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Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron arrives on Max in September
28 Jul

Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron arrives on Max in September

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Back in March, Warner Bros. Discovery's Max announced that it's extending its exclusive US streaming rights for Studio Ghibli in a new multiyear agreement. As part of that deal, Ghibli agreed to make Hayao Miyazaki's first film in a decade, The Boy and the Heron, available on Max later this year. Now, the streaming service has revealed that the fantasy adventure film will be available to stream on Max starting on September 6. To note, Studio Ghibli first embraced streaming in 2020 when it gave Netflix and Max the rights to all its films, including Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle…
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That Disney+, Hulu and Max streaming bundle is now available
28 Jul

That Disney+, Hulu and Max streaming bundle is now available

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We knew it was coming and now it’s here. Disney has entered into a partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery to offer an ad-free streaming bundle that includes Disney+, Hulu and Max. The combo pack costs $30 per month, which is a savings of $6 per month when you add it all up. A Disney+ and Hulu bundle costs $20 per month and ad-free Max costs $16 per month, so this is a pretty good deal.If you want to save even more money and don’t mind lengthy ad breaks interrupting prestige dramas that weren’t made with advertisements in mind, there’s an…
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The Thunder Island Navigator
28 Jul

The Thunder Island Navigator

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Join Me On a Career Journey I haven't posted in a while because I've been working on The Thunder Island Navigator, a newsletter about the software engineering field and job market to help aspiring (and seasoned) developers navigate the current market. I've built the newsletter using Beehiiv, which has lots of canned no-code tools to build a simple web page for subscribers and potential subscribers. For registering and managing the domain, I used Namecheap, which was a really smooth experience overall. As of right now, I'm aiming to post a new article every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I may have…
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Stalker 2 has been delayed (again) until November 20
28 Jul

Stalker 2 has been delayed (again) until November 20

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The long-anticipated Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl has been delayed yet again, this time until November 20. It was supposed to come out on September 5. This is just the latest delay in a development cycle that . That’s 14 years. The longest delay in gaming history , at 15 years.What’s taking so long? At first, . Developer GSC Game World nearly shut down, but managed to weather the storm. Next, the makers spent a whole lot of time perfecting various mechanics and features, including a .Real world events intervened to continue the delay. Russia invaded Ukraine and GSC was…
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Overwatch 2 may test a return to six-player teams
27 Jul

Overwatch 2 may test a return to six-player teams

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has provided an update that will be music to the ears of many fans. The publisher plans to experiment with a range of team compositions beyond the that the game currently has. That includes a potential revival of six-player teams from the original Overwatch."The community has, juuuust once or twice, suggested a test," Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller wrote in a blog post. "Why not put various forms of 6v6 in the game in order to gauge the results? We agree, and based on your feedback, we’re exploring how we can test different forms of 6v6 in the game…
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WhatsApp hits 100 million monthly active US users
27 Jul

WhatsApp hits 100 million monthly active US users

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I rarely used WhatsApp before moving from the United States to the United Kingdom a couple of years ago, opting for the built-in messaging app on my iPhone or fellow Meta-owned platform Messenger. No one I knew in the US used it, and, in fact, I had to get friends and family members to download it when I moved so we could communicate without being charged — you're welcome, Mark Zuckerberg. Well, that seems to be changing, with the head of Meta announcing WhatsApp has reached 100 million monthly active users across the United States — with about 10 million…
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Apple has reached a contract agreement with unionized US retail employees for the first time
27 Jul

Apple has reached a contract agreement with unionized US retail employees for the first time

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Apple and the unionized employees at its Towson, Maryland retail store have reached a tentative agreement that could secure them better pay, job protections, scheduling improvements to support a work-life balance and a more transparent disciplinary process. The Towson location in 2022 became the first Apple Store in the country to unionize, and back in May, it voted to authorize a strike against the company after “unsatisfactory” negotiation outcomes.The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (IAM CORE) said it’s been negotiating with Apple since January 2023. Under the tentative three-year agreement they’ve now reached,…
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DOJ says TikTok collected users’ views on issues like abortion, gun control and religion
27 Jul

DOJ says TikTok collected users’ views on issues like abortion, gun control and religion

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The Department of Justice on Friday night asked a federal court to reject TikTok’s bid to have the law that could ban it overturned, citing national security concerns that include its alleged use of internal search tools to collect information on users’ views around sensitive topics. It comes in response to in an attempt to challenge the law that now requires its China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app or it will be banned in the US. into law in April.In one of the documents filed with the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, the DOJ says…
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What to read this weekend: Keanu Reeves wrote a book with ‘weird fiction’ author China Miéville
27 Jul

What to read this weekend: Keanu Reeves wrote a book with ‘weird fiction’ author China Miéville

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China MiévilleA few years ago, Keanu Reeves took a dive into the world of comics with a series called BRZRKR, which he wrote with longtime comic creator Matt Kindt. The limited series, which played out over 12 issues, follows a half-mortal, half-God warrior known as B who lives a violent existence but cannot die. And after 80,000 years of being alive, he really wants to. Eventually, he ends up working as a killing machine for the US government.Netflix has plans for a…
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Websites accuse AI startup Anthropic of bypassing their anti-scraping rules and protocol
27 Jul

Websites accuse AI startup Anthropic of bypassing their anti-scraping rules and protocol

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Freelancer has accused Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude large language models, of ignoring its "do not crawl" robots.txt protocol to scrape its websites' data. Meanwhile, iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens said Anthropic has ignored the website's policy prohibiting the use of its content for AI model training. Matt Barrie, the chief executive of Freelancer, told The Information that Anthropic's ClaudeBot is "the most aggressive scraper by far." His website allegedly got 3.5 million visits from the company's crawler within a span of four hours, which is "probably about five times the volume of the number two" AI crawler. Similarly,…
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