A brand new run of teatime quiz show Pointless is soon to begin in the UK. Series 33 will start airing on Wednesday February 5 at 17:15 on BBC One not that youd necessarily know it, seeing as the current series only ends the day before. (Pointless is as eternal and ever-flowing as the waves, interrupted only by acts of God and Wimbledon).Since co-host Richard Osman left the weekday show in 2022, Alexander Armstrong has been joined by a rotating cast of celebrity pointless friends. In total, 26 celebrities were announced, 22 of which have completed their initial hosting stints. They were: Sally Lindsay, Stephen Mangan, Lauren Laverne, Konnie Huq, Alex Brooker, Ed Gamble, Rose Matafeo, Ria Lina, Lucy Porter, Gyles Brandreth, Nish Kumar, Andi Oliver, Sally Phillips, Vick Hope, Anita Rani, Hugh Dennis, Gabby Logan, Josh Widdicombe, Desiree Burch, Chris Ramsey, Gok Wan and Rob Rinder.Comedian and presenter Ellie Taylor co-hosted nine of the previous Pointless series, and will finish off her residency with the first two episodes of the new run airing on Wednesday February 5 and Thursday February 6.After Ellie Taylor, the new guest host will be DJ, actor, presenter and comedian Liza Tarbuck (pictured above), who begins her presenting stretch on Friday February 7 and is expected to continue for the 10 shows after that, which should take her up to Friday February 21. BBC Radio 2 DJ Tarbuck is a well-loved household name whos appeared on Taskmaster and countless other comedy formats, as well as acting recently in Upstart Crow, Brassic and yonks ago, in Skins and Watching, to name just a few.Following on from Liza Tarbuck will be one of either Mel Giedroyc or Phil Wang, both of whom were announced as joining the show back in January 2024. Giedroyc is a well-loved face known for presenting the BBC Great British Bake Off series along with her former double act and Light Lunch partner Sue Perkins, as well as solo jobs on Eurovision, Children in Need, Handmade: Britains Best Woodworker and many more. She was recently revealed as the vocals behind Teeth on ITV talent show The Masked Singer.Phil Wang is a stand-up comedian and actor familiar from his time on Taskmaster (the outfit was unforgettable) as well as a great many panel shows including multiple appearances on BBC Ones Have I Got News For You. He also appeared in 2023s musical film Wonka as well as showing up in recent US series Life & Beth, and The Three Body Problem.If Tarbuck, Giedroyc and Wang each co-host the usual 11 episodes each, that leaves 20 or so episodes so-far unaccounted for. There might be a new cast announcement, or the episodes might be divvied up between the names above (after all, Stephen Mangan and Konnie Huq each did 15 instead of the usual 11). If there will be a returnee, any preference on who it is?Pointless airs Monday to Friday at 17:15 on BBC One.

Spanish tech star TravelPerk has raised a whopping $200mn and sealed the acquisition of expenses platform Yokoy.The investment values TravelPerk at $2.7bn almost double last years $1.4bn valuation. The business travel giant said the funds would fuel further product development and expansion into the US. European VC firm Atomico led the Series E investment.Alongside the cash injection, TravelPerk announced the purchase of Yokoy, a Swiss startup thats become a market leader in expense management. TravelPerk will now integrate Yokoy into one automated platform for travel and expenses.Customers dont have to compromise anymore, said JC Taunay-Bucalo, TravelPerks president and COO. Now, they can have the best travel management product built on the worlds largest inventory, and the expense management product that works best for their business, combined for the best-integrated experience there is.The of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!The announcements come amid renewed hopes for the travel industry. Global tourism rebounded to pre-COVID-19 levels in 2024, while business travel was tracking to surpass the peak it hit before the pandemic.Funding is now flowing back into travel tech startups. Last year, they enjoyed a record-breaking year of investments.The news also brings together two members of TNWs extended family. TravelPerk is an alumni of TNWs TECH5 a competition for European scaleups. The contest returns to TNW Conference on June 19 and 20. Applications are open until February 28.Yokoy, meanwhile, is a member of TNWs community of fast-growing tech companies. In 2022, the startup opened a new European base in TNW City, Amsterdam.Announcing the move, Yokoy pointed to the attractions of the local fintech scene.Our move into the market is not about just setting up a satellite sales office in a new location we see Amsterdam as a crucial hub for growing our European operations, Lars Mangelsdorf, the companys co-founder and chief customer officer, said at the time.The Dutch market is advanced when it comes to fintech adoption, and it felt like a natural next move to bring our spend management solution to businesses in the region. Story by Thomas Macaulay Managing editor Thomas is the managing editor of TNW. He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers. Away from work, he e (show all) Thomas is the managing editor of TNW. He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers. Away from work, he enjoys playing chess (badly) and the guitar (even worse). Get the TNW newsletterGet the most important tech news in your inbox each week.Also tagged with

