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Save the Children aid for 1.5 million in need wiped out by Iran war oil shock
Save the Children has warned that the oil price surge triggered by the US war on Iran is undermining its ability to deliver aid, saying it is now forced to “spend more to reach fewer children”. The charity says higher transport, fuel, food and medical supply costs linked to the Middle East conflict have already…
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Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England
A Guardian investigation has found that some of England’s largest businesses use billions of litres of water a day from the public supply with little transparency or obligation to cut consumption, even as millions of households face hosepipe bans and three-quarters of the country experiences drought. Companies use 2.6bn litres daily from the public network,…
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‘Everest: The Other Side’ Directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin Talk Grief, Loss and Their Most Personal Film Yet: ‘You Don’t Get to Choose Your Calling’
Documentary filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, known for “Free Solo,” have made what they describe as their most personal film yet, “Everest: The Other Side,” premiering at the Venice and Toronto film festivals. The film follows ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson attempting an unprecedented descent of Mount Everest’s North Face, but…
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‘Dogs’ Director Bogdan Mirică to Take a Stab at Creator Economy With Biting Comedy ‘Magnum Opus’: ‘We’ve Taken It Too Far’
Romanian director Bogdan Mirică, best known for “Dogs” and HBO’s “Shadows”, is preparing a new film titled “Magnum Opus”, a tragicomedy about the creator economy and society’s obsession with curated self-image. The project will be presented at the Venice Gap-Financing Market, with Mirică saying constant use of cameras and social media has transformed how people…
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AOC becomes latest to slam Flock cameras as mass surveillance rapidly becomes midterm sleeper issue
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has strongly criticised Flock Safety’s license plate-reading cameras, joining a growing bipartisan backlash that has turned the technology into an unexpected issue in America’s midterm elections. Speaking in a Wednesday interview, she said the cameras were “terrible” and warned they risked creating a “surveillance state” in which private companies harvest data…
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TV tonight: Joe Lycett broadcasts live from an East End pub – what could possibly go wrong?
Channel 4 airs the first episode of Joe Lycett’s new live series in which the comedian takes on the role of landlord at a brand-new East End pub, the Lycett Arms. Broadcast live for an hour every Friday at 10pm, the show sees Lycett welcome celebrity co-managers and guests alongside regular punters, with the format…
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Luton’s factory closure reveals appeal of populist politics
The Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty visits Luton to speak with former Vauxhall Motors workers made redundant after their plant closed in March last year, arguing that the collapse of trusted institutions – not stupidity or bigotry – is pushing former Labour voters towards Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. He contends that the decline of industrial towns…
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UK mortgage rates climb following sharp rise in swap rates
The recent turbulence in the UK bond market is stoking concerns about higher borrowing costs for households, with fixed-rate mortgages the most immediately exposed. Because such mortgages are priced off wholesale “swap rates” rather than the Bank of England’s base rate, the sharp rise in government borrowing costs has already prompted Coventry Building Society to…
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Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud
Google Cloud has disclosed that a partial outage in its us-central1-b region this week was caused by an engineer accidentally unplugging network fibre-optic cables during routine hardware maintenance. The incident, which ran from 07:41 to 11:52 PT on 1 September, matters because it exposed a gap in Google’s much-vaunted network redundancy: the system is designed…
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Defence spending row, rate rise call and Apple’s £2bn tracking lawsuit dominate
Badenoch urges 3% defence spending against Russia while the Bank of England’s Huw Pill pushes for a rate rise; Apple faces a £2bn suit, Ultrahuman raises $70m, Anthropic tightens Claude security, and Netflix unveils The Altruists and Ravenloft.