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GDP figures, RunPilot funding boost and Cooney-Cross returns to Emirates
This morning’s ONS growth data will show if the UK economy held up through the summer heatwave, while Sheffield AI start-up RunPilot lands £140k funding and Arsenal’s Kyra Cooney-Cross makes an emotional return against Crystal Palace.
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Grieving mother, 46, takes her own life after 20-year-old daughter dies from botched gastric band surgery in Turkey
Erin Gibson, 46, took her own life two days after an inquest into the death of her daughter, Morgan Ribeiro, was due to be held. Morgan, a 20-year-old nursery worker, died in January 2024 after travelling to Istanbul for gastric sleeve surgery, having paid just £2,500 compared with the £8,000–£10,000 such an operation typically costs…
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Self-driving cars should be taxed to offset job losses, thinktank urges
A thinktank, the Centre for British Progress, has urged the UK government to introduce taxes on self-driving cars now, warning that widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles (AVs) could threaten hundreds of thousands of private hire jobs and worsen road congestion. The call comes just weeks after the first robotaxis began operating on London’s streets, with…
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We unfolded the iPhone Duo
The Verge’s Vergecast podcast dissects Apple’s latest product launch event, marking new CEO John Ternus’s first appearance in the role and the debut of the company’s first folding phone, the iPhone Duo. Hosts and colleagues assess the new iPhone 18 Pro’s variable aperture camera, question whether Apple’s foldable borrows the best elements of existing Android…
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Court of Appeal increases jail term for driver in boyfriend’s death
A driver who filmed her teenage boyfriend hanging out of a car window moments before crashing and killing him has had her jail term increased from three to four and a half years by the Court of Appeal. Mia Howarth, 21, had been jailed at York Crown Court after admitting causing death by dangerous driving,…
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Norfolk Police Commissioner faces backlash over planned theatre tour
Colin Sutton, the Reform UK Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk, faced cross-party criticism after it emerged he plans to combine his £79,000-a-year role with a gruelling 127-date theatre tour throughout 2027. Politicians from the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties, including shadow policing minister Matt Vickers, local MPs and council leaders, accused him of treating…
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Playing With Fire review – like Disney’s Fantasia on steroids as a virtual Yuja Wang plays amid luminous dreamworlds
The Southbank Centre in London is hosting Playing With Fire, a virtual reality installation that lets audiences experience pianist Yuja Wang performing as if in two places at once. Reviewed as part of the Guardian’s arts coverage, the piece pairs nine musical works with nine immersive digital dreamworlds, likening the effect to “Disney’s Fantasia on…
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Meta may have leaked the first look at its slim ‘Project Phoenix’ headset
Images apparently leaked from a Meta firmware package have given an early glimpse of “Project Phoenix”, a slim headset that appears to sit between bulky mixed-reality headsets and lightweight smart glasses. The find, first reported by UploadVR, comes shortly before Meta Connect begins on 23 September and suggests the company is positioning the device to…
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‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence
The Israeli film-makers Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham have made NAZA, a documentary compiling testimony from 24 anonymised Israeli military and intelligence insiders who helped build and operate an AI-driven system for targeting homes in Gaza. Produced by the Guardian and competing for the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival, the film matters because…
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AT&T store worker gets 16 months inside for SIM-swap side hustle
A former AT&T retail worker in Portland, Oregon, has been sentenced to 16 months in federal prison for using his access to the company’s systems to carry out SIM-swap attacks on behalf of a wider criminal network. Kenneth Carter, 44, reassigned customers’ phone numbers to devices controlled by co-conspirators, allowing them to intercept SMS-based two-factor…