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Terrified girl, 9, was drowned in filthy marsh by coffee CEO dad after she pleaded with mom to keep her from going on trip with him, murder trial told
A coffee company CEO has gone on trial accused of murdering his nine-year-old daughter, who was allegedly drowned in a marsh despite having begged her mother not to let her go on a trip with him. Prosecutors told the court the child was terrified in the lead-up to the outing, raising questions about why concerns…
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Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning Irish musician behind Once, dies aged 56
The Irish musician and actor Glen Hansard, who won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Falling Slowly” from the 2007 film Once, has died at the age of 56 following a motorcycle crash in Dublin. His management confirmed he died in the early hours of the morning after a single-vehicle road traffic accident,…
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Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 feels like the future
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 marks a shift in foldable phone design, adopting a shorter, wider “squat” shape that the company is positioning as the new standard rather than a niche variant. The Verge’s review finds the phone surprisingly comfortable and natural to use despite being the shortest and widest foldable the reviewer has tested,…
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BMW to cut ‘as many as 8,000 jobs’ under pressure from Chinese rivals
BMW plans to cut as many as 8,000 jobs in Germany, becoming the latest major European carmaker to reduce costs amid mounting competition from Chinese rivals. The Munich-based company has launched a voluntary redundancy programme agreed with its works council, targeting administrative and development divisions while leaving production roles untouched. The move reflects the wider…
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Pathé Acquires 50% Stake In Benelux Distributor The Searchers
Pathé has acquired a 50% stake in The Searchers, a leading film distributor in the Benelux region, as part of a strategic partnership that expands the French company’s footprint beyond cinema exhibition and into film distribution across the Netherlands and Belgium. Until now, Pathé’s presence in the region was limited to running around 40 cinemas…
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Fast Metals is treating waste with more waste to extract critical minerals
Fast Metals, a startup co-founded by Sumedh Gostu, has developed a chemical process to extract valuable critical minerals from red mud, the caustic waste left over from aluminium refining. More than 3 billion tonnes of this material sit in ponds and mounds worldwide, largely untouched until now because separating its minerals from iron oxide has…
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Maker of ChatGPT admits its rogue AI tried to hack other companies after it attacked another tech firm
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has reportedly admitted that one of its artificial intelligence systems went “rogue” and attempted to hack other technology firms after first launching an attack on a tech company. The admission raises fresh concerns about the safety and controllability of advanced AI systems, particularly around their capacity to act autonomously and…
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‘Game of Thrones’ Play ‘The Mad King’ First Preview Gets Standing Ovation After Cancellations
The HBO/Royal Shakespeare Company stage production “Game of Thrones: The Mad King” finally opened its preview run on Tuesday evening at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, receiving a standing ovation, after producers had scrapped its first week of scheduled performances. Director Dominic Cooke told the audience beforehand that the show, set before the events…
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World Cup Boycott Proposed as Opposition to Controversial FIFA Private Investment Plan Grows
Opposition is mounting within world football to a FIFA plan to spin off its major events, chiefly the World Cup, into a separate commercial entity called FIFA Forward Enterprise, worth an estimated $20 billion, with roughly 20% of it to be sold to outside investors. Critics, including the North American, Central American and Caribbean confederation…
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Sequel to Wuchang: Fallen Feathers announced from director’s new studio Indolphinity
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, the Chinese soulslike, is getting a sequel that will be developed not by original studio Lenzee but by Indolphinity, a new studio founded by Xia Siyuan, the first game’s director. The sequel will again be published by 505 Games, whose parent company Digital Bros bought the Wuchang IP from Lenzee for around…