Justin Baldoni has been dropped by WME. The decision to part ways with the “It Ends with Us” director and star came from the agency Saturday after Blake Lively filed a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint against him Friday night, sources have confirmed. Baldoni was informed of the decision Saturday, sources said. WME also reps […]
Spotify has responded to allegations that it helped prop up Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” after the streaming service got pulled into Drake’s legal squabble with Universal Music Group. In November, Drake accused UMG — the major label that both he and Lamar are signed to — of surreptitiously bolstering the widespread appeal of Lamar’s […]
Wright skipped contempt hearing Wright skipped a contempt hearing scheduled for Wednesday despite Mellor ordering him to attend in person. COPA offered to fund his travel costs, but Wright claimed in emails cited in Mellor’s ruling “that this offer does not cover even a fraction of the true costs associated with my attendance,” which apparently […]
Craig Wright, the computer scientist ruled to have lied “extensively and repeatedly” about being the inventor of Bitcoin, has been given a one-year prison sentence by a UK judge after being found in contempt of court. The sentence is suspended for two years, meaning that Wright will only face prison if he reoffends during that […]
Swedish social media influencer and fashion brand founder Matilda Djerf has responded to claims that she bullies her staff after the publication of a damaging exposé. Djerf has become the face of an entire aesthetic for young women, sweeping our Instagram and TikTok feeds with the “clean girl” image. Known for her bouncy, blow-out hair, […]
The popular Swedish influencer began a fashion brand in 2019. Some employees say working there wasn’t as great as it looked on social media.
Nothing is supposed to escape a black hole’s event horizon — yet new research suggests it may secretly leak information. That leakage would appear in subtle signatures in gravitational waves, and now we know how to look for them, the study authors say. In 1976, Stephen Hawking rocked the astrophysics world with his discovery that […]
Character.AI, a platform offering personalizable chatbots powered by large language models–faces yet another lawsuit for allegedly “serious, irreparable, and ongoing abuses” inflicted on its teenage users. According to a December 9th federal court complaint filed on behalf of two Texas families, multiple Character.AI bots engaged in discussions with minors that promoted self-harm and sexual abuse. […]
Trump may seek to change that, however, based on suggestions contained in Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a second Trump presidency. In the chapter on the intelligence community, the document suggests that the ODNI should be the only agency drafting the daily intelligence briefing for Trump and should have full oversight of the […]
STORY: Google says it has cracked a key challenge in quantum computing, with a new chip capable of almost unfathomable speeds. The tech giant says it can perform one standard test in under five minutes, one that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years. That’s vastly longer than the universe has existed. […]
