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RIP Mark Klein, the engineer who exposed US domestic spying ops after wiring it up
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 GMT
AT&T engineer, and the Deep Throat of the network age, dies at 79In 2006, a retired AT&T engineer knocked on the door of the EFF's office in a rundown part of San Francisco's Mission district and asked, "Do you folks care about privacy?" With him he carried schematics exposing the largest US government domestic spying operation since Watergate.


Belgian cops raid Huawei in Euro bribery probe
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 GMT
Chinese giant says it's 'committed' to obeying the law as arrests madeBelgian authorities have raided multiple premises as part of a corruption probe involving Chinese tech giant Huawei, which has also led to the sealing of two EU parliamentary offices in Brussels.


AI bubble? What AI bubble? Datacenter investors all in despite whispers of a pop
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 GMT
Billions continue to pour into bit barns across the globeFears that AI may be a bubble about to burst have yet to dent datacenter investment, with a handful of new developments revealed this week.


Bubble trouble in hydraulics blamed for NASA and SpaceX Crew-10 scrub
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 GMT
Trapped gas isn't just a party foul– it's a launch-stopperThe hydraulic problem that kept the next International Space Station (ISS) crew on the ground this week was likely due to trapped air in the system.


SUSE doubles down on AI and Multi-Linux Support to prove it's still in the game
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 GMT
What has more than a decade of support ahead of it cannot be deadSUSECON25Veteran Linux wrangler SUSE confirmed its place aboard the AI train at its Orlando SUSECON25 shindig, where announcements were plentiful regarding the tech industry's latest obsession.


France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 GMT
Aix-Marseille University rolls out welcome mat for American researchers facing funding cutsAmerican boffins fearful that their work (or should that be "woke"?) activities will draw the disfavor of the Trump administration are being offered sanctuary in the Land of the Free, otherwise known as Europe.


IBM boss Arvind Krishna pockets 23% pay rise to $25M
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 GMT
What about the average Big Blue worker? $48,582 up from $43,069CEO salary watchIBM emperor Arvind Krishna's total financial package went up by double digits in 2024 to more than $25 million.


Apple's alleged UK encryption battle sparks political and privacy backlash
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 GMT
National security defense being used to keep appeal behind closed doorsUS politicians and privacy campaigners are calling for the private hearing between Apple and the UK government regarding its alleged encryption-busting order to be aired in public.


AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 GMT
Biz leaders still dream of obedient agents replacing workers. In the actual workplace, they're going AWOLOpinionI am so sick and tired of AI hype. I'm not the only one.


Dash to Panel maintainer quits after donations drive becomes dash to disaster
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 GMT
Tin rattling earns rebuke from GNOME extension's original developer as well as dozens of everyday usersThe maintainer of one of the most popular extensions to customize the GNOME desktop is stepping down and seeking someone to take over development after a fundraising effort backfired.


New kids on the ransomware block channel Lockbit to raid Fortinet firewalls
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 GMT
It's March already and you haven't patched?Researchers are tracking a newly discovered ransomware group with suspected links to LockBit after a series of intrusions were reported starting in January.


Pirate Bay financier and far-right activist Carl Lundström dies in plane crash
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 GMT
Mooney M20 propeller plane hit mountain in Slovenia amid bad weatherOne of the initial backers of infamous torrenting site The Pirate Bay, Carl Lundström, has died after crashing his aircraft in bad weather.


User complained his mouse wasn’t working. But he wasn’t using a mouse
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 GMT
The same chap also caused a bomb scare in a missile factoryOn CallWelcome once again to On Call,The Register's Friday column in which we share your astounding tales of being asked to tackle tech support jobs that seemingly defy common sense.


Saturn runs rings around Jupiter
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 GMT
Ratification of 128 additional moons puts the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite countThe International Astronomical Union on Tuesday ratified the recent discovery of 128 previously unknown moons orbiting Saturn, taking the gas giant’s count of known natural satellites to 274.


India investigates whether Uber makes iPhone users pay more to ride
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 GMT
Rideshare companies said it isn’t happening. Lawmakers aren’t convincedIndia’s government has ordered an investigation into whether Uber and local ride-share champion charge Ola customers more if they use iPhones.


