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After a three-year closure, salmon fishing has reopened in the Monterey Bay Area with limited quotas and staggered seasons designed to support a cautious recovery. While the season remains tightly managed, it offers opportunity for smaller, lower-overhead boats — particularly those in Santa Cruz — to get back on the water.

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The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History has received accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the nation’s highest recognition afforded to museums.

Of the nation’s estimated 33,000 museums, roughly 1,100 are currently accredited. The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History is one of only 78 museums accredited in California.

Accreditation acknowledges the museum for its commitment to excellence, accountability, high professional standards, and continued institutional improvement.

To earn accreditation a museum must first conduct a year of self-study, and then undergo a site visit by a team of peer reviewers.

“We are also honored to now be the only accredited museum in Santa Cruz County,” said Felicia Van Stolk, executive director of the museum in a press release. “This distinction will carry us into (the) future as we renovate the historic building to match our excellence in service.” 

The museum, an independent non-profit, is raising money to renovate, modernize, and

expand Santa Cruz’s oldest museum. The fundraising campaign, called “Bright Future,” will advance their mission through immersive exhibits, programs, and collections, focusing on learning and the love of nature.

The renovation project will break ground in early 2027, with an anticipated completion in early 2029.

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OPINION: Have we built too much housing in Santa Cruz or not nearly enough? Housing activist and former Santa Cruz mayor Don Lane reminds us that Santa Cruz spent decades limiting growth.

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Entry-level models jump by up to £220, mirroring steeper hikes in US

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The man accused of attacking Sam Altman's San Francisco home with a Molotov cocktail on April 10 now faces charges of attempted murder.…

Contract kicks off design work, but SMRs unlikely to generate power before the mid-2030s

The British government has signed a deal with Rolls‑Royce to carry out the design work on small modular reactors (SMRs).…

Inertia has signed three agreements with the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, paving the way for the company to bring its pioneering fusion reactor to market.

Mailbox access in stripped-down Android app ends on May 25

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Already £1.3 billion over budget and four years late, NS&I could extend timetable beyond eight years

The UK's state-backed savings bank has set out options for finishing its disastrous platform transformation program, which include busting the current timeline.…

Local hero Rapidus is on track to begin production of 2nm semis next year, as TSMC expands its Japanese foothold

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Microsoft punishes you for updating infrequently

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CinemaCon 2026 is delivering a ton of film news in Las Vegas. This annual trade show is the place to be for major movie studios as they tease their upcoming films and drop major announcements about what’s coming in the future. This year, Sony Pictures kicked off the convention’s opening night with a lot of fresh news about their epic movie slate, including the next Jumanji film’s title along with some first footage that will surely delight fans once it hits the internet in the form of a trailer. Columbia Pictures

When the franchise got a sequel back in 2017 with Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, we were cautiously optimistic. We grew up with the original 1995 film starring the great Robin Williams, and that’s such a classic. However, we knew the power of Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson was simply too powerful to ignore. And, when you throw in Karen Gillan and Jack Black, well, that’s something to behold.

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It was a hit and so was the 2019 sequel. Now, the quartet is returning on Christmas Day 2026 for Jumanji: Open World, with much of the previous cast returning. Speaking of the cast, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Dwayne Johnson came to CinemaCon to chat about the film… and also talk about how The Rock is kinda drunk. It seems that everyone except Kevin had a great time filming as well. They showed Karen some love considering she couldn’t make it. Johnson also gave props to Robin Williams and says there’s an Easter egg in the film where they are using one half of the original dice that was from the OG film.

Here’s what we saw in the room for this next Jumanji sequel. A woman opens the door for a repair guy, and it is that darn video game console. The horror of Spencer and friends is immediate, especially when they see that Dr. Bravestone is in the world but he’s not quite himself. In fact, none of the avatars are themselves and are stuck in demo mode. Oh boy. It’s one last time to finish another mission in Jumanji.

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Somehow, it has been nearly three long years since Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse left us with the cliffhanger of a lifetime. We are beyond ready to see Gwen and her crew of Spider folks go on a mission to rescue Miles from the wrong universe. Since then, we have been waiting for the sequel, Beyond the Spider-Verse, to arrive at theaters. After a few delays, the film is set to arrive on June 18, 2027. That still feels like a long way off, but CinemaCon 2026 just made Beyond the Spider-Verse seem a tiny bit closer. Sony Animation

Attendees got to see Chris Miller and Phil Lord take the stage along with Bob Persichetti and Justin K Thompson as the directors gave us a look at Beyond the Spider-Verse. They promised it would be a very emotional ending to this trilogy. The footage picks up right where the previous film left off, with Miles having to face himself and find his way out of being in the very wrong place.

