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HBO’s 14-Episode Drama Is So Good, It Keeps Outgrowing the Book
Collider columnist Liam Gaughan reflects on HBO’s Big Little Lies, arguing that the drama has grown beyond its source material with each new season. The piece frames the show’s 2017 debut as a landmark moment when a prestige network could attract A-list film stars to television, combining a starry cast, a bestselling novel and an…
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Netflix’s New Mystery Movie Scores Over 20M Views in Just 5 Days
Netflix’s third Enola Holmes film, starring Millie Bobby Brown, has drawn more than 20 million views within five days of its early-July 2026 release, making it one of the platform’s biggest new arrivals of the month. The strong viewership matters because it underscores the franchise’s continued commercial pull, even as the latest instalment has met…
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Hooked on classic sitcoms, haunted by family tragedies – the truth about the real comedian behind… Count Binface
The Daily Mail profiles the comedian behind Count Binface, the satirical “intergalactic space warrior” who campaigns in British elections wearing a dustbin on his head. The character has gained fresh attention after a widely shared Sky News interview during the Makerfield by-election, and is now poised for greater prominence by standing against Reform UK leader…
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Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag Resynced guide to all 16 Mayan stones
This article from PC Gamer is intended as a guide to locating all 16 Mayan stones in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Resynced, a collectible-hunting task within the remastered version of the game. Such stones are typically used to unlock in-game rewards, making a comprehensive location guide useful to players working towards full completion. However,…
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A star Democratic recruit has a family secret that’s been buried for 30 years. Sign up to the DC Insider newsletter to uncover the mystery
The Daily Mail reports that a Democratic Party recruit standing for a competitive US House seat this autumn is concealing a family secret dating back roughly 30 years. The piece frames this as significant because the candidate is a well-funded, high-profile Marine veteran whom Democrats are counting on to help flip Congress, yet the article…
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ICE asks Michigan to hold Haitian illegal alien who allegedly ‘barbarically stabbed’ coworker
The US Department of Homeland Security has said that Valmir Djempsley, a 20-year-old Haitian man in the country illegally, should not be released after he was charged with fatally stabbing a coworker at a Michigan food processing plant. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lodged a detainer request asking Michigan authorities not to free him…
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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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‘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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Players prove Destiny 2 can still produce wonders with discovery of poopy pants transmog
A PC Gamer article highlights a light-hearted moment in the online shooter Destiny 2, in which players have discovered a novel transmog (cosmetic appearance) combination dubbed the “poopy pants” look. The piece frames this as evidence that, despite the game’s age and periodic criticism, its dedicated community can still surface amusing and creative finds, offering…