Helldivers 2 has gone a little quiet since the end-of-year blowout that saw the game’s third enemy faction, The Illuminate, storm into the galactic war with their undemocratic mind control tricks and chicanery. The heroes kept a-diving and the fronts of the galactic war have kept a-shifting until yesterday: When all of a sudden the liberation started going through the roof.

Arrowhead launched an update on February 27 that, appropriately enough, hid a very nasty bug. Except this one seemed to serve the cause of managed democracy because, in the studio’s words, it caused “an error that is affecting planet liberation rates, causing them to skyrocket.” Arrowhead admitted that “we know this is fun” but as the Helldivers tore through enemy planets with ease it was “breaking the Galactic War mechanic itself.”



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Short of a catastrophic server meltdown, it was almost inevitable Monster Hunter Wilds would smash its way into the Steam record books. But I didn’t think it would happen this fast.

As of 10:05 pm Pacific on launch day, Wilds has snatched a spot among the most-played games on Steam, surpassing the all-time peak player records of Baldur’s Gate 3 (875,343), Hogwarts Legacy (879,308) and New World (913, 634) to take the #10 spot. As of this writing, 920,464 hunters are online beating up their first Chatacabra (or, more likely, messing around in the character creator).



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2023’s Dungeons & Dragons movie made a lot of clever references to Dungeons & Dragons the game, like one character being told to hold important quest items because (as we eventually realize) he has a bag of holding, or the moment an NPC walks mindlessly off in a completely straight line once his quest was completed and he had nothing further to do in the story.

A Minecraft Movie is going about things a bit differently. It’s not making sly references to Minecraft. Instead, it’s whipping out items from the game, holding them up to camera, and yelling their names at full volume. Take a look at the final trailer and count how many times that happens:

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When your data is just too precious for this world, look to the moon for a safe space to store it. Yep, that big rock with very little atmosphere, pock-holed by craters, and a perpetual ‘bad side’. This is where Lonestar, a data center company, is eyeing up for hosting its next super-safe storage service. This isn’t just another wild idea, either. The company just teamed up with Phison and SpaceX to launched a payload on a Falcon 9 rocket that’s somewhere between Florida and the lunar surface as you read this.

The ‘Freedom Mission’ is intended to prove the technical know-how and capability to actually put some sort of storage on the moon. The reason? Well, there’s a lot of business jargon involved, but Phison says it’s something to do with providing an “additional layer of fortitude against natural disasters and unpredictable impacts to crucial data.” Though, if you ask me, the idea of the Earth being wiped out and only a hard drive full of client shipping data being all that’s left of humankind feels like proof enough that we ‘had it coming’.



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Data breach news is reported with such regularity now that it’s easy to feel jaded by each new leak of login details. The scale of this latest breach should give us all pause, however. Have I Been Pwned, the website where you check just how many password leaks your email address has been attached to, reports that 284,132,969 logins have been compromised in this latest data breach. Which is rather a lot.

“In February 2025,” the site explains, “23 billion rows of stealer logs were obtained from a Telegram channel known as ALIEN TXTBASE.” Troy Hunt, the founder of Have I Been Pwned, went into more detail on his blog, explaining that news of this breach came via a contact in a government agency, and consisted of “two files totalling just over 5GB” distributed via Telegram.



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I suspect not many videogames have officially licensed fungus, but it certainly makes sense for Avowed, an RPG where you spend 50 hours in the shoes of a hero who has mushrooms growing out of their face. Thanks to a company called North Spore, you can now own your own little piece of the Dreamscourge, with grow-your-own mushroom kits where fungus literally bursts out of the chest cavity of an infested skeleton. And then you can eat it!

It’s $30 per kit, and there can be blue, pink, or golden oyster fungus inside—all ready to grow edible mushrooms. They’re pretty substantial boxes, and with proper care you should get two harvests out of a box, and you can even repot them to keep them going after that. North Spore was kind enough to send me a kit to check out for myself, and though my mushrooms haven’t erupted yet, so far the preparation and care has been agreeably simple—you basically just open the front of the box, cut an X into the plastic to expose the fungus to air, and then remember to spritz them with water using the included sprayer bottle a few times a day. In theory, mushrooms shall follow soon after.



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Today’s Wordle answer is right here if you need it. Some days those green letters just don’t turn up fast enough, and if today is that day for you then we’ve got you covered. Don’t forget about our tips or our fresh clue for the February 26 (1348) puzzle either, it can save your game if you’ve still got a few rows spare.

Most days I’d be thrilled to see three green letters lined up and ready to help me win, but today? I was so puzzled by them they may as well have been from a different alphabet. I wasted a lot of time chasing tangents that led nowhere this Wednesday—make sure you use today’s hint to keep your game on track.

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Wordle today: A hint for Wednesday, February 26



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