Christopher Nolan was supposed to direct «James Bond» instead of «Oppenheimer», but refused due to «disdain» of the producers
The rumors that Christopher Nolan was considered one of the main candidates to direct the next 007 movie are not new — but now there are interesting details about why he turned down the job.
A Disney employee accidentally «leaked» 1 TB of internal company data — through a free AI program downloaded from GitHub to his work PC
The leak included employee logins and passwords to various services, 44 million messages exchanged at work between different Disney departments, and some customer data.
Google Translate «upgraded» with artificial intelligence — with explanation of grammar, regional features and change of translation styles
Soon, Google Translate may receive new artificial intelligence features that will allow users to interact with translations and get additional context (cultural and regional, in particular).
Online S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 on Steam dropped by 90% in three months — the last maximum was reached by 12,448 players
At the release, the peak online S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 on Steam reached 121,335 people, while in recent weeks, only 12,448 people have registered the maximum, according to SteamDB.
The dark fantasy «In the Lost Lands» received a favorable review from George Martin: «Captured my voice better than other adaptations»
George Martin, the creator of «Game of Thrones», praised the fantasy adaptation «In the Lost Lands» —, at least according to the film’s director Paul Anderson.
The series «The Boys» will reunite the stars of «Supernatural» — Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins among the cast
The official Twitter account of the series The Boys posted a video with Jenson Ackles gathering the stars of «Supernatural» to work on the fifth season — Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins, among others.
The owner of GSC Game World and Navi heads the Ukrainian Esports Federation
Businessman, and among other things owner of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 developer GSC Game World and esports team Navi, Maksym Krippa has taken the position of president of the NGO «Ukrainian Esports Federation» (UESF), as first reported by the gaming publication Game Inside and confirmed the Ukrainian Forbes.
«Disintegrating before our eyes»: James Webb telescope finds two strange planets that catapult themselves into space
Astronomers have observed for the first time how two worlds outside the solar system eject their outer layers into space — and this data, collected James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)offer an «unprecedented» view of what distant planets hide in their insides (in fact, something that is beyond the reach of even the Earth).
OpenAI has started deploying GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT Pro subscribers, public release is expected in the coming days
ChatGPT Pro subscribers have started receiving offers to try out GPT-4.5 — a new and not yet officially presented OpenAI artificial intelligence model.
«House of the Dragon» will show an important thing» from George Martin’s books in the third season that was missed by «Game of Thrones»
The first two seasons of House of the Dragon were generally successful for HBO, but they did not escape criticism from the creator of the original story, George Martin. He complained, among other things, that the showrunners got rid of important characters from the books too early, which may affect the structure of the extension — and it seems…
Tesla used Internet videos to teach self-driving technology to drive in China, — Elon Musk
On Tuesday, Tesla launched autonomous driving functions for some of its car models in China, but the decision did not please all drivers, primarily due to the limited nature of the program compared to the US version.
New life for «Star Wars»: Disney to retire Kathleen Kennedy, and Kevin Feige — one of the candidates for Lucasfilm CEO
According to reports Puck and Variety, Disney is considering a replacement for the head of Lucasfilm — Kathleen Kennedy may retire «this year, while several interesting and well-known candidates are applying for her position.
Adobe launches new Photoshop app for iPhone — free and with generative artificial intelligence
Adobe has launched a new Photoshop mobile app for iPhone (an Android version is promised later this year), which offers a bunch of artificial intelligence tools for designing and editing photos, or creating images from scratch.
James Gunn has planned «6 years on DCU» — with a final movie in the style of «Avengers» Marvel
James Gunn and Peter Szafran have revealed a six-year plan for the DCU — the rebooted DC Cinematic Universe that will begin with «Superman» and include a «big Avengers»-like event, reports Kotaku.
Developers spend only 16% of their working time on coding, the rest is spent on background and operational tasks
The latest analyst report IDC (via InfoWorld) shows that the vast majority of developers’ efforts in 2024 were spent on background and operational tasks, while coding took only 16% of the total working time.
Dark theme does not save devices’ charge, but even discharges batteries faster, — researchers (yes, British)
Researchers have found that a dark theme for smartphones and laptops can drain their batteries faster than previously thought.
