When does Knight of the Seven Kingdoms take place? The Game of Thrones timeline explained

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HBO's new Game of Thrones spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms explores a previously unseen era in the Westeros timeline.

Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)

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Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams — The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. It's a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024, which held the previous record.

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Forspoken deserved a chance at a sequel

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Forspoken, Square Enix's 2023 action-RPG, sold poorly and led to a studio closure. Here's why Forspoken deserved better.

Disney deleted a Thread because people kept putting anti-fascist quotes from its movies in the replies

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"Share a Disney quote that sums up how you're feeling right now!" That's what Disney posted on Threads the other day, and people immediately replied with lines from Star Wars, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and even Mary Poppins. The throughline between all the quotes: they were pretty pointedly anti-fascist and clearly aimed at the […]

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ZachXBT: a crypto user lost $282M+ in BTC and LTC in a hardware wallet social engineering scam; XMR jumped as the attacker began converting the funds to Monero (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)