giant mansion that you’ve managed to design and build by yourself, along with a variety of other buildings and equipment that let you craft just about anything you can imagine. Forever Skies is an interesting new survival game where, rather than making you settle down on a plot of land, your home base instead travels right alongside you. The premise of Forever Skies isn’t exactly groundbreaking. You end up stranded on a post-apocalyptic Earth that has been ravaged by industry and nature coming together to wreak ecological havoc. Equipped with just a 3D printer on your suit, you must now figure out how you can escape the planet, while also trying to uncover the several smaller stories that happened all around you. To help you in this ambitious task is the game’s primary gimmick: an airship that you have to design and build by yourself. The airship is truly the lynchpin of the entire experience, since it not only does it act as your main method of transportation, it’s also your home base. As you fly around scavenging for parts, you will have set up various tools and machines all over your airship that allow you to fish for food, use a magnet to scavenge metal plates, and even conduct research on new parts and items that you can build. In fact, the airship acts as your primary path of progression throughout the game. Rather than upgrading yourself, you’ll be spending more of your time researching new structures and parts for the airship. Want to fly even higher? Attach some turbines to the outer walls of your ship. Want to cook more food? Build some more electric cookers. Want to get your hands on some drinking water? A rainwater collector paired with a water filtration system along the walls of your airship will do the trick. Along with the obvious advantage of being able to navigate through a fully 3D environment thanks to the power of flight, the airship also adds a new dimension to what ends up feeling like an otherwise standard survival game by encouraging exploration in a unique way. In a game like Valheim, for example, you will often find yourself limited in how far you can travel from your base, depending on the amount of food and water you carried with you, or the enemies you might face down the line. And then you also have to worry about your arduous trek back home. Forever Skies more or less removes this as a problem by making your home base your main method of exploring. You never really have to worry about a long walk back home when you’re out of food since your airship is often just a couple of minutes away. It is worth noting, however, that the main reason for exploring the world of Forever Skies isn’t really to hunt down specific materials. Rather, you’ll be exploring around to find new blueprints and tidbits of stories told through notes that have been left behind. In some ways, the core gameplay structure of the title feels quite similar to what we’ve previously seen in games like Subnautica. Rather than the hunt for materials, exploration is instead encouraged by offering up a variety of different rewards, like the ability to make fancier doors for your airship. Which brings us to Forever Skies’ take on what tends to be one of the most important aspects of a survival game: the building. More ambitious titles in the genre tend to be plagued with issues like awkward building controls where you often have to spend too much time simply aligning walls with the right roof. Forever Skies introduces its own twist on the idea by simplifying the designing and building process a great deal. Rather than placing down individual tiles for flooring and walls and a roof to eventually create a room, you simply use the room tool that automatically creates a 3×3 tile room for you. This room can then be further expanded by using the room tool on its adjacent walls, or even adding flooring tiles with ladders that go up or down (allowing for quite a bit of vertical building), and once you’re happy with the room, you can finish things off by adding walls, doors and windows. This approach to building ends up feeling incredibly intuitive, and players that tend to have more ambitious ideas for how their airship should shape up will likely be able to create some awe-inspiring designs. The simplicity of the system also goes a long way in taking out the headaches related to figuring out where you put down the various furniture and equipment you often need. Some equipment, like the Fishing tool or extra engines and turbines, can only be added to areas considered to be on the “outer” side of your airship. Others, like a fabricator or the research panel, can only be placed on the “inner” side. Upgrading your airship in Forever Skies is also helped quite a bit thanks to the abundance of basic materials you need to actually build. Just about everything starts off by needing some combinations of Metals and Synthetic Materials. These are often found just floating around near whatever structure you’re currently exploring, and you can simply extract these materials