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White House pushes ‘watershed’ fraud-fighting reform in Congress as Vance convenes task force
Vice President JD Vance, who chairs President Donald Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, joined White House aide Stephen Miller at a roundtable with lawmakers on Wednesday to push what officials are calling a “watershed” package of anti-fraud reforms. The event marks an effort to translate the task force’s findings into legislative action, with Vance…
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Pokémon Company sued over secret bathroom cameras
The Pokémon Company International (TPCI) is facing a class action lawsuit from a former employee who alleges the firm failed to protect staff after a director of engineering, Ben Tsai, secretly filmed women and children in various states of undress in the toilets at its Bellevue offices. Tsai was arrested in July 2026, months after…
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Lyndsy Fonseca, Robert Buckley Lead Hallmark’s Next ‘Holiday Touchdown’ Movie
Hallmark has confirmed the full cast for its third “Holiday Touchdown” film, an NFL-themed romance made in partnership with the league and Skydance Sports. “Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story” stars Hallmark regulars Lyndsy Fonseca and Robert Buckley in the lead roles, with filming having wrapped in Chicago in late July at locations including Soldier…
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Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership
Google has reshuffled its top AI leadership, with Demis Hassabis stepping down as head of Google DeepMind to become the division’s chair and Alphabet’s chief scientist, CEO Sundar Pichai announced. Hassabis said he wants to focus more on using AI to advance human health, particularly through Alphabet’s drug-discovery venture Isomorphic Labs, which he will continue…
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‘Futurama’ Season 14 Will Pay Tribute to One of the Sci-Fi Show’s Best Guest Stars
Futurama’s Season 14 premiere on Hulu and Disney+ has brought its creators and cast together for a behind-the-scenes Q&A hosted by Collider, marking a milestone for the long-running animated sci-fi comedy. The show, created by Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, has endured nearly 30 years, surviving multiple cancellations before finding a new streaming home,…
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Saregama, India’s oldest label, is using AI to make music videos for songs whose visuals it never owned – and refresh its catalog for Gen Z
Saregama, India’s oldest record label, is turning to generative AI to create new music videos for older songs in its catalogue for which it never held the original visuals. Speaking on the company’s fiscal first-quarter earnings call, Managing Director Vikram Mehra explained that for many 1960s and 1970s film songs Saregama owns the recording and…
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LIV Golf secures new backer to fund operations beyond 2026
LIV Golf’s chief executive, Scott O’Neil, has secured a new investor to fund the breakaway golf circuit beyond 2026, drawing a line under months of speculation that the league might collapse. The move follows an April announcement that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), LIV’s sole backer since its 2022 launch, would end its funding…
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D-Wave on rails: Company tests entanglement on its dual-rail qubits
D-Wave, best known for its quantum annealing machines, has published a paper in Nature demonstrating that it can entangle two “dual-rail” qubits without disrupting their key error-detection advantage. The company, which recently acquired Yale spinout Quantum Circuits, is pursuing dual-rail qubits alongside its existing fluxonium-based gate-model hardware, betting that this approach will let it build…
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SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X
SpaceX’s first quarterly earnings report as a public company reveals that the rocket business is now a minor part of its revenue, with AI-related data centre leasing and satellite internet dominating the balance sheet. The space segment brought in just over 10% of revenue and didn’t reach $1 billion for the quarter, while SpaceX itself…
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Netflix Lands Ali Hazelwood’s Hot New Adult Romance Novel ‘Deep End’; Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps, Alex Cooper’s Unwell Productions Producing Feature Adaptation
Netflix is developing a feature film adaptation of Ali Hazelwood’s romance novel “Deep End,” having secured the rights in a major pre-emptive deal before the book’s publication. The project brings together high-profile producers, including Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps and Alex Cooper’s Unwell Productions, and reflects Netflix’s continued push into the “New Adult” romance genre, which…