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Anthropic cracks down on hijacked user accounts mining AI tokens
Anthropic has begun clamping down on stolen Claude sessions after identifying a wave of infostealer malware being repurposed to hijack user accounts and exploit their paid AI usage. Rather than paying for their own access, criminals are using commodity malware to steal login credentials, session cookies and multifactor authentication data, then using this to run…
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Onslaught Review
IGN has reviewed Onslaught, Adam Wingard’s follow-up to his earlier films You’re Next and The Guest, ahead of its cinema release on 4 September. The film returns to the New Mexico town of Moriarty and delivers a relentless, deliberately over-the-top horror-action ride, blending Nazi-experiment mythology, anti-government themes and grisly violence, and the reviewer suggests it…
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Adam Wingard’s Onslaught is visually striking but overstuffed
Variety’s review of “Onslaught” concludes that the A24 military-slasher marks a striking but uneven return to lower-budget genre filmmaking for director Adam Wingard, following his big-budget “Godzilla vs. Kong” films. Reuniting with writer Simon Barrett, Wingard delivers what the critic calls their most visually accomplished work yet, though the film feels in need of another…
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Clipto raises $15m at $250m valuation for AI search
Clipto, a San Francisco-based startup that uses AI to make videos, audio, images and meetings searchable across a user’s computer, has raised $15 million in an all-equity round at a $250 million post-money valuation. Rather than joining the wave of generative AI firms focused on creating new content, Clipto is targeting the growing problem of…
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Olivia Rodrigo Calls Daisy Chain Fields Festival the ‘Greatest Joy of My Career,’ Shares First Thing She Did After It Ended
Olivia Rodrigo has reflected emotionally on the success of her debut Daisy Chain Fields festival, calling it “the greatest joy of my career” in an Instagram post the day after the event. The all-women festival, held in Irvine, California, marked the fulfilment of a long-held ambition for the singer, who personally curated a lineup spanning…
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Does Badenoch’s surprise reshuffle show the Tories are finally going soft on Brexit?
Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative reshuffle has replaced Dame Priti Patel, one of the party’s staunchest pro-Brexit “spartans,” with Tom Tugendhat, a former committed Remainer, as shadow foreign secretary. Political editor David Maddox argues this swap could signal a subtle softening of the Tories’ Brexit stance, even though Badenoch would never openly advocate rejoining the EU, single…
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FOGHAT Shares ‘My Babe’ Music Video From ‘Live & Loud Across The U.S.A.’ Live Album
Veteran British rock band Foghat have released the official music video for “My Babe”, the first single from their upcoming live album “Live & Loud Across The U.S.A.”, due out on 30 October. More than 55 years after forming in the UK, the band remain a fixture of the live rock circuit, and the new…
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Thundercats Movie Director Shares Promising Update on ’80s Cartoon Classic Revival
Adam Wingard, director of Godzilla vs. Kong, has given an update on his long-delayed live-action ThunderCats film, confirming the project is still alive despite more than five years passing since it was first announced. Speaking to Polygon while promoting his new film Onslaught, Wingard said the adaptation remains on his development slate but has repeatedly…
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Sony’s WH-1000XM5 headphones are back down to their lowest price
Sony’s WH-1000XM5 noise-cancelling headphones have fallen to $198 at Amazon and Best Buy as part of a week-long Labor Day sale, matching the lowest price the model has reached. Unlike the equivalent $198 price seen during Prime Day in June 2026, this deal does not require an Amazon Prime subscription, making the saving accessible to…
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The director who couldn’t stand working with Robert Downey Jr: “He was frustrating”
Director Alan Metter has reflected on how difficult he found working with Robert Downey Jr on the 1986 comedy Back to School, describing the actor as “frustrating” to direct. The pair reportedly clashed on set, with Metter feeling he wasn’t capturing Downey’s best work on camera, while Downey grew frustrated at being told as much.…