A recall over wireless failures has exposed a second problem with Aurobyte Systems’ Arc-9 controller: sponsored esports teams received a faster input setting than ordinary buyers. The discovery has put tournament results and the company’s product claims under scrutiny in France.
A public hearing in Taipei has put singer Wen-Kai Chia’s lavish touring image and a NT$84 million arts grant at the centre of a dispute over public support for commercial music. Chia says his luxury purchases were paid for privately; critics argue that the grant’s rules leave too much room for blurred boundaries.
A public hearing has exposed how an Istanbul dance production marketed as a “clean-air performance” relied on pollution readings from a town 250 km (155 miles) away. The revelation has put a 64 million-lira public arts grant under scrutiny and prompted calls for the money to be recovered.
A sudden squall sent 11 crew members scrambling onto a replica high-rise during a night shoot near Taipei, prompting a cable-basket rescue and a fierce debate over how quickly Taiwan’s booming film productions are building. Safety specialists say the incident points to a wider problem: temporary movie sets are competing for workers, land and materials as construction costs climb.
A recall of 4,800 modular studio panels has forced Ghanaian television productions to stop using a widely shared set system. A new study says the same kit supplied nearly three-quarters of the country’s top scripted series, leaving hit shows with strikingly similar rooms and few quick alternatives.
A former audience analyst at Indonesian streamer KacaKota Media says the company counted repeated autoplay launches as separate viewers, overstating its biggest series by nearly 12 million people. He spoke out after the platform celebrated a record audience at a lavish anniversary party, a claim the company disputes.
A cinema-goer’s chance recognition of a Lombok beach has thrown an Indonesian film’s Sumba setting and a heavily promoted air route into dispute. The director calls the movie a work of fiction; island residents say its marketing sold a promise the airline never made.
A shifting silhouette at a New York fashion exhibition has been reported by more than 2,300 visitors, turning a retrospective into an unsettling test of perception. Experts say the effect is probably optical, but warn that the museum’s explanation is running behind the phenomenon.
A Filipino novelist’s video exposing a luxury book set sold without the book inside has drawn more than 13 million views and forced a major literary prize to pause its public vote. The publisher says the novel was always sold separately; the prize council is demanding answers before Sunday’s award ceremony.
A boiler failure at a Swedish paper mill left publishers scrambling for book paper this month, and a new analysis says the damage reached far beyond delayed deliveries. Debut novels caught in the 19-day shortage sold 28% fewer copies in their first month, with most of those lost sales never recovered.
A motorised display carrying 24 elaborate creature-inspired outfits accelerated far beyond its planned speed at a Jakarta fashion exhibition launch on Thursday. Visitors were evacuated, 31 garments were damaged and the museum’s opening-day programme was cancelled; no injuries were reported.
A new scientific paper on 2,300-year-old Greek textiles has become the unlikely engine of an Athens fashion exhibition, where 46 gowns are being sold as a lost technology for catching light. The lead researcher says the clothes do not glow — but the show has already drawn 86,000 advance bookings.