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Put Large Reasoning Models under pressure and they stop making sense, say boffins
Mon, 16 Jun 2025 GMT
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Not a problem with AI hypeOpinionAmong the forever wars in geekdom, defining the difference between science fiction and fantasy is a hot potato destined to outlive the heat death of the universe.


Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules
Mon, 16 Jun 2025 GMT
Custom text fields can be a powerful form of protestWho, Me?The only certainties in life are death, taxes
 and tech causing trouble, a topic thatThe Registercovers each week in this reader-contributed column we call“Who, Me?” that celebrates the moments you made trouble at work and somehow escaped.


Google Cloud caused outage by ignoring its usual code quality protections
Mon, 16 Jun 2025 GMT
Promises operational change - and improvements to customer comms when it crashesGoogle Cloud has explained the massive outage it created last week and, as has happened many times previously, admitted that it broke itself.


VMware and Siemens spar over where to stage software licence showdown
Mon, 16 Jun 2025 GMT
German giant wants case heard in Germany, not the USAGerman giant Siemens AG has tried to convince a US court to throw out the case in which VMware alleged it used unlicensed software.


Armored cash transport trucks allegedly hauled money for $190 million crypto-laundering scheme
Mon, 16 Jun 2025 GMT
PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and moreAsia In BriefAustralia’s Federal Police (AFP) last week announced charges against four suspects for alleged participation in a money-laundering scheme that involved a security company’s armored cash transport unit.


Dems demand audit of CVE program as Federal funding remains uncertain
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 GMT
PLUS: Discord invite links may not be safe; Miscreants find new way to hide malicious JavaScript; and more!Infosec In BriefA pair of Congressional Democrats have demanded a review of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program amid uncertainties about continued US government funding for the scheme.


The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 GMT
Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steelFeatureFor artificial intelligence researchers, the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, changed the world in a way similar to the detonation of the first atomic bomb.


Windows 95 testing almost stalled due to cash register overflow
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 GMT
Microsoft veteran on breaking down numbers at the computer storeWindows 95 will soon turn 30. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen recalled that when testing Microsoft's reimagining of Windows, an overflow was discovered that had nothing to do with the operating system itself.


Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 GMT
Combining quantum entanglement with hash chains promises randomness which can be relied onScientists in the US have built a system for creating truly random numbers which cannot be tampered with by a third party.


As RHEL clones hit version 10, Rocky and Alma chart diverging paths
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 GMT
We take a quick look at the headline features– and the growing differencesRocky Linux 10 has caught up to the other high-profile RHELatives, but gaps between them are widening, both in tech and other ways.


US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201Several of Silicon Valley's top techies are joining the Army Reserve as part of a newly created unit that will be trying to accelerate the use of AI in military planning and operations.


Cyber weapons in the Israel-Iran conflict may hit the US
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
With Tehran’s military weakened, digital retaliation likely, experts tellThe RegThe current Israel–Iran military conflict is taking place in the era of hybrid war, where cyberattacks amplify and assist missiles and troops, and is being waged between two countries with very capable destructive cyber weapons.


AST just got a small boost in its D2C battle against Elon Musk's Starlink
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
But the five-satellite upstart has a short time windowA messy legal fight between Ligado and Inmarsat over direct-to-cellular (D2C) spectrum has been settled, giving upstart AST a chance to gain ground on Starlink.


Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple, Google stores still offer China-based VPNs, report says
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
Some trace back to an outfit under US export controls for alleged PLA linksBoth Apple's and Google's online stores offer free virtual private network (VPN) apps owned by Chinese companies, according to researchers at the Tech Transparency Project, and they don't make this fact readily known to people downloading the apps.


Larry Ellison is still not the world's richest person
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
Oracle’s 80-year-old co-founder pulls off a $25 billion cloud day to leapfrog Zuck and Bezos into the No. 2 spotOracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison has reclaimed the No. 2 spot on Forbes's real-time billionaire list, trailing only Elon Musk after leapfrogging Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.