Swedish startup Adsorbi has secured 1mn to ramp up production of a cellulose-based material that sucks up pollutants from the air.Mets Spring, the venture arm of the Finnish forestry giant, led the funding round alongside Chalmers Ventures and Jovitech Invest.We are planning to launch the pilot plant in June and we will be equipped to meet our customer demands while maintaining consistent quality, Hanna Johansson, CEO of Adsorbi, told TNW via email. The facility will have an expected capacity of 100 tonnes per year.Johansson co-founded Adsorbi in 2022 alongside Christian Lfvendahl, Romain Bordes, and Kinga Grenda. The team spun out the company from materials research at the ChalmersUniversity of Technology in Gothenburg.Limited tickets available - Book NowBordes and Grenda, the chief researchers, originally wanted to develop new ways to protect works of art from harmful pollution. But in the process, they discovered a way to turn cellulose from Swedens abundant forests into an air purification material with wide-ranging applications.Adsorbis material can be used wherever gaseous air pollutants are a problem, from air filters to products that remove odours. Continuing the teams initial objective, the startup also works with museums to protect artefacts and artworks.The substance which looks like little, white pieces of sponge promises a better, greener alternative to activated carbon, the current market standard. Adsorbi claims its product lasts longer, doesnt release any hazardous organic compounds back into the air, and is water and fire-resistant. Plus, the material has half the carbon footprint of activated carbon, the startup said. Handily, the substance also changes colour to indicate when it needs to be replaced. Adsorbis material can be used in air filters, products that remove odours, and in museums to protect works of art. Credit: AdsorbiAir pollutant control is needed in many markets, and were ready to offer a commercial solution that ensures the air we breathe is clean without extensive use of fossil-based materials, said Johansson.Air pollution is something we usually associate with the outdoors. However, indoor air can be two to five times more polluted than outdoor air, according to the American Lung Association.Adsorbis patented material is designed to capture nitrogen oxides like nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) major contributors to air pollution as well as acids and aldehydes. The latter is commonly found in cosmetics, perfumes, cleaning products, odourant dispensers, and grooming aids.Last September, Adsorbi launched eco-friendly shoe deodoriser inserts in partnership with footwear giant Icebug and odour reducer Smellwell. The company said it is also working with multinational air filtration companies on several other products, including air fresheners and sustainable art conservation products. Story by Sin Geschwindt Sin is a climate and energy reporter at TNW. From nuclear fusion to escooters, he covers the length and breadth of Europe's clean tech ecos (show all) Sin is a climate and energy reporter at TNW. From nuclear fusion to escooters, he covers the length and breadth of Europe's clean tech ecosystem. He's happiest sourcing a scoop, investigating the impact of emerging technologies, and even putting them to the test. Sin has five years journalism experience and holds a dual degree in media and environmental science from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Get the TNW newsletterGet the most important tech news in your inbox each week.Also tagged with

Apples Calendar app has been on the iPhone since the start, and rarely gets changed. But in the last few months, Calendar has been the subject of some compelling upgrades. And now, iOS 18.3 adds a feature that provides another reason to use the app.Calendar got several rare upgrades in iOS 18Apples strategy with the Calendar app has always been a bit perplexing to me. The company knows that lots of iPhone users have been drawn away by alternative apps like Google Calendar, and even indie offerings like Fantastical.Yet the company has mostly left Calendar unchanged for years. Despite worthy competition, Apple has shown little interest in making its own app better.But thats started to change.iOS 18 came with some of the biggest Calendar changes I can remember seeing.And honestly, theyre not that bigbut for Calendar, they are.One of the most significant upgrades was the integration of Reminders into the app. You can now create, edit, and view all your reminders from inside Calendar.Its a great addition, albeit limitedId love to enable only certain Reminders lists, but currently its all or none.Beyond that major new feature, iOS 18 also brought:a refreshed design with several typography and UI improvementsand a new Month view that shows your event detailsOverall, for an app that seldom gets any attention from Apple, iOS 18s updates have been a very welcome surprise.And just this week, a small iOS 18.3 addition provides yet another reason