Normal People author Sally Rooney has said her novels will no longer be supplied to booksellers in the UK as a result of her support for Palestine Action. The Irish novelist said last year she intended to carry on using her royalties to support the group, which is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK. In a statement to BBC News, Rooney said further publication of her work could constitute a serious criminal offence, so she had agreed with her publisher Faber not to continue supplying her books in the UK. I have made every effort to be honest with the public about my beliefs and intentions, and I am wholly prepared to accept the consequences, she said. Ebook editions have already been removed from sale in the UK, although many book shops still have existing stock of physical copies.

Netflix's new prestige sci-fi show is delayed until March 22, 2024. The new trailer gives us our first look at the series' key "video game," Three-Body, which involves a nebulous and extremely shiny VR headset. According to John Bradley's character Jack Rooney, the headset has "no screen... no headphone jack... not even a charging port." Donning the headset transports Rooney to a hyper-realistic world, before he's swiftly ejected and the trailer ends. The show's source material is The Three-Body Problem, the first novel in Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past series.

Australia's State Super has hired Neuberger Berman LLC for an equity mandate and to help the fund accelerate development of data science and machine learning tools that can complement its more traditional investment capabilities. The move reflects continued concerns that conventional approaches to managing the Sydney-based fund's A$44 billion ($30.2 billion) portfolio may not meet the moment in unconventional times. "My biggest concern is what happens if the market is behaving in an abnormal way," outside of the industry's knowledge base and modeling conventions, said Charles Wu, State Super's deputy chief investment officer and general manager, defined contribution investments, in an interview. In that regard, Mr. Wu said the emergence of negative sovereign bond yields three years ago was a warning bell. In the current environment, "a different way of thinking is required" and machine learning -- with its potential to come to a problem without prejudices or preconceptions -- can help State Super's team navigate a world growing evermore different from the one everyone has been trained to think about, he said.

As it wraps up its annual user conference here this week, San Francisco-based Splunk has one main message for the market. It's going big -- or, given that this is football season -- long with machine learning. In other words, it has expanded in a significant way the early version of machine learning in its platform to deliver new services and capabilities. It has added machine learning to the core of its platform with a machine learning toolkit that can be installed as a free app on top of the Splunk Enterprise platform, Manish Sainani, principal product manager of Machine Learning at Splunk told CMSWire. This toolkit provides 300 algorithms for machine learning, 27 of which are pre-packaged out of the box, spanning all of the major categories, he said.