When will ‘Death Stranding 2’ be released?

June 23, 2025 / / 0 Comments

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is the sequel to the original art-house game Death Stranding, credited to Japanese video game maker Hideo Kojima. Death Stranding, which reportedly had over 20 million players, was released in 2019 and starred Norman Reedus as deliveryman Sam Porter Bridges in post-apocalyptic USA.

AFP describes the first Death Stranding as “a hybrid between a hiking simulator and a classic action game” in which Sam Bridges ” had the job of reconnecting the last outposts of civilization in a devastated United States following a disaster “.

Death Stranding 2 review and release date

The Guardian, describes Death Stranding 2 as “a mystifying and provocatively slow-paced game with more celebrities than you would find on a Cannes red carpet”. Adding that in the game, which is studded with A-list stars including Elle Fanning and Leá Seydoux, Sam Bridges reconnects the “Mexican and Australian populations to the chiral network for an outfit called Drawbridge, a logistics company funded by an unknown benefactor and headed by returning character Fragile”.

Death Stranding 2 will be released on Thursday, 26 June 2025.

Sources:

AFP (2025). Star-packed, Covid-shaped ‘Death Stranding 2’ drops this week. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news

Iwaniuk, P (2025). Death Stranding 2: On the Beach review — a hypnotising art-house game with an A-list cast”. The Guardian. https://theguardian.com/games/2025/jun/23

Where to watch Benfica vs Auckland City?

June 20, 2025 / / 0 Comments

Football fans and Club World Cup followers could watch today’s Group C match between Benfica and Auckland City FC on DAZN, according to reports.

Benfica, which was dominated by Barcelona during this year’s UEFA Champions League, battles Auckland City at Inter&Co stadium in Orlando, Florida on June 20th, 2025.

The Primeira Liga club had a draw with Boca Juniors in their opening FIFA Club World Cup match on June 16th, while Auckland City FC suffered a historic 10-0 defeat to Bayern Munich during their CWC 2025 opener on June 15th.

When is the next Trooping the Colour?

June 14, 2025 / / 0 Comments

Trooping the Colour, also known as the ‘King’s Birthday Parade’, is a historical event held annually in Britain, which involves the parade of over a thousand soldiers — including a military unit of musicians or music band — to celebrate the official birthday of the reigning British monarch.

The members of the British royal family always stand on the balcony at Buckingham Palace during Trooping the Colour, to watch the Royal Air Force (RAF) flypast.

The next Trooping the Colour would possibly come up on the second Saturday of June 2026.

Why is the King’s birthday celebrated twice in a year?

According to reports, the British sovereign’s birthday is celebrated twice in a year: during the sovereign’s actual birthday and on the second Saturday of June — with Trooping the Colour — if the monarch’s actual birthday does not fall in the summer months of the year.

When is Trooping the Colour 2025?

This year’s Trooping the Colour was on Saturday, 14th June 2025 and had about 14 members of the royal family watch the RAF flypast from the Buckingham Palace balcony. Trooping the Colour 2025 also had a parade of more than 1,350 soldiers.

Sources:

Coughlan, C & Cole, H (2025). King and Queen join royals on Buckingham Palace balcony for Red Arrows flypast. BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk

Court, M (2025). Why does King Charles III have two birthdays to celebrate? The National. https://www.thenational.scot/news/25239586/

When will iOS 26 and the iPhone 17 series be released?

June 11, 2025 / / 0 Comments

iOS 26, the new operating system for Apple’s iPhones is “a major update that brings a new design and AI experiences to apps”. Statesman reported that iOS 26 was announced by Apple at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 9th, 2025.

Apple also revealed new features that come with iOS 26 at WWDC 2025, including liquid glass design, live translation (iMessage, FaceTime and phone calls), enhanced Apple intelligence, revamped camera & photo apps and smarter battery features such as adaptive power mode.

The official version of iOS 26, with the new iPhone 17 series, will reportedly be available worldwide in September 2025. However, through the Apple Beta Software Program, the beta version of iOS 26 will be available in July 2025.

Source:

Malenfant, M (2025). When is Apple’s new iOS 26 available? See new features, release dates. Austin American-Statesman. https://statesman.com/story/business/technology/2025/06/10

Why is ChatGPT down?

June 10, 2025 / / 0 Comments

The 500 million people who use OpenAI’s AI chatbox ChatGPT every week may not be able to use the service for a few hours, even if they make it past the login page.

According to reports, over 1,900 users have already reported outages across OpenAI’s products, with about 92% of reports describing difficulties in using ChatGPT, including the error message “Hmm…something seems to have gone wrong”.

On Tuesday, 10 June 2025, OpenAI reported “elevated error rates” across several services, mostly affecting application programming interfaces (APIs) and ChatGPT. The status report on the company’s website listed ChatGPT’s Web, Mobile (iOS and Android), WhatsApp, 1-800-CHAT-GPT, Dall-E, Voice mode, etc and APIs Chat, Completions (legacy), Compliance, Images, Embeddings, Audio, Assistants, Uploads, etc, as affected services.

OpenAI, according to Forbes, tends to solve ChatGPT outages within a few hours after they first began. Previous outages include two outages in December 2024, an outage in January 2025 and another outage in March 2025.

As at 5:39pm on Tuesday, live blog TechRadar reported that “ChatGPT is coming back!”, considering the reduction in outage reports on Down Detector.

Sources:

Disotto, J (2025). ChatGPT is down—everything we know about the huge outage as service starts to return. TechRadar. https://techradar.com/news/live

OpenAI (2025). New funding to build towards AGI. https://openai.com/index/march-funding-updates

Pequeño, A (2024). OpenAI’s ChatGPT is Down—Here’s What We Know. Forbes. https://forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/12/26

Roush, T (2025). ChatGPT Outage: OpenAI’s Fix Applied As ‘Degraded Performance’ Affects Chatbot. Forbes. https://forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/06/10

What is Operation Spider Web?

May 27, 2025 / / 0 Comments

Operation Spider Web (different from the Spider Web treatment) or Operation Spider’s Web, often written as ‘Op Spider Web’, refers to the coordinated and covert destruction of Russia’s military infrastructure by Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war. Op Spider Web is the same as ‘Operation Pavutyna’ or the romanised ‘Operatsija Pavutyna’.

Operation Spider Web has been described as one of Ukraine’s most massive counterstrikes in the war between Russia and Ukraine, which began in February 2022.

When did Operation Spider Web take place?

On 1 June 2025, five Russian airbases: Ukrainka, Olenya, Belaya, Ivanovo Severny and Dyagilevo, were reportedly attacked by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), using about 117 first-person view (FPV) launched from the military bases mentioned above. The FPV drones reportedly destroyed about $7 billion worth of Russian Air Force aircraft, totalling about forty-one (41).

How did Ukraine carry out Operation Spider Web?

Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky, via a tweet on the same day, praised the Secret Service of Ukraine headed by Vasyl Malyuk for the operation, stating that Op Spider Web took about “one year, six months and nine days”, from planning to execution. Zelensky also described Operation Spider’s Web as Ukraine’s “most long-range operation”.

According to news reports, FPV drones were released from 18-wheeler trucks parked near targeted Russian airbases, after roof panels of wooden sheds hiding the FPVs were remotely lifted off just before the attacks.

Sources:

Meyn, C (2025). What to know about Ukraine’s stunning ‘Operation Spider Web’. The Hill. https://the hill.com/policy/defense/5328715-ukraine-strikes-russian-airbases/

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