even if they’re relatively far away. The airship being the primary focus of the game does mean that its other elements tend to feel more anemic in comparison. Combat, for example, is incredibly bland. In fact, you won’t be getting into fights until you’re several hours into the game. In its early parts, your biggest threat tends to be a creature that will occasionally fly to your ship and try to dissolve it. The threat posed by these are minor, since they can be taken care of simply by using the Extractor on them. You do eventually get more weapons that let you deal with more imposing threats, but combat never really feels like it was meant to be the core focus here. Similarly, even the survival mechanics feel half-baked. You typically have three things you need to pay attention to: hunger, thirst, and energy. None of these stats ever really pose any real threat, since there is plenty of food and water to go around. And as for energy, you can quickly regain it the moment you research and build a bed. Ultimately, the survival mechanics don’t really end up adding much to the general experience. Unlike in a game like Valheim, where specific food offers unique buffs, you never really have to worry about the concept aside from making sure you don’t starve. Forever Skies definitely feels like it belongs in a specific sub-genre of survival games alongside titles like Subnautica and The Raft. Rather than focusing on the core sandbox experience, the game is instead more focused on presenting a unique world with an interesting story, and letting you go explore to your heart’s content. And while its main story might not be anything groundbreaking, it ends up giving you just enough of an incentive to explore the lush world. This game was reviewed on PC.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard leads Gayming Awards 2025 nominations BioWare's action RPG nominated for Game of the Year, alongside titles including Dragon's Dogma 2, Fear the Spotlight, and Life is Strange: Double Exposure Image credit: BioWare/Electronic Arts News by Sophie McEvoy Staff Writer Published on April 17, 2025 Nominations for the fifth annual Gayming Awards have been announced, with Dragon Age: The Veilguard picking up three across 12 categories including Game of the Year. Life Is Strange: Double Exposure, Dragon's Dogma 2, The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Fear the Spotlight, and Caravan SandWitch all have two nominations across the categories. Other awards include Best LGBTQ+ Indie Game, Best LGBTQ+ Character Award, LGBTQ+ Voice Actor of the Year Award alongside the Industry Diversity Award and the Community Impact Award. Winners of the Gayming Icon Award and the LGBTQ+ Streamer Rising Star Class award will be revealed in June 2025. The awards ceremony will take place on July 8 on streaming service World of Wonder's WOW Presents Plus. "We have an amazingly diverse roster of nominees for this year's Gayming Awards," said Gayming Magazine & Gaming Awards founder Robin Gray. "From AAA games to impactful LGBTQ+ indie games, there's truly something for everyone to enjoy. "Outside of the games themselves, we have an amazing lineup of companies, people, and community organisations who have all done amazing work over the past year to support, uplift, and champion LGBTQ+ gamers, esports players, and games industry workers." Gray continued: "I'm also thrilled with the nominees we have in our content creator and voice acting categories, these are truly iconic people who add so much to the wonderful world of queer gaming." Here all the full list of nominations: Game of the Year Dragon Age: The Veilguard (BioWare/Electronic Arts) Dragon's Dogma 2 (Capcom) Fear the Spotlight (Cozy Game Pals/Blumhouse Games) Life is Strange: Double Exposure (Deck Nine/Square Enix) Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo) The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered (Naughty Dog/PlayStation) Best LGBTQ+ Indie Game Award Beloved Rapture (Rapturous Studio/2 Left Thumbs) Caravan SandWitch (Studio Plane Toast/Dear Villagers) Fear the Spotlight Kitsune Tails (Kitsune Games/Midboss) Sorry We're Closed (À la mode Games/Akapura Games) Tavern Talk (Gentle Troll Entertainment) Gayming Magazine Readers' Award Caravan SandWitch Dragon Age: The Veilguard Dragon's Dogma 2 Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (Square Enix) Life is Strange: Double Exposure The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered Industry Diversity Award Blizzard Entertainment Code Coven Limit Break Rare Community Impact Award – sponsored by Fireshine Games Boston Gaymers Charlotte Gaymers Network NYC Gaymers QueerVox The*gamehers Stream for a Cause Best LGBTQ+ Character Award Bazz – Concord (Firewalk Studios/PlayStation) Micah-10 – Destiny 2: The Final Shape (Bungie/PlayStation) Michelle – Sorry We're Closed Rook – Dragon Age: The Veilguard Venture – Overwatch 2 (Blizzard Entertainment) Vivian – Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door LGBTQ+ Voice Actor of the Year Award Ciarán Strange Erika Ishii JP Karliak Katie Cofield Kieran Regan Mila Jam LGBTQ+ Content Creator of the Year Award ChiChi Ctrlaltquin DataDave GaymerONE1 halfmoonjoe Juice Boxx Negaoryx PearlTeese Best LGBTQ+ Contribution to Esports Award Bailey McCann Queer Women of Esports SonicFox Steve Arhancet LGBTQ+ Geek Entertainment of the Year Award – sponsored by MyNerdLife Agatha All Along (Marvel Studios) Arcane: Season 2 (Netflix) Hazbin Hotel (SpindleHorse Toons/Amazon Studios) Heartstopper (Netflix) Interview with the Vampire: Season 2 (AMC) The Boulet Brothers' Dragula: Dead by Daylight (Shudder)

