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Architect of British government’s AI strategy joins Anthropic
Matt Clifford, the tech investor who drafted the UK government’s AI action plan and advised both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, has joined US AI firm Anthropic as managing director for international affairs, a year after leaving his Downing Street role. In the new post he will lead Anthropic’s engagement with governments outside the US,…
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10 things they won’t tell you about travelling around America
A travel writer who spent a month touring the United States, following England’s football team at the World Cup, shares candid observations about aspects of American travel that catch visitors off guard. The piece, written for Far Out Magazine, blends humour with genuine travel advice, aiming to prepare British tourists for cultural quirks they might…
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Fake 10 Downing Street listing exposes ‘unfit’ Booking.com, says consumer group
Consumer group Which? has said Booking.com’s defence of its security failings is inadequate, after researchers succeeded in creating and briefly running a fake listing for 10 Downing Street on the platform. Booking.com argued the test was not representative and that its automatic fraud controls were not fully triggered because the listing was never permanently “live”,…
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Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man Officially Returns With New Release
The Marvel Studios blockbuster Avengers: Endgame is returning to cinemas as Avengers Endgame: Encore, adding new footage that ties into the forthcoming Avengers: Doomsday. The 2019 original was the fourth Avengers instalment and the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, wrapping up the “Infinity Saga” storyline that began with the Thanos snap in Avengers:…
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Fields: The band killed by a missed Woodstock connection
Fields were a psychedelic blues band whose one chance at wider fame slipped away when their manager turned down an invitation to play the 1969 Woodstock festival without even consulting the group. Bands who appeared at Woodstock, even minor ones, were guaranteed a lasting place in music history, while Fields were left as an obscure…
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Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes
International law enforcement agencies, working alongside CrowdStrike and the Shadowserver Foundation, have disrupted Sality, a peer-to-peer botnet that has operated since 2003 and infected more than 15,000 machines worldwide. The takedown matters because Sality had become a long-running vehicle for varied cybercrime, including credential theft, spam distribution, proxy abuse, network exploitation and DDoS attacks, and…
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The Morning Poll: Was Keir Starmer right to stand down as an MP and force a by-election that the Greens could win?
This piece is a Daily Mail “Morning Poll” inviting readers to vote on whether Sir Keir Starmer was right to resign as an MP, triggering a by-election in his seat that the Greens are being tipped to potentially win. The move comes after Starmer had promised to remain as a backbench MP following his removal…
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Former Florida governor hopeful hauled out of county meeting after protesting Israel investments
James Fischback, a former Republican candidate for Florida governor, was forcibly removed by officers from a Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners meeting after protesting the county’s decision to expand its investment in Israel-backed bonds. Fischback demanded to know whether the county served local residents or Israeli cities, arguing that public funds should be invested in…
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Michigan regulator investigates six injuries at Ed Sheeran concert teardown
An investigation is under way into an incident during the post-concert equipment teardown at Ed Sheeran’s Detroit show, in which six crew members were hospitalised after being struck by falling equipment. Michigan’s occupational safety regulator confirmed on 31 August that it is examining what happened two days earlier in and around the Ford Field vehicle…
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JioHotstar Streaming Service Goes Global With Launches Across UK, Canada & Singapore
JioStar has launched its JioHotstar streaming brand in the UK, Canada and Singapore, replacing the existing Hotstar service and rolling out upgraded interactive and user-experience features across those three markets. The move, effective 2 September, forms part of a wider push to build a global streaming offering aimed particularly at the South Asian diaspora while…