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Rope was the first general-purpose technology. We let the evidence rot

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Rope was the first general-purpose technology. We let the evidence rot

The pyramids, the cathedrals, the age of sail: all of them ran on a technology that almost never survives long enough to be credited. Rope was arguably the first general-purpose technology — older than the wheel, older even than our own species' claim to the idea — and because fiber rots, we have spent millennia handing its achievements to stone.

Victor Maslow

Movies

Orion turns Mahershala Ali’s prestige into a fall platform bet with Bassam Tariq

A backdrop still from Anders Thomas Jensen's The Last Viking, with Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas as the two brothers.

Mads Mikkelsen buried a fortune and now thinks he’s John Lennon in The Last Viking

A still from Backrooms, Kane Parsons's feature debut: a figure in the endless yellow corridors of the internet's most famous liminal space.

Kane Parsons bets his viral Backrooms can carry a feature, with Reinsve and Ejiofor

Still from Propeller One-Way Night Coach, John Travolta's directorial debut on Apple TV+

Propeller One-Way Night Coach on Apple TV+: John Travolta Films the Sky He Loves but Forgets to Give It a Story

TV Shows

The animated heroes of Vox Machina in the world of Exandria as Season 4 of The Legend of Vox Machina arrives on Prime Video

The Legend of Vox Machina Season 4 on Prime Video: Critical Role’s saga gets darker

The Legend of Vox Machina returns to Prime Video for a fourth season, and the hand-drawn world that began as a livestreamed Dungeons & Dragons game keeps expanding. Titmouse’s adult animation brings back the Critical Role cast voicing their own characters as Vox Machina is pulled toward the darker, later chapters of the saga. The comedy stays; it just shares the frame now with grief and sacrifice.

Star City - Apple TV+

Star City premieres on Apple TV+: For All Mankind crosses to the Soviet side

BRASIL 70. Caio Cabral as Carlos Alberto, Luan Henrique as Brito, Hugo as Félix, Gabriel as Piazza, Leo as Clodoaldo, Mateus as Everaldo, Val Perré as Mário Américo, Gui Ferraz as Jairzinho, Fillipe as Gerson, Ravel as Tostão, Lucas Agrícola as Pelé, Daniel as Rivellino in Brasil 70. Cr. Alexandre Schneider/Netflix © 2025

Brazil ’70: The Third Star — Netflix reopens the dressing room behind a sacked coach and a doubting Pelé

Rafa on Netflix is less about 22 Grand Slams than the body that paid for them

Calabasas Confidential - Netflix

Calabasas Confidential: Netflix turns fourteen famous-adjacent kids loose in a town built to look effortless

Technology

Your phone or router may have been one of 17 million devices secretly rented out

Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8 catches four times more of its own coding mistakes

Analysis

Editorial conceptual still life: a single unbranded injection pen on dark polished stone beside a half-finished plate, dramatic cool-toned studio light.

Ozempic personality is not a side effect — it is the point

Single smartphone face-down on an empty wooden classroom desk in warm afternoon light — the absence as the subject.

The school phone bans worked. The test scores haven’t moved

The internet still has people. The trouble is finding them

Music

Official Camellia × Hatsune Miku 'Mayonaka Hikou' album announcement video still from YouTube

Camellia and Hatsune Miku launch 13-track ‘Mayonaka Hikou’ without Spotify

Camellia, the producer who built an entire subsystem of electronic music around speeds that exceed human performance, has released a 13-track album alongside Hatsune Miku. ‘Mayonaka Hikou’ reaches listeners through YouTube, but not Spotify.

Still from villagerrr's official Carousel music video on YouTube

villagerrr bets Carousel’s 10 tracks on an official video, not Spotify reach

Latto in the official BIG MAMA music video still

Latto drops ‘BIG MAMA’ with 19 million YouTube views and a Southern rap claim

Yuki Kajiura’s Xenosaga II score surfaces with 40 tracks and no Spotify listing

Science

Abstract editorial illustration of a single neuron with glowing synaptic branches, in blue with magenta accents.

Under anesthesia, the brain kept decoding speech and predicting the next word

Abstract editorial illustration of a DNA double helix over layered earth, in warm gold tones.

A third ancestor was hiding in Japanese DNA, breaking the two-origin story

Abstract editorial illustration of a ringed gas-giant world lit by a distant star, deep blue with cyan and magenta accents.

James Webb found methane on a giant planet that is neither scorching nor frozen

Business

Oil’s biggest drop since 2020 is a bet on peace, not a glut

Britain’s celebrated chefs say the restaurant no longer adds up

Canada’s surprise recession was built almost entirely out of hesitation

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Backdrop still from Simon McQuoid's Mortal Kombat II, the franchise's escalating Earthrealm tournament with Karl Urban as Johnny Cage.

Movies

Karl Urban plays a movie star playing a fighter in Mortal Kombat II

Cybersecurity

Supply chain attacks hide malicious code inside the software you trust

Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris and Regina Hall reunite as the Core Four in Michael Tiddes's Scary Movie revival.

Movies

Scary Movie reunites the Wayans, Anna Faris and Regina Hall to mock the reboot era

Cybersecurity

GlassWorm hid invisible code in VS Code extensions for a year before its takedown

Documentaries

Emi Martínez: The Kid Who Stops Time on Netflix turns the penalty line into a documentary

The Four Seasons - Netflix

TV Shows

The Four Seasons returns to Netflix as the vacation no one calls a memorial

Murder Mindfully

TV Shows

Murder Mindfully on Netflix sends a mafia lawyer to therapy for childhood, not for crime

A backdrop still from Fuze, David Mackenzie's London-set bomb-disposal heist thriller.

Movies

Aaron Taylor-Johnson defuses a bomb while a crew robs London in Mackenzie’s Fuze

A still from Albert Serra's documentary Afternoons of Solitude, framing matador Andrés Roca Rey in the arena.

Movies

Albert Serra films a matador in close-up and bets that refusing to judge is the whole point