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Virgin Galactic postpones its new spaceship’s first commercial flight to 2027
Virgin Galactic has delayed the first commercial flight of its new Delta-class spaceship from late 2026 until February 2027 at the earliest. The postponement matters because the company paused its previous suborbital tourist service in 2024 to concentrate on this next-generation vehicle, making the Delta programme central to restarting regular flights. Chief executive Michael Colglazier…
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Democrats sound alarm over AI job apocalypse — but labor market isn’t following script
Democratic politicians, including Senator Bernie Sanders, have warned that artificial intelligence could eliminate large numbers of jobs and have called for government intervention. The article argues that these warnings contrast with the current labour market, which has not yet shown the widespread job losses predicted by some critics of AI. The report highlights growing political…
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New Sandbanks neighbours of Harry and Sandra Redknapp plan to demolish £6m 115-year-old harbourside house they’ve just bought and replace it with five-bed mansion with swimming pool
New owners of a £6 million harbourside property in Sandbanks, Dorset, are seeking to demolish the 115-year-old house and build a new five-bedroom mansion with a swimming pool. The proposal concerns a prominent waterfront area whose redevelopment may attract local attention because of the property’s age, value and location near Harry and Sandra Redknapp. The…
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Claude’s new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible — for now
Anthropic plans to add invisible, machine-readable watermarks to content processed by new Claude models worldwide, partly to meet requirements under the EU AI Act. The policy matters because it could label not only material generated by AI but also human-written text that Claude merely edits, potentially blurring the distinction between minor assistance and wholesale AI…
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Marshawn Lynch wants to know why NFL teams add White DBs and questions whether they can dance
Marshawn Lynch, a Seattle Seahawks legend with informal access to the team’s training facility, was filmed on HBO’s “Hard Knocks” quizzing current players about why the roster now includes more White defensive backs, asking safety Julian Love and cornerback Ty Okada what the team planned to “do with them” and questioning whether White players could…
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Everspace 2: Galactic Edition Gets A Surprise Switch 2 Shadow Drop
Rockfish Games has released Everspace 2: Galactic Edition for Nintendo Switch 2 without prior notice. The port brings the space-shooter RPG, previously released on PC in 2023, to a portable platform and includes all released downloadable content, expanding Switch 2’s growing catalogue of ports. The edition costs £39.99/$49.99 and includes the base game, Titans, Wrath…
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Saber chief says he would replace former writer with AI
A public dispute between Saber Interactive and former writer Stella Sacco has centred on her claim that she was replaced by ChatGPT while working on the taxi game Rideshare “Stimulator”. Saber denies replacing any writers with AI, but chief executive Matthew Karch intensified the argument by saying he would have been happy to replace Sacco…
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Britain’s Record Summer Meets TV’s Final Emmy Showdown
Britain was experiencing an exceptionally hot summer on 13 August, with provisional Met Office figures indicating that 2026 was increasingly likely to become the UK’s warmest summer in records dating from 1884. The mean temperature from 1 June to 10 August was 16.48°C, 1.88°C above the 1991–2020 average; only relatively modest warmth over the rest…
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Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon’s AI unless you tell it to stop
Twitch has introduced a setting allowing streamers to stop their channel content being used to improve Amazon’s generative AI models, but it is enabled by default. The change matters because creators must actively opt out to prevent future use of their livestreams, videos, chats and other material across Amazon’s AI operations. Twitch says training data…
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UK economy shows surprising resilience – but that might not last | Richard Partington
The UK economy grew faster than expected in the first half of 2026, retaining its position as the G7’s fastest-growing economy despite the Iran war, higher energy prices and domestic political uncertainty. Consumer spending and business investment have remained comparatively strong, offering encouragement to Chancellor John Healey before his first budget, but the article argues…