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The breach at wearable ring maker Ultrahuman stemmed from credentials stolen from a malware-infected employee laptop.

Carvana was granted a warrant to buy shares in Slate last year, according to documents obtained by TechCrunch. Guggenheim Partners CEO Mark Walter is heavily invested in both companies.

This post is updated throughout the day to reflect the latest incidents. It was last updated at 10:01 a.m.

Here’s what’s happening on Santa Cruz County roads this morning…

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Road incidents as of 10 a.m. on June 3

• There will be alternating lane closures on Highway 9 at Pool Drive in Boulder Creek because of bridge work. This is scheduled to continue until April 30, 2027.
   
• Highway 9 at Cascade Avenue in Brookdale has one-way traffic due to ongoing work. This closure is expected to last until Aug. 31.
   
• South Highway 1 at Park Avenue in Capitola is facing closures because of road excavation work. The closure is expected to last until Aug. 19.
   
• A lane on westbound Highway 152 at Clifford Drive/Ohlone Parkway in Watsonville is closed for asphalt paving. The closure is expected to last until July 3.
   
• One lane is closed on eastbound Highway 129 at Riverside Drive in Watsonville because of electrical work. The closure will last until 2:01 p.m. tomorrow.
   
• A lane on Highway 17 at Beulah Park Drive/La Madrona Drive north of Santa Cruz is closed for utility work. The closure is expected to end on June 8.

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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Malignant narcissist President Donald Trump wants to attend the NBA finals, claiming that he’s a long-time fan of the New York Knicks—who haven’t advanced to the finals since 1999—and that he wants to be there to watch their attempt to take home the trophy that’s evaded them for more than 50 years. “I think I’ll be going to one of the games,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting on May 27.

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A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | Inflation skyrockets to highest level in years—Trump says all is well…

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Move over, Copilot: Microsoft is introducing a new category of agentic AI called "Autopilot," starting with Scout, its first agent. And it doesn't take much guessing to understand how Microsoft expects these things to operate: By constantly watching your every move and taking action in the background to ostensibly streamline your workday. Microsoft announced Autopilot, and the first Autopilot agent, Scout, at Microsoft Build on Tuesday, describing it and other future Autopilots as “always-on agents that work autonomously,” stay active in the background to “understand how work gets done across your apps and systems,” and can “take action without needing to be prompted each time.” Scout, for example, can be interacted with in Teams when one feels the need, but outside of instances when users need to query it directly, it’s always there. “It operates across cloud, desktop, and web, connecting to Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint, and to the data that powers your day, including chats, email, calendar, and contacts,” Omar Shahine, corporate VP of Microsoft Scout, wrote in the announcement. Autopilot agents supposedly have their own identities, according to Shahine, and are able to act autonomously within the constraints organizations set on their activities (access controls can be set by organizations). Per Shahine, letting Autopilots operate on autopilot “creates a more durable way to keep work in motion so it continues even when your attention is elsewhere.” Say, for example, you need to schedule a meeting: Scout can handle scheduling on its own while accounting for time zones; it can flag meetings it considers particularly important for its users and generate materials it believes users need to prepare before the scheduled time. Scout can also identify looming deadlines and block off time on a user’s calendar so that they can work on a particular project, “spot risks, like stalled decisions,” and basically act like a work nanny that schedules your day by being hyper-aware of every single little thing that needs to get done. Hopefully, your new Microsoft nannybot is more reliable than its Copilot predecessor, whose outputs Microsoft itself warns may not always be accurate. Get ready for a Claw-shaped hole in your environment “Microsoft Scout is built with enterprise-grade security and controls so it can be trusted in your organization from day one,” Shahine noted in the release, followed immediately by noting that it’s powered by OpenClaw, not exactly a platform with a stellar security reputation or record of not making bad decisions on behalf of users. Microsoft claims that Scout and whatever future Autopilot agents it releases are bound to an Entra identity that allows their activity within an enterprise environment to be attributed to a particular person’s Scout agent, and notes that it acts within the confines of access controls set by the organization, but it’s not clear what other protections against common AI exploits are included. As we’ve noted before, it's often surprisingly easy to manipulate AI agents into behaving in ways their operators never intended, and malicious webpages can inject prompts that trick them into leaking sensitive information; in both cases, those sorts of attacks can be launched without any direct user interaction. We asked Microsoft for more details on the security aspect of Autopilots and Scout, but didn’t hear back before the deadline. It’s also worth noting that Microsoft Scout is in very limited access, with only a “select group of customers” getting access to the preview, along with organizations participating in the Frontier program, which grants them early access to Copilot and other Microsoft AI features. One more caveat, too: Frontier enrollees can only get access to the Scout preview if they’re GitHub Copilot subscribers. GitHub Copilot recently shifted to a usage-based billing model that has seen bills skyrocket, so expect those Microsoft bills to rise if you choose to give it a shot, too. ®

