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On top of classic movie collectibles from brands like Funko and Fisher Price, L.A. cool-girl staple Re/Done has released a trio of its coveted vintage tees in partnership with Disney and 20th Century Studios’ The Devil Wears Prada 2. The three-part capsule builds upon the brands’ ongoing partnership, where characters like Mickey Mouse, Bambi and Dumbo have been featured on Re/Done’s ultra-wearable designs.
Re/Done 1950’s Florals Boxy Tee
T-shirt reads “Florals? For Spring? Groundbreaking.”
The collection includes two of Re/Done’s best-selling t-shirt silhouettes. The “Everybody wants to be us” design is printed on the brand’s Classic Tee in recycled heritage cotton jersey, with an easy slim fit, crewneck cut, regular length and short sleeves. The other two designs (“Florals? For Spring? Groundbreaking” and “That’s all“) are seen on the Re/Done x Hanes Boxy Crop Tee, with a shorter length, easy fit, crewneck cut and short sleeves, also in recycled cotton jersey. All three t-shirts in the collaboration retail for $160 and are available in sizes extra-small through extra-large.
The exclusive clothing drop comes one day after The Devil Wears Prada 2 World Premiere, with its star-studded red carpet coverage streaming now on Disney+. Stay tuned for additional brand collaborations ahead of the film’s theatrical release on May 1.
Islamabad, Pakistan – As United States Vice President JD Vance prepares to fly to Islamabad, Pakistan is racing against time and the odds to try to convince Tehran to join talks with the US aimed at ending their war, now in its eighth week.
But while Pakistani officials close to the mediation efforts remain cautiously hopeful that Iran might send a negotiating team for the talks by Wednesday, a series of escalatory steps taken by the US over the past 48 hours had by Tuesday evening injected a dose of scepticism into Islamabad’s peacemaking efforts.
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Iran continues to publicly insist that it has no plans to return to the negotiating table, even as Pakistan and other mediators work behind the scenes to bring Tehran back into the room before a two-week ceasefire expires on Wednesday evening US time — early Thursday morning in the Middle East.
At least nine US aircraft have landed in Pakistan over the past three days, bringing personnel and equipment to be used by the Vance-led negotiating team.
Vance is expected to depart from the US on Tuesday evening Pakistan time — morning in the US — and arrive in Islamabad late morning on Wednesday. US President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner are expected to join Vance. The three officials had led the US delegation during the first round of direct talks with Iran in Islamabad on April 11.
But it is unclear who they are coming to meet.
Earlier on Tuesday, Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan, Reza Amiri Moghadam, posted on social media, paraphrasing Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, that it was “a truth universally acknowledged” that “a single country in possession of a large civilisation will not negotiate under threat and force”, calling it “a substantial, Islamic and theological principle”.
Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also said it had no plans to re-engage diplomatically with Washington for now. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker and the head of its negotiating team, was more direct. In a post on X early on Tuesday, he accused Trump of seeking to turn the negotiating table “into a table of surrender or to justify renewed warmongering”.
“We do not accept negotiations under the shadow of threats,” Ghalibaf wrote, adding that Iran had “prepared to reveal new cards on the battlefield” over the previous two weeks.
Iran’s judiciary chief, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, said separately that Tehran must “maintain 100% readiness” given a “strong possibility” of further US attacks.
Rising tensions at sea
These public statements follow the latest flashpoint between the two rivals, who have been at war since the US-Israeli attacks on Iran on February 28.
On Sunday, US naval forces fired on the Iranian-flagged cargo ship Touska in the Gulf of Oman and boarded it after it attempted to pass through a naval blockade that the US has enforced against Iran-linked ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz since April 13. Tehran called the incident a ceasefire violation and demanded the immediate release of the ship, its crew members and their families.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry described the seizure as “extremely dangerous” and “criminal”, warning that Tehran “will use all its capacities” to defend its national interests.
