There was some Blade Runner news at New York Comic-Con this weekend — and also some news about Godzilla. Ars Technica reports:


We got our first look at Prime Video's new sci-fi series Blade Runner 2099 in July at San Diego Comic-Con. With the show's premiere roughly six weeks away, the streamer unveiled the full trailer this weekend at New York Comic-Con... Prime Video will drop all eight episodes of Blade Runner 2099 on November 25, 2026. [It's already earned 2.1 million views in the last 17 hours].


We also got a new trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero, the sequel to director Takashi Yamazaki's gloriously grounded kaiju epic, Godzilla Minus One, which became a major international hit and snagged an Oscar for best visual effects. [1.2 million views in its first five hours]



And StarWars.com brings news from the Star Wars universe:


Kevin Smith has already announced his Star Wars/Marvel: Hope Assembles crossover comic, interweaving the Marvel universe and the Star Wars galaxy like never before. Now, you're cordially invited to add your own creative ideas to the mix through a LEGO Ideas challenge celebrating the milestone 50th anniversary of Star Wars: A New Hope.

Using physical or virtual LEGO bricks, fans are challenged to build "their own epic mash-ups," according to Lego's web site, "in three categories: Character Fusion, Vehicle Fusion, and Scene Fusion." ("Write an engaging description and upload great images of your creation without using AI tools...")

Meanwhile, Star Trek fan site TrekMovie.com covered the major Star Trek announcements:


There were an interview with 95-year-old William Shatner by Star Trek super-fan Ben Stiller, which ended "with Stiller surprising Shatner by revealing the original Gorn head from his personal Star Trek memorabilia collection."Also announced was a new documentary about the disastrous fan-organized convention in 1982 that tried reuniting cast members from the original series. (Its title? The Con of Wrath: The Craziest Convention Ever!)Gates McFadden (who played Dr. Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation) will write a new comic book to "bridge the 20 year in-universe gap in Crusher's story between the events of the film Star Trek Nemesis and the television series Star Trek: Picard."Paramount+ offered a panel about their series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (which returns for a second season in 2027).Nacelle Toys even announced new action figures of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and Lucile Ball, owner of Desilu Productions.


Reuters also has photos of costumed attendees.

But there was also some excitement when an unruly fan shouted over a panel for the Prime Video animated series Helluva Boss. Entertainment Weekly reports it culminated with series star Brandon Rogers shouting "You need to shut the f--- up right now. I'm going to jump over this fence and end you. It's not cute."

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The Chicago Sun-Times reports:


When Elgin Community College hired Flock Safety to install six surveillance cameras in April 2025, President Peggy Heinrich thought they would "enhance the safety and security of students...." They were supposed to help locate stolen cars and missing people. But Heinrich started to wonder if the cameras were actually making students less safe after seeing news reports that data captured by Flock cameras in Illinois had been shared with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Then in September 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained an Elgin Community College student in a campus parking lot. More than half of students at the far west suburban Chicago campus identify as Latino. Heinrich said enrollment dipped. Students were afraid to come to class. College officials decided the cameras had to go...


College officials asked Flock to remove the surveillance cameras "out of an abundance of caution for our students," Heinrich said. But getting the cameras taken down was not as simple as it sounds, especially because Flock retains ownership of the company's equipment.... Surveillance experts say the company is financially incentivized to have as many cameras gathering data as possible even in places that no longer want them, because potential clients are looking for the surveillance network with the greatest reach.... Elgin Community College staff notified Flock in October 2025 that they wanted to cancel their contract and have the cameras taken down. Within a day, Heinrich said, Flock rejected the request and refused to uninstall the equipment on the basis that the company had not breached their agreement.

College officials reached out again in December 2025 and said they would pay for the remaining five months of the contract — they just wanted the cameras taken down. "We never received a response back from Flock," Heinrich said.

That's when things got weird. Heinrich said Elgin Community College staff began to cover the cameras using black trash bags and zip ties so that they would not be able to capture footage. But workers in an unmarked vehicle, which Heinrich assumed belonged to Flock, repeatedly removed the coverings... This strange dance continued, Heinrich said, until Elgin Community College's contract with Flock expired in April this year and the company uninstalled the cameras for good.

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Lewis Hamilton has conceded that the decision to stay out on track rather than pit under the Virtual Safety Car during the Singapore Grand Prix was his, labelling it as a "painful lesson".

Max Verstappen continued his 2026 resurgence in Singapore, beating Charles Leclerc and Kimi Antonelli to a long-awaited Grand Prix victory around Marina Bay.

The drivers and teams report back on all the action from the 2026 Singapore Grand Prix.

Lando Norris admits that he is "not happy with a P4" finish in the Singapore Grand Prix, with the reigning World Champion demanding more from McLaren as they "want to fight for wins".

Kimi Antonelli amusingly appeared to be taken by surprise when informed that his podium finish in the Singapore Grand Prix has put him on the brink of clinching this year’s World Championship title.

Mercedes' George Russell faced a challenging drive at the Singapore Grand Prix, having climbed through the order from P19 to P9.

Ferrari Team Principal Fred Vasseur has explained how a podium finish slipped out of Lewis Hamilton’s hands at the Singapore Grand Prix.

Finally decided to move some repos grom github or gitlab. First I moved the code that is xBRL related (and me as a freelancer)
https://codeberg.org/cooljapan
The code is used to create https://kc-xbrl.cooljapan.nl/
At that location the latest Chamber of Commerce taxonomy (NT21) has been published.

tintinetmilou has added a photo to the pool:

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Sergiy Galyonkin has added a photo to the pool:

A miniature bakery filled with tiny loaves, baskets and hanging lamps at Small Worlds Tokyo in Ariake, Tokyo, Japan.

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

the story behind this slide collection here: x.com/thomashawk/status/2109335667369255231

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

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Veel muzikanten kijken kritisch of argwanend naar AI, zoals ook schrijvers, illustratoren, filmmakers en andere creatievelingen dat doen. Maar er zijn nog maar weinig protestsongs tegen AI, bij mijn weten. Dit is er eentje, van Art d’Ecco uit Vancouver. Hij heeft het niet op de techbro’s, dat is duidelijk. Logisch dus dat hij geen AI gebruikte om ze op te laten draven in zijn video. Waarom zou hij ook? De ouderwetse methode van acteurs met maskers werkt zeker zo goed. Dat geldt ook voor de low budget manier om een datacenter te verbeelden aan het eind van de video.

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