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Netflix Closes the Case: Why “A Man on the Inside” Is Bowing Out on Its Own Terms

There is something almost radical, in the streaming era, about a show choosing to leave before it overstays its welcome. Netflix has confirmed that “A Man on the Inside,” the gentle, sharply written comedy starring Ted Danson, will conclude with its third season, currently in production in San Francisco. For a platform that has built

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The Fight British Boxing Never Quite Gave Us

Sports / RP

For the better part of a decade, British heavyweight boxing has danced around one question: what happens when Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua finally get in the ring together. Every time talks have surfaced, they have collapsed under the weight of purse splits, promotional rivalries and the sheer unpredictability of two men who have never

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The Database That Could Decide Who Gets to Vote

World Events / RP

There is something almost quietly unsettling about a court ruling that doesn’t grab headlines the way a war or a market crash does, yet quietly reshapes who gets to participate in a democracy. That is exactly what the Supreme Court has done here, allowing the Trump administration to move ahead with using a federal database

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The Neocloud Gold Rush Reaches British Shores

Tech / RP

There’s a particular smell to a boom, and right now it smells like liquid-cooled data centre halls and convertible notes. Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company most people outside the industry have never heard of, has just pulled in $3.36 billion in convertible financing from investors including Dan Loeb’s Third Point and Nvidia itself, ahead

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Handshakes Now, Homework Later: The Trump-Xi Truce That Solves Nothing

Politics / RP

There is a particular kind of diplomatic theatre where the smiles are real, the handshake lingers a beat too long for the cameras, and yet everyone in the room knows the hard questions have simply been postponed. That is precisely what unfolded when Donald Trump and Xi Jinping parted ways after their latest encounter, described

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Halle Berry’s Quiet Case for a Different Kind of Action Hero

Enews / RP

There is something almost radical about a Hollywood A-lister standing in a Greenwich Village penthouse, surrounded by lemon water and canapés, and making the case that violence on screen doesn’t have to look the way it always has. That is essentially what Halle Berry did while presenting this year’s Chanel x Tribeca Through Her Lens

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Democracy’s Data Problem: What the Voter Database Ruling Really Signals

Geo Politics / RP

There is something quietly unsettling about a court allowing a government to sift through millions of names using a system even its critics call unreliable, and calling that progress. Yet that is precisely what the US Supreme Court has done, permitting the Trump administration to use a contested federal database to check the citizenship status

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Twenty-Five Years On, the UN Still Can’t Agree on Who’s a Terrorist

Geo Politics / RP

There is something almost ritualistic about how the United Nations Security Council marks September 11 each year, and this 25th anniversary was no exception. Michael Waltz, representing the United States, stood before the chamber and invoked the memory of nearly 3,000 people killed in 2001, framing the hunt for Osama bin Laden as a collective

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The Robots Are Learning, and Someone Has to Teach Them

Tech / RP

There’s a particular irony in the fact that the smartest machines being built today are, in essence, toddlers. They can’t yet make sense of the physical world without being shown, over and over, how a hand grips a cup or a hinge swings a door. That gap between raw intelligence and physical competence has become

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The Hormuz Card: Why Iran Keeps Playing It, and Why the World Keeps Flinching

Geo Politics / RP

Every few years, someone in Tehran reminds the world that a fifth of global oil trade passes through a strait barely 33 kilometres wide at its narrowest point, and markets remember why they should never get too comfortable. This week it was Mohsen Rezaei, a senior Iranian security official with a long history in the

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