On Tuesday, the US announced that its forces had also boarded a second ship, this time in the Asia Pacific. The ship, cargo vessel M/T Tifani, was already under US sanctions for carrying Iranian oil.
For Javad Heiran-Nia, a researcher specialising in Iranian affairs, the Touska incident may nonetheless offer a narrow opening.
“The release of the ship’s crew could be a green light for Iran to soften its position on returning to talks,” he told Al Jazeera.
Umer Karim, an associate fellow at the Riyadh-based King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, said the principal signal Iran was seeking was an end to the US blockade, or at least a clear intent to relax it.
He pointed to Iran’s conduct during the first round. Tehran had initially conditioned its participation on a ceasefire in Lebanon, before entering talks without one.
“That shows they are pragmatic,” Karim told Al Jazeera.
The USS Spruance is seen intercepting the Iranian-flagged cargo ship M/V Touska in the north Arabian Sea in this screengrab from a video released on April 19, 2026 [Handout/CENTCOM via Reuters]
Muhammad Khatibi, a political analyst based in Tehran, said Iran’s position had been consistent throughout, as Iran believes that as long as it cannot export its oil, it will not allow others in the region to do so either.
A tangible easing of the blockade, he said, did not need to be publicly announced, as it could take the form of reciprocal steps, “such as the US permitting a number of Iranian oil shipments to proceed, with Tehran responding in kind”.
“Iran does not seek to re-engage in renewed conflict,” he told Al Jazeera. “But from Tehran’s perspective, this is a war of survival, and it is prepared to fight with all available means until the very end.”
The IRGC factor
The statements from Tehran also reflect a domestic political dynamic underpinning Iran’s public posture, said analysts.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been pushing Iran’s negotiating team to adopt a firmer line, they said, conditioning any return to talks on a full end to the US naval blockade.
Heiran-Nia said the divide between the IRGC and the diplomatic team was evident. He cited instances over the weekend when ships attempting to pass through the strait were allegedly fired on by Iran. India summoned Iran’s ambassador in New Delhi to raise concerns about firing on two of its ships.
“The attack on tankers during the ceasefire demonstrates the IRGC’s dominance over the diplomatic team and its disregard for their positions,” he told Al Jazeera.
Yet Heiran-Nia said if a deal were reached, it would likely override internal opposition.
“If a deal is reached, it will likely have a sovereign character,” he said. “The establishment will impose its own narrative, and the IRGC will accept it.”
What Pakistan is working with
Trump has set firm public red lines. He has demanded Iran end uranium enrichment and surrender its existing stockpile of enriched uranium. He has said the US will not lift the Hormuz blockade until Tehran agrees to negotiate.
“They’re going to negotiate, and if they don’t, they’re going to see problems like they’ve never seen before,” he said in an interview on Monday.
The enrichment question remains the central fault line. During the first round of talks, US negotiators proposed a 20-year pause on Iranian enrichment. Iran countered with five years. Trump has publicly said he wants no enrichment and has refused to set a timeframe for this moratorium.
For Iran, Karim said, the Strait of Hormuz is not simply a bargaining chip.
Tehran is seeking to extract maximum advantage from that leverage before any deal is concluded, he said, because once an agreement is reached, “those cards could no longer be played”.
“Iran understands that it still has leverage,” Karim added, “and that it needs to be utilised to the maximum level in any negotiations.”
Heiran-Nia said Washington’s position on Hormuz was equally entrenched.
“The US wants to remove the Strait of Hormuz card from Iran’s hand,” he said. “Iran, on the other hand, wants not only to preserve it as a negotiating card but also to maintain it as a strategic asset.”
Trump’s messaging problem
Complicating Pakistan’s efforts is Trump’s public messaging around the talks.
President Donald Trump at the White House, April 18, 2026 [Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo]
His posts on Truth Social and remarks to reporters, in which he claimed Iran had agreed to provisions that sources said had not been finalised, including the handover of enriched uranium, caused visible strain in diplomatic efforts during the first round.
