As one of the big movies of the weekend, folks are watching Supergirl and have their thoughts on it. The same goes for director Craig Gillespie and writer Ann Nogueira, who’ve been talking to press about how the movie’s production. First announced as an adaptation of Bilquis Everly and Tom King’s award-winning graphic novel Woman of Tomorrow, the finished product is…not really that, and now the two have taken to explaining some key changes made in the film.
After defeating Krem of the Yellow Hills’ forces and talking Ruthye out of killing the man who slaughtered her family, Kara goes and finishes him off herself. It’s a sharp divergence from the comic, where Krem spends years imprisoned in the Phantom Zone before he’s freed and a now elderly Ruthye hits him in the face before walking off. Nogueira told Entertainment Weekly this change has always been part of her initial pitch for the movie, and one signed off by producers James Gunn and Peter Safran. “We gotta kill the guy, and we can’t let the little girl do it,” she recalled saying. While stuck writing, she eventually realized Kara’s final lines to Krem would bring everything home: ‘This is for my dog,’ and ‘This is for what you did to that little girl’ are the movie.”
Now back on Earth and living in Metropolis, Supergirl will return for 2027’s Man of Tomorrow. To Nogueira, her killing Krem is a way to “define herself differently than Superman. She has to say, ‘I have my own morality and sense of goodness. I don’t have a rule you have—I have my own guidance and the ability to discern when I’m gonna take somebody off the map. I know this is the right thing to do.’” With Lex Luthor and Brainiac in Tomorrow, and one of them having harmed her dog in Superman, this might not be the last time Kara gets her hands dirty.
That she kills Krem is already one of Supergirl’s most divisive moments, and comes before something that’s got folks even more split: a slo-mo sequence where Kara fights Krem’s forces set to a cover of Jimmy Eat World’s “The Middle” by Kelty Greye and KidMotel. When asked about the song by Rolling Stone, Nogueira said there were “a lot of options” for a needle drop, with Gillespie saying there were 45 potential songs set against that scene. “I gotta give James [Gunn, producer] credit for that one,” he said. “That was probably the biggest discussion, and it was down to the very last week.”
Nogueira revealed that action scene almost had a different song, but was quiet on the runner-up. Instead, Gillespie teased the other candidate was “a remix of a classic, and you almost need to see it as the remix, because the orchestration was what made it so beautiful.”
It might be a while before someone at WB tells us what mystery song the two are referring to. Until then, let us know what you song you’d have used for Supergirl in its place, and what you think of how the film stacks up to the Woman of Tomorrow comic.
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David Streever appears to have been the second person in a matter of hours, after poll worker PaigeLynne Gonyea, that a specific pair of federal law enforcement officers tried to visit this past Tuesday in response to speech about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. They reportedly came up empty in Streever’s case because he was abroad at the time, but then found him two days later at a hotel in New York City.
The mystery is how they found him.
In September of last year, President Trump issued an executive order targeting so-called “Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence.” But the order appears to lump in widely shared beliefs, including opposition to capitalism, among others. It also construes opposition to ICE in the name of anti-fascism as a tactic “used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault” on America and its institutions.
With that in mind, here’s what we know about federal officers tracking down Streever:
Streever says he sent a harshly critical letter to acting ICE director Todd Lyons in January. It’s denunciatory in its tone and predicts the downfall of Lyons’s career, along with a lifetime of guilt, but contains no threats.
Streever was apparently in Finland when officers showed up at his doorstep on Tuesday (at least three months after he sent the email) and told his wife they were there to issue a warning about the email to Lyons. One of the agents, Abbi Henry, reportedly left a business card. Surveillance photos Streever provided to Syracuse.com strongly suggest this was the same pair of agents who had visited PaigeLynne Gonyea that same day.
Streever says he returned to the U.S. from Finland two days later, passing through a Customs checkpoint at JFK airport. He says he and his daughter didn’t go home to Rochester, New York, but instead went to a hotel in New York City and went to sleep.
