SATURDAY, 06 SEPTEMBER 2025, 03:59
UK weather agency Met Office, in a blog post: Provisional Met Office statistics confirm that summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK. Analysis by Met Office climate scientists has also shown that a summer as hot or hotter than 2025 is now 70 times more likely than it would be in a ‘natural’ climate with no human caused greenhouse gas emissions. The UK’s mean...
Peacemaker, Ruby & Jodi: A Cult of Sin and Influence, and The Gilded Age are just a few of the shows you need to be watching on HBO Max this month.
The TT-inspired roadster debuts Audi’s new strategy for “radical simplicity”—and it looks terrific.
Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is warning against overly complex code and the risks of bypassing the framework. From a report: Developers are sometimes drawn to building “cathedrals of complexity that aren’t so easy to change,” he said, speaking in a podcast for maintainable.fm, a series produced by Ruby on Rails consultancy Planet Argon. Software, he...
For decades, the dry season in the Amazon rainforest has been getting drier. A new study, published on Tuesday, found that about 75% of the decrease in rainfall is directly linked to deforestation. From a report: The study, in Nature Communications, also found that tree loss was partly responsible for increased heat across the Amazon. Since 1985, the hottest days in the Amazon have warmed by...
The artificial intelligence start-up garnered another $13 billion as its valuation rose by nearly three times, from $61.5 billion earlier this year, amid a frenzy over the technology.
If you don’t need the latest and greatest, you can get this still-excellent pair of Sony noise-canceling headphones for $300.
An anonymous reader shares a report: If you’re sharing an ad-free YouTube Premium or YouTube Music account with friends or family who live outside of your home, you could lose your premium privileges. Customers who lose these can still watch YouTube or listen to music with ads — but let’s be real, it’s not the same. Multiple reports have shown people who have the service have been receiving...
Steam’s August 2025 hardware survey shows 32GB RAM configurations reached 35.42% of users while 16GB systems fell to 41.67%, continuing a six-month trend that positions 32GB to become the dominant memory configuration among PC gamers before year’s end. Windows 11 crossed 60% adoption among Steam users. The RTX 4060 continues gaining market share despite newer RTX 5060 availability. Display...
The European Union is expected to penalize the company, which has been accused of breaching the Digital Services Act, a law President Trump has criticized.
America is becoming a nation of economic pessimists. WSJ reports: A new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll [PDF] finds that the share of people who say they have a good chance of improving their standard of living fell to 25%, a record low in surveys dating to 1987. More than three-quarters said they lack confidence that life for the next generation will be better than their own, the poll found....
The traditional knock is that light roast espresso is bitter and sour. But new techniques mean that just plain isn’t true anymore.
It’s one of a number of parental controls being introduced by OpenAI, which is being sued over the death of a teenager in the US.
Speaking of Amazon Prime, Amazon is axing the program that lets Prime members share their free shipping perk with people outside their household. The Verge: In an update to its support page, Amazon says it will cut off Prime benefit sharing on October 1st, 2025, prompting invitees who don’t live with the account holder to sign up for their own subscription at a discounted $14.99 rate for an...
From best bathing practices to tips on cutting nails, pet experts share their knowledge.
When things are grim, the promises made by the wellness industry sound very appealing. I worry about how vulnerable this has made me
Ordinarily, I’m a sensible person – at least part-time. A journalist, an asker of questions, a checker of sources. Historically, a big fan of research.
But three years into a debilitating chronic illness, I am willing to try anything to get well. Even things that...
The first units of the Everione Happy — a rebadged MG Comet — will be landing in South Africa towards the end of 2025. Unlike the country’s current cheap EVs, it can exceed 100km/h.
Developer Hugo Tunius, writing in a blog post: Sideloading has been a hot topic for the last decade. Most recently, Google has announced further restrictions on the practice in Android. Many hundreds of comment threads have discussed these changes over the years. One point in particular is always made: “I should be able to run whatever code I want on hardware I own.” I agree entirely with this...
Former Post Office CEO Mark Barnes says his dream of the entity being a direct channel between government services and residents is dead.
An anonymous reader shares a report: The United States is on the precipice of a historic, if dubious, achievement. If current trends hold, 2025 could be the first year on record in which the US population actually shrinks. The math is straightforward. Population growth has two sources: natural increase (births minus deaths) and net immigration (arrivals minus departures). Last year, births...
Sometimes you need more than a smartphone to stay safe on big adventures.