Meetings between Warner Brothers and JK Rowling can be filled with shouting and tears, it is claimed, as bosses at the entertainment giant brand the author their biggest asset.
The British writer, who wrote all seven volumes of the famous wizard series that sold millions and inspired eight blockbuster films, wields an immense amount of control over the series’ future. She sold the rights to Warner Bros. early in her career – but with clauses that give her considerable clout
Sweden’s prime minister is considering tightening border controls over security concerns after recent Quran-burning controversies.
“As everyone knows, we have a complicated security situation both in and around Sweden,” Prime Minster Ulf Kristersson said during a press conference Tuesday. “We are in daily contact with the Swedish intelligence services at the moment. That’s how serious we think the situation is.”
A final decision on border control will be made Thursday, Swedish broadcaster SVT reported.
“People with very weak links to
Threats to Sweden have increased after recent Koran burnings, the country’s government said on Tuesday (1 August), adding that it would strengthen border and internal controls and give police wider authority to stop and search people as a result.
Sweden and Denmark have seen a string of protests in recent weeks, in which copies of the Koran were burned or otherwise damaged, prompting outrage in Muslim countries and demands that the Nordic governments put a stop to the burnings.
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When artificial intelligence companies build online chatbots, like ChatGPT, Claude and Google Bard, they spend months adding guardrails that are supposed to prevent their systems from generating hate speech, disinformation and other toxic material.
Now there is a way to easily poke holes in those safety systems.
In a report released on Thursday, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the Center for A.I. Safety in San Francisco showed how anyone could circumvent A.I. safety measures and use any
The wind turbine judders to life with a boom that echoes down its central shaft. It rotates slowly at first, then gathers speed as its blades pick up the direction of the wind. Andy Clements, who looks after the small wind farm on the tiny Scottish Isle of Gigha, steps out of the control hub at the base of the turbine and looks up with satisfaction. A minor problem required a restart, he tells me, but now the turbine is
The police had warned Xie Yang, a human rights lawyer, not to go to Shanghai to visit the mother of a dissident. He went to the airport anyway.
His phone’s health code app — a digital pass indicating possible exposure to the coronavirus — was green, which meant he could travel. His home city, Changsha, had no Covid-19 cases, and he had not left in weeks.
Then his app turned red, flagging him as high risk. Airport security tried to
HONGKONG — Es war eine ziemliche Party für einen Montagabend. Mehr als 170 Menschen, viele von ihnen Mitglieder der politischen Elite Hongkongs, versammelten sich in einem Tapas-Restaurant, um den Geburtstag eines lokalen Delegierten der chinesischen Stempelgesetzgebung zu feiern.
Die Feierlichkeiten dauerten sechs Stunden. Der Rotwein floss; das Karaoke trällerte. Die Gäste erhielten lila Gesichtsmasken, trugen diese jedoch nicht immer.
In Hongkong, einer Stadt, die das Coronavirus mit rigorosen Grenzkontrollen weitgehend in Schach gehalten hat, war eine solche Lockerheit bis vor
Der Autobatterie-Zulieferer Clarios International Inc., die frühere Einheit von Johnson Controls, die von Brookfield Asset Management unterstützt wird, hat einen Börsengang beantragt und dabei steigende Umsätze und Verluste bekannt gegeben.
Clarios in seiner Einreichung Freitag gab die Größe des Angebots mit 100 Millionen US-Dollar an, ein Platzhalter, der sich ändern wird, wenn die Bedingungen für den Aktienverkauf festgelegt werden.
Clarios sagte in einer Erklärung im Mai, dass es vertraulich einen Börsengang beantragt habe. Brookfield, das Clarios im Jahr 2019 erwarb,
Der Autobatterie-Zulieferer Clarios International Inc., die frühere Einheit von Johnson Controls, die von Brookfield Asset Management unterstützt wird, hat einen Börsengang beantragt und dabei steigende Umsätze und Verluste bekannt gegeben.
Clarios in seiner Einreichung Freitag gab die Größe des Angebots mit 100 Millionen US-Dollar an, ein Platzhalter, der sich ändern wird, wenn die Bedingungen für den Aktienverkauf festgelegt werden.
Clarios sagte in einer Erklärung im Mai, dass es vertraulich einen Börsengang beantragt habe. Brookfield, das Clarios im Jahr 2019 erwarb,
