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Widow condemns safety failures after falling window killed father-of-two
Coach driver Mick Ferris, 53, was killed in October 2018 when a window fell 26 storeys from The Corniche luxury flats in Vauxhall and struck him as he returned to his coach. His widow said his death was sudden, preventable and resulted from the companies’ failure to address known safety risks. The court heard the…
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Jensen Huang backs fossil fuel expansion despite AI climate costs
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued on The Ezra Klein Show that AI will help combat climate change but requires accepting significant short-term environmental damage, comparing the process to surgery requiring pain before healing. He suggested the US should build more fossil fuel plants because there isn’t currently enough sustainable energy capacity. The article criticises this…
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New York sues Polymarket over alleged unlicensed gambling operations
New York has sued Polymarket’s US operation, seeking to stop it operating as an unlicensed gambling business in the state. The action forms part of a wider effort by state authorities to regulate prediction markets as gambling platforms, with concerns including unlawful betting and possible access by underage users. The lawsuit is New York’s fourth…
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Meta unveils AI tools to create and share Horizon games
Meta has announced two new AI-powered game development tools for its Horizon platform: Horizon Create (a mobile app) and Horizon Studio (a browser-based app). These tools enable users to generate games using AI prompts, then publish them for potential distribution across Facebook and Instagram. This represents Meta’s strategy to boost engagement with its struggling Horizon…
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France seeks to bar British firms from proposed EU procurement rules
France is leading efforts to exclude the UK from the EU’s “Made in Europe” policy, a proposed law designed to protect European companies from Chinese competition by requiring public authorities to favour European products in renewable technologies and electric vehicles. This threatens British companies’ ability to compete for contracts across Europe and has become a…
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Construction of UK’s ‘largest supercomputer’ delayed over power supply problems
The UK’s planned largest AI supercomputer in Loughton, Essex, has been delayed from its 2027 launch date and now faces a potential postponement into the mid-2030s due to insufficient power supply capacity. The project, built by startup Nscale and highlighted by the government as central to its AI strategy, exemplifies how energy constraints have become…
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Muse will apparently let you download its entire filesystem
Developers say Meta’s Muse AI can be persuaded with minimal prompting to provide an archive of its virtual machine’s filesystem, including system files, application templates and internal documentation. Meta denies this constitutes a security breach, arguing that users can inspect files within their own persistent Linux virtual machines, but the disclosures may nevertheless reveal sensitive…
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“I’d tell people, You don’t understand, life as we know it is going to change.” Dave Grohl, Trent Reznor, Billy Corgan, Josh Homme, Melissa auf der Maur, Stone Gossard and Chris Cornell on Nirvana’s Nevermind, the record that revolutionised the ’90s
Released on 24 September 1991, Nirvana’s second album, Nevermind, radically reshaped popular music and helped bring alternative rock into the mainstream. The article recalls how musicians and industry figures recognised the record’s unusual power, even though Nirvana themselves initially considered “Smells Like Teen Spirit” merely an album track rather than a likely hit. Producer Butch…
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Now Google Chrome shares tabs to new devices that save where you were
Google is rolling out Chrome updates aimed at making cross-device browsing, research and studying easier. Chrome will now remember a webpage’s scroll position when a tab is moved between devices, helping users resume lengthy reading without searching for their place. The feature will also preserve partially completed forms, while Gemini in Chrome is gaining broader…
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Researchers uncover privacy risks in long-standing file notification systems
Researchers at Graz University of Technology have identified long-standing weaknesses in file-notification systems used by Android, Linux, macOS and Windows. Although these systems do not expose file contents, their event data can reveal what users are doing, enabling attacks such as keystroke inference, website fingerprinting and credential theft. The affected systems include Linux inotify, Android…