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3,000% bonuses but a growing wealth divide: South Korea grapples with its AI chip boom
Powered by chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, South Korea is seeing a surge in wealth, but there are questions over who gets to share in the profitsWhen South Korea’s most high-profile divorce case returned to court last month, the lawyers were arguing not just about the breakdown of a relationship, but also the exact…
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Taylor Sheridan Pitched ‘Landman’ To Billy Bob Thornton As “Bad Santa Running An Oil Company”
From the North Pole to the Texas oil fields, Billy Bob Thornton’s Landman role was influenced by one of his other iconic characters. Series creator Taylor Sheridan recently revealed that he referenced Thornton’s titular role as Willie T. Stokes in 2003’s Bad Santa when he pitched the Paramount+ series to the Oscar-winning actor. “I said,…
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Ange Postecoglou is exactly what Japan need after fifth-straight World Cup knockout loss | John Duerden
The Samurai Blue’s toughest opponents are themselves. The Australian coach would help them kick down the door to football’s global eliteAs Japan’s players burst into tears after losing to Brazil in the 96th minute of their last-32 match to make it five losses in five World Cup knockout games, a pundit on British television neatly…
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Australia news live: shadow arts minister Angie Bell, a former musician, says AI giants must pay for content
Follow the day’s latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA teenager has been charged with murder after a 15-year-old boy was discovered with fatal stab wounds outside a community medical centre.AAP reports the boy was found critically injured outside Craigieburn Community hospital in Melbourne’s north about 7.50pm on Wednesday. A…
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Disgraced ex-CNN reporter who cost company millions after defaming US Navy vet lands cushy new job at Al Jazeera
Former CNN correspondent Alex Marquardt, 44, has joined Al Jazeera English, just months after dragging CNN into a costly lawsuit, leading to his swift departure from the position
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Elon Musk’s X accused of keeping graphic footage of Bondi church massacre online – as eSafety commissioner takes aim at big tech companies
eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant said families of victims had seen the graphic footage.
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Sony’s PlayStation disc factory is already being repurposed
The video game disc is dead, and Sony’s been planning to kill it for some time, according to a report out of Austria. The man who leads Sony’s discmaking operations, Sony DADC president Dietmar Tanzer, told ORF Salzberg that the company’s Thalgau plant produces 600,000 discs every day, half of which are for PlayStation. But…
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Toddler wrongly declared dead lay in MORGUE for five hours after parents smoked weed and let him wander into pool at $750k home, police report claims… now his prognosis is heartbreakingly grim
Vincent Lorenzo Fiordilino was found floating face down in his family’s backyard pool Gilbert, Arizona , around 5.30pm on February 8 while his parents smoke weed, accoriding to police.
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Zohran Mamdani admits he wants to end his ‘one-sided beef’ about taxes with rapper 50 Cent
Zohran Mamdani says he wants to sit down with 50 Cent over tax policy, even after the rapper offered him a one-way ticket out of New York City.
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The Onion’s ‘Infowars’ Parody Is Here. Alex Jones Is Going to Hate It
The satirical site is fighting to officially take over Infowars. In the meantime, CEO Ben Collins says the new show will mock “how fucking stupid” conspiratorial brain rot has become.