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US critical infrastructure cyberattack reporting rules inch closer to reality
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 GMT
After all, it's only about keeping the essentials on– no rushAmerica's long-awaited cyber attack reporting rules for critical infrastructure operators are inching closer to implementation, after the Feds posted a notice of proposed rulemaking for the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA).…

How a single buck bought bragging rights in the battle to port Windows 95 to NT
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 GMT
It reached the desktop and then ...A former Microsoft engineer has waxed lyrical about how he and a colleague made a sporting bet over how far a new build of Windows would get before crashing.…

Canonical cracks down on crypto cons following Snap Store scam spree
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 GMT
In happier news, Ubuntu Pro extended support now goes up to 12 yearsAfter multiple waves of cryptocurrency credential-stealing apps were uploaded to the Snap store, Canonical is changing its policies.…

Progress outbids private equity in offer for MariaDB plc
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 GMT
MySQL sibling saga continues as 40-year-old infrastructure software firm enters the frayProgress Software has made a bid for MariaDB, offering a price that is less than a tenth of the beleaguered company's value at its IPO launch.…

INC Ransom claims responsibility for attack on NHS Scotland
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 GMT
Sensitive documents dumped on leak site amid claims of 3 TB of data stolen in totalNHS Scotland says it managed to contain a ransomware group's malware to a regional branch, preventing the spread of infection across the entire institution.…

PostgreSQL pioneer's latest brainchild promises time travel to dodge ransomware
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 GMT
Michael Stonbraker on the neat side effects of putting an operating system on top of a databaseDatabase pioneer Michael Stonebraker is promising his new concept of putting the operating system on top of a database could help end ransomware.…

Databricks claims its open source foundational LLM outsmarts GPT-3.5
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 GMT
In the AI gold rush, analytics outfit wants to provide the shovelsAnalytics platform Databricks has launched an open source foundational large language model, hoping enterprises will opt to use its tools to jump on the LLM bandwagon.…

These 17,000 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are a ticking time bomb
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 GMT
One might say this is a wurst case scenarioThe German Federal Office for Information Security (BIS) has issued an urgent alert about the poor state of Microsoft Exchange Server patching in the country.…

AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them– even if potentially poisoned with malware
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 GMT
Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do thatIn-depthSeveral big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generative AI.…

Execs in Japan busted for winning dev bids then outsourcing to North Koreans
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 GMT
Government issues stern warning over despot money-making schemeTwo executives were issued arrest warrants in Japan on Wednesday, reportedly for charges related to establishing a business that outsourced work to North Korean IT engineers.…

China encouraged armed offensive against Myanmar government to protest proliferation of online scams
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 GMT
Report claims Beijing is most displaced by junta's failure to address slave labor scam settlementsThe military junta controlling Myanmar has struggled to control all of its territory thanks in part to China backing rebel forces as a way of expressing its displeasure about cyberscam centers operating from the country.…

Singapore improves the AI it uses to detect smokers
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 GMT
Past versions struggled to spot a lungbuster– this time authorities think they've reduced false positivesSingapore has improved the AI it uses to detect smokers who light up in the many places where the practice is forbidden across the island nation, to help local law enforcement more efficiently stub out offenders.…

Hyperfluorescent OLEDs promise more efficient displays that won't make you so blue
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 GMT
Novel design might also help reduce those annoying burn-in issuesA recent paper published in Nature demonstrates that hyperfluorescent OLEDs could significantly reduce the energy required to display the color blue– potentially mitigating, but not solving, screen burn-in.…

Standardization could open door to third-party chiplets in AMD designs
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Domain-specific accelerators are 'essential to progress' it claims, and a chiplet ecosystem is one way forwardVideoFuture AMD processors could feature domain-specific accelerators– even some created by third parties, according to senior execs at the chip shop.…

Apple fans deluged with phony password reset requests
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Beware support calls offering a fixApple device owners, consider yourselves warned: a targeted multi-factor authentication bombing campaign is under way, with the goal of exhausting iUsers into allowing an unwanted password reset.…

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to knowMore than half of Americans are using ad blocking software, and among advertising, programming, and security professionals that fraction is more like two-thirds to three-quarters.…

NASA gives IXPE observatory the Ctrl-Alt-Del treatment to make it talk sense
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionicsNASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory has had a problem, prompting engineers on the ground to hit the reset button.…

