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Hackers slipped malware into several popular Rust packages this week, turning routine software builds into a route onto developers' machines. The Rust Security Response Team disclosed the supply chain attack on Thursday after receiving a tip about a crate called proc-macro1. An investigation found that its build script fetched malware from a remote server. The attack extended beyond a single dodgy crate. Someone had published a new version of arrayref, a legitimate and widely used Rust package, with proc-macro1 added as a dependency. The attacker had also yanked recent legitimate releases of arrayref, helping steer users toward the poisoned release. The Rust team does not believe arrayref's maintainer was responsible. It suspects the developer's computer or credentials were compromised and locked the account while attempting to contact them. The attacker also published malicious versions of two other crates maintained by the same developer, internment and append-only-vec. The poisoned releases weren't around for long. Arrayref 0.3.10 was available on crates.io for 86 minutes, internment 0.8.7 for 90 minutes, and append-only-vec 0.1.9 for 107 minutes before they were removed. That's a narrow window, but arrayref is hardly some forgotten package gathering dust in the registry. Security firm Aikido, which separately analyzed the attack, puts arrayref at roughly 245 million lifetime downloads and append-only-vec at more than 4 million. However, those figures don't tell us how many developers pulled the malicious versions during the brief period they were live. Aikido found that the attacker largely left the legitimate source code untouched, adding only a dependency on proc-macro1, a typosquat of the legitimate proc-macro2 package. The malicious code was tucked inside proc-macro1's build.rs file. Cargo, Rust's package manager, runs build scripts during compilation. This allowed proc-macro1 to identify the operating system and processor architecture of the developer or build machine, download a matching payload, and execute it. Aikido found malware built for Linux, Windows, Intel Macs, and Apple Silicon Macs. The second-stage payload was more than a simple downloader. Aikido found code targeting Chromium-based browser data, including profiles for Google Chrome, Brave, and Microsoft Edge, as well as browser extension storage used by cryptocurrency wallets. It also found functionality to establish persistence and receive commands from the attacker's server. The Rust team also deleted proc-macro-en, aovine, arone, aronenao, and tinymember, warning that every version of those crates should be considered malicious. Developers have been urged to check their Cargo lockfiles and local registry caches for the affected packages. Rust credits Nextron Systems' research team with initially discovering and reporting the attack. It has not said how the legitimate maintainer was compromised, how many developers downloaded the poisoned releases, or how many systems ultimately executed the payload. The malicious packages may have lasted less than two hours on crates.io, but whoever was behind them chose a well-traveled route into developers' machines. ®

The U.S. Navy has been quietly considering renaming an aircraft carrier that was set to honor Doris Miller, a heroic Black sailor at Pearl Harbor, after President Donald Trump instead.

The effort to rename the planned USS Doris Miller began earlier this year, three sources told CNN Thursday. It’s not yet clear who the newest Gerald R. Ford–class aircraft carrier will be named for, but two of the sources revealed there have been conversations about naming the carrier to honor Trump.

The leaks come after Trump recently ordered redesigns that will waste billions of dollars to put old-fashioned steam catapult technology on board.

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao and his office had started to look into updating the official guidance for how ships should be named, two of the sources told CNN. No aircraft carrier has ever been named after a sitting president, and naming the vessel after Trump would be a massive break with precedent.

The effort comes amid a wider trend of the Trump administration expunging Black history from American monuments and museums. The White House has also made a concerted effort to rename institutions after the president.

At the same time, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has launched a campaign to remake the U.S. military in his image. The secretary has repeatedly thwarted the advancements of Black and female Defense Department personnel.

One of the sources told CNN that the Navy is looking to name another warship after Miller, who was the first Black sailor to receive the Navy Cross of Valor. When the bombs started to fall at Pearl Harbor, Miller, a mess attendant, aided his wounded commanding officer, and despite having no training, took control of an anti-aircraft gun to defend the base.

Additionally, the Navy is moving to recommend him for a Medal of Honor. Thomas Bledsoe, Miller’s great-nephew, told CNN that the family had not been informed of the Navy’s plan to rename the ship, or its renewed effort to award Miller with the Medal of Honor, something the family had been working on “for years.”