Apparently, Trevor Pitts, a member of an unnamed agency showed up at the hotel just before 9:55 p.m. and asked to speak to Streever. The staff member at the front desk didn’t confirm Streever was there, and Pitts left his business card. Then the hotel worker called Streever to tell him an agent was asking for him.
What happened within federal law enforcement between Customs and the hotel remains opaque. Henry and Pitts, who left their business cards, reportedly wouldn’t answer questions from Syracuse.com, nor did Homeland Security spokesperson Lauren Bis.
Streever told Syracuse.com that he intends to ask his credit card company to investigate how he was found. Financial surveillance by law enforcement is far from unheard of, but it wouldn’t be normal to see agents use it in this way. For instance, ICE in particular once had widespread access to something called the Transaction Record Analysis Center (TRAC), used to surveil immigrants who wired money, but much of that access was clawed back last year amid public scrutiny and accusations of illegality.
A February lawsuit proposed as a class action alleges that the gathering of data about ICE observers was used as intimidation, and is an illegal breach of the plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights. “I really need to know—who has my data and what are they using it for?” lead plaintiff Elinor Hilton told Time in April, adding, “That changes my life.”
Gizmodo asked the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, and Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) for details about how agents found Streever in his hotel. We will update this article if we receive a useful reply.
The second season of Adult Swim’s My Adventures With Superman introduced Supergirl, and it didn’t take long for her to become a fan-favorite. Starting off as a soldier and the adoptive daughter of Brainiac before joining her cousin to defend Earth, Kara’s back for season three—and much like Clark and their friends, she’s got some stuff to figure out.
Kara’s arc this season is about her settling into becoming Metropolis’ newest protector and sorting out where she and Jimmy stand. Last season made it clear there were sparks on both sides, but in classic romantic tension fashion, neither have revealed their feelings in full. Jimmy thinks Kara should at least become more adjusted to Earth, which she plans to do…by going on dates with other people.
This week’s episode, “All’s Fair in Love and W.O.R.M.S.,” sees Kara consult Lois for help with her many matches on dating apps. Meanwhile, Jimmy goes on a date in the hopes of making his Kryptonian friend jealous, with a slight problem: his date, Doris, is actually “Gigi,” aka Giganta, the popular Wonder Woman villain. And in a very Jimmy situation, she’s both into him and wants to run a few experiments on him, including turning him into a wolf.
Before the season’s premiere, io9 talked with co-showrunners Jake Wyatt and Brendan Clogher about the show’s other love story. While Kara and Jimmy get paired up every once in a while in comics or other media, Wyatt noted they’re not a “near-sacred pop culture thing” like Clark and Lois. As such, My Adventures With Superman is free to put its younger duo through more stress and modern dating troubles. But it’s not just a matter of testing Kara and Jimmy with one obstacle after another.
Every relationship faces trials that can often make one half—or even both halves—look bad. Putting Kara and Jimmy in various situations on the path to love is part of the show’s DNA, but he and Wyatt said there’s a limit to what can be done without betraying who these characters are. “It’s a tightrope to keep audience credibility with these two and keep them likable,” Clogher acknowledged. “Supergirl is Supergirl, but we can bend the rules a bit more with Jimmy. He’s emotionally intelligent, but it’s easier to like him when he’s being bad.”
“Jimmy’s off being goofus so Kara can be gallant,” added Wyatt. “If Clark and Lois are the romcom, these two are romantic chaos.” The popular manga and anime Ranma 1/2 was cited as a source for the latter term, and it definitely applies. With Jimmy’s love life taking center stage this season, the team knew they wanted him to have an arc of dating mad-scientists, which would let them turn him into animals as he had in the comics. While doing story revisions on “W.O.R.M.S.,” they realized the episode needed a bigger set piece for the third act—a “King Kong moment,” if you will—but the initial villain they had couldn’t really lead to that escalation.
