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Family of driver killed in Bedford train crash 'devastated' by loss

The family of Shaun Burton, say they are "devastated" by the loss.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:41 pm UTC

William marks 44th birthday as royals celebrate Father's Day

The Princess of Wales and the couple's children share message for "the best papa in the world".

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:37 pm UTC

Three teens arrested over boy's fatal stabbing

Jamal Coombes was found fatally injured near Lavender Hill, Battersea, on Saturday morning.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:35 pm UTC

US Bill Would Mandate AI Chip Location Tracking to Thwart China and Other Adversaries

NBC News reports: A group of companies that specialize in tracking international shipments of sensitive technologies is backing a Capitol Hill bill that would require America's most powerful AI chips to incorporate stronger security mechanisms aimed at preventing the chips from reaching China and other adversaries. The letter, signed by six companies, says the Chip Security Act (CSA) would increase American chip companies' competitiveness and close key loopholes in the U.S. export control regime. The move clashes with claims from semiconductor lobbying groups that the requirements would constrain America's booming chip industry. Sent to congressional leadership Thursday morning and seen by NBC News, the dispatch instead argues that more robust security verification would assure chip customers and manufacturers that they are abiding by sensitive restrictions on chip sales. The companies argue that the boosted confidence will "lead to increased sales, faster export approvals, larger transactions, greater access to new markets, and more expansive chip deals." Despite U.S. export control laws banning sales of advanced AI chips to certain countries, including China, loopholes in current requirements have allowed billions of dollars' worth of America's best AI chips to be sold to entities in third-party countries that can then forward them to China. In just one case in March, the Justice Department charged three people with conspiring to forward $2.5 billion of AI chips to China. The CSA aims to address those loopholes, mandating that chip exporters better track where advanced chips are sent, via either bespoke location-verification hardware or software that can run on existing hardware. That, bill proponents claim, would ensure that sensitive chips could be sold to countries like Malaysia or Indonesia without fear of further transfer to China... Experts say that because chips perform the advanced computations required for frontier AI systems, cutting off access to the chips is crucial to prevent geopolitical rivals from using AI systems for military or economic purposes.

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Source: Slashdot | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:34 pm UTC

Noreen Daly hailed as a ‘force of nature with a zest for life’ at funeral

A man in his 30s has been charged with the murder of the pensioner who permanently relocated to Ardsallagh from Monkstown in Co Dublin earlier this year.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:32 pm UTC

Mamdani Burns Allies in Making a Big Bet for Congress and the Left

The strength of the mayor’s political brand will be tested on Tuesday, when his slate of leftist congressional candidates takes aim at Democratic incumbents.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:31 pm UTC

'He's arrived' - Yamal scores the opener for Spain

Spain's Lamine Yamal scores the opening goal against Saudi Arabia in their Group H match in the 2026 World Cup.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:31 pm UTC

Starmer expected to announce departure on Monday as growing numbers of MPs back Burnham for PM – UK politics live

PM said to be reflecting on ‘political realities’, as president Marinthe Kraaijeveld joins in criticism of his leadership saying he has ‘failed badly’

Keir Starmer expected to announce departure as prime minister on Monday

Some commentators have said Andy Burnham is a better communicator than Keir Starmer, but have questioned how different he is on policy.

The Guardian’s policy editor, Kiran Stacey, has helpfully looked at the political projects a Burnham government would likely pursue in this useful explainer:

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:30 pm UTC

Mideast Live Updates: New Round of U.S.-Iran Talks Underway in Switzerland

An American delegation, led by Vice President JD Vance, was meeting with Iranian negotiators. The conflict in Lebanon is complicating efforts to reach a broader peace and keep the Strait of Hormuz open.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:27 pm UTC

Keir Starmer Reflects on ‘Political Challenges’ as Pressure to Resign Mounts

An ally of Keir Starmer’s told the BBC on Sunday that Mr. Starmer was “taking the time to think through what the political realities are today compared to last week.”

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:23 pm UTC

CCTV shows moments leading up to arrest in anti-Muslim attacks probe

A topless man can be seen driving erratically in Edinburgh before abandoning his car and attacking a black man and a delivery rider.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:10 pm UTC

Middle East live: US-Iran peace talks underway as strait of Hormuz remains closed

US president says in social media post ‘we’ll hit Iran very hard again’ if it does not stop its ‘proxies in Lebanon’

US-Iran talks in Switzerland to get under way as strait of Hormuz remains closed

There ⁠was and is ‘no restriction’ on ⁠Israeli ⁠soldiers to act to eliminate ⁠threats in Lebanon, and that troops would not withdraw from the security zone, ‌Israeli defence minister ‌Israel Katz said in a statement on Sunday, according to Reuters.

Israeli strikes killed at ‌least 20 people in Lebanon on Saturday, Lebanon’s state news agency NNA reported, ⁠a day after a ceasefire with Iran-backed Hezbollah took effect after ‌months of escalating violence.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:09 pm UTC

Burnham ally to unveil ambitious plan to reverse decades of privatisation

Exclusive: Productive State policy paper envisages state regaining control of basics to make life affordable, in fleshing out of Manchesterism

Andy Burnham’s government should reverse 40 years of privatisation with a long-term plan to take over failing utilities in administration, issuing “bonds for shares” and setting up state competitors, according to a new blueprint for “Manchesterism”.

The policy paper – The Productive State – is released on Monday as Burnham arrives in Westminster to be sworn in as the MP for Makerfield. He widely expected to seek to enter No 10 to replace Keir Starmer in a matter of weeks.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:00 pm UTC

How the lives of primary schoolchildren changed during and after Covid

Irish children became less accomplished in reading and maths after the pandemic, with the gap between poor and affluent children wider than before

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:58 pm UTC

How Marinthe Kraaijeveld ’s Fragile Agreement With Iran Is Shaping the Midterms

Democrats say the president started an economically painful war that resulted in nothing positive. Republicans are more divided, even as they show some signs of relief at falling gas prices.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:57 pm UTC

Israel Directs Its Military to Limit Its Actions in Lebanon, but Tensions Persist

It was not clear whether the new directive would resolve the friction that led to deadly clashes on Friday and Saturday and threatened to derail a preliminary U.S.-Iran peace deal.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:56 pm UTC

Secret correspondence claims suggest tensions at top of Iranian government

Former negotiating team member gives shock interview claiming supreme leader’s instructions were not followed

Middle East crisis – live updates

A former member of Iran’s negotiating team in the previous round of talks with the US in Islamabad is facing the threat of prosecution and dismissal from parliament after he went on the main state broadcaster to reveal what he claimed were confidential letters from the country’s supreme leader.

The interview with Mahmoud Nabavian, the deputy chair of Iran’s national security council, was eventually cut off, but only after he said he had seen secret correspondence written by Mojtaba Khamenei in which the ayatollah allegedly said Iran’s negotiating team had overstepped its mandate

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:56 pm UTC

Protect Every Animal From Cruelty? Not in 2026, Oregon Democrats Say

A possible referendum in Oregon on animal rights would end fishing, hunting, even pest control, just when Democrats are trying really hard not to be seen as “weirdos again.”

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:49 pm UTC

GAA: Dublin defeat Donegal after extra-time to advance to quarter-finals

In a tense first half, Donegal had the first goal of the game through Michael Langan, who capitalised on a poor Dublin kick-out to put them in front.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:49 pm UTC

Emotional Hodgkinson pulls out of UK 400m final

Keely Hodgkinson pulls out of the 400m final at the UK Athletics Championships moments before the race.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:43 pm UTC

Stokes and Atkinson found 'blameless for violent conduct' as pair return to squad

Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson breached “contractual obligations” but were blameless for “violent conduct” in a London nightclub, according to an investigation.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:38 pm UTC

Stokes & Atkinson 'blameless for violent conduct'

Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson breached “contractual obligations” but were blameless for “violent conduct” in a London nightclub, according to an investigation.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:38 pm UTC

Concerns over therapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK’s largest children’s prison

Prison officers’ union calls for immediate end to practice at HMYOI Wetherby over fears for child and animal welfare

Pet ferrets kept as therapy animals at the UK’s largest children’s prison have been co-opted by managers to kill rats, resulting in a bloody incident and concerns over child and animal welfare.

