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The “O.J. Had an Accomplice” Obsessives Are Having Their Moment
For years, celebrity conspiracists have been trying to get the attention of reporters with their theory that O.J. Simpson didn't act alone in America's most famous murder. Did they have a point? About five years ago, I started receiving a string of increasingly frenzied emails from a man named Todd Guzze.
Of Mics and Men: This Is How the Manosphere Ends
Donald Trump's 2024 tour of the Joe Rogan-adjacent podcasting circuit seemed to herald the makings of a new media mainstream. By 2026, the idea of the manosphere as a political force has shattered just as decisively as the MAGA movement.
Substack's Cofounder Might Not Know How to Save the Media—But He Knows How to Outplay It
Hamish McKenzie's new memoir cum manifesto makes a lofty case for the platform's philosophical importance and marks its ascendance as a sweeping cultural force. “It's backing up the gospel that I'm trying to preach,” he tells As recently as a few years ago, Substack was struggling to shed the perception that it was radioactive.
php2shell: patching PHP is easy, finding it is the hard part
TL;DR This morning PHP shipped 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35 to fix two unauthenticated remote code execution bugs, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Both are rated CVSS v4 9.2. PHP 8.1 and earlier are no longer supported by the upstream PHP project. Both are memory-safety bugs in the request lifecycle, and on mod_php they're reachable before your application code runs. A crafted multipart POST is enough to start the chain. So it doesn't matter how clean your app is.
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Madison Square Garden was the epicenter of last season's once-in-a-lifetime New York supernova. Outside the arena at the beginning of the Knicks' title defense, diehards tried to figure out how to follow the act. During last season's NBA finals, as Knicks fever swept throughout every corner of New York and beyond, one fan made himself particularly known outside the team's home arena.
Cuando apuñalaron a Salman Rushdie, su mujer se puso a grabar. Los dos lo cuentan (y muestran) cuatro años después
Después de que Salman Rushdie fuese apuñalado sobre el escenario durante un acto que se celebró en el estado de Nueva York en 2022, su mujer, la poeta, novelista y artista Rachel Eliza Griffiths, tomó una decisión un tanto sorprendente en plena tragedia y caos impensables, estando en el hospital: pulsó el botón de grabar.
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Late one Friday night this summer, Ellie Williams ran into a familiar face in the bathroom of a Manhattan nightclub. Dan Adler Dan Adler is a staff writer at Vanity Fair covering culture, celebrity, and crime. His work has spanned profiles of influential characters and connectors, investigations at the fringes of fame, and the criminal trials of Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump. His reporting for VF on Justin Bieber's former megachurch Hillsong ...
I Can't See Anything: An Elizabeth Holmes-Billy Evans-A24 Tale
One writer finds himself caught in the web spun between Nathan Fielder, the notorious couple he filmed, and the studio's cloak-and-dagger PR. Sometime in August, I sent a LinkedIn message to Billy Evans. At the time, rumors of a forthcoming documentary about him and his wife, Elizabeth Holmes , were just that.
Zohran Mamdani Charms Donald Trump with the Grandeur of Gracie Mansion
Zohran Mamdani and Donald Trump walked side by side out of Gracie Mansion on Monday afternoon, pausing every so often to look one another in the eye. It was yet another display of the easy rapport between the two men that has confounded expectations ever since the president smiled and touched his hand to the mayor's arm in the Oval Office in November.
Salman Rushdie and Rachel Eliza Griffiths Turned His Stabbing Into a True Crime Love Story
What did he say about the sort of film he wanted to make? Rushdie: He was talking about something which was not linear, something which was not only about the attack, but would go backwards and forwards in time and talk about the larger story, not just the larger story of the attack on The Satanic Verses, but the larger story of my life as a writer.
The Dominick Dunne of "the Biggest Hip-Hop Trial Ever"
His second love was gangster film and television- Goodfellas and Scarface, The Sopranos and The Wire -and after short-lived attempts at rapping and making music videos, he found a way to combine his passion for hip-hop with the larger-than-life stories so often lurking behind the genre's biggest names. In 2019, his YouTube video "Why Jay-Z Shot His Brother at 12" gave him his first taste of virality and set him on his current path as a journalist.
The $158 Million Question: What Was Leon Black Paying Jeffrey Epstein For?
