Speaking at the Iberseries & Platino Industria conference, Pedro Pina, YouTube VP for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, regaled a full house with a striking presentation that traced the evolution of YouTube to the powerhouse platform it has now become after 20 years. He showed milestones that marked its progress, from the first viral […]
Former NBA champion JR Smith was arrested Monday in Texas on a charge of assault causing "bodily injury family violence."
The NHL 2026-2027 season is going to be very exciting to see which of the 32 teams in the league will win their divisions and make it into the playoffs for a chance to hoist the Stanley Cup in the final series. The Carolina Hurricanes returns as champions of the league, while the new season […]
The American Film Institute has announced the complete lineup for AFI Fest 2026, presented by Canva, taking place in Hollywood from Oct. 21-25. The 40th edition of the festival will screen 157 films across five red-carpet premieres, 12 special screenings, 13 luminaries selections, 18 discovery titles, 16 world cinema selections, 17 documentaries and many more. […]
Paul McCartney met up with Judd Apatow for a 45-minute conversation following a screening of “Man on the Run” in Los Angeles Monday night, and it was very much a case of banter on the run. With Apatow at the helm, the chat took some comical turns, as might be expected, and also some unusually […]
Mariska Hargitay, Josh Gad, Hudson Williams and more celebrities are joining the growing list of Hollywood names using social media to condemn the Cornell 7, the name given online to the seven male students accused of drugging and gang raping their female classmate at Cornell University in October 2024. The woman’s allegation is making national […]
Winter is coming to the big screen… in summer of 2029. “Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest,” the first movie set in the fictional world of Westeros, has been scheduled for June 6, 2029. Owen Harris (“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”) will direct the film from a screenplay by Beau Willimon. Little is known about […]
An attacker used stolen passwords of staff at France's tax administration to take tax data on hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and businesses in June and July. Neither the tax administration nor France's national cybersecurity agency saw the data leave. The attack was not sophisticated, the agency, ANSSI, says in a report (in French) published on Tuesday: it worked because of weak
OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into mor direct competition with more traditional software companies.
Netflix has unveiled the first trailer for the upcoming unscripted series “The New Stanford Prison Experment.” In the trailer, those participating in the series — both as guards and inmates — are transported to a real prison facility to begin the experiment. The power dynamics and tension quickly shift as the participants settle into their […]
بغداد اليوم – البصرة ناشد أصحاب محطة وقود “ساحة سعد” في محافظة البصرة، اليوم الثلاثاء (29 أيلول 2026)، رئيس مجلس الوزراء والسلطة القضائية ومحافظ البصرة، التدخل لإنهاء ما وصفوه بـ"الضغوط والمضايقات وتسويف الإجراءات" التي قالوا إنها حالت دون افتتاح المحطة، رغم امتلاكهم عقدا لإنشائها أبرم مع بلدية البصرة منذ عام 2019. وقال أصحاب المحطة، في شكوى وجهوها عبر "بغداد اليوم"، إلى الجهات المعنية، إنهم تعرضوا خلال السنوات الماضية إلى سلسلة من المعوقات التي أخرت استكمال إجراءات افتتاح المحطة، من قبل المدعوين مصلح عزيز الزكم وقيس بهروز عباس بالوقوف وراء جانب من تلك الضغوط والمضايقات. وطالب أصحاب المحطة الجهات المختصة بفتح تحقيق في ملابسات الإجراءات التي رافقت ملف المشروع، مؤكدين امتلاكهم “الأدلة والبراهين” التي قالوا إنها تثبت ما تعرضوا له من ضغوط وتسويف. كما دعوا إلى التدخل لإنهاء ما وصفوه بجذور التعطيل المرتبطة بمدير توزيع المنتجات النفطية المعتقل حسين طالب، بحسب تعبيرهم، مؤكدين أن هدفهم هو استكمال الإجراءات القانونية وافتتاح المحطة وفق العقد المبرم والضوابط النافذة. وشدد أصحاب المحطة على أن مناشدتهم تأتي طلبا للإنصاف وحسم ملف المشروع بعد مرور سنوات على توقيع العقد، داعين الجهات القضائية والتنفيذية إلى التحقق من الوثائق والأدلة التي بحوزتهم واتخاذ الإجراءات القانونية اللازمة في حال ثبوت المخالفات التي يتحدثون عنها.