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Jared Kushner’s efforts to negotiate an end to the Iran War are not going well. But he is only moonlighting as one of the Trump administration’s top diplomats. Kushner is also having problems at his day job as the founder of Affinity Partners, a private equity fund bankrolled by Saudi Arabia and other foreign governments.

Along with his wife Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Trump, Kushner is developing a multibillion-dollar resort on Sazan Island in Albania and nearby coastline. In an interview with the David Senra podcast published Sunday, Ivanka Trump described the project dreamily:

It’s an unbelievable, beautiful, 1,400-hectare private island in the middle of the Mediterranean. We were on a friend’s boat and we stopped for a swim. Effectively, that’s how we found it. We swam to the island, we went on a hike, barefoot all the way up to the top, and we were just captivated, and it stayed with us ever since. And over the course of many years, we developed the opportunity to help realize its potential and transform it, but with a lot of restraint and care because the land is so beautiful that, really, the architecture has to be fully integrated into it, almost rise from it.

She also said the project is “the culmination of all of my experience in real estate, all of my travel, a lot of reflection on how I want to live, how I think people increasingly want to live.”

But the reality of the massive project, which includes 10,000 hotel rooms and is located in one of Europe’s most environmentally sensitive areas, is a lot messier. In 2024, the Albanian government changed the law to allow the area, which was previously part of a protected national park, to be developed. After Trump’s election in November 2024, the Albanian government granted Atlantic Incubation Partners, an LLC linked to Kushner, “strategic investor“ status, clearing the way for permits.

Kushner’s LLC was granted that status “just weeks before the new US president’s inauguration, even without a business plan or feasibility study for the construction of a luxury resort on an uninhabited island once used by the army for shooting practice.”

On Monday, Albania’s Special Structure Against Corruption and Organized Crime, known as SPAK, confirmed it was investigating Kushner’s project. The investigation will probe the changes to the land’s protected status and how Kushner-controlled entities obtained rights.

An investigative report by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network found that the project involved a “network of shady individuals and companies“ including “a businessman accused of links to the Italian mafia, a former judge who resigned due to the vetting process, the daughter of a lawyer accused of forgery, the company of a murdered businessman and individuals linked to one of Albania’s biggest oligarchs, Shefqet Kastrati.”

In January, 41 environmental organizations from 28 countries wrote to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and called for “the immediate suspension of any decisions advancing the project.” The groups said the resort posed “serious risks to the biodiversity and critical habitats of the area,” including “crucial habitats for some of the world’s most endangered marine species.”

Rama, however, has continued to defend the project. “There is not a single chance it will be stopped for as long as I am here,” Rama said at a press conference Tuesday.

On Senra’s podcast, Ivanka Trump said she was “just there [in Albania] walking the lands” to “sort of be with it and experience it alongside some of the greatest living architects of our time.” She did not mention that the property has been subject to mass protests.

On April 29, government officials allowed barbed wire fencing to be constructed around the coastal portions of the resort property. This cut off miles of beach from the public. Heavy machinery was brought in to construct access roads.

The actions prompted regular protests by Albanians objecting to handing Kushner a public asset to develop into an ultra-luxury resort. Video captured private security guards dragging a protester across the ground.

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Jared Kushner und Ivanka Trump wollen Albaniens geschützte Südküste in ein 1,4 Milliarden Euro Luxusresort verwandeln – Insel Sazan und Küstengebiet bei Zvernec.
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After the incident, “authorities revoked the licenses of two private security firms involved in the incident, arrested one guard and stripped the local police chief of his duties.” Fifteen protesters were charged with crimes.

This week, protests expanded to Tirana, Albania’s capital, with thousands chanting “Albania is not for sale” and demanding Rama’s resignation.

