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'Posh George': Who is aristocrat and convicted criminal at heart of Farage controversy? - Published Until Saturday night, little was known about the relationship between Nigel Farage and convicted criminal George Cottrell. Now, the 32-year-old aristocrat is at the centre of the l

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after “careful consideration,” adding, “Existin

With the ongoing, industry-wide DRAM and NAND shortages, right now it is a very good time to be a memory vendor. And things are even better if you have a cutting-edge PCIe Gen6 SSD to show off to data center customers, which was the case this year for Micron. Micron 9650 Enterpri

Quick fashion delivery startup Klydo has paused its consumer business and is pivoting to a new product direction, less than a year after its launch. The startup has stopped accepting new orders on its platform. A notice on Klydo's website states that the app will remain available

SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere — new environmental concerns emerge over burning 2,700-pound orbital data centers, FCC seeks to exempt satellites from regulations Starlink burns multiple retired satellites daily from its over 10,000

RAMpocalyse pricing prompts maker to construct his own memory using ancient Apollo-era tech — USB drive resurrects hand-threaded magnetic core memory using salvaged Russian computer parts Another modern maker discovers the charms of 1950s-era magnetic core memory. While PC enthus

Germany's massive 60,000-game preservation project collapses after €1.5 million funding dries up — world's largest game archive was entirely publicly available, now abandoned just as Sony kills physical media The state-backed ICS pooled more than 60,000 games from museums and Ger

We spend dozens of hours at our desks each week (if not more), so it’s worth creating a workspace that’s productive and enjoyable. The right desk gadgets can help you reduce clutter, stay focused, and add a little extra convenience to your day. From ambient lighting to smart mugs

Reviewer tests 'RTX 4080M' desktop graphics card powered by salvaged laptop silicon — performs worse than slightly more expensive RX 9070 GRE but draws only 100W in games Characteristics and roughly $400 price tag could make it an option for ITX builds. A Chinese reviewer on Bili

Eye-watering World Cup prices haven't stopped soccer fans from around the world from opening their wallets. As of July 2, some of the best resale seats for marquee knockout matches were listed for roughly $20,000 on StubHub. Many upper-level resale seats were listed for around $5

Hannah Montana Linux gets modern remaster after nearly two decades — ‘Sweet niblets,’ new v26 is built on Debian with a re-skin of KDE Plasma At last, a chance for HM fans to update their OS and catch up with about 18 years of security patches. Say whaaaat? Hannah Montana Linux i

“Group project, but make it 1776.” That’s how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google’s collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration

US Navy is flight-testing 3D printed fighter jet parts that cut repair times in half — forward-deployed 3D printers generate composite parts, flight testing to begin on operational F/A-18 Super Hornets Can 3D-printed fighter jet parts withstand the rigors of carrier operations? F

Two things are true in B2B right now, and they look like they can’t both be true. - Total software spend is growing 15% this year, the fastest in a decade, up from 12.8% last year. Gartner has it going from $1.2T to $1.4T. - At the same time, public software is trading at a disco

F1 25: 2026 Season Edition GPU benchmarks – From Pole Position to the Back of the Grid Tested with AMD and Nvidia GPUs F1 25 launched in May 2025, and in the year since release, the developers have delivered numerous patches addressing gameplay, visual quality, and performance an

Show up. Go hard. Go home. That sums up how Talia Mayden approached her one-night-only bachelorette party. In June, the New York-based designer and writer posted online about having a less-than-24-hour bash with her closest friends: pre-dinner drinks at a Lower East Side bar, a $

Bending Spoons, the Milan-based tech conglomerate that made headlines for acquiring the likes of AOL and Vimeo, went public on the Nasdaq this week with a pop, briefly reaching a market capitalization over $25 billion. While Bending Spoons stock has slightly slumped since then, i

Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small semiconductor fabs —Atomic Semi rebrands as 'Fab2' underlining intended role as a 'fab fab' The firm has also moved its operations to Texas. Atomic Semi, the semiconductor tooling startup founded by chip architect J

Episode details Available for over a year Today we look at a story from the Sunday Times that details benefits that Nigel Farage received from a convicted fraudster George Cottrell, including staff, security and housing. Reform says its party leader has broken no rules by failing

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 is a highly capable flagship that excels in ergonomics, connectivity, and business-ready features. It remains one of the most complete ultraportables available – and carries a price to match. Pros - + Ultralight design -

A cargo vessel in the Red Sea has reported coming under attack, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre, a British maritime security alert service, said Sunday, amid a fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. The body said it received a report of the incident 30 n

Windows 11 identifier code used to track Scattered Spider perp after Microsoft shared info with FBI — 19-year-old US-Estonian hacker arrested over alleged ties to infamous extortion group DOJ claims the group stole over $100 million across various attacks. The Department of Justi

With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns in 2026. While most are AI-related, a surprising number are focused on other

Google Cloud’s VP of Global Demand & Growth, Sarah Kennedy Ellis, joined us for a day-three session at SaaStr AI 2026. She ran marketing at Marketo (sold to Adobe for $4.75B) and led marketing for Adobe’s enterprise software division before Google, so she has lived through more t

Grab this RTX 5070 Ti OLED gaming laptop at $300 off — Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI drops to $1,899.99 All the bells and whistles of a premium gaming notebook. The memory crisis has significantly impacted the PC building community resulting in relatively high prices compared t

Dividend stocks remain a popular choice for investors seeking steady income and higher portfolio returns. However, with thousands of dividend-paying companies to choose from, identifying the right stocks can be challenging. In this regard, recommendations from top Wall Street ana

Alibaba bans Anthropic's Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection backdoor is uncovered — employees told to switch to Qoder as the rift between the firms widens Ban lands three weeks after Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running the largest known distillation a

Tom's Hardware Verdict The KB7 has the potential to be incredible, but not until Turtle Beach figures out how to make software work. Pros - + Pretty lights - + Touchscreen - + Modular setup Cons - - Expensive - - Needs a lot of power - - Needs a software overhaul Why you can trus

PS5 Disc Drive purchase cap predates Sony's disc cutoff — 'high demand' order limit has been on the store page since at least March 2025 A petition urging Sony to keep making physical PlayStation games has passed 74,000 signatures. Sony's one-per-order purchase limit on the PS5 D

You can now play Half-Life 2 right inside your browser at over 100 FPS with save states & console support — Ingenious port recreates the entire game campaign using WebGL 2 It's not Half-Life 3, but it's something. Over the years, our internet-surfing machines have evolved to the

Fill your Steam library without spending a single dime — scratch your shopping itch with the Steam Summer Sale Simulator There’s something therapeutic about adding games to your “Steam” cart. Buying and collecting games on your Steam account can be quite fun, and some people have