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In Recent years,Netflix and Apple TV+ have been duking it out to have the most prestigious film offerings, but some of the best movies are on Amazon Prime Video. The streamer was one of the first to go around picking up film festival darlings and other lovable favorites, and they’re all still there in the library, so if they flew under your radar the first time, now is the perfect time to catch up.

Researchers found a vulnerability in a Kia web portal that allowed them to track millions of cars, unlock doors, honk horns, and even start engines in seconds, just by reading the car’s license plate. The findings are the latest in a string of web bugs that have impacted dozen of carmakers. Meanwhile, a handful of Tesla Cybertrucks have been outfitted for war and are literally being-battle tested by Chechen forces fighting in Ukraine as part of Russia’s ongoing invasion.

Our planet is choking on plastics. Some of the worst offenders, which can take decades to degrade in landfills, are polypropylene—which is used for things such as food packaging and bumpers—and polyethylene, found in plastic bags, bottles, toys, and even mulch.

Polypropylene and polyethylene can be recycled, but the process can be difficult and often produces large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane. They are both polyolefins, which are the products of polymerizing ethylene and propylene, raw materials that are mainly derived from fossil fuels. The bonds of polyolefins are also notoriously hard to break.

The OceanGate Hearings

Exclusive: Inside the Titan Submersible Disaster

Where Are These Key Witnesses?

‘I Told Him I’m Not Getting in It’

Painting a Damning Picture

Spotlight on the Titan’s Carbon Fiber Hull

With Few Solid Answers, What Comes Next?

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The US Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) into the loss of the Titan submersible concluded today with testimony from two Coast Guard search-and-recovery personnel, Captain Jamie Frederick and Scott Talbot.

Nearly every survey of the podcast industry in 2024 agrees on one point: Chat podcasts are king. As video rises in popularity (33 percent of US podcast listeners prefer to consume this way), ad spending increases (estimated to top $4 billion worldwide), and listenership steadily grows at 8 percent year-over-year, it is the chat format—in its combative, enlightening, and sometimes quite unserious splendor—that continually draws people in.

The ecosystem is profuse and unpredictable. There are the mainstays that have become fixtures of culture: The Joe Rogan Experience, Armchair Expert, and The Read. Newer fare like I’ve Had It and ShxtsnGigs (more on that one later) have also found tremendous followings. Other chat-casts, like Club Shay Shay, seem to court controversy with every release. “Katt Williams, please close the portal,” @nuffsaidny recently joked on X, alluding to the comedian’s guest appearance from January when he prophetically proclaimed of 2024: “All lies will be exposed.”

During the Age of Sail, ships circled the globe on voyages of discovery and trade. That era ended in the 1800s, when coal-fired steam engines began to replace wind power. Now we may be entering a new age of sail—but this time in space. Reversing history, engines and fuel could be replaced by sails on some spacecraft, pushed not by wind but by sunlight.

The idea is still in development, but we know it works. Just a few weeks ago, NASA hoisted sail on a new test craft, a satellite called the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3). It has a square sail 9 meters wide that allows it to adjust its orbital path.

Virginia Woolf Bot wasn’t the only loss. Earlier this month, as Brazil suspended X across the country, fan accounts of all types seemed to blink out of existence. Feeds for Beyoncé, for Taylor Swift, and for Miley Cyrus. Each posted some version of a goodbye post, as everyone from mainstream news outlets to Cardi B lamented the disappearance of what’s broadly known as Brazilian stan Twitter.

“Time to drop the character to say that unfortunately I’m Brazilian,” @botvirginia posted. “I’ve been inactive here for a while but I had plans to change that, apparently I can’t anymore. So maybe this is my swan song.”

For months, speculation has raged in Washington over the future of Lina Khan, the Federal Trade Commission chair and face of the Biden administration’s crusade against monopoly power. Overturning decades of antitrust norms, charged by Khan with failing to curb extreme concentrations of corporate power, the administration has routinely scrutinized major acquisitions traditionally ignored by Khan’s predecessors, forcing companies like Lockheed Martin and Nvidia to abandon multibillion-dollar deals in court.

Mindlessly scroll throughTikTok long enough and you’re bound to stumble on one: An older person, possibly a boomer, gesturing blithely at something—maybe it’s a B&B, maybe it’s a set of blinds—and unfurling a litany of Gen Z slang. “Northumberland Zoo hits different”; “slay”; “no cap”; “It’s giving literate.” To date, there are nearly 4,000 of these videos, and they’ve been viewed millions of times.

Each view feels like a nail in some sort of linguistic coffin.

The Greeks had their chariots. Patton had his tanks. Now, a handful of soldiers are riding into combat in one of the most unusual-looking vehicles in the history of warfare: an armed Cybertruck.

In a video posted to messaging platform Telegram last week, Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechnya region, showed off a pair of Tesla’s distinctive boxy electric pickup trucks painted forest green and armed with what appear to be Soviet-era DShK 12.7 x 108 mm heavy machine guns—vehicles he claimed had been sent to fight alongside Russian forces taking part in the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.