In December, Kushner’s plan to build a Trump tower in Belgrade collapsed after the project became enmeshed in a criminal corruption scandal involving Serbian government officials. Prosecutors allege that government officials forged documents to remove cultural protections from the land where the tower was to be constructed.

Intel is keen to reassure investors that its troubles with the 18A manufacturing process were a one-off, and that it is better positioned to capitalize on what it expects will be growing demand for CPUs used in AI inference workloads. Speaking at the Bank of America 2026 Global Technology Conference in San Francisco, Chipzilla’s chief financial officer David Zinsner claimed that the firm simply bit off more than it could chew in trying to move too fast with the new process node. “I would say it this way, I don't know, early last year, I think the challenge around 18A was two things. One, we tried to do too much at once. And it took a while to get that settled. And I think second is, we were trying to play performance and yield and trying to improve both at the same time. It was like trying to fly the plane and fix the wing at the same time, basically,” he said. Intel 18A - its angstrom-era process, marketed as a 1.8 nm-class node - was initially expected to be production-ready by late 2024 and ramp toward volume manufacturing in 2025. However, the technology ran into delays, with the first products built on 18A not arriving until Intel unveiled its Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs back in January this year. Zinsner said that after Pat Gelsinger's departure, when he and Michelle Johnston Holthaus took over as interim co-CEOs, he put Intel global operations chief Naga Chandrasekaran on the case, “and then they really just focused on first, stabilizing performance. And so they stabilize performance. Then once you've got your performance stabilized, then all you do is you work yield every month,” he explained. “The second thing that we did when Lip-Bu joined is we really opened up our data to our vendors to really help us learn things that we could do to improve yield and that made a dramatic difference,” Zinsner added. This meant overcoming some cultural resistance to sharing data, he claimed, but then “Once we fixed that, we really started to get some feedback into what we could do to improve. And then it was just our team just grinding it out every month.” Intel’s goal is now to get to yields that generate great margins, and the firm is now ahead of its schedule to get there by the end of 2027, he claimed. And when it comes to the next-generation 14A process, the one that Intel hopes will allow it to set up its foundry division as a contract manufacturing business as well as making its own chips, Zinsner was keen to stress that the program remains on track. “Now I would just say we have a more aggressive plan for 14A than 18A. When you look at kind of yield and performance measures at this point in time and maturity of 14A compared to that same moment in time for 18A, we're ahead,” he claimed. “All the stuff that I said that we bit off more than we can chew on 18A, and it really took some time. Now it's just a little bit of a rinse and repeat. I mean it will be a lot easier to do 14A because it's just using a lot of the gate-all-around and backside power and so forth that we implemented in 18A,” Zinsner explained. As Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan explained a couple of weeks ago, the firm is now anticipating increasing demand for CPUs as the focus of the AI craze turns from training to inferencing work. Zinsner said that it is hard to judge exactly how big the growth in CPU demand would get, but “I think it's going to be a big market.” “If you just stamped something and called it a CPU right now, it probably would sell. So in the near term, it's all about supply,” he claimed. “I mean we've got enough demand out there that if we can do a good job executing on the ramping of supply, we should have no issue with growing our revenue meaningfully in the datacenter space,” he added. Zinsner also said that Intel was looking to draw up more long-term agreements with customers in the future. “So we're locking in a price, for sure. We're locking in a volume commitment. And then that enables us to do a better job of planning out our capacity and making sure when we're investing in capacity, we're going to see customers take that supply when it comes off the line,” he said. Intel this week unveiled its Clearwater Forest Xeon chips, along with more details of its upcoming Diamond Rapids Xeons, at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. ®

Hackers appeared to take over victims’ accounts even after Meta said it fixed its AI-powered support chatbot, which granted hackers access to victims’ accounts.

