ValeryBrozhinsky/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google tools can automate code debugging. But cybersecurity is too complex a problem for these tools to solve. AI’s biggest contribution may be to reduce avoidable software flaws. Can you trust the companies that are building AI to…
[This story contains mild spoilers from the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season two premiere, “Cause and Effect.”] There were a lot of questions at the end of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season one. Would the Monsterverse spinoff series be renewed? If so, would Kurt and Wyatt Russell’s shared portrayal of former U.S. Army Colonel Lee…
Vince Vaughn and James Marsden are ready to fix the past in the trailer for Hulu‘s time-travel movie Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice. The streamer is set to release writer-director BenDavid Grabinski’s R-rated action-comedy feature March 27 following its premiere later this month at SXSW. Eiza González, Keith David, Jimmy Tatro, Stephen Root,…
Jack Schlossberg is continuing to go after Ryan Murphy for the portrayal of his late uncle John F. Kennedy Jr. and wife Carolyn Bessette’s relationship in FX‘s Love Story series. “If you want to know someone who’s never met anyone in my family, knows nothing about us, talk to Ryan Murphy,” Schlossberg said when asked…
Hundreds of tech workers have signed an open letter urging the Department of Defense to withdraw its designation of Anthropic as a “supply-chain risk.” The letter also calls on Congress to step in and “examine whether the use of these extraordinary authorities against an American technology company is appropriate.” The letter includes signatories from major…
Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison on Monday boasted that once his company also owns Warner Bros. Discovery, the media giant will have a bit more than 200 million direct-to-consumer subscribers. If anything, he was underselling. At the end of 2025, Paramount+ had 78.9 million subs and Warner Bros. Discovery had 131.6 million, including linear HBO…
Social network X on Monday announced the introduction of a new “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they’re advertisements. The feature could help improve creators’ authenticity, so fans know when a product recommendation is an original sentiment, versus a paid sponsorship, while also complying with regulations that say ads…
The latest sequel in Sonic the Hedgehog film franchise is getting a running start. Director Jeff Fowler took to social media on Monday to announce that Sonic the Hedgehog 4 has begun production. The post includes an image of the filmmaker appearing to wield the hammer that is associated with the franchise’s pink hedgehog Amy…
Suddenly, Jim Carrey became the new Avril Lavigne. The actor’s appearance at the César Awards in Paris last week spawned a surge of conspiracy theories that the Dumb and Dumber actor had been replaced by a clone. The reason for the theories seemed to be the 64-year-old actor’s face looking possibly a bit inflamed in…
Rapper-model-actor Chet Hanks has marked himself as “OK” as he continues to sort out his reentry into the United States after becoming stranded in Colombia without his passport last week. Hanks, the eldest son of actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, explained in an Instagram video on Friday that he flew to Puerto Rico to…
