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US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data
River Financial Corporation told US regulators it had sought assurances from the ransomware group behind a June attack that stolen data had been deleted. The disclosure matters because ransomware gangs have previously retained victim data despite payments or deletion promises, leaving affected organisations exposed to further extortion and data leaks. The bank took systems offline,…
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Meet Magnus Ferrell: Will Ferrell’s Son on His Breakout Song, Musical Aspirations and Embracing the Nepo Baby Label
Magnus Ferrell, the 22-year-old son of actor Will Ferrell, has gained rapid attention after his song “Asleep Talking” became popular on social media and entered the Billboard charts. The track received a major boost when Will Ferrell played it during Michelle Obama’s IMO podcast, prompting public support from celebrities including Khloé Kardashian, Charlie Puth and…
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FILTER Frontman RICHARD PATRICK’s A PLACE TO KILL Project Releases ‘What Feels Right’ Music Video
A Place To Kill, the side project of Filter frontman Richard Patrick and There Is No Us vocalist Jim Louvau, has released a video for its song “What Feels Right”. The release promotes the duo’s debut EP, APTK, and further establishes the project as a heavier, more experimental outlet than their main bands. The seven-track…
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Looks Set for an Enormous Opening Weekend at the Box Office, but Will It Beat Avengers: Endgame?
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has taken a record $72 million from North American preview screenings, surpassing Avengers: Endgame’s previous $60 million preview record. The result signals a very strong debut for Sony and Marvel Studios, though it does not necessarily mean the film will match Endgame’s or Spider-Man: No Way Home’s opening-weekend totals. Sony is…
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Nexus Mods update their generative AI-made mod tagging policy, dividing one label into three for more specific search filtering
Nexus Mods has replaced its single “AI-Generated Content” label with three more specific tags, following user feedback that the previous system did not distinguish between different uses of generative AI. The change is intended to give users greater control over search results and make it clearer whether AI affects a mod itself, its promotional material,…
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SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year
SpaceX says it will remove the unpermitted gas turbines powering xAI’s Colossus data centres near Memphis, but the process will not finish until July 2027. The announcement matters because the turbines are the subject of legal action and pollution concerns in an already heavily polluted region, while SpaceX builds a permanent natural-gas plant with 1.2…
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Real estate has no place in US synagogues — especially when it’s Palestinian land
This opinion article argues that US synagogues should not host property events involving land in the occupied Palestinian territories. It contends that doing so risks conflating Judaism with Israeli settlement activity, exposing religious institutions to political conflict and lending legitimacy to transactions the author considers unlawful. The argument is framed around real-estate fairs that market…
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Spider-Man film breaks preview record with $72m takings
‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ has earned a record $72 million from preview screenings, surpassing the $60 million previously set by ‘Avengers: Endgame’. The result points to unusually strong demand for the latest Tom Holland-led Spider-Man film and positions it to challenge the biggest domestic openings in cinema history. Industry forecasts put its US opening weekend…
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SOCAN acquires CMRRA from SoundExchange
SOCAN has agreed to buy the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA) from SoundExchange, subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions. The deal would combine SOCAN’s performing-rights operations with CMRRA’s reproduction-rights licensing, potentially creating a more integrated system for Canadian music publishers and songwriters. Financial terms were not disclosed. SoundExchange bought CMRRA in 2017;…
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Deltarune Chapter 5 gets final patch as devs turn full focus on Chapter 6
Deltarune’s latest update, version 0.0.253, is set to be the final patch for Chapter 5 as creator Toby Fox’s team shifts fully to developing Chapter 6. The update mainly fixes bugs, but also adds adjustable difficulty options to Pink, Chapter 5’s optional Shadow Crystal boss, giving players more control over one of the game’s toughest…