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Melissa McCarthy, one of the most gifted comic actors working today, will soon be starring in a tragedy. In “The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey” — premiering on Netflix on Dec. 10 — McCarthy plays Patsy Ramsey, the mother of 6-year-old JonBenét, who was killed in the Ramseys’ Boulder, Colorado, home on Christmas night in 1996. […]
It sounds like an obvious approach, but Carly Rae Jepsen began working on her new double album “Day and Night” with a simple ethos: make the type of music she would want to listen to. “Like, what do I have to offer to the musical landscape right now?” the 40-year-old tells Variety over Zoom, just […]
Barunson E&A will launch international sales for “Descendants of the Sun,” a big-screen version of the landmark Korean series that first aired in 2016, at the Asian Contents & Film Market in Busan, running Oct. 10-13. The Seoul-based company, known for producing Bong Joon Ho’s Academy Award winner “Parasite,” is making the film alongside Dapur […]
It’s been over 30 years since Ang Lee’s “Sense and Sensibility” became (for this critic, as for many) the Platonic ideal of the Jane Austen adaptation. Lush but controlled, dryly funny (thanks to Emma Thompson’s Oscar-winning script) in that chatty, cheeky, keenly perceptive Austen way, Lee’s classic also boasted a formidable cast to unleash a […]
EasyJet says the latest incident "once again calls into question the resilience" of the system.
Paramount has reached a deal with 12 state attorneys general that removes a major obstacle to closing its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to reports in Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. The deal comes just before the company was to begin accruing a $7 million daily “ticking fee” on Oct. 1, which was […]
بغداد اليوم – بغداد أعلنت اللجنة المالية النيابية، اليوم الاثنين (21 أيلول 2026)، استكمال إجراءات مناقشة الحسابات الختامية للسنوات المالية السابقة، تمهيدا للمصادقة عليها قبل التصويت على قانون الموازنة العامة الاتحادية لعام 2027. وذكرت الدائرة الإعلامية لمجلس النواب في بيان تلقته "بغداد اليوم"، أن اللجنة المالية برئاسة النائب عدي عواد وحضور أعضائها، عقدت اليوم 21 أيلول 2026، اجتماعا لمناقشة تقرير الحسابات الختامية للسنوات المالية السابقة. وأضافت أن اللجنة استكملت الإجراءات المتعلقة بالحسابات الختامية، تمهيدا للمصادقة عليها، بما يسهم في إنجاز المتطلبات التشريعية والمالية اللازمة لإقرار الموازنة العامة الاتحادية لعام 2027. وأكدت اللجنة أهمية استكمال دراسة الحسابات الختامية ومراجعة البيانات المالية المرتبطة بها، بما يعزز دقة الإجراءات ويمهد لإقرار الموازنة العامة للعام المقبل.
Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets and other parts of the desktop experience.
Uber has redesigned shard placement in M3DB with fixed size subclusters to limit the impact of node failures, maintenance, and cluster scaling. The approach bounds shard dependencies, preserves replica isolation, and uses a greedy algorithm to select shard migrations while avoiding a separate rebalancing pass and unnecessary data movement. By Leela Kumili
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In an unprecedented move, four of the five TV networks that provide White House pool coverage of President Donald Trump — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News — have joined in solidarity with CNN, announcing they are suspending coverage of the president because of his ban of CNN. “The public has a vital interest in […]