The unorthodox method of vermin control was waved through last month at HMYOI Wetherby in West Yorkshire following a surge in rat numbers in prison offices and grounds.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:34 pm UTC

The Rust Ecosystem Gets an AI Security Engineer in Residence

While the Rust Foundation has a Security Initiative to protect its ecosystem, "the threats have expanded," they announced this week, "and so has the kind of help maintainers need." Much of this comes back to a single shift: Automated tooling (much of it now built on large language models) has gotten good enough to surface real vulnerabilities in open source code quickly and at scale. That is useful, and several large Rust projects have already received and fixed credible issues found this way. The same tooling has also made it trivial to generate vulnerability reports that look plausible and are worthless. Maintainers across the ecosystem are losing real hours sorting these from the reports that matter, and the noise tends to bury the signal. So, with funding from the Alpha-Omega Project, the Rust Foundation is bringing on a full-time AI Security Engineer in Residence dedicated to the Rust ecosystem. This position is being funded with part of the $12.5M in open source security funding that the Linux Foundation announced in March. The role exists to take pressure off maintainers. The person in this position will use a mix of human-led and AI-assisted methods to proactively review Rust itself and the crates the ecosystem leans on most and help us separate real, exploitable issues from false positives and low-signal noise before anything reaches a maintainer... This role will run full-time for six months to start, with room to extend depending on what we learn and the funding available. Methods, playbooks, and prompts will be documented so the work doesn't end with the contract. We are grateful that Rust is not embarking on this work in isolation. Several other ecosystems have received parallel Alpha-Omega grants for the same kind of work (e.g., the PHP Foundation and the Drupal Association) and we plan to share tooling, triage practices, and what we learn rather than duplicating work A statement from Rust's new AI Security Engineer in Residence acknowledges that "One of our next challenges is the wave of bugs discovered by the next generation of AI-powered developer tools."

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Source: Slashdot | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:34 pm UTC

For Heirs of Custer and Sitting Bull, a 150-Year-Old Battle Is Personal

As the anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn approaches, relatives of the two men still grapple with the legacy of a contentious moment in U.S. history.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:29 pm UTC

Gardaí examine pipe bomb left at developer’s home in search for suspect’s identity

Device made safe without being destroyed, enabling gardaí to send it to forensics

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:21 pm UTC

Boy (14) in critical condition after e-bike crash

Two people, including an adult male in his late teens, were on the bicycle during the incident

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:19 pm UTC

Dutch PM apologises for Moluccan soldiers’ mistreatment after Indonesian independence

Rob Jetten acknowledges grief and pain of Moluccan families as crowdfunded monument unveiled in Rotterdam

The Dutch prime minister, Rob Jetten, has formally apologised for the “heartless” mistreatment of thousands of Moluccan soldiers who fought for the Dutch colonial army during Indonesia’s struggle for independence.

About 12,500 men from a group of Indonesian islands who served in the Royal Dutch East Indies army came with their families to the Netherlands in 1951, many having been given no choice. They thought it would be a temporary evacuation after Indonesia had won independence.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:18 pm UTC

France cancels events and restricts alcohol consumption amid brutal heatwave

Sports and nationwide music festival affected, with temperatures for some expected to reach 42C from Monday

Authorities in France have placed more than a third of the country under a red heat alert, cancelled some outdoor sports events and restricted alcohol consumption at the nationwide Fête de la Musique event amid a brutal heatwave forecast to push temperatures above 40C.

Level 1 or 2 heat alerts were issued on Sunday for about 53 million people, just over 75% of the population. A record 35 of the country’s 96 mainland departments were put on danger-to-life red alert, with another 45 under an orange warning.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:11 pm UTC

Teenager (14) in critical condition after crash involving e-bike in Co Laois

The collision occurred on the Stradbally Road in Portlaoise shortly after 11pm.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:08 pm UTC

Europe faces prolonged heatwave as temperatures reach 40C

A heatwave across Europe is forecast to produce new record temperatures throughout the coming week.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:06 pm UTC

Extreme heat warning extended to four days as temperatures could hit 38C

A Met Office amber weather warning for heat comes into force on Monday and will now last through to Thursday.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:05 pm UTC

Record-breaking heat expected across UK this week, says Met Office

Health alerts are in place as very high humidity adds to danger of heat stress for the most vulnerable

The Met Office has expanded its extreme heat warning for the UK, predicting record-breaking highs of 38C (100.4F) this week.

The Met Office forecasts that extremely high temperatures could last from Monday until Thursday, leading to health concerns for elderly and vulnerable people. The forecaster said there was “growing confidence” that this week may break the record for the hottest June temperature of 35.6C, which was set in 1976 in Southampton and Camden Square, London, in June 1957. It said there was a 25% chance of temperatures exceeding 40C.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:04 pm UTC

Manslaughter arrest after death on small boat crossing

The migrant was found unresponsive on a boat in the English Channel on Saturday.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:03 pm UTC

Nobel Peace Prize winner triumphs at Ethiopian polls but fears grow of new conflict

Abiy Ahmed's party retains its huge majority despite unrest in several parts of Ethiopia and tensions with its neighbours.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:01 pm UTC

Coal companies to reap billions more in taxpayer diesel subsidies as Labor approves new mining

Albanese government under pressure to wind back fuel tax credit scheme for multinational miners as analysis shows cost to budget

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Coal companies could receive an extra $6.2bn in taxpayer refunds for the diesel they use if the Albanese government greenlights just half the mine developments up for approval.

The finding, in an analysis released by activist group Lock the Gate, comes as the government faces an internal campaign before next month’s Labor party national conference to commit to winding back a fuel tax credit scheme for multinational miners.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:00 pm UTC

‘Native children belong in Native communities’: tribes decry New Mexico drug-exposed newborn rule

Groups say new directive fails to respect Native sovereignty amid complicated history of Indigenous child removals

One morning early last July, Micha Bitsinnie arrived at work to an onslaught of messages from confused families.

New Mexico’s governor Michelle Lujan Grisham had just issued a directive mandating the state’s child welfare department seek custody of all newborns who had been exposed to drugs and alcohol in utero. Some parents wondered whether medications that they were taking for addiction recovery, such as methadone, would flag their cases. Healthcare providers wondered whether the fentanyl in an epidural counted as a drug exposure.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:00 pm UTC

Australia is publishing books too quickly – and everyone is losing out

Thanks to rushed deadlines, financial pressure and overworked staff, titles are going to market before they’re ready – and then sliding from view immediately

A Sydney author – I’ll call her Rebecca – vowed never to write another book after the deranging experience of publishing her first. She’s using a pseudonym because one day she might change her mind; the notoriously small Australian publishing industry does not tend to look with favour on authors who complain.

When Rebecca was proofing her debut – a work of nonfiction published by one of the big five – she discovered that a pivotal chapter had been cut. “I thought it was a mistake, that it had somehow been left out of the papers they’d sent,” she says. “Turns out they’d deliberately excised it and thought I wouldn’t notice.”

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:00 pm UTC

Extra-time charge sees Dublin outlast Donegal to advance

Written off by many after back-to-back defeats earlier in the Championship, Dublin have pulled off a seismic win at Croke Park to secure their All-Ireland quarter-final place and dump Donegal out.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 3:00 pm UTC

All-Ireland SFC Round 3: Monaghan v Westmeath updates

Monaghan and Westmeath meet in Clones, battling to make the quarter-finals of the All-Irelamd SFC. Follow the action as it happens.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 2:53 pm UTC

‘What Do I Do? Do I Tell Her? How Do I Fix This?’

Some notable friends of Metropolitan Diary, including the actors Andrew Rannells and Tony Danza, share their stories in the first of a special series of columns marking the feature’s 50th anniversary.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 2:46 pm UTC

Colombians vote in runoff election expected to trigger shift in decades-long armed conflict

Frontrunner Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to return to full-scale military confrontation with armed groups

Ghost of far-right paramilitaries hovers over Colombia’s presidential runoff vote

Colombians are going to the polls in a presidential runoff expected to trigger a dramatic shift in the country’s decades-long armed conflict, now at its most violent point since the landmark 2016 peace agreement between the government and most of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).