A body that represents mobile operators wants the migration to 6G networks to be as smooth as possible, learning lessons from the fractious 5G introduction that has left countries like the UK with a less than satisfactory service. The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) says that 6G requires a different standardization approach in order to prevent complexity and market confusion, alongside a smooth and cost-effective migration path for its members. What exactly defines 6G is still being thrashed out, but it is expected to be ready by the end of the decade. According to telecoms supplier Ericsson, 6G networks are likely to offer data rates of several hundred gigabits per second (Gbps) with sub-millisecond (ms) end-to-end latency, and usher in new use cases. But NGMN sees it as an opportunity to simplify network architectures, reduce long‑term costs and operational complexity, and ensure a smooth and scalable migration path. As it points out, deploying a new technology requires significant investment, and this needs to be justified by confidence it will deliver a sustainable return for the operators. The org has pushed out two reports ahead of a plenary meeting of the 3GPP standards consortium in Singapore this month. One looks at 6G architecture and migration options, while the other considers the timing of 6G’s introduction from an operator’s perspective. What the NGMN wants to see is consensus on a primary approach to 6G migration and reduction in complexity across user equipment (UE), the radio access network (RAN) and core networks. It also wants to see the required 6G specifications, including those for RAN and core network, delivered in a single drop of 3GPP Release 21 rather than pushed out piecemeal. This is to enable operators to perform a complete network rollout without multiple phases that result in unnecessary complexity and market confusion, it says. In its first document, the NGMN advocates for the use of Multi-RAT Spectrum sharing (MRSS) as a migration option, where RAT means radio access technology. This enables the simultaneous use of the same frequency band by more than one generation of cellular network, such as 5G and 6G. This will 6G with flexible access to 5G spectrum so that “competitive user throughput and performance” can be achieved, even in locations where a large amount of new spectrum (e.g. spectrum around 7 GHz) is unavailable or too costly to deploy, it claims. However, the 3GPP should give also consideration to alternatives such as Dual Connectivity and Dual Stack, in case MRSS is found to significantly reduce 5G performance or increase network costs. As for the operators’ expectations of 6G, the second document says that a key motivation is to evolve network core technology to deliver greater operational efficiency. This extends to more efficient use of new spectrum bands (6-7 GHz considered possible), network automation, AI as a service, energy efficiency, and delivering ubiquitous coverage. The value to end users and the cost of network deployment are driven for a significant part by the design choices made in standardization, and this is why a single drop of specifications is key. With 5G, the full promise of the technology could not be delivered with initial deployments, and multiple rollouts and device generations have been needed. In the UK, for example, network operators were forced to bolt 5G radios onto the existing infrastructure built for 4G, which meant early users did not perceive much improvement in service, as The Register wrote last year. This led to the impression that it wasn't worth paying extra for, which sapped the networks of funding needed to invest in upgrades later. However, the ability to decouple investment in software from simultaneous investment in hardware for 6G is a key operator expectation, according to the NGMN. If they can deploy 6G by means of software upgrades in the 5G legacy frequency bands, it will limit the required 6G investment, and will facilitate faster 6G rollouts. Conversely, 6G deployments may be subject to major delays if operators have to face infrastructure renewals and software upgrades at the same time. Another factor is the availability of new spectrum. For 6G, this will be instrumental for new use cases requiring extra capacity. The GSMA said in a report last year that 6G networks will need up to three times the spectrum currently allocated for 5G, and was measuring up various mid-band frequencies, as well as some in the centimeter wave bands. Overall, it seems the NGMN wants the standards bodies to take their time and get it right, before any rollout of 6G technology is even considered. “It is critical to take the time necessary for producing standards ensuring the above requirements, learning the lessons of 5G-SA deployments, and not to rush into decisions having potentially detrimental impact on the industry,” the document states. Extending the completion date of 3GPP Release 21 should even be considered if such a risk is identified, the NGMN adds. “The transition to 6G will present significant opportunities, but only if the industry prioritizes migration paths that build on existing network assets, minimize operational complexity and deliver tangible benefits from the earliest deployment stages,” said NGMN Alliance board chairman and Orange Group CTO Laurent Leboucher. “Dedicating sufficient time to this process is crucial, otherwise risking unnecessary complexity and long-term challenges, limiting the value to operators and end users.” ®

Amazon will use visual search and AI to show AI generated product images that match your search queries. The retailer says it will help guide users to products.

What do you do after helping defeat a sociopathic Supe determined to rule mankind as a walking fascist god? If you’re Jack Quaid, you put on one of the funniest motion-capture suits ever for your strange new starring role in the next God of War game. PlayStation provided a behind-the-scenes look at how the cast for God of War Laufey brought their characters to life. And it includes The Boys‘ Hughie doing what he does best – fully committing to a role no matter what it takes. In this case, Jack Quaid is doing some serious acting as a… gelatinous cube?

