Warner Bros. has joined a parade of studios in blasting ByteDance for “blatant infringement” on its new AI video service, accusing the Chinese company of facilitating user-generated knockoffs of its iconic characters. The studio’s legal counsel fired off a letter on Tuesday to
Wisconsin’s S.B. 130 / A.B. 105 is a spectacularly bad idea. It’s an age-verification bill that effectively bans VPN access to certain websites for Wisconsinites and censors lawful speech. We wrote about it last November in our blog “ Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have
WASHINGTON, Feb 17 - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet told Reuters on Tuesday that Thai forces were occupying Cambodian territory after fighting last year despite a peace accord brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump. Hun Manet called on Thailand to allow a joint boundary
Yesterday, an international team of researchers from various disciplines set off aboard the German research vessel METEOR for an expedition along the west coast of Africa, led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. The expedition focuses on two poorly
The role would be Storrie’s first since breaking out in the HBO Max hit series ‘Heated Rivalry’.
The latest Nickelodeon Universes Beyond expansion has some neat tricks
Forecasting earthquakes presents a serious challenge on land, but in the oceans that cover around 70% of Earth's surface it is all but impossible. However, the vast network of undersea cables that crisscross the world's seas could soon change this. As well as transmitting data
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Hegseth forces out top Driscoll adviser Hegseth orders the ouster of top adviser to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, who was in line for a promotion
Argentina’s Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) recorded that it had “no objections,” within its remit, to a United States request for a marine scientific research cruise by the R/V Roger Revelle inside Argentina’s Exclusive Economic Zone between March 5 and March 30, 2026. In the
Artur Ganszyniec says The Witcher's flashy ending cutscene was created largely without input from the story team.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth commended the Trump administration’s recent boat strikes in the Caribbean in a Tuesday social media post. “Turns out President’s Day — under President Trump — is not a good day to run drugs,” Hegseth wrote on the social platform X. The secretary
You can play Titanium Court now, and you should be doing that instead of whatever else you're doing.
Figures from Aviva also show number of homes being built in risky areas is rising One in nine new homes in England built between 2022 and 2024 were constructed in areas that could now be at risk of flooding, according to new data. The figures show the number of homes being
A trade body has warned illegal skin bleaching products are being sold in an increasingly wide range of places.
I'm still processing the devastating mass school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Like many people across the country, I'm thinking about the families and communities directly impacted while trying to anticipate next steps.
A woman was buried with two children, but they were not her own. In another grave, two children were placed. They were not siblings and were more distantly related, perhaps cousins. In a new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,
An Argentine commercial court has declared meat businessman Alberto Samid—widely known in Argentina as the “king of beef”—bankrupt, ordering broad asset restrictions and imposing a travel ban until July 3, 2026. The ruling emerged as Samid was hospitalized at the Cantegril
21-year-old Oregon-based musician Sean McFarlane has released a ton of music on Bandcamp over the past few years, with his most recent records attributed to his moniker Trimmo. His next album Arizona is coming this spring from the great LA label 7th Heaven, and it’ll be a good
A film of deceptive simplicity, Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans’s investigative documentary “Who Killed Alex Odeh?” often struggles against its own straightforward style, but in the process, embodies the helplessness of its grieving subjects. Its focus is the 1985
China put humanoid robots front and centre at its Spring Festival Gala —the country’s biggest annual television event— featuring a choreographed martial-arts routine with traditional weapons such as swords and nunchucks, acrobatics and tightly synchronised sequences alongside
The resounding electoral victory of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the snap election on February 8 confirms that China’s attempt to punish Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has backfired. Beijing was angry about Takaichi’s Taiwan-related remarks in November. Beijing
Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly accused Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) of going “full bigot” on Tuesday following the congressman’s weekend social media post that compared Muslim people to dogs. “If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult
After more than 240 million gallons of sewage spilled into the Potomac River following a pipe bursting last month, politicians are both launching cleanups and playing the blame game. The pipe in question, known as the Potomac Interceptor, is a sewer line for DC Water, a water
Victoria was reportedly found unresponsive at a San Francisco hotel on News Years Day
Presented by Panasonic {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Trump to DC, MD, VA: 'I am awaiting your call' on spill President Trump pressured Washington-area officials to get to work on fixing the Potomac sewage spill, saying the federal government
Peru’s Congress voted on Tuesday to remove interim President José Jerí, just four months after he took office, deepening political uncertainty only weeks before the April 12 general election.