So Giganta was added, allowing for a scene where she changes her size and kidnaps Jimmy before climbing a skyscraper with plans to make him just like her. Wyatt said DC “played ball really well” when it came to including her, and has generally been a good partner in that regard, including getting the Whip in last week’s episode. “Some of [our villains] are about DC notes,” he explained. “Other times, it was with DC assistance.” We won’t spoil Jimmy’s next date, but know that the character was also done with some DC advice, and they’re even more ridiculous than Giganta—and more trying on Kara.
Speaking of her, io9 asked if there were any plans to put Kara in some romantic hijinks of her own outside of Jimmy’s orbit. The pair admitted that yes, the team had episode ideas where she’d go on dates, from Steve Lombard to some supervillains. “Those [villain dates] would’ve ended in swift and violent justice,” said Wyatt, which sounds like a riot. Unfortunately, these ideas were some of many in the season to be cut, so the team opted to give Kara a more serious arc of coming into her own as a hero.
That journey, part of which involves her little fangirl Jessica Cruz, will play out as My Adventures With Superman continues with new episodes this summer. But if the show comes back for season four, maybe then we’ll see the Woman of Tomorrow make some bad romantic choices.
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Bitcoin holders are scheduled to get at least one airdrop this summer, as one explicit hard fork will take place in early August and a separate soft fork attempt appears destined for failure. While not currently viewed as major forks of the Bitcoin network, these are among the most notable attempts in years to create new networks from Bitcoin’s existing ownership record.
When implemented without broad consensus, a Bitcoin fork can create a separate cryptocurrency that inherits bitcoin ownership as of the split and uses it as the initial distribution of the new asset. The idea is to continue what was already started with Bitcoin down a new path rather than bootstrap a separate set of network effects from scratch. However, in many cases, the airdropped coins are sold off for more bitcoin or simply ignored.
The most prominent wave of Bitcoin forks arrived near the end of the block size war. Bitcoin Cash split from Bitcoin in August 2017 after years of disagreement over whether the network should increase its block size limit via a hard fork. Other projects, such as Bitcoin Gold, followed as altcoins forked from Bitcoin became a bit of a meme in the crypto space. Bitcoin SV, which was effectively built around Craig Wright’s now judicially demolished claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, later separated from Bitcoin Cash in November 2018 following another dispute over protocol rules and block capacity.
The two fork projects taking shape in 2026 are also products of disagreements over Bitcoin’s technical direction. This time, however, there is little evidence that users, businesses, developers, and miners are divided into anything resembling the rival camps that formed during the block size war.
The more straightforward of the two projects is eCash, a new cryptocurrency scheduled to launch through a Bitcoin hard fork on August 21. Nearly every bitcoin holder at the fork’s snapshot point is supposed to receive a corresponding eCash balance.
Created by longtime Bitcoin researcher and Drivechain architect Paul Sztorc, eCash is intended to activate the Drivechain proposal on a live cryptocurrency network. Sztorc first published the Drivechain concept in 2015, received Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) numbers (300 and 301) for it in 2017, and released test software in 2019. After more than a decade of advocacy, the proposal still has not obtained the broad agreement necessary for inclusion in Bitcoin. Reasons for the lack of support for Drivechain from the greater Bitcoin userbase include potential legal or regulatory risks for miners and perceived alterations to the game theory that holds Bitcoin together and makes it work as it already exists today.
Drivechain was originally designed as a specific type of Bitcoin sidechain to let people move bitcoin into separate blockchains that can operate under different rules. One sidechain could support larger blocks, while others could offer privacy tools, tokens, prediction markets, or Ethereum-like applications. Basically, all of the useful features found in non-Bitcoin crypto projects could be integrated into Bitcoin. The sidechains would be merge-mined, allowing Bitcoin miners to process their activity and collect additional transaction fees.
Drivechain was originally proposed as a soft fork to Bitcoin, which effectively means it would work in a backwards compatible manner. Because that soft fork has not gained consensus, eCash will instead create a separate blockchain with Drivechain activated from the beginning. The Bitcoin network will remain unaffected.
Notably, the eCash launch also includes a provocative promotional tactic that grabbed headlines in the crypto world. Rather than provide the full airdrop to addresses thought to belong to Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, the project plans to reserve roughly half of those coins to fund development and reward early financial backers.
