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When Dan had had enough of his television, he threw a rock straight through the screen. The offence? His smart TV was downloading its third update in three days. “It drove me crazy with what seemed like daily software updates that never fixed anything and ‘features’ that never seemed to work,” says the 71-year-old from Illinois. “And of course, constantly trying to push me to subscribe to paid-for services when all I wanted to do was watch over-the-air TV, play a DVD or stream something from my computer.”Some may accuse Dan of being a luddite, but his master’s degree in computer science and decades of experience in telecommunications would suggest otherwise. “The tech is not intimidating,” he explains, “just increasingly enshittified.”The first smart TVs entered the market in the late 2000s, when companies introduced operating systems, media players and apps to screens that were becoming wider and thinner. In recent years, the luxury status of smart TVs has waned and increasingly affordable options are widely available. Tom Parsons, TV and audiovisual editor at the electronics magazine What Hi-Fi?, explains that these cheaper models can struggle under more advanced features.

This article includes spoilers for You Can See Everything, a new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes now playing theatrically in the US. Did it seem strange to you that Elizabeth Holmes’s X account remained so active after she reported to prison in 2023? You are not alone, and You Can See Everything, a new documentary about the businesswoman that was directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, may offer some reasons for the weirdness of her social media in the past few years.

The museum is bringing more than 160 artworks to Paris as it undergoes a major expansion. The post The Broad Is Sending Its Art Treasures Across the Atlantic appeared first on Artnet News .

Canada, an esteemed New York gallery, faced the threat of closure last year after a backer filed two lawsuits against the space’s founders. A New York court ruled that the gallery could remain open, and neither lawsuit appears to be active, with the most recent filings for both posted at the start of this year.

A Canadian seafood tycoon’s financial troubles have turned into a debate over who gets to decide what happens to his art collection, which includes dozens of Indigenous artifacts that some experts say should be returned to their communities of origin. John Risley, the billionaire businessman who cofounded Clearwater Seafoods, is caught up in a dispute over hundreds of artworks and antiques following the collapse of his investment company, CFFI Ventures, which entered creditor protection in March with nearly $1 billion in debt.

Police ordered the Grand Palais to briefly shut down amid the nationwide student protests. General view of the main hall of the Grand Palais during Art Basel 2025 (photo Telmo Pinto/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)