First Look: Biopic Of A Hollywood Icon Teases Awards-Bait With Actual Acting
Toby Jones, Lesley Manville, and Harry Lawtey headline a based-on-a-true-story drama about a legend-in-the-making, dripping with classic Hollywood nostalgia and that familiar awards-season perfume. The twist, the cast might actually be strong enough to justify the sheen, which would be a refreshing change from the usual sepia-tinted self-congratulation.
Another Kebab, No Bank: Walworth Road Gets Extra Chili, Minus Cashiers
After Barclays shut its doors in April, a kebab shop is moving in on Walworth Road, and locals are not thrilled to see yet another late-night takeaway join the food-and-vape circuit while essential services vanish. No shade for the kebab guys, they are feeding people. The side-eye is for big finance ghosting the neighborhood, swapping tellers for card machines and calling it progress.
Welsh Rugby’s Big Idea, Same Binder, Smaller Font
The WRU’s notion of radical reform looks suspiciously like the status quo in a different page size, with a region likely to be cut and Ospreys staring down the rumor mill. Here is a novel thought that is actually workable, give the fourth European slot to the winner of Super Rygbi Cymru for the Challenge Cup. It creates stakes, energizes crowds from Pontypool to Llandovery, and puts a confident, winning domestic side on a credible stage. Low risk, high reward, and it plugs the gap a scrapped region would leave. If the suits cannot manage even that, the only thing truly regional will be the despair.
Bolivia Swears In Rodrigo Paz, Tests The Price Of Change
Rodrigo Paz has taken office after two decades of one-party rule and is promising to restore economic stability. He inherits the worst cost-of-living and economic crisis in roughly forty years, along with simmering public unease. Now comes the costly part, turning slogans into solvency and calming the streets without breaking the books.
ChatGPT Prompts Peek Into Google Search Console, Privacy Takes A Coffee Break
Ars Technica reports that webmasters started seeing 300-plus-character, painfully personal queries in Google Search Console that appear to mirror ChatGPT prompts since September. Analytics consultant Jason Packer flagged roughly 200 examples and, with SEO pro Slobodan Manić, tied them to prompts that seem to trigger Google searches from within ChatGPT. OpenAI says only a small number were affected, but offered few specifics. Scope unknown, no way to purge the leaked queries from GSC, and identities show up if users typed them in, which many did. Nothing like a reminder that your private chat may take a quick victory lap through a webmaster dashboard, courtesy of tech giants who swear your data is safe, right up until it is not.