If Microsoft implements this 50% Game Pass Ultimate price hike in the UK, that will be it for me. www.theverge.com/news/789424/...

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New series of Grand Designs tonight klaxon 🚨 youtu.be/JZs5LMmcDJE?...

If you've written a book with an ISBN no., you could be eligible for a payout from Anthropic soon. Even in the UK. Details here: www.alcs.co.uk/news/the-lat...

Trump to generals: "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within & we have to handle it before it gets out of control"

The problem with Starmer's pitch that it's him or Farage, is that he's spent the past few months chumming up to Trump. You can't portray Farage as the bad guy if you're normalising the behaviour of his boss.

Gaming's just a waste of time? Try telling that to the British military teams I met at this weekend's BFBS Pro League Grand Final. Story here for Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...

Brilliant cover on The New Yorker

Saudi's PIF have just bought EA, as part of a Jared Kushner consortium. Looking forward to Newcastle being unbeatable in FIFA and Donald Trump PGA 2027.

Which is why it should be illegal to make payments to cybercrime groups, either directly or indirectly

Holy hell. The “volunteers” manning the course at the Ryder Cup are paying to do the job!

The irony of people on Facebook protesting against the digital ID scheme because it would invade their privacy...

"What topics do you want to come up?" "90s indie music," says Krishnan. Needs Ask The Audience on this question...

Trump basically buying the primary way that young people consume news. And it's not even in the top five most scandalous/corrupt things he's done this week. apnews.com/article/trum...

“Violence against the truth.” A very nice way of summing up all the rubbish the far right is spewing.

YouTube giving the COVID wackos their channels back. thehill.com/policy/techn...

This is good from Streeting. Clear, not mincing his words about the Trump paracetamol nonsense. www.itv.com/news/2025-09...

Ah, bugger. Dickie Bird bows out, eight short of the century. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Shocked as the Today show turned to the Lib Dems conference as the second item this morning… and then it devoted the entire item to Reform and how the Lib Dem’s were “reacting” to them. Licence-fee funded Fox Radio.

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

NowTV down?

Oh, do fuck off. They've been a serious party for a long while, unlike the clowns you prop up.

Chuffed to have both of these in the bag @tommcraemusic.bsky.social

Not sure I'm going to sleep tonight knowing I might lose my crown as one of Google's top 31% of ad-free music listeners

Nazis ban comedians shock.. NYT, 4 Feb 1939

throwback Friday

Tariffs beginning to bite...

[5/5] Only AI/AR/whatever glasses are not the next PC platform. They're lightweight computers with limited use cases relying heavily on smartphones. A real PC platform, the kind Zuck wanted: app store, fleet of devices, social network effect, he gets none of it. He gets smartwatches for your face.

So now we’re censoring the press to pacify the orange man baby. Welcome to Starmergrad. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

I was trying out a Google Gemini feature that creates a professional headshot of you from a selfie. I asked it to make the original image clean shaven and it did this...

Aside from Liquid Glass, there are some downsides to upgrading to macOS 26. Here's how to overcome a few of them: www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...

Can the UK cope with all these clouds? www.techfinitive.com/uk-forecast-...

If you've still got Bartender 5 installed and you've updated to MacOS Tahoe, get shot of it. It causes a weird cursor bug that keeps trying to open the Apple system menu.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

The new Aero, sorry Liquid Glass look for iPadOS is plain awful. Also, look at the hot mess of this software keyboard. Letters floating all over the place.

Lots of apps misbehaving with the new window options in iPadOS 26. How did that get through the betas?

Wonder how many of the knuckle-draggers from yesterday's protest ended up at Arsenal, West Ham or Chelsea cheering on teams largely comprised of immigrants?

The full Android 16 UI has landed on my Pixel 8a and it's very nice. Adding more icons to the homescreen was a smart move, too.

Fine sentiment, but need to do more than just fish for likes on social media.

Solidarity with all the club secs frantically trying to find a ref this morning for pitch inspections

Sign of the times in this Reddit advert

Why in this Mandelson saga are we ignoring the elephant in the room? That we’re about to welcome and honour a man who was a great pal of Epstein and who continues to lie about that every day?

I know I'm a broken record at the moment, but Today show from 6:30. Two nibbles at the Mandelson story (fair enough), an interview with a US government climate sceptic, Bolsanaro with largely unquestioning coverage of Trump threatening further tariffs on Brazil for corruption. Nothing on Farage.

Oh, we're doing the Farage story today, are we? A week late and when the news agenda is stuffed with other big stories. It's shameless.

The US far right's long-term strategy was to capture the Supreme Court, which is now paying off in a big way for Trump. The UK has a different power structure, so the equivalent here was for the Tory party, during its 14 years of misrule, to capture the BBC. Keir Starmer needs to move, and fast.

The Guardian reports a string of serious corruption allegations against Boris Johnson. The BBC clearly doesn't get the newspaper.

EXCLUSIVE. My sources have confirmed that tonight's Apple launch will see the debut of a new product category, the iBongos. Start from $499, launch in Nov.

Think I might get back into NFL this year. But won't be doing it with this piss-awful Dermot O'Leary show on 5. It's like the bastard child of Soccer AM and Family Fortunes.