The fantasy action movie "Red Sonja" received 55% on Rotten Tomatoes — twice the rating of the 1980s "original"
“Red Sonja” — is a relaunch of the classic 1985 fantasy action movie, which features the Devil with a Sword played by Matilda Loots. Interestingly, the actress herself has received a lot of praise from critics, while the overall reviews of the film are not impressive.
McDonald's instead of IT: Programming students in the US can't find a job in their specialty
In the early 2010s, billionaires, tech company bosses, and even politicians urged young people to learn programming as a guarantee of future employment and six-figure salaries. However, all of this advice did not take into account the emergence of AI and its impact on the IT industry, which is currently facing numerous layoffs.
Horror movie "Weapons" to get prequel about Aunt Gladys and the story of "the birth of chaos", — THR
One of the most creepy characters in the horror movie Weapons may get a prequel with an origin story.
Pirates of the Caribbean 6: Johnny Depp will reprise the role of Jack Sparrow on one condition
The producer of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has revealed that Johnny Depp is ready to return to work with Disney and reprise his role as Jack Sparrow in the new movie of the franchise. However, there is one and quite simple condition for this — a good script.
Google brings back offline interviews for IT professionals due to AI fraud "behind the scenes"
In recent years, online interviews have become the norm in the IT industry and a fast way to hire, given the popularity of remote work. However, a problem has emerged that could set all these advances back a couple of steps.
British government advises deleting old photos and emails to "save water"
UK government instructs citizens to delete old files, including photos and emails — because This could supposedly help save water during the national drought.
FX has launched the series Alien: Earth with the first two episodes
Alien: Earth, the first project in the xenomorph franchise set on our planet, has been released.
The creators of "Wednesday" wrote the script for "Iron Man" before Robert Downey Jr. — Tony Stark was to be played by a "more starry-eyed" actor
It turns out that the creators of of the series “Wednesday” Al Gough and Miles Millar wrote a test script for the first Iron Man, long before Robert Downey Jr. was cast as Tony Stark.
Alan Tudyk's name was removed from the movie I, Robot after test screenings — because the audience liked him better than Will Smith
Alan Tudyk played Sonny in the 2004 sci-fi action movie I, Robot, but few people knew about it at the time of the premiere. The fact is that the actor’s name was removed from the promotional materials immediately after the test screenings for a rather interesting reason.
A new trend from China — "fake offices". Young people rent premises to simulate employment and not work anywhere
A new trend has gone viral in China: renting “fake offices.” The idea is to make unemployed young people feel busy without actually working.
The canceled Star Trek by Quentin Tarantino had a "crazy" plot about a gangster Earth of the 1930s
Somewhere in an alternate reality, Quentin Tarantino did not limit himself to ten films and made an R-rated Star Trek, which he once presented to producers.
Korean Starbucks bans bringing PCs and printers to coffee shops
The Starbucks chain in South Korea is introducing “tough” measures against people who spend hours studying or working in coffee shops. From now on, it is forbidden to bring PCs, printers, table partitions and other devices that somehow allow you to set up “mini-offices” in the cafes.
Rambo's Vietnam prequel has found a young replacement for Stallone — and it's not Ryan Gosling
The new film in Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo series — is a prequel to 1982’s First Blood, which will tell the story of the character’s origin and cover the events during the Vietnam War.
Netflix has started filming the fantasy "Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew" — first look at Digory and Polly
Netflix’s The Chronicles of Narnia has officially entered the filming stage — 6 years after the streaming service first announced a new adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ books.
"Too many people survive": Scream 4 star criticizes modern slashers and one "false" death in the franchise
Alison Brie, who played Rebecca in Scream 4, is not too happy with the current era of the franchise, primarily because the latest slashers “let people live too much.”
An unknown person regularly "hijacks" the plane of a 75-year-old American — repairs and returns it in better condition
For many years, Jason Hong from California was the happy owner of a 1958 Cessna Skyhawk, until strange things started happening to it — the white and red single-engine plane regularly disappears from the airport and returns after a while in better condition than before.
