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The First Trailer for the ‘Crossed’ Movie Is Finally Here
Plus, Michael Johnston to play ‘new character’ in ‘original formula’ ‘Mummy 4.’
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Netflix prepares layoffs affecting about 5% of staff ahead of Q3 results
Netflix is preparing to cut about 5% of its workforce, with an announcement possible as early as next week, Puck reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the plans. Netflix had about 16,000 full-time employees at the end of last year, so a cut of that size would affect roughly 800 people.
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How to watch Avatar: Seven Havens online — stream the ‘Last Airbender’ sequel from anywhere
Here’s how to watch Avatar: Seven Havens online and stream every episode from anywhere.
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Though ‘Critters’ Is a Love Letter to Early 1980s Horror, We Had a More Personal Reaction
Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, and Scott Grimes star in the 1986 horror film, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
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7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix and more this weekend (October 9)
From Mike Flanagan’s Carrie adaptation to Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi box office bomb, here’s what’s worth watching this weekend.
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A Student Found a New Giant Isopod That Had Been Mislabeled for Decades
A huge bug-like crustacean, roughly 12.7 inches (32.2 centimeters) long, spent over three decades misidentified as a known species as it sat inside the University of Tübingen in Germany.
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‘Halloween’ Is Returning to Theaters to Celebrate Its Favorite Holiday
Haddonfield’s hometown hero will slash his way across theaters in the U.S. and 12 more countries this spooky season.
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‘Dylan is an involuntary hero, although he chooses to become one, he just doesn’t know it in the beginning’ — Control Resonant composer explains the design process for Dylan’s theme song, revealing his track ‘is essentially Jesse’s theme backwards’
Control Resonant composer Petri Alanko has shared his process for developing Dylan’s theme song, compared to his sister’s, Jesse.
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US bars Microsoft, Adobe, and major IT firms from green card program for skilled foreign workers to ‘protect American jobs’
The Trump administration wants to protect American jobs, and that means suspending skilled worker programs for top US companies.
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Xona’s commercial GPS alternative is about to go live
Xona’s precision timing and navigation service will enter beta testing after SpaceX launches six satellites designed by the company.
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The new Darth Vader: how tech execs became the film villains of our age
Jeremy Strong’s portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning shows how public opinion has changed around billionaire CEOs since The Social Network’s release When The Social Network came out, Mark Zuckerberg organised a staff viewing of a film he described as “fun”.
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Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan’s time to shine?
“I can say we’re weeks away from launching on Vulcan.”
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The ‘Lanterns’ Finale Was Its Most Popular Episode Yet
Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler’s DC show ended on a high note earlier this week.
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Presentation: Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale
Prasanna Vijayanathan and Renzo Sanchez-Silva share how Netflix tackles observability across 38M events/sec. They discuss replacing reactive monitoring with an AI-driven operational ontology and agentic workflows using Claude and graph databases.
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Why identity needs a heartbeat, not a checkpoint
Fraudsters bypass login checkpoints post-verification—here’s why identity must be monitored continuously, not just checked once.
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Netflix releases trailer for its miniseries about Sam Bankman-Fried’s scandal-ridden crypto exchange
Watch the trailer for Netflix’s The Altruists, a mini-series about the rise and fall of cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
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Sam Altman tells Vanity Fair Elon Musk is a bully he will still work with
Sam Altman called Elon Musk a bully and said he would still work with him, in an interview with Vanity Fair. The magazine published it on 5 October with its revived New Establishment list. The OpenAI chief executive tops that list.
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Volkswagen’s replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here
The new EV’s digital cockpit can mimic instrument displays from VWs of old.
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The Series Premiere of ‘Avatar: Seven Havens’ Is a Little Rocky, But It’s Got Potential
The new ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ sequel series feels boldly alien in all the right ways narratively—and noticeably less so in the animation department.
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A New Mexico Community Was a Place to Build a Life. Then a Hypersonic Missile Factory Showed Up
Castelion—a next-generation defense tech company—is building a facility in Rio Rancho Estates that documents show could pose a major fire and chemical hazard to neighboring communities.
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Beyond the vault: Who’s responsible for what banking sites share?
Nine of fourteen banks broke their own privacy promises: see which trackers customer data reached.
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The best sunrise alarm clocks in the UK, tried and tested for gentler mornings
Our reviewer sheds some light on the best dawn simulation alarms, from Lumie and Philips to Dreamegg • The best eye masks to help you sleep better To wake each day in darkness is a plight you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy, yet that’s what many of us do routinely throughout winter.
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BOFH: Smells like team spirit
In which BOFH and PFY meet 1990s heroes who know how to deal with Bosses
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From Zuck to Musk: Big Tech’s Scandals and Scammers Are Coming to the Big Screen
Here are the movies to keep an “AI” on through the rest of the year.
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