What was Jeffrey Epstein really doing for Leon Black? It's a question that has circulated in finance, art , and media circles since 2020, the year after Epstein's death, when the New York Times reported that Black had given millions to the financier in the final years of his life.
A Killer Story : avant les fins limiers des réseaux sociaux, ce couple a consacré sa vie à résoudre un meurtre
Une nuit de juillet 2002, Mike Sisco et sa compagne, Karen Harkness, rentrent chez eux à Topeka, dans le Kansas, après une soirée au casino. Ils vivent dans un quartier agréable de la ville, et le père de Karen, Harold Worswick, est un homme d’affaires important de la région.
A Killer Story: Before We Had Social Media Sleuths, This Couple Made Solving One Crime Their Whole Life
One night in July 2002, Mike Sisco and his girlfriend, Karen Harkness, returned to their home in Topeka, Kansas after a night at the casino. They lived in a nice part of town, and Harkness's father, Harold Worswick, was a prominent business leader in the area.
The autonomous codebase
You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Key takeaways: Prompt-to-PR is solved, but maintaining what exists isn’t. New models barely move the needle; a big monorepo change still hurts. The next leap is a self-maintaining codebase: triggers and agent functions that fix issues before anyone opens a prompt window. None of it works without codebase-wide context.
On Michael Cohen's Radio Show, Donald Trump Is Back to Being the “Boss”
In the heady days of late 2024, shortly after Donald Trump had won a second presidential election while simultaneously awaiting sentencing for a felony involving a hush-money payment to a porn star, I reached out to Michael Cohen . The president's former fixer turned primary adversary—and unlikely liberal resistance icon—had been the prosecution's star witness in the Manhattan criminal trial just months prior. I was startled by his response
Inside the Courtroom as Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty
In the hours before Luigi Mangione admitted to killing Brian Thompson for the first time on Friday, the familiar faces from the aftermath of the assasination sprung into action at Manhattan's federal courthouse.
Pas de retransmission, jurés anonymes… Qui sera autorisé à assister au procès pour meurtre de Luigi Mangione ?
Alors que Luigi Mangione prenait place dans une salle d'audience de Manhattan mardi matin, après avoir brièvement consulté ses avocats pour savoir où s'assoir lui-même, il a jeté un coup d'œil rapide vers le public composé de journalistes et de sympathisants qui suivent chacun de ses mouvements depuis son arrestation.
Pas de retransmission, jurés anonymes… Qui sera autorisé à assister au procès pour meurtre de Luigi Mangione ?
Alors que Luigi Mangione prenait place dans une salle d'audience de Manhattan mardi matin, après avoir brièvement consulté ses avocats pour savoir où s'assoir lui-même, il a jeté un coup d'œil rapide vers le public composé de journalistes et de sympathisants qui suivent chacun de ses mouvements depuis son arrestation.
The Luigi Mangione Trial Will Not Be Televised—And the Jurors Will Be Anonymous
As Luigi Mangione took his seat in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday morning, after conferring for a moment with his attorneys about which one was his, he briefly gazed into the gallery of reporters and supporters who have been tracking his every movement since he was arrested. In his gray suit, open white shirt, and hint of a prison stubble, the 28-year-old Mangione looked steady, even nonchalant. Two court officers stood directly behind him, one over each of his shoulders.
Tucker Carlson Threw Down the Post-MAGA Gauntlet. Can He Actually Build a Movement?
Along with fellow defectors Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, and Joe Kent, the former Fox News host says he's planning a new movement to break from Donald Trump. In a 90-minute monologue, he outlined his vision of “what America should be”—and left the door wide open as to what he plans to do about it.
Andrew Tate Was the Toast of Trumpworld. Has That Changed?
Earlier this month, Andrew and Tristan Tate strutted around Washington as MAGA royalty. There was an appearance at a private summer party hosted by Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent and a special envoy for Donald Trump, who introduced him to Melania in 1998, followed by a stop at the Ned , DC's premier members club as of this presidential term. There was a meeting and photo op with Texas congressman Wesley Hunt.
