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How an Attention-Averse Couple Gets Married
The Cut,
“Every time we went to a wedding together, we’d be like, ‘I don’t want to be walking down an aisle with everyone staring at me.’”
Wattpad Premium subscribers now have access to 5 free monthly Wattpad Originals
TechCrunch,
Wattpad announced today “Premium Picks,” a new offering that gives Premium and Premium+ subscribers monthly access to five free Wattpad Originals — the recently launched freemium model where select authors can choose to monetize chapters. Instead of paying to unlock content, members are now given five Wattpad Originals each month at no additional cost. The […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Next Goal Wins review: Taika Waititi returns to his roots
AV Club,
The marketing for Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins promotes the film as an underdog sports comedy about an ill-fated South Pacific soccer team, full of the highs and mostly lows of a struggling squad trying to make good. Revisiting the fallout from the worst loss in World Cup history—when Australia defeated American… Read more...
Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source
This morning at Scaleway’s ai-PULSE conference, French billionaire and Iliad CEO Xavier Niel gave some extra details about his plans for an AI research lab based in Paris. This new lab, called Kyutai, will be a privately funded nonprofit working on artificial general intelligence. It will work with PhD students, postdocs and researchers on research […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians adaptation looks not awful
Boing Boing,
Adaptations of books aren't always terrible – No Country for Old Men would like to have a word – but there are certainly more bad ones than great ones. Take, for instance, 2010's movie adaptation of the first Percy Jackson and the Olympians book, which I was unfortunate enough to see in theaters as a kid with way too much interest in Greek mythology. — Read the rest
Hackers report company to SEC after it fails to disclose being hacked by them
A ransomware crime group, AlphV, nailed a financial services company called MeridianLink. When MeridianLink failed to pay up, AlphV noticed another weakness it could exploit: MeridianLink had failed to disclose the hack to its customers as is expected of it. So AlphV reported MeridianLink to the Securities and Exchange Commission. — Read the rest
The Fashion Girlies Are Flooding to F1
Here’s what they’re wearing.
21 can't miss holiday gifts for music fans
It’s a common situation: there are so many items targeted at music lovers that it can be hard to tell what makes for a worthwhile gift. That’s where The A.V. Club comes in. Here, we sort through the books, box sets, and collectibles from the past year, finding the items that are ideal for the music fanatic in your… Read more...