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Experts claim to have found 'critical' security flaws in Android devices which they say put fingerprint and face data at risk of theft. The team at Switzerland's EPFL reportedly uncovered over 30 issues within Google's mobile operating system, after hacking in to explore its vulnerabilities before malicious attackers could.

Yungblud joined The Offspring on stage in Switzerland on Friday (August 16) for a version of ‘Self Esteem’ – check out footage below.The show took place at the Open Air Festival in Gampel and saw the Californian band play a set packed with their biggest songs, including ‘Come Out and Play’, ‘Why Don’t You Get a Job?’ and ‘Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)’.During the encore, Yungblud joined them for a rendition of ‘Self Esteem’, from the band’s 1994 album ‘Smash’. Posting on Instagram after the show, Yungblud quoted the song’s lyrics, writing: “That’s okay man, cause I like the abuse,” alongside footage of him standing among the crowd.Watch below:A post shared by YUNGBLUD (@yungblud)‘Come Out and Play’ ’Want You Bad’ ‘Staring At the Sun’ ‘Make It All Right’ ‘Hit That’ ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ ‘Light It Up’ ‘Million Miles Away’ ‘(Can’t Get My) Head Around You’ ‘Bad Habit’ ‘Gotta Get Away’ ‘Why Don’t You Get a Job?’ ‘Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)’ ‘The Kids Aren’t Alright’ ‘You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid’ ‘Self Esteem’ (with Yungblud) It comes just days after Yungblud made a brief cameo at the Sex Pistols’ and Frank Carter’s first Bush Hall show earlier this week.

Christopher Vourlias Georgian filmmaker Tato Kotetishvili, whose feature directorial debut, “Holy Electricity,” won the Golden Leopard in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente section at the recently wrapped Locarno Film Festival, is prepping his next film, a docufiction that follows a family trying to illegally enter the U.S. from across the Mexican border.

Alyssa Edwards again.” After six long years, drag superstar Alyssa Edwards is back. Edwards is one of the 12 queens competing for a place in the international pavilion at the Drag Race Hall of Fame in “RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars,” which premiered Friday on Paramount+. And while she faces some fierce competition from the other queens, Edwards declares she has some unfinished business and wants to be crowned Queen of the Mothertucking world.

Kenny McLean says Scotland have to take responsibility for their Euro 2024 exit in Germany – but they have what’s need to be successful.

The seventh instalment in the increasingly aimless Alien franchise is better than it has any right to be, a genuinely thoughtful reimagining that pays stylish homage to the one-two punch packed by Ridley Scott and James Cameron in 1979 and 1986 but adds in some inventively nasty surprises of its own. Sigourney Weaver is nowhere in sight, and Cailee Spaeney might seem, at first glance, to be an unlikely successor, but the Priscilla star certainly earns her stripes by the end of Alien: Romulus’ tight and deceptively well-judged two-hour running time.

Marta Balaga Swiss director Simon Jaquemet – fresh off the world premiere of “Electric Child” at Locarno – is already working on an adaptation of “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” by U.S. science fiction writer Ted Chiang. His “Story of Your Life” already inspired Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival.” “It’s very clever and complex,” Jaquemet said about the novella, published in 2010.

Christopher Vourlias Georgian producer Tekla Machavariani, in Locarno this week for the world premiere of director Tato Kotetishvili’s “Holy Electricity,” which plays in the Swiss fest’s Filmmakers of the Present section, has unveiled a slate of new features at her Tbilisi-based production company Nushi Film. Among them is the first Georgian-Japanese co-production, a film inspired by the brutal Georgian Civil War of the early-1990s, and a movie set among the hip-hop generation of the 2000s in the crime-filled streets of Tbilisi. “When I founded the company, my main goal was to work with my friends who were inspiring me.

Naman Ramachandran Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, known for his charismatic screen presence and shedding his shirt for both action and romantic roles over his three-decade career, is opening up about his motivation, the occasional lack of it, and what sustains his passion for film. Addressing what he describes as the “generational change” that has happened in Indian cinema, Khan said that the thrills that audiences get at the movies are now “not an adrenaline rush, but an emotional rush. It has to keep on happening.” The iconic actor, who has starred in 65 films, recently received a career achievement award at the 77th Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland and also delivered a masterclass at the festival.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The European Film Academy has revealed the first tranche of film titles that members can consider for nominations for the European Film Awards, which take place on Dec. 7 in Lucerne, Switzerland. The academy’s selection of 29 titles covers films that had their first official screening between June 1, 2023, and May 31, 2024.

