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Heatwave drives office working boom as employees ditch sweaty WFH in favour of air con
As Britain endures its third heatwave of the summer, flexible office providers say they are seeing a surge in staff coming into air-conditioned workplaces rather than working from home in overheated houses. It matters because it suggests extreme summer temperatures are beginning to reverse, at least temporarily, the working-from-home habits that became widespread in recent…
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Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits
SpaceX has floated on public markets at a $1.77 trillion valuation, with AI firms Anthropic and possibly OpenAI expected to follow, and their combined scale is drawing attention for eclipsing decades of technology exits. According to the latest NVCA-PitchBook Venture Monitor report, cited by TechCrunch, these three offerings together are set to “generate more value…
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Star Trek’s Darkest Episode Still Has the Best Space Battle Sci-Fi Has Ever Seen
This article argues that Star Trek: The Next Generation’s two-part episode “The Best of Both Worlds” contains the finest space battle in science fiction, centred on the devastating clash at the star Wolf 359. After the cybernetic Borg abduct and assimilate Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Starfleet confronts a single Borg cube, only to be overwhelmed in…
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Significant progress made to secure future burial space for Sheffield
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Twin Temple say Charley Crockett dropped them over Satanic imagery
The Los Angeles duo Twin Temple, married couple Alexandra and Zachary James, say they have been removed from two upcoming Charley Crockett shows because of the Satanic imagery central to their act. The pair, who perform doo-wop and early-1960s pop pastiche with camp Satanic themes, announced the news in a social media statement, expressing disappointment…
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Australia fires new defence system designed to intercept rockets as outrage grows over China’s missile test in the South Pacific
The Australian Defence Force has released footage of a live-fire test of a new ground-based air defence system designed to intercept incoming missiles, in a move that comes just days after China tested an intercontinental ballistic missile in the South Pacific. The timing has heightened tensions and put a spotlight on Australia’s efforts to build…
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SpaceX is on track for record-setting Starlink deployments
SpaceX is deploying Starlink satellites faster than ever, running ahead of the record-setting pace it set the previous year. In the first half of 2026 the company launched 1,589 satellites into low-Earth orbit, according to launch data compiled by Jonathan McDowell’s satellite tracker, roughly 100 more than the 1,489 it had deployed by the same…
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SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first built with Cursor’s help
SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, the first model released since the company rebranded from xAI and the first it trained in collaboration with the AI firm Cursor. The company describes it as its smartest model to date, built specifically to excel at coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work, and claims it outperforms rival leading models…
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The best Star Wars TV show could have been Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible in space
The gaming website Polygon has reported that the acclaimed Star Wars series Andor was originally conceived as a very different show — a Cold War-style spy drama in the vein of the original Mission: Impossible television series. The revelation comes from the official behind-the-scenes companion book, The Art of Andor, and matters because it shows…