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Brand Marketing Veteran Justin Breton Joins Gap to Drive Original Content
Gap Inc. has hired Justin Breton, a former Walmart marketing executive, as its new vice president of development to lead original content creation across its brand portfolio. He starts on 31 August and will report to Pam Kaufman, the former Nickelodeon and Viacom executive who became Gap’s first chief entertainment officer in February, as part…
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Halo Co-Creator Has An Idea To Revive The Franchise, But Doubts Xbox CEO “Gives A Sh**”
It’s no secret that the Halo franchise is no longer Microsoft’s crown jewel in terms of sales or prominence, and it hasn’t been for some time. Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto has now weighed in with his idea for a new game and new development philosophies to help revive the Halo brand. However, Lehto went on…
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Mariah Carey Announces 25th Anniversary Glitter Reissue, Shares Reimagined “Didn’t Mean to Turn You On”: Stream
Mariah Carey is marking the 25th anniversary of her once-derided 2001 album *Glitter* with an expanded reissue, due for release on 30 October via Def Jam and UMe. The album, which flopped critically and commercially on release and became something of an industry punchline, has since undergone a remarkable reappraisal, driven largely by the fan-led…
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Their cities dropped Flock surveillance cameras. They’re still being watched
Cities that dropped surveillance contracts with Flock Safety are discovering they remain under similar monitoring, either because a rival vendor has stepped in or because the original cameras have not been removed. In Longmont, Colorado, campaigners celebrated when the city let its Flock contract lapse in December, only to see the council approve a new…
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Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
Security researchers have found a way to trick Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot into secretly stealing users’ chat history and personal data, using a technique that hides malicious instructions inside encrypted text on a webpage. The exploit works because Grok’s safety filters scan plain text for harmful commands but cannot inspect content that only becomes readable…
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Abigail’s Party review – Tamzin Outhwaite’s Bev is Madame Bovary with a Cinzano
Tamzin Outhwaite is winning praise for her performance as Beverly in a revival of Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party at the Harold Pinter theatre in London, with the Guardian’s review declaring that she supersedes Alison Steadman’s long-definitive original portrayal of the character. Directed by Nadia Fall, this production of the 1970s suburban satire is judged to…
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LIV Golf CEO says league is hopeful it can ‘do right by’ vendors suing them over alleged missed payments
LIV Golf’s CEO has said the breakaway league is hopeful it can “do right by” vendors who are suing it over allegedly unpaid bills, as the circuit heads into a season finale in Indianapolis this week shrouded in financial uncertainty. The comments come amid ongoing questions over LIV’s future, with reports suggesting the Indianapolis event…
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Grok chat duped into swallowing injected instructions
Security researchers at Adversa AI have found a new prompt-injection technique that successfully tricks xAI’s Grok web chat agent into following malicious instructions hidden on a web page. The method, dubbed “cryptographic context injection,” gets around guardrail filters by encrypting the malicious payload so it looks unreadable to input scanners, then supplying the model with…
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Chris Pratt’s James Reece Is On A Road To Redemption In ‘The Terminal List’ Season 2 Trailer
Prime Video has released the first trailer for Season 2 of “The Terminal List,” the drama series starring Chris Pratt as former Navy SEAL Commander James Reece, who is now on a path to redemption after the events of Season 1. The new season adapts Jack Carr’s second novel, “True Believer,” shifting from the first…
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Jonah Hauer-King Joins Season 2 of Rose Ayling-Ellis Drama ‘Code of Silence’ for ITV, BritBox
Filming has begun on the second season of “Code of Silence,” the ITV and BritBox thriller starring deaf actress Rose Ayling-Ellis, with Jonah Hauer-King, Jo Joyner and John Hollingworth among several new cast additions. The series follows Alison Brooks, a deaf woman whose lip-reading ability draws her into police investigative work, and its return follows…