An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Telluride just managed one of its best-kept secrets in years, per The Hollywood Reporter. On Sunday night, festival-goers filed into a 650-seat theater with their phones locked away, having no idea what they were about to see, told only that it ran nearly three hours, hadn't been shown anywhere, and that its principal creators would be in the audience. The surprise premiere they went on to enjoy is a new documentary from co-directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.

Called "You Can See Everything," the film is said to capture Holmes and her husband, Billy Evans, in the 34 days before she reported to federal prison in May 2023 to begin an 11-year sentence for defrauding investors about her blood-testing technology. Since then, her legal fight has limped along without success. Her appeals to overturn the conviction and shorten her sentence were rejected in February of last year. She then went a different route last year, asking President Trump to commute her sentence. That clemency petition is still listed as pending, meaning it's officially been opened and remains under review.

Fielder apparently lived in the couple's guest house during filming -- the access they provided sounds shocking -- but some of the buzz also ties to an A-list actress who becomes part of the story itself. A24 is set to release the film in October. You can watch a trailer for the film on YouTube.

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A Gamers Nexus investigation found that LG smart TVs are almost constantly logging and uploading data about owners and their homes, even while they are offline or in standby mode. "The company's TV sets scan Wi-Fi networks for nearby devices, record audio logs through their microphones, and use audio and video sampling to recognize exactly what you're watching from across the TV inputs," reports The Verge. From the report: Gamers Nexus partnered with fellow YouTubers Level1Techs and independent security researchers for the investigation, which involved testing retail LG OLEDs. Packet captures showed the TVs scanning the local area network for nearby hardware like phones or smartwatches, as well as logging location data and details of nearby Wi-Fi networks, and feeding the information back to LG Ad Solutions. Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored. Earlier this year, LG was found to be silently installing an adware-like app on Windows PCs that ran pop-up ads for other LG apps and even McAfee antivirus.

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Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a free research database containing AI-generated predictions for the effects of all 9 billion possible single-letter mutations in the human genome. Built from its AlphaGenome model, the atlas is designed to help scientists interpret both protein-coding and harder-to-understand regulatory DNA. Fortune reports: AlphaGenome Atlas, as DeepMind calls the database, is a precomputed catalogue of what each substitution of a single DNA base is likely to do to the machinery that switches genes on and off. Until now researchers had to run such a model one variant at a time or had to test variants in the laboratory, a process that was painstakingly slow. It would have taken many human lifetimes to discover the consequences of all 9 billion possible single-letter mutations. The Atlas promises to make the job of biologists and medical researchers considerably easier, potentially speeding up the understanding of genetic diseases and the hunt for possible cures.

Pushmeet Kohli, DeepMind's vice president for research and head of its AI for science team, told reporters on a briefing call that this was the first time any researcher in the world could reach a comprehensive map of human genetic variation "by simply opening a browser." Kohli also framed the release as helping to complete the unfinished business of the Human Genome Project, which in 2003 succeeded in mapping the entire human DNA sequence. "As the saying goes, we bought the book," he said, "but we did not understand how to read it."

Atlas is available for non-commercial use from today through a website Google DeepMind has set up for it. The company said it would be available for commercial use through a licensing arrangement through Google Cloud "soon." Kohli said that Google DeepMind's sister company,ÂIsomorphic Labs, which is using AI for drug discovery, would have access to Atlas but that it would also require a commercial license for access. He did not specify exactly what the terms would be for commercial licensing. A paper describing the Atlas and how it was created is being released on bioRxiv, a repository for biomedical preprint academic papers.

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Teen reading, math, and science scores have fallen to their lowest levels since international PISA testing began in 2000, with 15-year-olds now reading at roughly the level previously expected of students a year younger. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) linked weaker results to more screen time, less reading for pleasure, and digital distraction. It also found that students who regularly used AI chatbots for tasks like drafting essays and summarizing text scored about 20 points lower in science, roughly equivalent to a year of learning. Reuters reports: A 2012 reading high of 501 on PISA's index had declined to a score of 466 last year. The test is widely regarded as the world's leading gauge of educational performance and its results are closely scrutinized by governments and educators. "In reading, more screen time and less reading for pleasure have gone hand in hand with weaker results," OECD head Mathias Cormann told a press conference. "We're also seeing more hasty reading, students rushing through a text and giving a quick wrong answer."