PlayStation introduced the performers for its upcoming God of War Laufey in a short “Meet the Cast” video. (Which we first heard about at GameSpot.) In addition to Quaid, the God of War cast includes franchise alum Deborah Ann Woll. She’s back, in a much bigger role, as games will play as the legendary warrior Faye.

Perlina Lau will also make her video game debut as Rue, in what is an unusual character. Rue is the conscious “badass” ribbons attached to Faye’s sword who always points out danger to her wielder. That is until the fighting starts. Then Rue is ready to roll. Or….like….whip? Swing? Flutter in the breeze?

Then there’s Quaid’s God of War character…

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So why does his motion-capture suit include a big bulky cube of plastic tubing? Because yes, as mentioned, he’s playing a cube. Well, technically, he’s playing Phranque, a cosmic cube from The Everywhen. Quaid shares of his God of War cube character, “Phranque is … a cosmic cube that you meet in this world called the Everywhen. When you start playing this game, you get the feeling that the Everywhen is in trouble and Phranque will stop at nothing to protect all the living creatures that inhabit this world.”

Absurd, yes, which is why Jack Quaid was perfect for this God of War role. No one does absurd better. But that’s not the only reason he was the man to play Phranque. That cosmic cube is also highly protective of every living thing in The Everywhen, the setting where the games takes place. And we all know the man who brought Hughie to life on The Boys knows how to convey genuine care and concern.

And that he’s also willing to look as silly as possible to make it happen… While walking around portraying a box.

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The prominent AI music generation startup is now valued at over $5.4 billion -- about seven months ago, it raised at a $2.45 billion valuation.

COMPUTEX 2026 The sun is slowly but surely setting on copper interconnects, Marvell CEO Matt Murphy claimed in his Computex keynote this week. Within the next decade the IP house expects photons to take the place of electrons and change the way datacenters are built and run in the process. And, if Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is right, the widespread transition to silicon photonics technologies could make Marvell the next trillion dollar company. With a market cap of $191 billion, Marvell still has a long way to go, not that stopped Wall Street investors from sending the company’s share price on a 30 percent rally on the proclamation. However, Huang’s prediction, made during Marvell’s Computex keynote this week, may be more than flattery. The large-scale deployment of AI infrastructure for training, inference, and agentic systems is already reshaping datacenter networks and pushing copper interconnects to the limit. “The distance a signal can travel over a copper cable is inversely proportional to the bandwidth, so every time you double the bandwidth, you have to cut the distance in half,” Murphy explained. Today the fastest network interconnects operate at 200 Gbps per lane, but at these speeds copper cables can only carry a signal about 2.5 meters, effectively limiting interconnects. With the launch of its next-gen NVSwitch silicon in its Vera Rubin platform, Nvidia will double this again to 400 Gbps, halving copper's reach once again. There’s a reason the NVL72’s switches are located in the middle of the rack. “Going forward, even the connections within the rack will become optical,” Murphy said. “The whole industry knows this is coming. So, we've been preparing for this moment, not just Marvell, but the industry.” Optics offer much greater reach, but the tech isn’t without compromise. Pluggable optics are not only power hungry but they also fail. Power consumption is one of the reasons why Nvidia first revealed its NVL72 rack systems, Huang explained that using optics would have added another 20 kilowatts to the system’s then monstrous 120 kilowatt load. “You use optics wherever you must, you use copper wherever you can,” Huang said during Marvell’s keynote. While Huang expects copper interconnects to remain relevant for a while longer, Marvell is preparing for a future in which even PCB traces will be replaced by fiber optic cables. In 2020 Marvell acquired Inphi, which specialized in building optoelectrical interconnects, and more recently the company dropped billions to acquire Celestial AI’s silicon photonics interconnect tech. Then in March, Nvidia invested $2 billion in Marvell to, among other things, advance its silicon photonics interconnect tech. “We build optical modules that contain all the electronics needed to drive and modulate the laser and transmit data over long distances,” Murphy said. At copper's end “Think about 10 years in the future and it's a world where a lot of the copper connections are gone,” Murphy said. “This is a world where then distance doesn't matter... that's a profound change.” All modern datacenter infrastructure and software has been designed around the constraints of distances. “With optics, distance doesn't matter. So now we can change the size of the scale up domain from 72 or 144 XPUs or GPUs to 1,000 or more, all optically interconnected,” he said. “The implications for workloads are enormous.” But it’s not just GPUs. Murphy explains that when everything from CPUs and GPUs to memory and storage are optically interconnected, they will no longer need to be in the same box. “Modern AI servers are composed of a certain number of CPUs, XPUs, memory, and network interfaces, and the reason they're all on the same system is because of distance,“ he explained. “Imagine a completely disaggregated architecture, XPUs in one system, memory in another, agentic CPUs in another.” This means these resources can be reconfigured on the fly to achieve the ideal ratio of CPU to GPUs to system memory for a specific workload. Google is already doing this to a lesser extent with its TPU clouds. While the ratio of CPUs and memory to GPUs can’t be reconfigured on the fly, the use of optical circuit switches means the number and shape (topology) of Google’s TPUs can be adjusted to maximize inference or training performance. This also has implications beyond AI. Even if the bubble collapses and AI infrastructure demand evaporates, one can imagine AWS and other major cloud providers using silicon photonics or co-packaged optics to disaggregate compute resources and then reassemble them a la carte. Battling Broadzilla Marvell is a long way from a trillion dollar market cap and getting there assumes a certain other IP house doesn’t eat their lunch. Broadcom, whose market cap already surpasses $2 trillion, and whose customers include some of the largest hyperscalers in the world, including Google and Meta, has also been amassing a broad portfolio of silicon photonics and optics tech over the past several years. These technologies include co-packaged optics for switches and XPUs, as well as DSPs for high bandwidth pluggables. Much like Murphy, Broadcom’s CPU Hock Tan expects that photonics will replace most copper interconnects eventually, just not tomorrow. “I can see a point in time in the future when it matters as the only way to do it,” Tan told analysts late last year. “we are not quite there yet.” “The final, final, straw is when you can’t do it well in pluggable optics,” Tan said. “Then you go to silicon photonics.” ®

