Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Hershey closed 2024 with fourth-quarter net sales up 8.7% to $2.89 billion and adjusted EPS up 33% to $2.69, then warned that surging cocoa prices would cut 2025 adjusted earnings per share by about a third on sales growth of at least 2%.

Massachusetts' largest private employer began cutting management and administrative jobs to close a $250 million budget gap, about 1,500 positions across two rounds.

The 9,988-kilometre Asia Direct Cable, landing at PLDT's Nasugbu station in Batangas, went live in February 2025, linking the Philippines to Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand and China.

Red Dog Culture House releases Tian Guan Ci Fu Duanpian, a series of short bonus episodes set within the Tian Guan Ci Fu (Heaven Official's Blessing) universe, adapted from Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel.

Ferrero's turnover rose 8.9% to EUR 18.4 billion in the year to 31 August 2024, the year Nutella Ice Cream launched; capital investment grew 18% to EUR 958 million.

A Russian drone struck Chernobyl's €2BN New Safe Confinement shelter, tearing a hole in the roof and starting a fire that burned for weeks.

A second season of CloverWorks' Bocchi the Rock!, adapting Aki Hamaji's four-panel manga about a painfully shy guitarist, is announced at a Kessoku Band live event.

J.C.Staff's A Certain Scientific Railgun is getting a fourth season, with director Tatsuyuki Nagai and the main voice cast returning to Mikoto Misaka's Academy City five years after Railgun T.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy withdrew the Federal Highway Administration's approval of Manhattan's $9 congestion toll in a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul; the MTA sued in federal court the same afternoon.

Hershey sold $2 billion of bonds in four $500 million tranches due 2028 to 2035 at coupons of 4.55% to 5.10%, to repay $600 million of notes maturing in 2025 and some commercial paper.

Core net profit fell 26% to US$1.16 billion, with weaker sugar merchandising and no repeat of the 2023 Cosumar sale gain; the total dividend was cut to S$0.16.

Mayor Karen Bass removed Kristin Crowley as Los Angeles fire chief, saying 1,000 firefighters were sent home the morning the fires broke out and that Crowley refused to write an after-action report.

DAMAC International broke ground on The Delmore, a Zaha Hadid Architects-designed condo tower replacing the collapsed Champlain Towers South, with far fewer, far pricier units than before.

OpenAI releases a research preview of GPT-4.5, its largest and best model for chat, scaling up unsupervised learning rather than reasoning.

PLDT's 2024 telco core income rose 2% to ₱35.1 billion, in line with guidance, and reported net income jumped 21% to ₱32.3 billion; the board declared a ₱47 final dividend for ₱97 a share in all, a 60% payout.

Hong Kong opened Kai Tak Sports Park, a 50,000-seat stadium and leisure complex built on the runway of the old Kai Tak Airport, closed since 1998.

San Diego FC drew 0-0 with St. Louis CITY SC in its first-ever home match, watched by 34,506 fans, the largest crowd for a sporting event in Snapdragon Stadium's history.

Adani Wilmar signs a definitive agreement for G.D. Foods, maker of Tops ketchup, sauces and pickles, taking 80% first at an enterprise value of Rs 603 crore and the rest over three years.

On March 5, 2025, a New York Air National Guard LC-130H Skibird touched down on freshwater ice at Parsons Lake, Canada, a first for the unit’s ski-equipped Hercules fleet.

Los Angeles County sued SCE and Edison International alleging their equipment started the Eaton Fire, seeking at least hundreds of millions of dollars for destroyed parks, roads, cleanup and lost taxes.

Eric Pham opens his first sit-down restaurant in St. Anthony Park, a tribute to his mother Khue Pham of Minneapolis's Quang, with most mains at $21 or less.

The second Mononoke film, Chapter II: The Ashes of Rage, opens in Japanese theaters, continuing the Medicine Seller's story as he is drawn into a spirit-haunted Edo-era harem consumed by rivalry and hidden rage.

Studio Drive releases the KONOSUBA 3 -Bonus Stage- OVA, two extra episodes bundled with the third season sending Kazuma's party on an explosion-fueled fight against an oncoming typhoon and a comic case of mistaken identity.