Iranian officials publicly rejected the assertions, while US media reported that some Trump administration officials privately acknowledged his comments had been detrimental, given Tehran’s deep mistrust of Washington.
Karim, however, said Trump’s messaging was “more a form of posturing than a structural obstacle to the talks”.
Heiran-Nia said how Islamabad frames the process will be critical, regardless of the outcome.
“Pakistan is the only actor that has military and security ties with both Washington and Tehran,” he said, adding that its role in shaping the narrative around any agreement, allowing both sides to claim success, would be “of critical importance”.
What comes next
A second round of talks, if they take place, is expected to begin on Wednesday.
Trump has extended the original deadline by 24 hours, saying the truce now ends “Wednesday evening Washington time”, which would be early morning Thursday in Islamabad, and described a further extension as “highly unlikely”. It was initially supposed to end on Tuesday evening in the US, or Wednesday morning in the Middle East.
Whether Iran’s delegation attends remains the central question.
State broadcaster Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting said on Tuesday that no Iranian diplomatic delegation, “be it a primary or secondary team, or an initial or follow-up mission”, had travelled to Islamabad.
An Iranian source, however, said there were strong indications that a delegation would still travel to Pakistan, adding that security considerations remained central to any decision.
Heiran-Nia said the consequences of failure in the planned talks would be stark.
“The alternative, return to war, while unable to establish any sustainable balance, promises devastating destruction,” he said.
Panic banned AI-generated art, music, and writing from its Playdate handheld console’s Catalog storefront.
The company will continue allowing AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot with required disclosure.
The policy change followed controversy over the release of a game that used ChatGPT.
Panic, maker of the Playdate handheld gaming console, announced a ban on AI-generated art, music, and writing from its digital storefront while maintaining allowances for AI-powered coding tools.
The policy creates a clear distinction between creative and technical AI applications. Panic’s updated terms now prohibit any third-party game submissions containing AI-generated creative content, while developers using AI coding assistants must disclose their usage for customer transparency.
“Playdate Catalog has historically required AI use be disclosed by the developer for any game submissions, that part has never changed. But as of this month, the Playdate Catalog storefront now prohibits AI-generated art, music, and writing from any third-party game submissions moving forward,” Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser said in a statement to Game Developer.
The company positioned itself as breaking new ground in gaming distribution, setting its unique handheld—with its black-and-white screen, fold-out hand crank, and indie-centric game library—apart from the juggernauts of the gaming industry.
“We believe we’re one of the first (and possibly only?) digital game storefronts to do this. Steam, Nintendo eShop, PlayStation Store, even Itch, etc. all still permit this type of AI-generated work in their listings,” Sasser said, adding that the move was “an important step to take for both game quality and our community.”
The policy shift emerged after Wheelsprung, a game included in Playdate’s curated Season 2 collection, was discovered to have used ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot for coding and writing assistance.
Sasser acknowledged the oversight, telling Exp last year that Panic’s team didn’t consider that a Season 2 developer would use large language models. He called this assumption “naive,” and took responsibility for the game slipping through their review process.
Playdate launched in 2022 as a boutique gaming device, leaning into its unique design and quirky features rather than compete with high-end handheld devices. The console’s Catalog storefront serves as the primary distribution channel for games designed for the niche platform. Unlike major gaming platforms that have remained largely silent on AI-generated content, Panic’s explicit policy distinguishes between different AI applications in game development—a first for the industry.
Panic has already implemented stricter standards for its upcoming curated collection. The publisher confirmed in a post on Bluesky that Playdate Season 3 will exclude any titles using generative AI in any capacity.
“We can happily confirm that it was a requirement for all Season 3 devs that no AI can be used in Season 3 games,” the company stated, clarifying that “this includes art, music, writing, and, yes, code.”
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The Arbitrum Security Council has frozen 30,766 ETH worth $71.5 million linked to the weekend’s KelpDAO exploit.
The funds can only be moved by further action by Arbitrum governance, the council said.
