HBO A co-production between HBO and the BBC, “Rome” was a massive undertaking that remains one of the best prestige television shows despite being so short-lived. Created by Bruno Heller, John Milius, and William J. MacDonald, the series detailed Rome’s transformation from a Republic to a sprawling Empire … Read more
The outage was the second major network disruption in 2025, with both incidents requiring a block reorganization that rolled back some activity. The team behind Starknet, an Ethereum layer‑2 (L2) scaling network, released a post-mortem report outlining the root cause of the temporary mainnet downtime on Monday. The root cause of the mainnet downtime was … Read more
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies continues with the Cannes Film Festival-premiering The Chronology of Water, directed and written by Kristen Stewart. Stewart’s feature directorial debut screened in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, where it received a standing ovation lasting more than six minutes. The script is based on the acclaimed … Read more
Your weekly horoscope is here. Capricorn is “ruled” by Saturn, a task master and certainly the principal of the school of hard knocks. Capricorn knows life’s tough, not fair, and that you only reap what you sow, so you may as well get to it. It expects things to be challenging and so prevails by … Read more
Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok. This is one of the most aggressive moves so far from government officials responding to a flood of sexualized, AI-generated imagery — often depicting real women and minors, and sometimes showing assault and abuse — posted by Grok in response to … Read more
Historically, the Golden Globes doesn’t feature a category for Best Documentary Film, and you won’t see one announced in Sunday night’s ceremony. But that doesn’t mean two prominent nonfiction filmmakers can’t call themselves Golden Globes winners. Leading up to the telecast, directors Eugene Jarecki and Ross McElwee received bespoke trophies as recipients of the recently … Read more
Get ready to say bonjour to The White Lotus season 4. White Lotus fans didn’t have to wait until the end of season three for a renewal notice, as HBO confirmed season four back on January 22, 2025. “Good news travels fast,” the show’s social media team captioned their Instagram announcement at the time. “#TheWhiteLotus … Read more
Nearly five years after her conservatorship ended, Britney Spears is not planning to perform again in the United States. While praising her son’s musical talent and expressing hopes to perform with him someday, the Grammy winner noted that no such onstage appearance will take place in the US, but she will possibly take the stage … Read more
The Bitcoin (BTC) community is celebrating the anniversary of cypherpunk and Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney’s post on January 10, 2009, telling the world that he was running the Bitcoin node software “Running Bitcoin,” Finney said on X, formerly known as Twitter. Finney was the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction on the network. He was … Read more
NBC Like any sitcom worth its salt, NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” relies on both big belly laughs and world-building that makes you care about the characters who provide said laughs. As with any comedy that relies heavily on a workplace dynamic, its cast is a collection of outlandish … Read more