HBO hasn’t officially confirmed a second season of Welcome to Derry, but it’s definitely happening. Seasons 2 and 3 will serve as prequels to the IT movies from 2017 and 2019, delving deeper into the town’s frightening past. The show won’t be based on a specific Stephen King story, but it will expand on the world established in his 1986 novel, filling in missing pieces of the history.
Certain movie plot twists are so amazing and unexpected that they become legendary. These films, which reveal surprising information or dramatically change the story’s direction, contain some of the best plot twists from the past fifty years. Be warned: this will contain spoilers for all the movies mentioned.
On a rather ordinary day in February, Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) decided to spice things up by hinting that it might be scooping up even more of that elusive digital gold known as Bitcoin. This software intelligence firm, doubling as a treasury for the modern age, flicked on the proverbial bat signal for investors everywhere.
A new loss function, SYNC Loss, improves the reliability of selective prediction models by harmonizing how they estimate confidence.
Everyone makes mistakes in D&D, both players and Dungeon Masters. While many errors during gameplay are easy to fix, mistakes made when creating characters can be much more difficult to resolve later on. Often, DM errors aren’t about understanding the rules themselves, but about understanding what the players are trying to do.
Think of Vile as Taylor Sheridan’s take on a suspenseful trap movie. The film centers around ten people who are kidnapped and locked in a room, where they have 22 hours to escape. To win their freedom, they must withstand intense pain. As time runs out, the situation becomes increasingly tense and the captives grow more desperate. Eventually, the film reveals who is behind the ordeal and why. While the cast is largely made up of up-and-coming actors, it also features some familiar faces, including Greg Cipes (known from Teen Titans) and Ian Bohen, who plays Ryan on Yellowstone.
![The framework employs a differentiable graph neural network simulator to solve inverse problems in granular flows, iteratively refining parameters [latex]\boldsymbol{\theta}[/latex] through gradient-based optimization-starting from an initial state [latex]\hat{\mathbf{X}}\_{0}(\boldsymbol{\theta})[/latex]-until the simulated granular flow state at time [latex]t[/latex], [latex]\hat{\mathbf{X}}\_{t}(\boldsymbol{\theta})[/latex], converges with observed states [latex]X\_{t}^{\text{obs}}[/latex].](https://arxiv.org/html/2602.11621v1/figs/diff_gns.png)
Researchers have developed a computationally efficient framework using graph neural networks to predict post-liquefaction strength and simulate landslide runout.
2001: A Space Odyssey remains a hugely influential and important film. It’s often debated which of Stanley Kubrick’s movies is his best, but 2001 consistently stands out as having had the biggest impact on viewers, critics, and the future of filmmaking.
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It’s always surprising and enjoyable to see actors play against type. For example, Elijah Wood, best known as the kind-hearted Frodo Baggins, was fantastic as a terrifying cannibal in Sin City. Similarly, Tom Cruise, usually a classic action star, hilariously portrayed a sleazy and insecure studio executive in Tropic Thunder. And Jason Statham cleverly turned his tough-guy image on its head for comedic effect in Spy.