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The Humans Are Coming for A.I.'s Jobs in "We Were Here" In India, a group of uncles plan to subvert the A.I. that is replacing them, in a mockumentary that celebrates the weirdness of regular intelligence. The message is ubiquitous: A.I. is here, and it's probably going to take your job. Pranav Bhasin's comic mockumentary--which was executive-produced by the actors Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Andrew Scott, and which won the Audience Award for Short Narrative at this year's SXSW festival--flips the script with its vision of tech backlash. The film, set in an Indian town, follows the exploits of three retirees named Bagchi, Pimple, and Ganguli, who are fighting back and taking the jobs of machines. Bagchi, decked out in silver body paint, has declared himself a dish antenna; his friends are "working" as a vehicle's reverse camera and a microwave.

'Like cutting up a Picasso': AI microdrama edit of Neighbours worries actors and crew Former Neighbours actors and crew have raised concerns about plans to use AI to re-edit old footage and make mini episodes for mobile phone viewers. Fremantle, producer of the now-defunct Australian TV soap opera, has partnered with US-based RoseBerry Media for the project that will use AI to scan decades of episodes to help make short vertical videos. Footage of Margot Robbie, who played Donna Freedman from 2008 to 2011, will be the initial focus of the micro-drama. Both companies say the move will bring the show - which aired its final episode last year - to new audiences. But some actors and crew say they have not consented to their images, voice or work to be re-purposed. Robbie has yet to respond publicly.

'I live with a ghost': Japan's haunted homes attract bargain hunters From the moment Ryua first walked into her rental apartment in Tokyo she believed it to be haunted. When I visited the place for a viewing there was a man standing there, glaring at me, she says. Since the estate agent couldn't see him, I realised he must be a ghost. While someone more squeamish would probably have quickly left the flat never to return, Ryua chose to go ahead and move in. I'm a bit of a contrarian, so I decided I wanted to become friends with this glaring male ghost, adds Ryua, who works as an aidoru, a young entertainer, and who doesn't wish to share her surname.

The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers' cellphone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI's Grok chatbot. An unprecedented leak of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses, but also references to internal systems and sensitive information on undercover and surveillance programs. In all, the leak provides a map of how DHS is organized and how it operates. The records, which span DHS itself as well as seven component agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Customs and Border Protection, were last updated on August 19, 2026.

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For $1,999, you could own an M6 Mac Mini and an M5 MacBook Air instead, both of which are on sale right now. This is the first MacBook to get the chip (but certainly not the last), and I look forward to testing this thing out myself. But I do already have a good sense of how well it'll perform, as I already tested this same chip in the latest Mac Mini . And it points to an issue with the current state of the Mac lineup . The 14-inch M6 MacBook Pro currently costs $1,999.

Tax thresholds remain unchanged - here's what it means for your pay Income tax thresholds, which have been frozen under successive chancellors, will stay at current levels until April 2031 as planned. But after that they are expected to start to rise again with inflation. John Healey may not have mentioned the end of this policy in his Budget speech - after all, it is still some way off - but according to the documents released by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) the freeze, which has been shaving additional tax off people's take-home pay for the past five years, is scheduled to end. The proportion of your income that is taken in tax will continue to go up over the next four years in line with decisions made in previous Budgets. But then the personal allowance - the point at which you start to pay tax - and other thresholds, where you tip into paying a higher rate of tax, will rise again with inflation, meaning you keep more of what you earn.

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Will I get the £100 energy payment and when will I receive it? Up to 20 million households in England will get a £100 payment to help with their energy bills this winter, Chancellor John Healey has announced in his Budget. Here's what you need to know about the payment. For many people, the £100 on offer is a lot of money, but it's worth considering the context. A typical yearly energy bill is forecast to jump by £276 in January, according to consultants Cornwall Insight.