Reading scores fell more sharply in students from better-off backgrounds, the study added. Hindered by falling reading standards, average teenage science and maths skills were also at their lowest this century. Science fell from a 2009 high of 506 on the index to 486, while maths was down from 502 to 469 in the same period. East Asia was the best-performing region. Chinese cities that participated in the test, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan had the best educational systems with Britain and Estonia the only countries outside the region that made it into the top 10 in reading, mathematics and science.

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The special livery will adorn the Williams car throughout the Spanish Grand Prix weekend at the Madring.

Former Renault F1 driver and F1 TV analyst Jolyon Palmer on Kimi Antonelli's home win – and what it means for the 2026 season.

Channel 5, the YouTube channel hosted by Andrew Callaghan, said it gave a list of its email subscribers to Hunter Biden, the former president’s son, who went on to promote his new memecoin, a move that a data privacy expert told 404 Media is likely illegal in some jurisdictions.

Callaghan has repeatedly interviewed Biden on camera. Apparently over the cross of that source and interviewer relationship, Biden “asked if he could use our mailing list whenever he launched a new product,” according to a statement posted by Channel 5 to X on Monday. The statement said that Channel 5 did actually provide Biden with real user data: “We provided him a simple csv sheet from our email list to help him expand his audience.”

And although Channel 5 said in a follow-up statement that “emails from Hunter’s team have not gone out to any of our public subscribers,” sharing the data at all has understandably sparked a huge backlash.

It’s also probably illegal.

“Assuming that the GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation] does apply, and on the basis of this privacy notice and the language used to sign up to a newsletter, I am struggling to see how providing a list of email addresses of newsletter subscribers to a third party for direct marketing purposes is consistent with the GDPR,” Neil Brown, a data protection lawyer with Decoded Legal, told 404 Media in an email. The GDPR is the European Union’s broad data protection legislation.

It’s not entirely clear which email list Channel 5 is referring to in its statements, but people can sign up for the company’s newsletter at the bottom of both its members’ website and its merch store. The privacy policy of that first site says that under California’s “Shine the Light” law, “California residents may request certain information regarding our disclosure of your information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.” The privacy policy then says, “We do not disclose your information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.”

Giving Hunter Biden a copy of your subscribers’ email addresses so he can expand his audience is the same as giving your users’ data to third parties for direct marketing purposes.

“In terms of the mailing list, it appears to be a very simple sign-up, with no information beyond joining a newsletter mailing list to ‘get a sneak peak of upcoming films and much more’,” Brown added. “Someone signing up to that list has not, to my mind, consented to anything beyond being signed up for a mailing list.” That would include having your email address given to Hunter Biden.

Channel 5 did not respond to a request for comment.

 Obviously, all of this is wild for several different reasons. The owners of media companies don’t usually hand over their subscriber list because those people presumably did not opt-in to having their contact information shared like that, and that email list is also a very important part of their own business.

Channel 5’s statement ends: “We wish Hunter the best, shout out to the homie.”

Wiley C has added a photo to the pool:

in Edogawa, Japan

• Champions League: Lille v Betis, Dortmund v Villarreal

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There’s a lot to dig into there, right? It’s always interesting when new managers take over established teams, because chances are they’ll see things differently from their predecessors. City, for example, are now playing 4-2-3-1, not 4-3-3, and it doesn’t seem like Enzo Maresca fancies Rayan Ait-Nouri. Otherwise, Ayyoub Bouaddi makes his first start – he’s alongside Enzo Fernandez in a double pivot which lacks a bit of p&p – and a front four of Samenyo, Cherki, Foden, Haaland looks not bad.

Borussia Dortmund (3-4-2-1): Kobel; Gadou, Anton, Svensson; Ryerson, Sabitzer, Veerman, Beier; Karetsas, Nmecha; Guirassy. Subs: Drewes, Meyer, Bellingham, Chukwuemeka, Nwaneri, Fabio Silva, Kaua Prates, Inacio, Albert, Reggiani.

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Enzo Maresca chats to Amazon Prime before the match: “It’s a hard place to come, but we’re going to try our best … it’s the first game, it’s going to be a long run. We’ll see where we are in December and January.”

