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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
Ships are currently waiting somewhere in the Persian Gulf. While one of the most important waterways in the world is essentially closed, hundreds of them—oil tankers, container ships, and freighters—are anchored offshore or hovering outside the Strait of Hormuz, immobile. In a matter of days, the conflict that started on…
No one at Epic Games wanted to read the first five words of Tim Sweeney’s blog post on the morning of March 24, 2026: “Today we’re laying off over 1000 Epic employees.” It was nearly worse in the second sentence. “I’m sorry we’re here again.” Once more, that word contained…
You could sense the weight behind it as soon as the release date was announced at the EVO Awards, which are gaming’s closest thing to a championship ring ceremony and are held in front of an audience that treats frame data and rollback netcode with the same gravity that others…