โจ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Andrew Lloyd Webber,Musicals,Broadway,Culture,Stage,Theatre,US theater,New York,US news โ
**What Youโll Learn**: Andrew Lloyd Webber has spoken out about the parlous state of Broadway in the wake of the early closure of his revival of Cats: The Jellicle Ball."Broadway is more than just a street or a group of buildings. It is an idea โ and one of the greatest cultural ideas America has ever given us," the composer wrote in a long-running X series on Tuesday morning.โThis idea is now in grave danger. I beg all who have…
๐ฅ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: โนback to projectsLeMario: Super Mario Bros trained on a JEPA ModelI wanted to reproduce LeWorldModel, a small Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) that learns world dynamics from pixels and actions. The original paper used it for reward-free planning in Push-T. But, since I loved video games, and at the same time wanted to learn more deeply about LeCun's JEPA architecture, I decided to write the whole architecture from scratch and train it on Super Mario Bros.The model passed every test I initially thought mattered. It…
โจ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Books,Fiction,Crime fiction,Publishing,Culture,UK news,Femicide ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Nine of the ten best-selling books in the UK this week have one thing in common: the murder of a woman.Novels appearing in this week's Sunday Times bestseller list include The Secret of Secrets, Divorce, Names, A Family Friend, The Widow, Impossible Fortune, The Marked Man, My Husband's Wife and Pauline the Unfaithful.While the titles range from historical fiction, domestic noir, and police procedural, each focuses on the death of at least one female character.Only the novel "The Correspondent", which…
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**What Youโll Learn**: Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the default and requires no configuration. New releases are a common entry point for supply chain attacks where a compromised or broken version can reach your dependency updates before maintainers and the community have caught it. A short delay gives that signal time to surface, so you are less likely to merge a bad release the…
๐ Explore this insightful post from BBC Sport ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: The halftime break in the World Cup final on Sunday is expected to last between 20 and 25 minutes.An 11-minute Super Bowl-style show, headlined by Madonna, Shakira and K-pop band BTS, will be performed during the interval at New York's New Jersey Stadium.While sources within the FIFA World Cup organizer suggest the break will be around 20 minutes, it is understood one option is a normal 15-minute half-time break and then a planned 11-minute show.The Laws of the Game, governed by the International Football Association…
๐ฅ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.StubHub and its CEO, Eric Baker, have been hit with a proposed $5-million class-action lawsuit in the United States over the company's ties to large-scale scalpers โ connections reported by CBC News last week.The suit, filed Monday by New York ticket buyer Louis Sanquini, alleges deceptive practices and fraudulent misrepresentation over StubHub's promoting…
๐ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Tom Cruise,World Cup,World Cup 2026,Robbie Williams,Music,Football,Sport,Culture,US news,Fifa,Nicole Scherzinger,Jennifer Hudson โ
**What Youโll Learn**: FIFA announced on Tuesday that a wide range of performers, from actor Tom Cruise to streamer IShowSpeed, will help bring the World Cup to a close.FIFA released the lineup for the closing ceremony, which will be held 90 minutes before the final match on Sunday. FIFA said in a statement that the show aims to "celebrate the unforgettable journey of the 48 teams" across 16 host cities in three countries.IShowSpeed โโ- which has…
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**What Youโll Learn**: Sometimes security research uncovers deeply technical vulnerabilities that require pages of explanation. This isn't one of those cases.This bug is simple. A developer opens a repository in Cursor on Windows, and if that repository contains a malicious git.exe in the project root, Cursor will execute it automatically. There are no clicks, prompts, approval dialogs, or warnings. The result is arbitrary code execution.Given that Cursor is one of the most widely adopted AI-assisted development environments (7 million+ active users, 1 million+ daily, 1 million+ paying,…
๐ฅ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Books,Technology,Culture,Google,AI (artificial intelligence),Rights issues,Publishing ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: A group of major publishers has filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of illegally using millions of copyrighted books to help build Gemini AI models, in "one of the most widespread infringements of copyrighted material in history."The case, filed in federal court in New York, was brought by three publishers - Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier - and best-selling American author Scott Turow.Publishers argue that Google has repurposed books that were made available to…
๐ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB- โ only one notch above junk level Rating agency S&P Global has lowered Oracle's creditworthiness from BBB to BBB- โ this is the lowest notch in the so-called investment-grade area. A further downgrade would push the database company into speculative territory. However, the outlook remains stable according to S&P. The rating agency attributes the downgrade, published on July 9, to Oracle's rapidly growing AI infrastructure business, which is massively increasing the company's debt and capital requirements. S&P had already…
