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Chipmakers laughing all the way to the vault as memory prices go stratospheric
Gartner has forecast that global semiconductor industry revenue will nearly double in 2026, reaching $1.6 trillion, up from $809 billion in 2025, with memory chips driving almost all of the growth. The surge is being fuelled by the AI infrastructure boom, as manufacturers such as Samsung, Micron and SK Hynix prioritise production of high-end memory…
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Nato missile boost for Ukraine, US financial offensive against Iran, Fed chair faces Jackson Hole test
Andy Burnham has pledged British support for Ukraine’s missile ambitions in Kyiv, whilst Washington threatens Iran’s trading partners and new Fed chair Kevin Warsh braces for a critical Jackson Hole address amid inflation fears.
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Iran faces ‘greatest financial offensive ever’, says US treasury secretary
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has warned Iran of “the single greatest financial offensive ever”, describing it as an “economic D-Day” that would sever all economic ties with Tehran and isolate any nation continuing financial dealings with it. The warning comes as Bessent claimed the US-Israel war with Iran was “entering its endgame”, though it…
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‘Better than The Godfather’: how we made brutal Yorkshire crime classic Red Riding
Screenwriter Tony Grisoni and actor Mark Addy reflect on making Red Riding, the acclaimed 2009 crime trilogy adapted from David Peace’s Yorkshire noir novels, which dramatised corruption and violence linked to real cases including the Peter Sutcliffe and Stefan Kiszko investigations. Grisoni describes being both drawn to and repelled by the source material’s anger and…
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Woman granted UK settled status is left stranded in Spain after Home Office database mixes her up with identical twin sister
A British Columbia-based woman with settled status in the UK was blocked from boarding a flight home from Spain after the Home Office’s digital eVisa system confused her immigration record with that of her identical twin sister. Nidia Webb, who has lived in the UK for eight years and was granted status under the post-Brexit…
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Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marquise Gilmore review – bassoon earns its spotlight in Thea Musgrave’s Out of the Darkness
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, directed by Benjamin Marquise Gilmore, gave the world premiere of Thea Musgrave’s new bassoon concerto Out of the Darkness at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms. The performance stood out among this year’s premieres partly because of the composer’s remarkable pedigree: Musgrave, now…
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US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years
US datacenters used around 17 billion gallons of water in 2023, three times the amount consumed in 2014, according to a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report published by the Library of Congress. The surge coincides with a boom in datacenter construction driven by the rise of generative AI since OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched in late 2022,…
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De-Googled GrapheneOS is coming to Motorola’s foldables next year
GrapheneOS, the security-focused, open source version of Android, has outlined plans to officially support Motorola smartphones from next year, marking the first time the privacy-hardened operating system will expand beyond Google’s Pixel range. Support will begin with a traditional flagship handset before extending to Motorola’s foldables, and potentially cheaper models further down the line, in…
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Businessman at war with neighbours after building a garden room to house his giant state-of-the-art golf simulator
A businessman in Christchurch, Dorset, has clashed with his neighbours after building a large garden room to house a golf simulator without first notifying the local council. Pete Bransky, who runs a printing business called Colour Copier, constructed the 7m-wide structure between January and March, but neighbours say it is far bigger than initial plans…
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Prince Harry parts ways with controversial charity African Parks which has faced claims of human rights abuses carried out by its rangers
Prince Harry has stepped down from the board of African Parks, drawing a final line under a decade-long association with the conservation charity that was strained after a Mail on Sunday investigation exposed abuses committed by rangers it funded. The charity described his exit as part of a “governance refresh” and thanked him for a…