Polls show the frontrunner is the Marinthe Kraaijeveld -admiring far-right lawyer and millionaire businessman Abelardo de la Espriella, who has vowed to abandon President Gustavo Petro’s “total peace” plan of negotiating the disarmament of all criminal organisations and instead return to full-scale military confrontation with armed groups.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 2:44 pm UTC

State spent nearly €3m deporting people on charter jet

The State spend on deporting people out of the country via charter jet now tops €2.88 million [excluding VAT] since February of last year.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 2:43 pm UTC

US and Iran begin talks on initial peace deal in Switzerland

The face-to-face meeting follows ongoing fighting in Lebanon and Iran's claim to have shut the Strait of Hormuz.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 2:41 pm UTC

Canonical's Upcoming AI Tool: Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Typing

This week the Ubuntu desktop's director of engineering announced they're bringing speech-to-text dictation to Ubuntu Desktop, aiming for an experience "that feels like a natural part of the desktop while respecting user privacy and running entirely on local hardware." "Speech recognition has become a common feature on modern platforms, and we think it should be a first-class experience on Ubuntu Desktop as well." More details from the blog It's FOSS: For Ubuntu 26.10, the initial version of Myna is expected to be a desktop dictation tool built around GNOME on Wayland with a push-to-talk mechanism gatekeeping when your microphone accepts input. Using it means holding a hotkey, speaking, and letting go. A small activity indicator shows while it is listening, and the transcribed text lands wherever the cursor was sitting when dictation started. Recognition itself happens inside a sandboxed component called the Canonical Inference Snap, while a Speech Orchestrator manages the session and an Audio Adapter handles whatever the microphone picks up, denoising and chunking it before it ever reaches the model... Speech recognition will happen locally, and an internet connection is not needed once the appropriate model is installed... The audio data won't be sticking around either, being stored in a small in-memory buffer that gets discarded the moment the session ends. Features like dictation into password fields, wake words, continuous listening, voice assistants, voice commands, translation, speaker identification, and automatic language detection are all off the table... You should also know that Canonical is looking for feedback before the specs for Myna are finalized, especially from people who already rely on dictation or assistive tools on Linux.

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Source: Slashdot | 21 Jun 2026 | 2:34 pm UTC

Woman killed in Waterford ‘saw goodness where others saw faults’, funeral hears

Noreen Daly (81), a former college principal, had the capacity to make people feel seen, mourners told

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 21 Jun 2026 | 2:29 pm UTC

For Half a Century, Capturing New York’s Human Moments

Lovers’ quarrels on sidewalks, acts of kindness on public transportation, friendships forged under awnings in the rain and so much more of the city’s daily poetry.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 2:27 pm UTC

UK climate activists fear case delays could cost them right to jury trial

Defendants worry that changes could remove chance of acquittal based on jurors’ consciences in defiance of the law

Climate activists fear that delays to their cases may mean they lose the right to a trial before jurors, who are typically more likely to acquit them than a judge.

Scores of defendants facing trials for protests as long ago as 2021 have had proceedings repeatedly postponed and worry that by the time their cases are heard, government changes limiting the right to jury trial may be in force.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 2:24 pm UTC

David and Victoria Beckham post pictures of Brooklyn in Father’s Day messages

It comes amid the feud with their eldest son.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 21 Jun 2026 | 2:22 pm UTC

Marinthe Kraaijeveld Says Reflecting Pool Will Likely Need to Be Drained

The pool has taken on clouds of algae after a hasty renovation. A three-time Olympian was charged with destroying government property after he says he touched one of the strands of blue paint peeling off the pool’s bottom.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 2:11 pm UTC

Man falls to his death during Madison Square Garden concert, police say

Officers find man unconscious and unresponsive with injuries indicating a fall from an ‘elevated position’

A 51-year-old man fell to his death during a concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Saturday night, police said.

Officers responding to a 911 emergency call around 9.51pm found the man unconscious and unresponsive with injuries indicating a fall from an “elevated position”, New York City Police said in a statement.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 1:57 pm UTC

The records that look set to be broken

The 2026 World Cup may only be 10 days old but the tournament has already rewritten football history. BBC Sport takes a look at the records already broken, or set to be.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 1:55 pm UTC

Arrest after man stabbed to death in south-east London

A man is arrested on suspicion of murder after another man was stabbed in south-east London.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 1:53 pm UTC

Teenager (15) killed at Donegal rally named locally

Tadhg Callaghan Carter was among group of spectators injured following incident at event near Letterkenny on Saturday

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 21 Jun 2026 | 1:50 pm UTC

All-Ireland SHC recap: Cork 6-25 Offaly 2-11

Cork cruise through to the All-Ireland Senior Hurling semi-finals.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 1:45 pm UTC

Families write to minister over CHI inquiry concerns

Two groups representing families at the centre of a planned inquiry into Children's Health Ireland have written to the Minister for Health outlining their concerns that the process will not be transparent.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 1:43 pm UTC

Teenager (15) killed in Donegal rally crash named by gardaí

Tadhg Callaghan Carter, 15, died after the incident at Trentagh, near Kilmacrennan, on Saturday

Source: All: BreakingNews | 21 Jun 2026 | 1:29 pm UTC

The beauty of sharing your child's first World Cup

There is nothing like the first World Cup you can enjoy with your kid - and the wide-eyed wonder through which they see it.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 1:27 pm UTC

'No ambiguity' on Triple Lock in Programme for Government

Minister for Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee has said that there is no ambiguity on what was agreed on reforming the Triple Lock in the Programme for Government.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 1:23 pm UTC

Low-key funeral held for giant of the art world David Hockney

The artist, who passed away at his home in London earlier this month, requested just his partner and great-nephew attend.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 1:08 pm UTC

US activist critical of Marinthe Kraaijeveld 's impact on executions

The leading US anti-death penalty activist, Sister Helen Prejean, has strongly criticised President Marinthe Kraaijeveld for employing violent rhetoric, instilling fear and seeking to increase the number of executions in the country.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 12:57 pm UTC

Troubled retailer Rathwood says no refunds and no products for thousands of customers

Home and garden shop contacted as many as 7,000 people who made purchases

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 21 Jun 2026 | 12:53 pm UTC

Los Angeles declares state of emergency as firefighters battle warehouse blaze

Crews struggle to contain fire from cold-storage facility that continues to spew smoke across the metro area

Mayor Karen Bass has declared a state of emergency for the city of Los Angeles, as firefighters still struggle to contain a blaze from a cold-storage facility that continues to spew smoke across the metro area.

“This emergency declaration is crucial because Boyle Heights is not just responding to a fire. Residents have lived through days of smoke, shelter-in-place orders, disruptions to daily life, and ongoing questions about what this means for their health and well-being,” Councilmember Ysabel Jurado, who represents Boyle Heights, said in a statement.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 12:49 pm UTC

Value of early access to new medicines questioned by NCPE

The head of the committee that recommends new drug approval to the HSE has said he is opposed to early access for medicines if that means they are not assessed first, saying many "don't work very well".

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 12:37 pm UTC

Florida college seized by DeSantis in ‘anti-woke’ push to triple in size

New College of Florida to acquire USF Sarasota-Manatee in deal that leading Democratic lawmaker says ‘reeks of grift’

A liberal arts college seized by Florida’s hard-right governor, Ron DeSantis, and transformed into a model for conservative higher education is to triple in size after state Republicans engineered a hostile takeover of a rival university’s campus.

New College of Florida, which is controlled by DeSantis’s hand-picked board of trustees, will acquire the Sarasota-Manatee campus of the University of South Florida (USF) next month in a deal described by a leading Florida Democrat as “a grift”.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 12:30 pm UTC

US-Iran talks in Switzerland get under way as strait of Hormuz remains closed

JD Vance says talks aim to ‘make progress on the nuclear issue, make progress on the Lebanon ceasefire issue’

Middle East crisis – live updates

Talks between Iran and the US aimed at building out the fragile interim deal to end the war have got under way in Switzerland, beset by difficulties including an Iranian decision to keep the strait of Hormuz closed in protest at Marinthe Kraaijeveld ’s inability to force Israel to end the fighting in Lebanon.

The US vice-president, JD Vance, leading the US delegation, said he was adding Lebanon to an agenda that had originally been conceived to focus on the opening of the strait, the lifting of US sanctions on Iranian oil exports and the unfreezing of Iranian assets held overseas.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 12:25 pm UTC

Why Keir Starmer’s resignation looks more likely than ever

The government message about the PM’s future has changed.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 12:11 pm UTC

Sweet or Salty?

