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Lily Allen Documentary Will Reflect on Singer’s Life and Career From MySpace to ‘West End Girl’
Prime Video has announced a career-spanning documentary about Lily Allen, tracing her journey from her earliest MySpace demos to her latest album, West End Girl, which chronicled the breakdown of her marriage to actor David Harbour. The film, currently untitled, is billed by the streamer as “a story of resilience, reinvention, and an artist reclaiming…
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Why Soundcharts is betting on music’s ‘other AI revolution’
Soundcharts, the Paris-based music analytics platform, has launched an official MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, adding a third product line alongside its existing dashboard and API offerings. The move reflects a wider shift in the music data sector, with rivals such as Viberate, Chartmetric and Mogul also rolling out MCP servers in recent weeks, as…
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Splatoon Raiders developers reveal it originally was “like a base defense game” before evolving into a faster spin-off “with a strong sense of action”
Ahead of the Nintendo Switch 2 spin-off’s launch, four key Nintendo EPD developers behind Splatoon Raiders revealed in a “Ask the Developer” interview that the game began life as a very different concept: a solo-focused experience built around base defence and trap placement, rather than the fast-paced action shooter it became. The revelation matters because…
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Suno admits data breach that reportedly leaked 55.3 million users’ data
AI music generator Suno has confirmed it suffered a data breach in November 2025, after breach-notification service Have I Been Pwned reported obtaining a dataset containing the personal information of 55.3 million users. The confirmation, first reported by TechCrunch, contradicts Suno’s earlier characterisation of the incident when it surfaced on 15 July as a “limited…
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AMD and Anthropic reach $5 billion AI infrastructure deal
AMD has agreed to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic as part of a new AI infrastructure partnership, announced on Wednesday. Under the deal, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD’s Instinct MI450 AI GPUs via the chipmaker’s new Helios rack-scale system, adding to a growing roster of computing agreements the AI…
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Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave carries on the series’s proudest tradition
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, the next entry in Nintendo’s tactical role-playing series, is due out on Nintendo Switch 2 on 17 September, and its official X account has been steadily unveiling members of its large ensemble cast ahead of launch. The latest reveals, bard Sirocco and general Tobias, continue a long-running series tradition of charming,…
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New Jersey Dem gov’s blame game backfires after tech company pins noncitizen voter registration on state
New Jersey’s Democratic Governor Mikie Sherrill has faced backlash after blaming a “software error” for the improper registration of thousands of non-citizens to vote, only for the technology vendor involved, IDEMIA, to publicly dispute that account and place responsibility back on the state. The dispute matters because it has triggered a federal investigation into voter…
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Burnham announces £2 bus fare cap across England from January
Andy Burnham has announced that single bus fares across England will be capped at £2 from January, one of his first major policy moves in his opening week as prime minister as he seeks to address the cost of living. The change reverses a rise to £3 introduced by Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves in…
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What happens when you try to chop a photon in half?
A team of Norwegian physicists has explored a deceptively simple thought experiment: what happens to a single photon if it is only partway through reflecting off a perfect mirror when that mirror is suddenly pulled away? Because a photon is not a point-like particle but an extended wave-like object, the answer turns out to be…
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Finn Wolfhard Gives Update On Replacements Biopic
Finn Wolfhard, the “Stranger Things” actor known for his own indie rock projects, has given a fresh update on his long-in-the-works biopic about the Replacements, the influential and famously chaotic Minneapolis punk band. Speaking to Billboard, Wolfhard said the project is “going great” and that he and his producers are now searching for a director,…