Like capri pants and velour tracksuits, it seems that Shakespeare’s tragic tale of teenage love comes back around every 30 years. Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey drew raves and included a brief nude scene that prompted “a lot of fuss” at the time and a lawsuit alleging child abuse decades
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McDonald’s is predicting that flat traffic and higher inflation will continue to weigh on the restaurant industry, CEO Chris Kempczinski said Wednesday. “One of the things I’ve talked to our team about is we need to stop talking about that being a difficult environment, and just say that is the environment,” Kempczinski said on CNBC’s
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A worker is seen on a container truck at the Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan in Ningbo, in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province on September 22, 2026. Hector Retamal | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — The trade deficit that escalated tensions between China and the U.S. in recent years has yet to shrink significantly, and the world’s
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Two MikroTik RouterOS SSH vulnerabilities chained together let attackers take full administrative control of Internet-exposed routers without a password, SSH key, or completed authentication. The chain, which CERT Polska calls MikroTrick, combines an SSH state-machine flaw (CVE-2026-67279) with an argument-injection bug in the RouterOS login process (CVE-2026-86060). Attack logs date to at least September 2,
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(L to R) Jo (H.E.R.), Raissa (Liza Soberano), and Raww (Dave Franco) in DreamWorks Animation’s ‘Forgotten Island’, directed by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado. Photo: Universal Pictures. In theaters on September 25th is ‘Forgotten Island,’ the latest release from DreamWorks Animation and the latest title to draw on Asian mythology that blends in anime stylings
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Kate Underwood/Instagram Chris Underwood made his debut on The Challenge flagship show for Season 42, and it’s been quite a run. Thanks to various alliances, Chris has been in a good position throughout the game, but as the only male player remaining on the combined blue and gray teams, his luck seemed to run out during
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McDonald’s Corp. signage on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images McDonald’s on Wednesday announced plans for its own media network, pricey restaurant upgrades and ways to win over GLP-1 users during an investor presentation at its
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September 22, 2026 View Online | Join All Access | Listen Questions about Book Riot? We’re turning 15 next month, and you’re invited to the party. Ask us anything, reflect on the biggest literary controversies of the last decade-and-a-half, and celebrate the best of the bookish internet. Spread the word. Share this email with friends.
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission advised some of its regulated entities on Tuesday that prediction markets’ “mentions” contracts are at greater risk of manipulation.  In a press release announcing the letter it sent to designated contract market entities, the CFTC said that the contracts are more susceptible to exploitation “because their settlement turns on the
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Swati KhandelwalSep 22, 2026Network Security / Vulnerability Attackers exploited a previously unknown flaw in Check Point’s Security Management Server in a handful of targeted attacks on July 23, the company said. The flaw, CVE-2026-93616, allows an attacker who can access the server’s web service to run scripts on it without logging in. Check Point released a
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