Remember that 15-year-old Tolkien fan movie that Warner Bros. pulled from YouTube last week for sharing the same name as its upcoming Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum title? Well, it’s back!

Adrian Webster, who played Aragorn in the fan-made film, told IGN:

“Perhaps it was an automated copyright block due to the same title. It’s not quite clear. Anyway, we’re happy it’s back online again just now.”

Anbernic’s Game Boy Advance SP homage goes on sale tomorrow for $65, and the just announced $339 Ayn Odin 2 Mini is a dead ringer for PlayStation Vita but with Qualcomm, Wi-Fi 7 and a 1080p mini-LED screen. Then on Saturday, Ayaneo will reveal its takes on the original Game Boy and Game Boy Micro.

Choices, choices!

In a WhatsApp groupchat, prominent businessmen discussed how to use their “leverage” to persuade Columbia’s president to call in the NYPD.

Some members, including hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, attended a Zoom meeting with NYC mayor Eric Adams on April 26th. Some participants offered to pay for private investigators to help crack down on protesters, while others promised to donate to Adams’s campaign.

2003’s Need for Speed: Underground is the latest modded RTX Remix game, with over 1,000 additional light sources and almost completely ray-traced lighting. (Headlight ray tracing is TBD.)

2005’s Most Wanted was more my jam, but this looks great. More about it (and downloadable files) here. Also see: ray traced Half-Life and Half-Life 2, and more listed here.

From Polygon’s exploration of the “unlikely, lasting place in gaming history” held by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood:

Headley drew Kardashian, and Zabbal illustrated a background, like Beverly Hills — “a postcard for the location,” which he described as not necessarily accurate, but a “lovely broad impression with a tight, cool palette.”

This early art — Headley’s depiction of Kardashian — was what hooked Kardashian herself. “Kim said many times, ‘I saw that they really got me when I saw how they drew me,’” de Masi said.

Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks’ Shōgun adaptation was originally meant to conclude after its first season, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, FX and Hulu are keen on keeping the ball rolling with two more seasons.

Deadline reports that Blumhouse’s follow-ups to Megan (originally due out May 16th) and The Black Phone (originally due out June 27th) have had their premieres pushed back to June 27th and and October 17th, respectively. At least we also know the Five Nights at Freddy’s sequel now has a December 5th, 2025 premiere date.

I’d like to have a word with this Indiana judge who just decided, after a years-long legal battle, that tacos and burritos are sandwiches. To be fair, the tacos in Indiana probably look more like sandwiches than the ones in California, but still. Tacos, burritos, hot dogs, they aren’t sandwiches. Argue with the wall, everybody.

This editorial suggests one possible future for all of the AI tools we’re seeing:

...it seems just as likely to me that generative A.I. could end up like the Roomba, the mediocre vacuum robot that does a passable job when you are home alone but not if you are expecting guests.

Or when you need to know how to deal with a jammed camera.

GM’s Cruise reportedly settled with the pedestrian who was struck by a hit-and-run driver and then drug 20 feet by one of the company’s driverless cars last October in San Francisco. The settlement, which was reached earlier this year, was between $8-12 million, according to Fortune. The pedestrian has since been released from the hospital, and Cruise just started driving autonomously in Phoenix after months on the sidelines.

Android 15’s second public beta introduced customizable vibrations for notifications for different apps.

9to5Google notes Pixel phones go a step further, using the phone’s microphones and sensors to adjust vibration intensity based on your surroundings. Pixel phones are particularly noisy when they vibrate on a hard surface like a table, and this feature seems to address that problem. Now that’s what I call a good vibe.

Microsoft’s big AI PC event is just days away, and we’re seeing more leaks of ARM-powered Windows PCs with Qualcomm’s new chips inside.

This post from WinFuture’s Roland Quandt shows that, like Dell and Lenovo, Asus plans include a version of the Vivobook S 15 OLED that’s ready to battle Apple’s M-series laptops.

MoviePass, MovieCrash — director Muta’Ali’s documentary chronicling how two growth-obsessed executives ran the innovative theater subscription service into the ground — made a spash at this year’s SXSW. And now the movie’s slated to make its streaming debut on Max later this month.

Or the period before menopause, when ovaries gradually stop working. This particular study is aimed at shedding light on the physiological changes that happen during perimenopause and menopause — something that’s still not well understood as menopausal people are often excluded from studies.

Oura’s also adding a Cycle Insights Report feature, as well as including period data when calculating Readiness scores.

After plenty of teases and licensing news, EA is showing off the official covers for its NIL-enabled College Football 25 game, which is returning after a decade-long break. Even if they don’t have the backup QB from Texas, EA has signed the starter, as its cover features Quinn Ewers alongside Michigan running back Donovan Edwards, and Colorado wide receiver/defensive back Travis Hunter.