ISS astronauts had to shelter in place in the SpaceX Dragon capsule because of an air leak – Engadget
Russian cosmonauts attempted a repair, but that has since been put on hold.
NASA directed astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to shelter in place and prepare for a potential evacuation, according to a report by the BBC. This comes after the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos discovered an air leak in the transfer tunnel while docking a cargo ship.
Five of the seven astronauts currently aboard the ISS sheltered in place inside the docked SpaceX Dragon vessel. The ship was designated as a “safe haven” as two Russian cosmonauts attempted a repair. The air leaks resulted from cracks in the transfer tunnel.
The Zvezda service module transfer tunnel, known as PrK, has suffered from cracks and leaks for some time, and has been mitigated by Roscosmos as much as possible to date. The cracks have always been a concern that NASA watches very closely. NASA and Roscosmos have been working…
NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens says that astronauts have since resumed planned operations aboard the ISS, as the Russian cosmonauts paused repair efforts “as more measurements and data is assessed.” She also says that the space agency looks “forward to working with Roscosmos on a collaborative proach to address the leaks.”
We don’t have a timeline right now. When this first hpened, NASA suggested that the cosmonauts were conducting a serious repair operation today. However, that looks to have been put on hold for some reason.
This isn’t the first time the station has had to deal with this problem, as these cracks have been causing sporadic issues for around six years. Astronauts have performed patchwork fixes that weren’t designed to last. The next repair mission is likely to be a more extensive operation that seeks to eliminate the problem once and for all.
Resident Evil: Code Veronica Finally Gets a Remake
The remake of Resident Evil: Code Veronica opened Summer Game Fest, the annual showcase of upcoming games, which started on Friday. If it’s anything like the previouslyreleasedremakes of the games, fans can expect some beautiful visuals along with new lore for the series.
The trailer for Resident Evil: Code Veronica Remake doesn’t offer many details about the game’s release timing other than that it will come out sometime in 2027. If the pattern of previous releases is an indicator, the remake could drop early in the year in February or March.
No gameplay was shown in the trailer. Instead, it focused on someone being guided by an older European woman to the ransacked room of an American. It’s not until the end of the trailer that it’s revealed that the person was Claire Redfield, the sister of Chris Redfield and the main character of Code Veronica.
First released for the Sega Dreamcast in 2000, Code Veronica is not considered a main entry in the franchise, but it’s also not a side story since what hpens in the game is considered canon in the Resident Evil lore.
The game follows Claire, who has been searching for her brother Chris since the destruction of Raccoon City. She infiltrated an Umbrella Corporation facility and was ctured, then sent out to a prison island in the Southern Ocean. She learns more about the origins of the Umbrella Corporation and a new virus, the T-Virus Veronica.
Halfway through the game, players switch from playing Claire to controlling Chris, who heard of his sister’s cture and made his way to the island not long after she was taken to another facility in Antarctica. Eventually, the two come together to take down the twin siblings, Alexia and Alfred, who are the grandchildren of Sir Edward Ashford, one of the founders of the Umbrella Corporation.
No platforms were announced in the trailer. Most likely, it will be available for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series consoles, although it could also be released for the Nintendo Switch 2.
The software update that bricks Pixel Studio is rolling out now, but it could take a while to reach everyone. Once downloaded, the main interface displays a prominent “Open Gemini” button that leads to the Play Store. It also suggests that users try Nano Banana for image generation.
Pixel Studio’s latest update marks the end of the Pixel-exclusive p as users are now being redirected to use Nano Banana in Gemini
The latest one to join Google graveyard 🪦
— AssembleDebug (Shiv) (@AssembleDebug) June 5, 2026
We’ve known this was coming for a while. Google announced it was winding down Pixel Studio back in February and has been slowly stripping away core functionalities. For instance, the photo editor was completely stripped of AI tools a few months back.
Pixel Studio was introduced in 2024, alongside the Pixel 9 smartphone. It was an p dedicated to AI image generation, like many others. Users could input prompts to quickly whip up images and it could also do stuff like create stickers based on pre-existing photos. Join me in pouring one out for the shuttered p as it heads to the Google graveyard.
