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Fans are training their algorithms to hide their favourite artists so a concert can still surprise them
Films get spoiler warnings; tours do not. One fan spends weeks tapping “not interested” on videos of artists she loves. Another says she…
World
Rescues of 18 to 24-year-olds in the mountains nearly doubled in five years. Volunteers call the pressure unsustainable
Mountain Rescue England and Wales recorded 314 incidents involving 18 to 24-year-olds in 2024, up 89 per cent from 2019. Llanberis is on…
Health
A medical treatment for swollen limbs has become a TikTok routine for a “snatched waist”. Doctors explain what it actually does
Manual lymphatic drainage is a real treatment for lymphoedema, usually after cancer or lymph node surgery. A researcher warns…
Technology
A police force taking 1,000 non-emergency calls a day has put a chatbot on its website. Callers wait 20 minutes
South Yorkshire Police says Bobbi gives quick answers to common non-emergency questions so call handlers are freed up. It cannot report a…
Bangladesh
Saturn rules the evening sky until 15 October, and the Draconid meteors peak on the night of 8 October
Saturn is visible east-southeast just after sunset, Venus sits low in the west, the new moon on 10 October gives the darkest skies, and the…
Technology
Four astronauts reached the ISS three weeks late. They will study what weightlessness does to blood clotting
A Falcon 9 carried the crew from Cape Canaveral after a fuel system fault delayed the mission. The six-month research programme is named…
Technology
Hackers posing as an Anthropic executive emailed a think tank about “military integration of Claude”
Proofpoint says suspected Chinese operatives impersonated an Anthropic employee and a former White House tech official to target AI policy…
Technology
ChatGPT is becoming a place other apps live inside, with their own sidebar space and interactive panels
Plug-in extensions let developers build app-like interfaces inside ChatGPT, with a sidebar slot and file support. A new Plug-in Creator…
Technology
Google released Gemini 4 Argon to a handful of security firms. It lost two of its own four coding benchmarks
Google calls Argon its largest and most powerful model, matching OpenAI’s Astra and Anthropic’s Claude Opus on coding and security tests…
Bangladesh
The iPhone 18 Pro Max is in Dhaka’s shops unofficially at Tk2,12,000 — thirty thousand less than the official iPhone 17 Pro Max
Apple started selling the iPhone 18 Pro on 18 September but not in Bangladesh. The phones are in Dhaka’s markets anyway, and the price gap…
Technology
A 38-year-old American spy satellite broke apart in a crowded orbit. Two hundred working satellites are nearby
USA 32, launched in 1988, fragmented on 13 September in low Earth orbit. Spaceweather.com suggests a pressurised tank or battery. There is…
World
Paramount and Warner Bros merge on Tuesday. The combined company will be called Skydance
David Ellison says the name of his own production company will sit above both studios so neither brand is diminished. The merger takes…