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British June heat record, hottest June on record with 37.7C
Marks & Spencer has said it is investing in refrigeration equipment capable of coping with temperatures as high as 45C, after admitting its fridges struggled during recent extreme heat in the UK. Chief executive Stuart Machin told shareholders at the retailer’s annual meeting in London that the company was “assuming it’s going to get hotter”,…
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Originally Free, You Can Now Pay $70 to Own the Worst Silent Hill Game
Limited Run Games is producing a physical Deluxe Edition of Silent Hill: The Short Message for PS5, priced at $70, despite the game having originally been released for free. The move is notable because the title holds the lowest Metacritic score in the Silent Hill franchise’s history, at 52, and was widely regarded as poor…
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Yorkshire Water faces credit downgrade following regulatory performance failures
Yorkshire Water is set to be downgraded to a one-star rating by the Environment Agency after its annual financial report, covering April 2025 to March 2026, revealed a series of major failures including rising pollution, missed environmental projects and falling customer satisfaction. The downgrade matters because it comes despite the company raising customer bills by…
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Norm becomes a unicorn after raising $120 million for AI legal work
AI legal startup Norm has raised $120 million in a Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures, giving the almost three-year-old company a valuation of $1.2 billion and pushing it into unicorn territory. The deal underscores continued investor appetite for legal technology that promises to automate routine legal work, an area now crowded with…
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Doom co-creator John Romero offers support after id Software reportedly loses half its staff
Microsoft-owned Xbox is reportedly laying off around half the staff at id Software, the legendary studio behind Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein, with the cuts said to fall particularly hard on its renowned technology team. Although Microsoft has not formally confirmed the numbers, the reports have prompted an outpouring of anger from departing staff and messages…
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British spy game maker announces job cuts following Microsoft Xbox reductions
IO Interactive, the Danish studio behind the Hitman series and the forthcoming 007: First Light, has confirmed job losses and the closure of its Istanbul studio after Xbox withdrew funding for its in-development online role-playing game, Project Fantasy. The studio said it has nonetheless regained full ownership of the project and will continue to develop…
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Nigel Farage quits as Clacton MP and will contest by-election over funding claims
Nigel Farage has resigned as the MP for Clacton-on-Sea and confirmed that he will stand in the resulting by-election, turning the Essex contest into a referendum on his own conduct. The Reform UK leader’s decision to quit Parliament and immediately seek re-election in the seat he won at the last general election sets up a…
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High Court reaffirms dismissal of Prince Harry’s £50m privacy claim against Associated Newspapers
The High Court has upheld its dismissal of the £50 million privacy claim brought by the Duke of Sussex and six other high-profile figures against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. Mr Justice Nicklin threw out all the claims in full, handing a comprehensive defeat to the claimants, who had…
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Ncuti Gatwa to executive produce Niamh Marie Smith’s short film Passing Through
Ncuti Gatwa, the former star of “Doctor Who”, is to executive produce a new short film called “Passing Through”, written and directed by his former co-star Niamh Marie Smith. Marie Smith appeared in the 2024 “Doctor Who” Christmas special “Joy to the World” as Sylvia Trench, and the collaboration marks a reunion between the two.…
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Londoners oppose Brick Lane datacentre as government nears planning decision
Campaigners in east London are fighting plans for a large datacentre on Brick Lane, on the site of the former Truman Brewery, arguing it would deepen the area’s housing crisis and displace long-standing residents. The dispute matters because it is a local flashpoint in the UK’s rapid, energy-hungry rollout of datacentres, with critics contending that…