Cannes Competition titles The Substance, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, and Emilia Perez are among the first set of titles recommended for nominations at this year’s European Film Awards.

Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav has revealed the custom bronze clock he’s had made for Olympic gymnast, Jordan Chiles, this week (August 12).The gymnast was ordered to return a bronze medal that she won at the Paris Olympics by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Chiles competed in the individual floor exercise at the Olympics and was awarded a bronze medal after an initial appeal from her coach altered her score.However, after this, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation filed an appeal of their own that reversed the decision after it was ruled that Chiles’ coach made her appeal just four seconds too late.The IOC then subsequently announced on August 11 that the bronze medal had been reallocated to Romanian gymnast Ana Bărbosu.

Taylor Swift has been wowing crowds with her spectacular performances at London's Wembley Stadium as part of her Eras Tour, but she's not done yet.The pop princess has just wrapped up her European concerts, which included shows in Switzerland, Italy and Germany. In just a few days, the "Karma" singer will be back in London for an additional five shows at Wembley Stadium, marking her final European gigs for the year. Swifties eager to catch one of these concerts will need to act fast to secure tickets, as they're selling out quickly.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent LOCARNO, Switzerland — Paraguay’s Paz Encina (“Eami”) and three first time fiction feature directors – El Salvador’s Enrique Bautista, Cuba’s Rosa María Rodríguez Pupo, Peru’s Fernando Mendoza – split the big prize on offer at this year’s Locarno Open Doors with Encina and Bautista taking the lion’s share of a CHF50,000 ($58,000) cash prize. The grant was sponsored by Visions Sud Est and the City of Bellinzona.

Marta Balaga For Switzerland’s SRG SSR, the main goal is keeping co-producers “happy,” said Gregory Catella at Locarno. “We profit from this success and visibility. Our financial participation isn’t huge – for us, it’s more about prestige.

Open Doors, Locarno Pro’s co-production and talent development program for artists from underrepresented communities worldwide, has announced its 2024 winners. Scroll down for the full list. 

USA Gymnastics is providing an update.

Members of the entertainment community have paid tribute to musician Will Read following his death.

There was a spontaneous singalong, shrieks of “I love you” and the clanking of a cowbell one audience member had brought to remind Shah Rukh Khan of the film he made long ago in the Alps: the Indian megastar’s masterclass at the Locarno Film Festival was the closest Switzerland comes to pandemonium. Facing a capacity crowd at Locarno’s venerable Gran Rex cinema, SRK accepted the adulation and declarations of love with the gracious fan-friendliness that has made him beloved for 35 years.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent LOCARNO, Switzerland — The Dominican Republic’s Cronos Films & Production has clinched its first pre-sales deal on “Beyond the Mist,” (“Después de la Niebla”), a flagship example of the company’s drive into what is described as a “sensory cinema” which does not “shy away from the social and political struggles of the Dominican Republic.” In a first distribution deal on the title, brought to market this weekend at Locarno’s Match Me! networking forum, the Hague-based sales-distribution company Latin Quarter has closed all-rights for the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. A burgeoning force on the Latin American, Spanish and Latinx diaspora auteur pic scene, Latin Quarter has a direct distribution operation in the Netherlands, as in the U.K., Germany and Spain.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent LOCARNO, Switzerland — Two affecting doc-fiction hybrids from Barcelona – “Dream of Another Summer” and “Downriver, a Tiger”– triumphed Sunday at Locarno’s First Look pix-in-post strand, focused on Spain. In other awards announced by Locarno Pro, the festival’s dynamic industry arm, Liliana Cavani’s 1970 “The Year of the Cannibals” won Locarno Pro’s Historical Restoration Contest. Laureates at European co-production initiative Alliance 4 Development took in, notably, “Bourgeois Paranoia” by Lukas Nathrath, a former Locarno First Look winner.