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Ryanair says its planes are safe after passenger nearly sucked out window
Ryanair has publicly defended the safety of its fleet after a passenger was nearly sucked out of an aircraft window during a mid-flight engine failure, while confirming it remains in contact with the man’s family. Group chief financial officer Neil Sorahan praised the crew’s handling of the emergency and said it was too early to…
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Call of Duty voice chat lobbies turned into ASMR app that takes veterans back to the cacophonies of the MW2 and BO1 days
A developer named Mike Wing has created a small web app called Call of Duty Ambience, which loops recordings of chaotic voice chats from classic Call of Duty lobbies as a nostalgic, ASMR-style listening experience. Wing, known for other quirky apps such as Steam Sale Simulator and Xbox 360 Messenger, uploaded the tool to AppDrop,…
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Udio taps content-security BuyDRM to secure its AI music ‘walled garden’
Udio has partnered with content-security specialist BuyDRM to protect the streaming of its AI-generated music, using the company’s KeyOS MultiKey Service to provide multi-DRM support across Google Widevine, Apple FairPlay and Microsoft PlayReady. The deal, announced on 14 July, is part of the technical groundwork underpinning Udio’s transformation from a defendant in music-industry copyright litigation…
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Game Of Thrones: War For Westeros delayed to 2027, as PlaySide take more time before playing their turn to ensure the RTS hits a “high level of quality”
Game Of Thrones: War For Westeros, the real-time strategy game from developer PlaySide set in George R.R. Martin’s Seven Kingdoms, has been pushed back to early 2027. The studio said the game is “progressing well” but needs additional development time to ensure it meets the expectations of both RTS fans and Game of Thrones devotees,…
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Jeff Bezos and UK government invest in £2bn British startup CuspAI
Jeff Bezos and the UK government’s sovereign AI fund have invested in CuspAI, a Cambridge-based artificial intelligence startup that aims to become a “search engine for rare materials” to speed up scientific and industrial breakthroughs. The company wants to use AI to discover new materials that reduce reliance on rare metals such as iridium and…
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Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings
The UK’s National Audit Office (NAO) has urged civil service leaders to properly assess how artificial intelligence will affect the size, shape and skills of the public sector workforce before assuming it will deliver the government’s projected £45 billion in annual savings. The watchdog says departments have yet to show how AI-driven efficiencies would translate…
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“Let My Love Open The Door is one of the most perfect pop songs ever written.” Pete Townshend finds stable ground away from The Who on Empty Glass
Empty Glass was Pete Townshend’s response to the death of Keith Moon and the arrival of punk
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High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required
Worries about ‘prohibitive cost of powering, maintaining, and deploying a third node’
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Comment in code read ‘Dear future me, sorry I wrote this’
A former Visual Basic developer, writing under the pseudonym “Johnny” for The Register’s “Who, Me?” column, recounted secretly building a project in C# instead of VB and later hitting a baffling intermittent bug. The tale illustrates a common developer anxiety: shortcuts and undocumented workarounds can resurface years later to haunt their author, particularly when institutional…