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Culture

Forgotten War Movies That Have Aged Like Fine Wine

War movies age well when the tension still feels physical and the moral questions still feel sharp. The films below are ones people don’t bring up enough anymore; they aren’t loud greatest hits, yet they play like they were made yesterday. Each earns its place through specifics: a

Crypto

Gondi Disables Smart Contract Bug After $230K Exploit

Gondi disabled the faulty smart contract that allowed a hacker to steal $230,000 worth of NFTs and said it is compensating affected customers. The attacker exploited the Sell & Repay contract, which lets borrowers sell escrowed NFTs and automatically repay loans. An updated version of that contract was deployed

Sports

MLS bans Derrick Jones and Yaw Yeboah for betting on their own games

Major League Soccer has issued lifetime bans to Derrick Jones and Yaw Yeboah after finding they bet on numerous games, including matches in which they were playing, during the 2024 and 2025 seasons. Neither player is signed with an MLS club. An investigation conducted in part by law firm Patterson

Culture

Timothée Chalamet railed against ballet and opera years before viral comments

A resurfaced clip shows Timothée Chalamet speaking out against ballet and opera years before his recent viral remark that “no one cares” about those disciplines. In a 2019 TikTok clip promoting David Michôd-directed The King, he called them both a “dying art form.” His more recent comment came during a

Culture

You can attach claymores to Thief's drones in Marathon

Marathon’s Runner Shells—AKA heroes—each bring unique abilities and passives. Loot and a well-aimed shot still often decide fights, but characters like Vandal, Recon, and Assassin add tools that reshape engagements. The Thief, true to its name, centers on stealing loot with a remote Pickpocket Drone and escaping

Culture

Perfect Sci-Fi Western Series That Offer the Best of Both Genres

The sci-fi Western blends traditional Western plots, tropes, and settings with science fiction elements such as futuristic technology or aliens. Stories that mix frontiers and advanced tech go back to the 19th century; many point to the 1868 book The Steam Man of the Prairie by Edward S. Ellis, which

Culture

'Breaking Bad' confirmed Walter White's fate in Episode 3

Many assume Walter White’s descent into Heisenberg was slow, but Season 1, Episode 3, "...And the Bag's in the River," makes his turn unmistakable. In the episode’s basement scene, Walt kills Domingo "Krazy-8" Molina, a moment that reshapes his moral standing. After

Sports

Atalanta vs Bayern Munich: how to watch, kick-off time and team news

Atalanta host Bayern Munich in the Champions League round of 16 in Bergamo, kicking off on 10 Mar at 15:00 EST and 20:00 GMT. English-language coverage is available via USA Fubo, UK TNT Sports, Australia Stan Sport, Canada Fubo Canada, India JioStar, South / Sub-Saharan Africa SuperSport, Malaysia beIN

Culture

Cryptic crossword No 29,950

1 down. Train – train endlessly, train endlessly. 4-4 letters. 2 down. Secures in carriage, sandwiched between twin sons. 6 letters. 3 down. Once more show up a rep being doubly wrong. 8 letters. 4 down. Lost opportunity in double withdrawal. 4 letters and 2 letters. 5 down. Moreover, encored excessively.

Culture

'The View' cohosts slam Timothée Chalamet over ballet and opera comments

Timothée Chalamet drew backlash after saying ballet and opera are dying art forms that “no one cares about anymore” during a town hall with Matthew McConaughey that aired on CNN. The actor’s remarks went viral and were the focus of Monday’s episode of The View. Sunny Hostin, who

Tech

Marvel Rivals enacts Victim Compensation Protocol to restore points

Marvel Rivals has hit a rough patch, with a lack of balance updates and a problem known as "incentivised throwing." A website and Discord channel placed bounties on players, leading some to deliberately lose matches so others could collect payments while the site took a cut. NetEase has

AI

GPT-5.4 Thinking offers stronger reasoning but struggles with images

OpenAI's GPT-5.4 Thinking is presented as a more cognitively prepared model, and a reviewer tested it via the $20-per-month ChatGPT Plus plan to see how it handles deeper challenges. In text-based tasks the model delivers deeper analysis and generally strong reasoning; most responses were thoughtful and free

