Steven Sharif, the founder and creative director of the game AoC, recently revealed on Discord that he was forced to resign because he lost control of the company. This led to a mass exodus of staff and ultimately, the layoff of everyone who remained.
The new game Ashes of Creation recently launched on Steam, but many are questioning its future. Is the concern justified?
One must marvel at the irony: the SEC, though not entirely defunct, is barely more animate than a taxidermied bear. The EDGAR system, that digital repository of corporate filings, continues its mindless hum, while the human cogs who once reviewed these documents have been furloughed to their drawing rooms, leaving the machinery to churn unsupervised. A Kafkaesque tableau, indeed.
![The analysis simultaneously fits measured decay rates and forward-backward asymmetries of [latex]D^{0(+)}\to\bar{K}\ell^{+}\nu_{\ell}[/latex], demonstrating that inclusion of scalar current contributions is crucial for accurately modeling the ratios of differential decay rates [latex]\mathcal{R}_{\mu/e}[/latex].](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.21185v1/x754.png)
New measurements of D meson decays are providing crucial constraints on fundamental parameters and testing the limits of lepton flavor universality.
Terraria recently hit a peak of over 224,000 players on Steam, a number it hadn’t seen since May 2020 when a large update was released. Before that, the game reached 115,000 concurrent players in October 2022.
Ripple’s XRP, that fickle wretch of a token, did not escape the fashion of folly; it tumbled to its nadir since November 2024 (on most stalls of trade) at a touch above $1.50. Since that tumble, there hath been a modest recovery-now it sits beyond $1.60-but the sentiment remains draped in sombre velvet, bearish as a winter’s night.
![A safety filter, learned solely from system transitions, employs a safety critic to map states and constraints to safety valuations and their derivatives, which then inform a quadratic programming solver-in conjunction with initial reference inputs-to generate demonstrably safe control actions, as evidenced by its ability to stabilize an inherently unstable system even when subjected to aggressive [latex] \pm 1 [/latex] reference commands.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.21297v1/Figures/Thumbnail_v5.png)
A new data-driven approach enables safe control of complex systems, even when their internal dynamics are unknown.
Ripple (XRP) hit $1.5000, down 55% from its 2025 high. Ouch. Investors are crying into their lattes. Billions gone. But hey, at least they’ve got stories to tell at cocktail parties.
Heartopia, a free-to-play life simulation game, launched on January 17th. Developed by XD Inc. based in Shanghai, China, it’s available on PC through Steam, as well as on Android and iOS devices. Since its release, XD has regularly shared promo codes to give players small, temporary bonuses and keep them engaged.
