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Having built a business by remixing content created by others, Anthropic worries that Chinese AI labs are stealing its data.…
IBM’s share price slumped by 13 percent on Monday, seemingly caused by investors reacting to an Anthropic blog post that points out its Claude Code tools can accelerate refactoring of apps written in the ancient COBOL language.…
Details of offer not immediately available as Paramount looks to beat rival Netflix for control of Warner Bros
Paramount Skydance has increased its bid for Warner Bros Discovery, Reuters reported on Monday, raising the stakes in the bidding war for the historic studio and its broadcast and cable TV assets in an effort to beat out rival suitor Netflix.
It could not immediately be determined how the bid was revised. Warner Bros and Paramount declined to comment, while Netflix could not immediately be reached.
Continue reading...Dominic Ethan Stewart was among 19 killed when vehicle veered off road and plunged down mountainside
Tributes have been paid to a young British hiker who was among 19 people killed when a packed passenger bus veered off a treacherous stretch of road and plunged 200 metres down a steep mountainside in Nepal.
Twenty-five others were injured in the pre-dawn crash in the Himalayan foothills on Monday. The bus was carrying 44 people, including a number of tourists.
Continue reading...Performer appeared in closing ceremony of 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and was a mainstay of city’s drag scene
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One of Australia’s best-known and loved drag queens, Sydney’s Maxi Shield, has died after being diagnosed with throat cancer, prompting tributes from around the world.
Kristopher Elliot, who performed drag under the name Maxi Shield, was 51. Shield was a mainstay of the Sydney drag scene and brought Australian drag to the world as contestant in season one of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under.
Continue reading...Collins ‘honoured and ecstatic’ to play Hepburn, in film charting the dramatic making of the 1961 romantic comedy
Lily Collins, the star of Netflix hit Emily in Paris, has been cast to play Audrey Hepburn in a new film about the making of her 1961 romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
The as-yet-untitled film will be based on Sam Wasson’s nonfiction book Fifth Avenue, 5 AM: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Dawn of the Modern Woman, with a script written by Alena Smith, creator of the Apple TV series Dickinson. No director has been announced yet.
Continue reading...Written by Mem Fox with illustrations by Judy Horacek, Green Sheep was recently voted third-best Australian picture book of all time by Guardian readers
When Judy Horacek drew a little green sheep and posted it to her website, she never could have imagined what would come of it. The drawing caught the eye of acclaimed children’s author Mem Fox; fast-forward 20-odd years, their picture book collaboration Where Is the Green Sheep? has since been published in 11 countries, sold more than 2.5m copies, and, just last month, was voted the third-best Australian picture book of all time by thousands of Guardian readers.
Among other things, the picture book has spawned plush toys, a set of postage stamps, a commemorative 20¢ coin – and now a stage show. Horacek has joined forces with Monkey Baa theatre company, one of Australia’s leading professional theatre companies for young audiences, to bring a stage adaptation of the Green Sheep to 80 venues across Australia throughout 2026 and 2027.
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Teruhide Tomori has added a photo to the pool:
Warbling white-eye
Location : Toji temple, Kyoto.
メジロ / 京都 東寺