Justin Bieber, Madonna, and Shakira Made FIFA's First-Ever World Cup Halftime Show a True Spectacle
For nearly two decades, Justin Bieber has cut a tumultuous, highly scrutinized , and often exhilarating path through pop music and global celebrity. Beginning in his days as a Canadian YouTube prodigy with a silky voice and affect, he navigated public meltdowns, incessant paparazzi attention, and inimitable creative peaks before landing in a place—the Coachella Main Stage, to be exact—where he could reflect on all of it in good humor.
TMZ DC Is Asking the Tough Questions: Whither a Gay President? Are Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau Going the Distance?
Rehashing grievances about the 2020 election could motivate the Republican base and press GOP lawmakers to pass the SAVE America Act. President Donald Trump is promising to reveal “really big news” on election security. Many Republicans wish he wouldn’t. The president’s speech, expected to be …
Does Anyone Want Dave Portnoy In Politics? Dave Portnoy Doesn't Care.
The crowd Portnoy draws "can be all over the map," he said. The "people hate my guts crowd. A couple of them may show up, so you never know." Badan wondered what the over/under on protestors might be. Alas, there were no obvious objectors to be seen. The audience at the 92nd Street Y had an air of conspicuous consumption-a Gucci bag here, a Louis Vuitton there-cut with a mix of polyester golf polos and fraternity-appropriate streetwear.
At the Disclosure Forum with Anna Paulina Luna and a Room Full of UFO Enthusiasts
Luna belongs to a class of lawmakers including Marco Rubio and Chuck Schumer who have advocated on behalf of the disclosure movement-"there is still more to be done and the American people's interest in UAPs only continues to grow," Kirsten Gillibrand said after Donald Trump announced the release of the UFO files in February.
Was Jack Schlossberg Ever More Than an Internet Troll With a Famous Name?
For the past several years, Jack Schlossberg has operated in the public imagination in much the same manner as any online celebrity surfing the daily waves of spectacle and outrage. The outlandish face-to-camera videos, the self-styled "silly goose" persona, the willingness to play ball in the frenetic attention economy of modern social media-all of it became his calling card to nearly the same degree as his status as the 33-year-old inheritor of the Kennedy dynasty's legacy and looks.
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Meet the Brothers Who Became Poster Boys for Knicks Fans' Championship Ecstasy
Like so many New Yorkers, Kevin and Kayvon, 38 and 29, had been hanging on every moment of the playoffs in a state of suspended disbelief. Sitting at home, Kevin said, "I was making sure every night I was locked in, speakers dialed up. It had to sound like MSG in here." Kayvon was putting in overtime at his night job working in a group home for adults with intellectual disabilties-he brought his own TV and Amazon Fire Stick to the office. "Sometimes my clients watch the game with me," he said.
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The NBA finals turned the entire city into one giant watch party as across the five boroughs, New Yorkers hung off of fire escapes and scaffolding, scaled traffic poles, and united under one common cause: a win.
Dana White Says Donald Trump Saved UFC. Insiders Tell a Different Story.
On the eve of a White House bout that will codify the president's alliance with the MMA CEO on the grandest possible stage, White has been recalling the origins of his friendship with Trump—and, according to people who were there, flubbing the details. One night in February 2001, the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City played host to the Ultimate Fighting Championship's first event under new ownership.
Taylor Swift, Timothée Chalamet, Hailey Bieber and All the Other Stars Rooting for the Knicks Tonight
Madison Square Garden was filled to the rafters (or at least the first few rows) with celebrities during Game 4 of the NBA finals. The New York Knicks' first NBA finals appearance since 1999 has turned the city into a watch party stretching across the five boroughs—and turned out a constellation of celebrities and power brokers that could go toe-to-toe with any red carpet.
Donald Trump Watched the Knicks Game 3 From Inside a Bulletproof Glass Box
"Real fans waited 30 plus years for it," Anthony Martinez from New Jersey said. "Hopefully he doesn't show up for game four, and you know we get to enjoy it outside." Yishai Berkowitz, another New Jerseyan, seemed conflicted about it all. "I don't know how it's supposed to work," he said. "The president should be able to come...to have a watch." The outcry, he suggested, was partly manufactured.
