Nighthawks, the long-in-development vampire RPG due to be released later this month, is the latest game to run afoul of Steam's increasingly stringent rules regarding adult content. According to publisher Wadjet Eye Games, the game has been labelled 'Adults Only'—causing it to be removed from Steam search and outright delisted in certain countries like Germany—despite claims from both developer and publisher that the RPG's depictions of sex and nudity are very mild.

"We are aware that Steam has classified Nighthawks as an adult game and has excluded it from searches," Wadjet Eye boss Dave Gilbert wrote on Bluesky. "We are working on it. Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier than it actually is." Gilbert further commented that "Valve is basically treating Nighthawks like a porn game!" in responding to a reply to his initial post.

A game being labelled Adults Only can affect its visibility in several ways. Adults Only games will not appear in Steam searches by default, requiring users to log in, verify their age (which requires the use of a credit card in some countries) and adjust their preferred content settings before they become visible. In addition, the label can cause games to be delisted outright in certain countries.

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The 64-year-old Michigan power plant was set to retire. Then the Trump administration intervened in a way that overstepped its authority, a court ruled.

's still reading as you leave, but this time you can make out the newspaper name. It says Woke Weekly and there's a blurry photo with a red circle drawn on it, the title screams "NEW GENDER DISCOVERED INSIDE ANCIENT CAVE IN CHINA?"

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While tech oligarchs grandstand about the existential danger AI superintelligence poses to humanity, former Environmental Protection Agency officials say we should be worried about a more immediate threat to our health: the data centers that power those AI models.

The former EPA researchers, now working with the nonprofit Environmental Protection Network, are warning in a new report that since January 2025, Donald Trump’s EPA has embarked on a systematic weakening of pollution safeguards, permitting processes, inspection norms, and other guardrails—at least 30 different actions—that could increase the health risks associated with the data center boom.

There are currently about 3,000 data centers in the United States, and more than 1,500 new centers are in the planning stages. But as developers build out this vast, energy-hungry infrastructure, the country is losing the government regulatory safeguards that are needed to ensure that expansion is done safely, the ex–EPA officials say.

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Former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper will deliver the closing speech at Mark Carney's Canadian Investment Summit, which officially kicks off Monday in Toronto.

It was Mark Carney himself who asked his predecessor to close his event, according to what Radio-Canada has learned.

Earlier this week, Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers detailed some alarming findings about how LG’s TVs are logging and uploading data on its users. Now the company is pushing back against those allegations, saying that “Some recent media coverage may have contributed to misconceptions about how LG smart TVs work.”

LG released a statement in which it claims that its “TVs do not continuously record or transmit users’ conversations,” and that wake-word detection is all processed locally. However, the word “continuously” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here as Gamers Nexus demonstrated an LG TV keeping extensive logs of ambient conversations long after one would assume its AI assistant had stopped listening.

Idk why but I feel a visceral recoil in my guts whenever I see a blonde person with fair skin, I feel scared and angry, I feel like wrestling that person away. Their smile feels demonic.

I was diagnosed with ADHD in 2003, so I've lived with and known about it for a long time, and something I've noticed since I stopped taking my cyproterone to get some usable sperm going is the stark difference in my ADHD symptoms. Everyone in my family has been diagnosed, and my sister has always said it presented differently for her because girl than it did for my brother and I, and I didn't notice a difference when I started on hormones, but now that I'm not taking androgen blockers, so boy juice is back in my system, the difference should have been obvious.

The big one is that I can't sit down and read anymore. My wife got me a kobo for christmas and it got me so much back into reading like I hadn't been since puberty. I'm currently at 47 books read this year, but the amount of time I spend reading in a day has plummeted in the last month once the testosterone effects really kicked back in. I've been going with 70+ pages a day (318 page record whoop) 3-5 days a week all year and now it's been 2 weeks since I started my last book and I'm only 72 pages into it.

I'm not doing as well at work either. I have 5 tasks to do A B and C can all be done, but they need to be in sequence, so I'll start A, spot a tool or bit of material I need for D, and start carrying it around until I spot something for E and put down what I'm carrying and pick that up, then realize I was starting on A and I've been wandering around with materials for other tasks for 15 minutes.

The lack of ability to focus on one thing is suddenly going strong again, and I doubt this is unique to me, but I figured I'd share my experience with ADHD symptoms being effected by HRT, but bodies are wild. I never would have thought about it as something that could be affected until my sister asked about it.