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Games industry union in North America launches fund to support laid-off workers
The United Videogame Workers union (UVW-CWA) has launched a new fund to help laid off workers across the US and Canada. The Game Worker Hardship Fund, as it’s called, is available to anyone who’s been laid off from January 2024 to the present day. Read more
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Elder Scrolls Online roadmap shifts two days before Season One launch after Xbox cuts
Yesterday brought the news that Microsoft were cutting 1600 staff, spinning out four studios, and finding a further 1600 jobs to cut in the year to come. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said in an email to staff that she was “making reductions” and “shifting investment to focus on higher priority projects”.Today, we’re starting to learn…
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Nigel Farage faces finance inquiry and confronts Sky News crew at Heathrow
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage returned to the UK from a trip to the United States to face intensifying scrutiny over his personal and party finances, and was filmed in an angry confrontation with a Sky News crew at Heathrow. The row matters because it represents what the article describes as the heaviest pressure of…
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Sarajevo CineLink reveals co-production and drama lineups and Critics’ Week partnership
CineLink, the industry strand of the Sarajevo Film Festival, has finalized its list of projects for its Co-Production Market and CineLink Drama sections and has also unveiled a new award €10,000 award and partnership with Cannes’ Critics’ Week. The final selections comprise of 16 feature film projects and eight drama series projects, with women directing…
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7/7 London bombings marked 20 years on with minute-by-minute reconstruction
This Daily Mail “Deep Dive” article marks the anniversary of the 7 July 2005 London bombings, when four British-born Islamist extremists linked to Al Qaeda carried out coordinated suicide attacks on the capital’s transport network. The piece, published to coincide with the anniversary, presents a minute-by-minute reconstruction of the attacks, which killed 52 innocent victims…
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Stymied datacentre projects threaten global AI revolution
Large-scale datacentre projects around the world are being delayed or cancelled just as demand for the computing power behind artificial intelligence surges. The Uptime Institute, which rates datacentres, found that of 250 global projects above 100MW announced between 2021 and 2024, roughly half will either not go ahead or will be completed late. This backlog…
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Trump Accounts scheme would give every American a financial stake, says McCormick
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Iranian state media appearance by ex-Democratic campaign volunteer praising Khamenei
Fox News reports that Calla Walsh, a far-left activist with past ties to prominent Massachusetts Democrats, appeared on Iranian state media praising the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the “greatest anti-imperialist leader” of her lifetime. The remarks, aired by Press TV during coverage of Khamenei’s funeral, matter because Walsh previously volunteered on Democratic campaigns, and…
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Autonomous US ground vehicles have driven over 1,100 missions in Ukraine
Forterra, a US builder of autonomous vehicles, has revealed that more than 100 of its self-driving all-terrain vehicles have been operating in Ukrainian conflict zones over the past nine months — what the company believes is the largest combat deployment of autonomous ground vehicles by any US defence tech firm. Funded by US defence dollars,…
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Meta warned of up to $1.4tn in penalties from four US states
Meta has disclosed that it could face penalties of up to $1.4 trillion (about £1 trillion) in lawsuits brought by four US states — California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey — over claims that Facebook and Instagram were deliberately designed to be addictive and that the company misled the public about the apps’ safety. The…