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Demon Slayer’s producer Aniplex is open to the use of AI to contribute to the creative process
Aniplex president Shu Nishimoto stated in a recent interview that the company behind Demon Slayer is open to evaluating the use of AI.
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Summer holiday bookings bounce back amid fragile Middle East ceasefire, Jet2 says
The package holiday operator Jet2 has reported a strong rebound in summer holiday bookings following the fragile ceasefire in the Middle East, sending its London-listed shares up by around 10% in early trading on Wednesday. The company, which flies about 20 million passengers a year, said many customers had held off booking while they waited…
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‘Harry Potter’ Visualization Studio Proof Inc. Returns To Australia With Brisbane Studio
Los Angeles-based Proof Inc., a studio specialising in visualisation work for major films including the Harry Potter series, is reopening a permanent base in Australia with a new studio in Brisbane. The move, announced as an exclusive on 8 July 2026, sees the company launch Proof Australia under the leadership of executive producer Katrina Peers,…
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Free Waymo Rides in California? You Can Thank a Regulatory Quirk
Waymo, Alphabet’s driverless taxi division and the US market leader, is being held up by a delayed ruling from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which regulates paid passenger transport in the state. Because the regulator has yet to approve the company’s application, Waymo cannot charge California passengers for rides in its newest vehicle, the…
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It’s only in Europe where Nintendo is discontinuing Switch 1, and likely to do with the Right to Repair laws we have here
Nintendo has confirmed that its decision to stop selling the original Switch console applies only to Europe, and will not affect the console’s availability in the rest of the world. The move, which takes effect from mid-February 2027, appears to be linked to the European Union’s new Right to Repair rules, which require manufacturers of…
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Australia’s Telstra network outage disrupts nationwide communications and emergency services as Communications Minister cuts leave short
Australia’s largest telecommunications provider, Telstra, experienced a major nationwide outage that disrupted phone and internet services across the country. Infrastructure failures at data centres in Sydney and Melbour
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Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
French AI startup ZML has released ZML/LLMD, an inference-server product that lets a range of open-source large language models run across chips from multiple vendors — including Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, Apple Metal and Intel Arc. The launch matters because inference — the processing of prompts, as opposed to model training — has become a…
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Trains and emergency calls affected after major outage at Australia’s largest telecoms company
Servers at data centres in Sydney and Melbourne were to blame but the exact cause remains unknown.
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Klonoa Plush With “Removable Collar” Now Available For Pre-Order
Video game merchandise company Fangamer has opened pre-orders for a new official Klonoa plush in the US and Europe, priced at $39 / €44. The item is based on Namco’s 1997 platformer Klonoa: Door to Phantomile and stands about 8.5 inches tall, with orders not expected to ship until the first quarter of 2027. Designed…