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Dwayne Johnson attends ‘The Smashing Machine’ special screening at BAFTA in London, England.Getty ImagesAlthough biographical sports drama The Smashing Machine is based on the true story of MMA fighter Mark Kerr, there was pressure to alter the narrative and provide a happy ending. It’s something Dwayne Johnson, who plays the iconic athlete, and the film’s writer, producer, editor, and director, Benny Safdie, discussed at great length. “There was pressure from everybody who has a hand in this, because it’s not your typical ending,” Johnson admits over Zoom to a select group of journalists. “The intuition is, ‘Well, we know he…

Artur Debat/Moment via Getty ImagesFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysMoonshot released its new Kimi K2 Thinking model on Thursday.It claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 on some benchmarks.Open-source AI poses a challenge to proprietary US models. The global AI arms race stays in constant flux, this time thanks to the arrival of a new model from the up-and-coming Chinese AI lab Moonshot.Also: Why open source may not survive the rise of generative AIOn Thursday, the Beijing-based company released Kimi K2 Thinking, a reasoning model that it says outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 on…

Nothing in my life sparks greater joy and deeper shame than food. Publicly, I live and love to eat. As a food writer my livelihood depends on it. But privately, I live with a binge-eating disorder, and it can feel like what I’m devouring is actually devouring me.My family is Italian, and their love language is food, so food is also the portal to all my memories, good and bad. Nonna’s lasagne at Easter, her zeppole at Christmas, were the best of times. The worst: foil trays piled with fried food at funerals, the liquorice allsorts I ate – and…

The last year was a big one for Blackpink fans as each group member showed off their solo prowess by releasing excellent debut albums: Lisa delivered Alter Ego, Rosé gave us Rosie, Jennie released Ruby, and Jisoo shook things up with Amortage. Despite such a big year — especially for Rosé with “APT.” — many Blinks may be wondering why none of the girls earned nominations for Best New Artist. The term “new” in the category title is key word here. The Best New Artist category recognizes “a breakthrough into the public consciousness and notably impacted the musical landscape” in…

One of college football’s great rivalries adds another chapter Saturday as Notre Dame and Navy meet for the 98th time. This year, the Fighting Irish enter with College Football Playoff hopes on the line, while Navy’s path to the CFP remains a long shot through the American. It’s not a game that will make or break Navy’s season, but math won’t be top of mind when these two teams kick off a contest that has been a defining part of both programs’ histories.In series history, Notre Dame holds a commanding edge. The Fighting Irish lead 83-13-1 and have won 12…

new video loaded: Scientists Discover Colossal, Stinking Spider Web in Pitch-Black CaveResearchers discovered a spider web they said spanned about 1,140 square feet in a narrow passage between Albania and Greece. The web housed around 111,000 spiders, including two species of spiders that had previously been thought to be hostile to each other.By Jamie Leventhal and Axel BoadaNovember 7, 2025

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Dr. James Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA double helix in his office at his Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory office in Cold Spring Harbor, New York on June 10, 2015. J. Conrad Williams, Jr./Newsday/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption J. Conrad Williams, Jr./Newsday/Getty Images For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life’s work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a once-obscure biological molecule, DNA, into the icon of science and society that it is today. But when Watson died this week at…

Government plans to give businesses a cash grant for innovative new steel projects have been abandoned.Ministers insist they will stick to a manifesto pledge to spend £2.5bn on the steel industry – and there will be alternative ways for businesses to access funding.But a competition that would have awarded grants for new ideas will not go ahead after a decision was made to prioritise supporting loss-making steelworks instead.The government says it wants to “create a competitive business environment” for the steel industry by helping the nation’s remaining steelworks become profitable businesses.The UK’s steel industry has faced major financial difficulties in…

The next time you encounter an unusually polite reply on social media, you might want to check twice. It could be an AI model trying (and failing) to blend in with the crowd. On Wednesday, researchers from the University of Zurich, University of Amsterdam, Duke University, and New York University released a study revealing that AI models remain easily distinguishable from humans in social media conversations, with overly friendly emotional tone serving as the most persistent giveaway. The research, which tested nine open-weight models across Twitter/X, Bluesky, and Reddit, found that classifiers developed by the researchers detected AI-generated replies with…