Enterprise AI adoption stalls as inferencing costs confound cloud customers
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
Please insert another million dollars to continueBroader AI adoption by enterprise customers is being hindered by the complexity of trying to forecast inferencing costs amid a fear being saddled with excessive bills for cloud services.


Meta offered one AI researcher at least $10,000,000 to join up
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
Mark Zuckerberg reached out to our source directlyExclusiveMeta has made lavish and lucrative offers to a select set of AI researchers in an effort to develop superintelligent AI.


PCIe 7.0 specs finalized at 512 GBps bandwidth, PCIe 8.0 in the pipeline
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
Work on next gen already underway, while bandwidth needs for datacenters just keep risingThe PCI Special Interest Group (PIC-SIG) just released official specs for PCIe 7.0, doubling the bandwidth again for high-performance kit such as network cards, while hinting that PCIe 8.0 may not achieve the same.


Apple fixes zero-click exploit underpinning Paragon spyware attacks
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
Zero-day potentially tied to around 100 suspected infections in 2025 and a spyware scandal on the continentApple has updated its iOS/iPadOS 18.3.1 documentation, confirming it introduced fixes for the zero-click vulnerability used to infect journalists with Paragon's Graphite spyware.


The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analystsFeatureIn early May, independent digital storage analyst Thomas Coughlinsharednews of falling sales and revenue in the first quarter of 2025, continuing a trend that started in around 2010. Coughlincitesdata from that year showing around 600 million annual hard disk shipments.


Wanted: Junior cybersecurity staff with 10 years' experience and a PhD
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
Infosec employers demanding too much from early-career recruits, says ISC2Cybersecurity hiring managers need a reality check when it comes to hiring junior staff, with job adverts littered with unfair expectations that are hampering recruitment efforts, says industry training and cert issuer ISC2.


Friday the 13th strikes for Barclays' corporate customers
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
Superstitions stoked by blackout of iPortal centralized platform when no maintenance was scheduledBarclays Bank is wrestling with some digital gremlins affecting its corporate banking services this Friday the 13th of June– the final day of the working week for many of us, but perhaps not the poor techies beavering away to restore normal play.


Danish department determined to dump Microsoft
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
Jutes revolt against Redmond: Minister for Digital Affairs aims the longboats away from VinlandCommentThe boss of Denmark's Ministry for Digitalization says her department will move away from Microsoft– starting with LibreOffice.


UK unis to cough up to£10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
Deal includes 'waiver of historic fees'UK universities and colleges have signed a framework worth up to£9.86 million ($13.33 million) with Oracle to use its controversial Java SE Universal Subscription model, in exchange for a "waiver of historic fees due for any institutions who have used Oracle Java since 2023."


Forget Vibe Coding, we're all about Vine Coding nowadays
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
More like FlAIme Of The WeekFlame Of The WeekIt's been a while since our lastFlame Of The Week, but it appears that AI is generating some strong feelings among our beloved readership.


Slapped wrists for Financial Conduct Authority staff who emailed work data home
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
It was one of the offenders' final warningFour staffers at the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) were let off with warnings over separate cases involving the transmission of regulator data to their personal email accounts.


User demanded a‘wireless’ computer and was outraged when its battery died
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
Abusive manager had to be told there's no such thing as an atomic laptopOn CallBy Friday morning,Regreaders’ batteries can sometimes be a little low, which is why we always use the day to offer a jolt of amusement in the form of On Call – the reader contributed column in which we celebrate the lows and lows of tech support.


UK dumps£2.5 billion into fusion pipe dream that's already cost millions
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
STEP sucked up£220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplishedUPDATEDThe UK government has just allocated another£2.5 billion to an ambitious fusion energy project without any indication it's progressed much beyond the planning stages.


Chinese memory-maker YMTC sues US rival Micron for defamation instead of the usual patent breaches
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
Alleges dirty PR campaign to slur its techChina’s Yangtze Memory Technologies has accused rival chipmaker Micron of defamation through a campaign to publish nasty stories and reports about it.


