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Muhammad Yunus to Head Bangladesh Interim Government
The new government was being formed a day after Bangladesh’s longtime leader, facing fierce protests, fled the country.
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Can Freed Russian Dissidents Help Energize Opposition Movement?
The release of activists like Ilya Yashin gives new hope to a movement in which various groups are often at war with each other. But many have doubts.
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Whitney Museum Announces 2026 Biennial Curators
Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer will organize the 82nd edition of the museum’s signature survey of contemporary American art.
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SDCC 2024: Activations, Apes and Other Animals
San Diego Comic-Con is known for its activations, and the best of 2024 were, by far, presentations by Paramount+ and 20th Century Fox. Outside the San Diego Convention Center, for the second year in a row, Paramount+ used Happy Does Bar as its base for The Lodge. Although the film “Kingdom of the Planet of…
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Short Films in Focus: Welcome to the Enclave
Sarah Lasley’s sneaky and unsettling “Welcome to the Enclave” starts out looking like an overly corporate and sterile intro video for a virtual suburban neighborhood one can visit online. The music sounds straight out of an iMovie effects library, and the graphics look like an outdated template for a 3-D Graphic Design For Beginners program…
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I Saw the Sixth Sense Knowing the Big Twist, and Loved It Anyway
“The Sixth Sense” is the movie that made its writer-director M. Night Shyamalan a cultural force, and he’s been one ever since. It’s also the movie that stereotyped him as a filmmaker whose work is dependent on plot twists. If you reading this piece about a 25-year old movie that grossed almost $700 million and has been…
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Turning the screws: The pressure tactics of ransomware gangs
Sophos X-Ops examines the increasingly aggressive tactics ransomware gangs use to coerce their targets
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Scientists Find Arm Bone of Ancient ‘Hobbit’ Human
New fossils from Indonesia, including the smallest humerus ever found from an adult hominin, belonged to the tiny Homo floresiensis species, researchers said.
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Pete Wells Reviewed Restaurants for 12 Years. How Have They Changed?
In his last essay as a restaurant critic, Pete Wells reflects on a dining world of touch screens and reservation apps, where it’s getting hard to find the human touch.
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X, Owned by Elon Musk, Brings Antitrust Suit Accusing Advertisers of a Boycott
The company claimed that members of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media coordinated to dissuade brands from advertising on X.