Published September 18, 2025 InSpecs Group reports its first-half results on Thursday with weak figures for the first six months of the year. But it also had better news with its search for a non-exec chair now complete. InSpecs The company, which makes eyewear under its own brands as well as for Barbour, Joseph, Radley,…
A new trend is emerging in psychiatric hospitals. People in crisis are arriving with false, sometimes dangerous beliefs, grandiose delusions, and paranoid thoughts. A common thread connects them: marathon conversations with AI chatbots. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen psychiatrists and researchers, who are increasingly concerned. In San Francisco, UCSF psychiatrist Keith Sakata says…
Maisie OlahShropshire and Clare AshfordBBC Radio Shropshire Leanne Abeyance says her septum – the cartilage and bone that separates the nostrils – has now collapsed A woman has said she is living in constant pain and is unable to breathe through her nose after having dental work in Turkey. Leanne Abeyance, 41, from Telford, said…
Kate McGoughEducation reporter BBC/Kate McGough Parents protest outside Parliament this week ahead of reforms to special educational needs Individual care plans for children with special educational needs should not be scrapped, say MPs. A new Education Select Committee report also calls for new minimum standards of support for special educational needs and disabilities (Send) in…
A hospital boss has apologised after a Kent emergency department resorted to using its cafe as a makeshift ward. A&E staff at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford decided to screen off the building’s cafe on Tuesday to create space for treating patients. East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust said the move was due to…
By Bloomberg Published September 18, 2025 Bernard Arnault’s family is installing LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE executives to lead recently-acquired Paris FC, a sign the luxury billionaire is intent on reviving the commercial fortunes of the club. Jean-Marc Gallot – LVMH Jean-Marc Gallot, up until now head of LVMH’s Champagne brand Veuve Clicquot, will…
By Bloomberg Published September 18, 2025 Swiss watch exports tumbled in August as Chinese demand remained weak and stiff US tariffs went into effect. A watch by TAG Heuer – Divulgação Exports fell about 17% from a year earlier, the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry said in a statement Thursday. All main markets saw…
We are very excited to present you Tails 7.0, the first version of Tails based on Debian 13 (Trixie) and GNOME 48 (Bengaluru). Tails 7.0 brings new versions of many applications included in Tails. Dedication Tails 7.0 is dedicated to the memory of Lunar (1982–2024). Lunar was a traveling companion for Tails, a Tor volunteer,…
In Alaska’s Brooks Range, rivers once clear enough to drink now run orange and hazy with toxic metals. As warming thaws formerly frozen ground, it sets off a chemical chain reaction that is poisoning fish and wreaking havoc on ecosystems. As the planet warms, a layer of permafrost — permanently frozen Arctic soil that locked…
University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being consumed by a white dwarf star outside our Solar System. In our Solar System, it is thought that comets and icy planetesimals (small solid objects in space) were responsible for delivering water to Earth. The existence of these icy…