I'm just a Barbie Girl in a ChatGPT world
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 GMT
Mattel-OpenAI deal paves the way for an AI beach-offToy giant Mattel has signed a deal with OpenAI to bring the tech industry's buzziest technology to the very youngest generation.


Ransomware scum disrupted utility services with SimpleHelp attacks
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
Good news: The vendor patched the flaw in January. Bad news: Not everyone got the memoRansomware criminals infected a utility billing software providers' customers, and in some cases disrupted services, after exploiting unpatched versions of SimpleHelp’s remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, according to a Thursday CISA alert.


Ease the seat back and watch some video in your car with next Apple CarPlay
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
Only while parkedApple is enabling video playback on its CarPlay automotive operating system and has integrated it into iOS 26, as long as you're parked.


Google Cloud flexes as first to host Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Server VMs
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
Baby got Blackwell GPUsGoogle Cloud on Wednesday celebrated the debut of virtual machines incorporating Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPU technology, claiming to be the first cloud provider to sell this particular offering.


US auditors beg Pentagon to pay attention to latest report about IT system flaws
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
The DoD has ignored many past recommendationsUS government auditors have been trying to whip the Pentagon's IT programs into shape for half a decade, and the latest report suggests it continues to be an uphill battle. 


Meta sues 'nudify' app-maker that it claims ran 87k+ Facebook, Instagram ads
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
Despite 'multiple enforcement actions,' Joy Timeline HK allegedly wouldn't stopMeta has sued an app maker for advertising on Facebook and Instagram a so-called "nudify" app that uses AI to generate nude and sexually explicit images and videos of individuals without their consent.


Google Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare and its customers with it
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
Big G said it was fixed, but acknowledged ongoing customer painUPDATEDGoogle Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.


Single passenger reportedly survives Air India Boeing 787 crash
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
Aircraft didn't even get its wheels up before sinking into suburban areaA Boeing 787 flying from India to London's Gatwick airport has crashed, leaving one reported survivor among the 242 people aboard.


TSMC strengthens Japan ties with joint R&D lab in Tokyo
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
University collab underscores pivot to Asia amid unpredictable US policyTSMC has opened a joint research lab with the University of Tokyo in Japan, the company's first such collaboration with an academic institute outside of Taiwan, amid ongoing concerns over the Trump administration's attitude to foreign tech firms.


AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
Who'd have thunk? The bigger the iron, the more efficient it getsWith Moore's Law on its last legs and datacenter power consumption a growing concern, AMD is embarking on an ambitious new goal to boost the energy efficiency of its chips 20-fold before 2030. And it sees rack-scale architectures as a key design point to get there.


AMD preps rack-scale Helios systems to contend with Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL144
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
House of Zen's biggest iron yet boasts 72 MI400 GPUs, 260 TBps of UALink bandwidth, and 2.9 exaFLOPS of FP4AMD offered its best look yet at the rack-scale architecture that'll underpin its MI400-series GPUs in 2026 at its Advancing AI event in San Jose on Thursday.


CISA loses another senior exec - and the budget cuts haven't even started yet
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
Another one bites the dust at America's top cybersecurity agencyThe US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has lost another senior leader: executive director Bridget Bean departed on Wednesday.


Falcon 9 leaks keep Axiom private astronaut mission on the ground
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
Weather and propulsion system problems conspire to keep astronauts away from the ISSThe Axiom-4 private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been held up by a liquid oxygen leak in the Falcon 9's first stage.


AMD's MI355X is a 1.4 kW liquid-cooled monster built to battle Nvidia's Blackwell
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
And the House of Zen wants to put 128 of them in your rackNvidia's Blackwell accelerators have been on the market for just over six months, and AMD says it's already achieved performance parity with the launch of its MI350-series GPUs on Thursday.


