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Icelandic Producer Hlín Jóhannsdóttir Sets ‘Just a Kid’ With Alief Ahead of Haugesund and Reunites with ‘Driving Mum’ Team (EXCLUSIVE)
Icelandic producer Hlín Jóhannsdóttir of Ursus Parvus has signed with French-UK sales company Alief to handle her latest project, the coming-of-age drama “Just a Kid” (“Bara barn”), directed by newcomer Vala Ómarsdóttir. The deal reunites Jóhannsdóttir with collaborators from her earlier film “Driving Mum” and continues her track record of backing debut features by emerging…
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Sutton’s opening weekend predictions v Courteeners frontman Liam Fray
BBC Sport football pundit Chris Sutton has kicked off his season-long predictions contest for the 2025-26 Premier League, pitting himself against Microsoft’s Copilot AI, BBC readers and a rotating cast of celebrity guests. The exercise, which sees Sutton forecast all 380 top-flight fixtures, matters because the AI chatbot won the inaugural contest last season, narrowly…
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Developer given Mission:Impossible – fixing rubbish code that could crash a city – simply chose not to accept it
An On Call reader for The Register, nicknamed “Socrates,” recounted an early career episode as a fresh-faced software manager sent to a power station to document an undocumented monitoring system. Confronted with poorly written, uncommented control code for a turbine overspeed detector, he judged the risk of accidentally causing a catastrophic failure too great and…
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Cisco bug severity warning reads like Olympic gymnastics scores: 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, and 7.5.
Cisco has disclosed five vulnerabilities in its Secure Workload Software (formerly Tetration), a micro-segmentation tool designed to prevent attackers from moving laterally across networks. Four of the flaws are rated critical, including two that scored a perfect 10 out of 10, making this a significant security concern for organisations relying on the product to contain…
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Stupid Never Dies – a zombie fights for the love of a frozen corpse
The Guardian previews Stupid Never Dies, a debut action RPG from GPTrack50, a new studio founded by former Capcom producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi. The game follows Davy, the weakest zombie in a monster-filled society, who falls in love with the frozen corpse of a woman named Julia and sets out to revive her, inadvertently having to…
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Alibaba Cloud plans to use fewer Western chips, to boost its already huge AI margins
Alibaba Cloud says rising margins on its AI services mean new hardware can pay for itself faster than previously expected, and it plans to lean more heavily on its own chips rather than commercially bought Western ones to widen those margins further. The shift matters because it signals both growing confidence in AI as Alibaba’s…
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ENHYPEN Drops Latest Installment in ‘THE SIN’ Series With ‘BLISS’: Stream It Now
ENHYPEN have released their eighth mini-album, THE SIN : BLISS, marking the second instalment in the group’s THE SIN series and their first record since member Heeseung announced he would pursue a solo career. The K-pop act now performs as a six-piece – Jake, Jay, Sunghoon, Sunoo, Jungwon and Ni-ki – and the release lands…
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Jill Lepore on why the artificial state is ‘doomed’ – podcast
This is a podcast episode from the Guardian’s Politics Weekly America series, in which host Jonathan Freedland speaks to historian Jill Lepore about a growing backlash against artificial intelligence and datacentres, and how it might shape the November US midterm elections. With the vote less than three months away, voters are weighing concerns about grocery…
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Supermicro fired staff after probe into $2.5 billion GPUs-to-China smuggling operation
Supermicro has dismissed several employees after an internal investigation into claims that company executives helped smuggle $2.5 billion worth of Nvidia GPU-equipped servers to China in breach of US export controls. The probe followed a March indictment by the US Department of Justice against Supermicro co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, Taiwan-based executive Ruei-Tsang “Steven” Chang, and…