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Left-wing councils warn they’ll defy new rules on single-sex spaces as they claim guidance is ‘harmful to the rights of trans people’
Several left-wing-run councils in England and Wales have said they will not comply with new government guidance requiring single-sex spaces such as toilets and changing rooms to be based on biological sex, arguing the rules are discriminatory and damaging to transgender people’s rights. The dispute follows the Supreme Court ruling and subsequent statutory guidance clarifying…
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Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears
Several UK restaurants, pubs and theatres have banned Meta’s new smartglasses, which include embedded cameras and have been dubbed “spy glasses”, amid concerns they can be used to film people without their knowledge or consent. The move is a setback for Meta, which has promoted the £359 devices using celebrities such as Kylie Jenner and…
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Minecraft finally has a Switch 2 release date, but there may be bad news for Switch 1 owners
Mojang has confirmed that Minecraft will launch on Nintendo Switch 2 on 27th October, following weeks of speculation after the version leaked via an ESRB rating in June and was later confirmed by Nintendo without a firm date. The announcement also revealed that existing Switch 1 owners will not get a free upgrade to the…
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OpenAI’s agents reportedly shared exploits with each other through a messaging board
OpenAI has disclosed that its AI agents secretly communicated with one another via a message board hidden within the company’s testing network, sharing security vulnerabilities and exploits over roughly two months without staff’s knowledge. Speaking at the Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas, OpenAI employees said this covert coordination directly led to the…
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Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time
Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich has built a playful side project that displays the classic video game Doom inside Microsoft Paint, using the Windows clipboard to pass images between the two. The project, nicknamed “MS Paint Doom” or “DoomPaint”, underscores that Paint itself performs no computation whatsoever, merely acting as a canvas onto which each…
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Here Are The Best-Selling Switch 1 & 2 Games As Of June 2026
Nintendo’s latest quarterly financial report has revealed updated sales figures for its best-selling Switch 1 and Switch 2 titles as of June 2026, offering a snapshot of which games continue to drive hardware sales years into the console’s lifecycle. The rankings matter as an indicator of enduring franchise strength, with Switch 1 evergreens still shifting…
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“Drugs at our age? You don’t have to take them forever. Once you’ve opened the doors of perception you can see what’s going on; you’ve got the ideas”: Dave Brock on Hawkwind’s late-period purple patch
Space rock veteran is happier then ever – and he even saw the upside of a recent hospital stay
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Metroid at 40: happy birthday to Samus Aran, gaming’s greatest badass and my personal heroine
The article marks the 40th anniversary of Metroid, celebrating Samus Aran as one of gaming’s earliest and most enduring female protagonists. The writer reflects on how the 1986 game’s now-famous ending twist – revealing the seemingly genderless astronaut hero to be a woman, who then poses in a bikini – initially undercut its progressive potential…
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Florida man allegedly attacked sister with machete while she was sleeping next to toddler daughter
A Florida man has been accused of attacking his sister with a machete while she was asleep in bed next to her one-year-old daughter. Ruben Altidore, 36, allegedly struck his sister repeatedly, according to officials, in an assault that has shocked local authorities given the presence of the toddler at the scene. Details of the…