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Lenovo launches IdeaPad Vibe with seven colours and two sizes
Lenovo has unveiled the IdeaPad Vibe, a new productivity laptop positioned as a direct rival to Apple’s MacBook Neo, matching its starting price while offering a broader range of colour options. The launch signals Lenovo’s push to compete more directly with Apple on style as well as substance, targeting buyers who want a customisable, colourful…
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Ireland plans shop bans for repeat retail thieves
The Irish Department of Justice is preparing a new Retail Crime Strategy that will allow repeat shoplifters to be banned from returning to shops and shopping areas they have previously targeted. The plan, discussed at a high-level meeting attended by Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan and senior officials, is aimed at tackling a sharp rise in…
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The open secret of Star Casino’s suicide tower: Mother reveals the texts, CCTV and agonising hour when staff could have stopped her son, 18 – as casino claims another young life
The mother of an 18-year-old who took his own life from The Star Casino’s Sky Deck in Brisbane has come forward after a young chef died in an almost identical way at the same spot a year later, raising fresh questions about whether staff could have intervened. Natalie Heslop says her son, Amir David Almansouri,…
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ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude all went down at the same time
ChatGPT, Grok and Claude all came back online after suffering near-simultaneous outages on Thursday, briefly leaving users of three of the world’s leading AI chatbots unable to access them at once. OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI each resolved their respective issues within a few hours, though it remains unclear whether the disruptions were in any way…
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Activist confronts Mayor Mamdani during Borough Park shop visit
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was confronted by an angry heckler while visiting Eichler’s, a Judaica store in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighbourhood, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. Stephanie Benshimol, an American-Israeli activist and founder of the group United Zionists, filmed herself shouting “Shame on you!” at the mayor, accusing him of…
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Godflesh to retire as Justin Broadrick stops screaming live
Justin Broadrick, frontman of pioneering industrial metal duo Godflesh, has revealed that a severe hernia caused by decades of shouting over the band’s music will force him to stop screaming live, prompting the near-40-year-old act’s retirement. The condition, which he ignored for years while performing with hernia belts, eventually grew to 13cm before surgery in…
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Drowning in CVEs and thirsty for answers? Try CTEM
Cybersecurity boards are moving beyond simple patching updates to demanding proof that organisations are genuinely secure, a shift traditional vulnerability management cannot satisfy. The article argues that the conventional approach of cataloguing flaws via CVEs and rating them with CVSS scores is breaking down, as the sheer volume of vulnerabilities, unhelpful severity ratings, and the…
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Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella
Google DeepMind and Google Research have launched WeatherNext 3, a new AI weather forecasting model that will feed into Google Search, Maps and Gemini, as well as being made available to researchers via Google’s cloud platforms. The model has topped Operational WeatherBench, an independent benchmark for AI forecasts, beating rival deep-learning systems from Microsoft, Nvidia…
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British Museum display traces Bayeux Tapestry’s Battle of Hastings
The British Museum’s new display of the Bayeux tapestry presents what the writer calls the greatest battle ever depicted in art, arguing that despite lacking the technical sophistication of later masterpieces, the 11th-century embroidered narrative achieves an extraordinary emotional and dramatic power. The exhibition matters because it offers UK audiences a rare chance to view…
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Kobo Libra Colour leads US e-reader buying guide
The Guardian’s Filter team has tested and ranked six of the most popular e-readers on the US market for autumn 2026, aiming to help buyers pick a device suited to their budget, reading habits or family needs. The guide matters because e-readers now offer meaningfully different features than in past years, becoming lighter, brighter and…