Judge orders Feds rehire workers falsely fired for lousy performance
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 GMT
Veteran of Oracle vs Google Java trial fumes over 'gimmicks' and 'sham' argumentsA federal judge has ordered six US government agencies to immediately rehire employees fired this year by the Trump administration.


Dems ask federal agencies for reassurance DOGE isn't feeding data into AI willy-nilly
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
Pouring sensitive info into unapproved, unaccountable, unsafe models would be a 'severe' cybersecurity failHouse Democrats have sent letters to 24 federal agencies asking for assurances that Elon Musk's DOGE team is not feeding sensitive government data into "unapproved and unaccountable" AI systems.


We did not have Brave clashing with Rupert Murdoch on our 2025 bingo card, but there it is
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
Indie browser maker asks judge for legal shield against copyright threats over AI summariesBrave has gone to court to head off potential legal action from News Corp over the browser maker's auto-generated AI summaries of articles published by Rupert Murdoch's media empire.


Google says it's rolling out fix for stricken Chromecasts
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
It'll take a few days, give or take your situationGoogle has toldThe Registerit's beginning to roll out a fix for Chromecast devices that were crippled by an expired security certificate authority. We're assured this deployment will take place over the next few days.


OpenAI asks Uncle Sam to let it scrape everything, stop other countries complaining
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
The rest of the world doesn't think 'fair use' is fair but we should make 'emUpdatedOpenAI wants the US government to ensure it has access to any data it wants to train GenAI models, and to stop foreign countries from trying to enforce copyright rules against it and other American AI firms.


Starliner astronauts' stay drags on as Crew-10 launch scrubs
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
Hydraulic problems stop the countdown clock at T-44 minutesThe launch of the next crew to the International Space Station (ISS) was postponed to no earlier than Friday, March 14, due to a hydraulic issue with a group support clamp arm for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket during March 12's countdown.


That 'angry guest' email from Booking.com? It's a scam, not a 1-star review
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
Phishers check in, your credentials check out, Microsoft warnsAn ongoing phishing campaign disguised as a Booking.com email casts keystroke and credential-stealing malware into hospitality employees' inboxes for financial fraud and theft, according to Microsoft Threat Intelligence.


Microsoft tempted to hit the gas as renewables can't keep up with AI
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
So much for 'carbon negative by 2030'Microsoft says there is plenty of wind and solar to power datacenters in the US, but it is still eyeing natural gas generation as it juggles the growing energy needs of AI with its own net-zero commitments.


CISA: We didn't fire red teams, we just unhired a bunch of them
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
Agency tries to save face as it also pulls essential funding for election security initiativesUncle Sam's cybersecurity agency is trying to save face by seeking to clear up what it's calling "inaccurate reporting" after a former senior pen-tester claimed the organization axed two red teams.


DeepSeek can be gently persuaded to spit out malware code
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
It might need polishing, but a useful find for any budding cybercrooks out thereDeepSeek's flagship R1 model is capable of generating a working keylogger and basic ransomware code, just as long as a techie is on hand to tinker with it a little.


ESA cuts the ribbon on 34,000-core Space HPC center tailored for space workloads
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
PUE of 1.09 and heats the building it lives inThe European Space Agency this week inaugurated its new supercomputing facility built with HPE.


Frack to the future? Geothermal energy pitched as datacenter savior
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
If operators are willing to cough up a 'green premium' and tax credits are not repealedAn independent research body claims that geothermal power generation could provide an answer to the growing energy requirements of datacenters.


GCC 15 is close: COBOL and Itanium are in, but ALGOL is out
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
Steering Committee decides against merge of over-complex and largely unloved ALGOL-68 'at this point'Version 15 of the GNU Compiler Collection is getting close to release, and as it does, some changes are not going to make it.


City council rejects inquiry into£130M Oracle IT disaster
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
Opposition faults leadership as officers accused of misleading councillorsBirmingham City Council voted down proposals to hold a full independent inquiry into its disastrous introduction of an Oracle ERP system, which "effectively crippled" its ability to manage and report on its finances.


Google slips built-in terminal, Debian Linux VM into Android 15 March feature drop
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
Try it out now on Pixel phones for some penguin on penguin funThe March "feature drop" for Android 15 on Google Pixel devices includes an optional Linux session.


