CULTURE
Deadline
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, released in summer 2023, marked the final outing for Harrison Ford as the archaeologist-adventurer he first portrayed in 1981. Ford, then 80 years old at time of filming, confirmed publicly that this was definitively his last appearance as the character. The film, directed by James Mangold and set in 1969 against the backdrop of the Apollo moon landing, followed an aged Indiana Jones in a globe-spanning race for an ancient time-altering artifact.
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ARTS
NPR
Gender Queer: A Memoir, published in 2019 by Maia Kobabe, is a graphic memoir that traces the author's journey from adolescence through early adulthood, exploring questions of gender identity and sexuality that ultimately led Kobabe to identify as nonbinary and asexual. Using both narrative and illustration, the book covers experiences of gender dysphoria and euphoria and the challenges of navigating a world built around binary gender categories.
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INDUSTRY
BleepingComputer
Google's release of the new .zip and .mov top level domains sparked a cybersecurity debate because the extensions double as common file formats.
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NATIONS
WIRED
A leaked European Council document obtained by WIRED in May 2023 revealed that Spain held the most extreme position among EU member states on a proposal to require scanning of private encrypted messages, ostensibly to combat child sexual abuse material. Spanish representatives stated that it would be "desirable to legislatively prevent EU-based service providers from implementing end-to-end encryption." The majority of 20 surveyed countries expressed support for some form of message scanning.
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