The maker of Fortune cooking oil drops the Adani name and becomes AWL Agri Business Limited under a fresh certificate of incorporation, as agreed in the Adani exit deal.

Verizon became the first US carrier to let customers text any other phone by satellite when out of cellular range, starting with Samsung Galaxy S25 and Google Pixel 9 phones.

A Central Jakarta anti-corruption court panel led by Judge Djuyamto found Wilmar Group, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau had done what prosecutors charged but ruled it was not a crime, rejecting a Rp 11.88 trillion restitution demand against Wilmar.

A 5-1 vote closed Excel High School, Community Academy, Mary Lyon Pilot High School and the Dever Elementary at the end of 2025-26, moving about 1,300 students.

A hacker called rose87168 put 6 million records up for sale that they said came from Oracle Cloud's single sign-on login servers; Oracle denied any breach of Oracle Cloud.

PLDT inaugurated its Digos, Davao del Sur landing station for the 12,000-kilometre Apricot cable, one of two Philippine landings that give PLDT routes facing the Pacific rather than the West Philippine Sea.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o to feel more intuitive and collaborative, with cleaner frontend code, better instruction following and clearer communication.

The Science Based Targets initiative approves Wilmar's goals to cut absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions 50.4% and Scope 3 emissions 30% by 2032 from 2022, and 90% by 2050, plus land-use (FLAG) targets.

Production I.G's Kaiju No. 8 compilation film opens in Japan, recutting the first season around a new sequence in which intelligent kaiju attack a Defense Force base.

Attackers copied patient data from old Cerner data-migration servers that Oracle Health had not yet moved to Oracle Cloud, and US hospitals were then extorted over it.

Felipe Oliveira and Hiro Tagai, of ramen bar Koyoté, open an itameshi restaurant - Japanese-Italian cooking - in Salt Lake City.

Hershey signed a merger agreement for LesserEvil, the maker of organic popcorn, puffs and curls cooked in coconut and avocado oil, to add a better-for-you brand beside SkinnyPop, Dot's Pretzels and Pirate's Booty. Hershey paid $769 million in cash at closing; The Wall Street Journal had put the deal at about $750 million.

US District Judge Dale Ho dismissed the five-count federal corruption indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams with prejudice, so it cannot be brought again, refusing the Justice Department's request to drop it without prejudice.

Verizon guaranteed new and existing myPlan and myHome customers that their base plan price would not change for three years, with the lock resetting on every plan change, until it quietly stopped offering it on mobile plans in June 2026.

Koupen-chan begins broadcast, a one-minute-per-episode slice-of-life anime starring the plush, dumpling-shaped baby emperor penguin character of the same name.

A-1 Pictures' hit romantic comedy about a bystander who keeps consoling the girls who lost the love race, Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, was renewed for a second season at a fan event in April 2025.

Transport for London opened the Silvertown Tunnel, a new road crossing under the Thames built to relieve the perennially congested Blackwall Tunnel a few hundred metres away.

A New York Helicopters Bell 206L-4 tour flight from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport broke apart and fell into the Hudson River off Jersey City, killing the pilot and a family of five from Spain.

Ferrero Canada will spend C$445 million expanding its Brantford plant, adding 500 jobs and the first lines anywhere for new Ferrero Rocher chocolate squares, plus Nutella Biscuits made outside Europe for the first time.

Prosecutors named the three judges who cleared Wilmar, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau as bribery suspects, alleging Rp 60 billion was arranged through lawyers and a court clerk to buy the verdict.

Istanbul's 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia began restoring its dome to withstand a major earthquake, a phase of a 50-year plan to reinforce the building with no fixed finish date.

A magnitude 5.2 quake 5 km south of Julian on the Elsinore fault zone was felt from Los Angeles to Ensenada, closing San Diego City Hall for inspections and knocking boulders onto State Route 76.

OpenAI releases o3, its most powerful reasoning model, and o4-mini, a smaller model optimized for fast, cost-efficient reasoning.