Core Values

The Detroit Pistons have removed a weight clause from their $200 million contract offer to center Jalen Duren, according to reporting by The Athletic. The clause had tied part of the deal's value to Duren keeping his weight at a set level. Reports say the team has now dropped that condition, making the offer fully guaranteed at its stated value. The move signals the Pistons' confidence in the young big man as a core piece.

President Martins Seguro said Europe must not become a fortress but should remain a space of freedom, dialogue and cooperation. The statement, published by the Council of Europe, frames openness and partnership as core European values. It comes amid ongoing debate over migration policy and border controls, where critics warn that increasingly restrictive approaches risk isolating the continent from its founding principles of human rights and solidarity.

The developers behind Satisfactory's upcoming Core Values expansion are detailing the surprising difficulty of designing caves at exactly the right size for the factory automation game. One designer compares the process to thinking of cave spaces 'kind of like a triangle,' balancing player freedom, pacing and the game's trademark large-scale building. Fans of the factory builder are following the design talk closely.

Coffee Stain's factory-building game Satisfactory is getting its first paid expansion, called Core Values. Instead of building upward, players will dig beneath the surface on the planet MASSAGE-2(A-B)b, constructing underground factory networks with new resources, plants, creatures and production chains. It marks a notable shift for the game, which until now received free updates, and fans are weighing in on the paid model and the subterranean direction.

The Loyola Phoenix, the student newspaper of Loyola University Chicago, has published an opinion piece arguing that applied music courses, such as viola lessons, should be brought into the university's core curriculum. The piece contends that making applied music study available to all students, not just music majors, would broaden the value of a liberal arts education.

Developers of Satisfactory are discussing the design challenge behind Core Values, the upcoming expansion to the factory automation game, particularly how they size caves and underground spaces. One designer described approaching cave sizing as a kind of triangle of competing considerations, balancing scale, gameplay and performance. The piece highlights how much thought goes into spaces players may take for granted.