Entertainment Stories for 2024

Android TVs Can Expose User Email Inboxes 26
Twilio Founder Buys Satire Site 'The Onion' 30
Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only For US and UK Users 108
What Comes After OLED? Meet QDEL 49
JWST Gets an IMAX Documentary: 'Deep Sky' 16
'Record Store Day' 2024 Includes Talking Heads, Daft Punk, Cheech & Chong, Beatles 20
Netflix Doc Accused of Using AI To Manipulate True Crime Story 24
Netflix Blows Past Earnings Estimates As Subscribers Jump 16% 35
Trump Media Shares Down 14% After Company Says Truth Social To Launch TV Streaming 124
Ask Slashdot: Are Movies Becoming More Derivative? 100
Song Lyrics Have Become Simpler and More Repetitive Over the Last Five Decades 143
Disneyland Adds 'Stars Wars' Touches (and New Droids) for 'Season of the Force' Event 49
Struggling Movie Exhibitors Beg Studios For More Movies - and Not Just Blockbusters 120
Chechnya Is Banning Music That's Too Fast Or Slow 229
Nine of the 10 Most-Watched Streaming Programs Are Reruns 215
How the European Space Agency Celebrated April Fool's Day 41
Disneyland Proposes New Area Based on 'Avatar' Movies 67
Denis Villeneuve is Doing Dune 3 72
Roku's New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game 119
How a Micro-Budget Student Film Changed Sci-Fi Forever 44
Disney Will Crack Down on Password Sharing in June 38
George Carlin Estate Forces 'AI Carlin' Off the Internet For Good 31
New 'Matrix' Movie in Works 215
Top Musicians Among Hundreds Warning Against Replacing Human Artists With AI 162
'Yes, We're All Trapped in the Matrix Now' 185
After Losing Billions, Disney+ Tries Integrating Hulu Into Its App 78
'Dune 2' Beaten by 'Godzilla x Kong' 61
Russia Is Making Its Own Gaming Consoles 161
Pythagoras Was Wrong: There Are No Universal Musical Harmonies, Study Finds 73
Vinyl Records Outsell CDs For the Second Year Running 142
Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 Releases Early In France 29
Tennessee Becomes First State To Protect Musicians, Other Artists Against AI 23
Tired of Streaming? Home-Grown 'Free Blockbuster' Libraries Are Trying to Offer Alternatives 27
93-Year-Old William Shatner Discusses 'Star Trek', Space, Mortality, and Captain Kirk's Death 62
It's 25 Years Later. Are We All Now Trapped in 'The Matrix'? 181
Netflix's '3 Body Problem' Draws Mixed Reviews, Sparks Anger in China 104
Oscars 2024: Netflix Wins Just One Award and Apple Shut Out After Streamers Combine for 32 Nominations 48
Akira Toriyama, Creator of Dragon Ball Manga Series, Dies Aged 68 40
Samsung Making It Harder To Know What Type of OLED TV You're Getting 47
Nikon To Acquire US Cinema Camera Manufacturer RED 36
Max Password Sharing Crackdown Is Coming 22
In Indonesia, Women Pirate More Music and Movies Than Men 36
Roku Disables Devices Until Users Agree To New Arbitration Rules 147
Two New 'Star Wars' Movies Will Begin Filming 147
The Desert Planet In 'Dune' Is Plausible, According To Science 51
Adobe's New Prototype Generative AI Tool Is the 'Photoshop' of Music-Making and Editing 51
Streaming To Overtake Pay TV Subscription Revenue For the First Time in US This Year 13
Hacker Uses Raspberry Pi and AI To Block Noisy Neighbor's Music 93
Open Source Movie Streaming Project 'Movie-Web' Shut Down By Hollywood Complaint 21
In Netflix's New Sci-Fi Movie 'Spaceman', an Introverted Astronaut Confronts Isolation 42
