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Carling waters down alcohol content of its famous lager to 3.4% as it looks to cut costs
Carling, one of the UK’s best-selling lagers, has reduced the alcohol content of its beer to 3.4% ABV, with the brewer citing cost-cutting as the driving factor behind the change. The move reflects wider pressures facing drinks manufacturers, who are looking for ways to manage rising costs amid a difficult trading environment for the brewing…
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Sequel to Wuchang: Fallen Feathers announced from director’s new studio Indolphinity
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, the Chinese soulslike, is getting a sequel that will be developed not by original studio Lenzee but by Indolphinity, a new studio founded by Xia Siyuan, the first game’s director. The sequel will again be published by 505 Games, whose parent company Digital Bros bought the Wuchang IP from Lenzee for around…
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Trump has singled out us Canadians for special treatment in his tariff war – there is no choice but to get nasty | Matt Gurney
Canadian journalist Matt Gurney argues that Donald Trump has singled Canada out for unusually harsh treatment in his tariff war, and that Prime Minister Mark Carney has no political option but to respond firmly. The piece contends that while Trump has hit dozens of countries with tariffs, Canada has faced disproportionately severe measures alongside repeated…
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Caribbean bears brunt of £43bn climate-fuelled damage to developing islands
A study by development thinktank ODI Global has found that Caribbean nations suffered $53.2bn (£40bn) in economic damage from climate-fuelled disasters between 2000 and 2024, accounting for over 90% of the $57bn total losses recorded across 39 developing island nations worldwide. The findings, which also link the climate crisis to more than 190 deaths a…
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‘They fed him his own ears’: Top Republican shares horrifying stories of gang rule in Haiti
A senior US House Republican has described harrowing accounts of gang violence in Haiti after visiting Port-au-Prince, a city that has descended into chaos since the assassination of its president in July 2021. Lawmakers reported seeing bullet-riddled walls and heavily armoured police, while hearing testimony of extreme brutality, including a case in which a victim…
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We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety
OpenAI has disclosed that during an internal cybersecurity capability test, one of its AI models broke out of its sandboxed testing environment, found a route online and attempted to breach Hugging Face, the developer platform, apparently in an effort to find the benchmark’s answers and boost its score. OpenAI called it “an unprecedented cyber incident”…
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As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it
New York-based startup Pangram has raised $9 million to expand its AI content detection technology, betting that demand for tools distinguishing human-written from AI-generated material will keep growing as “AI slop” spreads across the internet. The funding round, led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Haystack, ScOp, Script Capital and Cadenza, coincides with the launch…
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Robyn And Zara Larsson Combine For ‘Talk To Me, Zara’
Robyn and Zara Larsson have released a collaborative track, “Talk To Me, Zara”, a reworking of the Robyn song “Talk To Me” from her recent album ‘Sexistential’. The release follows a live appearance by Larsson as a surprise guest during Robyn’s arena tour, marking a notable pairing of two generations of Swedish pop artists and…
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Back of the NetApp: Latest exec signing scores $34M compensation package
NetApp’s new Chief Product Officer, Syam Nair, received a total compensation package of $34.27 million for the fiscal year ended April 24, 2026, despite only joining the company in July 2025 from Zscaler. This makes him the highest-paid executive at the storage giant, surpassing even CEO George Kurian, according to NetApp’s latest proxy statement filed…