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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr release Home to Us, the first duet between two Beatles

“Home to Us” is a slow, harmony-led ballad about Liverpool and the working-class boyhoods of two Beatles who built themselves out of nothing. Paul McCartney sings the first line, Ringo Starr the second, and from there the song moves between them like a shared memory neither owns alone. It is the first time, in roughly […]

Alice Lange

Google’s $99 Fitbit Air has no screen — and that’s the point

Susan Hill

The internet still has people. The trouble is finding them

Molly Se-kyung

Movies

Send Help on Hulu and Disney+ turns being passed over into a horror premise

My Dearest Assassin on Netflix: raised by an assassin family, never trained as one

Analysis

On a confisqué les téléphones à l'école. Ce qui s'est passé n'était pas prévu au programme

Mobilförbudet lyfte inte betygen. Men något annat hände i klassrummet

The first generation raised on no-rejection intimacy is starting to fail at work and at love

People are scrolling past perfect images to find proof a human made them

TV

Netflix’s ‘Thank You, Next’ Season 3 is what comes after the romcom

There is a beat in the third-season trailer where Leyla simply stands still, says nothing, and lets the room finish its sentence for her. For two seasons this character was always reacting — to a betrayal, to a phone, to the man currently positioned as her crisis. Season 3 is the one where she stops […]

Poisoned in Joseon, reborn in chaebol Seoul: My Royal Nemesis on Netflix

Legends looks like a Netflix crime drama. It is about people using work to vanish

The Chestnut Man: Hide and Seek on Netflix is back. The killer is inside the phone

Citadel Season 2 on Prime Video is the only show Amazon kept from a $300M universe

Technology

OpenAI’s new voice model thinks inside the audio loop, and the silence that used to give AI away disappears

A scan of 380,000 vibe-coded apps found thousands with no authentication at all

ChatGPT now lives inside Excel and Google Sheets, and edits your formulas while you watch

Alibaba named in $2.5 billion Nvidia chip pipeline routed through Thailand to China

Music

Udio admits in court it scraped audio to train its AI music generator

In an answer filed in the Southern District of New York, the AI music startup Udio formally conceded the basic fact at the heart of one of the music industry’s biggest lawsuits: its models were trained on audio it scraped, not audio it licensed. The filing denies that this constitutes copyright infringement and asks the […]