Everything’s coming up Spider-Man lately. Barely a week passes without news of some new movie, TV or game featuring our favorite wall-crawler. Currently, fans are celebrating the return of Tom Holland’s Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Brand New Day

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While the discussion of AI has largely centered on its powerful models and capabilities, a new challenge is emerging: how to run AI agents efficiently at scale. As organizations embrace agentic AI, technology leaders are rethinking everything from infrastructure and computing strategies to the economics of enterprise AI.

A group of U.S. senators is demanding answers from Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano after reports that Social Security field offices in multiple states temporarily stopped offering in-person service, raising new questions about customer service at an agency millions of Americans depend on.

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Speaking with IGN as part of our IGN30 Icon Series, Guillermo del Toro opened up about how he inspired Christopher Nolan’s cyclops in The Odyssey — along with a hilarious anecdote about one particular scene in the film.

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Hideo Kojima had high praise for Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, remarking on how the film reminded him of the maze-like maps and polygonal look of early video games.

A few years ago, the first ceramic finds came to light during construction work in the Burg district of the municipality of Hannersdorf. Geomagnetic surveys in subsequent years provided evidence of numerous kilns thought to lie hidden beneath the field. In a recent educational excavation led by Basema Hamarneh from the University of Vienna, archaeologists uncovered two pottery kilns. Another 100 kilns are thought to remain buried—an unprecedented discovery of a local production center for utilitarian pottery from the Roman period. The finds date from the mid-1st century to the mid-2nd century CE.

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Pervasive climate of fear condemned amid human rights violations and crackdowns on opposition.

The United Nations has condemned Uganda for its clampdown on dissent and opposition groups.

The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk expressed his criticism of the country’s increasing pressure on dissidents and others in a statement issued on Thursday.