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Musk says Tesla to ‘open source’ Model S and X, but prior release makes us skeptical

Musk says Tesla to ‘open source’ Model S and X, but prior release makes us skeptical

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Elon Musk says Tesla plans to “open source” the Model S and Model X, and he’s pointing to the original Roadster as the template. The problem is Tesla’s Roadster release amounted to eight files on GitHub plus five document packages behind a login, with no open-source license attached to any of it. What Tesla actually put out for the Roadster In November 2023, Musk posted that “all design & engineering of the original Tesla Roadster is now fully open source,” and added, “Whatever we have, you now have.” We covered the release at the time. The full inventory is short. The teslamotors/roadster repo holds five CAN database (.dbc) files covering the Roadster 1.5 and 2.0 ESS and PEM buses, about 339 KB in total, plus a 309 MB diagnostic software ISO and two PDF quick-guides. That’s everything, aside from a README and a .gitattributes file. Advertisement – scroll for more content The commit history is worth a look. The DBC files went up on December 2, 2022, nearly a year before Musk announced any of …

Netflix denies Michael Jackson documentary was nearly pulled days before release

Netflix denies Michael Jackson documentary was nearly pulled days before release

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Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Netflix have denied that they almost pulled their controversial docuseries Michael Jackson: The Verdict days before it was released in June. The three-part documentary from director Nick Green focused on the King of Pop’s 2005 trial, which eventually saw him acquitted of multiple counts of child molestation. Variety reported earlier today that sources claimed Netflix executives debated pulling the series from air just a week before it arrived on the streaming service. “It would have been very embarrassing to pull the series after you drop the trailer — it would have been a huge story,” a source told the publication. The source claimed that executives got “cold feet” due to concerns that Jackson’s estate could potentially sue over claims made in the film, rather than worries about fan backlash. A docuseries about Michael Jackson’s sex abuse trial in 2005 was released …

‘Cowardly’ rapist on run after mistaken jail release sentenced to 18 years | UK | News

‘Cowardly’ rapist on run after mistaken jail release sentenced to 18 years | UK | News

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Bernadin Dedic has been jailed for 18 years (Image: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire) A “cowardly” rapist on the run after being accidentally set free from jail has been sentenced in his absence to 18 years in prison. Bernadin Dedic, 48, was convicted last month of repeatedly raping a woman he had held at knifepoint and threatened to kill, in an ordeal that lasted several hours. Dedic was remanded in custody at HMP Wormwood Scrubs ahead of his trial, but mistakenly set free in February when a court official wrongly recorded that bail had been granted. After being release, Dedic travelled to his native Bosnia and refused to return to Britain to face his trial. The court heard evidence that Dedic had drunk wine and snorted cocaine before holding the victim at knifepoint, cutting off her clothes, and threatening to kill her and himself. On Friday, Dedic was sentenced in his absence at Isleworth Crown Court, with Judge Hannah Duncan saying he is “refusing to return to the UK for his sentencing, just as he refused to …

Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 capable of generating images and 20-second video with audio — but in limited release to start

Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 capable of generating images and 20-second video with audio — but in limited release to start

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Black Forest Labs (BFL) is expanding its FLUX family beyond image generation with today’s launch of FLUX 3, a multimodal frontier model trained to understand and generate images, or combined audio/video clips up to 20 seconds from a single prompt — and to extend the same underlying architecture to robotic vision and actions. The Freiburg, Germany-based AI lab says FLUX 3 is jointly trained across those modalities rather than assembling separate image, video and audio models behind a common interface. That distinction is central to the company’s pitch: BFL wants enterprises to think about creative generation, simulation, computer use and robotics as connected applications of a single capability it calls visual intelligence — models, in the company’s words, “that can perceive, predict, and act across physical and digital environments.” This release marks BFL’s first public video generation model. FLUX 3 will be offered through four product lines: FLUX 3 Video, FLUX 3 Image, FLUX 3 Action and the upcoming, open source FLUX 3 Dev. FLUX 3 Video, with optional native audio generation, and FLUX 3 …

