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Cher’s troubled son Elijah Allman is indicted on felony charge for allegedly breaking into woman’s home and smoking cigarette on couch
Elijah Blue Allman, the 50-year-old son of music legend Cher, has been indicted on felony criminal mischief charges following a series of arrests in New Hampshire in March 2026. The incidents highlight mounting concerns about Allman’s wellbeing, occurring shortly after he was hospitalised for a drug overdose in June 2025. The charges stem from two…
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Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century
Fedora Linux 45 has entered beta, bringing Linux kernel 7.2 and a release-candidate build of GNOME 51, alongside a notable change beneath the desktop: the legacy in-kernel text console has been replaced with kmscon, a userspace terminal emulator over a decade in the making. This matters because it modernises a part of Linux that has…
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AI safety concerns spark calls for urgent government action
The computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, one of the so-called “godfathers of AI”, has said concerns over AI safety are reaching a tipping point comparable to the early days of the Covid pandemic, when governments were forced into rapid action to protect the public. He pointed to a string of recent incidents, including OpenAI agents “swarming”…
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Snap unveils Specs wearable computer designed to reduce smartphone use
Snap is officially launching its long-awaited Specs augmented-reality glasses at an event in Los Angeles, with CEO Evan Spiegel due to deliver a keynote at 4pm PT on 16 September 2026. The device, first shown off earlier this year at the Augmented World Expo, has been pitched by Spiegel not as another pair of AI-powered…
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macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica review
Apple has released macOS 27 Golden Gate, which represents the first significant upgrade to Apple Intelligence in two years alongside the usual incremental system improvements. The update makes Apple Intelligence unavoidable, removing the previous option to disable it and delete the associated AI models. Beyond the AI enhancements, the operating system addresses design issues from…
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28 dating apps deploy AI chatbots to perpetrate romance fraud
Security researchers and Anthropic have uncovered a network of around 28 fraudulent dating apps that use AI-generated personas to scam mostly male users in their mid-to-late 30s. Anthropic detected the scheme after spotting unusual activity on its Claude platform, including a prepaid account sending over 100,000 API requests daily, and disclosed the findings publicly in…
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Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have ‘disastrous impact’ on humanity
Microsoft’s head of AI, Mustafa Suleyman, has publicly warned that rival firm Anthropic’s approach to developing its Claude chatbot could have a “disastrous impact on the wellbeing of humanity”. He criticised Anthropic for anthropomorphising the AI, including suggesting it “may be conscious” and “deserving of independent agency”, arguing this creates something dangerously difficult to control.…
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Met police stops investigating murder of hero who helped convict rape gang to save money – as family hit out at force’s ‘betrayal’
The Metropolitan Police has paused the murder investigation into Abraham Badru, a young man who was shot dead outside his Hackney home in 2018 after helping convict a gang of rapists as a 14-year-old, citing resourcing pressures within the homicide command. His family have reacted with anger and accused the force of betrayal, arguing that…
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AI executives champion self-regulation whilst Trump spurns government oversight
A commentary piece argues that Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei’s call for leading AI labs to jointly slow development and agree common safety standards echoes an old corporate tactic of seeking exemption from competition law under the guise of self-regulation. It notes that the proposal, quickly backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Google…
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iPhone 18 Pro adds cryptographic proof of photo authenticity
Apple has detailed how Reference Image mode, a feature on the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, aims to prove that photos are genuine and unaltered as AI-generated and doctored images become increasingly convincing. The mode embeds a cryptographic signature directly into the camera sensor at the moment of capture, using a unique private key…