Josh Wardlelaunched the wildly popular word gameWordlemore than five years ago in 2021. Then the New York Times bought the game a year later in 2022. The rules to Wordle are pretty straightforward. You have to figure out a five-letter word in six or fewer guesses (we have atwo-step strategy to help you solve the puzzle every time). After each guess, the game shows gray blocks for the wrong letters, yellow blocks for the right letters in the wrong spot and green blocks for the right letters in the correct spot.
CNET’sGael Cooperhas loads of tips and tricks to tackle each NY Times Wordle puzzle. If you’ve finished your daily Wordle and are still craving a good puzzle game, there are plenty to choose from.
Here are 10 other puzzle games you can play now for a fun challenge.
Connections
I know it’s old but I’m not even going to try to figure this out.
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Another New York Times-owned puzzle,Connectionsis a tricky word game. “Players must select four groups of four words without making more than four mistakes,” the New York Timeswrote on X. There are also four color-coded difficulty levels for each game; yellow is the easiest, then green, then blue and finally purple. The game is also similar to the BBC quiz show Only Connect, and the show’s host took to Xto point out the connection. See what I did there?
Strands is another New York Times-owned puzzle but this game resembles a word search more so than Wordle and Connections. This game presents a theme every day to help you find words in a grid. In Strands words can pear forward, backward, top-to-bottom or any number of ways in a traditional word search, and words can also form in the she of an “L” or have a zigzag in them. When you find a word, t the first letter and drag your finger to the other letters. Every letter in the puzzle is used, so if you still have letters that aren’t connected to words, you aren’t finished yet.
You can play Strands on any web browser but you need a New York Times subscription (again, $1 a week) to play.
Quartiles
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Quartiles is a new word game ple News Plus subscribers can access on their iPhone or iPad that’s running iOS 17.5 or later. In this word game, you’re given 20 tiles with letters on them and you’re trying to put them together to form different words. The longest words are four tiles long, and these are called Quartiles. The game can be tough but finding just one of the Quartiles is as satisfying as remembering something that was just on the tip of your tongue.
You can play Quartiles on an iPhone or iPad but you need an ple News subscription (which starts at $13 a month) to play.
Multiple Wordle spinoffs: Dordle, Quordle, Octordle and Sedecordle
Quordle has you solve four word puzzles at once, which sounds daunting.
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Are you up for a challenge? If you love Wordle and want puzzle games that take more brain power, you’ll want to check out eitherDordle,Quordle, OctordleorSedecordle. Each of these word games resembles Wordle, but they add more rows, columns and words to solve. Each game requires you to simultaneously solve a different number of words at once: Dordle has you solving two words, Quordle four at once, Octordle eight at once and Sedecordle a whopping 16. Good luck.
You can play Lewdle on any web browser. You can also download this game from ple’s p Store or the Google Play store.
Antiwordle
Not off to a great start with this Antiwordle puzzle.
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Tired of seeing those gray, yellow and green blocks plastered all over your social media feed? Give Antiwordle a try. While Wordle wants you to guess a word in as few tries as possible, Antiwordle wants you to avoid the word by guessing as many times as possible. When you guess, letters will turn gray, yellow or red. Gray means the letter isn’t in the word and can’t be used again, yellow means the letter is in the word and must be included in each subsequent guess and red means the letter is in the exact position within the word and is locked in place. If you can use every letter on the keyboard without getting the word correct, you win. Honestly, I’ve found this version of Wordle to be much harder than the original.
Absurdle bills itself as the “adversarial version” of Wordle. While Wordle nudges you in the right direction with each guess, Absurdle is trying to avoid giving you the correct answer. According to the game’s website, “With each guess, Absurdle reveals as little information as possible, changing the secret word if need be.” Absurdle doesn’t pick a word at the beginning of the game for the player to guess. Instead, it uses the player’s guesses to narrow its list of words down in an effort to make the game go as long as possible. The final word might not even include a yellow letter from one of your earlier guesses either. You can guess as many times as you want, which is helpful, and the best score you can get is four. Have fun!
Steam Machine and Steam Frame are coming this summer – Engadget
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The Steam Machine and Steam Frame are officially scheduled to land in summer 2026, Valve announced today in a blog post about something else entirely. There’s still no word on how much either bit of hardware will cost.
Valve made the big release-window reveal in a developer-focusedblog post about the Steam Machine and Steam Frame being included in the Verified program, which launched with the Steam Deck and lets players know how well games will run on the handheld. The Verified program will do the same for the Steam Machine and Steam Frame hardware. For Steam Machine, the requirements for a Verified badge are nearly identical to the Steam Deck’s, Valve says.
