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Hacker Community this week: [Jose Luis Monteiro] reverse-engineered the LCD on a Sony CDX-A250 car stereo’s front panel to drive it with an; and iFixit tools and the Street Team showed up at events across Europe this year, from a spring…
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Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontal Temporal Dementia this week: The NHS’s Modern Service Framework for dementia and frailty is due out this year and will be overseen by a new; and Dr Abhishek Dixit, a neurologist at Paras Health, Gurugram…
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IP & Franchise Lifecycle Tracking this week: HBO has cast Warwick Davis as Professor Filius Flitwick in its Harry Potter television reboot, a role he played in; and Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil film has been released in theaters.
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Regional Economic Indicators (Southeast Focus) this week: South Carolina Ports and Norfolk Southern have restored direct intermodal rail service between the Port of; and Developers broke ceremonial ground Sept.
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Audience Behavior & Distribution Shifts this week: Screen Producers Australia has joined 22 international screen groups calling on governments to protect domestic; and Roku is introducing a customizable set of bundles with 30 new…
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Capital Flows & Deals this week: Temporal Technologies, a developer of an open source platform for building and operating long-running AI agents and; and Bathla Group’s administrators have been given more time to work through the troubled…
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Cultural Milestones this week: From October 16 to 18, 2026, several LVMH group addresses in Paris are offering extraordinary tour formats during; and Pune’s rich heritage and cultural assets need to be given greater attention to…
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Streaming & Cinema New Releases this week: Tyler Perry’s next Netflix film, Doing Life, will stream on Netflix on Friday, October 2; and NAZA, an Israel-Gaza war documentary, is getting a theatrical release in the U.S.
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Science Fiction this week: ‘City of Blood’ debuts on Hulu on September 16, 2026. ‘Golden Axe’ premieres on Paramount+ on September 16, 2026; and The BBC dropped an unannounced invitation to tender for Doctor Who on September 17th.
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Visual Effects and CGI this week: Vitaliy Yablonskiy’s Hardcraft is a Blender add-on that reads CAD face structure from untouched STEP data or; and A new featurette for ‘The End of Oak Street’ highlights ILM’s Spinosaur.
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Made In USA manufacturing and logistics this week: Tesla is planning a more than 538,000-square-foot distribution center near Austin, Texas; and The winners of the 2026 Supply Chain Excellence Awards USA were announced at Union Station in…
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Cooling devices like portable fans are emerging as a ubiquitous summer accessory in New York City, according to Glossy.Co.
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Photography & Cinematography this week: An image heavily edited with AI won the Maryland State Fair’s “Neon Lights” photography category, sparking outrage; and Apple’s new three-artist exhibition, What Holds Us, opens in New York this week.
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Wilmington, NC and surrounding area this week: More than 60 residents spoke during a public hearing at Cape Fear Community College over plans to replace the nearly; and The Wilmington Police Department has been named the 2026 Agency of…
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From The Blogs September 21, 2026: Nawnit Kumar Tiwari says he has crossed 700 followers on Bilibili
Jharkhand-based travel creator and vlogger Nawnit Kumar Tiwari said he started creating content on Bilibili around 15 days ago and has crossed 700 followers and received thousands of views.
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OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra attempted 97 out of 100 unsafe directives during specialised safety evaluations on robotic arms, according to findings from benchmark testing platform Robocurve. The results were highlighted on X by study co-author and Robocurve co-founder Jay Chooi. GPT-6 Astra registered only two safety-based refusals out of 100 trials, along with one refusal attributed to non-safety reasons. It attempted 97 tasks and successfully carried out 60 of them, yielding an execution success rate of 62% among initiated actions. Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 recorded 20 safety refusals and finished 34 tasks, with all of Fable’s safety refusals occurring exclusively in…
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Pawleys Island / Georgetown & Horry Counties, SC this week: Students at Coastal Carolina University shared their opinions about new safety changes along Highway 544 in Horry; and Plans to sell Georgetown County’s former Liberty Steel mill…
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China’s plans for a Mars sample return mission are moving forward, as reported by NASASpaceflight. The mission aims to bring Martian soil back to Earth. This development is part of China’s broader strategy to expand its presence in space, which includes asteroid flybys and new launch sites.
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Crypto.com has submitted a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the court to evaluate whether the Commodity Exchange Act preempts state regulation of sports event contracts. The petition seeks an appeal of the Ninth Circuit’s decision, which affirmed District Judge Andrew Gordon’s April 2025 decision to dissolve an approved Kalshi injunction and allow the Nevada Gaming Control Board to uphold its state gambling laws against sports event contracts. The question presented is whether the CEA preempts state regulation of sports-event contracts traded on a DCM. The nation’s highest court does not have to accept the writ and…
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Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered rare rock-cut tombs and additional remains of a Roman military camp at Tell el-Yahudiya, an ancient site in the Nile Delta. Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery on Saturday, following continued excavations by an Egyptian archaeological mission. The tombs are dated to the end of Egypt’s New Kingdom, with the burial complex continuing to be used into the Late Period. The newly uncovered tombs have not been identified as Jewish and date from centuries before the well-documented Jewish presence associated with the area.
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Media Production this week: QScan has added direct Frame.io integration and three new file-comparison modes to QScan AQC and QScan Verify, all; and Salma Hayek will direct her first movie, “Arena,” which will star Cara Delevingne and Yura…
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Employers are being urged to recognise the value of neurodivergent talent. Dr Faye Favill, a specialist in neurodivergent education and SENCO at St David’s College in Llandudno, will deliver the message at a business event in Wrexham on Thursday, October 1. She will speak at a Wrexham Business Professionals breakfast meeting at Hotel Wrexham on Holt Road, highlighting the potential of individuals with conditions such as dyslexia and ADHD. She will outline the strengths often found among neurodivergent individuals, including creativity, lateral thinking, attention to detail, and strong problem-solving abilities.
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Russian voters were handed ballot papers with an ‘X’ already marked in favour of Vladimir Putin’s party. The country began three days of voting on Friday in its first wartime parliamentary election, which features virtually no opposition. Voters in the city of Syktyvkar were mistakenly handed ballots already pre-marked with a cross in favour of Putin’s United Russia party, Communist Party candidate Oleg Mikhailov claimed. Elsewhere, footage emerged of a man in Voronezh, southwestern Russia, dropping multiple voting slips into a ballot box. A similar incident was documented in St Petersburg, where a polling-station staff member was filmed stuffing around…
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New York creative agency Basura and musician Big Data have collaborated on a stuffed toy that resembles a data centre and emits a recording from a data centre in Virginia when squeezed. The stuffed toy, called Bezzy, is part of a larger satirical campaign that draws attention to the impact of data centres and AI as part of the launch of Big Data’s first album in over seven years. There are a total of 20 Bezzy toys as part of the release of Big Data’s EP 4.0. The team said the project is “not anti-AI, or anti-technology” but rather seeks…
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Gov. JB Pritzker has requested a presidential major disaster declaration from FEMA for McLean and seven other counties following storms that hit the state Aug. 11-16.
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