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Cairngorms wildfire burns for third day across nearly four miles

BBC News

Firefighters are spending a third day tackling a major wildfire which has led to evacuations in the Cairngorms. The blaze started in heathland at Ryvoan Bothy, near Nethy Bridge, late on Wednesday morning and had spread across 3.7 miles (6km) by Thursday afternoon. A number of homes and businesses, including campsites and a ski resort in the Glenmore Forest Park area have been closed and evacuated as a safety precaution. A helicopter joined the firefighting efforts on Thursday night. Nine fire appliances and specialist resources remained at the scene on Friday morning.


New photograph marks Queen's 79th birthday

BBC News

New photograph marks Queen's 79th birthday A new photograph of Queen Camilla has been released to celebrate her 79th birthday. The picture, showing the Queen in a long blue dress, was taken last month in the state drawing room of Hillsborough Castle in Northern Ireland. Buckingham Palace said the Queen was marking her birthday with a renewed commitment to supporting children's literacy, with the announcement that every year 6 and P6 child across the UK will be gifted a special edition of the book Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell this Christmas. Much of the Queen's public work supports reading and literacy, including the creation of the Reading Room charity designed to promote the benefits of reading. Rundell's book will be distributed to children through schools and libraries.


The Group Behind '2000 Mules' Is Back With Another Election Conspiracy Film

WIRED

True the Vote is working with a Detroit pastor to produce a new documentary called, based on claims that have already been thrown out in court. True the Vote, the election denial group responsible for the debunked film that falsely alleged election fraud in the 2020 election, is preparing to release a new movie. As President Donald Trump continues to threaten the midterms, the new film is set to relitigate the 2020 election, making allegations about systemic election fraud in Black communities--allegations that have already been dismissed by multiple courts. True the Vote appears to be working with Lorenzo Sewell, a pastor from Detroit who spoke at Trump's inauguration last year . Sewell told WIRED the documentary, which he has not seen yet, is called --"because people are trapped"--and will be released "in the next month or so."


'Adversarial clothing': are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?

The Guardian

Models wearing garments created by Cap_able, which which markets them as making AI recognition more difficult. Models wearing garments created by Cap_able, which which markets them as making AI recognition more difficult. 'Adversarial clothing': are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream? As facial recognition technology is rolled out across Britain's public spaces, a new generation of designers say privacy could be the next big fashion trend. Companies have started incorporating "adversarial patterns" in their garments - carefully designed arrangements of shapes, colours and repeated motifs said to exploit weaknesses in some computer vision systems.


A Humanoid Company Backed by Eric Trump Is Preparing Its Robots for War

WIRED

The CEO of Foundation Future Industries, which counts the president's son as its chief strategy adviser, tells WIRED it's exploring some "kinetic things." Some companies want their humanoid robots to fold your clothes. Others want them in the workplace . Sankaet Pathak and his startup Foundation Future Industries have a slightly different goal: produce an all-American robot supersoldier. Pathak, Foundation's CEO, says his company plans to start giving its humanoids lethal capabilities soon, although he declined to share specifics.


Major Price Drop: Microsoft Office and Windows 11 down to 26

PCWorld

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Get Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 and Windows 11 Pro together for $25.99 This bundle just dropped to one of its lowest prices -- The Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 and Windows 11 Pro Bundle is the full productivity suite and an operating system upgrade that will set your PC right and save you money. Microsoft 365 Personal runs $99.99 a year on a subscription, and that's just Office, not an OS license. Stay on it for five years and you've paid nearly $500 for software you never actually own outright.


Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts

BBC News

Trump Media to sell instant access to'market-moving' social posts Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, is launching a paid service to give Wall Street firms high-speed access to its most influential posts. From 1 August, instant updates will be delivered from the highest-ranking accounts, it said. US President Donald Trump currently has the most followers on the platform. The company behind the app hopes it will create a steady new source of money for the firm which is currently loss-making. It is likely to be aimed at financial traders who want to see market-moving news fast.


At TIME100 Sports Gala, Honorees Toast to the Power of Sport and Support

TIME - Tech

Follow this section to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. LeBron James speaks onstage during the TIME100 Sports Gala on July 16, 2026 in New York City. LeBron James speaks onstage during the TIME100 Sports Gala on July 16, 2026 in New York City.


Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review

The Guardian

Einstein's field equations, Newton's universal law and artificial intelligence are among the subjects of Laidlow's ambitious orchestral works R obert Laidlow is as at home in the realms of science and technology as he is in the world of classical music. As this NMC debut album demonstrates, his intricate, wildly imaginative work is eminently approachable, even if the core concepts are highly complex. Warp, a terse, 12-minute piano concerto, proposes a musical solution to Einstein's field equations as the intrepid Joseph Havlat boldly goes where no pianist has gone before amid the distorting fabric of orchestral space-time. Strident orchestral lines spiral ever upwards, stretching instruments to their limits, while the piano maintains its course towards a serene conclusion. Handsomely recorded, the BBC Philharmonic and Vimbayi Kaziboni offer vibrantly detailed support. The Piatti Quartet plays Gravity, a harmonically unstable if slightly verbose homage to Newton's universal law that at one point pitches the players into the musical equivalent of a black hole.


'Everybody Watches': TIME100 Sports Honorees on Red Carpet Celebrate Rise of Women's Sports

TIME - Tech

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