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Apple is known to spend billions of dollars on its Hollywood projects, but that could be set to change following production losses across the wider streaming industry.

According to Bloomberg, Apple’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, is pushing studio chiefs Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht to oversee project budgets more closely in a bid to make its Apple TV Plus streaming business more sustainable.

Apple invests heavily in individual projects compared to larger streaming companies like Netflix, having spent over $500 million on movies from directors Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon), Ridley Scott (Napoleon), and Matthew Vaughn (Argylle).

While its original projects get plenty of attention during award seasons, Bloomberg reports that Apple TV Plus is attracting fewer views per month than Netflix averages in a single day.

The company is also licensing more content from competitors to reduce its reliance on original series and has delayed production on shows like Foundation in an attempt to remain within budget.

Apple TV Plus hasn’t been as quick to lay off staffers compared to rivals like Disney and Paramount, though, and the money bought in by selling iPhones and other tech hardware makes it difficult to know how much pressure its studios are under.

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Editor’s Note: Rachel Greszler is a senior research fellow in workforce and public finance at the Roe Institute at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative thinktank in Washington, DC.

She is also a visiting fellow in workforce at the Economic Policy Innovation Center, a pro-growth research group that advocates for less government intervention.

Across the country, some of the hardest hit among the millions of people impacted by job losses or reduced hours following minimum wage increases are fast-food workers.

Pay increases that result from government mandates can eliminate entry-level job opportunities and lead to a cascade of other unintended consequences.

In short, high minimum-wage laws cut off the bottom rung of the career ladder, effectively pricing the least-advantaged workers out of employment.

In South Carolina, researchers found that the most recent minimum wage hike reduced employment by 8.9% for teens, and by 15.5% for workers with less than a high school diploma.

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The lengthy multi-year sentences handed to Just Stop Oil activists are “not acceptable in a democracy”, a UN special rapporteur has said, as the government faced growing pressure to reverse the previous administration’s “hardline anti-protest” approach.

Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu and Cressida Gethin were each sentenced to four years in prison this week after being found guilty of planning disruptive protests on the M25.

Forst, whose role is to protect individuals facing penalisation, persecution, or harassment for exercising their environmental rights, attended two days of the trial earlier this month as he attempted to intervene with UK authorities on behalf of Shaw.

And Tom Southerden, Amnesty International UK’s human rights adviser, called on the government to repeal the portions of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 that legislated the statutory offence of public nuisance used against the defendants.

Pressed on whether Labour would look again at anti-protest laws it opposed before entering government, Starmer’s spokeswoman said: “The prime minister is very clear that when it comes to these cases, the judgments and sentencing is for independent judges to make them, they’ve had all the facts and evidence before them.

Dale Vince, the green entrepreneur, who stepped away from bankrolling Just Stop Oil to become one of the Labour party’s most significant donors, joined the broadcasters Chris Packham and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in echoing calls for a meeting with Hermer about the protesters’ case.

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It was, the federation said, “A disgusting choice of language to use for the title of a TV programme,” and “highly offensive to police officers risking their lives to protect the public every day, providing an emergency service”.

Now that they have had a chance to view the programme, perhaps the federation can put the toys back in the pram and note that, by some whim of the comedy gods, there is virtually nothing – given the wealth of material offered almost daily in recent years of endemic police corruption, failures and general inadequacies – in it to distress its members.

Then there is Leggo (Sam Pote), who is an unwilling follower in his senior officer parents’ footsteps, and Paul (Jamie Bisping), the dim scion of a local crime family.

Each episode comprises a weak storyline with a couple of good lines (Spry’s unexpected “Bob, do you need a poo?” as they finish a team pep talk, or her curt dismissal of Gunn from her office – “Off you go, Magic Mike, don’t trip over your cock”).

In the opening episode, Spry and Weekes are informed that there is a spy hiding in the new intake who must be discovered (cut to Paul being picked up at the end of his first day by his villainous dad and driven away), while Steph attempts to sabotage any budding relationships for Mike.

In the third, the recruits are issued with their uniforms, Steph forces Mike to use her as his partner in demonstrating how to restrain a suspect and it is a bit like them having sex, Dev is revealed to be a (probable) virgin … and this viewer begins to feel tired.

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Found in Utah by North Carolina State University researchers and paleontologists, the Fona herzogae was a small-framed, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in the Cenomanian age — about 100-66 million years ago.

“If you took, like, a Komodo dragon tail and attached it to the back of an ostrich, that’s kind of what Fona would have looked like,” researcher Haviv Avrahami told NPR.

Avrahami is a Ph.D student at North Carolina State University and was part of the team that identified this new dino.

Avrahami and his team also believe this new dino was a burrowing species, spending at least part of its life underground.

“Their family tree is, basically, like a giant black hole in paleontology knowledge,” Avrahami said.