The KelpDAO attackers, thought to be North Korean hackers, have begun moving and laundering funds linked to the exploit.
The Arbitrum Security Council has frozen 30,766 ETH worth $71.5 million allegedly linked to the KelpDAO exploit, moving the funds to an intermediary wallet.
In a tweet, the council explained the “emergency action” was taken following law enforcement input about the exploiter’s identity. Following the move, the funds are “no longer accessible to the address that originally held the funds,” the council said, adding that they can only be moved “by further action by Arbitrum governance, which will be coordinated with relevant parties.”
The Arbitrum Security Council has taken emergency action to freeze the 30,766 ETH being held in the address on Arbitrum One that is connected to the KelpDAO exploit. The Security Council acted with input from law enforcement as to the exploiter’s identity, and, at all times,…
The Arbitrum Security Council consists of elected signers with emergency powers to protect the layer-2 network during security incidents. When activated, the council can immediately freeze assets and move them to wallets accessible only through subsequent governance votes.
The frozen funds from the alleged KelpDAO exploiter now sit in an intermediary address that requires community approval through Arbitrum’s governance process to access.
The freeze sparked debate regarding layer-2 governance and the resultant trade-offs between rapid security response and decentralization, with Arbitrum’s ability to unilaterally freeze funds during emergencies attracting both praise and criticism online.
The KelpDAO exploit
KelpDAO, a liquid restaking protocol, suffered a $292 million exploit on April 18 when attackers drained 116,500 rsETH tokens. In the wake of the hack, LayerZero attributed the attack to North Korea’s Lazarus Group.
The attackers allegedly compromised RPC nodes in LayerZero’s network, poisoning two nodes while launching DDoS attacks on a third. In the wake of the incident, a dispute emerged between LayerZero and KelpDAO over security configurations, with each party pointing to different documentation standards for the protocol’s setup.
The attackers have already started moving funds linked to the exploit. According to on-chain data, the wallet identified as that of the KelpDAO hacker sent transfers of $57.93 million and $117.48 million Tuesday morning, while blockchain investigator ZachXBT reported that the KelpDAO attackers have begun laundering $1.5 million from the KelpDAO exploit from Ethereum to Bitcoin via Thorchain, with a further $78,000 routed through Umbra.
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Stavros Halkias has set his second Netflix special, “Uncle Stav,” which will premiere on the streamer sometime later this year.
The New York-based comic will tape the hour in his hometown of Baltimore at the Lyric on April 24 and 25. “Uncle Stav” follows Halkias’ last Netflix special, 2023’s “Fat Rascal.” Prior to that, he released his 2022 special “Live at the Lodge Room” on YouTube, where it hit 1 million views in its first four days and has since surpassed 8 million.
Halkias is a stand-up comic and actor who is currently performing on his “The Dreamboat Tour.” His comedy is both vulgar and playful, often covering topics like sex, body image, masculinity and his Greek heritage.
He recently wrote, produced and starred in the indie comedy “Let’s Start a Cult,” and Varietybroke the news that he will star in Judd Apatow’s upcoming country music comedy “The Comeback King” alongside Glen Powell. (Halkias is playing Powell’s character’s agent. Cristin Milioti and Madelyn Cline also star.)
He appeared in Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia” and Steven Soderbergh’s sci-fi series “Command Z,” and next he’ll be seen in the A24 Anthony Bourdain biopic “Tony.” He is also in Shane Gillis’ Netflix series “Tires” and hosts “Stavvy’s World,” a popular comedy podcast. Halkias broke out as a co-host of the since-retired comedy podcast “Cum Town” alongside Adam Friedland and Nick Mullen.
“Uncle Stav” is executive produced by Halkias and Ben O’Brien for Stavvy Baby Entertainment.
Halkias is repped by UTA and Schreck Rose Dapello.
Trump also said the tech exec once called him during his first term in office to ask for help on an unspecified matter — and Trump said his reaction to the call was that “I was very impressed with myself to have the head of Apple calling to ‘kiss my ass.’”
