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He died peacefully at home in Los Angeles on Wednesday. No cause has been given. Every obituary will say he voiced Optimus Prime for forty-two years — but the sentence his family chose to end their statement with was not written by Hasbro or by a screenwriter. It was said to him in a car in 1984 by his brother Larry, a Marine captain who came home from Vietnam with a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts.

He died peacefully at home in Toluca Lake on Tuesday. No cause has been given. Everyone will lead with Frank-N-Furter, Pennywise and Wadsworth, and they should. But a stroke took his body in 2012 and left him the one instrument he had always been best with — and he worked with it for fourteen more years.

At 9am on Wednesday a wall of water arrived in northern Nepal from the Tibetan side of the border. The district's chief officer says there was no rainfall. Scientists believe an ice avalanche dammed a river in Tibet and the dam let go. Hundreds are missing, including 291 foreign nationals — and this is the second such flood on this river in thirteen months.

Her publicist says she died at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center after 'bravely facing a brief battle with cancer,' surrounded by loved ones. Brief is the word that stings: four days earlier she gave an interview saying she'd been ill because 'I just didn't pay attention' to herself while nursing Carl — and that she still had 'so many things I want to achieve.'

A post with three-quarters of a million views says Harbour 'shares a line from Avengers: Doomsday.' He said the words, and Variety printed them. But he said them deadpan, in a Russian accent, pointing — in an interview, not a scene. The reason it went viral anyway is that the joke only works if you already know Tony Stark is dead.

Every version of this story traces back to one Page Six Hollywood item. World of Reel amplified it — then published a second post hours later saying Odessa Young is being considered for Charlene and Navarrette 'would be downgraded to a much smaller role as Gabriella.' Those cannot both be right. The verifiable number in all of this is $20,000.

Friday would have been her 37th birthday. Wladimir Klitschko marked it: 'Instead of celebrating the way we had planned, today we celebrate her life.' The DEA is assisting Greenville police, her representative says the family is 'hopeful justice will be served,' and the men who found her say they gave her Narcan and did CPR. Toxicology is still weeks away.

The quote came from a producer answering a Deadline question on the D23 red carpet. Read it literally and it contains four conditions: no deal, no finished screenplay, Sparrow as a supporting character in Margot Robbie's film, and Depp's agreement to a part nobody has written yet. Reps for Depp, Bruckheimer and Disney all declined to comment.

CHP says the driver appeared to be on the right shoulder when the SUV went under a stopped big rig at Roxford Street. Everything forward of the windshield was sheared off; everything behind the B-pillar is untouched. It was 2:25 in the afternoon, clear and dry, and the truck had not moved. This is the crash driver-assistance and autonomy are built to prevent — and the crash that keeps happening anyway.

Q2 revenue $311M, up 18%. Net income $17M against a $26M loss a year ago. The segment everyone is calling 'film' grew 40% — but it is Advanced Materials & Chemicals, which also contains the pharmaceutical business Kodak is building, and no film revenue figure was disclosed. Meanwhile operations still burned $25M in cash, and Kodak is stockpiling silver.

Nearly everything on Nikon's 2026 roadmap is slipping toward 2027, and the company has cut its full-year forecast by 50,000 bodies and 50,000 lenses. Buried in the Q1 filing is the reason: 'higher memory prices.' DRAM spot prices are up roughly 700 percent in a year because AI data centres are buying the supply. That is now showing up in the camera aisle.

Kevin Feige revealed six mutants and a villain for the May 2028 X-Men reboot. The name that matters is Sadie Sink's, because her Jean Grey has been on screens since Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened. Plus: Incredibles 3, Coco 2, Zootopia 3, a Kingdom Hearts anime, Ryan Gosling's Starfighter, and the full list with dates.

Andy Burnham urged against 'rushing to judgement.' Simon Baron-Cohen, who runs Cambridge's Autism Research Centre, told the BBC he spoke to Arday on the morning of his death and that he was 'vulnerable' and needed safeguarding. Flowers are on the railings at Senate House, vigils are planned, and police are preparing a file for a coroner. Cambridge has ordered a review of how it hires.

Trump announced Wednesday that his 28-year-old press secretary is stepping down at the end of August. The same post says she will become 'one of my top outside advisors' and 'an influential voice within the Republican Party' heading into November. She is not leaving the work. She is leaving the podium.

Colombia's official count stands at 294 dead, 3,935 injured and 320 unaccounted for. More than two-thirds of the deaths are in Cali and Pereira — cities a hundred kilometres from the epicentre. The search for survivors has ended. And the assessment of collapsed buildings has been cut from more than 170 to 66, while damaged homes climbed past 80,000.

Lionel Messi's father has died at 68 at a clinic in Rosario. He worked in a steel factory, and when his 10-year-old son was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency the family could not afford to treat, he went looking for a club that would pay for the medicine. Barcelona stalled. He said he was taking the boy back to Argentina. That afternoon a director signed a contract on a table napkin.

Terafab is now confirmed for Grimes County: 100 million square feet, a $55 billion first phase, up to $119 billion total, and a target of one terawatt of output a year. SpaceX says it will generate its own electricity rather than draw from ERCOT. Nearly 900 residents have signed a petition asking for protections — after the agreement was already signed.

Apple's review team found material violating its rules against child sexual abuse content and pulled Telegram worldwide on Monday night. It was back within about forty minutes, after Telegram removed the content and banned the account. Governments have spent years trying to compel this company. Apple did it before most users noticed.

From July 27 a banner for 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' appears on the Control Display every time the car starts. Tap it and you get a full-screen animation with music and synchronised ambient lighting. It arrived by over-the-air update, without being asked for. The ad ends August 10. The precedent does not.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened to $360 million, the largest domestic debut ever, and handed Cinemark its best domestic weekend on record. It lands on top of a quarter in which the chain cleared $1 billion in revenue for the first time in 42 years.

'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' took $360 million domestically in three days, beating 'Avengers: Endgame' for the all-time record, on $932 million worldwide. At the premiere Tom Holland said his future depended on whether the movie did well. It did the best business any movie has ever done. Sony's Tom Rothman says talks about another one are 'only aspirational.'

BYD sold 419,211 vehicles in July, a third straight monthly rise. Overseas shipments more than doubled to 179,841 — roughly 43% of the total. At home, sales collapsed about 40% in the first half as Beijing stripped short-range plug-in hybrids of tax subsidies. The company isn't growing so much as relocating.

An avalanche swept a ten-person team off Broad Peak around midday Thursday. Nirmal Purja's company says he and nine others were killed. Four bodies have been found, three recovered in weather that grounded helicopters. The team ranged from a woman who had summited Everest and K2 to a 39-year-old who closed her Pilates studio this year to start climbing.

Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness lost 67% in July and was forced to sell its entire public stock book to Citadel under margin calls. Assets fell from about $45 billion to roughly $10 billion. But the fund was up 439% through June, it is still up around 80% for the year, it was not liquidated, and it kept its Anthropic stake. He wrote the investor letter as guests arrived in Carmel for his wedding.