to use the built-in Calendar app.iOS 18.3 provides a small addition for Calendar app usersIf you own an iPhone 16 model featuring Camera Control, iOS 18.3 provides a new advantage for Apples Calendar app.Long-pressing Camera Control opens visual intelligence, a recent addition that turns your iPhones camera into an AI-infused tool.With visual intelligence you can get information about whatever your camera sees, and in some cases even take action on it.iOS 18.3 adds a nice feature addition for Calendar users.Use visual intelligence to point your iPhone at a flyer, poster, or some other sign containing a calendar date, and iOS 18.3 will offer to add that event to the Calendar app.Its a quick, easy way to bring real-world info into your digital calendar.iOS lets you change default apps in a variety of categories, but calendar isnt one of them.Which means the new visual intelligence feature will only work with Apples Calendar app.Its a relatively small addition, but also yet another new reason to stick with the built-in Calendar.Do you use Apples Calendar app? What do you think of the recent changes? Let us know in the comments.Best iPhone accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Five days ago, Spotify disputed a report that Apple Music pays artists more than double compared to Spotifys average rates. In completely unrelated news, Spotify has published a blog post announcing record payouts to the music industry in 2024.Maybe its a coincidence, and it took four weeks to crunch the numbers! Anyway, Spotify says it paid out $10 billion to the music industry last year, nearly matching global recorded music revenue from a decade ago:In 2014, the music industry reached a low point when global recorded music revenues hit $13 billion. Spotifys annual contribution at the time was around $1 billion, with around 15 million paying subscribers.In 2024, Spotify alone paid out a record $10 billion to the music industry totaling nearly $60 billion since our founding.For a lot of people, those numbers might go in one ear and out the other. And theyd perhaps ask why Spotify keeps shouting about it.The rest of the blog post, written by Spotify Music Business VP David Kaefer, explains how Spotify generates revenue that funds the music industry. The three legs of the stool include making Spotify a stickier service, converting ad-supported listeners to paid subscribers, and monetizing new markets with compelling local prices.Another positive data point for Spotify? Providing a living for smaller artists:Case in point, we estimate that, in 2014, around 10,000 artists generated at least $10,000 per year on Spotify. Today,well over10,000 artists generate over$100,000 per yearfrom Spotify alone. Thats a beautiful thing.My takeaway is this: greater transparency in how artistsnot just the music industry as a wholeare paid is welcome. Still, its clear that Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming services are responsible for creating great products that make paying more convenient than pirating.Top iPhone accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

DeepSeek's new chain-of-thought AI model has Silicon Valley developers seething that a startup from gasp China could build something just as good, if not better, than what they've come up with, for a fraction of the cost and with far superior energy efficiency.Exhibit A: OpenAI programmer Steven Heidel, who couldn't help injecting some old-fashioned China bashing to distract from the fact that his company just got smoked in a race it had a several year and multibillion dollar head-start in."Americans sure love giving their data away to the CCP in exchange for free stuff," Heidel wrote on X, referring to the Communist Party of China.Following overwhelming backlash, his tweet was appended with a community note: "DeepSeek can be run locally without an internet connection, unlike OpenAI's models."This is true. DeepSeek's r1 model is open-source, totally free, and if you're concerned about your privacy, you can download and run all 404 gigs of it on your own rig. Because it's a chain-of-thought model, anyone can see how the AI "thinks," which goes a long way as far as trust.(After the community note dunk, Heidel followed up with a post urging users to only use the DeepSeek model locally.)Needless to say, to smear the AI model, whose underlying code is free for anyone to poke around in, as some sort of Chinese spyware is really rich coming from someone who works at OpenAI, a company that quickly ditched its noble, non-profit and open-source beginnings as soon as it got a taste of money. Today, it's firmly for-profit and closed-source.It'd be remiss to brush aside privacy concerns surrounding Chinese platforms, and indeed the censorship present in the app version of DeepSeek. But OpenAI's data ethics track record isn't exactly squeaky clean, either. It trained its AI model by devouring everyone's data on the surface web without ever stopping to ask permission. It and its CEO Sam Altman have also invested in a number of companies whose commitment to privacy is questionable.Plus, pretty much every outfit in Silicon Valley pawns off their customer's data to data brokers, who in turn sell that information to thousands of