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Texas sterile fly facility set for spring opening
A sterile fly facility is set to open in Texas this spring amid a New World Screwworm (NWS) outbreak that has affected two states, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Monday. The USDA social media account dedicated to providing updates on the federal response to the NWS spread said the facility will open seven…
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Dark Pictures and Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games to undergo a huge layoff following mixed reception to its latest game
Supermassive Games, the studio behind Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures Anthology, has announced it will cut up to 75 jobs after its latest release, Directive 8020, failed to win over critics or players. The company confirmed the news in a statement posted to X, describing the move as a “redundancy consultation” necessary to ensure…
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Spotify Details Plan to Label AI Artists
Spotify has announced a new “AI Persona” badge that will be applied to artist profiles featuring music created using artificial intelligence, in a bid to help listeners distinguish real performers from AI-generated ones. The policy comes amid a marked rise in AI music on streaming platforms, with acts such as Sienna Rose and the Velvet…
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Live Sheffield fire updates as field goes up in flames – Yahoo News UK
Live Sheffield fire updates as field goes up in flames Yahoo News UK
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I’m enjoying leaving my body behind in Project Looking Glass, an astral horror game in which you telewarp around a map of your terrible memories
Rock Paper Shotgun’s Ed Thorn writes about trying the demo for Project Looking Glass, a horror game by solo indie developer MORPH in which players inhabit a grieving woman taking part in secret Cold War-era astral projection experiments. Presented through a crackly cathode ray tube aesthetic, the game sends players “telewarping” between surreal, dreamlike locations…
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Ariana Grande, Shaboozey, Bruno Mars & More: Highlights of This Week’s Billboard Charts
Billboard’s chart round-up for the week dated 15 August highlights milestones for several major artists, led by Ariana Grande securing her seventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with “petal”. Also notable are new chart entries and long-running streaks that underline both established stars extending their records and newer or veteran acts breaking through,…
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Trump revives Iran sanctions, Turkey grants PKK amnesty as UK confidence hits two-year high
Trump has pivoted back to sanctions on Iran while Turkey’s parliament passed a conditional amnesty for PKK militants; UK consumer confidence hit a near two-year high, OVH Cloud warned of steep price rises, and a British tourist died paragliding near Benidorm.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s rambling AI manifesto is 6,434 words of high-handed platitudes and dubious conclusions
PC Gamer criticises Mark Zuckerberg’s 6,434-word “Personal Superintelligence” manifesto, arguing that it presents broad promises about AI while making questionable assumptions about Meta’s role. The article says the letter matters because Meta is investing heavily in AI and Zuckerberg’s vision could influence how the technology is developed and used. Zuckerberg says superintelligence is “now in…
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‘Verity’ Trailer: Anne Hathaway Lures Dakota Johnson Into “Darkness” In Colleen Hoover Adaptation From Amazon MGM Studios
Amazon MGM Studios has released the full trailer for “Verity,” a psychological thriller adapted from Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel, starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson. Hathaway plays author Verity Crawford, left nonverbal and unable to walk after an accident, while Johnson plays struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh, hired by Verity’s husband Jeremy (Josh Hartnett) to complete…
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An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems
Anthropic has announced that an as-yet-unreleased AI model made significant progress on the Riemann hypothesis, one of mathematics’ most famous unsolved problems, by substantially raising the lower bound for which the hypothesis is known to hold true. The result is notable both for the mathematics involved and for how it was achieved: a staff member…