Amazon has changed its nuclear deal in Pennsylvania to bypass grumpy regulators
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
New front-of-the-meter agreement avoids direct delivery snag that drew regulator pushbackAmazon has amended its deal with Talen Energy to buy power for a Pennsylvania datacenter from an adjacent nuclear power plant after regulators raised their eyebrows at the original deal.


Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
Distros align with GNOME 49's move to make Wayland the only supported sessionLike any other distro with GNOME 49, the next interim release of Ubuntu will be Wayland-only– at least in its GNOME variant.


Nvidia hits the gas on autonomous vehicle software
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
DRIVE stack promises safer roads and smarter cars– eventuallyGTC ParisNvidia has officially rolled out its autonomous vehicle (AV) software, despite telling a UK car mag that fully self-driving vehicles are not likely before the next decade.


Tape, glass, and molecules– the future of archival storage
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
Time to stop giving cold storage the cold shoulderFeatureThe future of archival data storage is tape, more tape, and then possibly glass-based tech, with DNA and other molecular tech still a distant prospect.


Google faces billion-quid bruising over Play Store fees in the UK
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
Competition Appeals Tribunal gives nod for claim to go to trialA billion-pound legal action against Google over Play Store fees can proceed to trial.


UK Spending Review prescribes£10B digital remedy for NHS
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
Between a borrowing rock and a fiscal hard place, Labour chases efficiencyIn the UK's first multi-year Spending Review since 2021, the government has announced£10 billion ($14 billion) in NHS technology and digital transformation by 2028-29, an increase of nearly 50 percent on the current financial year.


Digital Realty CTO on why storage is the datacenter challenge no one's talking about
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 GMT
And why supporting quantum computing is easier than supporting a 1MW rackInterviewWhen the great and the good of the datacenter world got together in Cannes last week for Datacloud Global Congress, storage was barely mentioned, with shortages of GPUs, power and land the key talking points.


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Trump’s Parade Drafted the Army Into a War of Images
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
After a week of stunning and sobering TV-news scenes, the brassy Trumpy production was a surreal viewing experience.

The Question for the Sean Combs Jurors: What Qualifies as Coercion?
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
The jury will be asked to determine if two women who engaged in marathon sex sessions with escorts did so willingly or because they were under threat.

The Best Dance of 2025, So Far
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
Our critics picked 10 performances that have offered a robust alternative to the here and now with a tonic of beauty, rage and wisdom.

The‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Star Mason Thames Is Still Freaking Out
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
As Hiccup, the 17-year-old actor is shouldering the weight of Universal’s new live-action franchise — and living out his childhood fantasy.

Stefan Herheim, Opera Provocateur, Puts Down Roots in Vienna
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
Stefan Herheim, the artistic leader of Theater an der Wien in Vienna, is wrapping up his first season inside the newly renovated theater.

At National History Day, Students Get Competitive About the Past
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
Americans are fighting about history. This past week, thousands of students from across the country came together to celebrate it.

Inside Universal’s Big Bet on ‘How to Train Your Dragon’
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
In an era of skepticism around live-action remakes, Universal believes audiences will take flight with Hiccup and Toothless again.

Andy Goldsworthy on 50 Years of Making Art
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
Andy Goldsworthy, the British land artist, said he may never make a work like“Hanging Stones” again.

‘Tacos de Lengua’ Review: Finding the Rhythm of the Night
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
At the Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens on Friday, Martita Abril’s performance expressed life on the border from multiple angles.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Busy Caring for a Pony, Pig, Donkey and Malamute
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
The longtime actor, now starring in“FUBAR,” on his many animals, good cigars and wanting his kids to outshine him.

150 Years of Scribbles at the Art Students League
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
Long a center of artistic development for New Yorkers big and small, the League celebrates its sesquicentenary this year with a dream-themed ball.

Smithsonian Museum Director Trump Said He Fired Decides to Step Down
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
The Smithsonian has said it retains power over personnel decisions, but Kim Sajet, the longtime director of the National Portrait Gallery, has decided to leave anyway.

