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View More NewsBased on an atmospheric video game about a man stuck in a subway station who must notice “anomalies,” Exit 8 is a tightly wound horror thriller that neatly transforms a simple puzzle game into an elaborate metaphor about taking responsibility and moving on in life. The film opens with a gamelike sequence shot in a first-person perspective on a crowded subway train in which our hero ignores the world around him while staring at his phone, just like everyone else. He witnesses a man berate a woman with a baby, then finds himself trapped in a purgatorial puzzle space, where he suddenly…
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Jason Arday—fantasist, fabulist, fraud, and (until recently) Professorial Chair in the Sociology of Education at Cambridge University—sold a bolus of lies to students, faculty, and administrators, and they gobbled it up like a dish of ice cream on the hottest sunniest driest summer day in English memory. Months earlier, Nathan Cofnas, a philosopher at the same university, was accused by students of racism. Would nobody rid Cambridge of this turbulent scholar? Rid of him it got—through suitably tortuous means.That you and I know about Jason and his Argo of lies owes to Nathan Cofnas, who broke the story by publishing…
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In brief A reported breach of France’s tax authority exposed data tied to 678,437 people and businesses. The records allegedly include income figures, addresses,…
The Trump administration is expanding the footprint of its war on drugs in Latin America. On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Colombia…
The Committee to Protect Journalists and nine other international and local organizations, as part of the Brazilian Coalition in Defense of Journalism, in a…
US investment banking giant Morgan Stanley reported larger crypto fund positions in the second quarter, led by an increase of more than 3 million…
In brief Power availability is the central bottleneck in AI infrastructure buildout, says Bernstein, following a reported Google/Blackstone AI cloud alliance. Bitcoin miners collectively…
I recently spoke at my daughter’s Girl Scouts troop about America’s 250th birthday. I brought a box of tea bags, and hid them in…
Crypto infrastructure providers are drawing renewed investor interest as Wall Street deepens its push into digital assets. Read the full article here
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren accused Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC’s) Jonathan Gould of violating banking laws by approving national trust charters…
In brief Elizabeth Warren says the OCC illegally approved crypto bank charters that weaken banking safeguards. She argues firms like Coinbase and Ripple are…
from the some-transparency-for-take-it-down dept Today marks the deadline for online platforms to implement a process for notice-and-takedown of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) under the…
This week, President Donald Trump agreed to drop his lawsuit against the IRS, and in exchange the government would set up a fund for…
New York, May 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists has been included on a Russian government list of “undesirable organizations” — a label used…