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‘Practical Magic 2’ Sparks $3.5M+ In Previews On Thursday – Box Office Update
Warner Bros and Alcon’s “Practical Magic 2”, reuniting Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, has opened strongly at the US box office, with a $12.5m Friday putting it on course for a roughly $30m domestic weekend across 4,146 cinemas. That figure follows a stronger-than-expected $4.7m in Thursday previews, well above the $3.5m-$4m initially forecast, giving Warner…
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Aussie who lost landmark ‘what is a woman?’ battle to transgender woman to leave Australia: ‘I will never forgive the government’
Sall Grover, founder of the women-only networking app Giggle for Girls, has vowed to leave Australia after the country’s High Court rejected her final appeal in a landmark sex discrimination case. The dispute centred on whether Grover unlawfully discriminated against transgender woman Roxanne Tickle by excluding her from the app in 2021, and the ruling…
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13 Years Later, Warframe is About to Be Bigger Than Ever
Warframe, the 13-year-old free-to-play multiplayer game from Digital Extremes, is preparing a major expansion into a brand new solar system called Tau, alongside a raft of updates designed to test whether ageing content and new ambitions can coexist. Creative director Rebecca Ford told Polygon the studio is simultaneously building fresh content and revisiting old systems,…
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Oracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on
Oracle has pushed back against fears that AI will erode demand for its packaged business software, arguing instead that AI agents make its applications easier to implement and more valuable, while also feeding growth in its cloud infrastructure business. Co-CEO Mike Sicilia, making his first comments on applications since taking the role, said AI lets…
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Charlie Kirk supporters return to site of assassination 1 year later: ‘We are still standing’
Supporters and colleagues of Charlie Kirk returned to Utah Valley University on Thursday, one year after he was assassinated on the campus, in what Turning Point USA (TPUSA) called a deliberate act of “reclaiming” the site in his honour. The gathering, addressed by figures including TPUSA chief field officer Andrew Sypher and chapter president Sage…
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Clippers face federal criminal probe after NBA punishes team over Kawhi Leonard deals
Federal prosecutors in the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York have opened a criminal investigation into the Los Angeles Clippers over allegations that the team arranged secret sponsorship deals for star player Kawhi Leonard to get around the NBA’s salary cap. The probe, first reported by The New York Times, began…
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‘Big Brother’ Season 28, Week 9 Eviction: A Reality TV Competition Icon Becomes 2nd Jury Member
Angela Murray became the second member of the jury on Big Brother Season 28 after being evicted in a 3-2 vote during Week 9’s live episode, hosted by Julie Chen Moonves. Head of Household Barrett Pfeiffer had targeted three former reality TV competitors on the block, signalling an aggressive strategic push as the season nears…
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OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal
OpenAI’s chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has argued that AI labs should coordinate to slow down future development as a safety measure, but such collaboration may run into US antitrust law, which restricts companies from jointly limiting output or coordinating on business decisions. Legal experts warn that even if safety-focused agreements between rival AI developers might…
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Can Europe recharge its battery industry?
European researchers and start-ups are betting on nanoscale battery technology to help the continent catch up in an industry increasingly dominated by China, after high-profile failures at Sweden’s Northvolt and Norway’s Morrow raised fears that Europe had missed the boat. With demand for batteries set to grow as transport and industry electrify, but long development…