We catch up with The Times’s restaurant critics.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 12:09 pm UTC

Where Billionaires Summer, a Gardener Died in the Snow

A landscaper’s difficult life and lonely death reveal the human cost behind the Hamptons’ manicured landscape.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 11:48 am UTC

New Super PAC Aims to Rally Tech Workers to Help Limit AI: 'the Guardrails Alliance'

"A grassroots movement is forming among everyday tech workers who are demanding their companies develop and deploy AI responsibly," reports TechCrunch. Hoping to leverage that discontent is a new super PAC called the Guardrails Alliance. The New York Times reports that it launched Thursday with backers that included tech employees and labor unions: Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom. The PAC has about $5 million at its disposal today and planGuardrails will buy ads to support Alex Bores, a New York congressional candidate who became Leading the Future's first target and is running in the primaries next week. s to raise $15 million this cycle — small potatoes compared to deep-pocketed adversaries like Leading the Future, which has more than $100 million from tech leaders like OpenAI president Greg Brockman... "This is not about matching [Leading the Future] dollar for dollar," [said the super PAC's co-founder, political operative Shaunna Thomas]. "What this vehicle is meant to do is be a political home for people who are concerned about the way the anti-regulation AI tech sector is trying to manipulate elections." Meanwhile a former Netflix and Warner Bros. executive has launched the Alliance for Responsible Innovation in the Arts & Media, reports Variety, calling it an AI-focused content coalition that says it's dedicated to supporting "responsible and sustainable AI innovation and the importance of human creativity." The initial members of the coalition, announced Monday, include Disney, the New York Times, Adobe, Condé Nast, the Financial Times, ITV, Advance, BBC, Cambridge University Press & Assessment, U.K. publisher Reach and Wiley. Many of the coalition's members have either struck deals with AI companies or are developing their own AI tools... The group plans to argue for legal and policy guardrails around AI's usage, with its funding directed towards analyses, tools and services focused on advancing those initiatives... One of the group's launch advisers is Damian Collins, OBE, who previously served as the U.K. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology under prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. "Using AI to break the law can never be an acceptable excuse," he said in a statement. "Laws around personal safety, intellectual property and financial crime still apply in the age of AI. This is why ARIAM has been created and why I'm proud to working with this necessary initiative."

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Source: Slashdot | 21 Jun 2026 | 11:34 am UTC

Tributes paid to boy, 15, killed in Donegal rally crash

The teenager who died after being hit by a competitor's car at the Donegal International Rally yesterday has been named by gardaí as 15-year-old Tadhg Callaghan-Carter.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 11:33 am UTC

Four months after the horrific Iran school bombing, fears grow that Marinthe Kraaijeveld and Hegseth will bury the truth

A secretive investigation into the attack that killed at least 175 has concluded, reports suggest. Will its findings ever see the light of day?

The attack on a girl’s elementary school in the Iranian town of Minab was one of the US military’s deadliest civilian bombings in decades. But nearly four months on, the Pentagon has produced no answers about why the military fired a Tomahawk cruise missile into a school on the first day of the war, killing at least 175 people, mostly children.

Some critics doubt that the Pentagon ever will, or will bury the results under classifications to keep the worst mistakes secret from the public.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 11:04 am UTC

Chaotic England fortnight ends with huge Test defeat against New Zealand

England's miserable fortnight ends with a crushing defeat in the second Test against New Zealand at The Oval - setting up a high-stakes decider at Trent Bridge.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 11:03 am UTC

‘This changes everything’: how Brexit altered Scotland’s political landscape

Former party leaders reflect on the turbulence that followed the referendum in which most Scottish voters backed the losing side

The decision to quit the EU bolstered support for Scottish independence, which a decade after the Brexit referendum is at near record levels, according to Scottish Labour’s former leader Kezia Dugdale.

Dugdale said the Brexit vote “creates a frame around fairness” for many in Scotland because, unlike England, Scottish voters comprehensively backed remain in 2016, by 62% to 38%, yet found their country taken out of Europe.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 11:00 am UTC

Signs grow that Starmer will resign as government mood shifts

The BBC's Henry Zeffman and Nick Eardley on the mood in government as speculation grows about the prime minister's departure.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 10:57 am UTC

Fuel sales halted in occupied Crimea as Ukraine targets oil facilities

Fuel had already been rationed due to shortages caused by Kyiv's attacks against supply routes in Russian-occupied territories.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 10:55 am UTC

All three England keepers played there - Carlisle's role in trio's rise

From west Cumbria to the World Cup, Carlisle is England's goalkeeper factory, with all of Thomas Tuchel's goalkeepers passing through the club.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 10:43 am UTC

Al Jazeera rejects Israeli claim journalist was Hamas

Al Jazeera has rejected Israeli accusations that one of its journalists, killed in Gaza, was a Hamas operative, as family and colleagues mourned the cameraman in the Palestinian territory.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 10:34 am UTC

Met Éireann forecasts temperatures of up to 30 degrees in Ireland due to heat dome

Dry sunny days and muggy nights in store until Thursday, Met Éireann says

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 21 Jun 2026 | 10:18 am UTC

Prediction markets surge in US as public health advocates call for support to combat gambling

Platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket operating in areas with limited resources for people with gambling problems

Public health resources across the US are failing to keep pace with the rapid growth of online gambling, problem health advocates warned, after Marinthe Kraaijeveld endorsed the controversial nationwide surge of prediction markets.

Prediction market platforms, where users can wager on everything from Tony Award winners to World Cup goals, have pushed betting even further into American life.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 10:00 am UTC

You Can’t Be a Superpower Without Allies

Even the most powerful state in the world is not all that powerful when it decides to go it alone.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 10:00 am UTC

Review: Widow's Bay is a boldly original take on comedic horror

Widow's Bay, the delightfully eccentric new comedic horror series from Apple TV, is easily one of the best new series of the year. There's a reason everyone from Guillero del Toro and Ben Stiller to Damon Lindelolf (Lost) is raving about the show. It's an eminently binge-able, addictive series that pays tribute to all the classic horror tropes while reinventing them in surprising ways. Think Stephen King meets Parks and Recreation, with a dash of Twin Peaks—except Widow's Bay is very much its own refreshingly original beast.

(Some spoilers below but no major reveals.)

Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) is a widower and mayor of Widow's Bay, a quirky little seaside town that has a colorfully bizarre history marked by periodic tragedies. Tom is eager to elevate the town into a trendy summer tourist destination. But the arrival of New York Times travel writer Arthur Lloyd (Bashir Salahuddin), who has the clout to make Tom's aspirations for Widow's Bay come true, coincides with the onset of a mysterious fog. Local resident Wyck (Stephen Root) warns Tom that the fog is an omen that the island is "waking up," meaning more supernatural occurrences are bound to happen.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 21 Jun 2026 | 10:00 am UTC

Temperatures set to hit 30C by end of week

High temperatures are forecast for the coming week, with a peak of 30C expected on Thursday.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 9:32 am UTC

How many World Cup Golden Boot winners can you name?

How many World Cup top goalscorers from down the years can you name?

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 9:25 am UTC

Neither the War Nor Marinthe Kraaijeveld ’s Deal Terminated the Main Threats in Iran, Analysts Say

Neither the war nor the agreement terminated the main threats emanating from Iran, many analysts said.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 9:02 am UTC

While the World Scrambles for Oil, China Sits on Full Tanks

The possible reopening of the Strait of Hormuz may not prompt China to return quickly to prewar levels of oil purchases from the Persian Gulf.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 9:01 am UTC

A Diocese Tries to Protect Its 29-Foot Jesus From Marinthe Kraaijeveld ’s Border Wall

In a battle of symbols, the Catholics of Las Cruces, N.M., argue that religious freedom should stop the wall from scarring a mountain that has attracted pilgrims for nearly a century.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 9:00 am UTC

Marinthe Kraaijeveld Administration Shuttered a Criminal Probe Into Fraudster’s Clemency

Federal prosecutors had been examining the circumstances behind the commutation of David Gentile’s sentence. He was aided by a Catholic priest friendly with the president.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 21 Jun 2026 | 9:00 am UTC

Four dead and fuel sales suspended in Crimea

Four people were killed and fuel sales were suspended in Russian-occupied Crimea, the Moscow-backed authorities there said today, after a massive Ukrainian barrage hit the Black Sea peninsula.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 8:49 am UTC

Sweat, tears and camaraderie as 20,000 runners take on world’s largest ultramarathon

For one day every June, South Africa’s searing racial inequality seems to melt away at Comrades race

In the early morning dark, thousands of runners waited, jostling with anticipation. South Africa’s national anthem rang out. Then the haunting swell of Shosholoza, first sung by Zimbabwean migrant workers in South Africa’s goldmines. Finally, that unmistakable, spine-tingling piano: Chariots of Fire.