other companies so they can barrage you with ads and most perniciously, to government agencies for surveillance purposes.To that end, it might be worth mentioning that OpenAI appointed a former National Security Administration director to its board a move that Edward Snowden blasted as a "calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on earth."Of course, Heidel isn't alone. Just days before his faux-pas, Neal Khosla, CEO of the AI-powered health clinic Curai, called DeepSeek a "CCP state psyop" and an act of "economic warfare to make American AI unprofitable." (Counterpoint: American AI is why American AI is unprofitable.)In reality, the US has been waging plenty of economic warfare on that front, including implementing export controls in 2023 that effectively banned advanced US-made AI chips, including those made by Nvidia, from entering China.Ironically, that pressure may have pushed Chinese developers to make its models more efficient with less hardware, while American competitors gluttonously relied on scaling up their datacenters comprising literal billions of dollars worth of GPUs to make gains.That the immediate response of Silicon Valley to DeepSeek's achievements is to link it with CCP conspiracies is a sign of deep-seated insecurity, and let's face it racism. The same anti-Chinese rhetoric, similarly under the guise of protecting Americans' privacy, fueled the push for the (now-suspended) ban on TikTok."I think if any of these AI bros were remotely serious about using this technology to improve society they'd be excited at the idea of someone managing to run laps around them for 1/10th the computing power but instead they are seething, sinophobically," wrote a Bluesky user.Share This Article

Death PanelsJan 28, 8:51 AM EST/byNoor Al-SibaiTrump Administration Throws Cancer Research Into Turmoil"This kind of disruption could have long ripple effects."Jan 28, 8:51 AM EST/Noor Al-SibaiImage by Chip Somodevilla via Getty / FuturismCancerThe second Trump administration's draconian rollbacks have put cancer research and other crucial government-funded medical projectson the chopping block.In one of his first post-inauguration acts, Donald Trump ordered the Department of Health and Human Services which oversees the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration to pause all its outside communications.As Mother Jones and Science magazine report, that directive has sown confusion and chaos at NIH, where funding meetings have at the same time been indefinitely suspended.The NIH, as the world's largest public funder of biomedical research, requiresmultiple meetings to get everything from grant proposals to funding off the ground.After Trump took office for the second time, medical researchers working with the NIH saw all their meetings abruptly canceled.Cancer researcher Chrystal Starbird of the University of North Carolina's Medical Center was preparing to sit on her first NIH grant review panel later this month when she got an email telling her, essentially, not to show up."Ive never seen a complete pause like this as part of a transition," the researcher toldMother Jones.The Mondayafter that coverage broke, the acting director of the NIH told employees that ongoing clinical trials would be continuing shortly before the White House issued an order pausing all federal grants and loans, save for those that go to Social Security and Medicare.With that one-two punch, the state of funding for any new trials and for billions of dollars worth of other important programs, including foreign aid remains on hold, its future uncertain.Emily Gillespie, a speech-language pathologist and professor at Emory University had just had a $2.5 million funding proposal that was getting ready to be approved when the initial order came down last week. That council meeting was also canceled, Gillespie told Mother Jones, and there's no telling when or if it will be rescheduled."It was, to put it mildly, quite a letdown," the researcher said. "Its really frustrating because its very hard to plan."Ironically, this bizarre suspension of NIH research may end up putting the US behind China and other science rivals."This kind of disruption could have long ripple effects," University of Pittsburg opioid addiction researcher Jane Liebschutz told Science after the pause was first enacted. "Even short delays will put the United States behind in research."Along with harming national competitiveness, this ill-conceived suspension is, as Liebschultz said, sowing a "lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic" among the medical research world and the longer it goes on, the more that chaos will grow.More on Trump dystopia: Trump Admin Announces Plans to Build Database of Migrant DNAShare This ArticleImage by Chip Somodevilla via Getty / FuturismRead This Next

