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‘Task’ Season 2 Casts Edgar Ramirez

Edgar Ramirez is the latest addition to the cast of “Task” Season 2 at HBO. Ramirez joins returning Season 1 star Mark Ruffalo as well as previously announced new additions Mahershala Ali, Harry Melling, Adam Nagaitis, and Aminah Nieves. The official logline for the new season

Grappling With the Existential AI Threat

Charity Majors, writing about how high-performing engineering teams are dealing with the transition from pre-AI to AI-native development: AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy . This is not a situation where one side is right and

Africa: FNB Named Africa's Best SME Bank

[New Era] First National Bank (FNB) has been named Africa's Best SME Bank for 2026 at the Global Finance Awards, recognising its support for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) across the continent.

proun – “Wall”

We at Stereogum are fucking with proun's forthcoming album Maybe Luck . The Austin band has us hooked with " Miracles " and " Coloring Pages ," the latter of which made our list of the best songs of the week . Now they're back with another fantastic tune called "Wall." The

The Feeding

"My mom and I lived together for five years—the breast cancer years—until she died from the disease."

Um, What? Trump Says He Loves Inflation

President Donald Trump said he loves inflation. A new report released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that the U.S.’s annual inflation rate had reached its highest levels in three years. Later, in the Oval Office, a reporter asked Trump whether the new

Trump Lost It at Charlie Kirk Over Epstein Files

Charlie Kirk was increasingly at odds with the president in the final months of his life. Donald Trump had strong words for the GOP’s youth connection last July, two months before Kirk was shockingly assassinated at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University. At the

South Korean ballot controversy sparks a new youth movement

A week after South Korea’s local elections, the country’s political conversation is shifting in an unexpected direction. On June 10, a public opinion survey showed support for the conservative People Power Party at 41.6%, slightly ahead of the Democratic Party’s 40.4%, despite

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Secret life of adult whitebait revealed by new research

Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) School of Biological Sciences researcher Dr. Ben Crichton has studied kōkopu—whitebait species that can live for 10 years or more. Whitebait is the collective term for the juveniles of six species of freshwater fish.