Right-wing influencers are shilling an app that purportedly lets people earn crypto for reporting sightings of undocumented immigrants. ICERAID, a “GovFi protocol that delegates intelligence gathering tasks to citizens,” has recently been promoted by the likes of conspiracy theorist and Trump confidante Laura Loomer, Proud Boy-turned-media personality Jacob Engels, and disgraced former Rep. Matt Gaetz.“It’s like a citizen’s arrest, but with Wi-Fi,” Gaetz said on a recent episode of his One America News Network show. “Forget driving Uber or DoorDash for extra change. Snap a pic, save the day, and stack some digital cash while you’re doing it.”ICERAID’s website describes it as a “GovFi” — government finance, a term coined by ICERAID founder Jason Meyers — protocol on Solana that “rewards citizens for capturing and uploading images of criminal illegal alien activity.” (To be clear, ICERAID has no connection to the government.) And ICERAID isn’t just soliciting images of suspected immigrants. “You can snap a picture of someone committing animal cruelty or homicide, kidnapping, terrorism — you see someone scraping a Tesla, that’s domestic terrorism,” Meyers said on an April 4th livestream. ICERAID then “gives” this data to law enforcement, according to Meyers.Despite these lofty ambitions, the ICERAID app (which is actually a web form accessed via a crypto wallet) appears to be little more than promotion of a recently released meme coin of the same name — and some early investors tried to get their money back before the coin even launched.Meyers — who was accused of misappropriating funds at an earlier workplace — told The Verge that ICERAID was released in January. ICERAID announced a “bounty” for “suspicious illegal alien activity” in New York City the following month. But the coin ostensibly used to pay out rewards to people who send in tips via the app didn’t drop until April. To access the reporting system, you have to download Phantom, a crypto wallet that carries Solana-based tokens. ICERAID then offers a form where you can upload images of alleged crimes-in-progress: illegal immigration, drug trafficking, kidnapping, “theft/larson,” burglary, homicide, terrorism, animal cruelty, and obstruction of justice. You’re asked whether you witnessed the activity in the image and recognize the location or suspects, and that’s all.In an interview with Gaetz, Meyers said he’s “talking to certain people at DHS, local law enforcement, DEA, and various other police departments” about the app. “We use blockchain to crowdsource law enforcement and criminal and illegal activities,” Meyers said. “You upload a photo — which you have to take on location — and you get paid for each photo you upload.”On ICERAID’s Telegram channel, Meyers clarified that the app gives “API access” to law enforcement. “They ultimately decide if they should respond to the data,” Meyers said in an emailed statement to The Verge. “The goal is cooperation, not official partnerships.”US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) already has a tipline, as does US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that oversees legal immigration. ICE also has dozens of official partnerships with law enforcement agencies across the country.Even if law enforcement agencies are accessing ICERAID’s data, it’s unlikely they’ll get anything useful out of it. ICERAID’s incident tracker only shows six entries as of April 16th, five of which have been rejected by ICERAID’s moderators. A week earlier, the map showed 13 entries, just three of which had been approved. The three non-rejected entries were a JD Vance meme, a photo of Elon Musk handing a $1 million check to a Republican voter in Wisconsin, and a photo of Óscar Romero, the archbishop of El Salvador who was assassinated by a right-wing death squad in 1980 over his opposition to the Salvadoran military government. The Vance and Musk “sightings” have since disappeared, but the picture of Romero remains on ICERAID’s map.One of the ‘tips’ submitted to ICERAID.Meyers said via email that ICERAID has received “hundreds” of tips, most of which were “automatically removed because they are determined to be unreliable.” Meyers said ICERAID uses AI to “raise the reliability of the evidence through location verification, gender and age as well as sentiment analysis (happy, sad, angry, etc).” When asked for specifics on ICERAID’s