4 straight thrillers in the NBA Finals 🍿 Brunson and OG sparked New York's historic 29-point comeback in Game 4 (largest in Finals history) to take a 3-1 lead. Back at home, will the Spurs keep their season alive and force a Game 6 or will the Knicks close out the series and secure their first title since 1973? The NBA Finals continue Saturday with NYK/SAS Game 5 at 8:30pm/et on ABC 🏆

The Chainlink scientist who writes crypto thrillers on the side Ari Juels (@AriJuels) joined US cybersecurity firm RSA in 1996 and spent 17 years there, rising to chief scientist and director of its research lab. In 2017, he co-wrote the original @chainlink whitepaper with Sergey Nazarov (@SergeyNazarov) and Steve Ellis. He is now chief scientist at Chainlink Labs, the company behind $LINK, while teaching at Cornell Tech and co-directing the IC3 crypto research initiative. His 2016 paper on stealing AI models through public tools won a USENIX Security Test of Time award this year. He has also written two crypto thrillers, Tetraktys and The Oracle.

Nick Bilton's nonfiction reads like thrillers. His secret came from studying how Alfred Hitchcock made you care about murderers: "The biggest lesson I've ever learned was a book I read about how to write murder mysteries. I sought the book out because when I was writing the Twitter story, I had written a draft and gave it to a friend to read. He got to page 160 of a 300-page book, and he wrote in big red letters: I hate them all." "So I started thinking: who do you want to read that you hate? A murderer. So I started studying: How does Hitchcock do it?" "When you're reading a book or watching a movie, you're not just following the story, you're imagining yourself in it. That's why we love heist movies. You're on the edge of your seat because you're thinking: what would I do if I was that person?" "Every murderer has a mother that loves them, because your mother will always love you. That's why Hitchcock gave these really bad people mothers. And murder mystery writers make you human: murderers still lose their car keys. They drop their grocery bag." "Even if you can't identify with the desire to murder someone, you can identify with those moments, and then you can put yourself in the body of the character."

Anthony Starr is the face of Banshee, one of the most action-packed crime thrillers on HBO Max that even makes Reacher look tame. 🫢 With 38 episodes across four seasons, it's a perfect high-octane replacement series for fans of both Reacher and The Boys, even if you've never heard of it until now. Read More:

NATO has had more screen time than you might think 🎥 From spy missions and political thrillers to superheroes and secret agents, NATO has made some surprising appearances on screen 👀 Click here to read more ↓

Netflix is shuttering its Los Angeles-based game studio Night School, best known for side-scrolling psychological thrillers Oxenfree and Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals.