Shipacheva, who was born in Ukraine, had worked as a freelance medical journalist for various news outlets in Russia, including Forbes and RBC.

‘Few films will leave a lasting imprint on audiences this year quite like Elsinore,’ LFF director says of movie about Chariots of Fire actor

Elsinore, one of the most hotly anticipated dramas of the year, has been announced as the opening night film at this year’s London film festival. The drama, which stars Andrew Scott as actor Ian Charleson, will have its European premiere at the Southbank Centre – yards from the National Theatre, in which many of its scenes are set.

Directed by Simon Stone and written by Stephen Beresford (who reunites with Scott 12 years after Pride), the film depicts the final months in the life of the highly acclaimed actor, who reprised the role of Hamlet while terminally ill, aged 40.

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BBC documentary reports incidents alleged to have taken place when actor and musician was in 30s and 40s

The actor and singer Jared Leto has been accused in a BBC documentary of criminal sexual conduct by four women, with the alleged offences taking place when the women were teenagers.

The incidents reported by the BBC are alleged to have taken place between 2002 and 2016, when the actor was in his 30s and 40s. He is now 54.

Support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse issues is available from the following organisations. In the UK, Rape Crisis offers support on 0808 500 2222 in England and Wales, 0808 801 0302 in Scotland, or 0800 0246 991 in Northern Ireland. In the US, Rainn offers support on 800-656-4673. In Australia, support is available at 1800Respect (1800 737 732). Other international helplines can be found at ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html

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The AI infrastructure boom isn't just eating all the memory – it's also driving demand for storage, giving high-capacity hard drives a new lease of life, according to Seagate. The storage veteran says cloud operators are buying ever more mass-capacity hardware as AI applications generate and retain growing volumes of data. "Datacenter demand now represents approximately 90 percent of our exabyte shipments," chairman and CEO Dave Mosley told analysts during a call to discuss Seagate's Q4 and full-year results. "Based on the long-term supply agreements in place today, the vast majority of our nearline exabytes are now allocated into calendar 2028," he said. Back in February, Seagate warned that its production capacity of nearline drives was fully allocated for this year, and it had started accepting orders for 2027. "Importantly, we are not seeing customers pull back on planning horizons," Mosley added, suggesting hyperscalers remain keen to reserve hard drive capacity years in advance. AI agents that carry out tasks with varying degrees of autonomy are the latest source of demand for nearline drives – at least according to Seagate's CEO. "With the transition from AI model training to inference to agentic applications, more data is generated and retained for historical context, compliance and future reuse. As these datacenter environments become larger and more complex, customers must balance performance, energy consumption and cost." Cloud operators already address these challenges through tiered storage combining high-performance memory and SSDs with mass capacity hard drives to optimize performance and economics at scale, he added. "Our recent white paper with SK hynix illustrates the importance of tiered storage for inference and agentic AI workloads, which show a direct benefit to hard drive storage. These workloads rely on persistent context across user interactions, and key-value or KV cache is used to retain and reuse that context efficiently." By distributing KV cache data across memory, SSD, and hard drive tiers, organizations can retain more context and avoid recomputing previously generated data. Seagate claims this increases demand for hard drive capacity while reducing the GPU resources spent recomputing old context, leaving more compute available for revenue-generating workloads. Of course, some will say that Seagate would big up the hard drive market. Its SSD business has been described as "utterly trivial," so the company largely depends on selling nearline HAMR disks to hyperscalers and large enterprises. CFO Gianluca Romano acknowledged that Seagate's capacity growth has mostly come from shipping drives with more disks and heads, rather than selling more units. "If you look at our last year, and if you look at the number of disks and the number of heads inside the box, they probably grew between 15 and 20 percent and the units were absolutely flat," he said, describing this as "a normal part of the business." All the same, demand for capacity helped lift Seagate's full-year revenue by 34 percent from $9.1 billion to $12.2 billion. For its fourth quarter, ended July 3, the biz reported revenue of $3.6 billion, up 50 percent from $2.4 billion a year earlier. It expects revenue of $4.1 billion, plus or minus $100 million, in the current quarter – which would represent year-on-year growth of 56 percent. Seagate says it is ramping up production of its Mozaic 4 platform, which supports drives of up to 44 TB, for major cloud providers. The next-generation Mozaic 5 remains on track for qualification shipments in late 2027 and is expected to deliver more than 5 TB per platter. ®

De politie heeft een man van 26 uit Ridderkerk aangehouden die met een vuurwapen in de lucht schoot. De Ridderkerker trok woensdagochtend zijn wapen in de stationshal van Rotterdam Centraal.

Cellist Douwe Eisses is dit jaar young artist in residence van de Muziekzomer Gelderland. In de eerste week leidt hij een groep van elf jonge cellisten en geven ze drie concerten. „Ik kreeg meerdere momenten echt kippenvel en was ontzettend trots op de groep.”

Op Cyprus, waar sinds 1974 een grens doorheen loopt, is de pijn van de scheiding nog altijd voelbaar. Nu gloort er een klein beetje hoop op een oplossing voor het bevroren conflict.

Onderzoekers zijn meer artikelen gaan insturen sinds de komst van het eerste taalmodel vier jaar geleden, maar de kwaliteit van deze publicaties is erop achteruit gegaan. Dit schrijven Amerikaanse onderzoekers. „Er is geen harde kwaliteitstoets in het systeem.”