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Mark Ruffalo Goes Scorched-Earth on Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger, Calling Out the Ellison Family’s Complicity in Palestinian ‘Genocide’
Actor Mark Ruffalo has publicly denounced Paramount Skydance’s proposed $111 billion (£87 billion) takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, using his Instagram Story to accuse the Ellison family of complicity in what he called a “genocide” against Palestinians. The intervention comes as the merger faces legal challenges from a dozen state attorneys general and has raised…
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Tesla’s solar roof is dead. Here’s what went wrong
Tesla has quietly discontinued its Solar Roof product, removing all public-facing references from its website and redirecting the relevant URLs to its standard solar panel page. Launched nearly a decade ago, the Solar Roof was marketed as a premium alternative to conventional panels, disguising solar cells as high-end shingles, terracotta tiles or slate. Its demise…
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Sorry ‘Jury Duty’ Fans, Season 3 Is Unlikely To Set Sail On The Open Waters
Amazon’s hit prank series Jury Duty has been renewed for a third season, sparking speculation among fans about where the show’s elaborate hidden-camera premise will be staged next. Speculation has centred on a cruise ship setting, an idea floated by cast member Wendy Braun, but executive producer Anthony King has poured cold water on the…
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Nintendo’s War On Switch Emulators Continues With 400 More GitHub Takedowns
Nintendo is doing what Nintendo does: issuing DMCA takedown notices to anyone who illegally offers access to any of the company’s games. That’s exactly what happened earlier this week, as Nintendo wiped out over 400 Switch emulators from GitHub. According to an August 21 TorrentFreak report, the Mario maker sent the proprietary developer platform seven…
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Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch
Elon Musk has scaled back his prediction for when SpaceX will first successfully catch a returning Starship upper stage, saying it will probably take “a few months” rather than happening on the next test flight as he had suggested during the company’s first earnings call as a public firm. The reversal matters because catching Starship…
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How Disneyland’s Cast Members Work Behind the Scenes to Create Magic for the Holidays: ‘Storytelling Is a Centerpiece to Everything We Do at the Company’
At a 400,000 square-foot Disney warehouse in Cerritos, California, cast members craft and maintain the decor that transforms Disneyland for each season, from Halloween pumpkin displays to winter holiday-scapes. The facility brings together machine shops, fabrication and sewing teams, and paint specialists whose work is guided by storytelling, with staff describing every design choice as…
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US government lab is probing Chinese lidar for security vulnerabilities
A US Department of Energy facility, the Idaho National Laboratory, is quietly investigating whether Chinese-made lidar sensors pose a security risk if they become widely used in American vehicles, according to sources familiar with the effort. The review, reportedly funded by one or more companies in the electric and autonomous vehicle sector, comes as pressure…
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“Friendslop” Sounds Like An Insult. What Do Developers Think?
There’s an ongoing divide about the word “friendslop.” The genre descriptor, born of games like Lethal Company, Peak, and many others in recent years, can be used in both positive and negative contexts, which can make it confusing. Personally, I was trying to reserve the “-slop” suffix for things made by generative AI, but the…
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Spotify’s Stock Up 5.5% on Fresh $1.5B Stock Buyback Program
Spotify’s share price jumped nearly 5.5% on Friday 21 August after the company disclosed that its board had approved a further $1.5 billion (£1.18 billion) in stock buybacks. Combined with $723 million (£569 million) still available from an earlier repurchase plan, the streaming giant’s total buyback firepower now stands at roughly $2.223 billion (£1.75 billion).…