Anthropic introduced Claude 3.7 Sonnet — the first hybrid reasoning model and «the best AI for IT professionals»
Anthropic’s hybrid AI is distinguished by the fact that it combines the capabilities of standard and reasoning models — that is, it can provide both quick answers and detailed answers with step-by-step reasoning visible to the user (interestingly, the API even allows you to specify how many tokens the model can spend on reasoning).
«We Are at War»: Disney releases trailer for the second season of «Andor» and episode schedule
Disney has released the first teaser trailer for the second season of «Andor», a prequel to «Star Wars» starring Diego Luna.
«The best of three parts»: the first reactions to the «early» version of Avatar 3 — from James Cameron’s friends
James Cameron showed an early version of «Avatar 3» (officially titled «Avatar: Fire and Ashes») to a few «select» people — and, according to the director, the first reactions were overwhelming.
The release of the movie «Spider-Man 4» has been postponed to a new date — and it’s Christopher Nolan’s fault
Sony and Marvel updated the premiere date of the fourth Spider-Man movie.
Women’s version of «Peaky Blinders»: Stephen Knight’s new series — drama «A Thousand Blows» about a gang of robbers and underground boxers
Steven Knight, the creator of «Peaky Blinders», has debuted a new series called A Thousand Blows — a drama based on real events that took place in Victorian London.
Microsoft allows you to connect external disks with a capacity of more than 16 TB to Xbox
Microsoft released an Xbox software update that will allow consoles to recognize external hard drives with huge capacity.
Sony closes PlayStation branch in Poland and outsources some tasks, — Polish media
Polish gaming sites reportthat Sony has begun the process of liquidating the local PlayStation branch.
Ticket sales for «Captain America: The Brave New World» fell by 68% in the second weekend — one of the biggest box office «collapses» Marvel
The new «Captain America» stalled at the box office and recorded a drop in domestic ticket sales of at least 68% — after a strong start of $100 million.
«Do you want to be obeyed?» Sony reveals «sex emails» of Destiny 2 game director suing for unfair dismissal
Former game director Destiny 2 and Marathon Christopher Barrett has filed a lawsuit against Sony in December 2024, accusing the company of unfair dismissal, a sham investigation, and refusal to pay $45.5 million under the contract. The company immediately responded to the lawsuit and provided personal letters and recordings of Barrett’s…
Meta increased bonuses for bosses by 200% — amidst layoffs of 4000 «inefficient» employees
To party like that, Mark Zuckerberg thought, and tripled bonuses for Meta executives — it would have been fine if ordinary employees hadn’t already faced layoffs and option cuts.
Marvel stars named their favorite movies in the MCU — not without «Avengers», but a couple of unexpected ones in the top
The site of the official Disney fan club took interview actors who have played some of the most important roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and among other things asked about their favorite films of the franchise: obviously, the top films were about The Avengers, Captain America, Iron Man, or Guardians of the Galaxy, but there were a couple…
Apple to raise iPhone and Mac prices by 9% to compensate for Trump’s tariffs — Bank of America
According to Bank of America’s forecasts, Apple will have to significantly raise prices for iPhones and other products or fully compensate for future duties proposed by Donald Trump.
SpaceX engineers have replaced the fired FAA specialists — the agency that authorizes rocket launches for Musk’s space company
Sources of the publication WIRED reports that SpaceX engineers have been appointed senior advisors to the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), an organization that, among other things, authorizes space rocket launches (including those of Elon Musk’s company).
iPhone Pro owners change their smartphones «every 2.75 years» — much faster than users of basic Apple models
New report Counterpoint shows that owners of premium Apple smartphones are ready to upgrade their models every 2.75 years.
Shock for James Bond: Amazon gains «creative control» over 007 films, longtime producers «back off»
Amazon MGM Studios takes creative control of the James Bond films, while longtime producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli step down, though they will still remain co-owners of the franchise.
Ted Lasso is no longer at the top: Severance has become the most popular series in the history of Apple TV+
With the release of its second season, the sci-fi series Severance has surpassed «Ted Lasso» to become the most popular show in the history of Apple TV+.
«I thought we were under attack»: a piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket landed in Poland, some fragments could «fly» to Ukraine
On February 19, a fragment of the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 — rocket crashed near the city of Poznan in Poland, and, according to locals, the landing was quite loud and bright.