Celine Song’s New Rom-Com ‘Materialists’ Takes a Deep Look at Love and Value
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
Celine Song’s new “Materialists” takes a deep look at love and value via a rom-com, a genre that she argues is wrongfully dismissed: “What is more important than love?”

The Musical Mysteries Brian Wilson Left Behind
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
The Beach Boys mastermind has been the subject of pop scholarship and major boxed sets, but some corners of his oeuvre remain unreleased.

‘We Were Liars,’ Plus 7 Things to Watch on TV This Week
Mon, 16 Jun 2025 +0000
The adaptation of E. Lockhart’s Y.A. horror novel comes to Prime Video, and “The Gilded Age” returns for a third season.

Norma Swenson,‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’ Co-Author, Dies at 93
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
She was a proponent of natural childbirth when she joined the group that produced the candid guide to women’s health. It became a cultural touchstone and a global best seller.

Joel Shapiro, Celebrated Post-Minimalist Sculptor, Dies at 83
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
His stick-figure sculptures conveyed a surprising depth of emotion, hinting at the threat of imbalance. He also produced more than 30 large-scale commissions.

‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Tops Box Office With $83 Million
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
The movie had stronger-than-expected ticket sales over the weekend, becoming the third PG-rated, live-action hit in three months.

2 Men Are Sentenced in Theft of Golden Toilet
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
The men were sentenced to two to four years for their roles in the 2019 theft of an 18-carat artwork at Winston Churchill’s ancestral home.

Molly Recommends 2 Very Male New Novels
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
A Hungarian in London; a road trip in Canada.

Trying to Sell a Conservative Book? Go on a Podcast.
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
Many of the most popular shows welcome right-wing arguments and freewheeling conversation. Publishers of other political stripes are noticing, too.

Dara Birnbaum, Video Artist Who Showed the Power of Mass Media, Dies at 78
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
As early as the 1970s, she demonstrated that mass media was fair game as artistic material, and that its power could be turned against itself.

Foday Musa Suso, 75, Dies; Ambitious Ambassador for West African Music
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition.

Harris Yulin, Actor Who Perpetually Played the Bad Guy, Dies at 87
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
An award-winning actor and director, he appeared in scores of stage plays, movies and TV shows over six decades, most often as unsavory characters.

Arthur Hamilton, Who Wrote the Enduring‘Cry Me a River,’ Dies at 98
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
A hit for Julie London in 1955, it was later recorded by— among many others — Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand and Michael Bublé, who praised it for its “darkness.”

At Sean‘Diddy’ Combs’s Trial, Talk of Baby Oil, Guns and a Guest: Kanye West
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
The rapper formerly known as Kanye West, one of the few celebrities to publicly defend Mr. Combs, was denied access to the courtroom and briefly watched on closed-circuit video.

Two Fresh Looks at MoliÚre: ‘Imaginary Invalid’ and ‘Prosperous Fools’
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
Red Bull Theater’s smart “The Imaginary Invalid” and Taylor Mac’s dismaying “Prosperous Fools” attempt to engage with the French writer’s comedy.

Action Movies to Stream Now:‘Exterritorial,’ ‘Fear Below’ and More
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
This month’s picks include a gaslit mother, a hungry shark, vengeful French cops, and more.

7 Father’s Day Movies to Watch in Theaters
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
Whether you’re in the mood for dragons or a new Wes Anderson, theaters this weekend are filled with fatherly flicks.

Graham Gund, Architect Who Blended Past and Present, Dies at 84
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
A noted art collector as well as a designer, he brought a personal, history-minded approach to his work around Boston and on college campuses.

Wayne Lewis, Singer With the R&B Mainstay Atlantic Starr, Dies at 68
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
The group reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987 with the ballad“Always” and went on to leave a lasting impression on modern-day artists.

Watch Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal Spark in‘Materialists’
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
The writer and director Celine Song narrates a sequence from her film, which also features Chris Evans.

