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Eighty-nine percent of the union voted to greenlight the deal, which offers minimum rate increases, seniority protections and the creation of a labor-management committee. Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/writers-guild-west-staff-strike-officially-over-1236591582/

“ARCADE IS DEAD,” developer Housemarque abruptly decreed in all caps on its blog shortly after Matterfall’s release in 2017. This candid manifesto explained how the team saw no future developing the arcadey games it had specialized in for over two decades and was moving onto different genres. Returnal was the result of this shift in focus, taking the aesthetics and chaos inherent to Housemarque’s house style and throwing it all into a roguelike third-person shooter. It was a cult hit that saw critical acclaim, but Saros, Returnal’s spiritual sequel, seems to rebuke that glorious foundation by shunning the very genre with which Housemarque had just found great success. By paring back its roguelike elements in an effort to broaden its appeal, Saros becomes a discordant game that seems ambivalent towards what came before it. Given its suite of levels that cycle in various threats, randomized weapons, resources, and perks, Saros is technically a roguelike, even if Housemarque talks around genre specifics. When speaking to Game Informer, art director Simone Silvestri said labels were "ephemeral" and it was “hard for [him] to categorize Saros” because Housemarque “didn't set out to be in a genre or defy a genre.” Creative director Gregory Louden was similarly elusive in that same interview, while admitting it had “rogue elements.” Continue Reading at GameSpot Source: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/saros-doesnt-like-being-a-roguelike-so-why-is-it-one/1100-6539868/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f

Brian Fennessy, new head of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, says his agency is 'trying to bring on additional aircraft and bring them on early,' and dismisses criticism of prevention methods. Source: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/09/nx-s1-5804693/prevention-wildfires-firefighters-vegetation-wildland-fire-service

Check out this video from BBC News: "UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says Labour has made 'unnecessary mistakes'. #BBCNews" Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/era6tjLUFJw

Presented by SAP The enterprise software industry has undergone a fundamental shift, and vendors are adapting their approaches to better protect the customers who rely on them. For years, every global platform vendor running multi-tenant cloud infrastructure has maintained documented rate limits, usage controls, and restrictions on the use of undocumented internal interfaces. CRM platforms impose daily API call limits per organization, enforce platform-layer limits, and maintain a strict separation between bulk data APIs and transactional REST surfaces. Productivity and collaboration suites throttle their graph APIs and redirect bulk workloads to purpose-built data access channels designed for that load. HR and workforce management platforms enforce concurrent request limits and per-session data retrieval caps. IT service management platforms enforce per-user rate limits and instance-level throttling. Hyperscalers publish per-service quotas, enforce them at the infrastructure layer, and explicitly prohibit applications from calling non-SDK or non-published interfaces. These are not controversial measures. They are baseline hygiene for enterprise-grade software platforms operating shared infrastructure at scale. For more than a decade these measures have been in place without serious objection. As SAP has taken responsibility for securing customers' mission-critical workloads in the cloud, a unified API policy with clarified usage controls is not a restriction but the expression of enterprise-grade stewardship. Some have read the policy as a new restriction. The policy does not introduce new restrictions. It names and unifies controls that have existed across individual SAP products for years. SAP is not introducing API governance as a novel concept. SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, SAP LeanIX, and several other SAP solutions have enforced documented rate limits and usag... Source: https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/governance-not-gatekeeping-how-sap-brings-enterprise-grade-safety-to-ai-connectivity

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s next for IVF IVF has brought millions of babies into the world over the last four decades. But the process can still be slow, painful, and expensive—and far from guaranteed… Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/07/1136956/the-download-ivf-tech-balcony-solar/

Check out this video from NASA: "NASA YouTube (Official Channel Trailer)" Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfyr7-dQnAg

A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds strong support for Democrats this midterm season. It also shows increasing concern about the war in Iran and the economy, particularly the price of gas. Source: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/06/nx-s1-5810555/trump-iran-gas-prices-midterms-polling

Bukayo Saka fired Arsenal to their first Champions League final in 20 years, with his goal late in the first half enough to beat Atlético Madrid 1-0. Source: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/48687101/arsenal-atletico-madrid-champions-league-semifinal-final

Israel’s expanding “orange line” is deepening movement restrictions across Gaza, raising deadly risks for civilians. Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/5/2/israels-expanding-orange-line-tightens-deadly-no-go-zones-in-gaza?traffic_source=rss