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Ballerina‘s New Trailer Teases a John Wick Showdown for the Ages

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Lionsgate has released a new trailer for the John Wick spin-off movie with too many SEO-centric words stuffed in its title, From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, starring Ana de Armas. Long-ass name aside, the new trailer kicks all kinds of ass.

Set to the dark movie trailer rendition of Charli XCX’s Brat bop, “Von Dutch,” the trailer opens on a Slavic mythological monologue about a kikimora spirit that enacts vengeance on people with darkness in their hearts, while serving as the protector of the innocent. It doesn’t take a college degree to surmise that the monologue intercutting with the previous Ballerina trailer’s footage of De Arma’s Eve tearing shit up in a nightclub would hint very clearly at her being said kikimora. Our guess is her shooting a woman in the crotch denotes that the unfortunate soul had darkness in their heart that needed to be dealt with expeditiously.

As we’ve seen in the past trailer, Eve is on a warpath to find the people who killed her father. Her only clue is a mysterious tattoo. She gets closer to her goal with the help of the Continental’s Winston Scott (Ian McShane) and Charon (the late Lance Reddick). After blowing people up with grenades behind a door, lighting people on fire with a flamethrower, and shooting fools from the open door of her t-bonned car, the only thing left standing in Eve’s way is a showdown with John Wick.

While the new trailer is certainly intriguing, it does feel like it should’ve been the first trailer we saw as opposed to the second when you take into consideration the previous trailer all but defused any tension from Eve and John’s fight by showing them work together in a sort of passing of the torch capacity. Sure, we know they’re gonna fight, and it’s probably gonna look fantastic, but maybe don’t show them being hunky dory in our first look and defuse all the tension from their quarrel? To the trailer’s credit, knowing the film takes place in the middle of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and John Wick: Chapter 4 leaves room to wonder whether Eve survives her revenge tour.

Guess we’ll have to wait and find out what becomes of Eve when Ballerina releases on June 6.

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Manage Global Data in Laravel with the World Package

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Manage Global Data in Laravel with the World Package

The World is a Laravel package that provides a comprehensive list of countries, states, cities, timezones, currencies, and languages.

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AI Coding Assistant Refuses To Write Code, Tells User To Learn Programming Instead

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career advice. According to a bug report on Cursor’s official forum, after producing approximately 750 to 800 lines of code (what the user calls "locs"), the AI assistant halted work and delivered a refusal message: "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work. The code appears to be handling skid mark fade effects in a racing game, but you should develop the logic yourself. This ensures you understand the system and can maintain it properly."
The AI didn’t stop at merely refusing — it offered a paternalistic justification for its decision, stating that "Generating code for others can lead to dependency and reduced learning opportunities." […] The developer who encountered this refusal, posting under the username "janswist," expressed frustration at hitting this limitation after "just 1h of vibe coding" with the Pro Trial version. "Not sure if LLMs know what they are for (lol), but doesn’t matter as much as a fact that I can’t go through 800 locs," the developer wrote. "Anyone had similar issue? It’s really limiting at this point and I got here after just 1h of vibe coding." One forum member replied, "never saw something like that, i have 3 files with 1500+ loc in my codebase (still waiting for a refactoring) and never experienced such thing."
Cursor AI’s abrupt refusal represents an ironic twist in the rise of "vibe coding" — a term coined by Andrej Karpathy that describes when developers use AI tools to generate code based on natural language descriptions without fully understanding how it works. While vibe coding prioritizes speed and experimentation by having users simply describe what they want and accept AI suggestions, Cursor’s philosophical pushback seems to directly challenge the effortless "vibes-based" workflow its users have come to expect from modern AI coding assistants.


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Enterprise Readiness with Percona Monitoring and Management: A Look at PMM 3.0.0

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Keep Kids Off Roblox If You’re Worried, Its CEO Tells Parents

Parents who are worried about their children being on Roblox should not let them use it, the chief executive of the gigantic gaming platform has said. From a report: The site, which is the most popular in the UK among young gamers aged eight to 12, has been dogged by claims of some children being exposed to explicit or harmful content through its games, alongside multiple reported allegations of bullying and grooming. But its co-founder and CEO Dave Baszucki insisted that the company is vigilant in protecting its users and pointed out that "tens of millions" of people have "amazing experiences" on the site. When asked what his message is to parents who don’t want their children on the platform, Mr Baszucki said: "My first message would be, if you’re not comfortable, don’t let your kids be on Roblox." […] "That sounds a little counter-intuitive, but I would always trust parents to make their own decisions," he told BBC News in an exclusive interview.


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Remembering ‘Space Ghost’ Voice Actor George Lowe

Long-time Slashdot reader invisik saw this story on Yahoo News:
Comedian and voice actor George Lowe, who is well-known as the voice of Space Ghost on "Space Ghost Coast to Coast," died on March 2. He was 67… He did some voice-over work for TBWS and Cartoon Network in the 1980s to mid-1990s before getting his lead role of Space Ghost in 1994 with the premiere of "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" on Cartoon Network. Space Ghost was a parody of talk shows with live-action celebrity guests, hosted by the Hanna Barbera character Space Ghost, which aired from 1994 to 1999 on Cartoon Network. The show later returned in 2001, airing on Adult Swim’s late-night programming block until 2004, Deadline reported. When animation pioneer William Hanna died in 2001, Slashdot founder CmdrTaco posted "the thing that I respect most about Hanna is the fact that a show like Space Ghost Coast to Coast was allowed to take their characters and do something truly unique with them. He even lent his voice to the show in one episode. Not a lot of people would be willing to allow one of their creations to be twisted like that, but the original Space Ghost was one of my childhood staples, and Space Ghost Coast to Coast stands in a class all its own proving that creativity isn’t dead on TV." "Adult Swim would not be the network it is today without Space Ghost Coast to Coast," argues ComicBook.com. (And as a tribute to Lowe, Adult Swim posted five minutes of surreal outtakes from Space Ghost Coast to Coast’s 10th Anniversary celebration.) A headline at Vulture.com makes the case that "Space Ghost Coast to Coast Only Worked Because of George Lowe." They’ve rounded up a collection of videos with surreal titles like "Marrying Bjork" and "Guesting on a MF DOOM track" (plus that time Lowe did a live interview — in his Space Ghost costume — with C-SPAN).


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