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Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership

Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **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

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Chichester Festival theatre,Gabriel Byrne,Film,Books âś… **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

đź’Ą Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **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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Ron’s Review – A bumbling situation veers into a Tarantino epic | stage

Ron’s Review – A bumbling situation veers into a Tarantino epic | stage

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Theatre,Comedy,Comedy,Culture,Stage âś… **What You’ll Learn**: WWatching a comedian collapse on stage is hellish. In Ted Walker's new play, the performer's collapse is deliberate, but the show's broader ambitions miss their mark. Presented as a standup group that spirals into absurd pseudo-confessionalism, this first foray into Riverside Studios co-production is One Man's Shadow.The problem starts with how quickly the framing device gets pushed aside. When bumbling comedian Tony (Walker) fails to get the laugh he wants, he tries on a tougher persona and embarks on a violent tale…
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Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Physicians’ own ability to spot pre-cancerous growths during colonoscopies declined after they had grown accustomed to using an artificial-intelligence tool to help with the task.Credit: Gabrielle Voinot/Look at Sciences/Science Photo LibraryAs more professionals begin to rely on artificial-intelligence tools in their work, could their hard-earned skills atrophy?That possibility is a growing concern for medical specialists, computer scientists and other workers. Seventy per cent of nurses and 77% of physicians, for example, are worried about losing their skills because of over-reliance on AI systems, according to…
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Camdenwalla Review – A long night of fear and defiance in 1990s London | stage

Camdenwalla Review – A long night of fear and defiance in 1990s London | stage

🚀 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,London,Race,UK news âś… **What You’ll Learn**: TIts theater address was formerly the headquarters of the Camden Watch Project, a volunteer-run organization founded to provide safe transportation home to South Asian restaurant workers at a time of rampant racist attacks. Actor Johnny Khan's debut play is built on four years of research with the local Bengali community, transforming this chapter of history into a two-handed fairy tale, unfolding over a single evening in 1994.Muhammad (Bhaskar Patel) is a Bengali from London who spends his nights coordinating an understaffed…
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Google workspace threatening to block firefox access

Google workspace threatening to block firefox access

đź’Ą Discover this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: At the time of writing (2026-06-18), Google Workspace appears to be starting to warn users from Firefox that they must use Chrome. This was for a Google Workspace Business Plus account and workspace, from an up to date browser and OS. At this time, Firefox access still seems to work but I’ve no idea for how long. Specific warning Icon indicating that the user may soon lose their access to their account. Secure your device for safe app access To help keep your data secure,…
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Ben Stokes: Durham boss Tim Bostock is ‘confused’ by doubts about the England captain’s state of mind

Ben Stokes: Durham boss Tim Bostock is ‘confused’ by doubts about the England captain’s state of mind

đź’Ą Explore this trending post from BBC Sport đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Bostock's words were reflected in others' comments about Durham.A source told BBC Sport that Stokes had been "just like Stucki" in recent days.Durham has made the county his home throughout his career. He regained his fitness from previous injuries by running around the athletics track behind the Finchale End, and by completing shuttle runs on the field.In the warm-ups before the first day against Northamptonshire, he was bowling balls to former Durham captain Scott Borthwick, who was best man at Stokes' wedding.Media interest in Stokes…
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Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

✨ Read this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Climate,Fundraising,Startups,evergreens,fusion power,nuclear fusion âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines. The technology may be challenging to master and expensive to build today, but fusion promises to harness the nuclear reaction that powers the sun to generate nearly limitless energy here on Earth. If startups are able to complete commercially viable fusion power plants, then they have the potential to…
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CS 6120: The Self-Guided Course

đź’Ą Discover this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: CS 6120: The Self-Guided Course Schedule Syllabus Lessons Zulip Discussions Blog CS 6120 is a PhD-level Cornell CS course by Adrian Sampson on programming language implementation. It covers universal compilers topics like intermediate representations, data flow, and “classic” optimizations as well as more research-flavored topics such as parallelization, just-in-time compilation, and garbage collection. The work consists of reading papers and open-source hacking tasks, which use LLVM and an educational IR invented just for this class. This page lists the curriculum for following this course at…
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