AI, Meyers said the AI “is trained” and “a very limited amount of evidence makes it through validation.”The app also claims to have a “sponsorship program” for “hard working undocumented immigrant[s] with no criminal history.” It claims to offer “a large reward” for people who pursue “a legal status in the United States through self reporting” on the ICERAID app. Given that it’s nearly impossible for most undocumented immigrants to apply for citizenship or otherwise adjust their status, it’s unclear what kind of “legal status” undocumented immigrants would be pursuing through ICERAID. Meyers’ answer was vague. “We have a network of service providers and experts that deal with these issues and are willing to provide help on a confidential basis,” Meyers said.It’s also not clear whether anyone is making money for the pictures they’re uploading. Meyers stopped responding to The Verge’s emails when asked about previous accusations that he’d misappropriated investors’ funds, and he didn’t respond to follow-up questions about whether and how much people who use the app are getting paid. ICERAID’s big pitch is that it pays people for photos of “illegal immigration” and other crimes. There’s no indication that actually happens.And how much money is changing hands through crypto sales? ICERAID had a token presale in February, during which it claims to have sold “65,007,513 ICERAID tokens.” The coin, currently valued at $0.002026 per token, has just 82 holders as of April 16th.In the weeks leading up to the ICERAID token launch — which was pushed back several times — Meyers spent a considerable amount of time in the ICERAID Telegram channel alternating between posting “beautiful” pictures of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem and reassuring people who asked him to refund their presale tokens. Other moderators on the channel urged the skeptics to “trust the process.”After one user asked Meyers for an official launch date, Meyers responded, “STOP TERRORIZING US OR YOU’LL GET DEPORTED!”ICERAID isn’t Meyers’ first crypto project. He is also the founder of AuditChain Labs, the parent company that develops both ICERAID and Pacioli.ai, Meyer’s “RegFi” or “regulatory finance” company. He also has a long — and legally contentious — history in the financial world. In 2014, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) permanently banned Meyers from broker-dealer activities, according to the crypto website The Rage. FINRA’s broker database claims that Meyers misappropriated “at least $700,000 of funds raised from 19 investors in a series of private offerings of securities” between 2006 and 2011. According to FINRA, Meyers took “significant portions of the funds raised for his own personal use.” (He neither admitted nor denied the findings).On Telegram, some early investors expressed frustration with what they described as a perpetually delayed launch of the coin. After one user asked Meyers for an official launch date, Meyers responded, “STOP TERRORIZING US OR YOU’LL GET DEPORTED!” Some members of the Telegram channel seemed to believe that the coin was launching on March 25th. Six days later, Meyers announced that he was pushing the rollout again due to “significant resistance” from the public that required him to implement “all possible security measures to safeguard our platform and community during what can only be considered adversarial wartime conditions.” When asked what these threats were, Meyers told The Verge that “additional precautions were taken in anticipation of threats, which have not materialized,” but he did not clarify what the threats were. “There was never a formal launch date,” Meyers said via email.“We are all ready to launch,” Meyers wrote in ICERAID’s Telegram channel three days later, on April 3rd. “The question is do we want to launch today with market conditions the way they are.” The Dow dropped 2,200 points overnight in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs. ICERAID launched the following day.“We are really trying to have an absolutely smooth launch on this, because we’re going to get such high visibility with the US government entities and other law enforcement groups,” Thomas Herlihy, a crypto personality whose show DYOR Live! hosted the ICERAID launch announcement, said during the livestream. (Herlihy also goes by “Striking Balls.”) “We don’t want it to be seen as a typical crypto project that super-pumps and then doesn’t pump anymore, and then people take their money and leave.” Via email, Meyers emphasized (underlining and bolding the word “emphasized”) that “the point of the app is NOT to ‘pump’ the coin. The point of the app is to experiment, demonstrate and communicate the technical, economic, and social principals of ‘GovFi,’ which will take time.” He was far less restrained in the Telegram channel, at one point claiming the coin would go to $3 billion. Still, Meyers told potential investors that ICERAID was more than a memecoin. “We are going to make an honest woman out of