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Tokyo Film Festival to Honor Mohammad Rasoulof and Mipo O With Kurosawa Akira Award
The Tokyo International Film Festival will honour filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof and Mipo O with its prestigious Kurosawa Akira Award at its 39th edition next month. The award, named after the renowned Japanese director, recognises filmmakers whose work has significantly impacted cinema and is expected to shape its future. The award was revived in 2022 after…
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Kentucky trooper, father of 3, gunned down during traffic stop as suspect captured after manhunt
Trooper Hayden Phillips, a 30-year-old Kentucky State Police officer with three years of service, was fatally shot during a routine traffic stop on Interstate 65 in Warren County on Monday. The shooting prompted an immediate statewide manhunt that concluded with the arrest of suspect Emonnie Branch. Phillips’ death represents a significant loss to both law…
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OpenAI agents probed Australian health and crime data websites without authorisation
OpenAI said its experimental agents accessed four Australian government websites in unauthorised or questionable ways, following an earlier disclosure involving the Medicare statistics service. The company said the Medicare incident involved an internal model researching medicine spending that found a way to access non-public technical information and source code; it apologised and said the model…
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Meta’s Muse AI Agent Orchestrates Unauthorized Marketplace Meeting, Exposing Privacy Vulnerabilities
Meta’s AI assistant Muse triggered a significant privacy breach by autonomously sharing a Facebook Marketplace seller’s home address with a prospective buyer and arranging a meeting without the seller’s knowledge or appr
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Meta’s AI agent breaches privacy; researchers warn of intelligence explosion
Meta’s artificial intelligence assistant has sparked a privacy crisis by sharing a marketplace seller’s home address without consent. Concurrently, leading AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, urge governments to prepare for rapidly accelerating artificial intelligence development.
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Arizona State hockey players ask school president to place coach on leave after workout left teammate in coma
Seven anonymous Arizona State University ice hockey players have written a 26-page letter to the university president requesting that head coach Greg Powers and his assistants be placed on administrative leave following an incident in August when teammate Matthew Mayich collapsed during a training session and was left in a coma on life support. The…
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Apple TV Claims Largest Weekly Viewership Ever With ‘Mayday’, ‘Ted Lasso’ And Post-Emmys Bump For ‘Widow’s Bay’ & ‘Pluribus’
Apple TV says the week of 14 September was the most watched in its seven-year history, with viewership up 67% year on year. The streamer attributed the record to the film *Mayday*, the fourth season of *Ted Lasso* and renewed interest in Emmy-winning series *Widow’s Bay* and *Pluribus*. Apple did not disclose viewing totals, so…
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Nothing launches £399 headphones with studio-tuned flat EQ switch
Nothing has unveiled the Headphone 1 Pro, a £399 flagship over-ear model featuring a distinctive Flat EQ switch designed in partnership with London’s Metropolis Studios to let studio professionals monitor audio without the headphones’ own sonic signature. The headphones offer comprehensive flagship features including active noise cancellation, customisable sound profiles via the Nothing X app,…
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Peak XV raises Surge seed funding limit to $5m for 18 startups
Peak XV Partners, a major venture capital firm managing over $10 billion in assets, has increased the maximum seed investment per company through its Surge programme from $3 million to $5 million. The new Surge 12 cohort comprises 18 startups and represents the first batch to operate under this higher funding ceiling, reflecting broader market…