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FC 26 FUTTIES Team 4 players and release countdown
EA Sports is preparing to launch the fourth and final team of its FUTTIES promotion in FC 26, with early leaks starting to circulate on social media ahead of the reveal. The event caps off the game’s FUTTIES campaign, which spotlights specially boosted cards, before the game gradually shifts focus towards the endgame content that…
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Manchester mayor faces funding questions over cost-of-living measures
Andy Burnham has pledged to crack down on “rip-off” subscription traps and deceptive discounts as part of a wider cost-of-living package, but the plans have drawn criticism over their cost and how they will be funded. Rules requiring firms to make subscriptions easier to cancel and to disclose costs more clearly, rather than quietly auto-renewing…
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Moscow, Kyiv assassins hunt weapons bosses as Ukraine war spills beyond the battlefield
A new and dangerous front has opened in the Russia-Ukraine war, with attackers and suspected intelligence operatives increasingly targeting executives and engineers behind the drone technology now central to the fighting, industry experts warned. Rather than remaining confined to the battlefield, the conflict is spreading into assassination attempts, bombings and alleged espionage plots aimed at…
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Senate leaves town without voting on crypto bill, dimming its chances of passing
The Senate adjourned without voting on the CLARITY Act, a cryptocurrency-market-structure bill, weakening its prospects of becoming law in the current legislative period. The delay matters because the measure is intended to clarify how digital-asset markets are regulated and which federal agencies oversee them, an issue long sought by parts of the crypto industry. Without…
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Cyclospora fears are sending shoppers to farmers markets for local produce
An outbreak of Cyclospora infections in the United States is prompting some shoppers to switch to farmers markets in search of locally grown produce they perceive as safer than supermarket alternatives. In Ohio, demand for homegrown lettuce has risen sharply, with vendors at some farmers markets reportedly selling out of greens within 30 to 60…
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Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry
Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has invested $400 million in Source Foundry, a Stanford-founded startup working to make chip manufacturing faster and cheaper. The move comes despite the fund’s recent turmoil, as it was forced to sell off most of its public equity portfolio last month amid…
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Pierce Brosnan’s Post-‘James Bond’ Thriller Is Officially Dominating Netflix Worldwide
Pierce Brosnan’s 2023 crime thriller Fast Charlie has unexpectedly become one of the ten most-streamed films on Netflix worldwide, three years after its premiere. The mob-centred actioner casts the former James Bond actor as a hitman, blending elements of his 007 legacy with his more recent role in the Paramount+ series MobLand, and comes at…
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The Royal Shakespeare Company brings Game of Thrones’ Mad King to the stage
The Royal Shakespeare Company has staged The Mad King, a new Game of Thrones prequel at Stratford-upon-Avon charting the descent of King Aerys II Targaryen into tyranny. Written by Duncan Macmillan and directed by Dominic Cooke, the production deliberately echoes Shakespeare’s own history plays and tragedies, giving theatrical weight to a psychological and political collapse…
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“They’d say, ‘I guess you’ll be retiring? There won’t be any more tours?’ I’d write it down and bite my lip”: The Anchoress had a baby, not a lobotomy, and wrote a satirical song about it
The Anchoress (Catherine Anne Davies) has released a satirical single, I Had A Baby, Not A Lobotomy, inspired by the dismissive comments she received from others after becoming a mother. The song forms the lead track of her new album As We Once Were and reflects her frustration at assumptions that motherhood would end her…
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Summer Domestic Box Office On A Hot Streak, Will Cross $4B By Monday
The North American summer box office is on track to cross $4 billion by Monday, according to Rentrak data, marking only the second time since the Covid pandemic that the season has hit this milestone and the 14th time in box office history. As of 9 August, the summer tally (running from 1 May) stood…