City Slickers: Knicks Fans Head to Spurs Country For the NBA Finals
With ticket prices at Madison Square Garden skyrocketing, many Knicks fans are traveling to Texas to support their team. “All of us Knicks fans are gonna show up in full force to San Antonio,” rapper Fat Joe tells Hotel Emma, a repurposed 19th-century brewhouse in the Pearl district of midtown San Antonio, is used to accommodating high rollers.
City Slickers: Knicks Fans Head to Spurs Country for the NBA Finals
Scott Foster, James Capers and the refs for Knicks-Spurs Game 1: Which team gets the edge? The NBA could be looking to set the tone with their referee assignments in Game 1. Officiating has been a constant sticking point throughout the NBA …
Bring Me The Beauties : comment le premier top model masculin a fui une secte dirigée par un extra-terrestre blond
La scène se déroule sur une plage de Nantucket à la fin des années 1970. Un homme étrange, aussi énigmatique que charismatique, pose sa serviette à côté de celle du jeune Hoyt Richards. Ce dernier n’a alors que 16 ans, il n’est pas encore devenu celui que l’on considère aujourd’hui comme le tout premier top model masculin. Pour ça, il faudra encore attendre une petite dizaine d’années. Hoyt vient d’une famille américaine classique, installée dans la banlieue de Philadelphie.
How a Male Supermodel Escaped a Manhattan Socialite’s Cult
Scooter Braun Now Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun Go Incognito as They Ride Bikes Through N.Y.C. for Late-Night Visit to Times Square People - Kirsty Hatcher • 37m Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun went undercover for their latest date! On Sunday, May 31, the former music talent manager, 44, revealed that he and the Euphoria actress, 28, had taken a late-night visit to Times Square in New York City the previous evening.
Teny Geragos, 35 ans, avocate de Weinstein et Diddy, visage d’une ère post-MeToo : «Nous donnons beaucoup la parole aux accusatrices, très peu aux accusés»
Environ deux mois avant le début du troisième procès de Harvey Weinstein pour crimes sexuels à Manhattan en avril, le producteur déchu a pris contact avec Teny Geragos et son équipe. À 35 ans, Teny Geragos, fille de Mark Geragos, avocat médiatique, s’était déjà fait un nom parmi les conseils capables de mener la défense des accusés les plus célèbres dans les affaires d’agressions sexuelles.
Teny Geragos, la abogada de 35 años de Harvey Weinstein: “Damos mucho más protagonismo a los acusadores que a los acusados. Ellos también tienen una versión que contar”
Aproximadamente dos meses antes del inicio del tercer juicio por delitos sexuales contra Harvey Weinstein en Manhattan, en abril, el productor caído en desgracia se puso en contacto con Teny Geragos y su equipo. A sus 35 años, Geragos, hija del famoso y poderoso abogado y crítico habitual de TMZ Mark Geragos, ya se había situado a la cabeza de la lista de abogados a los que acuden los acusados más destacados en casos de agresión sexual.
Teny Geragos Is Ready for the Post-MeToo Era
About two months before the beginning of Harvey Weinstein's third Manhattan sex-crimes trial in April, the disgraced producer got in touch with Teny Geragos and her team. At 35, Geragos, the daughter of celebrity power lawyer and TMZ gadfly Mark Geragos, had already put herself at the top of the who-to-call list for the most prominent defendants in sexual assault cases.
Jack Schlossberg: “No tenemos realeza en este país, sino un sistema político. Así que espero que la gente entienda que el legado de los Kennedy es uno de servicio público”
Jack Schlossberg jura que hay método en su locura. Antes de presentar su candidatura al 12º distrito congresional de Nueva York, el nieto de 33 años de John F. Kennedy que se describe a sí mismo como “un ganso” y ha conseguido el logro de convertirse en una criatura del internet moderno con un repertorio ilimitado de troleos, entre ellos el memorable disfraz de “hombre MAHA” que era una pulla directa a su primo, el secretario de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Estados Unidos Robert F.
Anna Paulina Luna Is on a Mission to Reveal the Government's Biggest Secrets
Before Anna Paulina Luna was elected to Congress, she had a concerning conversation with an Air Force pilot. Luna enlisted as an airfield manager at 19 years old, working with pilots on their flight plans and airfield inspections, and during her active duty in Portland, Oregon, one of them relayed to her an ominous account of an airspace incursion. “He had basically implied it was a UAP,” Luna told me last week in a phone interview. “Couldn't talk about it.
