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H.P. Lovecraft’s iconic mad scientist first came to cinematic life in 1985’s cult classic horror Re-Animator, embodied in unforgettable fashion by Jeffrey Combs, who reprised the maniacal role in 1990’s Bride of Re-Animator and 2003’s Beyond Re-Animator. 23 years after Combs’ third and final time playing Lovecraft’s take on Victor Frankenstein, the obsessively brilliant character is set to make a comeback in a modern-dress re-imagining.

With Combs himself not coming back for the de-hyphenated Herbert West: ReAnimator, the planned fresh adaptation of Lovecraft’s original story has cast a new mad scientist, tapping Joseph Morgan as the titular West. The Titans star will be joined by Arrow’s Katie Cassidy as Dr. Kate Locke (via exclusive report by Dread Central).

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Speed Bump - Dave Coverly - https://www.speedbump.com/

Proton 11.0-1 enables support for another batch of Windows games that up to now had only worked when using the recent Steam Experimental builds. The games newly working with Proton 11.0-1 include Universe Generator: The Golden Sword, DCS World Steam Edition, Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Dino Crisis, Dino Crisis 2, From Dust, Blaite, Don't Die Dateless, Dummy!, METAL GEAR SURVIVE, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Metal Fatigue, and SHOGUN: Total War.

Games now working with Proton for the first time in this release include Unknown Faces, Gothic 1 Classic, X-Plane 12, Breath of Fire IV, and Deadly Premonition.

Proton 11.0-1 also brings a number of different game fixes, improved rendering of the Rockstar Launcher popups, fixes many EA games being unplayable after a recent EA Desktop update, fixing the Steam Overlay that was not working for many EA games, improved support for the Kodi media player, and a wide variety of other fixes.

Proton 11.0-1 also updates to Xalia 0.4.9, FEX 2605 for ARM64EC builds, VKD3D 1.19 Git, DXVK 2.7 Git, DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1, Wine Mono 11.0, and VKD3D-Proton 20260410.

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The FCC wants to change the e-Rate program, which could eliminate discounts libraries and schools get to provide internet to their community.

Although the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the government overseen by Congress, as has been the case in the Trump-Vance administration, the agency’s role in federal operations has shifted to following the administration’s will and agenda. Current FCC chair Brendan Carr was appointed by Trump during his first administration, and Carr’s background includes authoring the Project 2025 chapter about the FCC.

Perhaps it comes as little surprise, then, that one of the most important resources in public schools and public libraries–the internet–is on the FCC’s chopping block.

The e-Rate program helps bridge the digital divide by providing schools and libraries with access to affordable internet and telecommunications services. As more and more services are only accessible online, the e-Rate program has been especially vital in keeping folks connected, especially in small and rural areas. It’s easy to think of schools and libraries as places of learning, with widespread access to physical and digital materials. But those digital services aren’t free, and most of these public institutions benefit from e-Rates. They have to.

Digital connectivity isn’t free through the e-Rate program. Rather, it’s discounted based on numerous qualifications:

• 20-90% of the eligible costs may be covered through e-Rate programs, with schools and libraries in more impoverished communities receiving higher discounts; To receive the funding, schools and libraries have to go through their typical process to bid for these services, meaning that they are getting the most competitive prices and packages to begin with (as anyone who has familiarity with a bidding process knows, this doesn’t necessarily mean these institutions are getting the best choices–they’re getting the most affordable!);
• Laptops, computers, and other physical equipment are ineligible for e-Rate, as it’s limited to connectivity;
• There is a limit each year to how much money is available to each institution via the e-Rate, and institutions can be monitored and audited at any time.

A four-player co-op extraction game where a Lovecraftian island warps your perception while you haul treasure back to the ship.

The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu drops a squad of treasure hunters onto a cursed jungle island, then spends the rest of the run making them doubt everything they see. It’s a co-op extraction game built around a simple promise and a nasty twist. Grab the loot the captain wants, drag it back to your galleon, and try to leave before the island stops playing fair.

