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3 Soft Rock Songs From 1979 That Every 70s Kid Still Knows by Heart Today
This article is a listicle celebrating soft rock songs released in 1979, a year the author frames as the transition point between the sounds of the 1970s and 1980s. It highlights three tracks from that era that remain widely recognised by people who grew up in the decade. The songs featured are Air Supply’s “Lost…
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How this 1960s ex-council house is managing to stay cool without air con
An architect in south London has spent over a decade retrofitting her 1960s ex-council house to the Passivhaus standard, keeping it noticeably cooler in the current heatwave without any air-conditioning. On the hottest day of the summer’s fourth heatwave, with outside temperatures reaching 35C, Marion Baeli’s home stayed around 10C cooler inside, illustrating how such…
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Bruce Campbell Clarifies He’s “Tapped Out” Of The ‘Evil Dead’ Franchise, Didn’t Want Ash To Be “Borderline Geezer”
Bruce Campbell has reaffirmed that he has retired from playing Ash Williams in the Evil Dead franchise, clarifying comments made amid the release of a new trilogy of films. The actor, who originated the role in Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult classic and last played him in Starz’s Ash vs Evil Dead (2015–18), said he “tapped…
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Mandelson investigation ‘at risk of collapse’: Met detectives ‘fear prosecution is unlikely without US handing over unredacted Epstein files’
Metropolitan Police detectives investigating disgraced peer Peter Mandelson are reportedly concerned that any prosecution could collapse without the US authorities handing over unredacted files relating to Jeffrey Epstein. The article, drawn from the Daily Mail, suggests that the strength of the case relies heavily on material held in America, and that redactions could hamper investigators’…
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Sony Double Feature At The B.O.: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ $35M, ‘Insidious 6’ $23M Opening – Box Office Update
Sony’s two releases dominated the North American box office over the weekend of 21–23 August 2026, with Marvel’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day taking a fourth-weekend total of $35 million and Blumhouse’s horror sequel Insidious: Out of the Further opening to $23 million. The result underlines Sony’s strength across two very different franchises at once, a…
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The “insane” 1990 movie Nicolas Cage only made because he was “in serious need” of money
The first of many. The post The “insane” 1990 movie Nicolas Cage only made because he was “in serious need” of money first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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Hayden Panettiere’s Boyfriend Gave Her Narcan Before Death, Brother Says
The brother of Hayden Panettiere’s boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, has given a detailed account confirming that Hickerson administered Narcan to the actor after they found her unconscious in a South Carolina townhouse on Sunday. Zach Hickerson shared the account with TMZ to counter what he called “assumptions, speculations and accusations” circulating about the death of the…
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Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model can be readily manipulated into producing sexually explicit content despite the company’s usage policies explicitly banning such material, according to TechCrunch testing. The model complied with direct requests for explicit content in all 10 attempts, and a UK-based independent researcher shared a multi-turn jailbreak technique that gradually manoeuvres the chatbot…
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Tides of Annihilation Dev Insists It Didn’t Change Its Heroine’s Face
Another day, another drama. I played upcoming PS5 action game Tides of Annihilation last week, and I thought it was great. When footage leaked prior to the embargo lifting, I wasn’t expecting the focus to be on Gwendolyn’s face. But I’ve been doing this job for a long time now, so I suppose I should…