Another week, another turn of the screw in the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger — aka David Ellison vs. the creative community. Microdramas may be all the rage in Hollywood, but they’ve got nothing on what’s currently playing out in state attorneys general offices, C-suites and op-ed pages.

Israel launches strikes on southern Lebanon’s Tyre as third day of the seventh round of US-brokered talks concludes.

Israeli air strikes and shelling targeting towns in the southern Lebanese district of Tyre have wounded several people, in the midst of a seventh round of US-mediated ceasefire negotiations between Beirut and Tel Aviv.

Ghost Recon WildlandsNovember 13 will mark the 25th anniversary of Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, but Ubisoft is getting the celebration ball rolling a little early with a major update to Ghost Recon Wildlands featuring major visual and gameplay enhancements, and an all-new mission "set in a darker, more oppressive Bolivia."

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The Fast & Furious franchise may be stuck in neutral, but Louis Leterrier is charging full speed ahead. 

The French filmmaker behind Fast X and its long-gestating follow-up, Fast Forever, is releasing the genre-blending thriller, The Last House, on Aug. 7 via Netflix. He’s also about to wrap production on a sci-fi action thriller called Liminal for Apple. On top of those features, the fourth season of Lupin, the Netflix series he co-showruns, drops in October. He even launched a production company known as Carrousel Studios with his Lupin lead, Omar Sy, and The Last House EP, Thomas Brenski. 

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Billionaire Ronald Lauder has abruptly ended his decades of political giving, The New York Times reports, and him shuttering his pocketbook could have wide-ranging implications, as the Trump-friendly GOP donor has propped up candidates for decades and spent more than $70 million on federal, state and local elections.

'A Short Hike' is among over 120 games you can have for just ten bucks.

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As far as deals go, getting over 120 games for less than the cost of a Cantina Chicken Rolled Quesadilla Combo from Taco Bell is up there among the best, especially in light of recent news. The fact your $10 will go to a fantastic cause is even better — and you can thank itch.io for the bargain.

England white-ball coach Brendon McCullum says that Harry Brook's "time will come" as Test captain.

Brook, 27, is England's white-ball leader and was Test vice-captain but was overlooked after Ben Stokes' shock retirement as batter Joe Root was reappointed, having previously led England in 64 Tests between 2017 and 2022.

Early in my career, I worked at Google helping scale the Ads platform. Billions of dollars in advertiser spend moved through systems my teams worked on, and I got a long look at what separated accounts that compounded from accounts that stalled. It was rarely cleverness. The advertisers who won understood how the machine actually made decisions, measured everything, and moved budget the moment the evidence said to. Everyone else optimized folklore: tricks from a conference, habits left over from the last platform shift, dashboards nobody questioned.

Perez Hilton has expressed deep regret, particularly for stirring panic and fear among Hollywood celebrities through his popular blogsite. In an effort to make amends, he even reached out to figures such as Britney Spears, Neil Patrick Harris and others to offer apologies.

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Three first print Pokemon games are selling for an eye-watering $2 million to the owner of the Dubai Collection, one of the most prominent and highly-graded collections of video games and trading cards in the world.