Jan 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched account takeover vulnerability affecting a popular online travel service for hotel and car rentals."By exploiting this flaw, attackers can gain unauthorized access to any users account within the system, effectively allowing them to impersonate the victim and perform an array of actions on their behalf including booking hotels and car rentals using the victim's airline loyalty points, canceling or editing booking information, and more," API security firm Salt Labs said in a report shared with The Hacker News.Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could have put millions of online airline users at risk, it added. The name of the company was not disclosed, but it said the service is integrated into "dozens of commercial airline online services" and enables users to add hotel bookings to their airline itinerary.The shortcoming, in a nutshell, can be weaponized trivially by sending a specially crafted link that can be propagated via standard distribution channels such as email, text messages, or attacker-controlled websites. Clicking on the link is enough for the threat actor to hijack control of the victim's account as soon as the login process is complete.Sites that integrate the rental booking service have the option to login to the latter using the credentials associated with the airline service provider, at which point the rental platform generates a link and redirects the user back to the airline's website to complete authentication via OAuth.Once the sign in is successful, the users are directed to a website that adheres to the format "<rental-service>.<airlineprovider>.sec," from where they can use their airline loyalty points to book hotels and car rentals.The attack method devised by Salt Labs involves redirecting the authentication response from the airline site, which includes the user's session token, to a site under the attacker's control by manipulating a "tr_returnUrl" parameter, effectively allowing them to access the victim's account in an unauthorized manner, including their personal information."Since the manipulated link uses a legitimate customer domain (with manipulation occurring only at the parameter level rather than the domain level), this makes the attack difficult to detect through standard domain inspection or blocklist/allowlist methods," security researcher Amit Elbirt said.Salt Labs has described service-to-service interactions as a lucrative vector for API supply chain attacks, wherein an adversary targets the weaker link in the ecosystem to break into systems and steal private customer data."Beyond mere data exposure, attackers can perform actions on behalf of the user, such as creating orders or modifying account details," Elbirt added. "This critical risk highlights the vulnerabilities in third-party integrations and the importance of stringent security protocols to protect users from unauthorized account access and manipulation."Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.SHARE

Shane Snider, Senior Writer, InformationWeekJanuary 28, 20254 Min ReadRokas Tenys via Alamy StockDeepSeek, the China-based AI startup that upended US technology stocks Monday, said cyberattacks have disrupted services for its chatbot platform. And the companys vulnerability raises concerns about users data security and use, experts say.DeepSeek caused Wall Street panic with the launch of its low cost, energy efficient language model as nations and companies compete to develop superior generative AI platforms. Users raced to experiment with the DeepSeeks R1 model, dethroning ChatGPT from its No. 1 spot as a free app on Apples mobile devices. Nvidia, the worlds leading maker of high-powered AI chips suffered a staggering $593 billion market capitalization loss -- a new single-day stock market loss record.The companys wild ride continued Monday night as the company reported outages it said were the result of large-scale malicious attacks, disrupting services and limiting new registrations.Ilia Kolochenko, CEO at ImmuniWeb and adjunct professor of cybersecurity at Marylands Capital Technology University, says it may be too early to accept the companys attack explanation. It is not completely excluded that DeepSeek simply could not handle the legitimate user traffic due to insufficiently scalable IT infrastructure, while presenting this unforeseen outage as a cyberattack, he says in an email message.He adds, Most importantly, this incident indicates that while many corporations and investors are obsessed with the ballooning AI hype, we still fail to address foundational cybersecurity issues despite having access to allegedly super powerful GenAI technologies.The Devil Is in the User DetailsConsidering the potential breach, security experts also worry about DeepSeeks access to users data, which under Chinas strict AI regulations, must be shared with the government.All AI models have the same risks that any other software has and should be treated the same way, Mike Lieberman, CTO of software supply chain security firm Kusari, says in an email interview. Generally, AI could have vulnerabilities or malicious behaviors injected Assuming youre running AI following reasonable security practices, e.g., sandboxing, the big concerns are that the model is biased or manipulated in some way to respond to prompts inaccurately or maliciously.Chinas access to potentially sensitive user information should be a top security concern, says Adrianus Warmenhoven, a cybersecurity expert at NordVPN. DeepSeeks privacy policy, which can be found in English, makes it clear: User data, including conversations and