The lawsuit alleges that Oura rings are unable to measure any of the physiological signals needed to assess sleep quality or determine sleep stages.

A federal judge in Oregon ripped the Trump administration for placing political conditions on crucial, potentially life-saving disaster relief.

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Michael McShane, an Obama appointee, issued a ruling regarding the city of Salem, Oregon’s July lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and FEMA leadership. In it, the city accused the Trump administration of dangling disaster aid above local leaders’ heads in exchange for a rejection of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

Salem argued that the conditions were “unlawful,” especially given that the city was still recovering from storm damage from last winter. McShane agreed.

“As wildfires, severe storms, and floods routinely ravage through the State of Oregon, disaster relief has become a tool to advance unrelated executive policy … it is hard to imagine the connection between the use of preferred pronouns and the fires currently burning through central Oregon,” he wrote in his order.

McShane issued a preliminary injunction blocking the DHS restrictions on aid while the case continues.

Withholding basic disaster funds from American citizens just because they live in states that recognize trans people exist or talk about racism in school has become an obvious, spiteful trend for Trump. Last month, he denied FEMA disaster aid requests from four blue states after accepting the aid requests of six red states just two days before.

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Are pigs flying? Walmart has finally caved on its refusal to support Apple Pay and Google Pay.

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• The SpongeBob SquarePants official YouTube account has compiled a 4-hour-long video of just SpongeBob working at the Krusty Krab.
• This video is one of many long compilations that the channel has to offer fans.
• If You Like This, You’ll Love This: A submarine spotted a real-life version of SpongeBob and Patrick, but there was not a Krusty Krab in sight.

Are you looking for a soothing video to help you get through the day? If so, you’re in luck. The SpongeBob SquarePants official YouTube account has compiled a 4-hour-long video of just SpongeBob working at the Krusty Krab. His interactions with Squidward and Mr. Krabs are definitely our favorite part of the show, and this four-hour video is chock-full of those funny moments.

This is one in an ever-growing series that the channel is posting. Its new kick is creating several-hour-long clip compilations based on very specific themes. For example, “3 Hours of One Squidward Moment From EVERY SpongeBob Episode” or even “3 Hours of SpongeBob’s Main Character Energy 😎.”

There’s definitely some employee who is hunched over a desk somewhere putting together hours-long videos all day. But this person is certainly doing a good job, with just this video garnering over a million views in a month.

SpongeBob is definitely a good brain-numbing show in general, but only keeping certain entertaining clips from each episode is a recipe for success if your audience has a short attention span. The first clip lasted a minute and a half, the second, longer at four and a half. Regardless, it abandons the classic episodic structure and sticks to fun clips to keep viewers engaged.

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SpongeBob Squarepants has been around since 1999, and the show still seems to be as popular as ever. A new movie came out in 2025 and the YouTube channel has over 10 million subscribers.

If you work a restaurant job, we recommend you steer clear. The last thing you’ll want to do is come home and watch a shift-length video of a food service employee in terrible situations. But if you don’t mind Mr. Krabs’ countless OSHA violations, you can totally watch 4 hours of SpongeBob Squarepants working at the Krusty Krab.