Sports talent scouts' decisions are influenced by various common cognitive biases that can affect their work and undermine team success, a paper published in the International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology has suggested. The research team reviewed the scientific and
Daniel Radcliffe recently joined ScreenRant for a video interview and urged press moving forward not to ask the new “Harry Potter” actors about the original cast. Dominic McLaughlin is taking over the lead role in HBO’s “Harry Potter” series reboot opposite Arabella Stanton as
New York is losing thousands of jobs to pro-business Texas and Mayor Zohran Mamdani's push to raise corporate taxes would only accelerate the exodus, an analysis by the Big Apple's top corporate advocacy group claims.
Some bacterial species possess an astonishing ability: They use Earth's magnetic field to orient themselves. To better understand this mechanism, the team led by Argovia-Professor Martino Poggio from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the Department of Physics at the
WASHINGTON, Feb 17 - A senior U.S. official on Tuesday revealed what he said were new details of an underground nuclear test blast that China allegedly conducted in June 2020.
Brian Tyree Henry is headed to Netflix with the adult animated series “Bass X Machina.” Henry will executive produce and star in the show which is set to debut on Oct. 6 Joining Henry in the voice cast are: Janelle Monáe as Glory, Tati Gabrielle as Dana, Cree Summer as Ahni,
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Battle over AI regulation hits airwaves ahead of midterms Millions of dollars are flowing into advertisements seeking to move the needle on AI regulation ahead of the midterm elections amid a broader fight over who gets to
In a quiet laboratory, a team of atmospheric scientists and engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory recently gathered around a workstation to watch as little floating speckles, illuminated by a curtain of green light, swirled into a
Work on the second game doesn't "compete in any way" with the work being done on Valheim, says Robin Eyre.
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Utah governor blasts Trump admin on prediction markets Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) ripped a top Trump administration regulator Tuesday over its push to defeat state
Ted Sarandos isn’t hiding his frustration at the hurdle that emerged Tuesday in Netflix’s plan to acquire Warner Bros. and HBO Max through an $83 billion sale agreement reached in December. Sarandos told CNBC in an interview Tuesday that Paramount Skydance has spread falsehoods
It's also now on PlayStation 5.
The institution acknowledged altering some texts to refer to Canaan, an ancient name for the region, but said the word “Palestine” still appears elsewhere.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) fired back at President Trump on Tuesday, hours after the president said the governor is partially responsible for recovery efforts in the wake of a massive sewage spillage in the Potomac River. “Mr. President, this spill is basically contained,”
A key federal regulatory commission has announced that it will be fighting against individual states’ powers to regulate prediction markets. Mike Selig, chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), wrote in an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal on
The aging Elder Scrolls RPG looks and plays better after the 1.2 update
More than 200,000 people bought Equity for Punks shares in the craft brewer but many now believe they are worthless.
More than half of Americans in a new poll said they believe President Trump is attempting to conceal crimes committed by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In an Economist/YouGov poll released Tuesday, 53 percent of respondents said they believe Trump is “trying to cover
A New Winter is a project from Colombian-American photographer Sofia Jaramillo that seeks to This project revisits the early depictions of skiing, which often portrayed Eurocentric ideals and a narrow vision of who belongs on the slopes. By reimagining the first images of
The American Black Film Festival was a key step in Ryan Coogler’s journey to become an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker. It also gave him a leg up in wooing his future wife and producing partner Zinzi Coogler. In 2011, Coogler’s short film “Fig” was selected to be part of ABFF
Thousands of lawsuits accuse the agrochemical maker of failing to warn people that its weedkiller could cause cancer The agrochemical maker Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients announced a proposed $7.25bn settlement on Tuesday to resolve thousands of US lawsuits alleging
In his darkest hour, pop singer David Archuleta was so overwhelmed by feelings of shame and guilt over his sexuality that he reached the point of either admitting he was gay or ending his life. He grimly recalls this moment in his debut memoir “Devout,” which was released today
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Cassidy releases FDA modernization plan Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, unveiled his proposal to modernize the Food and
Margot Robbie recently joined “Wuthering Heights” co-star Jacob Elordi for a GQ Australia video interview moderated by fellow Aussie actor Joel Edgerton. When asked how much she considers the moviegoing audience when working on a new movie, Robbie responded that’s all she’s
