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‘I’m fearless. I was in a boys’ rugby team’: Slow Horses’ Aimee-Ffion Edwards on playing a cocaine-snorting spy
Aimee-Ffion Edwards, best known as Shirley Dander in Apple TV’s Slow Horses, discusses her return for the show’s sixth season and the fearless streak she attributes to once playing rugby for Wales. The Newport-born, Welsh-speaking actor performed her own stunts for a nightclub balcony jump, and reflects on how her Welsh identity has become more…
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This doorbell camera lets a human security guard watch your front door
SimpliSafe has launched the Video Doorbell Series 2, extending its AI-powered “Active Guard” proactive monitoring feature to the front door for the first time. The doorbell combines on-device AI, cloud-based computer vision and facial recognition to detect suspicious activity, allowing a human monitoring agent to view the live feed, speak through the doorbell and attempt…
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Travellers whose bank holiday ‘land grab’ was foiled by residents are blocked from returning after a High Court injunction is extended
A High Court judge has extended an injunction against travellers who attempted a bank holiday “land grab” on open space in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, meaning they remain barred from returning to the site pending a full trial. The judge also kept in place a power of arrest for anyone breaching the order, which the council’s barrister…
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Voicemod’s new pocket-friendly device brings real-time voice changing to your phone
Voicemod has launched the Key Pocket, a small hardware device that brings its real-time voice-changing technology to mobile phones for the first time, expanding on the original Voicemod Key dongle released for consoles in late 2024. Unlike the earlier device, which only used a phone as an interface for Xbox, PlayStation and Switch, the Key…
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Keir Starmer spent another £8,500 doing up his Downing Street apartment last year… before being ousted as PM
Keir Starmer spent a further £8,546 of taxpayers’ money refurbishing his Downing Street flat in the 2025-26 financial year, shortly before being forced out as prime minister following a backbench rebellion. The spending, revealed in the Cabinet Office’s latest accounts, adds to almost £30,000 spent on the grace-and-favour apartment above No11 during his first year…
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Grandmother, 90, loses High Court fight with her grandchildren to bury her late daughter after claiming she is Ghanaian royalty and cremation is against ‘maternal burial custom’
A 90-year-old grandmother, Mercy Ofori-Kuma, has lost a nearly two-month High Court battle with her granddaughters over how to lay her daughter Margaret, 60, to rest, after arguing that cremation would breach the family’s Ghanaian royal burial customs. Margaret died suddenly on 9 June without leaving formal instructions, prompting a dispute between Mercy, along with…
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James McNeill Whistler review – painter’s work shines through attention-grabbing life story
The Guardian has reviewed James McNeill Whistler, a new documentary in the Exhibition on Screen strand, released in UK and Irish cinemas from 15 September and timed to coincide with a Tate Britain retrospective closing at the end of September. The review finds the film strikes a good balance between the American-born artist’s colourful, scandal-strewn…
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Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost
A new Mozilla report finds that the performance gap between top US closed AI models and the best open-weights models from Chinese developers has narrowed to just 4.4 months, prompting many organisations to switch to cheaper open models for everyday work. This matters because it reshapes how businesses allocate AI spending, with companies increasingly reserving…
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The Debut review – Julianne Moore is a thrill in Jesse Eisenberg’s oddball comedy
Julianne Moore stars in The Debut, Jesse Eisenberg’s third film as director, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. It marks a departure from his earlier, more grounded work, as he leans into surreal, Charlie Kaufman-esque absurdism to tell the story of Mona, a repressed housewife who auditions for a community theatre musical and becomes…