'Thousands' of businesses at mercy of miscreants thanks to unpatched Ray AI flaw
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Anyscale claims issue is 'long-standing design decision'– as users are raided by intrudersThousands of companies remain vulnerable to a remote-code-execution bug in Ray, an open-source AI framework used by Amazon, OpenAI, and others, that is being abused by miscreants in the wild to steal sensitive data and illicitly mine for cryptocurrency.…

Amazon finishes pumping $4B into AI darling Anthropic
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on ClaudeAmazon says it has concluded its investment in AI super-startup Anthropic, which now stands at $4 billion, a figure the e-commerce colossus committed to last year.…

SEC cleared to take securities beef against Coinbase to trial
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Judge says watchdog can HODL four of its five charges against crypto exchangeThe SEC's lawsuit accusing cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase of operating as an unregistered securities broker has survived its first legal challenge, opening the door for the case to go to trial.…

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite dares to game, reaching 30 FPS in Baldur's Gate 3
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
The bare minimum performance, but suggests a beefy integrated GPUQualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite has some gaming and graphics prowess as seen in a demo where a reference laptop was shown to be running Baldur's Gate 3 at 1080p resolution and around 30 frames per second.…

NASA to shoot rockets at April solar eclipse to see how it messes with the atmosphere
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Boffins hope to better understand how phenomena disrupt comms tech in order to prevent future outagesThere's a total solar eclipse coming up in North America, and NASA plans to shoot some rockets at it to see how the ionosphere changes as the Sun is obscured by the Moon.…

Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Some staff are worried– can't think whyMutterings of alarm are emerging from the cloisters of Red Hat after the world's largest management consultancy was hired to help the IBM subsidiary focus engineers on their highest-value work.…

Kaby Lake-G chip back from the grave, now on modest firewall-router-NAS mobo
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU into the processor package resurrected by ToptonKaby Lake-G, the Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU directly into the CPU package itself, was pronounced dead in 2019, but that hasn't stopped one company from reviving it for a mini PC motherboard.…

Intel throws chips on the table, Microsoft plays the Copilot card in wild bet on AI PCs
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Does anyone actually want one?Intel has muddied the AI PC waters by sharing some of Microsoft's requirements while also claiming that its own take on the concept has Intel silicon at its heart.…

TSMC's 3nm node powers up, setting stage for tech giants' next-gen chips
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
AMD, Apple, Intel throw weight– and cash – behind process technologyTSMC will see its 3nm node represent over 20 percent of its revenue this year as the node of choice for upcoming processors designed by AMD, Apple, and Intel.…

Meta accused of snarfing people's Snapchat data via traffic decryption
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
I ain't afraid of no ghosts, but in this case...To spy on rival Snapchat and get data on how the app was being used, Meta– when it was operating as Facebook – allegedly initiated a program called Project Ghostbusters, which intercepted data traffic from mobile apps. And it used that data to harm its competitors' ad business.…

What Nvidia's Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operators
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Air cooling's diminishing returns on full display with Nv's B-series siliconAnalysisHotter and more power-hungry CPUs and GPUs were already causing headaches for datacenter operators before Nvidia unveiled its 1,200W Blackwell GPUs at GTC last week.…

Boeing and subsidiary file trade secrets lawsuit against Virgin Galactic
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Oh, and there's small matter of an alleged $26M in unpaid billsUpdatedBoeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation have sued Virgin Galactic, alleging the space tourism company has misappropriated trade secrets.…

Miscreants are exploiting enterprise tech zero days more and more, Google warns
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Crooks know where the big bucks areThe discovery and exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in enterprise-specific software and appliances appears to be outpacing the leveraging of zero-day bugs overall, judging by Google's latest research.…

Pragmatic Semiconductor opens UK's first 300mm wafer fab in Durham
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Facility to bring major leap in domestic chip production amid government supportUK chipmaker Pragmatic Semiconductor has officially opened its latest manufacturing facilities in Durham, just over a year after its CEO threatened to move the company out of the country over the government's lack of support for the chip industry.…

In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Regulators reminded that longstanding concerns haven't been addressedCompetition cops in Europe and the United Kingdom have started paying attention to in-app browsers, a controversial mechanism for presenting web content within native apps.…

