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English winemakers expect ‘vintage year’ after record-breaking summer heat
English sparkling winemakers are anticipating their earliest-ever grape harvest and a potential “vintage year” after this summer’s record-breaking heat rapidly ripened crops. Nyetimber, one of England’s leading producers, will begin picking on 14 September, its earliest start since planting its first vines in 1988, as intense sunshine concentrated sugar levels in the grapes despite some…
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European cities generate revenue through nightly visitor fees
Tourist taxes are new to England but have long been standard practice across continental Europe, where they have proved a lucrative source of income for local authorities, particularly in Italy. Cities typically charge visitors a nightly per-person fee on top of accommodation costs, usually collected at checkout, with the money nominally earmarked for local services…
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Advisers warn Trump Iran war may extend through presidency
Donald Trump’s closest advisers, including Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have privately warned him that the war with Iran could continue for the remainder of his presidency, according to the Wall Street Journal. Their assessment, delivered during recent Oval Office and Situation Room meetings, contradicts Trump’s public claim that the…
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Barraza sprints unarmoured after Bondi shots, markets slump, Zverev into US Open semis
Cesar Barraza details his split-second dash without vest or vest gear during the Bondi attack, as the ASX suffers its worst day in six months and Malinauskas defends migration; FitzSimons testifies at the Alan Jones trial and Zverev reaches the US Open semi-finals.
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Google signs its biggest rice-methane carbon credit deal with Indian startup Mitti Labs
Google has struck its largest publicly announced carbon credit deal for rice-methane reduction, agreeing to buy 1 million credits through 2030 from Indian climate-tech startup Mitti Labs. The four-year agreement covers rice farms across Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, reaching around 100,000 hectares at peak delivery, and comes as Google grapples with meeting its 2030…
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ECB raises interest rates to 2.5% amid warning Iran war is fuelling inflation
The European Central Bank raised its key interest rate to 2.5% and warned that the risk of higher inflation has increased following renewed fighting in the Middle East, spooking investors who had expected the rise but not the hawkish tone accompanying it. The move came as oil and gas prices surged overnight after fresh US…
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“Just Last Week, He Called Me About a Song Idea”: Singer-Songwriter From Beloved Family Country Band Dead at 56
Brian Duckworth, a singer-songwriter known as “Nashville” for his role in the family country band Taylor Made, has died at the age of 56. According to his obituary, he passed away at his home on 7 September. The band, which he formed with relatives Greg Duckworth and Wendy Williams, performed for years in clubs, at…
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Monica Dolan Shares How She Prepared to Portray the Woman Who Uncovered an Irish Mass Grave Scandal in ‘The Lost Children of Tuam’: TIFF
Actress Monica Dolan is featuring in three films at the Toronto International Film Festival, most notably playing Catherine Corless in “The Lost Children of Tuam,” a drama about the amateur historian who exposed that up to 796 infants and children were buried in unmarked graves at a former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in…
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d-Matrix licenses Nvidia’s NVLink interconnect for upcoming Raptor chips
AI infrastructure startup d-Matrix has agreed to license Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion interconnect technology and adopt its MGX rack reference designs, joining a growing roster of chipmakers—including Qualcomm, Arm, Marvell, Amazon, Fujitsu and MediaTek—that have struck similar deals. The move lets d-Matrix build its future accelerators, including the upcoming Raptor chips, around Nvidia’s racks and NVSwitch…
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OpenAI not on track to reduce risk of ‘catastrophic’ loss of control, says board member
Paul Christiano, a US government technology adviser and former OpenAI alignment lead, has warned that OpenAI is not on track to reduce the risk of a “catastrophic” and irreversible loss of control over AI systems to an acceptable level. He made the comments as he joined the board of OpenAI’s non-profit foundation, where he will…