Broadway Shows Closing Soon:‘Dorian Gray,’ ‘Sunset Boulevard’ and More
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
Catch two Tony-winning performances, Sarah Snook in the Oscar Wilde classic and Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond, before these productions and others wrap up.

Remembering Sly Stone and Brian Wilson
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
A conversation about two pop visionaries whose lives, careers and legacies only grew more complex over time.

Can You Ever Really Know a Person? Biographers Keep Trying.
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability.

8 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

Can Video Art Bring Young Audiences to Galleries? A New Venue Hopes So.
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
A museum veteran and a financier are planning Canyon, an organization on the Lower East Side that will focus on video, audio and performance art when it opens next year.

Traveling the Cosmos With Carter Emmart, One Last Time
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Museum of Natural History. But other galaxies await.

Lexee Smith, Dancer and Addison Rae’s Creative Partner, Finds Her Way
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
Lexee Smith, who works closely with Addison Rae, is an outlier: a commercial dance artist with an experimental bent.

‘Prime Minister’ Examines a New Zealand Leader and a Global Issue
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
The film is a memoir of sorts for Jacinda Ardern, who governed at a time of multiple disasters. But it was misinformation that proved hardest to cope with.

Stolen From Buddhist Monks, Sacred Painting Is Returned by Chicago Museum
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
Korean officials discovered the painting in the Smart Museum’s collection at the University of Chicago. It was stolen from a temple nearly 35 years ago.

‘Materialists’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
Celine Song narrates a sequence from her film featuring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans.

Late Night Reviews Trump’s Night at the Theater
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
Jimmy Kimmel said that Trump“going to see ‘Les Misérables’ right now is like Kanye going to ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’”

Review:‘The Counterfeit Opera’ on Little Island Falls Short
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
At Little Island,“The Counterfeit Opera” falls short of its wildly successful historical models.

Review: Jean Smart, Gritty and Poetic in‘Call Me Izzy’
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
The“Hacks” star returns to Broadway after 25 years in a triumph for her, if not for the old-fashioned, flowery play about spouse abuse.

‘And Just Like That 
’ Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: An Expensive Date
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
Carrie flies to Virginia for a lunch with her“boyfriend,” Aidan. Seema tags along. It is unclear why either is really going.

Rigmor Newman, Behind-the-Scenes Fixture of the Jazz World, Dies at 86
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
She was a concert promoter, a nightclub impresario and the producer of an award-winning 1992 film about the Nicholas Brothers dance duo.

Brian Wilson and Beach Boys’ Style Showed What California Living Looked Like
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
In Pendleton shirts and khakis, Mr. Wilson and the Beach Boys showed the world what easy Southern California living looked like.

‘The Survivors’ Is a Polished and Potent Murder Mystery
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 +0000
Based on the book by Jane Harper, this six-part Australian drama takes place in a coastal Tasmanian town, where the bodies keep surfacing.

Trump’s New ‘Apprentice’ Boardroom: The Oval Office
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 +0000
The stately room has long been a site of diplomacy. But the reality-star president often does not come there to make friends.

James Lowe, Rock Outsider With the Electric Prunes, Dies at 82
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
His band’s output ranged from the 1966 psychedelic hit “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)” to what he called a “Catholic Mass done in rock veneer.”

Brian Wilson Wrote the California Dream, but He Didn’t Live It
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
An artist nearly synonymous with Los Angeles made his name crafting songs playing up his home state’s beachy vibes. His inner life, however, was anything but sunny.

Enzo Staiola, 85, Who Starred in‘Bicycle Thieves’ as a Child
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
Discovered on the street in Rome, he had a brush with stardom when he was cast in what many consider one of the greatest films of all time.

Ananda Lewis, an MTV Star in the 1990s, Dies at 52
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
She rose to fame on“Hot Zone” and other shows before being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019. She said last year that her cancer had progressed to Stage 4.

A Night Out for Trump at the Theater, With a Pocket of Dissent
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 +0000
Opening night of“Les Misérables” was meant to celebrate the president’s takeover of the Kennedy Center. But he also was forced to encounter his critics.