Belgian beer study acquires taste for machine learning
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Researchers reckon results could improve recipe development for food and beveragesJoining the list of things that probably don't need improving by machine learning but people are going to try anyway is Belgian beer.…

Street newspaper appears to have Big Issue with Qilin ransomware gang
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
The days of cybercriminals having something of a moral compass are overThe parent company of The Big Issue, a street newspaper and social enterprise for homeless people, is wrestling with a cybersecurity incident claimed by the Qilin ransomware gang.…

Windows Format dialog waited decades for UI revamp that never came
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
'Temporary' isn't alwaysWindows has a built-in reminder of the perils of temporary solutions thanks to the 30-year-old porting efforts of former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer.…

UK skies set for cheeky upgrade with hybrid airship
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Depending on planning permission being given for facilityThe Airlander hybrid airship looks set to go into production within a few years, if its maker can get planning approval for a factory.…

Lenovo scores deal to build supercomputer at UK's Hartree Center
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Liquid cooled, 44.7 Petaflops and with unspecified GPUsThe UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has picked Lenovo to build and install a 44.7-Petaflops liquid cooled supercomputer.…

CEO of UK's National Grid warns of datacenters' thirst for power
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Predicts 500 percent increase in consumption over a decade and suggests 800 kilovolt fixJohn Pettigrew, the CEO of Britain's National Grid, warned on Tuesday that datacenter power consumption is on track to grow 500 percent over the next decade.…

BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Finally, a power greater than ML hype: Angry fandomPicsThe BBC has decided to exterminate its experiments using generative AI to promote venerable sci-fi show Doctor Who.…

XenServer is back, with a rebranded Citrix Hypervisor and a tasty three-host freebie
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Per-socket licensing regime may explain years of ups and downsXenServer, the Cloud-Software-Group-owned server virtualization spinout from Citrix, has debuted its new/old product, XenServer 8.…

Alibaba bins listing for its Cainiao logistics limb
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 GMT
Already backed away from cloud spinout, now gradually breaking up with its own breakup planChinese tech giant Alibaba has decided not to spin out its logistics limb, Cainiao, and will instead buy back shares in the outfit and integrate it more deeply with its e-commerce operations.…

Dell doubles down on layoffs, literally: 13,000 gone in the past year
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 GMT
Sigh, AI to the rescue, sighDell this week disclosed it has 120,000 workers, which is about 13,000 fewer than it had at the start of 2023. That means it has laid off almost double the number of people it previously indicated.…

Intel chases smaller code shops with expanded AI PC dev program, NUC kit
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 GMT
Chipzilla wants more apps coded for NPUs, not NvidiaIntel has expanded its efforts to encourage programmers to code for so-called "AI PCs" by targeting smaller software houses with a development kit based on Asus’s NUC 14 Pro PC.…

Chrome for Windows-Arm laptops officially lands in time for Snapdragon X Elite kit
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 GMT
At last, no more crappy emulation or experimental buildsThe first official release of Chrome for Windows-on-Arm laptops is landing this week, in time for this summer's Snapdragon X Elite-powered notebooks running Microsoft's operating system.…

Intricate mission to de-ice a space telescope is go: Euclid's 'eye' is clear
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 GMT
100 minutes of heating to melt a frozen heart... 1.5 million kilometers away from EarthBoffins at the European Space Agency (ESA) are very pleased with themselves following confirmation that the de-icing process they devised for Euclid's optics has "performed significantly better than hoped."…

Intel Meteor Lake makes unexpected leap to socketed motherboards
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 GMT
But not, we repeat, not on the desktopIntel's Meteor Lake processors will apparently make it to socketed motherboards after all, but not those of traditional desktops.…

US sanctions spree continues with 15 more for Russian entities
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 GMT
Financial firms that help evade existing restrictions in crosshairsIt's sanctions central at the US Treasury this week as a further 15 are slapped on organizations and individuals in Russia.…

Canva acquires Affinity, further wounding a regulator-bruised Adobe
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 GMT
Yet another reason to reconsider that overpriced Creative Cloud subscriptionCanva is stepping up its competition with Adobe for creative software dominance with the acquisition of popular creative software suite Affinity.…

