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Depraved Citibank executive who drugged and raped young women in his swanky NYC apartment seen with scruffy beard and shackles as he now faces GUN charges
A former Citibank executive accused of drugging and raping young women at his New York apartment has now been hit with additional gun charges, with new images showing him in custody sporting a scruffy beard and shackles. The case highlights the alleged predatory conduct of a once high-flying finance professional and adds a weapons dimension…
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This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs
King’s Cross in London, once notorious for drugs and prostitution in the 1980s, has become one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence hubs, ranking alongside San Francisco and Beijing. Since Google DeepMind moved there in 2016, the area now known as the “Knowledge Quarter” has attracted major AI players including OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Isomorphic…
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PS5’s Fastest Growing Open World Adds Beach Volleyball, Jet Skis, and Construction Work
Chinese developer Hotta Studio is rolling out another substantial content update to its open-world PS5 title NTE on 19th August, adding activities including beach volleyball, jet ski races, and construction-based minigames. The update continues the game’s unusually rapid pace of expansion, following a previous update that introduced an entire fantasy RPG mode, and reflects the…
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Dropbox is a PC builder’s best friend
A Verge senior editor recounts how using Dropbox to back up his home-built PC’s files saved him after two separate hard drive failures, arguing that cloud backup is essential insurance for anyone with a lot of important local data. He set up Dropbox to mirror his work partition after taking on a large crowdfunded project…
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‘Our Time Will Come’ Review: Two Orphans Journey to Accra to Find Their Kin in an Emotionally Absorbing Ghanaian Drama
Amartei Armar’s debut feature “Our Time Will Come” is an emotionally resonant Ghanaian drama that follows two orphaned children as they journey to Accra in search of family, drawing loose inspiration from “Oliver Twist” while avoiding excessive misery. The film premiered at Locarno after being developed through Marrakech’s 2025 Atlas Workshops under the working title…
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Live updates: El-Sayed, Ocasio-Cortez set for Sunday show appearances
The supplied article text contains no news content; it only reports that access to the page was denied because JavaScript appears to be disabled. As a result, the reported live updates and the significance of the scheduled appearances cannot be independently summarised. The title indicates that Abdul El-Sayed and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were due to appear…
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Peak gets its final major update and a “new secret for you to discover” next week
Developer Aggro Crab has confirmed that its co-op climbing game Peak will receive its final major update on 11th August, alongside a teaser trailer titled “The Final Ascent”. The update marks a significant milestone for the indie hit, which became one of publisher Landfall’s string of multi-million-selling titles alongside Content Warning and Totally Accurate Battlegrounds.…
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Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: ‘This essentially saved my life’
A former XCOM 2 developer has released “Rubicon Rumble Pack”, a cancelled Quake 4 expansion, publicly on GitHub after finding it stored on an old hard drive. The developer, who worked on the project during a difficult period, said rediscovering and sharing the lost content had a profound personal impact, describing the release as something…
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AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust
Educators and publishers are increasingly relying on AI detection tools to identify AI-generated writing, echoing the earlier rise of anti-plagiarism software. Unlike traditional plagiarism checkers, which compare text against databases of existing content, AI detectors such as GPTZero, Pangram and Turnitin’s own tool use their own AI models to guess whether writing was produced by…
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The Complicated Case of Passing On Your Digital Estate
Managing a deceased or incapacitated person’s online accounts, from cloud storage to social media to cryptocurrency, has become a growing headache for grieving families, particularly when no advance planning has taken place. Wired’s guide explains that without a clear inventory of digital assets and instructions for what should happen to them, survivors often have no…