Nextcloud puts out fire after data leak panic
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
Community calls for off-by-default data sharing settingOpen source software biz Nextcloud issued fixes to its software this week after bug hunters raised concerns about data collection.


Medusa ransomware affiliate tried triple extortion scam– up from the usual double demand
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
Feds warn gang still rampant and now cracked 300+ victims around the worldA crook who distributes the Medusa ransomware tried to make a victim cough up three payments instead of the usual two, according to a government advisory on how to defend against the malware and the gangs who wield it.


AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
Eggheads call for comprehensive rules to govern machine learning in medical settingsThe tendency of AI models to hallucinate– aka confidently making stuff up – isn't sufficient to disqualify them from use in healthcare settings. So, researchers have set out to enumerate the risks and formulate a plan to do no harm while still allowing medical professionals to consult with unreliable software assistants.


As Chromecast outage drags on, fix could be days to weeks away
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
Google apologizes but won’t say what went wrong nor when it will make things rightUpdatedOlder models of Google’s Chromecast media-streaming sticks remain broken, and independent research suggests a fix could take potentially weeks to materialize.


Need cash? Your IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
Yeah, yeah ... if we were all exclusively on IPv6, this wouldn't be a thing. But here we areIP address marketplace IPv4.Global has started offering loans on terms that consider public IPv4 network addresses as valid collateral.


Get off that old Firefox by Friday or you'll be sorry, says Moz
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 GMT
Root cert expiry may bring breakage or worse for add-ons, media playback, and moreIf you're running an outdated version of Firefox, update by Friday or risk broken add-ons, failing DRM-protected media playback, and other errors, due to an expiring root certificate.


Mozilla pleads with Uncle Sam to not turn off that sweet, sweet Google search money
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 GMT
Firefox maker: Looming antitrust inferno could burn us, tooMozilla, which in 2023 received about 75 percent of its revenue from royalties paid by Google and other search providers for search engine usage in Firefox, worries that the US Justice Department's proposed ban on the very same Google Search payments would be rather harmful.


As Elon Musk makes thousands of federal workers jobless, tycoon pushes for $56B Tesla pay deal
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 GMT
Not so much thrown under a bus as under an unwanted electric carElon Musk is trying yet again to get his $56 billion Tesla pay package reinstated with a fresh appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court. 


Intel's new CEO: Chip world veteran Lip-Bu Tan
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 GMT
Restoring x86 giant to its former glory, a job no one will envyIntel has tapped former Cadence CEO and Intel board member Lip-Bu Tan to lead the embattled x86 chipmaker as it struggles to overcome mounting losses stemming from its foundry business.


iRobot may be iDead in iYear
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 GMT
We're doomba, say Roomba goombas, unless...Troubled robot vacuum-cleaner maker iRobot, abandoned by Amazon after regulators effectively doomed the web giant's takeover offer, has warned investors it may not survive the next 12 months.


Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone's game
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 GMT
When it's all abstracted by an API endpoint, do you even care what's behind the curtain?CommentWith the exception of custom cloud silicon, like Google's TPUs or Amazon's Trainium ASICs, the vast majority of AI training clusters being built today are powered by Nvidia GPUs. But while Nvidia may have won the AI training battle, the inference fight is far from decided.


Printers start speaking in tongues after Windows 11 update
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 GMT
Who still uses a printer anyway? Oh ... quite a lot of you, it seemsHas your printer suddenly started spouting gibberish? A faulty Windows 11 23H2 update from Microsoft - rather than a ghost in the machine - could be the cause.


Amazon, Meta, Google sign pledge to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 GMT
AI doesn't run on fairy dust after allA group of large-scale energy users including Amazon, Meta, and Google has thrown its weight behind efforts to ramp up global nuclear capacity– aiming to triple it by 2050 – to meet increasing energy demands.


DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 GMT
Project dubbed 'wasteful'– Musk's lot says under-pressure VA must do it 'in-house'Elon Musk's newly minted US Department of Government Efficiency claims to have helped the Department of Veterans Affairs end a technology contract run by service-disabled veterans.


