This is the story of Nike’s Secret Tournament advert, told by those who made it

A cargo ship, a floodlit metal cage, 24 of the world's best players, and Eric Cantona. This was one of the greatest soccer ...
GitHub

SDPG: Self-Distilled Policy Gradient

SDPG is the main contribution. It extends GRPO with an exact per-token forward KL between the actor (without privileged context) and itself conditioned on privileged context c: ...
collider

Star Wars Finally Fixes Its Biggest Disney+ Problem With Its Next Spin-off Series

Over the last two decades, Star Wars fans have watched Ahsoka Tano learn to balance her emotions and her mastery of the Force. Now she is poised to balance the franchise's biggest problem — its budget ...
Superhero Hype

Avengers: Doomsday Star May Have Just Exposed the MCU’s Real Problem

One Avengers: Doomsday star’s comments expose what the MCU‘s biggest problem is, and it’s not the one you’d expect. Sebastian Stan will reprise his role as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier in Avengers: ...
Game Rant

The Mandalorian & Grogu Suggests Star Wars is Facing the MCU's Biggest Franchise Problem

Movies are Zakaria's true calling, and when he isn't logging reviews on Letterbox, he is covering the latest happenings in the movie and TV world, with the occassional contrarian feature essay. With ...
Yardbarker

Glaring problem for NASCAR All-Star Race rears head early

Less than halfway through Sunday's NASCAR All-Star Race at Dover Motor Speedway, a major problem with the race's format has already reared its ugly head multiple times. The 2026 ASR format saw all 36 ...
Yardbarker

NASCAR's biggest star says its All-Star Race has a glaring problem

Chase Elliott is a NASCAR Cup Series champion and the sport's most popular driver. He believes NASCAR's 2026 All-Star race at Dover this weekend has a major problem. "I would say it feels the least ...
WPBF

PYTHON BE GONE: New efforts to combat Florida's python problem

FORTUNATELY, NOBODY WAS INJURED. CONTROLLING THE PYTHON POPULATION HERE IN FLORIDA, GOVERNOR DESANTIS SPOKE IN STUART TODAY ABOUT SOME NEW ACTIONS THE STATE PLANS TO TAKE TO CONTROL THE GROWTH OF ...
WESH

Python Problem: Experts say the large snakes are moving north into Brevard County

BURMESE PYTHONS ARE ONE OF THE STATE’S MOST FEARSOME INVASIVE SPECIES, AND WHILE THEY MAINTAINED A PRESENCE IN THE EVERGLADES FOR MORE THAN 25 YEARS, A NEW STUDY REVEALS THEY’RE TRAVELING NORTH. JJ ...
Inverse

5 Years Later, Star Wars Just Highlighted A Bizarre Timeline Problem

Maul: Shadow Lord takes place at an interesting point in the Star Wars timeline, in the handful of years after Order 66 but before the start of the Rebellion. Like the rise of most fascist regimes, it ...
Star Tribune

Review: Minneapolis writer Louise Erdrich’s latest is ‘Python’s Kiss’

“Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of which previously have been published in the New Yorker and elsewhere (each is illustrated with a drawing by the author’s daughter, Aza Erdrich ...