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Welcome to Rendering, a Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill. Got a story about AI? Rendering wants to hear from you: jkanter@deadline.com. Want to see Kim Jong Un gatecrashing Dunder Mifflin, or Darth Vader decapitating Ross Geller? Simply head over to X/Twitter, and you will find AI bros hungrily feeding beloved characters into their newest meatgrinder, and posting inanely about Hollywood being “cooked.” This cycle happens nearly every time a new AI model is released. This…

Darul Qasim’s influence extends beyond its own classrooms through scholars who now teach and lead communities across the Chicago area.For Imam Haroon Ahmed, a graduate of the college who now serves as director of Islamic affairs at the Islamic Foundation, overseeing its mosque and school, the impact is measured through individual lives rather than institutional reach. Much of his development as a scholar and imam, he says, was shaped and tested during his years at Masjid Uthman and Uthman Academy, a mosque and Islamic school serving Chicago’s western suburbs.After Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, Ahmed remains in the prayer hall…

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has revealed that the state is facing a shortage of approximately 40,000 doctors and 40,000 nurses, warning that the healthcare system also requires at least N100 billion more than its current budget to adequately cater to the state’s growing population. The governor disclosed this on Thursday at the opening of the second Eko Health Convention held at the Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos. According to him, Lagos currently has about 7,000 doctors, far below what is required to meet the healthcare needs of residents. “Lagos needs about 40,000 doctors to serve this population properly. We…

The runway at Benin Airport, Edo State, has been reopened for flight operations, 12 days after an Enugu Air aircraft veered off the runway shortly after landing, disrupting services at the airport. The reopening was announced on Tuesday by ValueJet, which said its flights to and from Benin would resume on Wednesday, 5 August. “We’re pleased to announce that the Benin runway has reopened, and ValueJet flights resume from Wednesday, 5th August 2026,” the airline said in a notice to passengers. In a separate telephone interview with PREMIUM TIMES Tuesday evening, an official of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria…

A New Mexico court has ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to pay $567m into a fund aimed at redressing adverse mental health impacts from the social media giant’s platforms.The Thursday ruling comes as a part of the second phase of a landmark trial the social media giant lost in March. At the time, a jury found that the company knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms, and imposed the maximum penalty: a $375m fine.The ruling on Thursday an additional to that fine, bringing the total amount Meta is…

Arrests of migrants working illegally in the UK have doubled since Labour has been in government, the Home Office has said.It said more than 17,000 arrests had been made since July 2024, a 122% increase on the previous two years, with a record number of immigration raids and arrests in the last six months. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said: “This surge in enforcement activity takes us to the highest level in British history. Illegal workers and rogue employers have nowhere to hide.”Reform UK said Labour was “insulting the intelligence of the British public” with these new figures.The number of people…

Efficient navigation requires prioritizing information from behaviorally relevant locations. In rats, such selective sampling may arise from theta-paced sweeps in grid and place cell populations, which scan nearby space in a left-right alternating …

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In the second phase of New Mexico’s already big bucks social media lawsuit against META, a judge today slapped the Mark Zuckerberg created tech-giant with a penalty in the hundreds of millions of dollars and also put some potentially big restrictions about the company can and cannot do when it comes to kids being on their platforms. “Although Meta …social media platforms are a significant contributing factor to the current mental health crisis among New Mexico’s youth established by the substantial evidence in this case,” wrote Judge Bryan Biedscheid today ordering the company to payout $567 million to safeguard minors hand…

Key eventsWelcome to the ConversationJoin us at 3pm (BST) on Friday 7 August, as Guardian food writer Felicity Cloake answers your questions.Felicity is the author of five cookbooks, two food travelogues and writer of the Guardian’s How to cook the perfect … and Masterclass cookery columns. She’s tried thousands by the world’s top chefs and food writers, to create the ultimate version – delicious and failsafe, every time.From showing us how to re-create eighties classic viennetta to nettle soup (“surprisingly tasty. You just have to know how to handle them.”) Felicity has brought an incredible breadth of food ideas into…