OpenInfra has only gone and joined the Linux Foundation
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 GMT
Artist formerly known as OpenStack to huddle under same umbrella as the Cloud Native Computing FoundationThe votes are in, confirming that the Open Infrastructure Foundation intends to join the Linux Foundation.


Expired Juniper routers find new life– as Chinese spy hubs
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 GMT
Fewer than 10 known victims, but Mandiant suspects others compromised, tooChinese spies have for months exploited old Juniper Networks routers, infecting the buggy gear with custom backdoors and gaining root access to the compromised devices.


ServiceNow's new AI agents will happily volunteer for your dullest tasks
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 GMT
Yokohama release also adds meta-observabiilty and takes a tilt at CRMServiceNow has for years used the example of employee onboarding to explain the power of its wares, pointing out that a lot of people around an organization are needed to get new hires on the payroll, registered with HR, equipped with a computer, and assigned appropriate permissions to access applications.


This is the FBI, open up. China's Volt Typhoon is on your network
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 GMT
Power utility GM talks to El Reg about getting that call and what happened nextNick Lawler, general manager of the Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments (LELWD), was at home one Friday when he got a call from the FBI alerting him that the public power utility's network had been compromised. The digital intruders turned out to be Volt Typhoon.


Rocket Lab says NASA lacks leadership on Mars Sample Return
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 GMT
Agency willing to take huge risks with human exploration, but not willing to do it for some dirt?Rocket Lab has been on a roll lately, with multiple Electron launches, plans for an ocean platform for its Neutron rocket, and a second mission for in-space manufacturing business Varda under its belt. However, NASA has apparently rejected the company's Mars Sample Return mission proposal. Why?


Free95 claims to be a GPL 3 Windows clone, but it's giving vaporware vibes
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 GMT
Don't,don't,DON'Tbelieve the hypeThe developer of Free95 says it will be a free Windows 95-compatible OS, but we suspect an elaborate prank. At best, maybe an unknowing one.


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The Frick Glows With a Poetic, $220 Million Renovation
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
The museum, based in Henry Clay Frick’s 1914 Fifth Avenue mansion, reopens with a deft expansion worthy of a New York treasure.

With $921 Seats, Denzel Washington’s ‘Othello’ Breaks a Box Office Record
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
Demand to see Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal play Shakespeare has set a record in a year when big stars have been driving up the prices of Broadway plays.

With 100 Pounds of Blue Pigment, an Artist Conjures Spirits of the Past
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
The ghost of George Washington Carver hangs over the studio of Amanda Williams, where hues are inspired by the Alabama soil Black farmers worked.

Enemies in Battle Over‘LOVE’ Artist Bury the Hatchet
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
Can two rivals, bringing Robert Indiana’s long-hidden work into the light, reboot his legacy for a new generation?

‘Song of the North’ Uses Puppets to Help a Persian Epic Spring to Life
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life’s work to share the richness of Iranian culture. “Song of the North,” at the New Victory Theater, is just the latest installment.

Gemma Chan Gets Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’ More as She Gets Older
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
The actress, now starring in“The Actor,” talks about Schubert, “In the Mood for Love” and other art, food and pets that she loves.

Dudamel Leads a Premiere by a Youthful Ravel. Not Bad for a Kid.
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
The New York Philharmonic and its next music director gave“Sémiramis” its first public hearing, alongside other Ravel pieces and works by VarÚse and Gershwin.

How Spider-Man Has Evolved on Animated TV Shows
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
The superhero has been the subject of many different animated TV shows dating back to the 1960s. Here’s how he has evolved.

‘Ted Lasso’ Will Return for Season 4 on Apple TV+
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
Apple TV+ announced on Friday that the Emmy-winning comedy will return for a fourth season. Jason Sudeikis will be back to reprise the title role.

Florida Mayor Threatens Cinema Over Israeli-Palestinian Film
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
The mayor of Miami Beach wants to end the lease of a group renting a city-owned property because it is screening the Academy Award-winning“No Other Land” there.

Sean Combs’s Lawyers Say Video of Hallway Assault Was Altered
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
The video, a critical piece of the prosecution’s case, shows the music mogul beating and kicking his girlfriend at a hotel in 2016.

