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‘The Pitt’ Stars Beam Up To Perform ‘Star Trek’ Pilot Script At Writers Guild Foundation Benefit
Cast members of The Pitt, led by Noah Wyle, performed a live table read of the original 1966 Star Trek pilot script at a Writers Guild Foundation benefit on Sunday, blending two eras of television for a charity cause. The Retro Reads event, held at The Lodge in Highland Park, raised funds for the foundation’s…
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‘Half-Life 3’ and ‘Portal’ Officially Get Huge Updates Following Valve Breach
A massive 12-terabyte cache of apparent internal Valve data began circulating online on 29 August, containing builds and assets from titles including Portal 2, Left 4 Dead and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, as well as material from the cancelled Portal follow-up F-Stop and files potentially linked to the long-abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3. The leak matters…
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Sheri Herman, Former Executive at E! and American Cybercast, Dies at 71
Sheri Herman, the marketing and programming executive who helped launch E! Entertainment Television and later led American Cybercast, has died aged 71. She passed away on 6 August at her home in Telogia, Florida, of heart failure, her long-time friend and collaborator Martin Lewis announced, describing her as an inventive and vivacious figure who constantly…
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If You Prompt a Movie or Song Into Existence With AI, You Shouldn’t Be Able to Profit From It
Lori Silfen, president of the Motion Picture Sound Editors, argues in an opinion piece that content generated purely from AI prompts, without genuine human authorship, should not qualify for copyright protection. She contends that reducing art to a “prompt” undermines the creative process and devalues the work of professional artists, and calls on legislators to…
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Fortnite Releases New Official Roadmap Ahead of Season’s First Major Update
Epic Games has published its roadmap for the second week of Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4, ahead of the season’s first major update, due on Thursday 3 September. The update follows the Fortnite Override content drop that launched on 20 August, giving players a chance to settle into the new Battle Pass cosmetics, landmarks and…
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3 Classic Rock Songs That Made Teen Angst Sound Surprisingly Poetic
An American Songwriter feature highlights three classic rock tracks that capture the intensity of teenage emotion with unusual poetic depth, arguing that adolescent turmoil has always been fertile ground for songwriting. The piece reflects on how different bands from the 1960s and 1970s tackled themes of loneliness, fame and generational conflict through lyrics that still…
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Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a “Harvey for police officers”
David Lawrence, who dropped out of Harvard Law after an on-campus shooting involving a police officer, has raised $6 million to launch Blue Voice out of stealth, a Boston-based AI startup that gives police officers real-time guidance on department policy and law while in the field. The tool aims to address the fact that officers…
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Netflix Officially Addresses the Future of ‘Doctor Who’
Netflix has ruled out taking over “Doctor Who” production, with the streamer’s UK content chief saying she believes the long-running sci-fi series belongs with the BBC. The comments come as the show’s future remains uncertain following the end of its Disney+ partnership, the cancellation of a planned 2026 Christmas special, and the BBC putting the…
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Attack hides malware in PNGs and drops custom reverse tunnel on victims’ machines
Microsoft has identified a new attack campaign dubbed “TerminalFix” that tricks victims into running malicious PowerShell commands via a fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA prompt, ultimately installing a custom reverse tunnel that gives attackers persistent, network-level access to compromised machines. It is a more sophisticated variant of the widespread “ClickFix” social engineering technique, directing users to Windows…