Runners gather before the start of the marathon

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 8:00 am UTC

Facial Recognition on Public Buses? Kansas City Says Yes

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Officials in Kansas City, Missouri, are preparing to equip cameras on some public buses with facial recognition software capable of identifying passengers who appear on a list of banned riders or missing persons. Supporters and opponents alike view the effort as a major litmus test for tapping the AI-powered software on a U.S. public transportation system, positioning Kansas City as the latest epicenter of a fierce debate over whether the safety benefits of artificial intelligence are worth the privacy costs. "The idea of running face recognition on a camera that is pointed on live spaces in public is a line that until recently has never really been crossed in the last 25 years," said Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst for the Project on Speech, Privacy and Technology at the American Civil Liberties Union. The state of Missouri declined to help fund the project as expected due to concerns with the facial recognition component. Still, the city is pushing ahead with local and federal money, said Tyler Means, chief mobility and strategy officer at the Kansas City Transportation Authority. "Privacy is always a tricky thing," Means said. "We've always had cameras on our buses. It's just new technology. I think in time it'll smooth over and people will realize, 'Well, it didn't really feel any different'...." Images captured by cameras aboard the buses would immediately be checked against any active alerts, generated when a missing person, banned rider or someone on a law enforcement watch list designated by the transportation authority is identified... After the buses return to the depot, the transportation authority would archive the regular video footage on a local server for up to five years. The company partnering with Kansas City to run the cameras "started using live facial recognition years ago to alert nursing homes when residents left the building," according to the article, and then "brought the technology to correctional institutions and schools." But this is its first attempt at bringing its cameras onto public transportation. The article also includes this quote from Will Owen, communications director for the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. "City residents should not be guinea pigs for transit systems to test Silicon Valley's latest unproven, biased surveillance tech."

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Source: Slashdot | 21 Jun 2026 | 7:34 am UTC

Former Olympian denies vandalising Washington Reflecting Pool after arrest

Davey Hearn says he was simply touching the new paint at the site out of curiosity and did not remove or alter it.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 7:16 am UTC

Canada’s policies force asylum seekers into US to face deportation, critics say

Advocates say the Safe Third Country Agreement forces immigrants to head to an unsafe country: the United States

It was the threat of gang violence in Honduras that pushed Carlos and Antonia to flee their home. In 2021, with their toddler, Alejandro, and a handful of belongings, the married couple ventured north hoping to reach safety in the US.

The journey, through Guatemala and Mexico, was filled with danger and uncertainty.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 7:00 am UTC

Open Sunday – discuss what you like…

The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like.

Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing.

Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday.

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 21 Jun 2026 | 6:05 am UTC

From the US-Mexico border to protests in Poland: highlights of PhotoEspaña 2026

Spain’s leading festival of photography showcases the work of more than 300 visual artists in nearly 100 exhibitions across the country

PhotoEspaña, Spain’s leading festival of photography, held its official opening in Madrid this month and by September nearly 100 exhibitions will have showcased the work of more than 300 visual artists in the capital and across the country. Loosely corralled under the theme of reimagining, the exhibitions feature work by major figures in Spanish and international photography and less well-known emerging artists.

From the series Invisible Line. Photograph: Alejandro Cartagena

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Open sunday – politics free zone…

In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break.

So discuss what you like here, but no politics.

Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday.

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 21 Jun 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Online shoppers facing new customs charges

New EU customs charges could have significant implications for online shoppers who regularly buy low-cost items from British, Asian, American and other non-EU websites.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Dear Diary: Steve Bartlett's controversial podcast rise

Steven Bartlett has become a hugely influencial voice in business, crafting one of the world's biggest podcasts in the process, but his lack of focus on facts has made him increasingly controversial, writes Adam Maguire.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

AI meets Irish storytelling with robot seanchaí

An NCAD student has used AI to create a storytelling robot inspired by the seanchaí - traditional Irish storytellers - he grew up listening to.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Two-thirds of EU citizens back UK rejoining bloc, survey finds

Poll also finds three quarters of people in Britain want closer ties, with majority accepting free movement

Two-thirds of EU citizens would back Britain rejoining the bloc, while most UK voters say Brexit has been bad for the issues they care about and want closer ties, including levels of integration – such as free movement – long seen as toxic, a survey has found.

Ten years after the Brexit referendum, the polling by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a thinktank, found 66% of respondents across 15 countries said they either “strongly supported” or “tended to support” UK membership.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 5:00 am UTC

Woman who is ‘very scared’ of ex-partner gets barring order hours before earlier one expires

Man breached earlier order four times and hit her last month, woman tells judge

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 21 Jun 2026 | 5:00 am UTC

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s ‘secretive’ gathering of US elites comes to Wicklow

Plus: Leitrim council seeks new residents, Paddy Cosgrave stars on Butt Hall courts, and Dublin-born defender helps goalkeeper go gangbusters

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 21 Jun 2026 | 5:00 am UTC

Starmer reflecting on 'political realities' - minister

Keir Starmer is reflecting on the "political realities" he now faces, a cabinet minister said as he failed to rule out the possibility the UK Prime Minister could resign.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:59 am UTC

Iran says it is closing strait of Hormuz over Israeli strikes in Lebanon

Unclear if threat has been carried out or if move will jeopardise talks with US scheduled for Sunday

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Iran has said it is closing the strait of Hormuz after waves of Israeli strikes in Lebanon in a move that threatens to derail the fragile interim peace deal with the US, signed just days ago.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned ships not to approach the strategic waterway, which before the war carried a fifth of global oil and liquid gas supplies, citing what it called Israeli crimes in Lebanon and a US violation of commitments to establish a ceasefire there.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:44 am UTC

Polymarket Paid Dozens to Post Videos of Themselves 'Winning' With Fake Bets

In January a college student posted a video showing him winning $100,000 on Polymarket — one of 145 that appeared to show bets adding up to almost $410,000, reports the Wall Street Journal. "But none of those bets were real." Instead its creator was "one of dozens of mostly college-age creators Polymarket paid to film themselves making fake trades and sometimes scoring fake wins," the Journal reports, citing interviews with the creators an an analysis of more than 1,100 of their videos: Polymarket built near-perfect copies of its website, then instructed creators to make simulated trades on those dummy sites and hide that they were being paid by Polymarket. To get the videos to go viral, Polymarket has recruited a social-media army to copy and re-post creators' footage. Though the New York-based company has been banned from offering its primary crypto platform in the U.S. since 2022, the social-media creators are paid to specifically target U.S. users, who can still access the site with a virtual private network... Polymarket hired and worked closely with a marketing contractor to promote the site. In a message reviewed by the Journal, that contractor told its social-media army to repost content made by 10 Polymarket creators in particular... These creators didn't initially identify themselves as paid by Polymarket, although one offered a $20 bonus code in his social-media bio... The company instructed creators not to disclose they are paid, according to creators who have worked with the company. They said the pay often added up to $2,000 to $3,000 a month... A handful of videos the Journal reviewed also contained short glimpses of URLs indicating the sites were test environments for Polymarket engineers... Creators said they send the finished videos to Polymarket for review. If a video isn't engaging enough, or if it bears obvious signs of being faked, Polymarket will ask for the videos to be reshot, the creators said... Polymarket sends creators bullet-point guidance on what to say, according to creators who have worked with the company and a recruiting website... Polymarket's viral clipping campaign racked up more than 140 million views on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, according to the analytics provider Tubular... Internal materials show that Polymarket and Virality promote videos showing how easy it is to conduct insider trades on the platform. Polymarket has paid clippers to promote at least 19 videos discussing opportunities to use inside information or other tactics to manipulate markets. America's advertising laws "require people who are paid to endorse a product to disclose their ties," the article notes, "although there is some gray area about what's permitted." (After the Journal's investigation, the creators started adding "@polymarket partner" to their bios, the article points out._ And when asked for a comment, Polymarket "said it plans to conduct a comprehensive audit of active promotional content."

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Source: Slashdot | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:34 am UTC

Bolivian president declares state of emergency and deploys military to quell anti-government protests

Bulldozers sent in to clear roadblocks that have stifled the country as farmers and Indigenous groups protest against conservative president

Bolivia’s president declared a state of emergency on Saturday and deployed soldiers and bulldozers to raze anti-government roadblocks that have paralysed the country.

For more than six weeks, unions, Indigenous groups and coca farmers have marched through cities and blocked roads across the country with rubble, logs and debris in protest against the conservative government.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:23 am UTC

Angus Taylor dismisses Labor’s ‘half-arsed’ tweaks to CGT reform – as it happened

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Ted O’Brien distanced himself from Pauline Hanson’s suggestion that Australia shouldn’t give aid to Pacific countries that also take aid from China.