Trump, in a post Tuesday morning on his Truth Social account, explained that Cook called with “a fairly large problem that only I, as President, could fix.”
Trump continued, “Most people would have paid millions of dollars to a consultant, who I probably would not have known, but who would say that he knew me well. The fees would be paid but the job would not have gotten done. When I got the call I said, wow, it’s Tim Apple (Cook!) calling, how big is that? I was very impressed with myself to have the head of Apple calling to ‘kiss my ass.’” (“Tim Apple” is what Trump mistakenly called the exec at a 2019 White House summit convening Cook and other members of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board.)
Trump, without providing details about the problem Cook supposedly reached out for help on, said that Cook “explained his problem, a tough one it was, I felt he was right and got it taken care of, quickly and effectively. That was the beginning of a long and very nice relationship.”
According to Trump, “During my five years as President, Tim would call me, but never too much, and I would help him where I could. Years latter, after 3 or 4 BIG HELPS, I started to say to people, anyone who would listen, that this guy is an amazing manager and leader. He makes these calls to me, I help him out (but not always, because he will, on occasion, be too aggressive in his ask!), and he gets the job done, QUICKLY, without a dime being given to those very expensive (millions of dollars!) consultants around town who sometimes get it done, and sometimes don’t. Anyway, Tim Cook had an AMAZING career, almost incomparable, and will go on and continue to do great work for Apple, and whatever else he chooses to work on. Quite simply, Tim Cook is an incredible guy!!!”
Variety has reached out to Apple for comment.
Over the years, Cook has sought to curry favor with Trump. In August 2025, Cook visited the White House and present Trump with him a custom-made 24-karat-gold Apple plaque, intended to commemorate Apple’s announcement that it planned $100 billion in new U.S. investment. Cook also personally donated $1 million to Trump’s second inauguration fund (along with contributions from other business leaders).
Trump, in his post Tuesday, began by observing, “I have always been a big fan of Tim Cook, and likewise, Steve Jobs, but if Steve was not taken from the Planet Earth so young, and ran the company instead of Tim, the company would have done well, but nowhere near as well as it has under Tim.”
Cook will step down as CEO to become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors on Sept. 1, 2026. At that time, John Ternus, senior VP of hardware engineering, will become Apple’s next CEO. The transition, which was approved unanimously by the board of directors, follows “a thoughtful, long-term succession planning process,” the company said.
Nintendo has padded out the Switch 2 release slate for this summer by revealing that Splatoon Raiders is coming to the console on July 23. This is the first spinoff in the series and while it’s a “single-player-focused Splatoon game,” there is a multiplayer element. Nintendo announced Splatoon Raiders (the title of which is a soft pun on Tomb Raider) last June.
You play as a mechanic and after customizing your character’s appearance, you’ll go hunting for treasure across the Spirhalite Islands. You’ll be working with Deep Cut — a fictional band that appeared in Splatoon 3 — and upgrading your weapons as you take on enemy sea creatures.
The colorful, inky action and wacky weapons in the latest trailer remind me a bit of Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. You can mount Deep Cut member Big Man (a manta ray) as you venture into battle and it seems as though you’ll be able to cut through swarms of bad guys by firing a shark at them. Alongside Splatoon Raiders, Nintendo will release an Amiibo pack featuring the three members of Deep Cut.
The company also confirmed there’s a multiplayer mode in Splatoon Raiders. You’ll be able to team up with as many as three friends locally or online to take on raids together.
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced it will list the Chip (CHIP) token on its platform. According to the announcement, CHIP will be available for spot trading on April 21, 2026, at 16:30. The new listing will offer users the CHIP/USDT, CHIP/USDC, and CHIP/TRY trading pairs.
Binance stated that users can begin depositing CHIP approximately one hour before trading begins, while withdrawals will be activated on April 22, 2026 at 16:30. It was also announced that the token was added to the platform without a listing fee (0 BNB).