Uncle Sam's had it up to here with 'unforgivable' SQL injection flaws
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 GMT
Software slackers urged to up their gameThe US has clearly had enough of software vendors shipping products with "unforgivable" vulnerabilities, and is now urging them to launch formal code reviews to stamp out SQL injection flaws.…

Nvidia software exec Kari Briski on NIM, CUDA, and dogfooding AI
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 GMT
A RAGs to riches storyInterviewNvidia's GPU Technology Conference concluded last week, bringing word of the company's Blackwell chips and the much-ballyhooed wonders of AI, with all the dearly purchased GPU hardware that implies.…

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Gagosian and Basquiat: The Early Years of Two Rising Stars in Los Angeles
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
A new exhibition tells the dealer’s story of how two rising stars, Larry Gagosian and Jean-Michel Basquiat, worked together in Los Angeles in the ’80s.

5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
Julia Perry’s Violin Concerto, a collection of Copland works conducted by Copland and a program of songs by Black composers are among the highlights.

Crisis-Hit British Museum Gets New Leader
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
Nicholas Cullinan will take over the London institution as it faces the fallout from a theft scandal and calls for the return of objects in its collection.

Game Reviews: These Bonds Can Conquer Even Death
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
Open Roads, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake and Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden shred the heartstrings with quests for those in close relationships.

Jim White, Your Favorite Songwriter’s Favorite Drummer
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
During the last 30 years, the musician has emerged as one of indie-rock’s most distinctive drummers on other people’s records. At last, he’s made his own.

For Richard Serra, Art Was Not Something. It Was Everything.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
He was known as the Man of Steel. But the sculptor was also an eternal poet, reshaping our perception of space, says our critic.

NBC’s Hiring of Ronna McDaniel, Former RNC Head: What’s the Deal?
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
The deal with a former R.N.C. chair who enabled election deniers risked the credibility of NBC News— and ended up pleasing no one.

Kim Kardashian is Sued for Saying Her Tables Are Authentic Donald Judds
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
In a promotional video, the reality star said her office furniture was designed by Judd, the minimalist artist. His foundation says otherwise in a new lawsuit.

Harvard Removes Binding of Human Skin From Book in Its Library
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
The decision to find a“respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections.

The Broad Museum, a Los Angeles Favorite, Is Expanding
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
An expansion designed by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro will add 55,000 square feet to an institution that has become a popular Los Angeles destination.

How the Gory Sex Scenes in‘Teeth’ Came Together
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
Creating the sex scenes for the horror musical required close attention to detail, extra communication and some strategically placed silicone.

What is Night Flight Plus? A Streaming Alternative to Netflix and Hulu.
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
If you’ve got six bucks and want to be adventurous, try this streaming service for some wild fringe programming.

You Know Him From N.B.A. Games. You Know His House From‘Selling Sunset.’
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
For half a century, James Goldstein has been renovating a house by John Lautner. It’s a spectacular legacy. But like everything about Goldstein, it’s complicated.

Martin Scorsese to Headline a Religious Series for Fox Nation
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
The Oscar-winning director is the latest Hollywood name to sign up for the Fox News streaming platform, joining Kevin Costner, Rob Lowe and Dan Aykroyd.

When Richard Serra’s Steel Curves Became a Memorial
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
The sculptor had a breakthrough in the late 1990s with his torqued metal rings. Then the attack on the World Trade Center, which Serra witnessed, gave them a sudden new significance.

The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Rage and Grief
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
Käthe Kollwitz’s fierce belief in social justice and her indelible images made her one of Germany’s best printmakers. A dazzling MoMA show reminds us why.

Artisanal Cement Tiles Inspired by Modernist Homes
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
Plus: a Venetian retreat, hand-knotted rugs and more recommendations from T Magazine.

Three Great Documentaries to Stream
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
Ethan Coen’s survey of a rock ’n’ roll icon, Frederick Wiseman’s take on haute cuisine and a searing portrait of PTSD are this month’s picks.

‘DogMan’ Review: Crackers for Animals
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
An electrifying Caleb Landry Jones plays the damaged heart of this oddly wonderful tale of resilience and revenge.

‘Lousy Carter’ Review: Blackboard Bungle
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
A college professor gets a grim diagnosis in this comedy from Bob Byington.