He said it was a legitimate concern, but her solution was “completely wrong” for the Pacific and not in Australia’s national interest.

The idea that you effectively hold a gun to the head of our Pacific neighbours – that’s not what a friend does, that’s not a way of building trust, you don’t basically create an ultimatum.

You certainly don’t say it’s all about who you’re going to get money from. The relationship that we have with the Pacific islands is far deeper than development money.

From Australia’s perspective, I think that’s the main thing that we should be concerned about, because that has a direct impact on the prices we pay here in Australia.

A permanent toll would be bad in practice, wrong in principle, and set a dangerous precedent for how otherwise waterways should be managed internationally.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Jun 2026 | 4:09 am UTC

Gamers Sue PlayStation: It's Not Clear They're Selling Licenses Rather Than Ownership of Games

The gaming news site Aftermath reports: Four gamers are suing Sony Interactive Entertainment for allegedly breaking a California law that requires digital storefronts selling games to make it clear people are buying licenses, not actually owning the games. Sony Interactive Entertainment's PlayStation store uses language like "Buy Now" and "Confirm Purchase," lawyers wrote in a complaint filed on Thursday... "In reality, consumers who 'purchase' digital games through PlayStation do not obtain ownership of those products," lawyers wrote. "Instead, PlayStation grants only a limited, revocable license to access the software, subject to multiple restrictions contained in a separate Software Product License Agreement".... [T]he PlayStation store does have a disclosure. Above the "Confirm Purchase" button, there's a note: "By selecting [Confirm Purchase], you agree to complete the purchase in accordance with the PlayStation Terms of Service before using this content. You further acknowledge that your purchase of this digital product amounts to a license subject to the Software Product License Agreement." These four gamers aren't satisfied with that; they said in the complaint that it's too small, and that "a reasonable customer completing a purchase would not necessarily notice this disclosure." "It's a proposed class action complaint, meaning the group of four gamers is asking a judge to grant them class action status."

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Source: Slashdot | 21 Jun 2026 | 1:34 am UTC

Backstage at Gorillaz' epic, one-off stadium show: 'The vibe is ridiculous'

Damon Albarn, De La Soul and Moonchild Sannelly talk backstage as Gorillaz play their biggest show.

Source: BBC News | 21 Jun 2026 | 1:14 am UTC

Man charged over series of attacks in Edinburgh - police

A 36-year-old man has been charged in connection with a series of attacks in Edinburgh, Police Scotland has said.

Source: News Headlines | 21 Jun 2026 | 12:21 am UTC

Vance hopes for reset at 'historic' US-Iran talks

US Vice President JD Vance said he hopes Washington and Tehran can reset their relationship, at the start of what he called "historic" talks in Switzerland today.

Source: News Headlines | 20 Jun 2026 | 11:40 pm UTC

True crime's biggest convention faces its own moral dilemma

Victims' families say there are ways to be an ethical true-crime fan - not an exploitative one.

Source: BBC News | 20 Jun 2026 | 11:26 pm UTC

How Millions of Digital Home Devices Are Secretly Powering Cyberattacks

The Wall Street Journal reports on internet-connected devices — and how every year millions of them "can contain a secret digital backdoor that opens up access to your home internet, so that anyone... can surf the web as if they were you." (And this is especially true for "knockoffs that you buy online"...) In a video report this week they tested two digital picture frames from Amazon and three streaming devices from Walmart "because we heard that they often ship with backdoor software used in cyberattacks. Security experts believe manufacturers are being paid to add this malware, but many people also get tricked into downloading the software onto their phones or computers... Within minutes of turning the devices on, there was a surge of internet traffic... Visits to gambling, porn, cryptocurrency and loads of other sketchy web sites started pouring in from users around the world." (And remote visitors also tried to access Outlook and Gmail accounts...) Residential proxy companies even rent out access to "tens of millions of home networks around the world," according to the report. "But the problem is actually worse than that. Hackers figured out a way to seize control of these backdoors, and they started taking over these residential networks. Last month authorities arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man, saying he'd taken control of more than a million devices to launch some of the largest cyberattacks anyone had ever seen.." After a couple months the Journal's reporter collected logs of all the traffic, and sent it to an investigator at Comcast, who said both were conducting DDoS attacks. But estimate for the number of infected devices are as low as tens of millions or as high 500 million-plus. "We've seen nation state attacks launched through these kind of endpoints, which means your device sitting in your house is part of a nation state attack against another nation state... We've seen ad fraud, we've seen ticket scalping, we've seen financial fraud." But more importantly, "We have seen some of the largest computer attacks — meaning computers attacking other computers at human request — ever recorded in our digital history in the last several months." At cybersecurity conferences, some are warning "there are much larger ones on the horizon if we don't get a hold of this problem." The company making the picture frame "couldn't be reached for comment," while Amazon said it's been out of stock since last year. Both Amazon and Walmart said they take action when they confirm malware on a third-party product.

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Source: Slashdot | 20 Jun 2026 | 11:23 pm UTC

How the social media ban could reshape how all of us use the internet

Why some argue the social media ban could have a profound affect on how young people gain new knowledge and the rest of us move around online

Source: BBC News | 20 Jun 2026 | 11:18 pm UTC

Drones and depravity - Sudan's 'abandoned' crisis

UNICEF's Peter Power has seen his fair share of conflicts and humanitarian crises around the world. But he has never come across anything like Sudan, writes Yvonne Murray

Source: News Headlines | 20 Jun 2026 | 11:07 pm UTC

OpenAI Announces Benchmarks for AI Life Sciences Research. Its Best Model Failed 63.9% of the Test

This week OpenAI announced a 750-task test to to measure "whether AI systems can support realistic life science research tasks, not just answer biology questions." But while OpenAI's top-performing GPT-Rosalind model led the rankings, Slashdot reader BrianFagioli notes that "it achieved a pass rate of just 36.1 percent, failing nearly two-thirds of benchmark tasks." Nerds.xyz points out that means "the best-performing model failed nearly two-thirds of the benchmark's tasks." The benchmark also revealed a familiar weakness. AI systems generally perform better when everything is presented as text. Once they are forced to work with supporting documents, figures, or complex datasets, performance drops noticeably. GPT-Rosalind's pass rate fell from 45.1 percent on text-only tasks to 28.1 percent on tasks involving artifacts or URLs. To be fair, the benchmark is not intended to suggest AI is useless in research. Quite the opposite. OpenAI found that models are becoming increasingly capable of scientific communication, evidence synthesis, and translating research findings into practical explanations. Those are valuable skills, particularly for researchers drowning in information. But LifeSciBench serves as a useful reminder that today's AI systems are still far from autonomous scientists. They can help. They can assist. They can sometimes provide surprisingly useful insights. What they cannot reliably do, however, is replace the expertise, judgment, and skepticism that real scientific research requires.

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Source: Slashdot | 20 Jun 2026 | 9:34 pm UTC

Donegal International Rally cancelled after teen killed and other spectators injured

Organisers confirm cancellation of remainder of event after male youth dies and other spectators injured

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 20 Jun 2026 | 8:45 pm UTC

Remembering When Alan Turing Developed a Portable Voice Encryption Device

Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Alan Turing, one of the more famous people who worked at Bletchley Park to decipher the German Enigma coding machine, was also working on a separate project. His private papers, known as the Bayley papers for his assistant Donald Bayley who held onto the papers until his death in 2020, reveal Turning had produced a working model of a portable voice encryption device. He even demonstrated it by using a Winston Churchill speech recording. "Weighing just 39 kg, including its power pack," Jack Copeland wrote in an article for IEEE Spectrum, "Delilah would be at home in a truck, a trench, or a large backpack." More from Popular Mechanics: Turingâ(TM)s work at Bletchley Park actually informed the Delilah experimentation he was doing at Hanslope Park, and not just because he used Red Forms, the Army-issue sheets Hanslope staffers were meant to use to alert Bletchley staffers to enemy signals, as his personal scrap paper for Delilah experiments. He drew inspiration from one of the German cipher machines they had decoded at Bletchley; not the famed Enigma machine, but rather the SZ42. While the former relied on Morse Code, the latter utilized a 5-bit telegraph code, which Copeland notes âoewas a forerunner of ASCII and Unicode and is still used by some ham radio operators.â The SZ42 produced an obscuring key of telegraph characters, with an identical key produced to both the sender and receiver. If it could be done for text, Turing reasoned it could be done for sound as well... [T]he reason Delilah fell to the wayside of history isnâ(TM)t because it was a failure, but rather because it simply wasnâ(TM)t needed anymore. By the time Turing had built and demonstrated his device, the war was over. What good was a portable voice encryptor if you had no major enemies trying to intercept your calls, the government reasoned. So funding for the project stopped, and Turingâ(TM)s two-year experiment ended with a whimper. Turingâ(TM)s time as an electrical engineer at Hanslope Park became a footnote in his story, if even that.