We get to see more of this universe’s Miles, who is of course the Prowler. He’s not keen on letting our Miles go and then things get rather funny when the two Miles argue about how to pronounce their last names and what the heck a “Spider-Man” is. We see Miles get a little tricky and get a tease that he will make some new connections to become even stronger as a hero. We cannot wait to see how this epic trilogy ends and how it will set up the spinoff projects for Spider-Gwen and Spider-Punk.

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Tiny variation in temperature weakened a component and when a critical moment arrived, that mattered

Japan’s space exploration agency (JAXA) thinks a manufacturing process that didn’t properly take into account the qualities of an adhesive caused the December 2025 failure of a satellite launch using its locally developed H3 rocket.…

Once again, horror is set to have another stunning year thanks to films like Lee Cronin’s The Mummy and Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil. Speaking of the latter, this reboot will tell an original story set in the famed game universe, with some inspiration from the second through fourth games specifically. We also know that the film will hit theaters on September 18, 2026. But now, thanks to CinemaCon 2026, we have more information about Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil reboot film, specifically a sneak peek.  

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It will star Austin Abrams along with Paul Walter Hauser, Kali Reis, Zach Cherry, and Johnno Wilson. It was incredibly exciting for Nerdist to get a first look at this 2026 Resident Evil movie, and here’s what we saw. A man comes to a house and asks if he can use the phone but it is to no avail. He leaves a message for someone, saying he’s sorry that they got disconnected earlier but some really f**ked up things happened and now they may not talk again. And that’s an understatement considering the grotesque monsters and gore that we see. It certainly evokes the spirit of Resident Evil games.

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We anticipate that footage will hit the web pretty soon, and when it does we will have it right here for you. 

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CinemaCon 2026 is here and things are heating up with the convention’s first major studio presentation for the week. For those who don’t know, CinemaCon is an annual trade show event that takes place in Las Vegas and brings together studio partners and exhibitors to focus on innovations in the film industry and new trends. But it has also become a place for film studios to give exclusive information and a look at their upcoming slates. Nerdist is on the ground for this event, and we were there to witness Sony Pictures special presentation, which included big news about Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Sony Pictures

We recently got a trailer to show Tom Holland’s triumphant return as Peter Parker. But, CinemaCon 2026 gave us more intel into Spider-Man: Brand New Day. SPE CEO Tom Rothman said it is unlike anything they’ve ever done before. He showed two rad new posters for the film, one of which includes MJ in the eye of Spidey’s mask. We are sure that those images will hit the internet at some point. Rothman also said that this is Tom Holland’s greatest performance.

Holland made an appearance…well, sort of. A video of him appeared onstage and he said this is the most “emotional” movie ever made. He showed us a clip of the consequences of Peter having to make the tough choice for everyone to forget him. He’s in a bodega eating when his old pal Ned comes in. Ned grabs a few things and leaves, and Peter decides to follow him. Ned is with friends at a party full of booze (some of which he just bought). Someone offers Peter a cup and he takes it with little interest before wandering off to look at Ned’s things.

A wall in front of him has various news but Ned pops out before Peter can read more about the many Spidey posts. Ned has even been tracking Spider-Man to figure out who he is. Ned says he wishes he could thank Spider-Man personally, which is so incredibly sad. It gets even sadder when MJ shows up and introduces herself to Peter. As MJ and Ned talk about their lives, including a recent interview, Peter listens from afar and is heartbroken to see MJ in a relationship.

We even see another clip of Spidey getting his stretch on before taking out some guards.

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July is going to be Tom Holland month for sure. He will also portray Telemachus in Christopher Nolan’s epic The Odyssey. Brand New Day will swing into theaters on July 31, just a couple of weeks after The Odyssey hits theaters on July 17. We expect to get news about The Odyssey as well, so stay tuned as we deliver first-hand info to you straight from CinemaCon 2026.

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Well, what do we have here? During StudioCanal’s panel at CinemaCon 2026, the studio announced that it is taking quite the big swing at a John Carpenter classic. There’s an Escape from New York reboot on the way, which StudioCanal is doing in partnership with The Picture Company. We are cautiously optimistic, and for good reason. At one point, Robert Rodriguez, Radio Silence, and even Joel Silver were trying to take a swing at a new version of the 1981 film starring Kurt Russell. AVCO Embassy Pictures

We don’t know who is attached to this gestating version of Escape from New York at this time. Perhaps Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who seems to be in everything, will take on the role of the Plissken, complete with an eye patch and a bad attitude. Filmgoers love a dystopian hellscape, apparently. Let’s see where this one goes and who will be apart of the journey.

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