Avrahami hopes that from his team’s discovery springs more knowledge about this small burrowing dinosaur and the life that it led millions of years ago.

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Previous research has identified a suite of global scale processes, referred to as Planetary Boundaries, that regulate the overall habitability and stability of the planet.

Across all aquatic ecosystems, from streams and rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and ponds to estuaries, coasts, and the open ocean, dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations have rapidly and substantially declined in recent decades.

Aquatic habitats with low oxygen levels are commonly referred to as “dead zones” because of their loss of life, which threatens ecosystem services like fishing, aquaculture, tourism, and cultural practices.

Deoxygenation can also induce aquatic ecosystems to transition to alternative and undesirable states, characterized by harmful algal blooms and widespread anoxia, or lack of oxygen.

“We are approaching critical thresholds of aquatic deoxygenation that will ultimately affect several other Planetary Boundaries,” said Rose, "DO regulates the role of marine and freshwater in modulating Earth’s climate.

“Aquatic deoxygenation trends represent a clear warning and call to action that should inspire changes to slow or even mitigate this Planetary Boundary,” said Curt Breneman, Ph.D., Dean of Rensselaer’s School of Science.

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There are reports of IT outages affecting major institutions in Australia and internationally.

The ABC is experiencing a major network outage, along with several other media outlets.

Crowd-sourced website Downdetector is listing outages for Foxtel, National Australia Bank and Bendigo Bank.

Follow our live blog as we bring you the latest updates.

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“It’s a no brainer,” mum Laura Melling said after she decided to take her daughters out of school during term-time to save £3,000 on their family holiday.Mrs Melling and her husband Paul from Leyland, Lancashire, were each fined £120 after taking their children out of primary school for a trip to Egypt.The nurse, whose TikTok about the fine has been viewed 1.4 million times, said the term-time holiday ban was “ridiculous”.The Department of Education said school attendance was the key to giving “every child the best start in life”.

Lancashire County Council, which issued the fine, said it always encouraged schools to work closely with parents to reduce unauthorised absences.

“A holiday can feel like a small period of time to families, but this is having a big impact and we don’t want that to be the case,” he said.

“All of us within the education sector are imploring parents to recognise the detrimental impact it can have when children are not consistently in school.”

It is harder for schools to hold the line that every day missed has an impact on education, because bluntly families no longer believe it is that stark.

Yet this week research has confirmed that tests and exam results are showing the pandemic led to a widened gap between children from the highest and lowest income families.That suggests missing days at school will have a bigger impact on some children than others.At the same time, it’s clear how much the cost of living crisis is hitting families, making a trip away during school holidays ever more expensive.Some parents may decide that £80 is still cheaper than a family trip in the UK or abroad in July or August.

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MediSecure, which facilitates electronic prescriptions and dispensing, confirmed it was the victim of a large-scale data breach in May.

The company had previously not disclosed how many Australians were affected but confirmed the data was taken from its systems up until November last year.

MediSecure went into voluntary administration in June after the federal government declined to provide it with a financial bailout.

A sample of the data has since been published on the darkweb, but the ABC understands there is no indication the larger trove has been publicly released.

In a statement released late Thursday afternoon, MediSecure gave details about the kinds of data stolen including full names, phone numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, Medicare numbers, and Medicare card expiry dates.

Australians are being told to watch out for scams referencing the MediSecure data breach, and not to respond to unsolicited contact that mentions the incident.

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi privately told President Joe Biden in a recent conversation that polling shows that the president cannot defeat Donald Trump and that Biden could destroy Democrats’ chances of winning the House in November if he continues seeking a second term, according to four sources briefed on the call.

The president responded by pushing back, telling Pelosi he has seen polls that indicate he can win, one source said.

At one point, Pelosi asked Mike Donilon, Biden’s longtime adviser, to get on the line to talk over the data.

This phone call would mark the second known conversation between the California lawmaker and Biden since the president’s disastrous debate on June 27.

When asked for comment, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates did not respond to the details of CNN’s reporting on the recent Pelosi-Biden call.

A Pelosi spokesperson told CNN that the former House speaker has been in California since Friday and she has not spoken to Biden since.

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However the company is said to have suffered “severe cash flow problems” due to a combination of a decline in the number of their projects and rising labour costs.Administrators Interpath Advisory confirmed 162 members of staff have lost their jobs immediately, with four people being retained to help wind up the business, which formed in 2000.

The business employed people around the world to make content for TV, film, video games and theme parks - including work on brands such as Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Luther and Magic the Gathering.

It was a recipient of several awards for its work including a Royal Television Society award and an Emmy.Administrators said the company’s work was in high demand during the Covid-19 pandemic - when the need for animation and visual effects projects “skyrocketed” - but that customer projects have since declined.

