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Make Them Suffer, Carnifex & More Added To Bloodstock Festival 2027
Bloodstock Festival has expanded its 2027 line-up with 18 new additions, broadening the metal event’s already substantial roster ahead of next year’s edition at Catton Park. The move continues Bloodstock’s tradition of steadily building out its bill across multiple genres within extreme music, giving fans a wider mix of acts to look forward to as…
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Denzel Washington’s Forgotten ‘Se7en’ Replacement Officially Takes Over Netflix
Denzel Washington’s 2021 thriller *The Little Things* has become one of the most-watched titles on Netflix, five years after its lukewarm theatrical and critical reception. The film is notable as the last in a trio of crime dramas across three decades in which Washington effectively tried to compensate for turning down the lead role in…
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Steven Wilson announces new album, Requiem For A Village, and shares title track
Steven Wilson has confirmed that his ninth studio album, Requiem For A Village, will be released through Fiction Records on 6 November, and has shared a video for the title track to accompany the announcement. The record follows a run of teasers, including a cryptic dedicated website and a trailer featuring actor David Tennant, who…
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Apple addresses iPhone Duo copycats
Apple executives John Ternus and Greg Joswiak have addressed accusations that the new foldable iPhone Duo copied rival designs, arguing that leaks and shared global suppliers meant details such as its aspect ratio became known before launch, prompting competitors like Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi to release similarly shaped wide foldables first. The comments, made during…
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AI spending splurge helps UK economy grow in July
The UK economy grew unexpectedly in July, with the boom in artificial intelligence spending helping to offset signs of strain on household finances. Gross domestic product rose by 0.4%, beating economists’ forecasts of no growth, in figures that offer a welcome boost to Chancellor John Healey ahead of his first autumn Budget next month, though…
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Digital Research’s GEM opens a new window on Linux
Slovenian developer Tomaž Štih has ported Digital Research’s GEM, the pioneering 1980s graphical desktop, to run natively on Linux. GEM for Linux is built on the Atari ST version of the interface and shares a display server that can render straight to the Linux framebuffer or appear in a window via Štih’s own SDL2-based Rasta…
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Bakery is ‘banned from Borough Market for being too successful’ – ahead of fresh New York venture adding to outlets in the Middle East and Asia
Bread Ahead, a well-known bakery in London’s Borough Market, says it has been told to leave the site because it has become “too successful”, with founder Matthew Jones warning the move could cost 83 jobs. Jones, who left school at 15 to become a chef and built the business from scratch without borrowing money, described…