Culture

'Rambo' Prequel Adds Sylvester Stallone as Executive Producer

For the first time in the franchise's 44-year history, a new actor is taking the lead in John Rambo, with Noah Centineo cast as the action hero. Sylvester Stallone was not originally involved with the prequel, but that is changing. Stallone will not appear in the film but

Culture

Stranger Things Returns Tomorrow With a Brand New Adventure

A new Stranger Things release arrives tomorrow, March 10: Dark Horse's Stranger Things Volume 10: Tales from Hawkins 2, a single-volume collection of the four-issue anthology miniseries. Derek Fridolfs returns as the central storyteller, joined by artists Sunando C, Bradley Clayton, Mack Chater and Vincenzo Riccardi. The book

Culture

Backlash grows after Timothée Chalamet's remarks on opera and ballet

Jamie Lee Curtis joined growing criticism of Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet after comments he made in a CNN/Variety video conversation with Matthew McConaughey, recorded on 24 February. He said: “I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera. Things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing

Culture

10 Apple TV Sci-Fi Masterpieces That Constantly Deliver Movie-Level Quality

Apple TV has released enough exceptional sci‑fi that the pattern is impossible to ignore. The concepts are wild — memory erasure, generational ships, civilizations that have evolved past the need for sight — yet these shows execute their premises with a precision and visual scale that rival theatrical films. Rather than

Culture

Monarch Season 2 Sets Up a Rift With Apex

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters has landed an 82% score on Rotten Tomatoes and expanded its roster of Titans, bringing icons like Godzilla and King Kong into season two alongside a new threat: the amphibious "Titan X," trapped in the Axis Mundi and introduced in the premiere "Cause

Culture

Why Adam Levine’s Arm Tattoos Look Different

Adam Levine has added body art across his chest, stomach, back, neck, arms, legs and hands for much of his adult life, making it hard to picture him without ink. In 2013 on The Oprah Winfrey Show he said some of his tattoos mean something and some do not, noting

Tech

Subsonic Flight Demonstrator Project

The Subsonic Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project engages industry and other government organizations to identify, select, and mature key airframe technologies. It focuses on advances—such as new wing designs—that have a high probability of transition to the next‑generation single‑aisle‑seat class airliner. Learn more about the SFD

Culture

Hudson Williams hits back at toxic 'Heated Rivalry' fans

Hudson Williams said he has had enough of toxic messages from the “Heated Rivalry” fandom, sharing an Instagram Story Monday that denounced “hateful” people calling themselves fans. “Don’t call yourself a fan if you share racist/homophobic/biphobic/misogynistic/ageist/ableist/parasocial/bigoted comments of any kind. None of

Tech

Mode teases 2026 Encore keyboard refresh with new mounting system

Mode, a high-end keyboard maker that lets customers customise caps, stabilisers, switches, plate material, and PCB at checkout, has announced a refresh to its Encore keyboard. The 2026 Encore, developed with YouTuber Matthew Encina, is a 65% layout with a split wood top plate and a new crown mounting system,

Crypto

Bitcoin Could Rally to $79,200 if Oil’s Trend Repeats

Oil prices surged to $101 per barrel on Sunday, a 55% rise in ten days that marked the largest move in history and pushed the SPX to its lowest level in 10 weeks. Bitcoin briefly jumped 16% between Feb. 28 and Wednesday before erasing those gains by Sunday. Traders are

Culture

Fatal Frame 2 remake preserves scares but clutters its combat

Koei Tecmo’s remake of Fatal Frame 2 brings the 2003 horror classic to modern conventions while trying to keep its unsettling story intact. Twins Mio and Mayu traverse an abandoned Japanese village haunted by a violent past, where only the Camera Obscura can exorcise wraiths. That tension between fidelity

Culture

Ella Purnell's 'Sweetpea' Climbs Prime Video Charts

Ella Purnell's Starz series Sweetpea climbed into Prime Video's worldwide trending chart, landing at number seven as of March 9. In the U.S., the show is available on Starz, but international viewers helped it reach the Prime Video top 10. Purnell first drew attention in

Culture

Daniel Radcliffe: Arthur Gets “Pretty Unhinged” in The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins

Episode 4, “Save the Cat,” turns a missing-cat story into something deeper about guilt, change and family. As the search for Namath the cat unfolds, Daniel Radcliffe says his documentarian Arthur is pulled further into the Dinkins household and is “actually pretty unhinged and in a pretty desperate place in