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Yob killer sentencing row, OpenAI’s Astra maths breakthrough, Sydney knifeman tasered
Politics erupts over sentencing reforms as PC Andrew Harper’s killers may serve less time; OpenAI’s Astra cracks ten maths problems while researchers expose an AI reasoning flaw; plus Sydney’s tasered intruder, Rodgers’ vaccine-card claims and Vargas Llosa’s final novel.
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Jellyfish Swarm Overwhelms Nuclear Power Plant For The Second Time In 2 Years
Climate change will likely make similar events more common, scientists warned.
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Cinema Civil War: Why the Paramount-Warner Bros. Sale Is Dividing Movie Theater Owners
Movie theatre owners are publicly split over Paramount’s proposed $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, with the industry’s main lobbying body, Cinema United, at odds with its own two biggest members. Cinema United president Michael O’Leary has spent months opposing the deal, warning it could lead to fewer films and theatre closures, but AMC…
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10 Forgotten Thrillers That Are Perfect To Watch in 2026
An article from Collider recommends ten lesser-known thriller films worth revisiting in 2026, arguing that streaming algorithms tend to bury older, high-quality titles in favour of newer content. The piece frames itself as a starting point for cinephiles looking to expand beyond commonly recommended classics, spanning decades of the genre from the 1930s through to…
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Trump says Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax for million dollar homes a ‘dangerous political experiment’
President Trump on Tuesday went after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D) attempt to tax second homes worth over $5 million. Trump called the proposed “pied-à-terre” tax a “dangerous political ‘experiment'” in a Tuesday Truth Social post. The president’s comments came after a Staten Island, N.Y., judge temporarily halted the tax’s rollout, also ordering…
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Ten Ways to Die Happy review – gameshow invites you to don a robe and treasure time
Underbelly, Bristo Square, Edinburgh Audience members are invited to examine what they will do with their lives in this earnest shared thought experiment If you could hold the years of your life in your hands like coins, would you choose to spend them differently? This is the thoughtful, earnest tone of Ten Ways to Die…
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Authors face backlash for participation in 2022 Google AI study
Thirteen professional authors, including science-fiction writers Ken Liu and Robin Sloan, are facing online backlash after their participation in a 2022 Google research study resurfaced on social media. The Wordcraft Writers Workshop, run by Google’s DeepMind division, asked the writers to trial an AI-assisted editing tool built on the LaMDA language model, the predecessor to…
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Blur’s Graham Coxon Remembers William Orbit: ‘This Genius Tinged With Madness’
Blur guitarist Graham Coxon has paid tribute to producer William Orbit, who died last week at the age of 69, recalling him as a “genius tinged with madness” who transformed the band’s sound on their 1999 album “13”. Orbit, best known for his work with Madonna on “Ray of Light”, first worked with Blur on…
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California Attorney General Slams David Ellison’s Plan to Pull Paramount Out of the State as ‘Blackmail’ Attempt That ‘Won’t Work’
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has hit back at Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison’s threat to relocate the studio out of California, branding it a “blackmail” attempt that “won’t work.” Bonta leads a 12-state coalition suing to block Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on antitrust grounds, and the row marks the latest escalation in…
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Mali Obomsawin Announces New Album Automatic: Hear The Title Track
Musician Mali Obomsawin has announced her new album Automatic, the follow-up to her 2022 solo debut Sweet Tooth, with the title track released alongside the news. Best known as a member of indie rock band Deerlady but also active across jazz and experimental music, Obomsawin, who belongs to the Abenaki First Nation’s Odanak community in…