There are many reasons to block this deal, but we now believe the most fundamental one is what we encountered when asking artists to use their voices: fear. A deep, ugly and pervasive fear of speaking out. We heard time and time again from artists, when asked to sign this letter, that they supported it…
Steven Drozd has opened up about being fired from Flaming Lips, saying that frontman Wayne Coyne “just stopped communicating with” him after he “went back to treatment”. Uncertainty about Drozd’s place in the indie band arose last year, when the multi-instrumentalist was absent from their live shows and replaced by AJ Slaughter. At the time,…
Israel and Hezbollah are still fighting in Lebanon despite a US-brokered ceasefire deal that took effect on 17 April, pausing six weeks of full-scale war. The agreement allows Israel to “take all necessary measures in self-defence, at any time, against planned, imminent, or ongoing attacks”. It was not Hezbollah which signed the ceasefire deal with…
Shorouk Express A structure designed to prevent radioactive leakage at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine is no longer operational after Russian drones targeted it earlier this year, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog has found. The so-called new safe confinement was built as part of a €1.5 billion Europe-led initiative in 2019 to replace the…
Shorouk Express For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A written confession from serial rapist David Carrick remained hidden for 35 years. The document that could have…
Will your laptop recognize you in the dark? Maybe. Maybe not. An April patch update for Windows now “requires color cameras” to see a visible face when signing in, according to Microsoft via Windows Central. Technically, that means that Windows Hello is now using your webcam as well as the infrared depth camera to log…
Shorouk Express On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Attempts to refloat tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s superyacht from the seabed have been paused after the death of a “highly respected” salvage diver off the coast of…
Businesses still haven’t stopped using easily crackable passwordsGermany, the US, and China suffer the most password breaches123456, password, and qwerty are still being used in 2025 Many businesses are still using weak passwords that can be cracked in less than a second in the event of a brute force attack to secure their accounts, new…
Facepalm: Nvidia’s list prices for the recently launched RTX 50 series graphics cards have become almost imaginary, with board partners charging hundreds more for some models. While a few listings still maintain the pretense of MSRP, MSI had none over the weekend, sparking concerns of a repeat of 2021’s crypto-driven price inflation. Hardware & Co…
Shorouk Express Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Royal Mail is set to shake up its delivery service after Ofcom put forward new plans. Ofcom proposes ending Saturday deliveries for second-class…
