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Still No Release Date for Apple TV’s ‘The Savant’

Apple TV’s press page has stories this month announcing release dates and first looks for a bunch of shows: Imperfect Women (a “psychological thriller”), Beat the Reaper (“dreamed”), a still-untitled Monarch: Legacy of Monsters spinoff, Widow’s Bay (“blends genuine horror with character-driven comedy”), season 2 of the Idris Elba thriller Hijack, and Margo’s Got Money Troubles, a series from David E. Kelley starring Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicole Kidman, and Nick Offerman (good cast!).

But not a word about Jessica Chastain’s The Savant, which was supposed to debut in September, was postponed after the Charlie Kirk shooting (against Chastain’s wishes), and has been in “At a later date” scheduling limbo ever since.

Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’

Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, including Google's search results. SerpApi is accused of violating the Copyright Act by using "deceptive means" to automatically access and take Google's search results "at an astonishing scale" before selling the data to customers. Reddit also sued […]

California reaches a $50M settlement with Meta to resolve claims that Facebook users were misled about their ability to limit who could see personal details (The San Francisco Standard)

The San Francisco Standard:
California reaches a $50M settlement with Meta to resolve claims that Facebook users were misled about their ability to limit who could see personal details  —  California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Thursday announced a $50 million settlement with Meta Platforms Inc. …

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime season 4 gets a huge update

Season 4 of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime begins in April 2026 and will air with breaks over the course of 15 months

Google sues data scraping company SerpApi, alleging it used millions of fake search requests to access copyrighted content and sold it to third parties (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Google sues data scraping company SerpApi, alleging it used millions of fake search requests to access copyrighted content and sold it to third parties  —  Google on Friday sued a Texas company that “scrapes” data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions …