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Amazon dropped Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman film after announcing its OpenAI| film

Amazon dropped Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman film after announcing its OpenAI| film

đŸ’„ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Luca Guadagnino,OpenAI,Sam Altman,Culture,Technology,Amazon 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Luca Guadagnino's controversial Sam Altman biopic, Artificial, which is set to take home awards next year, has been dropped by its distributor, Amazon.In a statement first reported by Puck, Amazon said it believes "Artificial will be better served if released by a different studio, and is working closely with the film's making team to find a new home for the film."Amazon's decision to leave the project follows an important partnership between Amazon and OpenAI, of which Altman serves as CEO.…
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‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings | SpaceX

‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings | SpaceX

🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire last week after SpaceX debuted on the stock market with a valuation of $1.77tn.Millions of Americans could soon become indirect investors in SpaceX and other emerging AI-focused companies as US markets increasingly shift toward AI-driven investments.Many Americans’ retirement savings are heavily tied to the US stock market through private 401(k) retirement savings plans. Those plans are heavily invested in index funds that track the major stock market indices. So even those who do not invest directly in…
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Reports of blockbuster show’s death are premature as Tate’s Kahlo show breaks ticket ticket record | Exhibitions

Reports of blockbuster show’s death are premature as Tate’s Kahlo show breaks ticket ticket record | Exhibitions

🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Exhibitions,Frida Kahlo,Tate Modern,National Gallery,Art,British Museum,Museums,Art and design,Culture,UK news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen the Tate Modern announced a major exhibition dedicated to Frida Kahlo, no one doubted that it would be popular. The Mexican artist has become one of the world's most recognizable cultural figures, with her image adorning everything from tote bags to T-shirts.But even Tate wasn't prepared for the scale of the demand. More than 41,000 tickets have already been sold for the exhibition Frida: The Making of an Icon, which opens on June 25,…
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The UK’s New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents

The UK’s New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: This week, politicians in the UK pushed forward with plans to eviscerate privacy and free speech on the internet by announcing a ban on social media for users under 16 that is set to take effect in Spring 2027.  The UK government continues to falsely characterize this policy as a necessary response to growing concerns about online harms for young people. In reality, much like the Online Safety Act, it will cause more harm than it will prevent.  Users of all ages are burdened with…
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How the Refugee Week Film Festival conveys the experience of migrants back to their homelands | film

How the Refugee Week Film Festival conveys the experience of migrants back to their homelands | film

✹ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Refugees,World news,Documentary films,Drama films ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AWith World Refugee Day approaching on Saturday, this year's Refugee Week offers several events taking place across the UK, including a film festival that takes audiences from Ain al-Hilweh – the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon – in Mehdi Fleifel's film A World Not Ours and to a migrant deportation center in Dreamers, directed by Joey Garuru-Akpogotor.The UK asylum system is the focus of Allies in Exile, a first-person documentary by Syrian directors Hassan Kattan and Fadi…
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From a 7 KB file to a 13-year backdoor operation

From a 7 KB file to a 13-year backdoor operation

✹ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Most plugin closures are uneventful. A developer stops responding, wp.org pulls the plugin, the listing goes dark, and that is the end of it. My WP Beacon scanner flags these all day long. I glance at them and move on. One of them recently was different. The wp.org Plugin Review Team had not just closed a plugin called wp-advanced-math-captcha. They had reached into it and deleted a single 7 KB binary file. A .dat file. Routine closures typically do not touch random binaries. So…
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Il Ritorno d’Ulisse review – A sensual slice of opulence and luxury | Opera

Il Ritorno d’Ulisse review – A sensual slice of opulence and luxury | Opera

✹ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music,Claudio Monteverdi 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: toIt seems lightning could strike the Chiltern Hills twice. In 2022, director John Caird and conductor Lawrence Cummings collaborated on a staging of Monteverdi's Orfeo, a seminal work from 1607. Four years later came Il Ritorno d'Ulisse, another fine slice of Baroque musical theatre. Like Ulysses, it took Monteverdi decades to find his way back to the genre he had helped define during his middle period in Mantua. Inspired by the new world of commercial opera in Venice in the…
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Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership

Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership

đŸ”„ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Amazon MGM is no longer partnering with Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino on his forthcoming Sam Altman biopic, Artificial. The nearly completed film, starring Andrew Garfield as the controversial OpenAI founder, was originally slated for release in early 2027. The premiere date, however, is now in limbo after the film was removed from the studio’s roster months after Amazon agreed to expand its $38 billion, multi-year deal to run OpenAI’s systems on its cloud services. The new partnership, announced in February, includes a $50 billion investment…
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45 Years Review – Gabriel Byrne and Geraldine James celebrate an anniversary for the ages | stage

45 Years Review – Gabriel Byrne and Geraldine James celebrate an anniversary for the ages | stage

đŸ”„ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Chichester Festival theatre,Gabriel Byrne,Film,Books ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: THis story spans a week in the life of a couple approaching their 45th wedding anniversary. While Kate (Geraldine James) manages the preparations, Jeff (Gabriel Byrne) receives a message about his ex-girlfriend who died while falling into a crevasse in the Swiss Alps more than 50 years ago. Katya's body was found preserved in ice. “It's still there,” he says, and this frozen piece of his past threatens to cast the Norfolk village couple's life together in a different,…
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Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Of Times

Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Of Times

đŸ’„ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A Montana police officer spotted the giant banana rolling through Billings on Wednesday afternoon and did what countless law enforcement officers have done before him.He turned around and pulled it over.For Steve Braithwaite, owner, builder and full-time driver of the 23-foot-long Big Banana Car, the stop was less of a surprise than a tradition."I would see a police car going the other way and get my documents ready," Braithwaite told Cowboy State Daily from Seattle on Thursday morning. "I knew they were going to loop…
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