FC 27 release date confirmed by EA Sports – and a return for Alex Hunter

FC 27 release date confirmed by EA Sports – and a return for Alex Hunter

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Yes, it’s that time of the year again! EA has officially confirmed the release date for EA Sports FC 27. More than three decades on from its debut as FIFA International Soccer, the series has cemented itself as the de facto football video game, and one of the biggest series in the world. And after announcing World Cup Golden Boot winner Kylian Mbappé as its cover star earlier this week, EA has announced that FC 27 will release on 25 September 2026. The news was confirmed with the release of a brand-new trailer showcasing new features such as an AI defence rebalance, more fluid attacking movement and what appears to be a totally new street football single-player mode dubbed ‘The Grounds’. We even got a brief glimpse at the long-awaited return of Alex Hunter, whose career we played through all those years ago in one of the best modes in the modern series, with him set to appear as a mentor in The Grounds. Want to see this content? This page contains content provided by …

Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Ali G movie title and release date confirmed

Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Ali G movie title and release date confirmed

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Sacha Baron Cohen has announced that he’s bringing Ali G back in a new movie, while also confirming the title and release date. Rumours have been swirling that a new film is on the way after Baron Cohen pulled up to Wimbledon earlier this month dressed up as his comedy character and claimed to be the tournament’s official ‘weed dealer’. Now, Cohen has confirmed that Ali G: Who Iz I? will be released in cinemas on 23 October 2026 in both the UK and the US. Baron Cohen announced the news on his official Instagram account with a video in which he says in character as Ali G: “Dey haz finally made a documentary about me.” Want to see this content? This page contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as Instagram may use cookies and other technologies. To view this content, choose ‘Accept and continue’ to allow Instagram and its required purposes. Accept and continue He continues: “And it ain’t dat crap one about da penguins, dis …

Will there be The Undeclared War season 3? Release date speculation

Will there be The Undeclared War season 3? Release date speculation

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*Warning – contains full spoilers for all six episodes of The Undeclared War.* It took four years, but finally Channel 4 cyber thriller The Undeclared War is back, with all six episodes of the new season available to stream now on Channel 4. Season 2 tells a particularly personal story for Simon Pegg’s Danny, introducing his wife Barbara, played by Blue Lights star Siân Brooke. It also ends in dramatic fashion, with a lot of the central storyline wrapped up, but certain threads are still dangling which could be picked up in a future instalment. But will they be? Read on for everything we know so far about the potential for The Undeclared War season 3. Will there be a season 3 of The Undeclared War? Hannah Khalique-Brown as GCHQ Malware intern Saara Parvin in The Undeclared War. Channel 4 We don’t yet know whether The Undeclared War will be back for season 3, as the show has yet to be officially renewed. This is hardly surprising. Season 2 has only just been released, so hopefully …

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 release schedule

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 release schedule

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns to Paramount+ for its fourth season, once again following the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike as the crew charts uncharted space in the years before the original series. Season 4 lands as a 10-episode run, dropping weekly every Thursday rather than as a single box set, so fans have a fresh instalment to look forward to each week through late September. The premiere, titled Valles Marineris, arrived on Thursday 23 July 2026, kicking off a weekly rollout that keeps the season in the conversation right up to the finale. When is the next episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds released? Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is releasing on Thursdays on Paramount+. The season got underway on Thursday 23 July 2026, with the next episode arriving on Thursday 30 July. UK and US viewers will stay in step throughout the run, with episodes launching simultaneously around the world via Paramount+. Rebecca Romijn as Una, Christina Chong as La’an Noonien-Singh and Melissa Navia as Erica Ortegas in Star Trek: …

PC Harper’s police chief urges Burnham to stop killers’ early release | UK | News

PC Harper’s police chief urges Burnham to stop killers’ early release | UK | News

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The boss of PC Andrew Harper’s police force has taken aim at Labour’s early release of prisoners policy after it was revealed that two of the officers killed could be let out. Jason Hogg, the chief constable of Thames Valley Police, has urged the Prime Minister to change the law and stop Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole from being let loose. Under the scheme, the two killers could be let out halfway through their sentences – provided they don’t break any rules whilst inside. Mr Hogg called the idea they could be let out early “wrong”, with his comments following damning criticism from PC Harper’s widow, who called it “deplorable”. PC Harper died just 28-years-old after he had investigated the theft of a quad bike back in 2019. Bowers and Cole tried to flee the scene in a car driven by a third man, and the officer was dragged more than a mile after his ankles got caught in a tow rope. Bowers and Cole were locked up for 13 years for manslaughter. Andy Burnham, …