‘The Beautiful Game’ Review: A Different Kind of World Cup
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
This heart-string-tugging Netflix movie about a homeless soccer team, featuring Bill Nighy and Micheal Ward, puts the emphasis on play and uplift.

‘Asphalt City’ Review: Arbiters of Life and Death
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
Sean Penn plays a flinty paramedic showing a rookie the ropes in this maddening drama about emergency medical workers in New York.

In Raymond Saunders’s Paintings, an Education on How to Rebel
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
“Post No Bills,” a four-decade overview of the artist’s work, is a sprawling map of his searching mind and hard-to-categorize work.

‘Wicked Little Letters’ Review: Prim, Proper and Profane
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley elevate a comedy about a weird true tale of defamation and dirty words.

Steve Buscemi’s ‘The Listener’ Looks at Post-Covid Loneliness
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
Tessa Thompson’s still and luminous performance makes this post-Covid drama about loneliness, directed by Steve Buscemi, worth watching.

T’s 25 Most Defining Pieces of Furniture From the Last 100 Years: Everything We Considered
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
From a Marcel Breuer chair to Metro shelving, all the nominated objects.

The 25 Most Defining Pieces of Furniture From the Last 100 Years
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
Three designers, a museum curator, an artist and a design-savvy actress convened at The New York Times to make a list of the most enduring and significant objects for living.

Sculpture Doesn’t Get Much Smaller Than This
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
Lyndon J. Barrois Sr., whose day job is high-tech animation, uses gum wrappers to create detailed portraits of historical figures and athletes in flight.

Stephen Colbert Recaps the Ronna McDaniel Drama at NBC
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
“In case you’re unfamiliar with McDaniel, she is terrible,” Stephen Colbert said of the former Republican National Committee chairwoman.

Lil Jon: The Popcast (Deluxe) Interview
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
An in-depth interview with the Atlanta hip-hop and EDM legend, tracing his path through punk, skateboarding and crunk music on the way to this year’s Super Bowl.

What We Know About Sean Combs Lawsuits, Raids and Federal Investigation
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
Federal agents executed search warrants at his homes in Los Angeles and Miami Beach, and he faces several civil lawsuits accusing him of rape and sexual assault.

Kate Banks, Children’s Author Who Wrote About Grief, Dies at 64
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
She became an award-winning author of children’s books and young-adult novels despite debilitating health issues and the murder of her father.

It’s a Statue of Prince Philip. Really. But Now It Has to Go.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
A much-reviled faceless statue in Cambridge, England, commemorating Philip’s time as a chancellor of Cambridge University has been ordered to be removed.

Disney Ends Its Fight With DeSantis Over Resort Development
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
The entertainment giant and the Florida governor have been sparring for two years over control of a tax district that encompasses Walt Disney World.

Review: A New Dance at Trisha Brown Examines the Act of a Fall
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
The Trisha Brown Dance Company returned to the Joyce Theater with an enthralling premiere by the French choreographer Noé Soulier.

British Museum Sues Former Curator for Return of Stolen Items
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
The museum accuses Peter Higgs, a former keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities, of stealing or damaging at least 1,800 artifacts and selling many on eBay.

Nickelodeon and Disney Stars Find a Second Act on Podcasts
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
The cast of the Nickelodeon series“Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide” are among the stars of 2000s teen sitcoms who are using podcasts to connect with their Gen Z and millennial fan bases.

Patrick Carfizzi Is‘the Heart and Soul’ of the Met Opera
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
Patrick Carfizzi, a vibrant performer in supporting roles, has grabbed attention in a new production of Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino.”

Sean Combs’ Cassie Lawsuit Settlement Was Only the Beginning of His Troubles
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
The hip-hop mogul denied sexual assault accusations in a bombshell suit in November. As more allegations piled up, his business empire, and reputation, faltered.

‘Modern Love Podcast’: How to Be Real With Your Kids
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
Actor Penn Badgley reads the essay“Watching Them Watching Me” and reflects on the power of apologizing to your children.

Does Country Radio’s Treehouse Have Room for Beyoncé?
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
The pop superstar’s new album, “Cowboy Carter,” could be a litmus test for a format that’s long been inhospitable to women and Black artists.

