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Vietnamese Films Capture 70% of Local Box Office as Galaxy Studio Chief Urges Global Co-Productions at Danang Industry…

Variety

Vietnamese Films Capture 70% of Local Box Office as Galaxy Studio Chief Urges Global Co-Productions at Danang Industry…

Vietnamese films held a 70.6% share of the domestic box office in the first five months of 2026, up from 62.2% across the full year of 2025 and 42.6% in 2023, according to figures presented by Dinh Thanh Huong, executive chair of Galaxy…

Variety

South China Morning Post

Fish named after Blackpink’s Jennie; China’s 6G smart city: 7 science highlights

We have put together stories from our coverage on science from the past two weeks to help you stay informed. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Chinese scientists love Blackpink’s Jennie so much…

South China Morning Post

Euronews

New venomous spider species found in Portugal

The discovery of the Chilean recluse spider (Loxosceles laeta) in Porto is the first record of this venomous species in Iberia. Researchers say its discreet behaviour means the risk to the public is low.

Euronews

Two dead after wildfire guts house in northern Greece

ATHENS, July 1 - Two people died after a wildfire gutted a house in a forested settlement in northern Greece, the fire brigade said.

‘Happy vowel’ is a key indicator of social class in Manchester accents, study finds

The Guardian

‘Happy vowel’ is a key indicator of social class in Manchester accents, study finds

Final vowel in words such as happy, baby and chilly varies clearly by social class across the city Pronunciation of the “happy vowel” is one of the key indicators of social class in Mancunian accents, researchers have found. A…

The Guardian

NATO project tests perennial grass to clean Ukraine’s war-hit soil

Although it takes years to cleanse soil, early results have been promising, scientists say.

The Hidden Liability Behind AI-Assisted Coding

The Hidden Liability Behind AI-Assisted Coding

Vibe coding's critics are loud and vocal about their opinions, and they're right. Their reasoning, however, is completely wrong . Ever since the introduction of OpenAI's ChatGPT in November 2022, followed by releases from Meta, Anthropic…

How I Engineered a 1.7M Row Product Safety Database to Serve Pages in 66ms on a Single Free VM

How I Engineered a 1.7M Row Product Safety Database to Serve Pages in 66ms on a Single Free VM

Let me tell you what happens when you shove 1.7 million dense PostgreSQL rows onto a 6GB ARM instance and then try to serve real user traffic. Sequential table scans that choke the server for 45 seconds. COUNT(*) queries that make the…

Fraud Has Moved Outside the Bank. Protection Should Too

Fraud Has Moved Outside the Bank. Protection Should Too

Banks should be developing AI fraud detectors and encouraging customers to install them alongside banking apps. But they’re still investing in infrastructure protection. Banks are investing more than ever in fraud detection. They are…

We Built an Internal Developer Platform. 80% of Devs Stopped Using It After Three Months.

We Built an Internal Developer Platform. 80% of Devs Stopped Using It After Three Months.

\ I pulled the Google Analytics data on a Thursday afternoon, mostly because I was preparing a slide deck for the engineering all-hands to celebrate our Q2 platform adoption. The numbers were brutal. In month one, we had 140 unique…

RNZ

What can we learn from whale poo?

A molecular ecologist is hoping that studying the faeces of southern right whales, or tohorā, will help protect them from the threat of climate change.

RNZ

Daily Trust