TEFAF Returns With Majesty in an Uncertain Market
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
The fair has a jewel of a 16th-century illuminated manuscript, and other museum-quality items, but fewer standouts over all. Sales were still brisk.

Chappell Roan’s Bro-Country Tweak, and 9 More New Songs
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
Hear tracks by Playboi Carti, Haim, Bon Iver, Willie Nelson and others.

Supreme Court Revives Long-Running Nazi Art Restitution Case
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
The case involving a Pissarro is being sent back to federal court in California for review in light of a new state law, in a dispute between heirs and a Spanish museum.

Trump Seeks More Sway in Picking Kennedy Center Honorees
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
The president, who recently had himself installed as the center’s chairman, has called a meeting of its board to approve changes that would give him more input in the process.

Lady Gaga Sells‘Mayhem’ Hard. But Does It Work?
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
On Popcast, a discussion about the singer’s latest “return to form” album and whether her aggressive promotion of it adds up to anything new.

How‘Severance’ Is Shifting the Work-Life Balance Narrative With Innies and Outies
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
As“Severance” nears the end of its second season, the show has created a “cultural moment” that is changing the way people discuss work-life balance.

What to Know About the New‘Hunger Games’ Prequel, ‘Sunrise on the Reaping’
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
“Sunrise on the Reaping” further expands the world of Panem, focusing on Haymitch Abernathy’s story.

He Dreamed Up Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer. It All Started With L.A.
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
For almost four decades, Michael Connelly has set his characters loose in a city of big dreams and lucky breaks. Now they’re facing an altered landscape. So is he.

An‘In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb’ Playlist
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
Prepare for spring with songs from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lion Babe, Buddy Guy and others.

At NYLA,‘Terrestrial: The Sprout’ Proposes Drab Future Rituals
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
In“Terrestrial: The Sprout,” at New York Live Arts, three directors present a show about epic memory and indescribable feelings.

Herman Graf, Who Helped Sell‘Tropic of Cancer,’ Dies at 91
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
A major figure in independent publishing, he promoted Henry Miller’s once-banned book and helped make “A Confederacy of Dunces” a best seller after the author’s death.

Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
In this month’s picks, multidimensional comedy and extraterrestrial drama.

‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Goin’ Hungry
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
Coach Ben goes on a hunger strike. Young Natalie goes rogue.

Theater to Stream Now:‘Beckett Briefs’ and One of Gavin Creel’s Last Shows
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
Also available for streaming: A masterful F. Murray Abraham in“Beckett Briefs,” and Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon in a take on “Streetcar.”

10 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

In‘Meanwhile,’ a Nation Remembers to Breathe
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
The director Catherine Gund fuses work from multiple artists with archival footage and interviews to craft an exploration of Black resilience.

Chelsea Handler at 50: Still Hustling and Dreaming of Margaritas
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
In her new book,“I’ll Have What She’s Having,” the comedian dishes on life lessons, breakups and being denied a tryst with Andrew Cuomo.

A Mathematical‘Fever Dream’ Hits the Road
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
Meet“Mathemalchemy,” a traveling math-meets-art installation coming eventually to a dimension near you.

Late Night Takes Shots at Trump’s Liquor Tariff Threat
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
Jimmy Kimmel pointed to the irony of President Trump“making it very expensive to get drunk. He’s the reason we need to get drunk!”

JD Vance Is Booed at a Kennedy Center Concert After Trump’s Takeover
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
The vice president and his wife were booed as they took their seats for a National Symphony Orchestra concert of music by Shostakovich and Stravinsky.

Anne Kaufman Schneider, 99, Ardent Keeper of Her Father’s Plays, Dies
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
She shepherded the works of George S. Kaufman from the 20th century into the next, encouraging regional theater productions and helping to steer two of them to Broadway.

Felice Picano, Champion of Gay Literature, Is Dead at 81
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
At a time when, in his words,“nobody was writing about gay life,” he produced groundbreaking novels and memoirs and published books by Harvey Fierstein and others.

‘The Devil in the Family’ Is a Poignant and Terrifying Docu-Series
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
The story of the disgraced mommy vlogger Ruby Franke has been covered extensively by the news media. A Hulu documentary offers surprising new insights.