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The processor market is sending mixed signals, with server and mobile shipments rising while desktop CPU volumes decline amid higher system prices. Meanwhile, AMD's House of Zen has taken market share from Intel across every category. For Q2 2026, Mercury Research says total processor shipments were lower than in the same period a year ago, attributing this to much lower system-on-chip (SoC) and embedded volumes due to AMD's declining games console business, plus a large drop in desktop CPU volumes. Mercury associates the decline in desktop chips with weaker demand for high-end gaming PCs. Although the second quarter is not typically strong for consumer sales, it adds: "We believe that higher PC prices and limited GPU supplies are having a significant impact on end demand for desktop PCs, and thus desktop CPUs, as well." Those higher PC prices are the result of increases in the cost of memory components due to a shortage caused by chipmakers prioritizing output of more profitable high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI servers, as The Register has been covering for some time. A shortfall in the availability of consumer GPUs appears to have much the same cause. According to Mercury, desktop CPU shipments fell by more than 20 percent year on year, although AMD's decline was smaller than Intel's. As a result, AMD gained market share, taking nearly 35 percent of desktop chips compared with about 32 percent a year ago. In contrast, shipments of mobile processors for laptops and tablets were up strongly on the previous quarter, running counter to Mercury's earlier expectations, although there was only a modest increase compared with a year ago. The growth followed a sharp increase in Intel's output, particularly of mobile chips, after two heavily supply-constrained quarters. Intel added millions of units of mobile CPU capacity during Q2, significantly narrowing the gap between supply and demand. However, AMD's share of this mobile segment is now up to nearly 29 percent, a significant increase from the 20.6 percent it stood at in the same quarter a year ago. Server processor shipments also rose, increasing 20 percent year on year and more modestly from Q1. According to Mercury, demand was higher for both datacenter-class CPUs (Xeon SP and AMD Epyc) and chips aimed at networking and storage applications. Once again, AMD gained market share, accounting for 34.5 percent of server processors compared with 27.3 percent a year ago. Mercury adds that if the calculation included only Intel Xeon SP and AMD EPYC chips, AMD's share would reach 46.4 percent. The research firm also keeps an eye on the Arm-based CPU market for PCs and servers, with the usual caveat that its estimates have significant uncertainty as there is no centralized reporting of Arm server or client CPU revenues. It recorded significant growth in Apple's Mac products, including the new lower-cost Neo line, while Arm-based Chromebooks also posted strong gains. Mercury estimates that Arm-based systems captured 15.3 percent of the client market in Q2 2026, up 0.9 percentage points to a record high. In servers, it estimates that Arm's share reached a record 13.6 percent, up 0.5 percentage points. ®

There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.

Tesla and eight other automakers will install warning labels that help occupants identify the often hard-to-find manual door releases.

The private equity giant confirms a breach, weeks after Google researchers said hackers were targeting financial companies.

As sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is out here being trash. Right now, he’s really leaning into trying to drive Muslims out of the state, and one of the grossest ways he’s doing it is by attacking anything specific to Muslim religious practices. “Religious liberty for me but not for thee” is pretty much the core belief of people like…

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In just his first week in office, Todd Blanche has inflicted more damage on the norms and traditions of the Department of Justice than any attorney general in its history. I don’t say this casually, and I’m not ignoring the competition. John Mitchell ran Richard Nixon’s dirty tricks and went to federal prison for it. A. Mitchell Palmer used the DOJ to round up and deport thousands of people for their politics. Harry Daugherty turned it into a vehicle for graft, his cronies selling pardons and immunities like so many indulgences, earning the DOJ the nickname “the Department of easy virtue.”

These evil deeds damaged the department, but they were furtive and ended in disgrace. None of these men served up his conduct as a model for the DOJ to follow. Blanche, by contrast, has openly taken a blowtorch to standards that have been articles of faith at the department for 50 years. Puffed up with his Senate confirmation, President Trump’s former personal lawyer has taken on a renewed cockiness—arrogance, really—and proclaimed his and Trump’s perverted view of the attorney general as the new normal.

Consider these five separate betrayals of the department’s ideals.

1. Asked by Kristen Welker on Meet the Press whether he could pledge that the Justice Department would always act independently of the White House, Blanche was combative: “No, I’m not going to pledge that. And no attorney general should ever pledge that.”

That gratuitous added sentence disparages the canonical approach of every attorney general for at least the last half-century. Most of them made the very pledge Blanche now declares inappropriate, and all of them lived by it.

Jeff Sessions, Trump’s very first attorney general, swore that the department’s actions “will not be improperly influenced by political considerations,” and that it “can never be used to retaliate politically against opponents.” Michael Mukasey, the conservative Republican AG brought in by President George W. Bush in 2007 to clean up the U.S. attorney firing scandals, told the Senate that staff who discussed cases with political actors would be fired. Merrick Garland put the principle most concisely at his own confirmation hearing in 2021: “I’m not the president’s lawyer. I am the United States’s lawyer.”

Blanche has now breezily declared that all of these predecessors in office were misguided in their fundamental approach to the job and justice.

