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Two-time Oscar winner Guillaume Rocheron has joined visual effects company DNEG as a VFX supervisor. He won Oscar and BAFTA awards for his work on Sam Mendes’ war film c and Ang Lee’s Life of Pi. His credits also include Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Rupert Sanders’ Ghost in the Shell. More recently, he served as production VFX supervisor on Jordan Peele’s Nope and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s upcoming Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths. “I’ve known and admired Guillaume for many years and he is a unique talent in our business,” said Namit Malhotra, DNEG…

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Rabat is using the leverage, especially in the decades-old fight over the disputed desert territory of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony also claimed by Algeria-backed rebels, analysts say. Morocco is set to chalk up record revenues for a second year running as farmers worldwide scramble for phosphate, made scarce by sanctions against top world producer Russia and a Chinese ban on exports. Phosphate is a key ingredient of artificial fertilisers, which are vital for industrial agriculture and global grain supplies despite the long-term damage they inflict on soil and groundwater. “It’s a strategic mineral for the future because it’s…

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The shadow of an imminent trade war over green subsidies is looming large at a high-level EU-US summit taking place on Monday. Two vice presidents of the European Commission – Margrethe Vestager and Valdis Dombrovskis – are meeting at the University of Maryland with their US counterparts to discuss and deepen cooperation on economic matters of common interest. The format, known as Trade and Technology Council (TTC), was launched last year to reset transatlantic relations after the fraught Trump years, which saw both sides slapping commercial tariffs on each other. Although not a main item on the official agenda, one contentious topic threatens…

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French financial prosecutors have raided the headquarters of the 2023 Rugby World Cup organising body.The searches were conducted on Wednesday as part of a probe into possible corruption and other irregularities.Prosecutors said they opened a preliminary investigation last month into charges of “favouritism, influence peddling, corruption and any other related offence relating to the management”.Raids took place at the headquarters in Paris and at other locations. No formal charges have so far been brought.The chief executive of the 2023 Rugby World Cup committee, Claude Achter, was dismissed last month following a separate investigation into his workplace conduct.The tournament is set to begin…

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Europe’s second-highest court has stood by the EU’s biggest-ever antitrust fine against Google.The Luxembourg-based General Court on Wednesday decided to uphold the decision by the European Commission made in 2018 to fine Alphabet’s Google unit for using its Android mobile operating system to quash rivals.However, the court did trim slightly the record fine to €4.125 billion from €4.34 billion.”The General Court largely confirms the Commission’s decision that Google imposed unlawful restrictions on manufacturers of Android mobile devices and mobile network operators in order to consolidate the dominant position of its search engine,” the court said.”In order better to reflect the…

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Passengers on flights within the European Union (EU) will soon be allowed to use mobile phones without enabling aeroplane mode.The European Commission has ruled that airlines can provide 5G technology onboard in addition to allowing mobile data.This should mean passengers are exempt from using flight mode on phones, although details on how this will work have not been released.The changes will mean travellers can make phone calls, text and stream videos.Why do passengers have to enable aeroplane mode on flights?Air passengers in the EU are currently requested to turn off mobile phones or enable flight mode for the whole journey.This…

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This article is an on-site version of our Trade Secrets newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every MondayWelcome to Trade Secrets. As far as I can tell, the big Macron-Biden love-in last week boiled down to Biden saying “Congress had no idea what they were doing with those electric vehicle subsidies, sorry about that, we’ll punch some holes in the law” and Macron saying “Très gentil, but we’d better start splurging on our own green handouts just in case”. Then a lot of smiles, something about baguettes, and the EV subsidies race is…

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Facepalm: Like any other modern operating system, Android’s design employs a “privilege” based model. Such model is enforced by digital certificates, and it can become quite troublesome when the certificates are compromised somehow. An undefined number of Platform digital certificates for Android were compromised by cyber-criminals and have been used to sign malware. First disclosed in November, the issue seems to be resolved now thanks to the aforementioned certificates’ revocation, but the risk still persists as attackers will continue to go after this type of access. As originally explained on Chromium’s bug tracking platform, a Platform certificate is the application…

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