Don't be fooled by some of the images you may have seen of the recently dropped second season of AMC psychological drama Dark Winds, which is now available to stream on Netflix. It's set in what could easily pass as a traditional Western atmosphere, but it's a show you can enjoy even if you're not necessarily a fan of the genre itself. Based on Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn & Chee series of novels created by Graham Roland, Dark Winds goes against type in almost every way and provides a terrific whodunit element, a bank heist, black magic, and an ideally used MacGuffin worthy of a nod from Alfred Hitchcock himself.

Disney’s D23 showcase of new projects from Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Pixar, and more is upon us.

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macOS 15.1 and iOS 18.1 beta certainly took the spotlight today as these updates bring the first preview of Apple Intelligence features. However, Apple has also released macOS Sonoma 14.6 to the public, which brings an important change for owners of the base . With the update, this particular Mac now has multi-display support – a long-awaited feature.

Google is dying. Google is unstoppable. Somehow, right now, it feels like both of those things are true. For the first time in more than a decade, there appear to be products that might actually threaten Google Search as the centerpiece of the web — including OpenAI’s new SearchGPT. And yet Google Search continues to dominate the market and make truly unfathomable amounts of money.

On this episode of The Vergecast, we discuss the launch of SearchGPT, Google’s latest earnings, and the increasingly brazen ways AI companies are scraping the web for their own purposes. Who will win the future of search is anyone’s guess, but one thing’s for sure: the way the web used to work doesn’t work anymore. We need new rules, new norms, and new ideas...

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Following reports that the Russo brothers were in talks to helm more features for Marvel, the studio confirmed at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con that the pair will be directing two new Avengers films.

During Marvel’s Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the studio announced that the Russo brothers have signed on to direct Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars — the former of which will see Robert Downey Jr, return to the MCU as Doctor Doom. Doomsday is due out in May 2026, while Secret Wars will follow in May 2027.

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The sheer scale of the global IT outage caused by a faulty software update has left many wondering how one update to one company’s security software could have such massive impact.

Ironically, the effect of the CrowdStrike flaw has been almost identical to the very thing it’s intended to prevent …