Posts by Susan Darwin
What we know about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding
About 1,000 names were reportedly on the guest list, including some of the biggest stars from music, Hollywood and sport. Selena Gomez, Camila Cabello, Hugh Grant, Gracie Abrams, Gigi Hadid, Bradley Cooper, Tom Hanks, Millie Bobby Brown, Ellie Goulding, Graham Norton, Dakota Johnson, Steven Spielberg, were among the A-list attendees. Many more drove straight in…
Read MoreHow to walk 30 minutes a day – your tips
Ed Shirt, 25, recommends fitting in the 30 minutes wherever you can in the day and splitting it into chunks if that makes it more manageable. “Walk before work, on your lunch break or after dinner,” he says. “You don’t have to do all 30 minutes at once either – three 10-minute walks throughout the…
Read MorePalantir’s CEO spent $200M on properties nobody can find
TL;DR Palantir CEO Alex Karp has assembled a $200M+ real estate portfolio centred on seclusion, from a 3,700-acre Colorado monastery to a Miami compound. The privacy-obsessed lifestyle contrasts sharply with the surveillance software his company sells to governments. Alex Karp, the co-founder and chief executive of Palantir Technologies, has quietly assembled a real estate portfolio worth…
Read MoreAlibaba to ban Claude Code over alleged backdoor risk, source says
The workplace ban, starting July 10, lands weeks after Anthropic accused operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen lab of running the largest known distillation campaign against Claude. Alibaba will bar its employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code inside workplace environments from July 10, according to a person familiar with the matter cited by Reuters. The stated reason…
Read MoreTaylor Swift’s rumoured wedding celebrations kick off in New York
For several days, media outlets have watched every move outside the arena. They spotted trucks with cryptic labels like “GP” and “garden party” on it and crews unloading tons of equipment and things like large white staircase prop and large mirror ball. Earlier in the week, workers were seen rolling out a red carpet, which…
Read MoreStarmer to formally apologise to victims of forced adoptions
Sir Keir Starmer will make a formal apology on behalf of the British state for its role in historical forced adoptions in England and Wales. An estimated 185,000 babies were taken from their mothers in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, with thousands of women pressured into giving up their children because they were unmarried. The…
Read MoreAlibaba and its US payment processor will pay 600 million dollars to settle a DOJ probe into illegal drug sales
TL;DR Alibaba and its US payment arm will pay 600 million dollars to resolve a DOJ probe into illegal pharmaceutical sales on its e-commerce platform. Alibaba and its US digital payment processor have agreed to pay 600 million dollars to resolve a federal investigation into whether they failed to prevent the sale and importation of…
Read MoreWimbledon 2026: Serena Williams injures knee and a doubt to play doubles with sister Venus
Missing the doubles would be a hugely-disappointing ending to Williams’ highly-anticipated return to the All England Club. The American superstar has been the centre of the attention in SW19 over the past few days, with a high level of intrigue about why she was coming back and how she would look on court. Williams played…
Read MoreTikTok settles second addiction case, leaving Meta and Snap to face a jury alone
TL;DR TikTok settled with a Florida teen ahead of the second bellwether social media addiction trial, leaving Meta and Snap as the remaining defendants. TikTok has reached a confidential settlement with a Florida teenager who accused the platform of contributing to his mental health problems, removing itself from a jury trial scheduled to begin on…
Read MoreMateus Fernandes: Tottenham agree £85m deal for West Ham midfielder
Fernandes was understood to have an open mind about where he goes, with his agent Jorge Mendes speaking to both Tottenham and Manchester United. Manchester United are sticking to their position of only being willing to buy players at what they consider to be right valuation. They did like Fernandes but felt their stance paid…
Read MoreWorld Cup 2026: Brazil were 45 minutes from humiliation – but ‘Crafty Carlo’ does it again
The personnel largely stayed the same but it was a different Brazil team in the second half. There was a purpose and intensity to their play that had been lacking in the first half and a number of tactical tweaks, mostly notably a willingness to get the ball into the box. Brazil put in 12…
Read MoreGoogle makes Gemini’s personalized image generation free for all US users
TL;DR Gemini’s Nano Banana image generation, which creates AI images from your Google data, is now free for all eligible US users instead of paid subscribers only. Google is making Gemini’s personalized AI image generation free for all eligible users in the United States, removing a paywall that had restricted the feature to Plus, Pro,…
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