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Devil May Cry Season 2 on Netflix: which brother got to grieve, which got weaponized

Some grief is allowed only one sibling. Devil May Cry’s second season opens with a brother who was mourned for half a lifetime walking back into the story as an enemy commander, and the show treats that not as a twist but as a wound the rest of the season has to dress. The cambion […]

Jun Satō

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

Alice Lange

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

Susan Hill

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

The internet still has people. The trouble is finding them

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

TV

Marty, Life Is Short on Netflix: joy is a fifty-year discipline, not a personality

The temptation, with a comedian like Short, is to call the joy a personality. The man is funny, the man is warm, the man is on. The film refuses that frame from the first sequence. It documents the joy as something Short trained, decided on, rehearsed, and continues to perform with the discipline of a […]

Untold UK: Jamie Vardy on Netflix and the ankle tag, the factory, the title

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

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

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 […]

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