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☕ Curtains up

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Is the movie business finally back? June 30, 2025 View Online | Sign Up Presented By It's Monday. Competitive-eating legend Joey "Jaws" Chestnut is set to return to Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island after a contract dispute involving Chestnut, Nathan's, and the plant-based meat company Impossible Foods kept him away from the event last year. Whew—we were worried there for a minute. PS: Our offices are closed this week for our annual summer break, but we're still sending newsletters to you to help you beat the heat. In today's edition: Business is boomin' Toolin' around Goin' for a swim 🩱 —Jennimai Nguyen, Patrick Kulp, Alyssa Meyers ENTERTAINMENT Big money Illustration: Brittany Holloway-Brown; Photos: Adobe Stock, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures Picture this: It's December 2019. Little Women has just come out, and Timothée Chalamet is still an artsy, French-leaning, burgeoning movie star. The...

Millennial meme marketing must end

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Embedded cross-posted a post from Embedded kate lindsay Jun 30 · Embedded I'm fresh off vacation from Mexico—more on that in the next screen time diaries (Embedded's new video component for paid subscribers)! As I resurface, I'm resharing one of our most popular posts. Millennial meme marketing must end I won’t let future generations remember us this way. kate lindsay Jun 30   READ IN APP   Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. That feeling when you clap back at the brands. — Kate Subscribe to Embedded if you hate Mondays: Upgrade to paid There’s a bit in John Early’s recent comedy special, Now More Than Ever , that has stuck with me ever since I watched it in June.  “When we’re loading up the time capsule for the inhabitants of Planet E, is this what the millennial shall put forth?” he asks, referring to Instagram ...

ICE rolls out facial recognition tools to officers' phones

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PLUS: Our favorite drones. View in browser   |   Your newsletter preferences 06.30.25 SUPPORT OUR JOURNALISM: BECOME A WIRED SUPERFAN     SECURITY NEWS THIS WEEK ICE Rolls Out Facial Recognition Tools to Officers' Phones BY LILY HAY NEWMAN, ANDY GREENBERG, AND DELL CAMERON | 3-MINUTE READ Plus: US feds charge alleged masterminds behind infamous forum, Scattered Spider targets airlines, and hackers open a valve at a Norwegian dam.     BUSINESS OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta BY KYLIE ROBISON | 1-MINUTE READ Mark Zuckerberg has been working to poach talent from rival labs for his new superintelligence team.     BUSINESS OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: 'Someone Has Broken Into Our Home' BY ZOË SCHIFFER | 3-MINUTE READ As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're "recalibrating comp," according to an internal memo.     GEAR NEWS THIS WEEK The Repaira...