Horror movie "Weapons" destroys "Fantastic Four" at the start of the box office with 2.5 times more box office
After the sudden a 70% drop in box office receipts on the second weekend, Fantastic Four continued its disastrous trend — the third weekend of home release brought the Marvel film a modest $15.5 million (another -60% compared to a week ago), so it easily lost the lead horror “Weapons” and comedy “Another Frantic Friday”.
GPT-5 surrendered to the hackers in 24 hours and gave out a "recipe" for a bomb, more likely 4o
Two different teams of researchers tested GPT-5’s weaknesses using, among other things, multi-step “narrative” attacks. As a result, the most advanced AI model OpenAI surrendered to hackers in 24 hours — faster than its predecessor 4o and competitive Grok-4, which lasted for 2 days.
Netflix has renewed the One Piece series for a third season and showed a teaser for the second
Good news for One Piece fans — Netflix has finally released the first teaser for the second season and at the same time extended the series for a third.
OpenAI will pay $1.5 million in bonuses to 1000 "best" employees to keep them from leaving for competitors
OpenAI is striking a blow in the fight for AI talent and plans to allocate about $1.5 billion in bonuses for a thousand of its best employees.
New Lord of the Rings movie about Gollum: Warner Bros. boss talks about 'great' script and announces shooting date
Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav spoke about the new movie “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum” during the financial report.
Watch out, you're being recorded: San Francisco residents are increasingly wearing AI recorders that record their conversations throughout the day
AI voice recorders are a new trend among San Francisco’s IT and business community. The devices are worn to all meetings throughout the day to record important and not-so-important conversations.
"We don't believe in work-life balance": Cognition boss offers team to leave with 9 salaries or work 80+ hours a week
In July, AI startup Cognition acquired Windsurf for an undisclosed price and at the same time acquired a large team of employees — 30 were fired immediately, and the remaining 200 were given a rather strange ultimatum.
The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms series will be released one season per year — 2 and 3 will be filmed without interruption in 2026
With the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms series, you can forget about the long wait for new seasons, as they are likely to be released every year after the first one starts in early 2026.
OpenAI reveals limits on GPT-5 in ChatGPT, for the free version — 10 requests per 5 hours
OpenAI is gradually rolling out its new GPT-5 AI model as a basic version of ChatGPT. It will be available to all users, but free users will have significant limitations.
Meet GPT-5: OpenAI launches "world's most advanced" AI model — free for all users
OpenAI has officially unveiled its new flagship GPT-5 artificial intelligence model, which will become the basis for the next generation of ChatGPT.
Like The Office, but without Michael Scott: the first trailer for the comedy series The Paper has been released
The Paper is a spinoff of the hit series The Office, featuring the same team of documentary filmmakers and at least one former Dunder Mifflin employee.
Instead of recycling — into hot dogs. Thai hospital reveals patients' diagnoses on street food wrappers
One of Thailand’s private hospitals was fined for violating clients’ privacy after their names and diagnoses were found on street food wrappers.
GitHub accidentally presented GPT-5 the day before the official announcement — 4 different versions of the "most powerful" OpenAI AI are known
GitHub accidentally announced new GPT-5 models before OpenAI.
What if The Last of Us was a comedy: trailer for Cold Storage with Liam Neeson and Joe Keery from Stranger Things
Liam Neeson was not going to rest on his laurels for long, as is the new star of The Naked Gun, and next year will appear in a horror parody of The Last of Us.
US Air Force buys Tesla Cybertrucks to use as missile targets
Elon Musk’s dream may have just come true: the U.S. military will use the Tesla Cybertruck. But the billionaire could hardly have imagined that it would have such a special purpose.
The Hunger Games are back: filming of the prequel Sunrise on the Reaping has begun with young Haymitch Abernathy
Lionsgate has released a 30-second teaser from the set of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, a prequel to Francis Lawrence’s film trilogy about the early years of Katniss and Peeta’s mentor Haymitch Abernathy and his participation in the survival competition for District 12.
