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Bari Weiss takeover fears grip CNN staff as Paramount-Warner Bros deal nears completion
CNN staff are reportedly anxious about their future as Paramount Skydance moves closer to completing its acquisition of parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, with many fearing the network will be handed to Bari Weiss, currently editor in chief of Paramount-owned CBS News. The concern matters because CNN remains a significant profit generator and a key…
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Age-verification failures found among platforms covered by Australia’s under-16 social media ban
A study has found that several social media platforms covered by Australia’s forthcoming under-16 social media ban are failing to verify the ages of their users, with researchers reporting they were never once asked to confirm how old they were while setting up accounts. The findings matter because the ban is intended to keep younger…
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Ancient fire use at Wonderwerk Cave dated to 1.79 million years ago
Researchers say they have found evidence that early human ancestors used fire at Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa as long as 1.79 million years ago, pushing back one of the earliest known records of fire use by hominins by hundreds of thousands of years. The finding, announced in a 24 June press release from the…
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Creatine may ease depression symptoms alongside standard treatment, review finds
A systematic review published in Genomic Press’s journal Brain Medicine suggests that creatine monohydrate, a widely used muscle-building supplement, may help ease symptoms of major depressive disorder when taken alongside standard treatments. The findings matter because creatine is cheap, readily available and generally well tolerated, raising the possibility of an accessible add-on therapy, though the…
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Fighting fraud in the next round of budget reconciliation legislation
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777, a genre-fusing debut single from ONE OK ROCK supergroup YAO
YAO, a new collaborative project uniting Japanese band ONE OK ROCK with artists Awich, Paledusk and Chico Carlito, has released its debut single, ‘777’. The venture matters as an experiment in fusing acts from different musical backgrounds into a single unit, with its name drawn from the Japanese concept of “Yaoyorozu no Kami”, meaning Eight…
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Norovirus vaccine trial shows early promise against severe gut infection
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Carmen Villain Announces New Album Memoria: Hear “Entre Nosotros”
Carmen Villain? She’s the baaaaad guuuuy. Duh. Oh wait. Wrong artist. Carmen Villain is Carmen Maria Hillestad, the Michigan-born Norwegian-Mexican musical artist specializing in experimental electronic composition. The post Carmen Villain Announces New Album Memoria: Hear “Entre Nosotros” appeared first on Stereogum.
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Blue Beetle and Gunpowder Milkshake among overlooked 2020s action films
From Boy Kills World to Monkey Man, these action movies of the 2020s have been all but forgotten, but deserve a second look from mainstream audiences.
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Jay-Z marks 30 years of Reasonable Doubt with citywide nostalgia campaign
The Reasonable Doubt anniversary rollout is a case study in how artists, labels, and estates are turning old albums into merch drops, museum moments, and live-event spectacles