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SEE IT: Massive NYC homeless encampment fuels backlash against Mamdani
A large homeless encampment stretching roughly 12 blocks along Manhattan’s West Side, near the Intrepid Museum, has become a flashpoint of criticism directed at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Residents, workers and visitors say the city is failing to tackle the tents, rubbish and reported illegal activity accumulating in the area, framing it as…
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Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents
Security researchers at Tracebit have found that embedding prompt injections alongside fake credentials in cloud storage can effectively neutralise AI-powered hacking agents, flipping a technique normally used by attackers into a defensive tool. The method, dubbed “context bombing”, plants decoy secrets on Amazon Web Services containing hidden commands that order the attacking LLM to perform…
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Green leader Zack Polanski says Rochdale grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed should NOT be kicked out of Britain
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has said that Shabir Ahmed, the ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang, should not be deported from Britain despite his crimes. The comments are likely to prove controversial given the notoriety of the case, in which Ahmed was convicted as the leader of a gang that sexually abused vulnerable girls…
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Utopia Distribution Exec on Shifting Releases Towards Eventification to Cater to ‘Fandom’ and Younger Audiences: ‘Everything Is Being Destroyed to Be Rebuilt’
Charlie Sextro, Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and Business Development at Utopia Distribution, has said the company is overhauling how it releases films in the US, moving towards fewer but more heavily curated, event-driven releases designed to tap into growing “fandom” among young cinephiles. Speaking at the Costa Rica Media Market, Sextro described current US…
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HBO’s 4-Part Streaming Smash Returns to the Top 10 Before Its Next Chapter
HBO’s most popular prestige drama since Succession has surged back into the top 10 before its new season premieres next year.
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Rooney, Hart and Richards row down Hudson River
Wayne Rooney rows down the Hudson River with fellow BBC pundits Joe Hart and Micah Richards.
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“I didn’t expect the albums to last the way they have. If I’d known, I would have done better. The bands might say that too!” Genesis sleeve artist Colin Elgie started with the vaguest brief imaginable, and won a whole year in the limelight
Illustrator Colin Elgie has reflected on designing the cover for Genesis’s 1976 album A Trick of the Tail, marking its 50th anniversary. The commission, given in 1975, was notable for its almost non-existent brief: Elgie had no songs or lyrics to work from and had not even met the band, yet the sleeve helped launch…
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NFL players want more grass fields after World Cup
NFL players start a social media campaign to support a call by their players union for more permanent grass fields following the World Cup.
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‘My 1966 World Cup collection is part of social history’
A Sheffield man, Mark Watterson, has spent 40 years amassing an extensive collection of memorabilia from England’s 1966 World Cup victory, describing it as part of “social history”. His passion began aged 13 after a chance conversation with hat-trick hero Geoff Hurst at a Sheffield United match in 1980, and has since grown into a…