John Feinstein, Sportswriter and Author of‘A Season on the Brink,’ Dies at 69
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
A longtime columnist for The Washington Post, he also wrote dozens of books about basketball, baseball, tennis, football and the Olympics.

Dawn Robinson, En Vogue Alum, Says She’s Been Living in Her Car for 3 Years
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
Robinson’s mother said in an interview that the revelation about her estranged daughter had been hard to take but if she could see her now “I would grab her, I would hug her.”

Sofia Gubaidulina Was Both Fully Modern and Sincerely Spiritual
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
Sofia Gubaidulina’s work, with its thorniness and religious themes, put her at odds with the Soviet government.

A Twyla Tharp Master Class on Themes, Variations and Allusions
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
A program celebrating Twyla Tharp’s 60th year making dances features the masterwork “Diabelli” and the fresh new “Slacktide,” set to Philip Glass.

Sofia Gubaidulina, Composer Who Provoked Soviet Censors, Dies at 93
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, colorful compositions.

David Raven, British Drag Performer Known as Maisie Trollette, Dies at 91
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
A mainstay of England’s drag circuit, he performed for over five decades and encouraged other drag queens to flourish.

Jennifer Johnston, Irish Novelist Who Probed Country’s Fault Lines, Dies at 95
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
She explored tensions among the social classes and within families in fiction that prompted Roddy Doyle to call her“Ireland’s greatest writer.”

8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Madison Square Park’s Conservancy Names New Chief Curator
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
The organization in New York has selected Denise Markonish, the chief curator of Mass MoCA, to lead its next chapter.

John Mulaney Returns to Late Night on Netflix
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
“Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney” resurrected the comic’s eccentric but enjoyable live talk show, with contributions from Richard Kind, Michael Keaton, Joan Baez and many Willy Lomans.

‘Young Hearts’ Review: Finding Acceptance
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
In this coming-of-age drama from Belgium, a 14-year-old boy falls in love with his neighbor and questions his sexual identity.

‘Long Bright River’ and ‘Dope Thief’: Drugs and Murder in Philly
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
“Long Bright River,” on Peacock, and “Dope Thief,” on Apple TV+, set stories of drugs, murder and broken families on the mean streets of Philadelphia.

Want to be Alone With a Rembrandt and a Queen? Here’s Your Chance.
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum explores the cult of Queen Esther, whose story won the hearts of Dutch Masters and some artists today.

Orchid Explosions in‘Mexican Modernism’ at the Botanical Garden
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
This year’s show pays elegant, effusively colorful tribute to the Mexican architect Luis Barragán and his signature palette of orange and creamy pink.

‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ Is Haunted by Brando and Ghosts of Actors Past
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
With a revival starring Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran in Brooklyn, a look at the carefully weighted balance that actors playing Blanche and Stanley need to strike.

Helly vs. Helena, the Most Brutal Battle on‘Severance’
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
The ongoing rivalry between Helena and Helly R. on the hit sci-fi drama on Apple TV+ serves as a parable about internalized contempt and rage.

‘Novocaine’ Review: Jack Quaid Plays an Unlikely Action Hero
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
In this gross-out action spectacle, Jack Quaid plays an unlikely action hero who, because of a genetic disorder, can’t feel any pain.

‘Who by Fire’ Review: Masculinity and Its Discontents
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
Men posture and peacock in the Québecois director Philippe Lesage’s ensemble drama set at an isolated house in a remote forest.

‘Opus’ Review: A New Album They’re Dying to Hear
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
John Malkovich plays a’90s pop star who emerges from retirement with a bloody agenda.

‘The Electric State’ Review: 1990s Robot Apocalypse? As If!
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
Who needs dystopian artificial intelligence to destroy faith in humanity when you can watch this sci-fi extravaganza?

A Looney Tunes Movie With Daffy, Porky and Petunia
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
Subtitled“A Looney Tunes Movie,” this installment, directed by Peter Browngardt, takes bubble gum to a whole new level.

‘An Unfinished Film’ Review: When Reality Interrupts Art
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
A drama full of unconventional touches recalls a time when all we had were our screens.

‘Black Bag’ Review: Blanchett v. Fassbender
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
The actors play a glamorous couple of spies in this latest sleek collaboration from the director Steven Soderbergh and the screenwriter David Koepp.

