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Dem civil war hits primary debate stage in fiery battleground showdown: ‘What are you hiding?’
Moderate Democratic Representative Haley Stevens and progressive challenger Abdul El-Sayed clashed in a heated debate on Tuesday ahead of Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, in a contest framed as a proxy battle between the party’s centrist establishment and its left wing. The confrontation matters because the seat, being vacated by retiring Democratic Senator Gary Peters, is…
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Australia’s Telstra network outage disrupts nationwide communications and emergency services as Communications Minister cuts leave short
Australia’s largest telecommunications provider, Telstra, experienced a major nationwide outage that disrupted phone and internet services across the country. Infrastructure failures at data centres in Sydney and Melbour
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British man is arrested for ‘trying to kiss a male air steward during flight to Spain’
A British holidaymaker has been arrested in Majorca after allegedly trying to kiss a male air steward on the neck during a Ryanair flight from London Stansted to Spain. The case highlights the recurring problem of intoxicated passengers assaulting cabin crew on flights to popular holiday destinations. The 30-year-old, who has not been named, is…
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Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
French AI startup ZML has released ZML/LLMD, an inference-server product that lets a range of open-source large language models run across chips from multiple vendors — including Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, Apple Metal and Intel Arc. The launch matters because inference — the processing of prompts, as opposed to model training — has become a…
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Trains and emergency calls affected after major outage at Australia’s largest telecoms company
Servers at data centres in Sydney and Melbourne were to blame but the exact cause remains unknown.
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It’s Nigel v Count Binface! Farage’s by-election gamble risks backfiring as NO major party will stand against him… because he faces another contest after sleaze probe
Nigel Farage called for a ‘people versus the establishment’ contest amid a flurry of questions about his finances and an undeclared £5million gift from a crypto-billionaire.
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Watch: Gaza football fans watch World Cup from rubble
Hundreds of people cheered for Egypt, which shares a border with Gaza, in the match against Argentina.
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Virgin Media fined £28m for preventing customers from cancelling contracts
Virgin Media has been fined £28m by the UK telecoms regulator Ofcom for repeatedly obstructing customers who were trying to cancel their contracts over a period of almost three years. It is the largest fine Ofcom has ever issued under its consumer protection rules, and it matters because the watchdog found the obstruction was deliberate,…
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UK housebuilders have far too much power. Now a £4.5bn lawsuit could change that for good | Peter Apps
The UK’s seven largest housebuilders are facing a collective legal action brought on behalf of an estimated 700,000 people who purchased a new-build home between October 2015 and June 2026. The claim seeks compensation of between £3,100 and £6,200 per buyer, amounting to a potential industry bill of £2.2bn to £4.5bn. The columnist argues the…