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Wes Streeting fires warning shot at PM: Fund defence or nothing else will matter
Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has publicly rebuked Prime Minister Andy Burnham over defence spending, warning that schools, hospitals and homes are “valueless” if the country is reduced to “rubble” by an adversary such as Russia. The intervention came a day after Burnham told PMQs that national security “cannot come at the expense of social security”,…
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Government orders 29 battery trains for northern rail network
The UK government has announced a fleet of 29 new battery-powered trains for northern England’s rail network, with the aim of delivering faster and more reliable journeys and increasing capacity by 30% over the next decade. The trains, to be operated by TransPennine Express, will be built at Alstom’s Litchurch Lane works in Derby from…
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Furo’s founders left Silicon Valley — and it’s paying off
Furo, a startup building software for industrial battery storage systems, has raised $4 million from mostly US investors after its three co-founders chose to relocate from Silicon Valley back to their native Germany. The move challenges the long-standing Silicon Valley orthodoxy that international founders must be based in the US to secure venture funding, and…
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Meta is testing Community Notes in Latin America. Fact checkers are worried.
Meta has begun testing its crowd-sourced Community Notes feature across 16 Latin American countries, more than a year after rolling out the scheme in the US and dropping its US fact-checking partnerships. The move has alarmed fact-checking organisations, who fear it signals Meta’s intention to eventually phase out third-party fact-checking across the region in favour…
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White House leaves Kristi Noem’s lover out to dry as bombshell criminal investigation looms… and his overheard brag backfires
Donald Trump’s White House has signalled it will not intervene to protect Corey Lewandowski, the rumoured romantic partner of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, as a criminal investigation into his handling of multi-billion-dollar no-bid contracts intensifies. Lewandowski, who acted as Noem’s de facto chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security before both…
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Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US
Meta’s new AI agent app, Muse, has climbed to the No. 2 spot on the US Apple App Store, boosting investor confidence just days after its Tuesday launch. The app forms a key part of Meta’s push into agentic AI, an emerging field the company believes will reshape how people get everyday tasks done, though…
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Schools are catching on to Big Tech’s playbook
A new book by New York Times reporter Natasha Singer, titled Coding Kids, argues that the tech industry has spent the past 15 years embedding itself in schools by promoting computer science education, and is now using the same playbook to push AI into classrooms. Singer contends that earlier promises linking coding skills to secure,…
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Moment ram raid gang smash their way into Yves Saint Laurent before stealing £40,000 worth of luxury handbags in nighttime raid on London’s Bond Street
CCTV has captured the moment a ram-raid gang smashed a stolen car into the Yves Saint Laurent store on London’s Bond Street, part of a six-week spree that netted an estimated £500,000 in stolen luxury goods. Ryan Brough, 32, and Max Tyson, 25, both of Islington, have admitted two counts of conspiracy to commit burglary…
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Ministers eye tourist tax as SNSM shadows migrant dinghy to Portsmouth, Trump pledges $5,000 tariff payout
A busy briefing: devolved powers could let English mayors levy hotel stays, French rescuers refused to board 120 migrants near Portsmouth, and Trump promised Americans a $5,000 payout if Republicans hold Congress. Also: Iceland opens in the Falklands, heatwaves threaten Britain’s beer, and Tilda Swinton returns to t…
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A native Gemini app is finally available for Windows PCs
Google has launched a native Gemini app for Windows, bringing its AI assistant directly to PC desktops for the first time via a dedicated application rather than a browser tab. The release follows an earlier Mac version and gives Windows users a faster, more integrated way to access Google’s AI tools alongside their other software,…