Entertainment

In the middle of another brutal Japanese heatwave, someone finally said the quiet part out loud: if the planet is going to keep getting this hot, maybe we should just start putting people in refrigerators. Enter the Do Hiemon Box — a full-size, walk-in cooling booth that looks like it escaped from a vending-machine factory and decided to start cooling humans instead of canned coffee....

Players jumping into Meccha Chameleon’s colorful hide-and-seek matches this past week got more than a quick round of camouflage. A handful of community-made Steam Workshop maps quietly turned their Windows PCs into targets, dropping malware the moment the maps loaded. The question that followed was simple and unsettling: How did a community-created game map become the gateway to malware and misinformation? The trouble started around...