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Women and university graduates in Australia most at risk of losing jobs to AI, report finds
A first-of-its-kind Australian government report has found that women and university graduates are the workers most exposed to having their jobs displaced by artificial intelligence, while those in manual and vocationally trained roles are least at risk. The report, drawing on data from Jobs and Skills Australia, warns that occupations such as telemarketers, accountants, advertising…
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Mario Kart Tour servers to close on 30th September with no offline mode
Nintendo has confirmed that Mario Kart Tour, its mobile racing app, will permanently shut down its online service on 30th September 2026, at 7am BST. Crucially, and unlike the earlier closure of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, which was replaced by a paid offline version, Nintendo has stated that no offline mode for Mario Kart Tour…
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Report to National Crime Agency of £5m Farage gift is ‘deeply serious’
Labour has condemned as “astonishing and deeply serious” the disclosure that a £5m gift to Nigel Farage from a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency (NCA) by bankers who feared it might involve laundered money. The revelation intensifies pressure on the Reform UK leader over his financial affairs, coming just a day…
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Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
French AI startup ZML has released ZML/LLMD, an inference-server product that lets a range of open-source large language models run across chips from multiple vendors — including Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, Apple Metal and Intel Arc. The launch matters because inference — the processing of prompts, as opposed to model training — has become a…
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DOOM’s Developer id Software Has Supposedly Lost Around 50% Of Its Team
Following a major restructuring of Microsoft’s gaming division under new Xbox boss Asha Sharma, DOOM developer id Software has reportedly lost around half of its staff. The cuts form part of Microsoft’s confirmed plan to eliminate over 3,000 gaming roles within the next 12 months, of which roughly 1,600 have already gone. The scale of…
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‘Ted Lasso’ Icon Confirms Major Change For Season 4
Apple TV’s flagship comedy Ted Lasso is returning for a fourth season, and star Hannah Waddingham has confirmed a significant shift in the show’s premise: Ted Sudeikis’s character will come back to AFC Richmond to coach the club’s women’s team rather than the men’s side. The change matters because Ted Lasso was pivotal in establishing…
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Crimson Desert Dev Working On Getting Switch 2 Version Up And Running
Pearl Abyss, the South Korean studio behind the open-world action-adventure Crimson Desert, is developing a Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game, with CEO Heo Jin-Young confirming in a recent corporate briefing that it has reached a stage where “basic gameplay is possible”. The update matters because it moves the prospect of a Switch 2…
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Author David Thomson on How Screen Antiheroes Led to Trump, Why His ‘Dictionary’ Won’t Be Updated and His Next Book Subject: Mickey Mouse
British film critic, historian and author David Thomson has published a new book, A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies, released by Simon & Schuster and an instant Amazon bestseller. In it, the 85-year-old argues provocatively that a century of screen antiheroes — from Citizen Kane’s Charles Foster Kane to the Corleones,…
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Meta to disable smart glasses camera when privacy light is tampered with
Meta has announced an update to its smart glasses that will automatically disable the built-in camera if the device detects that its privacy LED light has been tampered with or destroyed. The move responds to a wave of public backlash and to modders who have circumvented the indicator, in some cases by physically drilling into…
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The Most Highly Anticipated Fantasy Sequel Finally Gets an Update After 13 Years of Silence
Bestselling fantasy author Brandon Sanderson has confirmed that he still intends to write The Aztlanian, the long-awaited sequel to his 2013 novel The Rithmatist. The sequel was announced shortly after the first book’s release but has never materialised, leaving fans waiting for well over a decade. The update matters because The Rithmatist remains one of…