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Hope, Raye told a crowd at Reading festival on Saturday, was the theme of a set inspired by her second album. Having established through a show of hands that most of the audience had just done their GCSEs, and after recounting her own rocky road to stardom, the 28-year-old singer led a series of upbeat chants of “it’s gonna be all right”.For anyone who thinks adolescence ought to be a time of optimism, it was a charming spectacle. But a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank paints a much gloomier picture. Building on existing evidence of…

Claim: Footage depicting an elephant rescuing a man from floodwaters was taken during August 2026 flooding in Nepal. Rating: Context Since we were unable to identify the video’s original source, we could not definitively confirm its authenticity. However, the clip predated the August 2026 flooding in Nepal and displayed visual inconsistencies that pointed to AI generation. As Nepal suffered from catastrophic flooding that left more than 900 people dead and thousands of others missing in late August 2026, a video appearing to show an elephant wading into floodwaters to rescue a man and carrying him to shore circulated online. The…

Several foreign suspects were among those arrested, according to prosecutors.Published On 1 Sep 20261 Sep 2026Dutch police have arrested ⁠34 ⁠suspects after a drug-related shooting in a small town in the east of the country that left a security guard dead and two police officers injured.Jolanda Aalbers, head of the regional police, told reporters on Tuesday that a “large group” of masked men had opened fire at 4am (02:00GMT) when police arrived at a house in Overasselt, a village near the German border, to investigate reports of suspicious activity.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listDuring the shootout, a 51-year-old…

In a post announcing the attacks, U.S. Central Command said they “follow recent attempted attacks by the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region.”The two rounds of strikes the U.S. launched this week mark a renewed exchange of fire between the two countries after a weekslong pause in fighting. The administration also announced last week “Operation Economic Outcast,” a new effort that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said will economically isolate Iran.Trump’s threat is a sharp pivot from earlier this week, when CENTCOM described strikes on Iran’s…

The House overwhelmingly passed a stopgap bill on Tuesday to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month, sending it to President Trump’s desk and punting a spending fight until after the midterm elections.The vote was a lopsided 370 to 48, a reflection of the bipartisan enthusiasm for heading off any funding fight before November, when voters will decide which party will control Congress for the final two years of Mr. Trump’s term. It paved the way for lawmakers to quickly return to the campaign trail for the critical final weeks before the elections.The legislation, the product of…

Long-term government borrowing costs have risen to a 28-year high, putting further pressure on Prime Minister Andy Burnham ahead of his first Budget next month.The yield on a 30-year gilt — a loan to the British government — rose to 5.89% on Tuesday, the highest since 1998.Borrowing costs in the US, Japan and Europe have hit similar highs in recent days, reflecting investors’ concerns about inflation, state borrowing levels and spending levels by large tech companies on AI.Burnham told the House of Commons his government’s “bedrock”, as it seeks to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, will be “fiscal responsibility”.All of those…

After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post.In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, finagled its way into internet access, made it possible for AI agents to secretly conspire under the company’s nose using a secret message board, and hacked into the network of AI lab Hugging Face. The attack sparked weeks of discussion and controversy inside and outside the AI industry, and AI…

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, three months after the Fable 5 line shipped in June 2026. The two are the same underlying model behind different safeguard layers. Fable 5.1 is generally available as claude-fable-5-1; Mythos 5.1 stays restricted to vetted organizations. Both carry a 1M token context window and 128K max output tokens, with adaptive thinking always on. The headline capability number is 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, against 24.7% for Fable 5 and 29.0% for Opus 5. The headline commercial number is a 75% cut to cache reads, from $1.00 to $0.25 per million tokens,…

Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Console, an AI-native platform designed to help organizations build agentic workflows and automate operational tasks using natural language. The cybersecurity giant said Console will deepen the agentic capabilities of its Cortex platform, allowing security teams to investigate signals, prioritize work, and automatically take action across enterprise environments. Console’s technology enables users to describe an operational objective in natural language, with AI agents then handling the analysis and actions needed to achieve it. Palo Alto Networks says this could help organizations resolve alerts, issues, and requests at machine speed.…

CEL Solicitors says it has traced more than 5,500 BTC that it believes belong to former users of Intersango, an early Bitcoin exchange that disappeared more than a decade ago.At Bitcoin’s current price near $78,824, those coins carry a value of roughly $433.5 million.One former UK customer has already recovered 61 BTC from the exchange’s remains, giving other users a concrete example of an old balance turning into a successful ownership claim.The investor instructed CEL on Jan. 20, and the case settled on May 28, returning all 61 coins, now worth about $4.81 million.CEL says former Intersango users may have…