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Netflix Has An Unrated Comedy That Makes Funerals Funny
By Robert Scucci
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Normally, I’m perfectly okay when a Jay Baruchel vehicle gets tanked by critics because there’s something about the characters he portrays that irritates me to no end. After watching 2007’s Just Buried, I had a similar revelation about him that I recently had about Justin Long. Justin Long is often typecast as a jerk because he’s so good at playing that guy. Similarly, Jay Baruchel has an innate ability to play a hapless wiener who you just want to give a swirlie.
I know my thinking is wrong here because actors like Baruchel and Long get typecast in these roles precisely because they’re exceptionally good at them. The reason I don’t like their characters is because they’re not supposed to be likable. This isn’t an indictment of who they are as real people, but a celebration of the talent they bring to the table and how well it works when applied correctly.
Though Just Buried’s 33 percent critical score on Rotten Tomatoes would lead you to believe this isn’t one of Jay Baruchel’s finer hours, I’m going to respectfully disagree. It’s one of the few movies where he gets top billing (2013’s This is the End being the other one) that I’d actually recommend to anybody curious about what he has to offer.
A Deadly Inheritance
Jay Baruchel’s Oliver Whynacht (pronounced “why not”) is more charming in Just Buried than the critics would have you think. Summoned to a small town in Nova Scotia for his father Rollie’s (Jeremy Akerman) funeral, Oliver, a grocery store delivery boy with no real prospects on the horizon, is shocked to learn he’s inherited his entire estate, including the struggling funeral home Rollie owned and operated. What Oliver doesn’t realize is that the business is facing bankruptcy because rival owner Wayne Snarr (Christopher Shore) has been poaching all of his potential clients from the nearby retirement home.
Rollie’s widow, Roberta (Rose Byrne), who works as the embalmer, quickly befriends Oliver, and the two hit it off. Their budding friendship is tested when Oliver, who gets a nosebleed whenever he’s stressed, accidentally runs over a pedestrian after a couple of drinks at the bar. Terrified he’ll go to jail for vehicular manslaughter, Oliver learns that Roberta is not only a skilled embalmer, but also the town’s coroner and Police Chief Knickle’s (Nigel Bennett) daughter.
After staging the scene to look like the pedestrian suffered a fatal fall during one of his nightly walks, Roberta handles the autopsy, giving Oliver his first customer at the funeral home when the victim’s wealthy family comes to pay their respects. This creates a twofold problem. First, locals grow suspicious about the man’s death, meaning potential witnesses may need to be dealt with, something Roberta seemingly has no qualms about. Second, Roberta suggests sabotaging Wayne Snarr so they can get the funeral home’s books back in black once they’re the only game in town again.
The body count in Just Buried keeps climbing because Oliver and Roberta want to protect themselves, but they also realize they’ve stumbled onto a disturbingly effective business model. Dead people need funerals, funeral homes need dead people, and Roberta knows how to make people dead as if she’s been quietly planning something like this long before Oliver came into the picture. Oliver, whose nose starts bleeding whenever pressed by Chief Knickle, becomes the primary suspect in the string of deaths. Roberta, given her unique position in a small town where everybody knows everybody, remains calculating enough to stay one step ahead of the authorities.
Expert-Level Escalations
What makes Just Buried far better than its reputation suggests is how perfectly Jay Baruchel is cast as Oliver Whynacht. Everything I dislike about Baruchel’s on-screen presence in films like 2010’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice translates perfectly here. Every time Oliver gets in trouble, I expect him to start huffing and puffing before blurting out “gee whiz,” or something equally irritating. In this film, that personality trait works because he’s not reluctantly embarking on a magical adventure, but instead spiraling through a steadily escalating situation that could land him behind bars for the rest of his life.
Rose Byrne’s portrayal of Roberta Knickle is equally commendable here. At first, she comes off as an eccentric yet helpful accomplice in the incident that kicks off the gruesome chain of events in Just Buried. As Oliver spends more time with her, it becomes clear she’s a low-key psychopath whose reach and influence over the community is far wider than anybody would ever expect. The result is a morbidly hilarious mystery thriller that’s sharper and funnier than it has any right to be.
Just Buried is currently streaming on Netflix.
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Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.6: Benchmark performance, how to try it
Anthropic has just released its latest Large Language Model (LLM), Claude Sonnett 4.6. The Tuesday release quickly follows the launch of Claude Opus 4.6, the company’s premium AI model, on Feb. 5.
According to Anthropic, “Claude Sonnet 4.6 is our most capable Sonnet model yet.” The company says Sonnet 4.6 has a 1 million token context window in beta. Crucially, Anthropic reports that Sonnet 4.6 performed well on internal safety tests, showing a low tendency to hallucinate and engage in sycophancy.
“Sonnet 4.6 brings much-improved coding skills to more of our users,” Anthropic said, referring to Claude’s popularity among developers who use AI to code.
If you’re looking to use Anthropic’s latest AI model, the company has made it really easy. Here’s how to access Clause Sonnet 4.6.
How to use Claude Sonnet 4.6
For both free and Pro users, Claude Sonnett 4.6 is available now as the default model on claude.ai and Claude Cowork. Anthropic has also rolled the model out through its API and all major cloud platforms.
Mashable Light Speed
Free users will have limited usage rates that depend on current demand. Limits reset every five hours. For those who need higher limits, Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs the same price rate as the previous model. The Claude Pro plan costs $20 per month or $17 per month if paid annual. If going through the API, Claude Sonnett 4.6 starts at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 benchmark performance
According to Anthropic’s benchmark tests, Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the company’s most powerful model for agentic financial analysis and office tasks, beating out competitors like Google’s Gemini 3 Pro and OpenAI’s GPT 5.2.