‘The Parenting’ Review: Meet the Poltergeist
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
A family getaway turns ghastly when a demon is awakened in this juvenile, meanspirited horror-comedy.

‘The Actor’ Review: No Direction Home
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
André Holland plays an actor with amnesia in this wonderfully surreal and poignant mystery.

John Mulaney Says His New Show Is Netflix’s Mistake
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
The comedian said Netflix“picked up this show by accident. They thought that it was a true-crime documentary because I look like a disappeared boy.”

Chair of National Endowment for the Humanities Leaves at Trump’s ‘Direction’
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 +0000
Shelly C. Lowe, a scholar of higher education and the first Native American to lead the agency, was appointed by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Chris Moore Dead: Illustrator for Classic Sci-Fi Books Was 77
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
He conjured fantastical worlds with covers for novels by Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke. He also left his mark on albums by Fleetwood Mac and Rod Stewart.

Ahead of World Tour, Blackpink’s Members Venture Out On Their Own
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 +0000
On new solo releases, Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rosé each face a choice: double-down or retreat from their roles in the smash K-pop girl group.

NY Times Obituaries:




Junior Bridgeman, N.B.A. Player Turned Mogul, Dies at 71
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
He became an entrepreneur during a solid career with the Milwaukee Bucks. He later bought hundreds of fast-food outlets, a Coca-Cola bottling business and Ebony and Jet magazines.

Roy L. Prosterman, 89, Dies; Worked to Secure Land for the Rural Poor
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
Seeing land rights as the key to lifting up the impoverished, he pushed authoritarian governments as well as emerging democratic ones to distribute farmland.

Rep. Raul M. Grijalva of Arizona, a Democratic Progressive in the House, Dies at 77
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
The son of an immigrant, he represented a majority Hispanic district in Arizona for 12 terms but had lately been absent from Capitol Hill while being treated for cancer.

Alan K. Simpson, a Folksy Republican Force in the Senate, Dies at 93
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
A plain-spoken lawmaker from Wyoming, he balanced his conservative views with moderate stands on abortion rights, gay marriage and immigration reform.

Kevin Drum Dead: Influential Early Political Blogger Was 66
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
Writing on his own and for Washington Monthly and Mother Jones, he earned a reputation as a serious policy thinker. He also invented Friday cat blogging.

Dr. Sheldon Greenfield, Who Exposed Gaps in Health Care, Dies at 86
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
The author of numerous studies, he urged patients to question their physicians and expressed concern about cancer treatment for older adults.

Herman Graf, Who Helped Sell‘Tropic of Cancer,’ Dies at 91
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
A major figure in independent publishing, he promoted Henry Miller’s once-banned book and helped make “A Confederacy of Dunces” a best seller after the author’s death.

Larry Buendorf, Secret Service Agent Who Saved President Ford, Dies at 87
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
By grabbing a loaded handgun from Squeaky Fromme in 1975, Mr. Buendorf, as part of a Secret Service detail, thwarted a would-be assassin in California’s capital.

Anne Kaufman Schneider, 99, Ardent Keeper of Her Father’s Plays, Dies
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
She shepherded the works of George S. Kaufman from the 20th century into the next, encouraging regional theater productions and helping to steer two of them to Broadway.

Carl Lundstrom, Who Financed the Pirate Bay, Dies in Plane Crash
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
Mr. Lundstrom was a supporter of far-right causes and, at one point, an unsuccessful candidate for office. He was convicted of aiding copyright infringement in 2009.

Overlooked No More: Beulah Henry, Inventor With an Endless Imagination
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
She was so prolific— reimagining things as varied as toys, typewriters, umbrellas and ice-cream makers — that she earned the nickname Lady Edison.

Felice Picano, Champion of Gay Literature, Is Dead at 81
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
At a time when, in his words,“nobody was writing about gay life,” he produced groundbreaking novels and memoirs and published books by Harvey Fierstein and others.

Ron Nessen, Ford’s White House Press Secretary, Dies at 90
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
He pledged a new era of openness in the wake of the Watergate scandal, but his relationship with the press corps proved rocky.

