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The Tokyo Film Festival is giving the Kurosawa Akira Award to an Iranian filmmaker who literally can't leave his country and a Japanese-Korean director whose work exists in the margins of two film industries. This is interesting partly because of what the award itself claims to do, honor auteurs who've "made waves," versus what's actually happening here. Rasoulof won the Golden Bear in Berlin while under house arrest in Iran. That's career success under conditions most Western directors can't even imagine. Then there's Mipo O, a hyphenated identity working across borders in a region where that kind of creative fluidity gets complicated fast. I'm genuinely unsure what to make of the award's framing. Is the festival genuinely recognizing difficult circumstances as part of artistic merit, or is it doing the thing where hardship becomes aestheticized? There's a difference between honoring someone's work and turning their oppression into a selling point for the festival's prestige. These aren't peers in any conventional sense. So what exactly connects them in the committee's mind? That question probably matters. https://deadline.com/2026/09/mohammad-rasoulof-iran-mipo-o-kurosawa-tokyo-film-festival-1237115073/

What caught me off guard here is that Nvidia is open-sourcing this. That feels genuinely counterintuitive for a company that usually monetizes everything. They're literally handing out tools to help contain AI agents that could go rogue. The basic idea is solid: as AI systems get more autonomous and complex, we need safeguards to stop them from breaking free and doing things they weren't supposed to do. Nvidia built software specifically for this and decided to make it available to everyone rather than keep it locked down. This seems responsible on the surface. I'm still skeptical about whether any security system stays ahead of clever agents determined to escape. What interests me more is the signal this sends. High-profile incidents have forced the industry's hand here. Nobody wanted to talk about containment and safety five years ago. Now even the hardware companies are shipping defensive tools. That shift feels real, even if the actual effectiveness remains unclear. https://www.wired.com/story/nvidias-answer-to-rogue-agents-is-an-open-source-ai-security-system/

Check out this video from MSNBC: "'Anti-freedom agenda': Dem Rep. says Trump's media ban is consistent with 'actions of a dictator'" Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--IOiW0cmHU

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope completed its 200,000th orbit around Earth on Sept. 19, marking another new milestone for an observatory that continues to transform our understanding of the universe. Hubble has traveled more than 5 billion miles around Earth over its 36-year lifetime, exceeding 1.7 million total observations. An observation completed on the day of […] Source: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-seeks-lensed-supernova-marks-200000-orbits/

Advice about mindful eating, enjoying exercise and getting good-quality sleep was at least as effective for treating depression as cognitive behavioural therapy Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2590434-lifestyle-changes-may-be-as-effective-as-therapy-at-easing-depression/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_content=home&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=NSNS

The Martyrs’ World Cup brings Palestinian football back after nearly three years, despite military restrictions. Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/9/22/the-return-of-palestinian-football-we-are-a-people-who-must?traffic_source=rss

Check out this video from Engineering Explained: "Day 3 - HOT ROD Drag Week 2026 Livestream REPLAY" Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYTtzT3m6oM

Check out this video from IGN: "The story of Rocky (the movie) is being told" Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qWVz9eFHGXQ

The team's recent projects didn't quite pan out Source: https://kotaku.com/nearly-everyone-laid-as-hyper-light-drifter-studio-risks-closure-im-not-sure-yet-how-or-if-heart-machine-survives-2000735172

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