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Anthropic cracks down on hijacked user accounts mining AI tokens
Anthropic has begun clamping down on stolen Claude sessions after identifying a wave of infostealer malware being repurposed to hijack user accounts and exploit their paid AI usage. Rather than paying for their own access, criminals are using commodity malware to steal login credentials, session cookies and multifactor authentication data, then using this to run…
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Adam Wingard’s Onslaught is visually striking but overstuffed
Variety’s review of “Onslaught” concludes that the A24 military-slasher marks a striking but uneven return to lower-budget genre filmmaking for director Adam Wingard, following his big-budget “Godzilla vs. Kong” films. Reuniting with writer Simon Barrett, Wingard delivers what the critic calls their most visually accomplished work yet, though the film feels in need of another…
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Olivia Rodrigo Calls Daisy Chain Fields Festival the ‘Greatest Joy of My Career,’ Shares First Thing She Did After It Ended
Olivia Rodrigo has reflected emotionally on the success of her debut Daisy Chain Fields festival, calling it “the greatest joy of my career” in an Instagram post the day after the event. The all-women festival, held in Irvine, California, marked the fulfilment of a long-held ambition for the singer, who personally curated a lineup spanning…
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Does Badenoch’s surprise reshuffle show the Tories are finally going soft on Brexit?
Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative reshuffle has replaced Dame Priti Patel, one of the party’s staunchest pro-Brexit “spartans,” with Tom Tugendhat, a former committed Remainer, as shadow foreign secretary. Political editor David Maddox argues this swap could signal a subtle softening of the Tories’ Brexit stance, even though Badenoch would never openly advocate rejoining the EU, single…
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FOGHAT Shares ‘My Babe’ Music Video From ‘Live & Loud Across The U.S.A.’ Live Album
Veteran British rock band Foghat have released the official music video for “My Babe”, the first single from their upcoming live album “Live & Loud Across The U.S.A.”, due out on 30 October. More than 55 years after forming in the UK, the band remain a fixture of the live rock circuit, and the new…
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Sony’s WH-1000XM5 headphones are back down to their lowest price
Sony’s WH-1000XM5 noise-cancelling headphones have fallen to $198 at Amazon and Best Buy as part of a week-long Labor Day sale, matching the lowest price the model has reached. Unlike the equivalent $198 price seen during Prime Day in June 2026, this deal does not require an Amazon Prime subscription, making the saving accessible to…
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The director who couldn’t stand working with Robert Downey Jr: “He was frustrating”
Director Alan Metter has reflected on how difficult he found working with Robert Downey Jr on the 1986 comedy Back to School, describing the actor as “frustrating” to direct. The pair reportedly clashed on set, with Metter feeling he wasn’t capturing Downey’s best work on camera, while Downey grew frustrated at being told as much.…
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Man, 23, who smashed window of property in Kent before stealing van and driving 17 miles to London is arrested in tactical swoop
A 23-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly smashing a window at a property in Swanscombe, Kent, stealing a van and leading police on a pursuit that ended 17 miles away in Bromley, south-east London. The chase concluded when Metropolitan Police officers used tactical contact to force the vehicle to a controlled stop, leaving it…
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Instagram limits reach of unlabelled AI persona accounts
Instagram is cracking down on AI-generated influencer accounts that fail to disclose they are not real people, marking the platform’s first concrete enforcement step against undisclosed synthetic personas. The company has renamed its previously voluntary “AI creator” label to “AI-generated profile” and will now actively identify unlabelled accounts and restrict their reach, following complaints from…