Rebecca Frecknall Is Bringing‘Cabaret’ Back to Broadway
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
The British director Rebecca Frecknall’s immersive revival of the Kander and Ebb musical was a hit in London. This spring, she’s bringing it to Broadway.

Stephen King’s Best Books: A Guide
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
The author has dominated horror fiction, and arguably all popular fiction, for decades. Here’s where to start.

Jordan Klepper Teases Trump for Shilling Bibles
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
“How does that thing not burst into flames immediately?” Klepper joked of Donald Trump’s “latest very classy business venture” on Tuesday’s “Daily Show.’

‘Opening Night’ Review: Ivo van Hove Makes a Stylish Movie Into a Sludgy Travesty
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
Ivo van Hove’s stage adaptation of the 1977 John Cassavetes film, with music by Rufus Wainwright, turns a taut character study into a corny melodrama.

Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced.

Sean Combs’s Lawyer Calls Home Raids an ‘Unprecedented Ambush’
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
A day after two of the entertainment executive’s homes were raided by federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations, his lawyer said his client is innocent.

Marjorie Perloff, Leading Scholar of Avant-Garde Poetry, Dies at 92
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem.

‘Titanic’ Door Prop That Saved Rose (Sorry, Jack) Sells for $718,750
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
It resembles a famous piece of debris salvaged from the 1912 shipwreck, according to Heritage Auctions, which offered it among a trove of memorabilia from Planet Hollywood.

The Justin Timberlake Conundrum
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
His sixth solo album,“Everything I Thought It Was,” has been met with critical dismissal and weaker sales. Where can the onetime pop superstar turn next?

A Risqué Tribute to Sinead O’Connor Arrives
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
The performance artist Christeene’s show honoring the Irish musician’s debut album touched down in New York with Peaches, Justin Vivian Bond and plenty of nudity and tears.

10 Essential Joni Mitchell Songs
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
Celebrate the artist’s return to Spotify with tracks from last summer’s “Joni Jam.”

A British Scandal Intrigued J.T. Rogers, Then He Went Down the Rabbit Hole
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
The playwright thought News International’s phone-hacking scandal could make for a sweeping thriller. Twelve years later, here it is.

6 Terrific Comedy Specials Worth Streaming
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
Jenny Slate, Dan Soder, Cara Connors, Tig Notaro, David Cross and Dave Attell stamp these hours with particularly rich sensibilities.

The Impressionists’ First Flowering Is Still Fresh After 150 Years
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
Their paintings emerged from a specific historical and artistic moment, yet they still resonate today, as a blockbuster Paris exhibition shows.

The Best of Late Night, at the Movies and Beyond
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
The new horror-thriller“Late Night With the Devil” isn’t the only time late-night hosts, shows and sets become fodder for on-screen moments in film and TV.

‘The Truth vs. Alex Jones’ Review: How Conspiracy Theories Work
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
Directed by Dan Reed (“Leaving Neverland”), the documentary offers a lesson in how conspiracy theories work and shows how parents confronted Jones in court.

Lauren Haynes to Be New Head Curator on Governors Island
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
Lauren Haynes brings her curatorial expertise to the goal of growing Governors Island’s public art program.

Review: In‘American Rot,’ the Painful Legacy of the Dred Scott Case
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
Kate Taney Billingsley’s play starts with a fictional apology, but then segregated choirs and a racist waitress create tonal dissonance.

‘Shogun’ Episode 6 Recap: Know Your Enemy
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
Lord Toranaga finally gets a worthy opponent, while Lady Mariko’s true mission is revealed.

Will Country Welcome Beyoncé? That’s the Wrong Question.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
“Cowboy Carter” is an extension of the pop superstar’s exploration of how Black creativity fuels all corners of popular music. She’s embracing the music, not the industry.

NY Times Obituaries:




Joe Lieberman, U.S. Senator and Vice Presidential Candidate, Dies at 82
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 +0000
He served four terms in the Senate from Connecticut and was chosen by Al Gore as his running mate in the 2000 election. He was the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket.

Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
He helped pioneer a branch of the field that exposed hard-wired mental biases in people’s economic behavior. The work led to a Nobel.

Kate Banks, Children’s Author Who Wrote About Grief, Dies at 64
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
She became an award-winning author of children’s books and young-adult novels despite debilitating health issues and the murder of her father.

