Sumerian Acquires North American Rights to Eivind Landsvik’s Cannes Film ‘Low Expectations,’ Starring Marie Ulven, aka Girl in Red (EXCLUSIVE)

Sumerian Pictures has acquired North American rights to Norwegian writer-director Eivind Landsvik’s feature debut “Low Expectations,” starring Marie Ulven (also known as the musician Girl in Red) and Anders Danielsen Lie (“The Worst Person in the World”).

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Watching the Planes Take Off From Logan Airport

O n 9/11, I was living in Nahant, Massachusetts, a quaint and claustrophobic seaside village about six miles from Boston’s Logan International Airport. I had lived in big cities since I was 17, but now, recently married, I’d been persuaded to buy a home in Nahant, where the downtown highlights were limited to Captain’s Seaside pizzeria and Enzo’s Nahant Garage. It seemed like a good idea at the time. 

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Two friends who died on Yr Wyddfa tried calling 999, inquest hears

Two friends who died on a mountain ridge during extreme winter conditions tried calling 999 but the alert was not escalated "as it should have been", according to a police expert at an inquest.

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Council Post: Every AI Incident Has Two Timelines. We Default To One

Global Field CISO at Mimecast. Creator of Risk Reframing. 20+ years across intelligence agencies, cybersecurity, and executive leadership.

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​We’ve entered a new phase of AI security.

A frontier model, tested for offensive cyber capability, found thousands of previously unknown vulnerabilities in foundational infrastructure software—including a 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD, long regarded as one of the most secure operating systems in the world.

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Amazon backs Ariane with rocket launch orders as Europe battles to close its space gap

Amazon has ordered six additional launches from Europe's Arianespace as it builds out a satellite network to challenge SpaceX's Starlink, handing the continent's space industry a major commercial boost as governments push for greater sovereign capabilities.

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Blizzard must now 'discuss, evaluate, and bargain' its AI usage with its developers

World of Warcraft negotiate over a diplomatic table, as part of official art for the WoW x D&D crossover.
(Image credit: Blizzard, Wizards of the Coast)

Blizzard Entertainment's union—in conjunction with the Communications Workers of America (CWA)—has just signed a landmark contract with the studio to, among other things, force it to "discuss, evaluate, and bargain" any time it wants to introduce generative AI in the workplace.

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UK ministers explore raising price of water for some users amid shortages

Ministers are exploring making water more expensive for some users, in the face of severe supply shortages.

Despite the UK being a famously wet country, the precarious nature of the water supply has been made particularly acute this summer, with almost three-quarters of England and all of Wales in drought and 27 million people facing restrictions on their water use.

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‘No Other Land’ Co-Directors on Their New Hot-Button Doc ‘NAZA’ and Interviewing 24 Israeli Soldiers in ‘Total Secrecy’: ‘There Is Still So Much Denial of What Is Happening’ in Gaza

Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor — who are two of the four co-directors of 2025’s Oscar-winning doc “No Other Land” — are at the Venice Film Festival with new hot-button documentary “NAZA.”

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‘Ted Lasso’ Star Nick Mohammed to Host ‘The Traitors’ Stage Play in London

Nick Mohammed will play the host in “The Traitors – Acts of Betrayal,” the West End stage adaptation of the hit competition format, after a video in which Claudia Winkleman swore him in to the role, producers Studio Lambert and Neal Street Productions have revealed.

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US Open 2026: Aryna Sabalenka, Jessica Pegula, Coco Gauff & Elena Rybakina make up historic semi-final line-up

"Oh, wow".

That was Coco Gauff's surprised reaction when she learned she was part of a US Open semi-final line-up that has not been seen in more than half a century.

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