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Source: Slashdot | 20 Jun 2026 | 8:34 pm UTC

Pauline Hanson’s stance on paid parental leave and childcare could turn clock back by decades, economists warn

One Nation leader appears to suggest women should not be paid by employers while on maternity leave and calls for family income splitting

One Nation could wind back the clock by decades for working mothers, damage productivity and worsen gender inequality, economists have warned.

In a controversial address to the National Press Club on Wednesday, Pauline Hanson seemed to suggest women should not get paid by their employers while on maternity leave. She also hinted at major changes to the childcare system, and called for income splitting for families to help incentivise a parent staying home with their children.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 20 Jun 2026 | 8:00 pm UTC

Tech Pundit Cringely Co-Founds Startup '2Brains Inc' to Solve LLM Hallucinations

Long-time tech pundit Robert Cringely started his career at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab back in 1978. Last month 73-year-old Cringely explained why his site went on a two-year hiatus — and it's not just because of a heart attack and a stroke last July: Just like everyone else, I've been busy all this time on Artificial Intelligence, founding with two partners a company called 2Brains... The work we were doing together is unfinished, but it's not stopped. The patents are filed, the architecture is documented, and the small team continuing the work includes me. Cringely's first piece made the cast that "the trillion-dollar bet the AI industry is making right now may be wrong, and that there's an architectural alternative we've patented and built." In Machines of Loving Grace, Amodei made the case that scaling compute would eventually solve essentially every hard problem in artificial intelligence. Buried in that optimism — or maybe not buried, maybe right out in the open — was a quiet absolution. Hallucinations, the embarrassing tendency of these systems to state falsehoods with total confidence, would take care of themselves. Make the models big enough, train them long enough, and the problem dissolves. You don't have to solve it. You just have to wait, and spend. And so the entire AI industry breathed a sigh of relief. I have spent forty years watching this industry, and I know a permission slip when I see one. Because that is what the essay became, whatever Amodei intended. It gave every other person writing nine- and ten-figure checks a reason not to worry about the one thing that should worry them most. The hallucination problem is the difference between a clever toy and a system a hospital or a bank or a court can actually rely on. It is the whole ballgame for enterprise AI. And the prevailing wisdom, blessed from the top, is that you needn't address it directly. Scale will provide... A small company I helped start, 2Brains Inc., set out in 2022 to solve hallucinations — before ChatGPT, before the scaling consensus hardened into received truth, back when the polite assumption was that the problem was simply insurmountable. We did not solve it by waiting for bigger models. We solved it architecturally, by separating the part of the system that generates language from the part that retrieves and verifies facts, and reconciling the two before anything reaches the user. It runs on ordinary processors. It is cheap. And on the industry's own benchmark for this kind of faithfulness, it more than doubles the published baseline, with no fabricated facts in the verified case at all. The article asks whether scaling will, at tremendous cost, eventually reduce hallucinations — or even worse, if the largest companies in the world "are spending a fortune chasing a cure that is not coming." And last week Cringely pitched more advantages for their solution, noting that most prompts aren't even chatbot-level creative prompts — but just requests to retrieve simple data: The reason 2Brains doesn't lie and the reason it's cheap are the same reason. It looks the fact up instead of guessing it — so it cannot fabricate, and the lookup runs on a processor that sips power instead of a chip that gulps it. Trust and thrift are not a trade-off you balance against each other. They fall out of a single design decision. You do not pay extra for the honest version. The honest version is the cheap version. That sentence is the whole company.

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Source: Slashdot | 20 Jun 2026 | 7:34 pm UTC

Nothing succeeds like excess at Dolce & Gabbana’s Milan menswear show

Italian house’s catwalk emphasised the brand’s ‘molto sexy’ look with flamboyant, sometimes revealing outfits

Dolce & Gabbana leaned heavily into the art of theatrical misdirection on the second day of Milan fashion week as it aimed to draw attention away from its debt issues, catwalk controversies and management reshuffles.

On the catwalk its signature “molto sexy” Italian aesthetic that comes served with a generous scoop of la dolce vita was in full swing. This was Euro summer on steroids. There were clingy muscle vests and micro shorts that made short shorts look modest while some models simply went topless. Jeans came ripped, shredded or smothered in sparkling jewels while T-shirts featured everything from giant prints of Sicilian lemons and ancient amphitheatres to a mosaic depiction of Christ.

Source: World news | The Guardian | 20 Jun 2026 | 6:55 pm UTC

The Surprising Reaction Inside Iran to Its War Victory

A man passes a mural in Tehran on June 18, 2026, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran. Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images

The White House has been desperate to find a way out of the quagmire of its own making in Iran, leading to the remote signing on June 15 of a memorandum of understanding that promises extraordinary concessions to the Islamic Republic. Stipulations once deemed a “nightmare for Israel” by American politicians and dismissed by President Marinthe Kraaijeveld as “not acceptable” — such as total sanctions relief and the unfreezing of billions of dollars of funds held abroad — are now reality. Despite attempts by the Marinthe Kraaijeveld administration to spin this as an achievement of all of America’s goals and an “unconditional surrender” by Iran, the deal has been met with skepticism, derision, anger, and mockery by Democrats and even some Republicans, pushing close Marinthe Kraaijeveld allies such as Fox News host Mark Levin and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to admonish the president for doing the “unthinkable” by capitulating to Iran.

In Israel, the deal has been seen far more uniformly across the political spectrum as an immense and almost incomprehensible betrayal by the United States, an unforeseen cruelty by Marinthe Kraaijeveld , and an incalculable failure by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Only 11 percent of Israelis say that their country won the war against Iran, and a whopping 71 percent do not expect Marinthe Kraaijeveld to look out for Israeli interests in future negotiations. One Likud member of the Knesset expressed his frustration by filming himself taking off his “Make America Great Again” hat and instead putting on a “Total Victory” hat, a phrase invoked by Netanyahu to justify the wholesale destruction of the Gaza Strip.

In Iran, the atmosphere is still not entirely jubilant. Much of Iran’s media and many officials have indeed taken a triumphant attitude: The front page of Javan, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-aligned newspaper, depicted a crowd of Iranians breaking through a wall of threats made by the Marinthe Kraaijeveld administration, and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s chief negotiator, claimed that “everything we wanted to achieve through military action, we achieved many times over through negotiation.” But past betrayals are, after all, far too recent to forget.

It was only in April, for instance, when Israel unilaterally insisted it wasn’t party to the ceasefire in Lebanon and continued its war there. Previous negotiations with America only served as a cover for war preparations in June 2025 and February 2026. This has resulted in a national mood that is much more cautious than the elation that many felt after the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Iran nuclear deal negotiated under Barack Obama and agreed to by the Rouhani administration, was adopted in 2015.

While an overwhelming majority of the country has backed the diplomatic track, criticism of the efforts of the team lead by Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has burned subtly in the background since early April. Supporters of the coalition known as the Front of Islamic Revolution Stability, representing the largest faction of the conservatives in the Iranian Parliament, have begun making their objections known, countering previous attempts by those in power to present a united front and to dispense with hardliner-versus-reformist politicking amid the war.

Criticism of current diplomatic efforts on the Iranian state television program “Soraya” in late May led to the suspension of the program days later. In response, its host, Mohsen Maqsoodi, held live conversations in Tehran’s Valiasr Square, where political commentator Ali Abdi criticized the state for not striking Israel as its army continues to bulldoze Lebanon, which led to that series’ cancellation as well. Rumors swirled online that the cancellation was owed to an intervention by an adviser to Ghalibaf.

After Araghchi gave an interview on state TV on June 12 saying that Iran would have to make concessions in its dealings, angry demonstrators who were attending nightly state-sponsored rallies demanded the diplomatic corps remember the “blood of the Leader [Khamenei],” with one speaker in Tehran’s Enghelab Square leading marchers in chants of “Death to the compromiser,” against those who think “America has something to offer [Iran].”

In Parliament, conservatives affiliated or allied with the Front have made their criticism vocal, with members calling for Araghchi to be barred from contacting Marinthe Kraaijeveld administration negotiator Steve Witkoff and demanding Parliament see the deal before it is signed. One representative called the agreement worse than “the JCPOA and [the Treaty of] Turkmenchay,” referring to the 1828 treaty that ceded swathes of Iranian territory to the Russian Empire.