Solana,” Meyers wrote on Telegram. A photo of Salvadoran priest Oscar Romero, who was killed by a right-wing death squad in 1980, submitted as a tip to ICERAID.Even if ICERAID ends up being little more than a pump-and-dump scheme, some of its recent boosters have an outsized amount of power in Washington. On ICERAID’s Telegram account, Meyers bragged about meeting with Tether founder Brock Pierce. Pierce, a child-star-turned-crypto-mogul, hosted a DOGE appreciation party at his Capitol Hill condo that coincided with the end of the Conservative Political Action Conference.Loomer — who promoted the project to her 1.6 million followers on X — has so much sway over Trump that the president reportedly fired several National Security Council staffers after she suggested they were insufficiently loyal. Notwithstanding ICERAID’s clunky interface and the apparent dearth of tips it’s received so far, the marketing push around it indicates a broader right-wing desire to turn everyday people into immigrant-hunting vigilantes. In January, a Mississippi state representative introduced a bill that would have awarded certified bounty hunters with $1,000 for apprehending immigrants who were in the state without authorization. A similar bill was introduced in the Missouri state Senate. That legislation would have created a fund for bounty hunters and others who turned over information resulting in the arrest of undocumented immigrants. Neither bill became a law.David Gregory, the Missouri state senator who sponsored the bill, disagreed with reporters’ characterization of the bill. “I’m hearing things like, ‘oh, this places a bounty on people.’ No, it doesn’t,” he told CNN. “Just because we’re dispatching bounty hunters after a warrant has been issued is not a bounty. It’s actually a reward system through a hotline.”ICERAID, on the other hand, has no problem with the word “bounty.” But the financial incentives it claims to offer are dependent on a meme coin that, as of this writing, isn’t worth much at all.See More:

We’re not going to pretend there’s one definitive list of the best podcasts. With so many shows out there, including hidden gems still waiting to be discovered and an ever-expanding range of genres and niches unique to podcasting, any “best of” list is inherently subjective. That said, we know what we like, and we’ve done our best to highlight a variety of shows that reflect the diverse interests of our readers. You might spot a favorite podcast below and feel validated in your excellent taste, or maybe you’ll discover something new to queue up on your next walk or commute. Either way, we hope you find something worth hitting play on. And if you’ve got a show you wish more people, feel free to share it in the comments. In the meantime, here are the podcasts that have captured the attention of our editors and staff writers. Join the Party Incredible worlds, daring (and absurd) adventures, and hilarious bits await you on Join the Party, an actual play podcast. Every Tuesday, Game Master Eric Silver and a cast of characters journey through genre-bending storytelling and worlds of their own creation. Marathon their four completed campaigns, including a pirate story set in a world of plant- and bug-folk, a Monster of the Week game set in a weird summer camp, and a modern superhero quest, and stay tuned for their next adventure starting soon. Every month, the roundtable also answers your questions in their talkback Afterparty episode. Whether you’re a longtime table-top player or you’ve never touched a d20 before, you’re invited to Join the Party. Everything Is Alive Everything is Alive is a beautifully strange and surprisingly profound podcast where inanimate objects are interviewed about their lives. Created by Ian Chillag, each episode features an improvisational conversation with an object (a can of soda, a lamppost, a bar of soap) brought to life by a comedian or actor. What starts as a quirky concept quickly becomes something deeper, blending humor, melancholy, and unexpected insight into what it means to exist. It’s whimsical, thoughtful, and unlike anything else in podcasting. Big Game Hunger Looking for the next big video game? Creator, video game expert, and former Polygon reporter, Jenna Stoeber, and her perpetually online friends, like Janet Varney and Chase Carter, craft your next video game obsession on Big Game Hunger. Every Monday, hilarity ensues as they take a random genre, a concept, and a vibe to take a game all the way from pitch to… slightly more developed pitch. By the end of each episode, they’ll have honed an IP so irresistible, you’ll be ready to risk $25 for it on Steam. Listeners say the creative concepts, interesting guests, LOL-worthy jokes, and thoughtful media analysis keep them coming back each week. Get ready to laugh about games you love, learn about game trends, and yearn for titles that will surely never make their release date. You Must Remember This You Must Remember This is a captivating podcast that dives deep into the forgotten and hidden history of Hollywood’s first century. Hosted by film historian Karina Longworth, each meticulously researched episode peels back the layers of myth and glamour to reveal the scandal, intrigue, and cultural shifts that shaped the entertainment industry. With season-long narratives exploring everything from the lives of dead blondes to the tangled politics of 1980s erotic thrillers, Longworth’s rich storytelling and archival deep dives make this a must-listen for cinephiles, history buffs, and anyone fascinated by the shadowy corners of showbiz. Mission Log Mission Log is Roddenberry’s premier Star Trek podcast.  