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The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
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’
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
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 …