Baltimore project to be partly funded by US government but owned by defense firm Anduril, founded by Palmer LuckeyDonald Trump on Tuesday announced the opening of a new $6.6bn shipbuilding factory in Baltimore, partly fu…
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World
The suspect, from the western state of Washington, allegedly gave money and advice to the attacker over the internet.
Landmark roles were in 50s classics directed by Elia Kazan and Alfred Hitchcock, before going on to play Superman’s adoptive mother in later lifeEva Marie Saint, one of the last survivors of Hollywood’s golden age of the…
Mikel Merino turns game for Spain in Croatia to maintain their 100 percent group-stage record in UEFA Nations League.
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across France amid a wave of protests by high-school pupils.
The prisoner received two doses of pentobarbital last Wednesday as authorities tried to put her to deathChrista Pike, a Tennessee prisoner who survived the state’s attempt to execute her, is awake and speaking as she rec…
Protesters rallied outside the US Embassy in Tokyo after a US Marine was arrested for the killing of a 39-year-old woman
President floats idea as voter anger over rising costs threatens Republican hopes in November midtermsDonald Trump said on Tuesday his administration was considering suspending the federal gasoline tax, a sign the presid…
Anduril said it would invest $3.7bn to develop shipyard that would build submarine parts.
Pike, 50, continues to receive critical medical care while handcuffed in hospital, according to a statement from her lawyers on Tuesday.
Jaafar Ashtiyeh was covering violence against olive farmers when settlers set upon him with the butts of their rifles Armed Israeli settlers beat a photographer in the presence of Israeli soldiers, hospitalising him, as …
The top US public health agency's remarks come as the Trump administration said it’s 'closely' watching the incident.
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Business
Asos says people should not engage with the unauthorised notification and says it'll provide further information.
The gala is leaving traditional US broadcast networks for live worldwide streaming.
Odds are good the CMA would approve of a supermarket merger. But does Sainsbury’s need Morrisons?Would competition regulators really smile upon a combination of Sainsbury’s and Morrisons? One must assume the two companie…
The system uses facial technology to check travellers against immigration and passport information.
Martyn Thomas wonders how any rational person can argue that independent oversight and regulation will be sufficientOnce again a frontier AI model has been withdrawn because it fails safety tests (OpenAI scraps release o…
British Airways is ripping out coach class seats and building a giant premium economy and business class in a bet on the high-end travel boom.
OpenAI’s CEO seems to want to privatise his company’s huge financial gains while making all of us pay for any negative consequencesTech bros’ messianic streaks can show up in subtle ways. But one of Sam Altman’s flaws is…
David Ellison and ex-Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz to oversee both film studios, HBO Max, CNN and CBS News as co-executivesParamount completed its $111bn acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery on Tuesday, consolidating some of the…
As technology companies push to expand AI infrastructure across Australia, residents from suburban Melbourne to regional Queensland are raising concerns over noise, power demands and local impacts. Could growing communit…
Drivers who deliver medical equipment to hospitals across England reject a 4% pay increase.
The deal is expected to alter the entertainment and news industries but could it mean higher prices for consumers?
What, exactly, about the drink is so distracting? The viral debate raises bigger questions about who defines ‘professionalism’The great iced coffee debate of 2026 is the latest submission to the young-people-just-don’t-g…
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IT / AI
Spending too much time constantly sweeping and mopping? If you have the money to delegate those chores to a robot cleaner, you could save a lot of personal time. Thankfully, it’s cheaper than usual to buy a robot vacuum …
Apple is collaborating with LG on a new lineup of smart home devices, including a video doorbell, thermostat, indoor camera, and more, according to a report from Bloomberg. The products will reportedly feature LG brandin…
Release: llm-mistral 0.16 Adds support for reasoning models, such as the newly released Mistral Large 4. Tags: llm, mistral, llm-reasoning
Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco is facing backlash from fellow comics who claim his takeover of SiriusXM's Raw Comedy channel is harming up-and-coming talent, as reported earlier by Deadline. Many established comics, inclu…
Some Tesla Model 3 and Model Y owners can use their EV battery to keep the lights on longer during a power outage, now that Tesla's expanding the Powershare Home Backup feature. It was previously only available on the Cy…
My comment on EmbeddingGemma 2 — Hacker News.I really appreciate that EmbeddingGemma 2 is under the Apache 2.0 license. For embedding models in particular, I don't think it makes sense to use a closed, proprietary, hoste…
Google announced a new agreement to update six nuclear power plant sites across the US as the tech giant seeks to generate more electricity for its power-hungry data centers. Google signed the 20-year deal with Constella…
Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk Mistral are back in the game. Today they're releasing a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter, 49 billion active parameter model trained on their own cluster of 3,800 NV…
Calling something “last-gen” usually means it comes with big compromises compared to the latest version. That’s not as true for the last-gen Kindle Paperwhite as it is with some other tech. The newer version can open boo…
Amazon’s October Big Deal Days are underway (lasting through tomorrow night), and we spotted a ton of Apple products and accessories in the sale, ranging from laptops and headphones to desktops and more. Some of the deal…
Is Sony about to announce a new PlayStation Portal game streaming handheld? The Wi-Fi Alliance recently certified two unannounced PlayStation products of some kind, and the certification documents indicate that they coul…
TIL: Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces I saw Parseable in a Show HN today - it's a new observability platform with both an open source (AGPL) Rust implementation (a single ~180MB binary), an "Enterp…
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Film
A delegation of California Democrats campaigned with union leaders on Tuesday for a federal film incentive as they seek to build momentum to pass the measure by the end of the year. Sen. Adam Schiff and eight Democratic …
An artisanal café in a quiet yet fashionable Seoul neighborhood provides the setting for a quartet of seasonal vignettes in Kim Jong-kwan’s romantic anthology “The Table: Day and Night.” Opening this year’s Busan Film Fe…
CBS News’ “60 Minutes” beat a crucial metric for the first time under new and heavily scrutinized managers but only managed to eke out a small boost to its ratings despite a robust football lead-in. The CBS newsmagazine …
President Donald Trump commented on Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, completed on Tuesday, by apparently showering praised on its CEO David Ellison and his father Larry. “It’s going to be a great company…
Skydance Corp., formed from the megamerger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, is bringing new blood to its board of directors. On Tuesday, the company announced that Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and president of Em…
EXCLUSIVE: The Writers Guild of America East has revealed the latest round of graduates from its 2026 Support Staff Basic Training program. The virtual bootcamp, which aims to help underrepresented emerging writers break…
Next Generation Collective (NGC), a new group built around helping young people in entertainment with their mental health, was launched today at Hollywood & Mind’s inaugural summit in New York City. Founded by Hollywood …
Shares in Skydance Media fell 3% on Tuesday, their first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock’s new ticker symbol, SKYD, is an update from PSKY, the one used for Paramount Global shares. Skydance stoc…
Eva Marie Saint, the Oscar- and Emmy-winning actor who graced some of the most beloved and revered Hollywood films of the mid-20th century with an incisive Actors Studio-honed talent for character and a stunning beauty, …
Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint, who starred in such memorable classic films as “On the Waterfront” and “North by Northwest,” died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 102. The delicate, fine-boned actress, …
How far down the Billboard 200 did Miley Cyrus’ “Bass Persuades” album fall in its second week? Curiosity about that grew over the last few days, particularly as Billboard announced the top 10 of its album chart on Sunda…
President Donald Trump, who is friendly with David Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, gave a big thumbs-up to Paramount’s megamerger with Warner Bros. Discovery, which closed earlier Tuesday to form Skydance Corp. “I…
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