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Amazon has confirmed that its Linux-based Vega OS exists to stop piracy on Fire TV Sticks. Android apps cannot run, sideloading is gone for good, and the app catalog dropped from over 30,000 to roughly 1,257.

Every paid iCloud+ plan in more than 100 countries now includes Apple TV, Apple Arcade and Apple Music Select at no extra cost, down to the cheapest storage tier. The US, UK, Canada and Australia are not on the list, and the reason is not generosity.

No Big Deal is a 25-minute British workplace comedy where every character, location and camera move was generated. It is being called a world first. The audience numbers and the outrage numbers are pointing in opposite directions.

Amazon’s new lip sync feature keeps human dub actors and uses AI to move the on-screen performer’s mouth to match them. It debuts on Maxton Hall, and it quietly crosses a line dubbing has respected for ninety years.

Gal Gadot says it took her lawyers six months to write the AI terms for Doug Liman’s Bitcoin, and that SAG-AFTRA rang them afterward asking how it was done. The clause protects her performance completely. It protects nobody who built the sets, because the sets were the point.

Mattel’s UNO Championship Series ends in a Twitch streamed final in Los Angeles on November 11 with $50,000 on the line, and the qualifying route that costs nothing runs through the free mobile app. Here are the dates, the routes and the official rules most players get wrong.

Demon Hunter, a Christian metalcore band that has used the name for 25 years, is suing Netflix and AEG Presents over KPop Demon Hunters. The fan who paid $500 for the wrong concert is now evidence, and the band is asking for triple damages.

A new NeuroImage study scanned 56 people while they watched short videos. When a clip landed, two of the brain’s cognitive control hubs went quiet. Here is exactly what that shows, and the four things it does not.

Starting August 24, YouTube counts a public view from the very first frame across long form video, Shorts and live streams. Public numbers will climb, the old definition survives as engaged views in Analytics, and creator payouts are not affected. Here is what actually changes and what it breaks.

Fresh off The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan is telling film fans to buy discs instead of renting access. The ownership argument is familiar. The picture quality gap between a 4K UHD disc and a 4K stream is bigger than most people realize.