The CHIP token will operate on the Arbitrum network, and the corresponding smart contract address has been shared with users. The exchange announced that an additional 75 million CHIP will be allocated for future marketing activities to support the project’s growth. Details regarding these campaigns will be shared in separate announcements later.
On the other hand, Binance stated that CHIP will initially be available on the Binance Alpha platform, but will be removed from this showcase once spot trading begins. Alpha users will be able to sell their assets for a limited time after spot trading opens, but these transactions will not be included in the Alpha points system.
Experts believe that listings on a large global exchange like Binance can increase the visibility of new projects, positively contributing to trading volumes.
A revival of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is coming to Broadway next season.
Sam Gold, the Tony Award-winning director of Fun Home and Macbeth, is attached to direct. Casting and exact dates have not yet been announced, but the plan is to bring the revival to Broadway in spring 2027.
The news comes as Broadway production company Seaview announced the acquisition of the revival rights from the new custodians of the Tennessee Williams estate. International Literary Properties took on the role after entering into a strategic partnership with The University of the South in 2025.
The last Broadway revival of the play was in 2013, starring Scarlett Johansson and Benjamin Walker. Premiering in 1955, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows a wealthy southern family competing for the dying patriarch’s inheritance.
This will be the third collaboration between Seaview and Gold, after An Enemy of the People with Jeremy Strong and Romeo + Juliet with Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor. Gold directed a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie in 2017.
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the pinnacle of what the theatre can do. Two of the greatest roles for actors in the cannon, delivered to us by the world’s most original playwright, at the very height of his poetic powers, exploring themes that feel as shockingly honest and blood boiling today as they did 70 years ago,” Gold said. “I couldn’t be more excited to bring this masterpiece back to New York next season.”
“It’s been such a gift to be making work with Sam Gold over the last four years,” said Greg Nobile, Seaview’s co-founder and CEO. “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof will mark our fifth production together, and I am certain Sam’s vision to bring Tennessee’s extraordinary and timeless characters to life next season will once again thrill and delight audiences.”
Naomi Ackie (Sorry Baby, Mickey 17) and Alison Oliver (Wuthering Heights, Saltburn) have just wrapped on Luna Carmoon’s sophomore feature To Make Ends Meat.
Also starring Éanna Hardwicke (Saipan, The Sixth Commandment) and Armande Boulanger (The Returned, Eiffel), the film follows three women — all in debt to despicable men, their pasts and each other — who find themselves bargaining to survive in the only language these men seem to understand: consumption and violence. Goodfellas is handling international sales and will launch the film at Cannes, with True Brit nabbing U.K. and Ireland distribution rights.
To Make Ends Meat is the British director-writer’s second film, shot in her hometown of London — her debut Hoard premiered at Venice Critics’ Week in 2023 where it won three prizes. The movie went on to receive international distribution and landed Carmoon a BAFTA nomination for outstanding debut in 2025.
“This film has come from the belly of my soul, of all things, tar and family,” said Carmoon. “From my grandmother’s experiences in Newington Lodge, to my mother Toni and the cleaning houses she took me to where darker things lingered, to teddies and chicken farms. So much of my family and our memories seep deeper than you’d think. I cannot think of a more prevalent time than now to paint and stitch and weave to screen, it is my rage that has fuelled this. The weatherings of being a woman and how you are cannibalised by systems, by men, women and then by debts we sometimes write ourselves into because we believe we deserve it so.
“This has been made with all my blood, figuratively and yes, physically, of all of me. I hope I know it will rupture, splinter and cry to us all when it is stitched together.”
To Make Ends Meat reunites her with Hoard producers Helen Simmons (Erebus Pictures) and Loran Dunn (Delaval Film) with Cheri Darbon and Chloe Culpin as co-producers. Hélène Louvart (La Chimera, Rocks) serves as DP.
Financing comes from BBC Film, BFI (awarding National Lottery funding), True Brit, Goodfellas, Mother, ProdCo, Arts Alliance, Affine Films, Cofiloisirs and Blush Film.