James Gunn’s Superman became the fan-favorite superhero movie of 2025, officially launching the new DCU on the big screen. And in 2027, we’ll get our first continuation, which DC Studios has called the next chapter in the “Super Family Saga.” James Gunn

Via Threads, James Gunn gave us our first look at Lex in his Power Armor in the Superman movie, Man of Tomorrow. And damn, it looks good. He also let us know that Man of Tomorrow would take place in “basically real time” on the DCU timeline. Meaning Man of Tomorrow will be set approximately two years after Superman.

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Here is everything we know so far about the much-anticipated return of the Last Son of Krypton to the big screen in Man of Tomorrow.

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The official title of the Superman follow-up is Man of Tomorrow, and not Superman: Man of Tomorrow, as many have speculated. According to James Gunn, Man of Tomorrow is “as much a Lex movie as it is a Superman movie.”

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The plot of this sequel will have Superman and his arch-nemesis, Lex Luthor, team up to take down a greater threat, which we know will be the despotic alien android, Brainiac. Based on the teaser art released by Jim Lee to go with the title announcement, Lex Luthor will wear his comic book-accurate warsuit in the film.

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DC Studios co-head James Gunn is once again back as writer/director. John Murphy and David Fleming are expected to return to score the sequel as well.

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Much of the cast of Superman will return for Man of Tomorrow. David Corenswet is back as Superman/Clark Kent, naturally, and Rachel Brosnahan also returns as Lois Lane. Nicholas Hoult will co-star as Lex Luthor, and Frank Grillo is also returning as Rick Flag Sr. Most of the Daily Planet staff are presumably also returning. This includes Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen, Wendell Pierce as Perry White, and Mikaela Hoover as Cat Grant. And as the evil Brainiac, Gunn has cast German actor Lars Eidinger.

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Isabel Merced has confirmed she is also flying back into Metropolis as Hawkgirl. There’s no official word on Edi Gathegi as Mister Terrific, Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner, or Anthony Carrigan as Metamorpho. But we expect at least some of these Justice Gang members to return. Some storyboards seen in Superman special features suggest Supergirl (Milly Alcock) will also feature in this story in some capacity. Oh, and we think there will be riots if Krypto doesn’t come back as well.

According to Variety, Aaron Pierre will also join the cast of Man of Tomorrow. This news comes ahead of his debut as John Stewart in the Lanterns TV series. Adria Arjona has also been cast in the DCU for this movie. But we don’t yet know which role she is playing.