Google Meet adds subtitle scrolling option for those who «sleep» in work circles
Google Meet has received several interesting updates — and among them option to scroll through subtitleswhich allows you to rewind the text recording of the conversation to the moment you accidentally listened to.
The second season of the series The Last of Us has received an exact premiere date — we won’t have to wait long
HBO has finally announced the official release date for the sequel to «The Last of Us» —, and it coincides with the one that fans had previously calculated.
Psychologists: working from home affects the formation of «strange» habits — and neglect of hygiene, including
Business Insider has released an interesting article, which includes interviews with psychologists and remote workers and, among other things, assesses how working from home affects the formation of our habitsRemote work has many advantages, such as no formal wear and no morning commute, but there are also disadvantages — and one of them is that…
Homer is shocked, but Ridley Scott approves: «The Odyssey» Christopher Nolan was hated from the first frame due to historical inaccuracies
Earlier this week, Universal Pictures offered the first look at Matt Damon as Odysseus в Christopher Nolan’s new movieand experts on the network were not slow to criticize — mostly in terms of «historical inaccuracies in the image of».
Bill Gates: «Young people should be worried about “4 very scary things” — and artificial intelligence is one of them»
Microsoft founder Bill Gates in interview Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, at the presentation of his new memoirs, said that today’s youth should be worried about only four, but «very scary» things. In his understanding, — is the climate crisis, «uncontrolled» artificial intelligence, bioterrorism/pandemic, and nuclear war.
The creator of the original series «Shogun» about the FX adaptation: «The new version — is funny and took the Emmy because it had no competition»
Jerry London, who directed the 1980 series «Shogun», reacted to the FX adaptation — and his words can hardly be called praise.
Hackers «planted a game with password-stealing malware on Steam
The researchers analyzed a game called PirateFi, which Valve urgently removed from Steam last week.
China’s «Nezha 2» became the highest-grossing animated film in history with $1.6 billion in earnings — 99% of the box office closed «at home»
Chinese animated film «Nezha 2» outperformed the hit movie «Thoughts inside out 2» and became «the richest» cartoon in history.
Brady Corbet says that «Brutalist» made him «zero dollars» — and other directors nominated for «Oscar» have no money to pay their bills
Despite the fact that the historical drama «Brutalist» received 10 Oscar nominations, its director Brady Corbet claims that he did not benefit financially from the film.
Garmin launches ComingUp — a new (and free) smartwatch app with to-do lists and reminders
The Connect IQ store now has a new free program for Garmin devices called ComingUp, which allows you to manage your to-do list right from your smartwatch.
Elon Musk doubled the price of X Premium+ subscription «a couple of hours» after Grok 3 announcement
Elon Musk’s Twitter (X) has doubled its Premium+ subscription, which includes the latest version of the Grok 3 artificial intelligence model — in fact, a few hours after its presentation, as the publication noted TechCrunch.
The star of the series «Stranger Things» went to a therapist to «get over» the role of Vekna and refuses to play villains in the future
British actor Jamie Campbell Bower, who played Henry Creel/Vekna in the «Stranger Things» series, spoke about the consequences of his work as a villain and why he plans to never return to such types again.
Elon Musk introduced the «thinking» Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini models — competitors DeepSeek and OpenAI with «scary smart» AI
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company has released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 3 — xAI’s answer to OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek reasoning models, which is being promoted as «scary smart AI».
«Mickey 17» launched with 86% on Rotten Tomatoes — with praise for «hellscape of capitalism» and Robert Pattinson’s brilliant performance
The science fiction film «Mickey 17» starring Robert Pattinson» has received its first reviews and ratings. They were somewhat mixed, but the result is the same — the movie is a must-see for fans of the genre.
«Dune 3» is on the way: the shooting of «Messiah» has been postponed to June 2025 (earlier than planned). When can we expect the premiere?
Director Denis Villeneuve is already working on «Dune 3» and will start shooting earlier than expected — in June 2025, instead of 2026, according to Deadline.
Google launches «false» earthquake alerts at 2 a.m. on thousands of smartphones — in a region where they almost never happen
On Friday, around 2 a.m., thousands of Android smartphone owners in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, among others, received false emergency alerts about a 5.5 magnitude earthquake. The alarm turned out to be fake, and Google was the main culprit.
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