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Casey Bloys on HBO’s Huge Emmy Noms Haul, ‘The Pitt’ Dominance, Whether He Has ‘Heated Rivalry’ Regrets and His Own Future Post-Merger
HBO’s content chief Casey Bloys spoke to Variety after the platform led the 2026 Emmy nominations with an industry-topping 122 nods, driven by strong showings for the drama “The Pitt” and the comedy “Hacks”. The haul marks a high point in Bloys’s decade running HBO, but it arrives amid uncertainty, as the pending acquisition of…
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World of Warcraft’s divisive change to combat addons is here to stay
Almost six months after World of Warcraft’s Midnight expansion sharply restricted the combat information available to third-party add-ons, game director Ion Hazzikostas has publicly defended the change and confirmed it is here to stay. The move disabled many of the game’s most popular community tools, and remains divisive among players, but Blizzard considers it a…
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With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing
QuantumDiamonds, a German startup spun out of the Technical University of Munich, has secured €76 million in non-dilutive funding from Germany’s federal economy ministry and the state of Bavaria, approved by the European Commission under the European Chips Act. The money will fund a new Munich facility to produce semiconductor testing equipment, part of a…
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Mark Zuckerberg And Meta Deride “Headline-Seeking” Damages Sought By State AGs In Social Media Safety Suit: “Untethered From Reality”
Meta and Mark Zuckerberg have hit back at a group of US state attorneys general who are seeking up to $1.4 trillion in damages in a federal lawsuit alleging the company misled consumers over its data practices. In a court filing this week, Meta’s lawyers dismissed the figure as “untethered from reality” and without precedent,…
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Kristin Cavallari doubles down on controversial claim about her divorce from Jay Cutler
Reality television personality and entrepreneur Kristin Cavallari has repeated her claim that she received no money from her 2022 divorce from former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler. Speaking on the “Aspire with Emma Grede” podcast, she said her jewellery business, Uncommon James, gave her the financial independence to leave the marriage, and that she walked away…
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Bethesda union says company HR forced staff to remove a display honoring their laid-off colleagues
The union representing workers at Bethesda, the studio behind Fallout and The Elder Scrolls, has alleged that the company’s human resources department ordered staff to take down a display honouring colleagues who had been laid off. The claim matters because it points to tensions between the unionised workforce and management over how recent job losses…
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‘Evil Dead Burn’ Sets Rotten Tomatoes Ablaze With Fiery Debut
The fourth Evil Dead film, Evil Dead Burn, has drawn strong early reviews ahead of its cinema release this Friday, 10 July, currently holding a 78% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 51 critics. This matters because it is the first of two planned standalone follow-ups to 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, and the positive reception suggests…
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Autonomous drone delivery startup Manna plots major U.S. expansion
Manna Aero, the Ireland-based autonomous drone delivery startup, has announced a significant push into the United States, marking a shift from its previously modest American presence. Backed by $50 million in venture capital raised in April, the company will build a US operations and manufacturing centre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that is expected to employ around…
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Right-to-repair extended to John Deere tractors under FTC settlement
The US Federal Trade Commission, together with five states, has reached a settlement with Deere & Company, the maker of John Deere farm equipment, over allegations that the firm unfairly restricted farmers’ ability to repair their own machinery. The regulator, which sued Deere last year, argued that the company’s policies forced equipment owners and independent…
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Peter Thiel’s Husband Sued a Flight Attendant Who Says He Assaulted Her on a Private Jet
Matthew Danzeisen’s lawyer says the case is a “shakedown about a bag” that brushed someone’s leg. Stefanie Bojar says she was injured aboard the jet—and that the lawsuit is a bullying tactic.