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8 Extremely Spoilery Questions with ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Star Tramell Tillman
Tramell Tillman, best known for the Apple TV+ series Severance, has spoken publicly for the first time about his secret role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, having kept the part hidden from fans, friends and family since his casting was announced in August 2025. In an interview with Polygon, the actor answered spoiler-filled questions about…
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Debian is 33, Haiku is 25, and neither is standing still
This week marks anniversaries for two long-running operating system projects: Debian, which turned 33, and Haiku OS, which turned 25. Debian, founded by Ian Murdock in 1993, remains one of the world’s most widely used Linux distributions, while Haiku continues to carry forward the legacy of the discontinued BeOS, demonstrating that both open-source efforts remain…
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EE invites mobile users to live life in the 5G Fast Lane – for a price
EE has launched Fast Lane, a premium mobile service that uses 5G network slicing to prioritise subscribers’ connections when its network is congested, such as at busy events or festivals. The feature, only available through a new premium plan, marks EE’s entry into a growing trend among operators to monetise 5G Standalone infrastructure by offering…
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Earth, Wind & Fire drummer John Paris wakes from coma
Earth, Wind & Fire drummer John Paris has woken from an induced coma he was placed into following a critical medical emergency on 6 August, just before the band’s scheduled concert with Lionel Richie in San Francisco, which was postponed as a result. His recovery has been marked by setbacks as well as progress: he…
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World’s oldest person celebrates her 117th birthday: Ethel from Surrey shares the secret to a long life – after living through six monarchs and 28 Prime Ministers
Ethel, a 117-year-old woman from Surrey, has been celebrated as the world’s oldest living person on her latest birthday, having lived through the reigns of six monarchs and the terms of 28 British Prime Ministers. Her milestone highlights the remarkable span of British and world history she has witnessed firsthand, from the early twentieth century…
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Icelandic Producer Hlín Jóhannsdóttir Sets ‘Just a Kid’ With Alief Ahead of Haugesund and Reunites with ‘Driving Mum’ Team (EXCLUSIVE)
Icelandic producer Hlín Jóhannsdóttir of Ursus Parvus has signed with French-UK sales company Alief to handle her latest project, the coming-of-age drama “Just a Kid” (“Bara barn”), directed by newcomer Vala Ómarsdóttir. The deal reunites Jóhannsdóttir with collaborators from her earlier film “Driving Mum” and continues her track record of backing debut features by emerging…
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Sutton’s opening weekend predictions v Courteeners frontman Liam Fray
BBC Sport football pundit Chris Sutton has kicked off his season-long predictions contest for the 2025-26 Premier League, pitting himself against Microsoft’s Copilot AI, BBC readers and a rotating cast of celebrity guests. The exercise, which sees Sutton forecast all 380 top-flight fixtures, matters because the AI chatbot won the inaugural contest last season, narrowly…
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Developer given Mission:Impossible – fixing rubbish code that could crash a city – simply chose not to accept it
An On Call reader for The Register, nicknamed “Socrates,” recounted an early career episode as a fresh-faced software manager sent to a power station to document an undocumented monitoring system. Confronted with poorly written, uncommented control code for a turbine overspeed detector, he judged the risk of accidentally causing a catastrophic failure too great and…