For over a decade this legacy audio series has taken the ultimate deep-dive into the moral, philosophical, and cultural impact of the Trek franchise. Exploring and examining the over 800 episodes in chronological order, hosts John Champion and Norman Lao analyze the meanings, morals and messages of each Trek series as well as the timeless themes that make Star Trek more than just entertainment. Fans love Mission Log for its thoughtful discussions and its unique insight to Gene Roddenberry’s vision, making it a must-listen for both casual viewers and lifelong Trekkies. This is the podcast that boldly goes where no podcast has gone before—one episode at a time. Unspooled Hosted by film critic Amy Nicholson and comedian Paul Scheer, Unspooled is a thoughtful and entertaining journey through cinema history, examining one great movie at a time. Whether they’re diving into the AFI’s Top 100 list or exploring themed series like sci-fi classics or action blockbusters, the hosts combine deep analysis with a light, engaging tone. It’s a podcast that makes film buffs feel seen, and invites newcomers to fall in love with the magic of movies. How Did This Get Made? This cult-favorite comedy podcast brings together Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Jason Mantzoukas to hilariously dissect the worst (and weirdest) movies ever made. Each episode of How Did This Get Made? is an energetic blend of baffled commentary, absurd tangents, and unexpected insight, often recorded in front of a live audience. It’s perfect for anyone who loves bad movies or just wants to laugh until it hurts. The Town If you’re looking to stay current on the entertainment biz, The Town offers a smart, insider perspective on Hollywood’s latest moves. Hosted by journalist Matthew Belloni, this podcast breaks down the biggest stories in film, television, and media, from studio power plays to streaming wars. With sharp commentary and high-level access, it’s a must-listen for anyone fascinated by the behind the scenes shenanigans. Does it Fly? Roddenberry Entertainment presents: Does it Fly? – where science fiction meets hard science. Hakeem Oluseyi and pop culture expert Tamara Krinsky put your favorite sci-fi properties, inventions, and conceits to the test. Every Friday, the Does it Fly? team answers burning questions like how Star Trek’s transporter really functions, if we’re getting close to a real life lightsaber from Star Wars, the actual physics behind time travel in Back to the Future, and much more. Every episode examines the science and story logic behind beloved sci-fi, horror, and fantasy properties. And while not everything we love can hold up to scientific scrutiny, there’s always a vibe check for the topics that are just so cool and well-conceived that it doesn’t matter whether they fly or not. Join our mailing list Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! Hardcore History Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History is less a podcast and more a full-scale audio epic. With marathon-length episodes that drop only a few times a year, Carlin takes listeners on deep dives into some of history’s most gripping and complex events, from the fall of ancient empires to the horrors of 20th-century warfare. His intense, dramatic narration makes the past feel urgent and alive, ideal for history fans craving something immersive and thought-provoking. Last Podcast on the Left Equal parts comedy and true crime, Last Podcast on the Left gleefully explores the dark and bizarre corners of human history, from serial killers and cults to cryptids and conspiracies. Hosts Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, and Ed Larson bring a unique mix of thorough research, gallows humor, and unfiltered absurdity to each topic, making it a wild ride for fans of the macabre and the hilarious. Spooked From the creators of the super-popular Snap Judgment, Spooked is a spine-chilling podcast where real people share their encounters with the supernatural. Told with cinematic sound design and rich narration, each story immerses listeners in eerie, often unexplainable experiences that will leave you looking over your shoulder. It’s a seasonal favorite for ghost story lovers, but creepy enough to haunt you year-round. Binge Mode Binge Mode is the ultimate companion podcast for fandoms, featuring deep-dive analysis of beloved pop culture