Mythic Quest is getting a spinoff anthology series

Apple TV Plus Mythic Quest’s upcoming fourth season finally has a release date, but Apple’s future plans for the series aren’t stopping there. Today, Apple announced that Mythic Quest will return on January 29th with a two-episode premiere picking up Ian Grimm (Rob McElhenney,) Poppy Li (Charlotte Nicdao,) David Brittlesbee (David Hornsby,) Brad Bakshi (Danny…

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Iran military heads vow ‘crushing’ response to Israel as UN atomic chief says nuke sites shouldn’t be attacked

Tensions between Iran and Israel remain heightened as Tehran’s military heads on Thursday once again pledged a crushing response to Jerusalem’s strikes last month, and the U.N.’s atomic watchdog is scrambling to prevent a nuclear escalation.  Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi traveled to Iran this week to hold high level meetings…

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Judge orders airport to stop using major city in its name

A legal battle has come to a temporary halt in a feud between the cities of San Francisco and Oakland in California over the naming of an airport. In April, Oakland officials voted in favor of changing the name of the city’s airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport, the Associated Press (AP) reported.  FLIGHT…

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The Onion just bought Infowars

Alex Jones in 2022. | Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images The satirical news outlet The Onion has acquired Infowars, the conspiracy theory-riddled site run by Alex Jones, in a bankruptcy auction. In a press release posted to X Thursday, The Onion announced that it plans to “end Infowars’ relentless barrage of disinformation for the sake…

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Meta hit with $840 million fine for linking Facebook and Marketplace

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Almost two years after EU regulators first accused Meta of “abusive practices” that gave the tech giant unfair market advantages, the European Commission has fined Meta €797.7 million (around $840 million). The combination of forcing Facebook users to be exposed to Marketplace and imposing restrictions against third-party classified…

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Not even Spotify is safe from AI slop

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images How fake music targets real artists. I first noticed something weird when a HEALTH album dropped on my Spotify new release radar. Except the cover design was funny — it didn’t look like a HEALTH album. And it wasn’t. A screenshot of the fake Annie album, taken…

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