Finally, Matthew Lillard has come aboard the movie. He’s truly having a career Renaissance with Five Nights at Freddy’s, Scream 7, and Daredevil: Born Again. It is not clear who he will play.

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The official release date for DC Studios’ Man of Tomorrow is July 9, 2027.

Originally published December 30, 2025.

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“The principles I hold dear are gone,” 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley said after getting fired Tuesday night for criticizing Bari Weiss’ leadership at CBS News the day before as submitting to President Donald Trump’s whims. “And so I must leave.”

In his statement, he detailed how the program’s new management repeatedly instructed him to “inject falsehoods and bias” and “include assertions that are unverified.” Though Pelley refused to do so, he said network leadership allowed politicians to pick their own interviewers — “giving politicians control” and destroying the broadcast’s integrity.

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As I wrote last December, CBS has previously pulled 60 Minutes segments, including one that was critical of the Trump administration deporting people from Venezuela to a maximum security prison in El Salvador. 

At the 47th News and Documentary Emmy Awards last Wednesday, Scott Pelley handed Santiago Campos, a high school senior, a $10,000 scholarship from CBS News for a submission that reflected on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns through the story of his own family. Campos condemned CBS News in his acceptance speech, stating that the network’s new editorial direction “stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.”

CBS News’ downfall comes as David Ellison — son of Oracle co-founder and centi-billionaire Larry Ellison — took over Paramount, the company that owns the network. 

“God, we need young people like you right behind us.” Pelley said to Campos after his acceptance speech. “I know that Mike Wallace is looking down at you with pride at this very moment.”

We have some very exciting news: Second lady Usha Vance is back for her second annual summer reading challenge! If you didn’t remember her first summer reading challenge, don’t worry—we don’t either. But Usha is here to pretend that she’s relevant and is totally doing things, you guys. “This year, we’re having a big rollout all over the country,” she bragged to ABC News when she…

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Your customer service agent just wrote to a database it should have been reading from, and nobody told it to do so. Somewhere upstream, a poisoned support ticket had convinced the agent that the user was an admin, and being helpful, it obliged. This is the working day for anyone running autonomous AI in production. Prisma AIRS from Palo Alto Networks Networks sits in the middle of that traffic, inspecting tool calls and network flows rather than only the natural-language prompts on the surface, and catching the moment when an agent stops chatting and starts acting. Palo Alto Networks calls this shift "agents with hands" — models that can hit APIs, query databases, and execute tasks without a human in the loop. The convenience opens a lethal trifecta of private data access, exposure to untrusted content, and an outbound channel; none of these is dangerous in isolation, but combined they describe the route by which data quietly leaves your network. Multi-agent setups compound the problem, because east-west traffic between agents means a hallucination in one place can ripple through the entire chain. Standardized connectors offer no defense here: protocols like MCP describe how an agent talks to a tool, but say nothing about whether the request is legitimate in the first place. The named attacks grow more creative by the week. Memory poisoning, for instance, plants instructions that an agent learns and executes weeks later, while "confused deputy" attacks trick a read-only agent into writing. Rugpulls are nastier still: a tool that has worked reliably for months — long enough to earn trust — one day begins quietly siphoning data, after the organization has come to depend on it. None of these are theoretical, and all of them slip past keyword-based guardrails. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails and similar text filters work well enough for governance and content safety, but they will not catch SQL injection buried inside a tool payload, nor will they contain the dynamic reasoning of an autonomous agent. Prisma AIRS is built to take a second pass, watching the payloads themselves and killing connections when an agent suddenly demands admin privileges. The same approach blocks memory-poisoning attempts and tool-schema extraction before the malicious instruction ever lands. Genuine protection in an agentic AI environment depends on knowing where to look for hidden risks. Shadow agents accumulate inside any reasonably sized estate, inactive identities cling to permissions long after the projects that required them have shipped, and east-west traffic that historically passed unobserved through enterprise datacenters now demands scrutiny. Discovering those exposures before an attacker does requires a new generation of tooling. Agentic AI is moving quickly while the threat models that should constrain it are still being written. The sensible response is to treat the security layer the way you treated network security in 2010 — assume the perimeter is already inside, and watch what the agents do rather than only what they say. Sponsored by Palo Alto Networks.