‘Sex’ Review: Two Men Talk About and Around the Subject
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 +0000
A chimney sweep and his colleague get deep on the roofs of Oslo in Dag Johan Haugerud’s curious meditation on marriage and masculinity.

Paul McCartney, Carole King and Others Pay Tribute to Brian Wilson
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
Wilson, whose death was announced on Wednesday, leaves behind an immense musical legacy that spans several decades.

Met Opera’s ‘Diva Whisperer’ Retires After 18 Years
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 +0000
Suzi Gomez-Pizzo, who is retiring as a wardrobe supervisor at the opera house after 18 years, has been a confidante and cheerleader to the stars.

Lapham’s Quarterly Will Begin Its Revival with Website and Podcast
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 +0000
Now attached to Bard College, the literary journal is about to publish new commentary and a popular historical feature. Next year: the print magazine.

Sean‘Diddy’ Combs’s Ex ‘Jane’ Ends Grueling Testimony With Hugs for Both Sides
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 +0000
The woman who dated the mogul until his arrest concluded more than 24 hours on the stand in which she spoke about unwanted sex and an at-times loving relationship.

‘Tatami’ Review: A Bitter Fight, Both on and Off the Mat
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 +0000
A flinty Iranian judoka competing in the World Judo Championships is menaced by her government in this absorbing political thriller.

‘Echo Valley’ Review: Mother Knows Best, Daughter Does Worst
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 +0000
A stellar cast led by Julianne Moore is unable to breathe life into this unsuccessful blend of maternal drama and crime caper.

‘Deep Cover’ Review: Fighting Crime With Improv
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 +0000
Three hapless comics, played by Orlando Bloom, Bryce Dallas Howard and Nick Mohammed, infiltrate the criminal underworld.

NY Times Obituaries:




Leonard A. Lauder, Philanthropist and Cosmetics Heir, Dies at 92
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
He was best known for his success in business, notably the international beauty company he built with his mother, Estée Lauder. But he was also an influential art patron.

Joel Shapiro, Celebrated Post-Minimalist Sculptor, Dies at 83
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
His stick-figure sculptures conveyed a surprising depth of emotion, hinting at the threat of imbalance. He also produced more than 30 large-scale commissions.

Norma Swenson,‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’ Co-Author, Dies at 93
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
She was a proponent of natural childbirth when she joined the group that produced the candid guide to women’s health. It became a cultural touchstone and a global best seller.

Alex Polikoff, Who Won a Marathon Housing Segregation Case, Dies at 98
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
He notched a victory in a Supreme Court decision against the City of Chicago in 1976. He then spent over 40 years making sure the ruling was enforced.

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, 95, Dies; Led Nicaragua After Civil War
Mon, 16 Jun 2025 +0000
The first woman to lead a Central American country, she served in the 1990s after the nation had been shaken by political strife.

Marthe Cohn, a Wartime Jewish Nurse Who Spied for the French, Dies at 105
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
Fluent in German and passing as an Aryan, she once crossed into Germany, uncovered Nazi military secrets and nursed a wounded, and deceived, SS officer.

Harris Yulin, Actor Who Perpetually Played the Bad Guy, Dies at 87
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
An award-winning actor and director, he appeared in scores of stage plays, movies and TV shows over six decades, most often as unsavory characters.

Foday Musa Suso, 75, Dies; Ambitious Ambassador for West African Music
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 +0000
A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition.

Dara Birnbaum, Video Artist Who Showed the Power of Mass Media, Dies at 78
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
As early as the 1970s, she demonstrated that mass media was fair game as artistic material, and that its power could be turned against itself.

Arthur Hamilton, Who Wrote the Enduring‘Cry Me a River,’ Dies at 98
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
A hit for Julie London in 1955, it was later recorded by— among many others — Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand and Michael Bublé, who praised it for its “darkness.”

