Reporting and analysis from the culture desk, grouped by publication day.8 stories indexed
Badges move listener trust from gut feeling to paperwork—touring history, distributor files, and maybe future third-party auditors—while collecting societies still match ISRC codes and fingerprints behind the scenes.
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For the 2027 ceremony, the Academy drew bright lines: AI-only performances cannot win acting Oscars, AI-only scripts cannot win writing Oscars—while other crafts still weigh how humans steered the work.
By Sofia Ren
Rio’s Copacabana beach filled for a free Shakira set—another megastar footprint on a strip that has learned how to host millions for a night and empty the sand by morning.
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Laufey traces how she helped reposition jazz for younger ears—and why one surreal, fish-strewn video became the outlet for a fiercer, theatrical side of her artistry.
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A bomb hoax disrupted a packed Peter Kay arena date; police charged Omar Majed and set a Monday court appearance as venues across the UK revisit crowd-safety protocols.
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The BBC bets bigger names and sharper gameplay for series two of The Celebrity Traitors—Miranda Hart, Maya Jama, Ross Kemp and more—as the social-deduction format tries to match the civilian hit’s word-of-mouth heat.
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Oscars now reject purely AI acting and AI-only scripts for wins; human actors and writers stay at the centre, per updated Academy eligibility language.
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Meryl Streep says one story shape could reunite The Devil Wears Prada cast; BBC hears co-stars on fashion-world satire, feminism, and what changed since 2006.
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