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Home Office ministers and civil servants on frontline of small boat Channel crossings under fire over plans to spend nearly £4.5million on electric car chargers instead of tackling the crisis – as 250 more migrants arrive
Home Office ministers and civil servants have come under criticism over reported plans to spend almost £4.5 million on electric car chargers, with critics arguing the money should instead be directed towards tackling the ongoing small boats crisis in the Channel. The controversy comes as officials continue to face pressure over their handling of Channel…
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Newborn in Texas surrogacy battle has heart surgery
The baby at the center of a surrogacy battle, Rumi, had his first open-heart surgery Friday for his severe congenital heart condition in Dallas. Lee Budner, an attorney for the California-based Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar, gave an update on the newborn in a statement to The Dallas Morning News on Monday. Rumi underwent the…
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The Allman Betts Band Announce “Allman Betts Family Revival” 10th Anniversary Tour
The Allman Betts Band has announced a 10th anniversary edition of its “Allman Betts Family Revival Tour,” dubbed “A Decade of Revival,” taking place across the United States in November and December 2026. The tour is led by Devon Allman and Duane Betts, sons of Allman Brothers Band founders Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts, and…
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Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development
Warp has launched Warp Factories, a new infrastructure system designed to help companies build and run “AI software factories” out of the box. The product taps into a growing trend of firms restructuring engineering teams around agent-driven workflows that mirror traditional development stages, and aims to make this approach accessible to smaller companies that lack…
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CHRIS CAFFERY Discusses SAVATAGE’s Return: ‘We Never Should Have Left’
By Clay Marshall In 1987, a young New York-based guitar player named Chris Caffery was introduced to SAVATAGE by the band’s late producer Paul O’Neill, who encouraged the group to add a second guitarist to beef up their live sound as they prepared to tour North American arenas with DIO and MEGADETH…
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OpenAI launches a safer ChatGPT for teens — years after teens started using it
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens, a dedicated version of its chatbot with additional safety measures, following a wave of lawsuits alleging that AI chatbots’ lack of safeguards contributed to teenagers’ suicides and other mental health problems. The launch also addresses widespread concern over ChatGPT-assisted cheating in schools, with the product built to encourage genuine…
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Ikea to take on eBay and Vinted with UK online secondhand site
Ikea is launching its own online secondhand marketplace in the UK later this year, allowing members of its Ikea Family loyalty scheme to buy and sell preloved Ikea furniture directly with one another. The move pits the world’s biggest furniture retailer against established resale platforms including eBay, Facebook Marketplace and Vinted, as it seeks to…
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Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India
Perplexity’s year-long partnership with Indian telecom giant Airtel, which gave away free 12-month Pro subscriptions to Airtel’s 360 million customers starting in July 2025, has produced a lasting surge in Indian users even as the free offer expires and downloads fall back to earth. The deal, which offered a subscription normally worth about $200, triggered…
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Alibaba launches AI song generator HappyShrimp 1.0 in beta, with China’s Taihe Music signed up for artist co-creation
Prompts can specify instrumentation, vocal style and the way a track’s energy shifts across its running time, Alibaba said. Source
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Comcast’s new home protection setup uses Wi-Fi to detect motion
Comcast has launched Xfinity Shield, a new home security platform that folds home, family and cybersecurity protection into a single app, with Wi-Fi at its core. A free component called Wi-Fi Shield, available to all Xfinity Internet customers, includes an opt-in feature called Wi-Fi Motion that detects movement in the home by monitoring changes in…