2. Days after being sworn in, Blanche stood at the Nassau County Police Academy, flanked by uniformed officers, and warmed up a crowd for Bruce Blakeman, Trump’s endorsed candidate for governor of New York, praising him for doing “everything we need him to do.” No attorney general in at least 100 years has appeared at a political rally for a candidate; I suspect none would even have entertained the idea. The conduct can only undermine public confidence in the Department’s impartiality.

Blanche’s imprudence served to silence the senator whose vote secured his confirmation: Pressed by a reporter about the rally, Bill Cassidy went quiet, then meekly pleaded that he had “never heard anything about that rally until this very minute.”

3. On Thursday, August 13, Blanche delivered a cynical speech to DOJ staff in the Great Hall of Main Justice. He served up empty pieties, most remarkably his assurance that the department would uphold the law “without fear or favor”—the best capsule description of its mission as there is.

As the assembled staffers surely understood, Blanche’s tenure has been—and by every indication will continue to be—marked by justice meted out with both fear and favor. As deputy attorney general and then acting attorney general, Blanche has spent a year presiding over the unwarranted prosecution of political enemies; the sweetheart treatment of January 6 defendants and others who cozy up to Trump; and the firings of DOJ prosecutors for the political sin of doing their jobs by pursuing guilty defendants who now happen to enjoy the president’s favor. He has crowed about forcing out all the prosecutors and agents who worked on the January 6 cases, and he did the same to prosecutors who were assigned to work on cases against defendants who blocked women from entering reproductive service clinics.

4. On Fox News Sunday, after a district court and court of appeals both ordered a halt to construction of the president’s ballroom for failure to obtain congressional approval, Blanche waved away the ruling: “We don’t believe we have to go to Congress. We believe Congress has already given us the authority to do what we’re doing.” It’s not the attorney general’s role to dismiss binding court orders, on television no less.

5. Finally, there is the ludicrous load of crap Blanche served up in a Meet the Press appearance. Asked what he would do if the president directed him to cross an ethical or legal line, he dodged the one-word answer the moment called for. He offered instead a transparently silly claim: “The president will never ask me to do something unethical or illegal. He never has. He never will.”

What a whopper, from the lips of the chief federal law-enforcement officer in the land. Appearances at political rallies are unethical; reprisal prosecutions are illegal; and there’s plenty more Blanche has done in each category. Trump has insisted on bringing cases against his enemies, and Blanche has championed his supposed authority to do so.

Trump has forced out those who moved too slowly, including previous Attorney General Pam Bondi, for failing to deliver his enemies’ heads on a plate. On September 20, Trump posted on Truth Social that James Comey, Adam Schiff, and Leticia James were all “all guilty as hell” and that “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!” A hand-picked loyalist secured the Comey indictment days later, and in an open court the government’s own advocate conceded that if the president’s post “is not a direction to prosecute, I’d really be in a loss to say what is.” As would anyone.

Blanche’s blithe assurance is a classic authoritarian move, one we have seen from Trump himself repeatedly over the last 20 months: Don’t merely lie; proclaim the exact opposite of the truth, and stand your ground shamelessly.

A. Mitchell Palmer and Harry Daugherty damaged the DOJ by what they did, but none tried to change what it was. Blanche is attacking the institution at its foundations in broad daylight, sawing away at its core principles and rewriting its basic mission. That is why his first week belongs in a shameful category of its own.

Natalie Harp’s relationship with President Donald Trump is even more intimate than we thought.

The Daily Beast published two intimate letters Thursday from Trump’s assistant, courtesy of Michael Wolff, Trump’s biographer who maintained a disturbingly close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The letters were written in 2023, either during or after a business trip to Scotland.

Here’s the complete text of Harp’s first letter (emphasis added):

Dear Mr. President,

I’m sorry. I thought I was the only one left behind last night, and had no idea Margo’s car was also pulled over, and sent back to the Airport. Since I was alone in the van outside Customs without my passport, I panicked, and should have just called Secret Service instead of you. I also am sorry if I was an embarrassment walking the course in Scotland. The first day I was told there were no carts, and people walked, which is why I walked. The second day, I was specifically asked by, I forget who his name was, but one of the main people who worked there, if I could continue walking, and tell any other girls who would head out there to do the same to spare the Course any more Carts. If there is anything else I have done to cause you trouble, please forgive me. I know that some people have said I haven’t been texting them back, and there have been some International cell issues (John was having technical issues on the Plane too, so asked me to help him out).