franchises like Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and Star Wars. Hosted by Mallory Rubin and Jason Concepcion, the show blends sharp literary and thematic breakdowns with infectious enthusiasm and inside jokes. Whether you’re a casual fan or an obsessive re-watcher, this podcast makes revisiting your favorites even more fun, even if the show concluded in 2021. The Ringer-Verse If your love for comics, superheroes, and sci-fi extends across movies, TV shows, and everything in between, The Ringer-Verse is your destination podcast. With rotating hosts and a mix of reactions, theories, and cultural context, it delivers smart, fan-first coverage of everything from the latest MCU release to anime, Star Wars, and beyond. It’s a lively, passionate forum for geeks of all stripes. Fake Doctors, Real Friends Fake Doctors, Real Friends is a heartfelt and hilarious rewatch podcast hosted by Scrubs stars Zach Braff and Donald Faison. As they revisit each episode of the beloved medical comedy, they share behind-the-scenes stories, personal reflections, and plenty of laughs with castmates and fans alike. It’s equal parts nostalgia trip and feel-good hangout, like catching up with old friends who just happen to be TV stars. RedHanded RedHanded is a true crime podcast with a sharp edge, hosted by British duo Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire, who bring incisive research, dark humor, and a feminist lens to each episode. From notorious serial killers to little-known cases, the podcast dives into crime, psychology, and society with unflinching honesty. It’s a compelling listen for anyone who wants their true crime thoughtful, well-told, and just a little bit cheeky. Den of Geek Shows (And Friends) X-Ray Vision  Hosted by nerd culture scholars Rosie Knight and Jason Concepcion, X-Ray Vision delves into the films, TV shows, and comics that Den of Geek readers want to experience. Like the x-ray vision glasses promised in comic book back issues for years, the podcast delves into the core of what makes genre stories endure. Whether it’s recapping the Daredevil: Born Again finale or previewing the Nintendo Switch 2, Rosie and Jason keep you up to date. Den of Geek is partnering with X-Ray Vision and iHeart Radio Podcasts to bring some of the best highlights of the show to our social feeds. Stay tuned!  Den of Otaku Den of Geek’s official anime and Japanese pop culture podcast, Den of Otaku is for genre experts and newbies alike. Host Daniel Kurland unpacks the latest news in the anime world while also delving into the medium’s storied history.  Power-Up  Sit back. Plug in. And power up. POWER-UP guides viewers and listeners through the latest and greatest in the gaming industry. Hosted by games journalist and Den of Geek contributor Sam Stone, the series is your gateway into everything from the latest AAA releases to unexpected indie triumphs to nostalgia-soaked trips into the games of yore.  Open Minds Unidentified flying objects have beguiled humanity since before we even produced any objects that could fly. In recent years, however, the study of this phenomenon has taken on great urgency and import with every branch of the U.S. government stepping up its research into Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. With Open Minds, host and UFO researcher and Den of Geek contributor Alejandro Rojas looks into the latest UAP news from an open-minded but skeptical and scientific perspective. 

Apple released iOS 18.4.1, and in addition to CarPlay bug fixes, the update also patches two security vulnerabilities that Apple says were actively exploited in the wild. The security fixes are also included in macOS Sequoia 15.4.1, tvOS 18.4.1, and visionOS 2.4.1. iOS 18.4.1 security fixes Apple says it is is aware of reports that both of these security vulnerabilities “may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.” Here are the details on the vulnerabilities: CoreAudio: Impact: Processing an audio stream in a maliciously crafted media file may result in code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on iOS. Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2025-31200: Apple and Google Threat Analysis Group RPAC: Impact: An attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on iOS. Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. CVE-2025-31201: Apple With these important security fixes in mind, we recommend updating your Apple devices to their newest software versions as soon as possible. This includes iOS 18.4.1, iPadOS 18.4.1, tvOS 18.4.1, macOS 15.4.1, and visionOS 2.4.1. As of right now, Apple hasn’t released a new software update for Apple Watch. My favorite iPhone accessories: Follow Chance: Threads, Bluesky, Instagram, and Mastodon.  Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed.  FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.You’re reading 9to5Mac — experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Don’t know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel