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A Fifty-Year Love Affair: Four Days in Jamaica with Crossfire Hurricane
Some love affairs announce themselves; others just refuse to end. The Rolling Stones‘ relationship with Jamaica is emphatically the second kind. It began in exile, late 1972, US visas denied, the band routed into Montego Bay and down to Kingston to cut Goats Head Soup at Dynamic Sounds, and across… The post A Fifty-Year Love…
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John Lewis managing director Peter Ruis quits job after less than three years
John Lewis’s managing director, Peter Ruis, is stepping down after less than three years in the role, in a surprise move announced as the department store chain warns of “really tough” trading conditions. He will be succeeded by Will Kernan, a non-executive board member of the John Lewis Partnership, which also owns Waitrose, at a…
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Trump admits rushed job on Reflecting Pool led to ‘contractor error’ as he doubles down on vandalism claims
Donald Trump has acknowledged that a rushed renovation of Washington DC’s Reflecting Pool resulted in a “contractor error”, while continuing to insist that the damage seen at the site amounted to vandalism. The admission marks a partial climbdown after the president had previously suggested the visible marks or damage were the result of deliberate destruction,…
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Hello Games announces Cosmos update for No Man’s Sky
Hello Games has confirmed that Cosmos will be the next major free update for No Man’s Sky, signalling that the studio intends to keep expanding the space exploration game roughly a decade after its troubled 2016 launch. The announcement matters because this steady stream of substantial free updates has become central to the game’s long-term…
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‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’ Boss Sascha Penn Breaks Down Series Finale & Post-Credits Scene
Sascha Penn, creator of Starz’s “Power Book III: Raising Kanan,” has discussed how the series finale sets up a direct spin-off, “Power: Origins,” which will bring together young versions of Kanan, Ghost and Tommy for the first time. The finale, which killed off major characters including Lou, Marvin and Raquel (Raq), is designed to explain…
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Senate avoids a shutdown but disappoints Trump: Live discussion
The Senate finished its session early Saturday morning after a long series of votes in which it confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general and funded the government through the beginning of December. But it did not pass the voting security legislation prized by President Trump, as Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) warned. Join the live…
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Brazilian footballer falls down hole celebrating goal that was then disallowed
A Brazilian footballer’s exuberant goal celebration went badly wrong when he leapt over advertising boards and fell down a hole leading to the away dressing room, in a moment that went viral. Jacy Maranhão, a Coritiba defender, escaped without serious injury, though the effort proved pointless after the video assistant referee disallowed the goal in…
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Downing Street admits it can’t stop PC Andrew Harper’s killers from being released from prison early
Downing Street has admitted it cannot prevent the early release of Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers, who were convicted of manslaughter over the death of PC Andrew Harper, despite significant public backlash. Officials said it was not legally possible to exempt “one or two offenders” from the government’s early release scheme, which was introduced to…
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Meta’s ‘open source’ Muse Glimmer model can run on a single computer
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a scaled-down “open source” AI model small enough to run on a single GPU, marking a shift towards making its artificial intelligence more accessible for local use. Based on Meta’s closed Spark 1.2 model, Muse Glimmer is designed for agent-oriented tasks such as scheduling and file management, and comes as…
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Valve issues warning to Steam Machine and Steam Controller customers to “expect fake messages” after its European hardware partner is hacked
Valve has warned European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or Steam Controller that they may be targeted by scammers following a data breach at CEVA Logistics, one of its European hardware distribution partners. CEVA was hacked on 7th August and subsequently informed Valve, which then alerted affected customers directly, telling them to expect fake…