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Superman’s embarrassing video game legacy has a solve in Krypto

Superman is back in a big way: Filmmaker and studio head James Gunn is taking his franchise reboot (and the blockbuster kickoff to his DCU movie initiative) into its second box-office weekend with a $261 million worldwide gross, with plenty of summer left to go. A semi-sequel is already in the works; after a cameo […]

The frenzied, gamified chase for Labubus

On Thursday night, I toggled endlessly between a TikTok Live stream and a shopping app in anticipation of 9:30PM. For 30 minutes, I hunted for an available listing; many expletives were uttered. I exhibited bot behavior and got iced out of the app multiple times. I tapped so many times my thumbs got sore. This […]

OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its red team helped implement key security features like "Watch Mode Activation" and "Terminal Restrictions" (Louis Columbus/VentureBeat)

Louis Columbus / VentureBeat:
OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its red team helped implement key security features like “Watch Mode Activation” and “Terminal Restrictions”  —  In case you missed it, OpenAI yesterday debuted a powerful new feature for ChatGPT and with it, a host of new security risks and ramifications.

Bring back the weirdest animated series of 1991

Deadline reported this week that Netflix is working on a live-action adaptation of the ’90s animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers, a project which has been in development hell for nearly a decade. While that’s great news for ’90s animation fans, I’m hoping it paves the way for the revival of a different ’90s […]

The intolerable memes of Alligator Alcatraz

Alligator Alcatraz, Florida's hastily built, $225 million-and-counting immigrant detention facility in the Everglades, is both a de facto concentration camp and a right-wing meme. President Donald Trump's most ardent supporters are willing to excuse - or are in some cases reveling in - allegations of inhumane treatment at the facility: worms in food, floors flooded […]