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‘Giggly, mischievous and extremely generous’: tributes to Penelope Keith
After her death this week aged 86, colleagues of The Good Life actor remember a star who remained kind, funny and grounded despite her formidable stage presenceActor and artistic director at Shakespeare’s Globe Continue reading…
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Halifax to disappear from UK high street as Lloyds axes bank brand after 173 years
Group confirms it will stop opening new accounts under the name and move existing ones to LloydsLloyds Banking Group has announced it is axing the Halifax brand, meaning the 173-year-old former building society’s name will disappear from UK high streets.The group will stop opening new accounts under the Halifax brand, and kickstart a process of…
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With 32 GB as a minimum and 64 GB as the recommended amount, Cinder City’s RAM requirements are all kinds of wrong in today’s AI-mangled memory market
But hey, at least an RTX 4060 is good enough to meet the recommended GPU specs. Wait, what?
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R&B star Chris Brown ordered to pay $13m to housekeeper mauled by his dog
California jury sides with Maria Avila over 2020 attack that left her requiring skin graftsR&B star Chris Brown has been ordered to pay $12.9m in damages to a housekeeper who was mauled by a dog at one of his properties.Maria Avila was working at Brown’s house in Tarzana, California, in 2020 when she was attacked…
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Exodus’ character creator won’t let you totally mess up its protagonist’s “established look” with nose and brow slider chicanery, but you can still pick a beard
If you were planning to spend hours making sure your chin looks just right and ensuring your eyes aren’t too close together when you fire up Mass Effecty sci-fi RPG Exodus, I’ve got bad news. Rather than a slider-based character creator with ten million sliders controlling the likes of cheek yaw and ear curvitude, devs…
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Taylor Swift’s rumored Madison Square Garden wedding faces one massive hurdle, celebrity planner warns
Celebrity event planner reveals what it would take to transform Madison Square Garden into a romantic wedding venue for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding.
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Elle review – this Legally Blonde prequel recreates the genius of Reese Witherspoon’s performance
The original star is behind this TV spin-off, and the casting of charismatic Lexi Minetree. Sadly, the tropey script and lack of campness mean it fails to really sparkleIt’s 25 years since you became a bona fide film star. In the intervening quarter of a century you have stayed a respected actor and become a…
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Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival
A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.
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GTA 6 developer Rockstar accused of enforcing crunch, weaponising bonus payments, and ignoring a widening gender pay gap
As Rockstar employees move to pursue official union recognition following a series of high-profile sackings in 2025, new allegations are emerging related to Rockstar’s treatment of its staff. In a new report published by Game Developer, multiple Rockstar developers have accused the company of failing to address gender-based pay inequity, actively pursuing and facilitating crunch…
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“Low-effort slop”: The creators of the Godot engine behind Slay the Spire 2 are cracking down on “vibe-coding” and now require genAI disclosures
The foundation behind the open source Godot game engine have announced a crackdown on the use of generative AI by contributors, following a wave of “demoralizing”, “low-effort slop” that has added to an already overwhelming quantity of requests for code review. While they’ll still let people deploy the chatbot technology for smaller, “menial” jobs such…