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HBO’s Most Experimental Game of Thrones Episode Officially Changes the Franchise Formula
House of the Dragon’s third season delivers what Collider’s Liam Gaughan calls its strongest instalment yet, “Rhaenyra Triumphant,” and argues it offers a new template for HBO’s wider Game of Thrones franchise. After the first two episodes leaned on some of the series’ best dragon action, this instalment deliberately swaps spectacle for a character-driven, single-location…
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New York Times and Other News Outlets Accuse OpenAI of Lying in Discovery, Demand Legal Sanctions Against AI Giant
The New York Times and several other news organisations have filed a motion for sanctions against OpenAI, accusing the AI company of concealing for more than two years that it could search the training datasets and output logs behind its models. The outlets allege that OpenAI initially claimed it was unable to access such data,…
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Yorkshire Water urges customers to limit water usage as climate change is ‘driving extreme weather patterns’
Yorkshire Water has urged customers to cut back on non-essential water use, warning that climate change is contributing to more extreme and less predictable weather patterns. The report says the company is trying to protect supplies during a period of dry conditions and higher demand, while also signalling that these pressures may become more common.…
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LGBTQ+ inclusion in film at a three-year low, Glaad survey suggests
A new annual study by the LGBTQ+ advocacy group Glaad, titled Where We Are In Film, has found that inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters in cinema has fallen to a three-year low. Of the 225 films released in 2025, only 46 — or 20.4% — featured LGBTQ+ characters, marking the third consecutive year of decline since…
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Tom Hanks’ Surprise 5-Part Netflix Series Is Quietly Becoming 2026’s Most Important TV Event
Netflix has released *The American Experiment*, a five-part documentary series co-produced by Tom Hanks, to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States. Rather than offering a straightforward celebration of the nation’s founding, the series examines the American Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution as a starting point for a broader discussion about…
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Lynx reintroduction plans opposed by councillors
Northumberland County Council has passed a motion opposing any application to release lynx into the wild, positioning the local authority against campaigners who want to bring the big cats back to north Northumberland. The vote matters because it signals significant local political resistance to reintroduction, though the final decision ultimately rests with the Department for…
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Google turns old phones into cloud servers
Google and researchers at the University of California San Diego have unveiled a project called “phone cluster computing”, which repurposes retired smartphones as low-carbon cloud servers rather than discarding them as electronic waste. The scheme matters because the AI boom is driving soaring demand for computing power, chips, electricity and cooling, while billions of phones…
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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic
A Floodlight investigation has found that data centres are rapidly proliferating across Texas, often building large fossil-fuel power plants with minimal public scrutiny. The report centres on OpenAI’s flagship “Stargate” data centre in Abilene, whose 360-megawatt on-site gas plant sits just 500 yards from the home of resident Omaira Garcia, who says she learned of…