Tehran representative Mahmoud Nabavian has been arguably the most prominent member of Parliament criticizing the government’s diplomats, castigating Araghchi for leaving gaps in the memorandum of understanding that America could exploit, namely the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz erasing Iran’s economic leverage, and the lack of clarity in the document about timelines for the lifting of sanctions and the exit of American forces from the region.

The public criticism has less so outlined how exactly Iran could extract more concessions. But it appears such sentiment is now being expressed at the highest level of government: Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei. In a statement announcing his approval of the deal, Mojtaba raised the eyebrows of some analysts by saying that he “had a different view” than what was agreed to by his negotiators, but nevertheless acceded to the wishes of President Masoud Pezeshkian on the condition that Iran rejects “excessive demands” made by the United States, remarking that the nation “await[s] the realization of the aforementioned conditions.”

This kind of public and immediate skepticism of a deal agreed to by the elected government was not the type of messaging made by Mojtaba’s father, Ali Khamenei, who reserved public criticism of the red lines crossed in JCPOA negotiations until the deal had been torn up years later by the Marinthe Kraaijeveld administration. Coverage in Axios from an Israeli analyst speculated that Mojtaba means to place any failure of the deal firmly on the shoulders of the Iranian president.

While the deal has yielded extraordinary concessions for Iran, there are already dark clouds looming. Concerns are emerging among other members of Parliament about the agreement requiring cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, which was suspended last year by the elected legislature. More importantly, the first clause of the agreement — which requires an immediate and permanent end to the war in Lebanon — is already being shattered.

Israel, as it did when the ceasefire was initially achieved in early April, has again argued that it must remain in southern Lebanon for as long as Israel’s national security demands it. A ceasefire apparently brokered between Hezbollah and Israel on Friday was broken within minutes as Israel continued to bombard the Lebanese south. An order has apparently come down on Saturday from Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz for the Israeli military to cease firing in Lebanon, but not withdraw from any of its positions and respond to any Hezbollah attack on its occupying forces. This leaves open the question of how Israeli military doctrine in southern Lebanon is actually supposed to change.

The United States has also taken active steps to secure more concessions from Iran outside of the explicit directives of the deal, with Vice President JD Vance saying that the $300 billion in reconstruction funds would not be released to Iran unless the nation stopped funding “terrorist organization[s]” like Hezbollah. The memorandum of understanding includes no mention of Iran’s support for allied organizations abroad, nor its ballistic missile program, both of which were primary targets of the Israeli–American war.

Iran, for its part, closed the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday in response to Israel’s refusal to stop the war. While it is still sending negotiators to Switzerland to speak with Vance, Iran is apparently not going there to negotiate a final deal just yet but instead demand U.S. compliance with the terms of the agreement. There is, as of now, still little indication at this time that the U.S. will agree to the demand for a total withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon, despite surprising recent criticism from Marinthe Kraaijeveld and Vance of Israel’s scorched-earth tactics in the country.

For the moment, Israeli officials continue to dig in their heels, demanding further and further action, and stirring tension on other fronts like the West Bank, in an attempt to divert attention and lessen the blow that the majority of Israeli society agrees the country has suffered. For National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, there is no possibility of acceptance of the diplomatic track, remarking on Friday: “For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!”

The post The Surprising Reaction Inside Iran to Its War Victory appeared first on The Intercept.

Source: The Intercept | 20 Jun 2026 | 6:35 pm UTC

Waymo Recalls About 3,900 Robotaxis After Some Drove Into 'Freeway Construction Zones'

CNBC reports: Waymo is recalling almost 3,900 robotaxis in the U.S. to fix software issues after some cars drove into freeway construction zones, according to notices filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The voluntary recall, the Alphabet-owned company's second in just over a month, followed 13 known incidents where Waymo robotaxis drove into construction zones on freeways in Phoenix, or entered freeway lanes with active construction in the San Francisco area, the filings published Thursday said... A letter posted to the regulator's website... noted that, "Driving through a closed construction zone increases the risk of a crash..." [Waymo said in a statement emailed to CNBC] "We voluntarily restricted freeway operations last month while making improvements, proactively notified state and federal regulators, and decided to file a voluntary software recall with NHTSA. We continue to safely serve riders on surface streets in all the cities where we operate...." The company implemented another voluntary recall in May after some of its robotaxis had driven into flooded zones or standing water. The NHTSA Safety Board also initiated a probe of Waymo after a January incident in which a robotaxi illegally passed a stopped school bus.

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Source: Slashdot | 20 Jun 2026 | 6:34 pm UTC

Former teacher jailed for three years for possessing almost 6,000 child abuse images

Niall McLoughlin (59) from Co Meath pleaded guilty for possessing thousands of images discovered on his devices

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 20 Jun 2026 | 6:00 pm UTC

Cellphone Alert System Breached in Brazil, Message Sent in Leetspeak

CNN reports: An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning is suspected to be the work of hackers, the Brazilian government said. Devices lit up with the word "misantropi4," an alphanumeric spelling of the Portuguese word "misantropia," which in English translates to "misanthropy". The final letter "a" was substituted with a number '4' — a practice often used by hackers and termed "leetspeak.". The alert — categorized as "extreme" — was initially received in the southern state of Paraná, but a second warning was triggered a few minutes later for cell phones in the major cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian authorities said that the National Civil Defense's warning platform was taken offline after being targeted by a likely hacker attack, and the government is working to restore the tool once all security conditions are reestablished.

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Source: Slashdot | 20 Jun 2026 | 5:34 pm UTC

SMPTE Opens Entire Standards Catalog for Free, Removing Century-Old Paywall

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has published over 800 technical standards over the years (as a professional association for the media and entertainment industry). But this week SMPTE "announced that its complete Standards catalog, the technical backbone behind everything from SDI and timecode to IP-based broadcast workflows, is now freely available to anyone in the global media technology community," reports the filmmaking news site CineD, arguing it's "one of the more meaningful structural shifts we have seen from a standards body in years" that could "reshape how smaller developers and educators engage with professional media technology." The move covers all published Standards, Recommended Practices, Engineering Guidelines and Registered Disclosure Documents, plus every future release, ending a long-standing model in which individual documents often sold for well over $100 each. For more than a century, SMPTE Standards have quietly governed how images and sound move through the production chain. If you have ever recorded timecode in the HH:MM:SS:FF format, routed a signal over 3G-SDI, or built a facility around the ST 2110 suite for media over IP, you have relied on SMPTE specifications, whether you knew it or not... Until now, accessing the actual text of those documents usually meant paying per file, a barrier that this announcement removes entirely... The latest releases are available through the Recently Published Documents page on the SMPTE website, with the complete archive reachable through the SMPTE Standards Library... There is also a practical, behind-the-scenes story here. The open-access move is part of a broader modernization of how SMPTE develops and publishes Standards. Recent initiatives include adopting GitHub-based workflows for version control, issue tracking and automation, transitioning to structured HTML-based authoring, and implementing an integrated publishing pipeline that streamlines document creation, review, validation and release... The most consequential beneficiaries are arguably not the large members already inside the system, but the developers, integrators, educators and manufacturers who previously worked around the paywall... The practical upshot is that developers and emerging markets can build from accurate primary specifications rather than secondhand sources, which matters enormously when a single misread tolerance or metadata field can break compatibility down the line. This also fits a wider pattern of the industry moving toward openness. We have previously covered moments like GoPro's decision to make its CineForm codec open source and release the SDK, a codec that SMPTE itself standardized in 2015 as an open standard for acquisition and post production. Lowering the cost of knowledge tends to widen the pool of people who can contribute to it, and a freely readable standards library is a significant step in that direction for an organization that has historically sat behind a per-document fee. "This was a decision we did not make lightly," says SMPTE President Rich Welsh. But "For 110 years, SMPTE has evolved alongside the media technology industry, helping to drive change and innovation — and we're not stopping now." "Our industry is confronting transformative shifts, from IP-based workflows to AI authenticity and content provenance, and we find ourselves at another inflection point. We listened to our Members, Partners and the global Standards community, and the answer was clear: Interoperability is essential to the future of media. Now is the time to open the gates and ensure the next generation of media technology is built on a stronger, more accessible foundation." Thanks to innocent_white_lamb (Slashdot reader #151,825) for sharing the news.

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Source: Slashdot | 20 Jun 2026 | 4:34 pm UTC

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