Alistair McAlinden, the head of Interpath Advisory in Scotland and joint administrator, said it was a “great shame to see a creative business in Scotland close its doors”.He added: "Axis has more recently been impacted by a decline in customer projects, as well as increases in labour costs which have resulted in severe cash flow problems.

"The directors worked tirelessly to explore alternative solutions, but ultimately had to take the difficult decision to seek the appointment of administrators.”The business was founded in 2000 by Richard Scott, in partnership with Dana Dorian, Stuart Aitken and Graham McKenna.

Companies House records list Mr Scott as the company’s sole director.Axis recently worked on a high-profile campaign for the mobile game Clash of Clans, turning Manchester City footballer Erling Haaland into a character for it.

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Also Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Elon Musk, the anti-union Tesla boss who has endorsed Trump, would be showering a pro-Trump super PAC with $45 million per month in cash.

But it is notable, as O’Brien pointed out, that a handful of Republican senators, including Trump’s new running mate Sen. JD Vance, have joined picket lines in recent years.

Vance and other Republican senators, however, oppose the Democrats’ proposal to pass a nationwide law, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, supported by labor unions including the Teamsters.

If there was an overriding theme in speeches at the first night of the Republican convention, which were supposed to focus on Make America Wealthy Again, it was an anti-corporate and anti-elitist message, with frequent mentions of helping workers.

In a nod to that episode, O’Brien namechecked Mullin and said he was paraphrasing the senator with this line: “‘It’s time for both sides of Congress to stand their butts up.’ We need trade policies that put American workers first.

Government worker unions are a strong part of the labor movement and unlikely to be getting any overtures from a new Trump administration, which has tried to paint the federal bureaucracy as an organized deep state opposed to him.

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President Joe Biden renewed his demand for Congress to ban high-powered firearms such as the AR-15-style rifle that a gunman used to shoot Donald Trump.

“An AR-15 was used in the shooting of Donald Trump, just as other assault weapons were used to kill so many others, including children,” he said in remarks to the NAACP’s 115th national convention in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

Since taking office, Biden has made more than 70 calls to Congress to renew the assault weapons ban, which would target the most popular gun in America.

During an address to the National Rifle Association in May, Trump claimed that the Second Amendment “is very much on the ballot” and baselessly alleged that Biden is “trying to rip firearms out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.”

He also pointed to Republican-led threats to Social Security and Medicare, “risking people’s lives,” and the Heritage Foundation-backed proposal to eliminate the Department of Education.

He mentioned Republican proposed cuts to federal early education programs for children from low-income families, and warned that “they’ve already eviscerated affirmative action” and will “also decimate diversity, equity, inclusion, across all America.

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NDA was co-founded by Mr Murrin’s former partner Helen Delaney, who attracted national attention last year when a video went viral showing a NSW Police officer ripping out her car window to arrest her, as she voiced baseless claims about why she and her companion were exempt from the law.

Ms Delaney lost custody of her children in 2022 and Mr Murrin says NDA is her latest attempt to take back their two sons by force, accusing her and her anti-government allies of making his family’s life “pure hell”.

In May, during a recruitment drive in the Gold Coast hinterland town of Nerang that was led by Ms Delaney, NDA members were seen wearing uniforms — khaki pants, Akubra hats, and light beige shirts with the word “sheriff” on the breast pocket.

Mr Avati, battling driving offence charges, has sent an email to a magistrate in the Sydney suburb of Burwood demanding they pay $100,000 into his account or face a “full investigation by the first nations Nmdaka Dalai Australis Court”.

Extremism researcher Kaz Ross says NDA is the “logical conclusion” of an anti-government movement that sincerely views the country’s political and legal institutions as an active threat to the public and sees its own actions as protecting children.

Property records show the Queensland house that Mr Murrin was summoned to belonged to Jeffrey Cranston, a sovereign citizen who local media reported had threatened to burn down both the courthouse and council chambers in Gympie.

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Taboola, one of the biggest providers of chumbox ads on the internet, has a deal to sell ads that will show up in Apple’s News and Stocks apps, Axios reports.

Apple lists Taboola as one of its “authorized advertising resellers” whose ads appear in the apps’ feeds and “select publisher articles” for users in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada.

The deal doesn’t mean Apple News will soon be littered with chumboxes — those ad boxes formatted to look like news stories that you see at the bottom of articles (including at The Verge) with low-rent, often ridiculous clickbait headlines.

But it also sells “native” ads, which are meant to blend in with surrounding content, from “a curated set of premium publishers” through its Taboola Select program, notes Axios.

In the case of Apple, the company’s ad moderator team has “certain levels of control around which advertisers it will sell through to Apple apps,” Axios writes, paraphrasing Taboola CEO Adam Singolda.