On those tasks, Claude Sonnet 4.6 also beats out Anthropic’s own Opus 4.6, Anthropic’s most powerful AI model.
In its release announcement, Anthropic said that many developers with early access to Claude Sonnet 4.6 preferred the model — not just to its predecessor, Claude Sonnet 4.5, but also Claude Opus 4.5. According to the Sonnet 4.6 system card, the new model improves on key benchmarks like Humanity’s Last Exam, though Claude Opus 4.6 scored higher.
Benchmark performance
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GPQA Diamond: 89.9 percent
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ARC-AGI-2: 58.3 percent
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MMMLU: 89.3 percent
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SWE-bench Verified: 79.6 percent
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HLE (Humanity’s Last Exam): With tools 49.0 percent, without tools 33.2 percent
AI-powered insurance company Pace told VentureBeat that Sonnet 4.6 scored the best out of any Claude model on its complex insurance computer use benchmark.
These results are notable as Claude Opus models are generally the more intelligent and preferable for complex reasoning.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is not only more powerful than some Opus models, but more affordable too. As previously mentioned, Claude Sonnet 4.6 is priced at $3/$15, whereas Opus 4.6’s rates are $5/$25.
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YouTube is down. Heres what we know.
Updated on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 9:15 p.m. ET — As of this writing, YouTube appears to be working again. So far, Google and YouTube have not announced the cause of the outage, or confirmed that the problems are resolved.
Updated on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 9.26 p.m. ET — YouTube has revealed the cause of the outage. In a statement on X, the company said it was due to an issue with their recommendations system, which stopped videos from appearing. “The homepage is back, but we’re still working on a full fix – more coming soon!”
Updated on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 10:19 p.m. ET — YouTube has announced that the issue has been solved.
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Original story follows.
If you can’t watch YouTube videos right now, you’re not alone. A Tuesday evening YouTube outage affected users across the globe, with problems starting around 8:00 p.m. ET. Early reports are sketchy, but here’s what we know.
The platform DownDetector received 837,973 user error reports (and rising) in the U.S. alone, with 46.7 percent of users reporting problems accessing the YouTube app and 21.1 percent reporting problems with the website. Users in Canada, Brazil, the UK, and Germany are also reporting problems. (Disclosure: Mashable and Downdetector share the same parent company.)
Mashable Light Speed
Mashable editors in both the U.S. and Australia were unable to access YouTube’s website and app. Attempts to access the website resulted in a blank black screen with only YouTube’s sidebar and search bar appearing.
The YouTube homepage goes dark…
Credit: Amanda Yeo / Mashable
YouTube acknowledged the outage on X, urging users to check the Google Support page for more information.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
The initial update from YouTube simply read, “Hi everyone, We’re aware some of you are having issues accessing YouTube right now. Our teams are aware, and we’ll provide updates as soon as we have them.”
An additional update from YouTube read, “We are aware of the ongoing issue impacting YouTube homepage, recommendations, search and uploads and are working to fix it. Please follow along in our Community for updates. Our support agents do not have any additional information to share with you at this time.”
YouTube is the largest streaming service by far in the U.S.
At this time, the cause of the outage is unknown. Mashable reached out to Google for more information (YouTube is owned by Google), and we’ll update this story if we receive more information.
This is a developing story …
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YouTube outage cause revealed: What we know
Updated on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 9:15 p.m. ET — As of this writing, YouTube appears to be working again. So far, Google and YouTube have not announced the cause of the outage, or confirmed that the problems are resolved.
Updated on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 9.26 p.m. ET — YouTube has revealed the cause of the outage. In a statement on X, the company said it was due to an issue with their recommendations system, which stopped videos from appearing. “The homepage is back, but we’re still working on a full fix – more coming soon!”
Updated on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 10:19 p.m. ET — YouTube has announced that the issue has been solved.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
Original story follows.
If you can’t watch YouTube videos right now, you’re not alone. A Tuesday evening YouTube outage affected users across the globe, with problems starting around 8:00 p.m. ET. Early reports are sketchy, but here’s what we know.
The platform DownDetector received 837,973 user error reports (and rising) in the U.S. alone, with 46.7 percent of users reporting problems accessing the YouTube app and 21.1 percent reporting problems with the website. Users in Canada, Brazil, the UK, and Germany are also reporting problems. (Disclosure: Mashable and Downdetector share the same parent company.)
Mashable Light Speed
Mashable editors in both the U.S. and Australia were unable to access YouTube’s website and app. Attempts to access the website resulted in a blank black screen with only YouTube’s sidebar and search bar appearing.
The YouTube homepage goes dark…
Credit: Amanda Yeo / Mashable
YouTube acknowledged the outage on X, urging users to check the Google Support page for more information.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
The initial update from YouTube simply read, “Hi everyone, We’re aware some of you are having issues accessing YouTube right now. Our teams are aware, and we’ll provide updates as soon as we have them.”
An additional update from YouTube read, “We are aware of the ongoing issue impacting YouTube homepage, recommendations, search and uploads and are working to fix it. Please follow along in our Community for updates. Our support agents do not have any additional information to share with you at this time.”
YouTube is the largest streaming service by far in the U.S.
At this time, the cause of the outage is unknown. Mashable reached out to Google for more information (YouTube is owned by Google), and we’ll update this story if we receive more information.
This is a developing story …
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.6: Benchmark performance, how to try it
YouTube is down. Heres what we know.