Pandora jewelry network suffered a data leak — hackers obtained "personal" customer information
The Danish jewelry company Pandora has confirmed the leak of personal data of customers due to a hacker attack. It is not yet known what the scale of the attack is and whether it has spread to the Ukrainian network.
The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms series has been extended for seasons 2 and 3, with 6 episodes of 30-35 minutes each
The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms series will get at least three seasons — the first one will debut in 2026, while the second one is in development.
Hello, 996: AI startups follow China's controversial practice of a 72-hour workweek
AI startups in Silicon Valley are increasingly forcing employees to adopt a controversial work model from China known as “996.” This is a fairly rigid work schedule that requires you to work 72 hours a week, from 9:00 to 21:00 for six days.
The second season of Wednesday — with the first 4 episodes has been released on Netflix
The Wednesday series is back on Netflix with its second season, or rather — its first part. Starting today, 4 episodes are available for viewing, with Ukrainian dubbing and subtitles.
uBlock Origin Lite is now available for Safari on iOS and macOS
One of the best ad blockers, uBlock Origin Lite, is now available in Apple’s Safari browser.
The series "Alien: Earth" was rated 90% on Rotten Tomatoes — the highest rating in the franchise since Cameron's Aliens
Critics have rated the series Alien: Earth as the third best project in the franchise, second only to Ridley Scott and James Cameron’s films.
The worst movie of all time? War of the Worlds received 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and 3.1 points on IMDb
The science fiction film War of the Worlds, starring Ice Cube and Eva Longoria, achieved a rare “success”, receiving disastrously low ratings on most of the well-known platforms.
"House of the Dragon" will present Arya Stark's replacement in the third season
Unlike in Game of Thrones, the Stark family does not play a prominent role in the series House of the Dragon, but one of the new characters in the third season is a kind of “analog” of Arya Stark — and it is Alisanne Blackwood.
"Tron: Ares" was to introduce a character entirely generated by AI — Disney was afraid of a bad reaction
The science fiction movie Tron: Ares, in addition to Jared Leto as an AI, was supposed to feature a fully generated character.
Australian IT company fires 150 employees via pre-recorded video
Australian software developer Atlassian fired 150 employees using a pre-recorded video.
"The Witcher cost Netflix $500 million excluding the final seasons
Netflix spent more than half a billion dollars on the first three seasons of The Witcher and the miniseries Bloodline.
Netflix's The Witcher series adapts one of the funniest moments from the books
Can you imagine Liam Hemsworth being carried on his back by a large furry creature? You don’t have to try, because Netflix will offer you this wonderful scene in the next seasons of The Witcher.
Startup founder cuts his legs to demonstrate a new biotechnology — investors give him $4.3 million
Jake Adler, the 21-year-old founder of the biotech and defense startup Pilgrim, literally put his own sweat and blood into developing the business, cutting his thighs to demonstrate the new technology. Surprisingly, this bloody effort paid off and he received $4.3 million from investors.
OpenAI is preparing a new ChatGPT Go paid tariff for $10
AI researcher Tibor Blaho found in the ChatGPT code a reference to a new paid tariff called Go, which is cheaper than the currently available Plus and Pro tariffs — it is expected to cost no more than $10-15.
A year without road traffic fatalities: European city sets a record for road safety thanks to 5 simple changes
One of Europe’s smallest capitals has gone a year without a fatal accident — the last one was recorded in July 2024, before local authorities introduced several safety changes.
Almost like the Marvels: ticket sales for the Fantastic Four movie fell by 70% in the second weekend
“The Fantastic Four delivered one of the biggest box office collapses in Marvel history with a modest $40 million domestic box office on its second weekend.
A Chinese engineer sues a company for $3 thousand for forcing him to study online after work
An employee of an engineering company in Beijing has won justice in a court that fined his ex-employer for forcing him to attend online training outside of working hours.
Did The Avengers eat all the money? Marvel is looking for unknown actors for new X-Men to save money
It seems after of the new Avengers, which attracted 25+ stars, Marvel will have to tighten its belt. According to rumors, the studio’s next big project will involve unknown actors to “cut costs.”
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