Jack Schlossberg, il rampollo dei Kennedy: «Mi candido al Congresso con i Dem. Sono nato in una famiglia la cui eredità è il servizio al bene comune. Sento la responsabilità di fare ciò che posso per il mio Paese in uno dei suoi momenti più bui»
Jack Schlossberg giura che c'è un metodo nella sua follia. Prima di lanciare la sua corsa per il 12° distretto congressuale di Manhattan, il nipote 33enne di John F. Kennedy – che ama definirsi un silly goose, uno svitato per gioco – era già riuscito a trasformarsi in una creatura dell’Internet contemporaneo, con un repertorio inesauribile di provocazioni da troll.
Intervista a Jack Schlossberg: candidato legittimo? Troll esperto? O entrambe le cose?
Jack Schlossberg giura che c'è un metodo nella sua follia. Prima di lanciare la sua corsa per il 12° distretto congressuale di Manhattan, il nipote 33enne di John F. Kennedy – che ama definirsi un silly goose, uno svitato per gioco – era già riuscito a trasformarsi in una creatura dell’Internet contemporaneo, con un repertorio inesauribile di provocazioni da troll.
The Never-Ending Debate Over Why Kamala Harris Didn't Go on Joe Rogan Continues
Ever since the 2024 election went woefully wrong for Democrats, the postmortems have often revolved around Kamala Harris's inability to navigate a raucous new media ecosystem as ably as Donald Trump did—and around one very important podcaster in particular. While Trump sat for a three-hour interview with Joe Rogan in the final stretch of the campaign , Harris never made it to Rogan's Austin recording studio, though an interview had reportedly been in the works.
Jack Schlossberg Swears There's a Method to His Madness
Read a transcript of the interview below. Mark Guiducci: Have you been to the Oval Office? Jack Schlossberg: I have. And I'll tell you, it vibrates. That thing vibrates. There is so much energy coming out of it. It's like, it glows. And I-that sounds, like, woo-woo, but it's true. There's a heavy vibe coming out of that, that room. It particularly glows these days. Yeah. Right. Yeah, with all the gold. Jack Schlossberg, welcome to Vanity Fair. Mark Guiducci, thank you for having me. Very happy to be here.
At GQ's Met Gala Afterparty, Guests Declare Chase Infiniti and Emma Chamberlain Among the Night's Best Dressed
Sixty-six blocks south of the Metropolitan Museum of Art late Monday night, guests at GQ 's Met Gala afterparty were excitedly sharing photos of the most extreme looks from the carpet uptown, and praising those who took this year's theme, “fashion is art” , seriously. Bad Bunny aged himself 50 years with the help of prosthetics; Heidi Klum , living up to her ever-expanding costume ambitions, walked the red carpet as a “living sculpture” set in stone.
Onze scientifiques morts ou disparus : du pain béni pour la Maison-Blanche et ses soutiens complotistes
Un matin de février dernier, William Neil McCasland quitte son domicile d’Albuquerque, laissant derrière lui son téléphone et ses lunettes de vue. On ne le reverra plus. Près de deux mois après le début des recherches pour retrouver cet ancien major général de l’US Air Force âgé de 68 ans, son revolver de calibre .38 reste introuvable, et aucune explication officielle n’a encore été avancée pour éclairer sa disparition soudaine.
11 Scientists Are Dead or Missing. It Was Only a Matter of Time Before Conspiracy Theories Hit the White House.
A haphazard grouping of recent cases emerged from what one paranormal investigator describes as “mystery-mongering data mining.” It also made for ideal fodder for the president and our leading media personalities alike. One morning this February, William Neil McCasland walked out of his home in Albuquerque for the last time, leaving his phone and prescription glasses behind.
Eric Swalwell's Beverly Hills Benefactor Wonders If He Missed “a Big Known Secret in DC”
Two days before Eric Swalwell ended his campaign for California governor amid a string of sexual assault and misconduct allegations, the now former congressman recorded a video at Stephen Cloobeck's Beverly Hills mansion—reportedly worth $26 million—where he had stayed numerous times during the race. “A lot has been said about me today through anonymous allegations, and I thought it was important that you see and hear from me directly,” Swalwell said, staring into the camera.
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