Movie

A report from the bleeding edge of non-fiction…

Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz has a diary entry that I think about frequently – one of my favorites in literature. On a Wednesday in 1953, pertaining to a peculiar curiosity he felt developing, Gombrowicz asks: ​“Around the corner… what will be there? A man? A dog? If it is a dog, what size of dog? What breed? I am sitting at the table and soon from now a soup...

Music

I Know What You Did Last Summer review – cramped…

After 30 years, fans can breathe a sigh of relief – Julie James and Ray Bronson are back! Now, ​“Who are Julie James and Ray Bronson…and what fans?” I hear you ask. These are minor quibbles in the bigger picture: for some reason they’ve put together a legacy sequel to Jim Gillespie’s 1997 slasher underdog, I Know What You Did Last Summer.It’s difficult to grasp why this version...

TECH

Microsoft says it will no longer use engineers in China for Department of Defense work

Following a Pro Publica report that Microsoft was using engineers in China to help maintain cloud computing systems for the U.S. Department of Defense, the company said it’s made changes to ensure this will no longer happen. The existing system reportedly relied on “digital escorts” to supervise the China-based engineers. But according to Pro Publica, those escorts — U.S. citizens...

TECH

‘Utopian’ city California Forever announces huge tech manufacturing park 

California Forever announced on Thursday plans to build a massive manufacturing park called Solano Foundry, the newest addition to its master-planned “utopian” city backed by a group of Silicon Valley billionaires. Solano Foundry is 2,100 acres that can host 40 million square feet of advanced tech manufacturing space. The manufacturing park will be built as part of its planned walkable...

Nature

AI and misinformation are supercharging the risk of nuclear war

You have full access to this article via your institution. The first-ever nuclear explosion at the Trinity test site in New Mexico, July 1945.Credit: CBW/AlamyThe world entered the nuclear age 80 years ago this week, when the US military tested the first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site in the New Mexico desert. Just three weeks later, US bombers dropped...

News

Israel regrets deadly strike on Catholic Church in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country "deeply regrets that a stray ammunition" hit Gaza's only Catholic Church, killing three people sheltering there. "Every innocent life lost is a tragedy. We share the grief of the families and the faithful," he said in a statement. The incident happened on Thursday when an Israeli strike hit the Holy Family...

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