S arah Silverman has a shy side. No, really. For years, she avoided doing a podcast because she didn’t want to ask her friends to be on another comedy show. Then, during the pandemic, Silverman came up with a solution. She made her fans the guests. Now, listeners call in …
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The man who left Salman Rushdie partially blind after stabbing him at a lecture in 2022 was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday, May 16, The Associated Press reports. Hadi Matar, 27, was convicted of attempted murder back in February, and the 25-year term handed down is the maximum …
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Elon Musk‘s company xAI has now addressed recent strange behavior from its Grok chatbot, claiming that an “unauthorized modification” caused it to bring up the myth of “white genocide” in South Africa in response to unrelated prompts. Meanwhile, Grok has started to dabble in Holocaust denial, saying that it is …
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“Rip and tear, until it is done.” This is the line that opens id Software’s duology of modern Doom games: Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal (2020). It’s a creepy, campy narration meant to set the tone for not-quite-horror games with horrific settings. But it’s also a mission statement — players …
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Mexican authorities are investigating after a beauty influencer was shot and killed while streaming on TikTok Live, with the video continuing even after her injury. Valeria Márquez was a content creator focused on lifestyle and beauty influencing, with over 100,000 followers on both TikTok and Instagram. The 23-year-old was streaming …
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The Florida State University student accused of killing two people and injuring six others on campus last month has been indicted by a grand jury on murder charges. The indictment was released Wednesday and shared more information about how he carried out the alleged attack, according to Associated Press. The …
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Elon Musk calls the current version of Grok, a large language model developed by his company xAI, “the smartest AI on Earth.” But lately, the chatbot has struggled with even the most basic questions from users on X, which was acquired by xAI in March and has long included Grok …
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When news first broke about FBC: Firebreak (out June 17), the new multiplayer shooter from Remedy Entertainment, the idea caused some uneasy feelings among the studio’s fanbase. It wasn’t the sort of disquiet that Remedy likes to cause — between their acclaimed psychological horror games like Control (2019) and Alan …
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Before Kennedy Ryan was a New York Times bestselling romance author, she was an eighth grader in a rural North Carolina town hiding harlequin romances wherever she could fit them in her room. “It was the age of the cliche covers. You know, the kissing couple on the front,” Ryan …
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Kim Kardashian appeared in a French court room Tuesday morning, May 13, to recount the harrowing armed robbery she endured at a hotel in Paris in 2016: “I absolutely did think I was going to die,” she testified, according to the BBC. Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint on Oct. 3, …
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