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Quentin Tarantino’s Favorite Neo-Noir “Character-Study” Is Officially Streaming for Free
Martin Scorsese’s 1976 neo-noir Taxi Driver is now available to stream free in the United States on Pluto TV. The article highlights the film’s enduring influence on cinema and recalls Quentin Tarantino’s view that it may be the greatest first-person character study ever made. Taxi Driver was the second major collaboration between Scorsese and Robert…
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Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default
Researchers at York University and the University of Calgary analysed Reddit discussions about AI coding environments such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex, finding widespread developer concerns about security and privacy. The study argues that safeguards should be built into these tools by default, before they receive broad access to developers’ files,…
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DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext artificial intelligence model gave forecasters an extra day of reliable warning before Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica in October 2025. It predicted five days ahead, with 80 per cent confidence, that the storm would make landfall as a Category 5 hurricane, helping communities and emergency planners prepare earlier for a catastrophic event. Nature…
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David Campbell was a study in arrogance as he smiled, winked and blew kisses from the dock during his trial for murder. And now the family of his victim have revealed the 15 days of hell they suffered in the courtroom before justice was finally served…
David Campbell was convicted of murder after a 15-day trial that the victim’s family described as deeply distressing. The case matters because relatives said they had to endure not only the evidence of the killing but also Campbell’s conduct in court before the verdict brought a measure of justice. The family said Campbell smiled, winked…
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Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All
Security researcher Cory Solovewicz has inadvertently become the recipient of hundreds of thousands of emails containing other people’s personal data and corporate information after buying the domains noreply.us and noreply.net. Organisations appear to send automated messages to placeholder-style addresses they assume are unmonitored, exposing information such as injury reports, repair requests, order confirmations and test…
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Marvel Tokon launches as Karol G releases Bruno Mars duet
Gaming releases, metal rumours and a US festival lead entertainment news, while the Tennessee Titans unveil a refreshed T-Rac mascot.
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No, Brian Eno Is Not Behind the Film Soundtrack for ‘At Night.’ Experimental Musician Elvin Brandhi Is.
Beatrice Gibson’s debut feature At Night will premiere in Locarno’s Filmmakers of the Present competition, but its soundtrack was created by experimental musician Elvin Brandhi rather than Brian Eno. The clarification matters because Locarno’s artistic director compared the film’s nocturnal, ambient atmosphere to Eno’s work, potentially creating confusion over who composed its music. Brandhi, the…
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Security researchers scanned the Polish web and found courts, hospitals, and airports at risk of hacks
Polish security researchers Robert Kruczek and Kamil Szczurowski found widespread weaknesses across the country’s public-facing websites, affecting courts, hospitals, airports and government bodies. Their findings matter because easily exploited flaws could allow attackers to disrupt or take over essential public services, at a time when Poland is strengthening defences after suspected Russian cyberattacks on energy…
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‘The Industry At Large Benefits From Independent Thought & Experimentation’ Says Co-Founder of Dance Festival Elements
Elements, an independent dance festival, is opening its 2026 edition at Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania after growing from a one-day Brooklyn event in 2013 into a three-day woodland festival. Co-founder Brett Herman says its survival and expansion demonstrate the value of independent thinking and experimentation in a costly, highly competitive live-events market. Organisers expect up…
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9 Experimental Memoirs That Are 10/10 Masterpieces
Collider highlights nine memoirs that depart from conventional chronological life-writing, using fragments, poetry, speculative elements, comics and personal artefacts to reflect memory’s complexity. The article argues that these formal experiments are reshaping memoir by allowing writers to address disability, grief, identity and trauma in less linear, more intimate ways. – ‘The Backwards Hand’ (2024), by…