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“George Would Not Believe It”: George Jones’ Widow Hosts Star-Studded Birthday Show for Late Legend
Nancy Jones, widow of country music legend George Jones, hosted a star-studded concert at Nashville’s famed Nashville Palace on Sunday night to mark what would have been his 95th birthday. The event, part of her ongoing effort to preserve his musical legacy, drew hundreds of attendees and a lineup of prominent country artists who performed…
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How to force quit on your Windows PC
Windows doesn’t have a “force quit” feature by the same name as macOS, but it offers several ways to shut down an unresponsive or stuck application, achieving the same result. Understanding the different methods matters because the standard close button doesn’t always fully terminate a program, and knowing when and how to force a shutdown…
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Non-English-speaking artists account for 30% of Live Nation’s top 50 tours, up from 8% pre-COVID – and 47 of the top 75 international markets lack the arenas to host them
Live Nation says non-English-speaking artists now make up 30% of its top 50 tours, up from just 8% before the pandemic, with company president Joe Berchtold predicting the share will soon exceed half. Speaking at a Goldman Sachs investor conference, Berchtold framed this as evidence that live entertainment is still in the “early innings” of…
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Sportswoman Laura Edwards dies in Paddock Wood bedroom fire
Laura Edwards, a 53-year-old sportswoman well known in her local darts and bowls clubs, has died after a fierce fire tore through her family home in Paddock Wood, Kent, trapping her while her elderly father escaped by climbing onto a conservatory roof. An inquest in Maidstone heard she suffered a cardiac arrest from severe smoke…
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Woman fatally shot by stalker outside Sacramento restaurant, suspect dies
Police in Sacramento, California, have released footage showing 38-year-old Shalini Thakur being chased down and shot dead by an obsessive stalker outside a Panera Bread restaurant on 8 September. The attacker, 22-year-old Rohit Rohit, an Indian national who had entered the US illegally in 2023, then fled by car before shooting himself dead as deputies…
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Online hate researcher keeps hammering X despite deportation threat
The US government is continuing its legal fight to detain and deport non-citizen researchers who track online safety risks, despite a federal judge ruling in July that the underlying policy was unconstitutional. US District Judge James Boasberg had blocked the policy after finding no evidence linking targeted researchers to any foreign power attempting to manipulate…
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Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harder
The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) has published a report aimed at helping US local authorities negotiate more effectively with developers proposing new datacentres, an area where officials often lack expertise and leverage. The guide comes amid a construction boom driven by the AI industry, which has left many councils facing complex negotiations over huge…
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AI is locked into a Cold War-style arms race between the US and China. For all the talk of a ‘slowdown’, there’s no grown ups to call out the madness – and Donald Trump’s not going to save us: SARAH VINE
Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine has warned that artificial intelligence development has become a Cold War-style arms race between the US and China, with neither country willing to slow down for fear of being left vulnerable. Speaking on the Alas Vine & Hitchens podcast, Vine compared the competitive rush to build ever more powerful AI…
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Ubuntu Noble’s likely last point release lands, then loses its desktop download
Ubuntu 24.04’s expected final scheduled point release, 24.04.5, was pulled from download just days after launch after a bug was found that crashes the installer when users select the extended installation option on the x86-64 desktop image. The release, published on 10 September, matters because it is very likely the last point update for the…
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TransUnion overhauls credit scores as Whyalla steelworks cuts 500 jobs
UK credit scoring shifts to a 999-point scale, Australia’s Whyalla steelworks axes hundreds of roles, and Altman warns AI could go badly wrong; plus Wizz Air’s mistaken-identity mix-up, NFL scoring records and Rangers’ Celtic rout.