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Disney+ confirms writer and director for Made in Korea’s final season
Disney+ has confirmed the writer and director returning for the second and final season of “Made in Korea”, its prestige Korean crime thriller starring Hyun Bin and Jung Woo-sung, alongside the previously set 9 September premiere date for the six-episode conclusion. Writer Park Eun-kyo, co-writer of Bong Joon Ho’s “Mother”, has scripted every episode, while…
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Qantas’ bombshell plan to send 1,000 Australian jobs to India in major cost-cutting blitz
Qantas is reportedly holding early-stage talks to outsource around 1,000 Australian jobs to India as part of a broader cost-cutting and AI-driven restructuring effort dubbed “Project IQ”. The plan, first reported by the Australian Financial Review, would see back-office functions such as marketing, finance and human resources shifted offshore, prompting strong criticism from unions and…
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Atarashii Gakko! on Their New Album ‘From Tokyo With Love’ and Their Global Evolution
Japanese girl group Atarashii Gakko! have released their new album *From Tokyo With Love*, marking a fresh chapter for a band that has become one of the most prominent acts driving J-pop’s global expansion. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, members Suzuka, Mizyu, Kanon and Rin discussed how the record reflects the intense touring…
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Game Freak’s Beast of Reincarnation impresses with combat depth but struggles with narrative cohesion
Beast of Reincarnation, an action RPG from Pokémon developer Game Freak, has drawn a mixed critical response that highlights both the strength of its combat and a struggle to unify its many influences into a coherent whole. The title marks the studio’s most ambitious attempt at a blockbuster outside its flagship franchise, set in a…
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China claims global chip leadership thanks to new legal definition of ‘integrated circuits’
China has revised its intellectual property regulations to redefine “integrated circuits” without limiting them to semiconductor materials, a change explained in an expert opinion published by the National Intellectual Property Administration. The move, attributed to legal scholar Guo He of Renmin University, is designed to extend patent and design protections to emerging photonic and quantum…
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BTS Grammy Decision Sparks Debate About New Asian Pop Category, But Who Wins & Who Loses?
BTS’s decision not to submit music from their latest album, ARIRANG, for the 2027 Grammy Awards has fuelled debate over the ceremony’s newly created best Asian pop music performance category. On Billboard’s Pop Shop Podcast, hosts Katie Atkinson and Keith Caulfield examine the implications of the band’s move for the fledgling category, considering how it…
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The chilling warning every Australian should read as China builds military capable of striking our cities – and they won’t even need bombs to bring us down
China’s rapidly expanding military could soon be capable of striking Australia directly, according to a new Lowy Institute report that warns Canberra faces a “real and growing” threat as Beijing’s arsenal reshapes the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific. Experts say the danger extends beyond conventional weapons, with concerns that China could paralyse Australian cities…
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China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic
Chinese AI developers, including Alibaba, DeepSeek and Moonshot, launched a wave of powerful new open-weight models this week, intensifying pressure on American rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI. Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter model that rivals top offerings from its US competitors, marking the first time it has made its flagship “Max” model weights…
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‘Wait for me, my Czech friend’: Japanese dev adds Czech localization just for the one Steam user who wishlisted his game in the Czech Republic
A Japanese indie developer added a Czech language localisation to his game after noticing that just one Steam user, based in the Czech Republic, had added it to their wishlist. The gesture, shared online under the affectionate remark “wait for me, my Czech friend”, struck a chord with gamers as an example of a small…