And so it begins! The hotly anticipated 2026 Oscars is underway at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, with thousands of guests—and no shortage of the industry’s biggest and brightest stars—ready to celebrate this year’s greatest achievements in film and entertainment. Ahead of the ceremony, best dressed list contenders, nominees, and Hollywood heavyweights alike stopped … Read more
Ahead of Oscars Sunday, Jane Fonda‘s recently relaunched Committee for the First Amendment released a statement condemning and warning about escalating attacks on free speech and media — a direct response to Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr‘s threats against TV broadcasters’ licenses for their Iran War coverage. “Today is not a normal Oscars,” the … Read more
For someone with a song called “Golden,” Audrey Nuna has avoided the color all awards season long—that is, until the 2026 Oscars rolled around. The singer, who lends her voice to Mira in KPop Demon Hunters, has dominated the red carpet recently, wearing everything from a bow-laden Thom Browne gown with a dramatic netted veil … Read more
The regulatory provisions outlined in the US Digital Asset Market Structure Clarity Act, otherwise known as the CLARITY Act, threaten to give large financial institutions control over crypto, according to Dr. Friederike Ernst, co-founder of the Gnosis blockchain protocol. Regulations in the CLARITY crypto market structure bill assume that activity must pass through centralized intermediaries, … Read more
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images It’s no surprise that NBC wanted a slice of the Ray Bradbury pie. Television has always been chock-full of literary adaptations, and Bradbury was absurdly prolific when it came to his cultural contributions. The network was interested in bringing tales such as the dystopian science … Read more
ByteDance has paused plans to launch its new AI video model globally, according to a report in The Information. The Chinese company, best known as TikTok’s parent organization (and now a minority shareholder in its U.S. spinoff), launched Seedance 2.0 in China back in February. Brief videos generated by the model, including a clip featuring … Read more
Polymarket and Kalshi are trying to raise money at valuations that put them in the top tier of consumer-fintech names, even as Washington moves closer to writing new rules for the product they sell. Both companies are reportedly in early fundraising talks that could value each at around $20 billion. That fundraising chatter is taking … Read more
Aether OS puts a full-fledged desktop in your browser that ties directly into the AT Protocol. That means it connects to your Bluesky account and other public records. It offers a pretty full suite of apps, 42 in total, covering text editing, task management, and social media. There’s even a rudimentary tracker for making chiptunes, … Read more
Venus Protocol, a decentralized lending and borrowing platform, said on Sunday it had detected suspicious trading activity in the liquidity pool for the Thena (THE) token, the native cryptocurrency of the Thena decentralized finance platform. The unusual trading activity only affected pools for the Cake (CAKE) token, the native cryptocurrency of the PancakeSwap decentralized exchange, … Read more
A 1989 Studio Ghibli favorite Kiki’s Delivery Service, the latest edition of Oscar-nominated shorts and eight-time nominee Hamnet are looking strong this weekend. Roadside Attractions’ first outing with Oscar Nominated Shorts has set a box office record for the poplar annual trio of animated, live action and documentary shorts packaged into three feature length films. … Read more