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Hollywood and tech giants shed thousands of jobs across 2026
Media layoffs across the entertainment industry are hitting hard after the past two years’ avalanche of job cuts. The unfortunate trend can still be felt following the Covid-19 pandemic, dual Hollywood strikes and — the latest event to hit Los Angeles hard: a series of wildfires that broke out in January 2025. As the entertainment…
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Secret Anthropic tracker in Claude alarms privacy-conscious users
Anthropic accused of spying on users; engineer says “experiment” is over.
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‘Shoot The People:’ Misan Harriman Talks Working With Director Andy Mundy-Castle On His Documentary Portrait
There’s an interesting flair to the work of the British documentarian Andy Mundy-Castle. In White Nanny Black Child (2023), he traces the legacy of Britain’s so-called farming experiment, where thousands of Black children from West Africa were adopted by white English families between 1955 and 1995, only to face widespread abuse and prejudice. The film…
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WoW server suffers outbreak after a debuff breaches containment, giving me flashbacks to a 21-year-old incident so large Covid-19 researchers referenced it
Not quite Corrupted Blood 2.0, but close enough.
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STEPHEN GLOVER: Andy Burnham said himself a mansion tax symbolised the ‘politics of envy’. Now he’s planning to clobber the hard-working to fund his disastrous experiments
Sir Keir Starmer nad Rachel Reeves have already introduced a mansion tax, which may take effect as soon as April 2028. Burnham is reportedly thinking of lowering the threshold.
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Ancient inscription revealing Christianity’s clash with mysterious cult decoded by researchers
Archaeologists have deciphered an ancient inscription mentioning both Jesus Christ and Mithras at a Roman temple, written in the language Christ spoke.
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AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds
Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinionAI tools are twisting online messages on sensitive political topics about everything from abortion to climate change in ways that could snowball to reshape long-term public opinion, experts have said.As tech companies push AI tools as convenient ways to redraft…
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Good News! Turns Out the Earth Will Never Be Swallowed by the Sun
A new study suggests that when our star becomes unstable in 5 billion years or so, Earth may avoid being engulfed by its fiery demise.
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AI supercomputer used by climate and cancer researchers shuts down due to heatwave
Dawn, the multi-million-pound supercomputer owned by the University of Cambridge , was forced offline on June 27 when temperatures at the institution reached 30C.