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Justin Vernon has spent the past 18 years balancing cult success with spectacular forays into the pop mainstream.

There was one commitment I prayed Sir Keir Starmer would quietly ditch, in the way that he has abandoned so many others since he came to office: his pledge to lower the voting age to 16

Children would be sent home at 1pm at the end of the week under plans at Buxton Primary School in Norfolk, which says funding has not matched rising costs.

Nobody is ever likely to accuse Bear Grylls of being a wimp. So why is one of the few things that actually rattles the fromer SAS trooper the prospect of drinking a glass of British tap water?

When most of us split from our romantic partners, we can hardly bear to be in the same room as them. But what if you had to live in the same house? Dr Renee Singh on surviving cohabitation, post-split.

Hyperion ships another patch, which is nice

Belgian software house Hyperion Entertainment has released Update 3 for AmigaOS 3.2, the version of the classic operating system it launched in 2021. The update targets Amigas with 680x0 processors, including systems enhanced with PiStorm accelerator boards.…

'Your son isn't going to live.' The worst words a parent can hear, and delivered by our two-month-old baby's consultant with an unblinking, eye-to-eye stare. And yet...

Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure

Cloud Next  Google on Wednesday announced Firebase Studio, a product pitched as "a cloud-based agentic development environment" – in other words, a browser-based coding workspace that includes AI to help developers to prototype and build apps without writing every line of code themselves.…

David Lalgee, 64, died following a crash on the M60 which saw a lorry cross the central reservation and go into the embankment, before hitting six vehicles.

Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a "universal" checkout experience, was charged with defrauding investors on Wednesday, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. From a report: Founded in 2018, Nate raised over $50 million from investors like Coatue and Forerunner Ventures, most recently raising a $38 million Series A in 2021 led by Renegade Partners. Nate said its app's users could buy from any e-commerce site with a single click, thanks to AI. In reality, however, Nate relied heavily on hundreds of human contractors in a call center in the Philippines to manually complete those purchases, the DOJ's Southern District of New York alleges. Saniger raised millions in venture funding by claiming that Nate was able to transact online "without human intervention," except for edge cases where the AI failed to complete a transaction. But despite Nate acquiring some AI technology and hiring data scientists, its app's actual automation rate was effectively 0%, the DOJ claims.

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David von Rosen, a German billionaire living in Dubai , says the ultra-rich are treating the UK with great caution as a place to do business amid rising tax rates.

Public relations manager Paul Smith was given a sleek Cupra Formentor sports SUV by corporate fleet firm Auxillis while he waited for his Audi Q2 to be fixed following a crash last month.

The fashion faux pas to avoid at Ascot

Some Trump administration officials have nicknamed DOGE leader Elon Musk 'Crazy Uncle Elon,' while others have joked that he should have to take a drug test.

Despite Aston Villa only winning the European Cup once, Prince William has been a long-time supporter of the Birmingham-based club - a rather surprising choice for the London-based royal.

Kyle Richards and Teddi Mellencamp were thrust into a frightening encounter in Los Angeles on Wednesday - just hours after Teddi gave update about her ongoing battle with stage 4 cancer.

A gang stormed the runway at Almirante Padilla International Airport in the city of Riohacha yesterday, where bags of cash (pictured) were being loaded on to a flight from an armoured truck.

Ree had struggled with her weight since the age of 16. At her heaviest, she suffered from a horror health scare that left her in hospital for four months. She knew then she had to change her life.

GEORGINA BROWN: Projected on to a screen is the figure of a man, pacing his cell like a caged bear, his shaved head a glistening ball - shiny as mercury, and just as impermeable.

License to freak out? El Reg reader recommends reverting to pen, paper, pub

Final update  Readers have flooded our mailboxes with reports that Microsoft 365 Family licensing has fallen over this morning, so those of you who provide tech support to relatives or those using the office suite for a small business, consider yourself warned.…