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Marvel Rivals may have solved season 9’s Apocalypse murder mystery
NetEase Games has unveiled the villain Apocalypse in the announcement trailer for Marvel Rivals season 9, only for him to be fatally run through with a sword by an unseen attacker at the trailer’s end. This sets up a season-long murder mystery, but fans believe they have already worked out the culprit, making the reveal…
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Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes
Two high-severity vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel have come to light this week, both earning bug bounties from Google’s kernelCTF programme. The more serious, dubbed “Januscape” and tracked as CVE-2026-53359, sits in KVM — the virtualisation component built into many Linux distributions — and lets an untrusted guest virtual machine break out and compromise the…
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How Much Did Taylor Swift’s Wedding to Travis Kelce Affect Her Streaming Numbers?
This week’s Trending Up looks at the impact of the year’s most-buzzed-about nuptials on the world’s biggest artist’s numbers, along with 4th of July bumps and a new breakout hit.
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TikTok users don’t have as much agency over their FYPs as they think
Computer scientists at Northeastern University have tested a common complaint about TikTok — that its For You Page (FYP) ignores users’ negative feedback — and found that users have less control than they believe. Their study concludes that engagement signals such as skipping videos or tapping “not interested” do work, but only temporarily: the algorithm…
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TalkFuse afternoon briefing, 8 Jul 2026 17:55
Your afternoon briefing: a short audio round-up of 6 top stories, drawing on Daily Mail, Rock Paper Shotgun, Variety, The Guardian.
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‘Palm Royale,’ ‘Poker Face’ Nominated for 2026 Emmys After Being Canceled
Several television series that have already been cancelled by their networks and streamers nonetheless received nominations at the 2026 Emmy Awards, announced on Wednesday morning. Among them were the Apple TV comedy Palm Royale, the Peacock mystery Poker Face, and titles including Ponies, Stumble and Gen V, demonstrating that critical and craft recognition can arrive…
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The Pitt leads Emmys race, but Stranger Things snubbed in top categories – see the nominations
US medical drama The Pitt and comedy Hacks have topped the nominations for the 78th Emmy Awards, America’s most coveted television honours, with 25 and 24 nods respectively. The announcement drew attention as much for its omissions as its front-runners, with the final seasons of the hit shows Stranger Things and Euphoria both missing out…
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Stella Lefty becomes latest musician branded an industry plant amid Yungblud backlash
Chicago-area singer Stella Lefty has become the latest musician accused of being an “industry plant”, a pejorative label suggesting an artist’s rise was secretly manufactured by the music business rather than earned. The 23-year-old has broken through on TikTok with her country-and-pop crossover single “Boston”, but her sudden success has prompted online scrutiny of her…
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New anime Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games is going viral
Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games is new on Crunchyroll, and the painfully accurate anime is getting praise from the FGC
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Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse, Social Platform Zigazoo Launch Studio to Develop Content From Young Creators (EXCLUSIVE)
Brent Montgomery’s entertainment and investment company Wheelhouse has partnered with Zigazoo, a TikTok-style social media platform aimed at children and teenagers, to launch a joint venture called Zigazoo Studios. The new studio will develop content, live experiences, consumer products, brand partnerships and other business ventures built around emerging Gen Alpha creators from the Zigazoo community.…