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China’s new ambassador delivers a warning to Australia amid ongoing tensions
China’s newly arrived ambassador to Australia, Liu Jinsong, has told the Albanese government to respect Beijing’s “core interests and major concerns”, a phrase China typically uses in relation to Taiwan and sovereignty. The comments come at a delicate moment for the bilateral relationship, with unresolved tensions over Chinese military activity in the Indo-Pacific, a missile…
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OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues
OpenAI has lost Chris Malone, its head of data centres, who departed last week, according to the Wall Street Journal. His exit is notable given the critical, high-profile nature of the role amid the AI industry’s massive infrastructure buildout, and it adds to a run of more than a dozen senior departures from the company…
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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Menacing messages from the Kremlin and security warnings about the Russians ‘planning some sort of action against UK interests’…it’s time to start taking defence seriously, Mr Burnham
The Daily Mail’s editorial warns Prime Minister Andy Burnham that fresh security warnings about Russia demand a serious rethink of UK defence policy. It says Burnham was right to share classified weapons intelligence in support of Ukraine, but argues he must now prepare for the consequences, given menacing rhetoric from Moscow and reports of intelligence…
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Government campaign urges households to store food and water
The Government is preparing a “national resilience campaign” urging households to keep tinned food and bottled water on hand, as ministers step up planning for extreme weather, cyber attacks and hostile state action. The drive, coordinated across Whitehall by First Secretary of State Louise Haigh, is being framed by officials as “common sense, not scaremongering,”…
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Tax older generation more to boost the public purse, Left-wingers urge Labour
The Left-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has urged the Government to shift more of the tax burden from younger workers onto older, wealthier generations, arguing the current system unfairly penalises work and youth. The think-tank’s recommendations are likely to influence Chancellor John Healey as he prepares his first Budget in October, amid mounting…
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Sam Register Leaving As Warner Bros. Animation President
Sam Register, President of Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe, is leaving the company after nearly three decades, with Warner Bros. Television Group chief Channing Dungey announcing that his contract will not be renewed. The departure comes at a sensitive moment for the studio, as parent company Warner Bros Discovery faces…
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Long-Time Warner Bros. Animation President Sam Register Departing
Sam Register, the long-serving president of Warner Bros. Animation, is departing the studio after 18 years in charge, in a move his boss Channing Dungey admitted came as a surprise to staff. Dungey, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Television Group and WBD US Networks, told employees in a memo that she and Register had…
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Sam Register to Depart as Head of Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe (EXCLUSIVE)
Sam Register, the long-serving head of Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe, is leaving the company next week after both parties agreed not to renew his contract. Warner Bros. TV Group chair Channing Dungey confirmed the departure in a staff memo, thanking Register for his contributions and noting that a search…
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Trump’s Kennedy Center Name Change Cost Venue Nearly $100 Million in Lost Revenue: Report
A Washington Post report based on confidential documents has revealed that adding Donald Trump’s name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts cost the venue nearly $100 million in lost revenue, as ticket sales and fundraising collapsed even as officials publicly claimed the finances were improving. This matters because it exposes a…
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Anthony Albanese delays major migration overhaul again as voters flock to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has again delayed a planned overhaul of migration policy, confirming it will not feature on the agenda of Tuesday’s national cabinet meeting in Perth. The move follows the last-minute cancellation of a National Press Club speech by the home affairs minister earlier in August, after cabinet failed to agree on…