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High Court reaffirms dismissal of Prince Harry’s £50m privacy claim against Associated Newspapers
The High Court has upheld its dismissal of the £50 million privacy claim brought by the Duke of Sussex and six other high-profile figures against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. Mr Justice Nicklin threw out all the claims in full, handing a comprehensive defeat to the claimants, who had…
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Ncuti Gatwa to executive produce Niamh Marie Smith’s short film Passing Through
Ncuti Gatwa, the former star of “Doctor Who”, is to executive produce a new short film called “Passing Through”, written and directed by his former co-star Niamh Marie Smith. Marie Smith appeared in the 2024 “Doctor Who” Christmas special “Joy to the World” as Sylvia Trench, and the collaboration marks a reunion between the two.…
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Londoners oppose Brick Lane datacentre as government nears planning decision
Campaigners in east London are fighting plans for a large datacentre on Brick Lane, on the site of the former Truman Brewery, arguing it would deepen the area’s housing crisis and displace long-standing residents. The dispute matters because it is a local flashpoint in the UK’s rapid, energy-hungry rollout of datacentres, with critics contending that…
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Exclusive: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Receives Massive Patch On Switch 2, All DLC Now Free
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader launched in a poor state on Switch 2, earning a 4/10 “borderline disaster” review from Nintendo Life over stuttering frame rates, long load times, laggy controls, graphical downgrades and hard crashes. Developer Owlcat Games is now rolling out a major update aimed at fixing these problems, saying it is “determined to…
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Bidbus raises $15m to let dealers bid on private used cars
A Los Angeles-based startup called Bidbus has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by mobility fund Ibex Investors, as it seeks to expand beyond its initial markets of California and Texas. The company runs a digital marketplace where multiple car dealerships bid against one another to buy a private seller’s used car,…
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iRobot launches its first non-robotic Roomba, the manual Electro Plus floor cleaner
iRobot has unveiled the Roomba Electro Plus, its first-ever floor cleaner that is not a robot. Priced at $399, the cordless device is a 5-in-1 hard-floor cleaner that vacuums, mops and disinfects, but must be pushed manually by the user. Alongside it, the company launched five new Roomba robot vacuums that offer higher suction power,…
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Microsoft update stops Windows 11 permissions file consuming excessive disk space
Microsoft is addressing a Windows 11 bug that caused a folder to take up several gigabytes of storage space. As spotted earlier by Windows Latest, Microsoft included the patch in its optional June 2026 update (KB5095093), which “improves disk space usage for the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file.” The CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file is installed on Windows 11 PCs by…
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Bushra Shaikh among 400 foreign influencers at Khamenei funeral in Tehran
Bushra Shaikh, a British-Pakistani media personality who appeared on the BBC’s The Apprentice in 2017, has attended the funeral of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran. She was among a reported 400 non-Iranian influencers and social media activists invited by the Iranian regime to the multi-day event in Enghelab Square. The story matters…
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Nigel Farage resigns as Clacton MP and triggers by-election amid finance inquiries
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has resigned as an MP for Clacton, triggering a by-election in which he intends to stand again, amid an escalating row over his financial affairs. In an online address he attacked the “Establishment” and the media, said he had “never been angrier” and described himself as the most vilified UK…
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Prince Harry defeated in High Court phone-hacking case against Mail owner
Prince Harry and six other prominent figures have lost their High Court case against Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL), the publisher of the Daily Mail, over allegations that it used unlawful methods to gather information for stories about them. Mr Justice Nicklin dismissed all the group’s claims in an emphatic 436-page ruling, finding that the claimants…