I want things to always be right between us. I also know I’ve been distracted all week (forgetting to eat throughout the days, and even forgetting to sleep, and only catching a couple hours at a time). I haven’t been myself, dwelling on the Past, and the pain of losing my Dad, and I started letting the remarks of people who haven’t bothered me before, get to me—not because I care what others think, but because I see myself being lowered in your eyes and good opinion. That is the fear you see, because I never want to bring you anything but joy. I’m sorry I lost my focus. You are all that matters to me. I don’t want to ever let you down. Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life—That’s what I wanted to use this card for, when you saw me at the Cash Register, and once again did what you didn’t have to do, and gifted me with Mementos of this Trip of a Lifetime, a Coming of Age. I will return a better person. I have to sign off now, as the cars are leaving. See you soon.

Harp signed that message with “All my heart.” Very normal stuff to send to your boss.

Here is the complete text of the second letter (emphasis added):

Dear Mr. President

Now this is the Note I wanted to write (But the apology needed to come first.)

I have learned so much about myself on this Trip—I always knew coming home to my roots would be enlightening, but I had no idea how much. For the first time, in I don’t know how long, you forced me to “unplug.” We could be out on the Course, with no machines, and even forget what time it was! I didn’t have to be “Human Printer.” I could take time to enjoy good conversation, and still get all my work done at the end of the day. In fact, I even had time to take long morning and evening walks to enjoy each Sunrise and Sunset (though I did forget to eat and sleep!). With so much thinking time, I confess it did have a slightly negative effect at times, that I know you picked up on, but the end result, I believe, will be worth it. I had no idea how rapidly I was approaching burnout, and starting to envy those whose only “job” seems to be to talk with you, and look pretty. I want that job!! So many times, I’m just trying to stay afloat with all that’s coming in for you, I look like a hunchback who didn’t have time to freshen up (at least you know what I should look like)! Plus, I miss the days when you used to call, during my Talkshow days, and we’d talk about everything and nothing. I want to get back to that synergy. We shouldn’t have to talk about work all the time!! I’ve always felt like an in-betweener, somewhere between Staff and those you enjoy talking to on the Plane or at Dinner, because that’s who I used to be to you when I was a “Talkshow Host” (as much as I hated that actual job!). I wish I could hear every conversation, because that’s when you’re having a good time, getting away from it all, at least for a few moments.

But after going through all this self-analysis, my conclusion? I need to reunite my past self with my current into a better version who will make you proud. And please, when I fail, will you tell me? You have the absolute right to cuss me out, if need be, when I deserve it, because no one knows or cares about me more. Thank you for always being there for me—I’ll never forget when you made that promise to me after losing my Dad, and I know how happy he is right now that I did get to go to Scotland and Ireland, as he always wanted for me. To modify a classic, ‘I could not have parted with you, to anyone less worthy’—And, I will add, it is I who is unworthy.”

Harp signed her second letter with “Always.”

Within the span of the second letter, Harp vacillates from viewing Trump as a kind of spiritual adviser, a father figure, and a Mr. Darcy-type romantic lead. As for her request for more access, it seems Harp got her wish. White House staff and national security officials have expressed serious concerns about her unfettered access to the president—and all of his conversations.

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• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 just got another awesome teaser trailer.
• The teaser reveals more of the plot and the characters’ backstories.
• We now know the season will drop on Netflix on October 20.

After the major success of the anime’s first season in 2022, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is returning for a second season. Not only was the anime more loved than the game it was based on, but it (alongside many bug fixes) may have actually saved the game after its rocky release. Now, Netflix has dropped another teaser for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, which debuted on August 20 at Anime NYC.

