As a long-time Bastard reader, I was slightly nervous about Copycat because sometimes creators peak and then coast. Ten chapters in I can confirm this is absolutely not coasting. Kim seems genuinely energized by this premise.
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It launched with 10 free chapters on April 14 and updates every Wednesday. New chapters after the initial batch will likely go into the Daily Pass rotation eventually, so I would catch up now while everything is accessible.
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Michael Movie Review Should You Watch The Michael Jackson Biopic In 2026
The Michael movie review verdict is in, and it is more complicated than the 26% Rotten Tomatoes score suggests. Antoine Fuqua's long-delayed Michael Jackson biopic, simply titled Michael, hit theaters this weekend with Jaafar Jackson playing his late uncle, and the critical response has been brutal. The BBC gave it one star. Roger Ebert's site called it a filmed playlist in search of a story. Yet early audience reactions on social media have been warmer, ticket pre-sales suggest an $80 million opening, and Variety thought it worked as an engrossing middle-of-the-road biopic. After tracking coverage across more than a dozen outlets over the past 48 hours, I think the honest answer to "should you watch this?" depends almost entirely on what you want from a music biopic, and this guide breaks down exactly what the film delivers, what it skips, and who will actually enjoy sitting through its two-hour-and-nine-minute runtime.
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True Beauty is more comedy and makeover drama though. Season of Blossom is emotionally heavier and more realistic. They are targeting different parts of the romance audience even if the demographic overlaps.
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Genuinely curious, has there been any actual movement on an anime announcement or is this purely fan wishful thinking at this point?
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Fifteen adaptations and the one I am most excited about, Omniscient Reader, might not even make it to 2026 on schedule. Production delays pushed it from winter 2025 already. I am cautiously optimistic but not holding my breath.
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Still waiting for someone to officially license the physical volumes in more markets. Seven volumes collected and they're not easy to get in a lot of places.
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The regression genre has gotten so big that there are now entire fan communities dedicated to ranking power levels, predicting butterfly effects, and analyzing whether specific protagonist decisions were optimal given available knowledge. It has its own metagame.
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The multi-file context awareness is actually the strongest argument for Windsurf over simpler tools. Once you are refactoring across a dozen files simultaneously, single-file autocomplete feels like using a notepad.
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Real talk: the trust issue with AI coding tools is not improving. Developers I know are using these tools more while trusting them less, which means they are generating faster and reviewing harder.
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$90M Revenue Growth In 9 Months By Building Apps That Code Themselves
When a company's revenue jumps from $10 million to $100 million in nine months, you pay attention. When that growth comes from an AI agent that builds entire applications autonomously, you realize something fundamental just changed in software development. Replit Agent represents that change, and the numbers prove developers are ready for it. Replit started as a browser-based coding environment for education. Students could write Python or JavaScript without installing anything locally. Teachers loved it because setup time vanished. But the company saw something bigger. If you could run code in the browser, why not let AI write that code? That question led to Agent 3, an AI that doesn't just suggest code completions. It builds entire applications from scratch.
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Descript recently added lip sync for translated and dubbed videos, which is genuinely wild. You can now translate a video, dub it into another language, and have the mouth movements matched to the new audio. That is not a small feature.
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Why The Greatest Estate Developer Deserves An Anime Adaptation
In a manhwa landscape dominated by dungeon crawling, regression narratives, and power fantasies, The Greatest Estate Developer stands out by asking a simple question: what if the protagonist's greatest weapon wasn't a sword or magic system, but civil engineering knowledge? This bizarre premise transforms into one of the most entertaining, genuinely funny, and surprisingly heartfelt series currently running, proving that innovation in storytelling comes from unexpected places. The series takes the familiar isekai setup where a modern person finds themselves in a fantasy world and completely subverts expectations. Instead of becoming an adventurer or hero, protagonist Kim Suho uses his engineering knowledge to revolutionize construction, infrastructure, and economic development. What sounds like it should be boring becomes absolutely captivating through sharp writing, excellent comedic timing, and genuine passion for showing how infrastructure improves lives.
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$200M Funding And 140 Languages Later, Your Training Videos Write Themselves
When a company raises $200 million in Series E funding during January 2026, investors are betting on more than potential. They're backing proven market demand and sustainable growth. Synthesia's funding round came alongside a 44% year-over-year increase in headcount to 706 employees, signaling aggressive expansion in a category the company essentially created: AI avatar-based video generation for enterprise training and communications. Corporate training videos have been expensive and slow to produce for decades. Recording a single 10-minute training module traditionally required booking a studio, hiring a presenter, scheduling a videographer, managing multiple takes, and editing everything together. If you needed to update information or translate content, you essentially started over. Synthesia eliminated this entire production workflow by replacing human presenters with AI avatars.
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The broader macro picture with oil down, Asian equities up, gold pulling back, and risk assets surging all on the same day is a coherent risk-on narrative. The question is whether it's durable.
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The article says instead of searching, users will ask. Instead of browsing, users will generate. That future already exists for a lot of people. The question is whether Meta becomes the place they do it or whether they just do it in whatever app is already winning.
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Instagram Finally Lets You Edit Comments And It Signals A Bigger Shift Ahead
Instagram has rolled out a small but long overdue feature that users have been asking for years. You can now edit your comments after posting them. This simple change solves a very real frustration. Until now, fixing even the smallest typo meant deleting your comment and writing it all over again. That friction is finally gone. But there is a boundary. You get a 15 minute window after posting to make edits. Within that time, you can update your comment as many times as you want. There is also a layer of transparency built in. Once a comment is edited, others will be able to see that it has been modified. However, unlike platforms such as iMessage, Instagram does not show the edit history. What was originally written stays hidden.
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This is literally the argument Anthropic is making for why Glasswing exists. You get defenders trained and infrastructure hardened before the capability is everywhere. It is a race and they know it.
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OpenAI Intensifies AI Coding War With New $100 ChatGPT Pro Tier Targeting Anthropic's Dominance
OpenAI's latest subscription offering represents its most aggressive move yet to reclaim market share in the rapidly expanding AI-powered coding assistant sector
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I tried this dress on and the fit was amazing. The asymmetrical cut really flatters every body type
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