Sunjay Kapur, Businessman and Ex-Husband of Bollywood Star, Dies at 53
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
Mr. Kapur, who died of a heart attack after playing in a polo match in England, was formerly married to the Bollywood star Karisma Kapoor.

Graham Gund, Architect Who Blended Past and Present, Dies at 84
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
A noted art collector as well as a designer, he brought a personal, history-minded approach to his work around Boston and on college campuses.

Wayne Lewis, Singer With the R&B Mainstay Atlantic Starr, Dies at 68
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
The group reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987 with the ballad“Always” and went on to leave a lasting impression on modern-day artists.

Rigmor Newman, Behind-the-Scenes Fixture of the Jazz World, Dies at 86
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
She was a concert promoter, a nightclub impresario and the producer of an award-winning 1992 film about the Nicholas Brothers dance duo.

David H. Murdock, a Rags-to-Riches Corporate Raider, Dies at 102
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
He was a school dropout at 14 and homeless for a spell, but as a driven investor and chief of Dole he became a billionaire. Later came another quest: to extend life through better nutrition.

James Lowe, Rock Outsider With the Electric Prunes, Dies at 82
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 +0000
His band’s output ranged from the 1966 psychedelic hit “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)” to what he called a “Catholic Mass done in rock veneer.”

Amanda Feilding, Countess Who Drilled a Hole in Her Head, Dies at 82
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
She was ridiculed for drilling a hole in her skull to increase blood flow. But her foundation’s research into the therapeutic use of counterculture drugs proved visionary.

Enzo Staiola, 85, Who Starred in‘Bicycle Thieves’ as a Child
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
Discovered on the street in Rome, he had a brush with stardom when he was cast in what many consider one of the greatest films of all time.

John Wells Dead: Fashion Photographer Was 64
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 +0000
A fashion photographer, he built a do-it-yourself life on 40 lonely acres in West Texas, living like a modern-day Thoreau and telling millions of his experience on a blog.

Betsy Jochum, Last Original Member of Women’s Baseball League, Dies at 104
Wed, 11 Jun 2025 +0000
Playing in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which inspired the film“A League of Their Own,” she won a batting title and stole 127 bases in 1944.

Paul Marantz, Lighting Designer of 9/11 Memorial and Studio 54, Dies at 87
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 +0000
Using neon, searchlights— or even shadows — he dramatically shaped the look of prominent spaces in almost every corner of the world.

Richard Beattie, Early Engineer of Private Equity Takeovers, Dies at 86
Wed, 11 Jun 2025 +0000
A top Wall Street lawyer, he worked on some of the biggest corporate mergers in history, including KKR’s takeover of Nabisco in 1989. He also served in the Carter administration and in city government.

John L. Young, 89, Dies; Pioneered Posting Classified Documents Online
Wed, 11 Jun 2025 +0000
His site, Cryptome, was a precursor to WikiLeaks, and in some ways bolder in its no-holds-barred approach to exposing government secrets.

Niede Guidon, 92, Archaeologist Who Preserved Prehistoric Rock Art, Dies
Wed, 11 Jun 2025 +0000
Her work in Brazil challenged the prevailing theory of when humans first arrived in the Americas and led to the development of a forgotten corner of the country.

Barbara Holdridge, Whose Record Label Foretold Audiobooks, Dies at 95
Tue, 10 Jun 2025 +0000
Beginning with a reading by Dylan Thomas, she and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of famous writers reciting their work.

Sly Stone, Maestro of a Multifaceted Hitmaking Band, Dies at 82
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 +0000
Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and early’70s.

Valmik Thapar, Tenacious Tiger Conservationist in India, Is Dead
Mon, 09 Jun 2025 +0000
He started studying tigers at a reserve in 1976 and became a leading activist in efforts to save the tiger from poaching and shrinking habitats.

Frederick Forsyth, Master of the Geopolitical Thriller, Dies at 86
Tue, 10 Jun 2025 +0000
He wrote best-sellers like“The Day of the Jackal” and “The Dogs of War,” often using material from his earlier life as a reporter and spy.