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Danny Boyle Set to Receive the Creative Impact in Directing Award from Variety at Venice Film Festival
Variety is set to honour British filmmaker Danny Boyle with its Creative Impact in Directing Award at the Venice Film Festival, recognising a career spanning “Trainspotting,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Steve Jobs” and the “28 Days Later” franchise. The award will be presented on Tuesday at Variety’s pre-opening night party, coinciding with the Venice debut of Boyle’s…
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Marseille’s squad is being gutted but their manager is staying – for now
Marseille’s manager Bruno Génésio faces a mounting crisis after a 2-0 defeat away to Monaco exposed the toll of a chaotic summer transfer window. Every player at the club was put up for sale as Marseille scramble to slash their wage bill to satisfy conditions set by Uefa and the French financial watchdog DNCG, which…
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Kalshi dishes out its first-ever lifetime ban to George Santos
Kalshi has permanently barred former US congressman George Santos from its prediction market platform and fined him $71,356, the first lifetime ban the trading platform has ever issued, after finding he failed to fully cooperate with its investigation into alleged insider trading. The case has drawn attention to how prediction markets, which let users trade…
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Anthropic cracks down on hijacked user accounts mining AI tokens
Anthropic has begun clamping down on stolen Claude sessions after identifying a wave of infostealer malware being repurposed to hijack user accounts and exploit their paid AI usage. Rather than paying for their own access, criminals are using commodity malware to steal login credentials, session cookies and multifactor authentication data, then using this to run…
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Onslaught Review
IGN has reviewed Onslaught, Adam Wingard’s follow-up to his earlier films You’re Next and The Guest, ahead of its cinema release on 4 September. The film returns to the New Mexico town of Moriarty and delivers a relentless, deliberately over-the-top horror-action ride, blending Nazi-experiment mythology, anti-government themes and grisly violence, and the reviewer suggests it…
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Adam Wingard’s Onslaught is visually striking but overstuffed
Variety’s review of “Onslaught” concludes that the A24 military-slasher marks a striking but uneven return to lower-budget genre filmmaking for director Adam Wingard, following his big-budget “Godzilla vs. Kong” films. Reuniting with writer Simon Barrett, Wingard delivers what the critic calls their most visually accomplished work yet, though the film feels in need of another…
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Clipto raises $15m at $250m valuation for AI search
Clipto, a San Francisco-based startup that uses AI to make videos, audio, images and meetings searchable across a user’s computer, has raised $15 million in an all-equity round at a $250 million post-money valuation. Rather than joining the wave of generative AI firms focused on creating new content, Clipto is targeting the growing problem of…
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Olivia Rodrigo Calls Daisy Chain Fields Festival the ‘Greatest Joy of My Career,’ Shares First Thing She Did After It Ended
Olivia Rodrigo has reflected emotionally on the success of her debut Daisy Chain Fields festival, calling it “the greatest joy of my career” in an Instagram post the day after the event. The all-women festival, held in Irvine, California, marked the fulfilment of a long-held ambition for the singer, who personally curated a lineup spanning…
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Does Badenoch’s surprise reshuffle show the Tories are finally going soft on Brexit?
Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative reshuffle has replaced Dame Priti Patel, one of the party’s staunchest pro-Brexit “spartans,” with Tom Tugendhat, a former committed Remainer, as shadow foreign secretary. Political editor David Maddox argues this swap could signal a subtle softening of the Tories’ Brexit stance, even though Badenoch would never openly advocate rejoining the EU, single…
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FOGHAT Shares ‘My Babe’ Music Video From ‘Live & Loud Across The U.S.A.’ Live Album
Veteran British rock band Foghat have released the official music video for “My Babe”, the first single from their upcoming live album “Live & Loud Across The U.S.A.”, due out on 30 October. More than 55 years after forming in the UK, the band remain a fixture of the live rock circuit, and the new…