He’s asked about the pressure of following Pep Guardiola, but brushes it off. “I’m trying to do what I did at Leicester, at Chelsea, it’s nothing different.” On summer signings, he adds: “We have quality players, that means service for Erling [Haaland], movement between the lines.”

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Tickets set to cost £408 at return for Somerset festival after a fallow year, a jump from £378.50 in 2025

After a fallow year in 2026, Glastonbury festival fans can start to get excited – and nervous – about tickets for 2027’s event going on sale.

The price breaks £400 for the first time, at £408 including a £5 booking fee, a rise from the 2025 cost of £378.50. The usual scramble to acquire them – with all the attendant frantic spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups – will begin at 9am on Sunday 4 October.

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Het kantoor van de Israëlische premier Benjamin Netanyahu spreekt tegen dat hij in aanloop naar de Hamas-aanval op 7 oktober 2023 al was gewaarschuwd. "De berichten in de media zijn onjuist", staat in een verklaring op X. "De premier is voor 7 oktober niet gewaarschuwd vanuit de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten."

Het kantoor van Netanyahu reageerde daarmee op een artikel van de krant Haaretz. Die schreef dat de leider van de VAE, Mohammed bin Zayed, anderhalve week voor de bloedige aanval belde met Netanyahu. Hij zou toen hebben gewaarschuwd dat de Hamasleider Yahya Sinwar in de Gazastrook een grote operatie tegen Israël plande.

Netanyahu kreeg na de publicatie felle kritiek vanuit de oppositie. "Netanyahu kreeg tientallen waarschuwingen voor 7 oktober en sloeg ze allemaal in de wind", schreef zijn politieke rivaal Gadi Eisenkot op X. Het kantoor van Netanyahu zei later dat als er al relevante informatie was, die via inlichtingenkanalen is binnengekomen.

NEW YORK (ANP) - Tennisser Botic van de Zandschulp komt woensdag op de US Open pas laat in actie voor zijn kwartfinale. De 30-jarige Nederlander en de als eerste geplaatste Duitser Alexander Zverev zijn ingedeeld in de vierde en laatste partij in het Arthur Ashe Stadium, het hoofdstadion van het toernooi in New York. De partij begint om 19.30 uur plaatselijke tijd. In Nederland is het dan 01.30 uur in de nacht.

Van de Zandschulp kan voor het eerst de halve finale van een grandslamtoernooi bereiken. Vijf jaar geleden stond hij ook in de kwartfinale van de US Open. Toen was de latere winnaar Daniil Medvedev uit Rusland hem de baas.

Zverev begint de partij als duidelijke favoriet. De Duitser won in juni Roland Garros en verloor in juli de finale van Wimbledon.

Niets is nog heilig in dit land want zelfs de stront van uw eigen schijtbaby gewoon in uw eigen prullenbak smijten staat onder druk nu het kabinet-Jetten een luierinzamelingsplicht heeft uitgepoept. Dat wordt klinkt nog viezer dan een volle luier en de praktijk is dat ook nog eens want het betreft nota bene volle luiers, die men dan in een aktetas propt (het moet natuurlijk niet opvallen) en naar een poepluierdumpplek vervoert om de luiertaks te ontduiken. Het gaat trouwens niet alleen over baby's, ook in opa's incontinentieluier zit opgedroogde stront. Van opa dus. En wie mag daar de mee straat op? U. Alsof dat zaakje niet al genoeg stinkt waarschuwt de luierlobby in De T. al voor stijgende luierprijzen. Blijft over: hergebruik. Moeten we wel eerst even over onze poepschaamte heen komen.

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Biodiversiteitscentrum Naturalis wil zich ‘actiever’ opstellen naar bedrijfsleven, overheid en politiek. Dat bleek al uit een brandbrief aan de staatssecretaris over het wolvenbeleid. „De boodschap is gelukkig goed overgekomen”, zegt de directeur.

Circa de helft van de nieuwe wetten die het justitiedepartement uitvaardigt, wordt niet of maar half getoetst op uitvoerbaarheid en personele consequenties. Pas na invoering worden de gevolgen zichtbaar. „Er is iets grondig mis op het ministerie”.