I took a quick jaunt through Apple News while writing this story, and you won’t BELIEVE the ads I saw IN JUST FIVE MINUTES!

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MILWAUKEE — Thousands of protesters descended on this Midwestern city on Monday, denouncing the Republican Party and its presidential nominee Donald Trump, who had survived an assassination attempt less than 48 hours earlier.

Inside the Fiserv Forum, home to the city’s professional basketball team, the Republican National Convention was kicking off its first day, still reeling after a gunman opened fire at the former president’s Pennsylvania rally on Saturday.

The twin events — convention and protest — served as two early tests of how Americans would react to the first assassination attempt of a president or candidate in more than 40 years, which unfolded during what was already one of the darkest and most divided eras in recent memory.

“Defeating the Republican agenda is a matter of life and death for working and oppressed people,” Kobi Guillory of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization told the crowd of protesters as they prepared to march toward the convention site.

Christine Neumann-Ortiz, the head of Wisconsin’s largest immigrant rights group, Voces de la Frontera, said the country’s most vulnerable residents are still dealing with dangerous fallout from Trump’s first term in office.

Hanson, a ministry worker, bears a striking resemblance to the Jeff Bridges character from the movie “The Big Lebowski,” and he was wandering around the protest area in a shirt emblazoned with the film’s protagonist, a go-with-the-flow slacker type.

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The country’s conservation agency said Monday a creature that washed up on a South Island beach this month is believed to be a spade-toothed whale.

Only six other spade-toothed whales have ever been pinpointed, and those found intact on New Zealand’s North Island beaches were buried before DNA testing could verify their identification, Hendriks said, thwarting any chance to study them.

This time, the beached whale was quickly transported to cold storage and researchers will work with local Māori iwi (tribes) to plan how it will be examined, the conservation agency said.

In April, Pacific Indigenous leaders signed a treaty recognizing whales as “legal persons,” although such a declaration is not reflected in the laws of participating nations.

It took “many years and a mammoth amount of effort by researchers and local people” to identify the “incredibly cryptic” mammals, Kirsten Young, a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter who has studied spade-toothed whales, said in emailed remarks.

Firstly mistaken for one of New Zealand’s 13 other more common types of beaked whale, tissue samples — taken before they were buried — later revealed them as the enigmatic species.

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“After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D.

Vance, a venture capitalist and the author of the best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” was elected to the Senate in 2022 after receiving a boost from Trump in a contentious Republican primary.

But he earned Trump’s endorsement in the 2022 Ohio Republican Senate primary after a concerted yearlong effort by Vance to embrace a new image as a leading MAGA proponent, courting the former president at meetings in Mar-a-Lago and through appearances on Fox News.

In a display of loyalty, Vance was one of several potential running mates and Republican lawmakers to stand by Trump’s side at a New York courthouse during his criminal hush money trial.

In addition to his MAGA credentials, Vance also brings ties to traditionally liberal-leaning Silicon Valley to the presidential ticket.

He recently helped organize a fundraiser for Trump in San Francisco hosted by prominent tech venture capitalists David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya.

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A statement from her publicist Leslie Sloane, cited by People magazine, said: “It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of actress Shannen Doherty.

In 2020, she said that her diagnosis was then terminal, calling it “a bitter pill to swallow” in a Good Morning America interview.

In June 2023, Doherty shared an Instagram post that revealed news that cancer had spread to her brain alongside a video of her receiving treatment.

Two years later, Doherty found success as Brenda Walsh in hit teen drama Beverly Hills 90210, which averaged over 21 million viewers by its fourth season.

Her film roles included Mallrats and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back for the film-maker Kevin Smith.

Doherty was often positioned as a troublemaker in the press, with People magazine once referring to her the “iconic Hollywood bad girl of the 90s”.

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Two law enforcement officials tell The Associated Press investigators believe the weapon was bought the father of Thomas Matthew Crooks, who’s been identified as the shooter, at least six months ago.

Kevin Rojek, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Pittsburgh field office, said late Saturday: “Tonight we had what we’re calling an assassination attempt on our former president, Donald Trump.”

At 6:02 pm Saturday, to the strains of “God Bless the U.S.A.,” former President Donald Trump took the stage at fairgrounds in Butler, Pennsylvania, waving at the cheering crowd and settling into his regular rally speech under a scorching midsummer sun.

Rico Elmore, vice chairman of the Beaver County Republican Party, was sitting in a section for special guests, facing President Trump, when he heard what sounded like firecrackers.

“Hillary and I are thankful that President Trump is safe, heartbroken for all those affected by the attack at today’s rally in Pennsylvania, and grateful for the swift action of the U.S. Secret Service,” he wrote.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro repudiated the attack and wished Trump a speedy recovery, adding, May God bless the people of the United States and give them peace and tranquility.”

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