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2569760/The_Mound_Omen_of_Cthulhu/

Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology are being sued by seventeen plaintiffs in the California Northern District Court, who allege that the three tech manufacturers are colluding to artificially increase the price of RAM.

Seventeen individual plaintiffs, including three small businesses, have launched a class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California against the three largest RAM and chip manufacturers in the world: Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology. The plaintiffs allege that the three tech companies are colluding to raise the prices of RAM by keeping supplies artificially low, blaming it all on an AI data center-driven “RAMpocalypse” rather than corporate policy.

The Garciaguirre et al v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al case was filed earlier this week, on June 25, in the California Northern District Court, and lists three small computer retailers, Troy’s Computers LLC, JB Tech Solutions LLC, and WNTD Fab LLC, among its seventeen plaintiffs.

The plaintiffs claim that Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology are essentially part of a cartel that is collaborating to inflate DRAM and chip prices by controlling the overwhelming majority of the market. While proving that will obviously be a lot harder than alleging it, it’s no secret that the three companies own roughly 90 percent of the DRAM market.

And it’s no secret that Samsung and SK Hynix have been previously indicted for doing exactly what the plaintiffs are accusing them of doing now. In 2005, two Samsung executives and one Hynix America executive were indicted by a San Francisco jury for DRAM price-fixing and “bid-rigging.”

Bid-rigging can take many forms, but in this example, Samsung and Hynix America were accused of “issuing price quotations in accordance with the agreements reached” during private meetings, and “agreeing during those meetings and telephone conversations to charge prices of DRAM at certain levels to be sold to certain [original equipment manufacturers]” in the United States.

more links: https://wccftech.com/memory-trio-samsung-sk-hynix-micron-face-class-action-lawsuit/

Summary

• The Linux Foundation, joined by leading organizations, today announced Akrites, a coordinated effort to remediate and disclose vulnerabilities in critical open source software.
• Akrites establishes a shared Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) and a single, standardized Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) process, built on confidentiality-first principles and industry-standard tooling.
• Founding members commit engineering talent, security expertise and funding to harden the shared open source software that banks, hospitals, power grids, telecoms, governments, and AI labs depend on.
• Organizations that contribute engineering resources or funding to the security of critical open source are invited to participate and can learn more at https://akrites.org/.

https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/this-month-s-windows-11-update-broke-the-recycle-bin-onedrive-and-possibly-your-pc-s-stability

https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/

Lossless Scaling Tutorial: Upscaling & Frame Generation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTgGAzip9X0

Spanish genre legend Álex de la Iglesia (The Day of the Beast, The Bar) is making his animation directorial debut with Ages of Madness: The Howling of the Jinn, an adult-aimed CG feature that aims to become the first major animated adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s mythos for the big screen. Production on the ambitious project is scheduled to begin later this year.

more about: https://www.animationmagazine.net/2026/06/ages-of-madness-animated-lovecraft-feature-taps-goya-winner-alex-de-la-iglesia/

During my last trip to Kyoto, I stumbled upon these figures while walking around Yodobashi Camera (a large "electronics and many other things" store that can be found in most major cities in Japan).

The first collection of five vintage existential horror Science Fiction, aka Cosmic Horror, short stories that were written by other authors than H. P. Lovecraft. With a special exception for «The Curse of Yig» that was ghost written by Lovecraft. To what extent is unknown, but probably a lot.

Each story with its own take.

The stories presented here are:

0:00 Introduction

1:04 The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long

40:54 Dig Me No Grave by Robert E. Howard

1:17:46 The Curse of Yig by Zealia Brown Reed

2:04:33 The Secret of Kralitz bu Henry Kuttner

2:27:06 The Tree of Life by C. L. Moore

Selected and read by myself, Tom Trussel.

Which of these stories is your favorite? Share your thoughts below!

Stories of Futures Past presents a set of vintage Science Fiction short stories, narrated by myself, Tom Trussel.