The first teaser for the season came out on July 1, and gave fans a first look at an entirely new cast of characters unseen in the first season. That was about all the short trailer offered. Without revealing plot points, it was mainly a hype compilation of boss clips. We are definitely not complaining about that. However, this new teaser for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 does reveal a bit more about the plot and characters, touching on their backstories and relationships.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 presents a new standalone 10-episode story from the world of Cyberpunk 2077— a raw chronicle of redemption and revenge. In a city that thrives in the spotlight of violence, one question remains: when the world is blinded by spectacle, what extremes do you have to go to make your story matter?

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Despite taking place in a futuristic dystopia, the technology and overall vibe of the series take heavy inspiration from the 1990s and early-2000s. When the first teaser came out, I had hopes the show would use the camcorder in a creative way, and those hopes remain intact after this trailer. Several of the clips are seen through the lens of the camcorder, held by a still-unnamed character. It looks, so far, like this character will play a significant role in the plot while also functioning as a documentarian.

It remains to be seen how these characters and these plot lines will overlap, if at all, with those of the first season. What the show’s teasers guarantee, though, are interesting, complex characters, sick fight sequences, and an exciting plot.

What Is the Release Date for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2?

At Anime NYC, Netflix also revealed the series release date, which previously was just “Fall 2026.” Now, we know that Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 will be available for streaming on October 20.

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GitHub's handwringing continued this week as CTO Vladimir Fedorov offered more detail about the August 17 outage – while carefully avoiding the word "sorry." The outage lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes and disrupted developers worldwide. Actions, pull requests, issues, Copilot, and APIs were among the services affected as the platform failed to scale with demand. "If you were trying to ship software that day, we let you down," wrote Fedorov. The incident followed another outage involving Actions on August 6. The platform has been wobbly for some time, something it acknowledged in April, but work to address the underlying issues has not kept pace with the relentless rise in traffic. In April, monthly commits were at 1.4 billion. GitHub says it now handles 2.9 billion commits, 24 million new repositories, and 130 million merged pull requests each month. Microsoft Azure currently handles approximately 58 percent of GitHub's platform load and half of all Git operations. According to Fedorov, GitHub has accelerated the migration of more workloads to its parent company's cloud. "Our next milestone is an architecture that scales read capacity linearly with the number of readers, enabling unlimited read operations," he stated. "We will roll it out gradually, beginning with the largest monorepos." Before that architecture arrives, GitHub must address the scaling weaknesses exposed by retry storms and misconfigured limits. Fedorov stressed that "neither outage was caused by a code or configuration change" – in other words, the failure modes were already lurking in the platform rather than introduced by a fresh deployment. The company is also working to isolate critical systems to reduce the blast radius of future failures, tighten retry limits, and add alerts for early signs of traffic spikes. GitHub's repeated outages have rattled at least some developers. Responses on social media mixed sympathy for the challenge of operating at such scale with frustration from paying customers who say the service is falling short. Fedorov concluded: "The developer community depends on GitHub to build, ship, and operate their work. That is only possible if you can rely on us, and on August 17, you couldn't. It is our responsibility to fix that. We'll earn your trust through the scaling and reliability of the platform." ®

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• Netflix dropped a new trailer for Blue Eye Samurai season 2.
• Mizu, the series’ main character, is traveling to London and hunting down her father.
• The new episodes will drop on Netflix in January 2027.

Anime NYC is full of plenty of new information about some of Netflix’s most popular animated series. The teaser trailer for season two of Blue Eye Samurai was one of the studio’s big reveals at the convention. Take a look below:

An adult animated series with a unique art style, the first season of Blue Eye Samurai came out in 2023. It was well-rated by both audiences and critics for its portrayal of a samurai revenge plot. The story follows Mizu, a mixed-race samurai disguised as a man in Edo-period Japan. Mizu is hunting down her (suspected) father for kidnapping her mother and for her own “impure” existence.

The first season tied real history to its plotline, from existing political tensions to significant events. The first season ended with a fictional battle during the very real Great Fire of 1657 (also known as the Meireki Fire), a tragedy that destroyed a large portion of Edo and killed nearly a hundred thousand people. Mizu then started a seafaring journey to London to uncover more of her own history.

In Season 2, Mizu’s bloody quest continues in London, where she faces new friends, old foes, and her own demons. In Japan, Akemi and Taigen navigate Edo Castle under a dangerous new Shogun, while Ringo searches for new purpose.

