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Lisa’s documentary follows independence journey after leaving Blackpink management
K-pop star Lisa, of Blackpink, has spoken to Variety at the Toronto International Film Festival about her documentary “Always Lalisa”, which follows the year she spent building an independent career after Blackpink’s 2024 hiatus from YG Entertainment. She described initially feeling frightened and directionless once free of the label’s strict control over her life and…
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What is MSI mode on Windows PCs and does it speed up your GPU?
MSI (Message Signaled Interrupts) mode is a Windows feature that lets hardware such as graphics cards notify the CPU more efficiently, and Engadget explains why enthusiasts should resist treating it as a hidden performance boost. The setting, introduced with PCIe 2.2 and built into Windows since Vista, replaces the older method of devices sharing physical…
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Former Tubi Production Chief Ashla Soter Joins Post House Digital Sword
Post-production house Digital Sword has hired Ashla Soter, former production chief at streamer Tubi, as Executive Producer and SVP of Production. She joins a month after leaving Tubi and will oversee production across the company’s entire slate, working with studios, brands and agencies alongside its global editorial, colour, VFX and finishing teams, while also continuing…
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Tony Iommi on why he turned down the chance to make one final Black Sabbath album with the original line-up
Tony Iommi has explained why he turned down the chance to reunite Black Sabbath’s original line-up for one further studio album following 2013’s ’13’. Speaking to Classic Rock, the guitarist said producer Andrew Watt, who worked on Ozzy Osbourne’s final two solo records, had approached him keen to make the album but did not fully…
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The four-hour-long Elon Musk documentary might be preaching to the choir
Alex Gibney’s new four-hour documentary “Musk” offers an exhaustive chronicle of Elon Musk’s rise from dot-com millionaire to a figure wielding vast influence over US institutions, but a Verge review from the Toronto International Film Festival suggests it may struggle to change minds. The film methodically traces how Musk built his public mythology and accumulated…
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Teravolt looks to cannibalize older industries to meet AI power demand
Teravolt, a London-based AI infrastructure firm, argues that meeting soaring AI power demand means repurposing older industrial assets, such as Bitcoin mining farms, aluminium smelters and disused thermal power plants, into datacentres rather than waiting for new grid capacity to be built. This matters because forecasters expect a substantial shortfall between electricity supply and AI…
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China spies on US, Trump says, as Amazon axes crash-linked carrier
Trump insisted China spies on America just as America spies on China after claims Beijing aided an Iranian missile strike; Amazon suspends 21 Air over Miami crash safety failures, Alan Jones stands trial in Sydney and a Tracy coach faces locker-room recording charges.
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Uproar as Australian Teachers Mutual Bank tells workers: We have installed tracking devices in your cars, they can’t be turned off and will follow you wherever you go, even on the weekend
Australian Teachers Mutual Bank has scrapped a new policy requiring staff to fit GPS tracking devices in their company cars, after unions found it breached New South Wales workplace surveillance laws. The bank introduced the devices in July for fleet administration and reporting purposes, but the Finance Sector Union raised concerns that the trackers could…
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Republicans need a Reagan-style vision to win the battle over America’s future
This Fox News opinion piece argues that Republicans should adopt an optimistic, Reagan-inspired message ahead of the midterm elections, contending the RNC convention already demonstrated the GOP’s hopeful vision through speeches from President Trump, JD Vance and Robert Kennedy Jr highlighting manufacturing growth, tax cuts, stock market gains, border security and falling crime. The author…
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Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste
Microsoft has confirmed that its latest round of security updates for Windows and Office is causing a range of new problems, including broken Remote Desktop Services (RDS), silenced USB audio devices, and failed paste operations in Excel. The issues undercut Microsoft’s repeated claims that it is improving update quality, with the company’s own “known issues”…