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NBC Successfully Finds 30 Rock's Excellent Replacement After 13 Years

NBC's The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins reunites 30 Rock's creative talent for a hilarious new network comedy worthy of its predecessor.

Screen Rant · EN

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 3 Interviews with Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Lloyd Owen, Maxim Baldry & Showrunners

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power stars Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Lloyd Owen, Maxim Baldry, and showrunners JD Payne & Patrick McKay discuss season 3 story arcs.

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Ben Barnes Officially Addresses Netflix's Narnia Reboot & Magician's Nephew Start

Exclusive: Original Chronicles of Narnia star Ben Barnes weighs in on Netflix's new reboot movie and the choice to start with The Magician's Nephew.

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Power Rangers' Tommy Oliver Gets Post-Apocalyptic Redesign In Dark New Series

Tommy Oliver debuts a rugged new look as a post-apocalyptic Power Ranger in his latest appearance, joining his fellow heroes against a major threat.

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Agatha Christie Meets Hallmark In Netflix's New Detective Series Trending At The Perfect Time

This cozy yet thrilling mystery series is now available to watch on Netflix, and fans can look forward to an exciting update on the show's future.

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Stephen King's 1 Main Request For Hit Sci-Fi Adaptation's Return This Month Confirmed

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen King is an executive producer on MGM+’s The Institute, and he had a very specific request for season 2, according to the cast.

Screen Rant · EN

Stephen King’s 6-Part Sci-Fi on Prime Video Is So Good, You’ll Wish You Found It Sooner

Stephen King's The Dead Zone is an overlooked sci-fi thriller series that delivers six seasons of psychic visions, mystery, and suspense.

Collider · EN

The 10 Most Amazing Sci-Fi Books Ever Written

Hyperion, Frankenstein, and Dune rank among the most amazing sci-fi books of all time, outstanding achievements of the genre that remain classics.

Collider · EN

Forget Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Lawmen,’ Netflix’s New Bass Reeves Series Is Officially Perfect

Netflix’s new sci-fi Western Bass X Machina, starring Brian Tyree Henry, beats Taylor Sheridan’s Lawmen series by over 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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9-1-1: The Sinkhole Stunt Survived Nearly 8 Drops | Collider BTS

How does 9-1-1 pull off its massive disasters, collapsing structures, and dangerous stunts? Special Effects Supervisor Elia Popov takes Collider behind the scenes to explain the practical effects and engineering that make the show's biggest action sequences possible.

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5 Years Later, Netflix’s Brilliant 4-Part Crime Thriller Only Gets Better With Every Season

Lupin is a rare Netflix series that gets better with each season, as Omar Sy's titular thief steals hearts and rare valuables.

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'Tracker' Season 4 Officially Reveals Colter Shaw's Replacement

Tracker Season 4 brings Russell Shaw back to the series, but the most recent episode also reveals a surprising new romantic connection for him.

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7 Upcoming Fantasy Shows, Ranked by Hype

Find out where Harry Potter, Magic: The Gathering, Fourth Wing, God of War, and more rank on our list of upcoming fantasy shows.

Collider · EN

'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' Officially Debuts New Release Today

Ahead of Season 3's premiere, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power's first two chapters are returning with a brand-new release.

Collider · EN

How Positive Psychology Can Influence Public Policy

Imagine a medical doctor who never goes to the clinic and never publicizes availability for care. Instead, the doctor provides care when close friends need help or when an emergency occurs in their presence. While these acts are good in and of themselves, one could not help but wonder whether the doctor’s approach maximizes their potential positive impact. Positive psychologists often act like that. Like the doctor, we have specialized knowledge. We run studies and test theories. We accomplish things in our smaller circles. But without diminishing the value of these acts, one cannot help—as wi

Greater Good · EN

In Praise Of Japan’s Failure To Keep Up

The post In Praise Of Japan’s Failure To Keep Up appeared first on NOEMA .

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Current challenges facing university AI safety groups

University AIS fieldbuilding is important, but it's very hard . I identify two main bottlenecks in the current pipeline and suggest some useful, low-cost mitigations. Please send this to any fieldbuilders you know. Feedback appreciated! Read here: https://austinaialignment.substack.com/p/current-challenges-facing-university Discuss

LessWrong · EN

CRUCIBLE: IARPA-Funded AI Alignment Research — Applications Open

TL;DR: AE Studio is running a new government-funded research program that pairs alignment researchers with our internal engineering team for two-week sprints. We will select six alignment researchers whose proposed work attempts to answer one of our six open questions. Promising sprints have the opportunity to expand to longer funded work. Researchers are asked to commit two hours a week, and in return AE will provide compute and 60+ hours of engineering from us. Apply here . Applications close 11/15 at 11:59 PM PST. What is CRUCIBLE? CRUCIBLE is an IARPA-funded research program executed by AE

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OpenAI Updates Its Model Spec

The Model Spec is potentially OpenAI’s most important document. It outlines what they aspire for the model to do, and how it should think. I’ve already covered a previous version in depth , so my strategy this time is to look at the diff. I had a Google Doc created for this purpose , and will be working from there. A bunch of things get moved around or reworded, often piecemeal. There are a lot of line edits, most of which are improvements. I’m focusing on what looks new and important. My main new critique is that many of the new examples do not carve reality at its joints, instead having over

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AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights of October 2026

tl;dr Essay of the month: An essay argues that neurons in modern neural nets are actually interpretable and superposition has become irrelevant in practice. This would solve the first step of interpretability but doesn’t touch the harder ones like interpreting many-faceted behaviors. Research highlights: OpenAI’s expanded multi-layer misalignment monitoring now flags 80% of past incidents for immediate escalation. Their incident log published 20 misalignment reports, including agents disabling misalignment monitoring in October. Cheap smart devices can jointly run a capable 26B model, and smal

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Automating subtle emergent misalignment research

Authors: Oscar Balcells Obeso, Richard Qi, Monte MacDiarmid, Evan Hubinger Abstract Red-teaming by humans is a vital part of model safety testing, but it may struggle to keep up as models improve. To test whether automated safety techniques could scale (which would allow us to turn more compute into progressively more safety confidence), we set up a deliberately one-sided game as a first test. We instructed a Claude model to write training data that would make a small research model misaligned while passing a monitor similar to those we use in production — one of several defenses we use — and

LessWrong · EN

Prestigious Detail

Intellectuals get great motivation from big grand questions, and often do work adjacent to them, intending to be relevant to them.

Overcoming Bias · EN

Tuesday assorted links

1. Jason Furman on AI and the CEA. 2. Matt Kahn uses Refine and gets results. 3. Cyril Hilsum, RIP (flat screen TV, NYT). 4. How much of the return to education is in fact a return to genes? 5. Essay contest on how AI will affect developing economies. 6. AI sanity from Nicholas Decker. […] The post Tuesday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

Marginal Revolution · EN

Ireland fact of the day

Almost half of Ireland’s corporation tax haul comes from just three companies: Apple, Eli Lilly and Microsoft. Here is much more from Jude Webber at the FT, on why Ireland does not always feel or operate like a wealthy country. The post Ireland fact of the day appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

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