Stephen Adams, Who Made Yale Music School Tuition-Free, Dies at 86
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
A billionaire businessman and a late-blooming piano aficionado, he set a record with the anonymous $100 million gift that he and his wife gave the school.

Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced.

Marjorie Perloff, Leading Scholar of Avant-Garde Poetry, Dies at 92
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem.

Lee Berry, Black Panther in a‘Radical Chic’ Time, Dies at 78
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
He was one of the prosecuted Panther 21 in New York, and his account of abuse in jail was a catalyst for Leonard Bernstein’s famous Park Avenue fund-raising party.

Lisa Lane, Chess Champion Whose Reign Was Meteoric, Dies at 90
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
She was the first chess player to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated. But people focused more on her looks than on her ability.

Ben Stern, Who Opposed a Nazi Rally in Illinois, Dies at 102
Mon, 25 Mar 2024 +0000
He was held prisoner in nine concentration camps. Decades later, he fought a battle against American Nazis that became a major free-speech case.

Overlooked No More: Henrietta Leavitt, Who Unraveled Mysteries of the Stars
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
The portrait that emerged from her discovery, called Leavitt’s Law, showed that the universe was hundreds of times bigger than astronomers had imagined.

Shani Mott, Black Studies Scholar Who Examined Power All Around Her, Dies at 47
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
Her work looked at how race and power are experienced in America. In 2022, she filed a lawsuit saying that the appraisal of her home was undervalued because of bias.

Peter G. Angelos, Owner of the Baltimore Orioles, Dies at 94
Mon, 25 Mar 2024 +0000
Mr. Angelos oversaw 14 consecutive losing seasons, the worst run in franchise history, but the team is now a winning ball club about to be sold to new owners.

David E. Harris, Trailblazing Airline Pilot, Is Dead at 89
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
In 1964, at the height of the civil rights movement, he became the first Black pilot for a major commercial airline in the United States.

The Art of Babar
Sat, 23 Mar 2024 +0000
For more than seven decades, Laurent de Brunhoff painted the adventures of the world’s most beloved elephant.

Maurizio Pollini, Celebrated Pianist Who Defined Modernism, Dies at 82
Mon, 25 Mar 2024 +0000
His recordings of Beethoven and Chopin were hailed as classics, but his technical ability sometimes invited controversy.

Laurent de Brunhoff, Artist Who Made Babar Famous, Dies at 98
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 +0000
After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a modest elephant and his escapades in Paris for seven decades.

Lyn Hejinian, 82, Dies; Leading Light of the Language Poetry Movement
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
A poet, publisher and professor, she channeled the revolutionary spirit and deconstructionist currents of the 1960s to challenge the conventions of poetry.

Rose Dugdale, Heiress Turned Irish Independence Fighter, Dies at 82
Mon, 25 Mar 2024 +0000
Born into English wealth and Oxford-educated, she left it all behind for a life of radical and often violent activism.

Norman Miller, German Refugee Who Helped Arrest a Top Nazi, Dies at 99
Fri, 22 Mar 2024 +0000
At 15, he escaped to England. At 20, he enlisted in the British Army and identified a German minister— whose roles included deporting Dutch Jews to labor camps — as he tried to flee.

Amnon Weinstein, Who Restored Violins From the Holocaust, Dies at 84
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 +0000
Many were left behind by victims of the gas chambers. He let the instruments be heard again in musical tributes through his organization, Violins of Hope.

Robert L. Barry, 89, Diplomat Who Negotiated Pact With Soviets, Dies
Fri, 22 Mar 2024 +0000
He was the chief negotiator on a troop-inspections accord that American officials saw as crucial in easing East-West tensions near the end of the Cold War.

Overlooked No More: Yvonne Barr, Who Helped Discover a Cancer-Causing Virus
Thu, 21 Mar 2024 +0000
A virologist, she worked with the pathologist Anthony Epstein, who died last month, in finding for the first time that a virus that could cause cancer. It’s known as the Epstein-Barr virus.

Julie Robinson Belafonte, Dancer, Actress and Activist, Is Dead at 95
Sat, 23 Mar 2024 +0000
With the singer Harry Belafonte, she was half of a celebrated, and sometimes denounced, interracial power couple who pressed the cause of civil rights in the 1960s.