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The first generation raised on no-rejection intimacy is starting to fail at work and at love

The first generation raised on no-rejection intimacy is starting to fail at work and at love

A recent paper out of Drexel University’s ETHOS lab — built on more than three hundred Reddit posts written by self-identified American teenagers — describes something the field had only suspected. Adolescents who began chatting with Character.AI for homework help, or to kill an afternoon, were instead developing a recognisable behavioural-addiction loop: salience, mood modification, […]

Veronica Loop

Apex: a widow climbs alone in the Outback and finds a man with a crossbow on Netflix

Apex: a widow climbs alone in the Outback and finds a man with a crossbow on Netflix

Veronica Loop

If Wishes Could Kill on Netflix argues that a Korean teenager’s deepest wish is already worth dying for

If Wishes Could Kill on Netflix argues that a Korean teenager’s deepest wish is already worth dying for

Molly Se-kyung

Movies & TV

Straight to Hell - Netflix

Straight to Hell on Netflix: a biopic by filmmakers who admit disliking their subject

Running Point Season 2 - Netflix

Running Point Season 2 on Netflix argues the promotion hearing never ends

Analysis

People are scrolling past perfect images to find proof a human made them

Tech giants are buying the voices no one owned

The Luxury of Being Human: Music’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Authenticity

Art

When federal arts funding collapses, fifty curators ask what public engagement still means

The question that animates Curating Engagement — what does it mean to work with communities when the margin for error is narrowing — was already urgent before the Trump administration terminated more than $27 million in previously approved NEA grants and proposed eliminating the agency entirely. By the time the publication arrives, the field has […]

Full Moon H by Yiannis Moralis (1916-2009) (estimate: €250,000-350,000)

Parthenis arrives in Paris, and the price of a Greek canon

노상호 NOH Sangho, HOLY, 2026, oil on canvas, 116.9 x 91 cm_nohsangho

Korean contemporary art turns inward at ARARIO GALLERY’s ART OnO booth

Arturo Mallmann, Holding the Silence. Mixed media on panel

Craighead Green Gallery Explores Environmental Perception in Three Concurrent Exhibitions

Anicka Yi, 0þR†KLñ†0W£ (The Particle and The Wave

How a century of portraiture and industrial stone challenges the digital void at Art Basel Hong Kong

Music

Karol G Tour

Karol G turns Coachella history into a 39-stadium global Tropitour through 2027

Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl

Taylor Swift tops Bad Bunny as Spotify’s most-streamed artist across two decades

Mercedess by RAT tv

Mercedess Returns Four Years After Debut With New Single ‘the perfect selfie’

Theater

Copenhagen

Power, Physics, and the Past: Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen Returns

Griff Rhys Jones as Jim Hacker and Clive Francis as Sir Humphrey Appleby in I'm Sorry, Prime Minister (credit Johan Persson)

The Bureaucracy of Legacy: Yes, Minister Confronts the Passage of Time

Bill Kenwright Ltd Mounts Major Revival of Cy Coleman’s Barnum Starring Lee Mead

Technology

Instagram picks Spain and Italy to test Instants, its Snapchat copy 15 years late

Instagram picks Spain and Italy to test Instants, its Snapchat copy 15 years late

WhatsApp’s first-ever paid tier is in beta — and it’s called Plus

WhatsApp’s first-ever paid tier is in beta — and it’s called Plus

Science

A black hole dormant for 100 million years just erupted across a million light-years

A black hole dormant for 100 million years just erupted across a million light-years

The sleeping brain replays bad memories with more precision than good ones

The sleeping brain replays bad memories with more precision than good ones

Health

Why your body taxes every drink differently after 40 — and what the science demands you do about it

Why your energy system is your most valuable professional asset

Ultra-processed food is quietly dismantling your cellular architecture

Business

Lip-Bu Tan - Intel Corporation

Intel stock jumps 19% as Q1 revenue tops $13.6 billion on AI-driven CPU demand

Meta cuts 8,000 jobs — 10% of staff — while AI spending climbs past $115 billion

What is a Comprehensive Insurance Policy? How it Works and What is Covered?

More News

DeepSeek v4

Technology

DeepSeek V4 launches as the largest open-source AI — at a fifth of GPT-5’s cost

Technology

Perplexity’s $200-a-month Mac agent will sort your files and read your email

Yiya Murano: Death at Tea Time

Documentaries

Argentina convicted Yiya Murano, then gave her a TV career — Netflix asks how

Stranger Things: Tales From '85

Series

Netflix turns Stranger Things into a cartoon — and bets the aesthetic was the show

Flunked - Netflix

Series

Flunked on Netflix argues French teaching is now documented best by a crook

Oppo Find X9 Ultra

Mobiles

Oppo’s Find X9 Ultra packs a 10x optical zoom and a 300mm add-on lens

This Is a Gardening Show

Documentaries

This Is a Gardening Show on Netflix makes food security funny enough to actually work

Sold Out on You - Netflix

Series

Sold Out on You Uses a Farm Romance to Diagnose Korea’s Overwork Culture on Netflix

Santita - Netflix

Series

Why Santita on Netflix refuses to let its disabled heroine apologize for anything