While eCash is off to create a new network with its own rules, BIP 110 is taking a more confrontational route. The proposal is attempting to impose temporary consensus restrictions on how Bitcoin transactions can store nonfinancial data.
BIP 110 grew out of a long-running fight over inscriptions, Ordinals, Runes, and other protocols that place images, tokens, and arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions. Supporters describe this activity as spam that raises storage and bandwidth requirements for node operators focused on only using bitcoin as money. Opponents, many of whom also prefer bitcoin to only be used as money, argue that valid transactions paying market-rate fees should not be censored merely because some users dislike their purpose. They also argue that subjective spam filtering simply can’t work on a network that is inherently resistant to censorship.
The proposal includes an early activation route if 55% of mined blocks in a 2,016-block difficulty period signal support. However, BIP 110 nodes will begin rejecting non-signaling blocks at height 961,632, currently projected for early August.
Current miner support makes a smooth activation extremely unlikely. Public trackers place signaling below 1% in June, far short of the 55% threshold. When I examined miners’ likely response to the proposed fork for Protos in November, the industry showed little interest in either BIP 110 or the broader controversy over perceived spam. “Miners’ collective silence is effectively an endorsement of the technical decisions made by Bitcoin Core, at least from their end,” I wrote at the time.
Although BIP 110 is technically written as a soft fork, insufficient adoption would effectively turn it into a hard fork. Once BIP 110 nodes begin enforcing their narrower rules, they will reject any block permitted by Bitcoin’s preexisting rules that is newly-prohibited under BIP 110. The rest of the Bitcoin network would continue accepting those blocks like nothing happened.
BIP 110 users would have effectively removed themselves from Bitcoin and begun operating a smaller alternative cryptocurrency network, assuming the new fork attracts enough mining power to keep the blockchain moving forward at all. Other measures, such as altering the difficulty adjustment algorithm or changing the algorithm used for proof-of-work mining could be considered at that point.
Whether Bitcoin users are interested in what eCash or BIP 110 have to offer or not, it makes sense to track these projects as they develop because holders could end up having the keys to multiple other assets they didn’t ask for within the next few months.
There are also potential security risks involved in claiming or spending those assets. Because forked coins are controlled by the same cryptographic key pairs as real bitcoin, a transaction made on one network can sometimes be copied and rebroadcast on another. This is known as a replay attack, and it can occur if the developers of the new network do not implement proper protections for Bitcoin users. Users may want to avoid importing Bitcoin seed phrases or private keys into unfamiliar fork software while those keys still control bitcoin.
Blumhouse is doing another Five Nights at Freddy’s movie, and enlisted a new writer to craft its script.
That would be Gary Dauberman, not David Robert Mitchell like you might’ve recently heard. Dauberman’s screenwriting career is all about the scares, from the recent It movies to Conjuring spinoffs The Nun and Annabelle: Creation and the 2024 adaptation of Salem’s Lot. (He’s got one sole non-horror credit, and that’s the story for October’s Street Fighter movie.) This’ll be the first Freddy’s movie without franchise creator Scott Hawthon on writing duties, who co-wrote the first film’s script with Seth Cuddeback and director Emma Tammi, and held sole writing credit for the second.
As the Hollywood Reporter notes, this is actually the first real bit of news on Five Nights at Freddy’s 3. The second film launched December 2025 and made $240 million worldwide, despite pretty lousy reviews from critics and some fans. While Tammi’s expected back as director for the third time, it’s currently a question mark whether the first two films’ main trio of Josh Hutcherson (Mike), Elizabeth Lail (Vanessa), and Piper Rubio (Abby) will return. Freddy’s 2 ended with Vanessa’s body taken over by the Marionette animatronic after Mike and Abby distanced themself from her. So the window’s open for the Schmidts to return, or for some new folks to be in the Marionette’s crosshairs.
We’ll have more on Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 as news emerges.
[Thanks, Dread Central]
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