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The new trailer shows a begrudging deal and Mizu’s treacherous travels across the ocean and through a storm, but doesn’t present us with much new information. We already knew Mizu was on her way to London, and we still don’t know what will happen when (and if) she gets there.

Season 2 of Blue Eye Samurai promises more bloody action, vengeance, and complicated politics. We can also expect to see more from the friends Mizu made in season 1. The new episodes can be expected to drop on Netflix in January 2027.

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Michael Cohen’s highly anticipated reunion radio interview with President Trump was a masterclass in brown-nosing. 

The president made a sleepy appearance on Cohen’s weekly talk radio program and podcast When You Know You Know on Thursday night and the two men spent most of the time relitigating what they see as their persecution and trading stale old stories. 

“So I wanna go back to 2016 if we can, because you and I have obviously traveled a pretty rocky road together,” Cohen said near the beginning of the interview after playing the song “Why Can’t We Be Friends” by War. “Do you remember, sir, when I went on CNN with Brianna Keilar and she told me that you were underwater in the polls and I responded with those famous two words, says who, which became some worldwide meme?”

“A good advocate, and then they weaponized you like nobody’s ever been weaponized, like few have been,” Trump responded. 

“Well, maybe just you and I, sir.”

“Yeah. Me too, but … mine was, mine was at a level that nobody’s ever seen before. But they weaponized you, they weaponized a lot of people. And, uh, I respect the fact that you recanted everything you said,” Trump continued. “And that’s a big, that’s a big thing that you did.”

The rest of the interview was effectively a stock speech for Trump, as he eventually devolved into ranting about polling, Iran, gas prices, and upcoming elections. 

“I think that we’re doing really well in the polls, the real polls. If I were running today, I think I’d win by 25 points. I think we’d win by a lot. The economy has never been stronger. We’re doing numbers that nobody’s ever seen before,” he said. (His approval rating fell to 33 percent this week, the lowest level of his presidency.)

“Venezuela was amazing. And now with Iran, they will never have a nuclear weapon, he continued. “We’re essentially controlling and soon controlling the straits. We’re doing very well with Iran. The press doesn’t like to say that, although a lot of the press does say it, you know, because the Navy’s gone, the Air Force is gone, the leadership is gone.... I had [gas] down to $1.85 a barrel. And then I said, ‘But we have to make a journey to the Middle East because we can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon.’ And that’s what happened.... We’ve wiped them out, militarily wiped out.” 

What Cohen and Trump didn’t talk about was Cohen’s multiple politically advantageous  transformations. 

He was first Trump’s longtime attorney—before being sentenced to three years in federal prison on charges related to his role as the middleman in Trump’s hush-money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Then he had a #Resistance liberal hero arc, lambasting Trump as “a cheat, a mobster, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man” in his book and testifying against him in court. And now that Trump is back in power, he’s returned to bending over backwards to appease him. 

Cohen ended the episode with Peaches & Herb’s “Reunited.” 

Michael Cohen, whose testimony helped get Trump convicted of felonies, just interviewed Donald Trump after “recanting” what he said under oath.

A podcast means nothing. This man is a liar as he always has been.

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This post is updated throughout the day to reflect the latest incidents. It was last updated at 7:01 a.m..

Here’s what’s happening on the roads this morning…

▼︎ new incidents

Road incidents as of 7 a.m. on August 21

• Highway 9 at Cascade Avenue in San Lorenzo Valley has one-way traffic due to ongoing work. This closure will last until 7:01 a.m. on Aug. 31.
   
• Alternating lanes are closed on Highway 9 at Riverdale Park in San Lorenzo Valley because of bridge work. The closure is expected to end at 6:59 a.m. on April 30, 2027.
   
• 455 Valley View Ave. in San Lorenzo Valley will be closed to through traffic on Aug. 20 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. for tree removal.
   
• CHP helped with construction at the intersection of Highway 9 and Graham Hill Road in San Lorenzo Valley. The work was scheduled from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today.
   

Disclosure: Traffic incidents are partially generated by artificial intelligence. We are constantly working to improve the accuracy and quality of our AI-generated content. However, there may still be errors or inaccuracies. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.

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