John Feinstein, Sportswriter and Author of‘A Season on the Brink,’ Dies at 69
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
A longtime columnist for The Washington Post, he also wrote dozens of books about basketball, baseball, tennis, football and the Olympics.

Sofia Gubaidulina, Composer Who Provoked Soviet Censors, Dies at 93
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 +0000
Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, colorful compositions.

David Raven, British Drag Performer Known as Maisie Trollette, Dies at 91
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
A mainstay of England’s drag circuit, he performed for over five decades and encouraged other drag queens to flourish.

Jennifer Johnston, Irish Novelist Who Probed Country’s Fault Lines, Dies at 95
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
She explored tensions among the social classes and within families in fiction that prompted Roddy Doyle to call her“Ireland’s greatest writer.”

James Reason, Who Used Swiss Cheese to Explain Human Error, Dies at 86
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
Mistakes happen, he theorized, because multiple vulnerabilities in a system align— like the holes in cheese — to create a recipe for disaster.

Selma Miriam, Founder of the Feminist Restaurant Bloodroot, Dies at 89
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
She and Noel Furie had just come out as lesbians when they opened an unusual gathering place for women in Connecticut. Nearly half a century later, it is still thriving.

Chris Moore Dead: Illustrator for Classic Sci-Fi Books Was 77
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
He conjured fantastical worlds with covers for novels by Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke. He also left his mark on albums by Fleetwood Mac and Rod Stewart.

Stanley R. Jaffe, 84, Oscar-Winning Producer and Hollywood Power, Dies
Tue, 11 Mar 2025 +0000
His“Kramer vs. Kramer” won for best picture in 1980, one of many high points in a career that saw him in top jobs, twice, at Paramount.

Larry Appelbaum, Who Found Jazz Treasure in the Archives, Dies at 67
Tue, 11 Mar 2025 +0000
He helped turn the Library of Congress into a leading center for research on the history of jazz, and made some surprising discoveries of his own.

South Korean R&B Singer Wheesung Is Found Dead at 43
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 +0000
The artist was known for popularizing the musical genre in the country, but convictions for drug abuse damaged his image.

Simon Fisher-Becker, Actor in‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Doctor Who,’ Dies at 63
Tue, 11 Mar 2025 +0000
A versatile character actor whose career spanned film, theater and television, Mr. Fisher-Becker was known for small, memorable roles.

Jessie Mahaffey, Survivor of Pearl Harbor Attack, Dies at 102
Tue, 11 Mar 2025 +0000
He was cleaning the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it capsized under Japanese torpedo fire. Less than a year later, he survived the sinking of another Navy ship in the Pacific.

Geoff Nicholson, Author of Darkly Comic Novels, Dies at 71
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 +0000
In more than a dozen books, he created characters who were obsessed with maps, urban walking, sexual fetishes and Volkswagen Beetles.

Art Schallock, Oldest Surviving Major Leaguer, Dies at 100
Sun, 09 Mar 2025 +0000
A pitcher, he played for the Yankees and the Orioles. When Mickey Mantle was sent to the minors in 1951, Schallock was called up.

Fred Stolle, 86, Golden-Age Australian Tennis Star, Dies
Tue, 11 Mar 2025 +0000
In addition to winning 19 Grand Slam titles, including two singles championships, he was a coach, a club pro and a television commentator.

Athol Fugard, 92, Playwright Who Exposed Torments of Apartheid, Dies
Tue, 11 Mar 2025 +0000
In works like“Blood Knot,” “Master Harold” and “The Island,” he laid bare the realities of racial separatism in his homeland, South Africa.

David Sellers, Architect Who Built What He Designed, Dies at 86
Tue, 11 Mar 2025 +0000
He believed that architects could design better buildings if they did the construction themselves. His do-it-yourself approach caught on.

Flo Fox, 79, Dies; Street Photographer Overcame Blindness and Paralysis
Tue, 11 Mar 2025 +0000
She was legally blind and used a motorized wheelchair, but she managed to capture what she called the“ironic reality” of New York City on film.

Joey Molland, of the Power-Pop Band Badfinger, Is Dead at 77
Tue, 11 Mar 2025 +0000
He was the last remaining core member of a group that was both propelled and pigeonholed in the 1970s by its close association with the Beatles.