Former Gizmodo Writer Changed Name To 'Slackbot,' Stayed Undetected For Months 22
Amazon Says 'No Changes' Coming To Freevee Despite Reports of the Streamer Shuttering 14
Disney Strikes Deal For Sony To Take Over Its DVD, Blu-ray Disc Business 82
YouTube Dominates TV Streaming In US, Per Nielsen's Latest Report 22
Walmart To Buy TV Maker Vizio For $2.3 Billion 50
EU to Fine Apple $500M+ for Stifling Music Competitors Like Spotify 117
Pranksters Mock AI-Safety Guardrails with New Chatbot 'Goody-2' 74
Leaked Emails Show Hugo Awards Self-Censoring To Appease China 89
Walmart In Talks To Buy Vizio For More Than $2 Billion 31
Spotify's Layoffs Put an End To a Musical Encyclopedia 21
Streamer Plex Launches Its Long-Promised Movie Rentals Store 27
Funimation is Shutting Down, And Taking Your Digital Library With It 48
Disney Plus' Restrictions on Password Sharing Are Now Rolling Out To US Subscribers 54
Warner, Fox, Disney To Launch Streaming Sports Joint Venture 31
YouTube Has Become One of the Biggest Pay TV Services in the US 31
Disneyland's New 'Pixar Place' Hotel is Like Visiting the Studio 18
Joe Rogan Gets New Spotify Deal Worth Up To $250 Million 134
Avatar VFX Workers Vote To Unionize 28
YouTube Says It Has More Than 100 Million Premium and Music Subscribers 48
Hulu Is Cracking Down On Password Sharing, Just Like Disney Plus and Netflix 62
YouTube TV's Now Lets You Customize Your Multiview Experiences 21
Halo's Trailer for Season 2 Teases More Covenant 30
Netflix Adds Generative AI To Competitive Risk Factors in Its Annual Report 18
Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood's New Villains 160
Netflix is Going To Take Away Its Cheapest Ad-Free Plan 105
Sony Ends $10 Billion Merger With India Media Giant Zee 3
Remembering The 1970s-Era Technology of Devo 43
Now Musicians' Union Threatens Possible Strike Over AI, Streaming Media 64
Plex To Launch a Store For Movies and TV Shows 22
Music Streaming Platforms Must Pay Artists More, Says EU 58
Harmonix Is Ending Rock Band DLC Releases After 16 Years, 2,800 Songs 15
Ken Fritz Built a $1 Million Stereo. The Real Cost Was Unfathomable. 222
Removal of Netflix Film Shows Advancing Power of India's Hindu Right Wing 110
AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special 128
'Artificial Creativity' Music Software For Commodore Amiga Unearthed 39
Music Streams Hit 4 Trillion in 2023 21
Actors' Union Agrees To AI Voiceovers For Video Games 35
Telly's Free Ad-Supported TV Will Use ChatGPT For Its Voice Assistant 37
Samsung Debuts World's First Transparent MicroLED Screen Is At CES 2024 30
Flappie AI Cat Door Stops Your Pet From Gifting You Dead Mice 72
LG Unveils the World's First Wireless Transparent OLED TV 26
Ask Slashdot: Does Anyone Still Use Ogg Vorbis Format? 148
An AI-powered Holographic Elvis Concert is Coming to Las Vegas (and the UK) 39
Spotify's Editorial Playlists Are Losing Influence Amid AI Expansion 14
US Pay-TV Subscriber Base Eroding At Record Pace 104
DVD Resurgence To Prevent Films From Disappearing 131
LG's 2024 OLED TVs Put a Bigger Focus on AI Processing Than Ever Before 37
Roku Launches Its First High-End TVs in Search of Revenue Growth 18
Andrew Scott Halted Hamlet Soliloquy After Theatergoer Used Laptop To Email 91
Alamo Drafthouse Blames 'Nationwide' Theater Outage on Sony Projector Fail 52
Vizio To Pay $3 Million Settlement for Misleading Advertised TV Refresh Rates 22