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A Google engineer is facing federal fraud charges after prosecutors alleged he used confidential company data to place a series of highly profitable online wagers, earning more than $1.2 million by betting on the outcome of Google’s annual Year in Search rankings before the information became public. According to a... Read More »
An Austrian court has sentenced a 21-year-old man to 15 years in prison for his role in a foiled terrorist plot targeting one of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concerts in Vienna, bringing a major chapter of the case to a close nearly two years after authorities uncovered plans that could... Read More »
Kenneth Iwamasa, the live-in assistant who injected Matthew Perry with fatal doses of ketamine and left the actor alone in his backyard jacuzzi on the night he died, was sentenced on Tuesday to three years and five months in federal prison. The hearing brought together Perry's family members and business... Read More »
Martina McBride has become the latest artist to distance herself from the Freedom 250 concert series, publicly withdrawing from the event after saying she was led to believe it was a nonpartisan celebration rather than a program connected to the Trump administration. The country star announced her decision in a... Read More »
Madonna is giving back to one of the places that helped launch her career. The pop icon has paid a month’s rent for dozens of musicians who rehearse at the legendary New York Music Building in Midtown Manhattan, a space that has served as a creative hub for generations of... Read More »
Olivia Rodrigo has addressed the wave of online criticism that erupted over her recent fashion choices, pushing back firmly against the idea that women bear any responsibility for how men choose to interpret what they wear. Speaking Wednesday on The New York Times' Popcast, the 23-year-old singer-songwriter took on the... Read More »
As the United States prepares to mark its 250th birthday this summer, a sprawling celebration dubbed the "Great American State Fair on National Mall" has been announced for Washington, D.C., with a run of events stretching from June 25 through July 10. The organizers behind the effort, a self-described nonpartisan... Read More »
Steven Spielberg has added his voice to a growing chorus of major Hollywood figures pushing back against the encroachment of artificial intelligence into the creative process, saying plainly that while the technology may have legitimate applications elsewhere, he will not allow it to occupy a meaningful role in how he... Read More »
Tom Morello announced Wednesday night that he is organizing a one-day music and activism festival set for October 3 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. The guitarist announced his stop at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., where he is currently on tour with Bruce Springsteen. Curated entirely by Morello,... Read More »
Cam'ron and J. Cole have reached a settlement in their federal lawsuit over the 2024 collaboration "Ready '24," bringing a close to a dispute that touched on unpaid royalties, disputed creative credit, and a series of alleged promises that J. Cole maintained were never made in the first place. The... Read More »
Paul McCartney has revealed that he has heard an unreleased recording of Prince covering "The Long and Winding Road", and that he is hoping the late musician's estate can be persuaded to make it public. McCartney disclosed the existence of the recording during an appearance on BBC Radio 2's Tracks... Read More »
Taylor Swift has sent signed guitars and a handwritten note to an eight-year-old fan and her next-door neighbor after a video of the pair's interaction went viral on TikTok last month, drawing close to four million views. A young Swiftie named Madeline, who lives with her family in a suburban... Read More »
Amazon MGM Studios is making one of the entertainment industry's most direct institutional bets on generative AI as a production tool, announcing a new funding initiative that has already resulted in three animated series orders for Prime Video and a proprietary AI platform being positioned as the first of its... Read More »
Pixar's fifth installment in its flagship franchise doesn't arrive in theaters until June 19, but the studio has been offering carefully rationed previews and what has emerged so far suggests a film more interested in sitting with discomfort than resolving it neatly. At a press screening in Anaheim last month,... Read More »
Dan Greaney, the television writer credited with penning the 2000 episode of The Simpsons that appeared to predict Donald Trump's rise to the presidency, has announced his own campaign for the White House in 2028. The declaration, delivered via Instagram on Tuesday, was equal parts political statement and theatrical performance,... Read More »