generated responses, is stored in servers on China, Warmenhoven says in an email message. This raises concerns because of the data collection outlined -- ranging from user-shared information to data from external sources -- which falls under the potential risks associated with storing such data in a jurisdiction with different privacy and security standards.Warmenhoven says users need to be on guard: To mitigate these risks, users should adopt a proactive approach to their cybersecurity. This includes scrutinizing the terms and conditions of any platform they engage with, understanding where their data is stored and who has access to it.Optivs Jennifer Mahoney, advisory practice manager for data governance, privacy and protection, says, As generative AI platforms from foreign adversaries enter the market, users should question the origin of the data used to rain these technologies When a service is free, you become the product and your user data is valuable. Should an unregulated an unsecure technology suffer a cyberattack, you could become a victim of identity theft or social engineering.The Risk to National SecurityChina and the US have been locked in a strategic battle over AI dominance. The US, under the previous Biden administration, blocked Chinas access to powerful AI chips. DeepSeeks ability to create an AI chatbot comparable to the best US-produced GenAI models at a fraction of the cost and power could give the adversarial nation the upper hand as the countries race to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI).AI and associated cloud compute are now a nations strategic asset, Gunter Ollman, CTO at security firm Cobalt, tells InformationWeek in an email interview. Its security is paramount and is increasing targeted by competing nations with the full cyber and physical resources they can muster. AI code/models are inherently more difficult to assess and preempt vulnerabilities Organizations should also be wary of using DeepSeeks open-source technology, Ollman says. Organizations building atop open-source AI should plan for a potential future bloodbath of vulnerabilities and exploits in the near future.A popular GenAI tool could lure unsuspecting users to fall for adversarial nation-state propaganda. The definition of backdoor attacks that normally involve malicious code should be expanded to included malicious misinformation, Ollman says. Backdoors may extend to political and social influence, such as a models answers modifying history Perhaps country-led open-source AI models are the modern equivalent of religious missionaries of past centuries.About the AuthorShane SniderSenior Writer, InformationWeekShane Snider is a veteran journalist with more than 20 years of industry experience. He started his career as a general assignment reporter and has covered government, business, education, technology and much more. He was a reporter for the Triangle Business Journal, Raleigh News and Observer and most recently a tech reporter for CRN. He was also a top wedding photographer for many years, traveling across the country and around the world. He lives in Raleigh with his wife and two children.See more from Shane SniderNever Miss a Beat: Get a snapshot of the issues affecting the IT industry straight to your inbox.SIGN-UPYou May Also LikeWebinarsMore WebinarsReportsMore Reports

Quentin Tarantino has said for years that he plans to retire from filmmaking after he directs ten feature films.Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was his ninth. Which means whatever he means next assuming he sticks to his word, which no one really cares about but him will be his directorial farewell.OUATIHcame out in theaters in 2019. Six years later, Tarantino has no imminent plan for that farewell project. Heswrittenbooks in the interim, but the tenth film is still MIA. And according to Tarantino, its not coming anytime soon.At an event at Sundance, Tarantino explained (viaDeadline), Im in no hurry to jump into production right now, Ive been doing that for 30 years. He said that he wants to not end up doing whatever movie I end up doing until my son is 6. Tarantinos son was born in February of 2020, which means this movie is still at least a year or two from production, much less release.Getty ImagesGetty Imagesloading...READ MORE: Brad Pitt Was Going to Re-team With Tarantino on Canceled ProjectThings looked different just last year, when rumors swirled about a project Tarantino was putting together calledThe Movie Critic.Although never formally announced, thefilm would have reportedly followed thestaff critic of a seedy L.A. magazine in the 1970s, with Brad Pitt possibly reprising his role as stuntman Cliff Booth fromOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood.The Movie Critic was called off in April of 2024, with reports in the trades claiming that Tarantino was going back to the drawing board to figure out what that final movie will be. Tarantinos changed his mind on whether or not to make movies before (The Hateful Eight was temporarily canceled after its script leaked), so he could always reverse course again. But based on what he said at Sundance, it wont be anytime soon.Get our free mobile appEvery Tarantino Movie Ranked From Worst to Best