As for the Steam Frame, Valve writes, “Like Steam Deck Verified, the Steam Frame Standalone Verified program focuses on the experience customers will have with the device out-of-the-box in standalone mode. The criteria are similar as well: the default grhics configuration needs to perform well, text and UI elements need to be clear and legible on the built-in display, and the default controller configuration needs to work well with the Steam Frame Controllers. The same test criteria ply to both VR titles and non-VR titles.”
There’s been plenty of speculation about the cost of Valve’s hardware since it announced the Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Controller in November 2025. The ongoing global memory shortage has dramatically driven up prices of gaming consoles and PCs in 2026, and there’s no clear end in sight. Xbox, Sony and Valve raised prices in their existing hardware lines this year by hundreds of dollars each, with Valve upping the price of the Steam Deck by as much as $300. Nintendo has plans to follow suit with the Switch 2.
The Steam Controller hit the market on May 4 and it costs $99, which is a perfectly reasonable price for a well-crafted not-PC controller with touchpads. Of course, it only has kilobytes of RAM, and instead runs on cool htic screams.
In additional Steam news, the Store homepage looks a little different today. Valve rolled out a refresh that aims to organize the chaos of all those game ads with wider, higher-res images and more quick-look details at your fingertips. Wishlist and DLC sections have returned, and there’s a new Personal Calendar with even more game promos based on your play history. The Discovery Queue is now viewable in an overlay and infinite scroll has been engaged on the homepage.
AI Agents Now Generate More Web Traffic Than Humans
The internet just crossed a remarkable threshold. Agentic AI internet traffic now exceeds that of real humans for the first time.
“Welp, that hpened faster than I predicted,” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said in a post on Xon Wednesday. “Thought it would be [at the] end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic [is] growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet’s history.”
He backed up his claim with a post to Cloudflare Radar, the company’s internet measurement system, showing that agentic bot usage is up to 57.4% of total traffic, while human traffic has dropped to 42.6%.
Prince said in another post that the data is “a bit messy” but “clearly on the other side now,” indicating this is a trend that isn’t going away.
Agentic AI traffic now exceeds that of real human users.
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These are not the bots you’re looking for
It is important to clarify what Prince refers to regarding web traffic. Regular bots, like search engine scrers and web performance tools, eclipsed human internet traffic well over a decade ago. There are reports that those same bots exceeded human traffic on small websites even sooner, which led to a lot of small website owners exceeding their hosting usage limits faster than expected.
The agentic bots Prince is referring to are the systems that search the internet on your behalf when you ask an AI chatbot a question and return the results. Those searches and visits generate real web traffic, even if it doesn’t look that way from your AI chat width=1200">
The compact British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar has some of the highest agentic AI web traffic usage of any country on Earth.
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Digging into the data
The above numbers reflect worldwide traffic patterns, but they differ by region. North America as a whole skews more toward bot usage, with bots accounting for 68.6% of activity and humans 31.4%. If you zoom in on the American Midwest,the trend reverses, with humans leading at 54.5% versus 45.5% for bots. The trend is consistent across regions: Broader areas tend to be dominated by agentic bot traffic, while smaller areas within those regions often still show higher levels of human usage.
There are some outliers as well. During peak hours, up to 97% of traffic originating from tinyGibraltar is bot traffic. Other countries, likeCubaandLaos,sit at the other end of the spectrum, with 80.8% and 84.7% of each country’s traffic coming from human users, respectively.
North America, Europe and Africa lean toward bots, while Asia, South America and Oceania still see more human internet use most of the time.
Dead Internet Theory
Interest in something calledDead Internet Theoryhas increased in recent years, fueled by perceptions that online activity is becoming less human-driven.
The idea behind Dead Internet Theory is that bots and AI generate most of the internet’s activity. The theory seemed far-fetched to many when it emerged in the late 2010s, but it’s becoming harder to argue against as data like Cloudflare’s becomes public.
The implications become more concerning with additional context:Forty percent of Facebook posts are estimated to be generated by bots. Music-streaming service Deezer announced in ril that 44% of new music uploadedto its platform is now AI-generated. And areport from Axios posits that AI generates 52% of all online articles (though not this one — honest).
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