Some sources suggest owners have terminated contract but others close to Farage say Reform leader has resignedNigel Farage will no longer write a regular column for the Telegraph, becoming the latest prominent rightwing figure to leave the title’s roster under its new ownership.The Reform UK leader wrote for the broadsheet as recently as last week, condemning the first budget of Andy Burnham’s premiership and pledging to “scrap benefits for foreigners, abolish net zero targets” and “slash foreign aid”. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/nov/02/nigel-farage-telegraph-column-ends">Continue reading...</a>

Some sources suggest owners have terminated contract but others close to Farage say Reform leader has resigned

Nigel Farage’s regular column for the Telegraph to end

Defence barrister says earlier allegations about comedian’s sexual conduct ‘poisoned the wells’ of justice as trial continuesRussell Brand is not a “psychopath who rapes people and thinks it’s normal” and is respectful when women say no, a court has heard.Brand’s barrister, Ian Winter KC, said allegations about the comedian’s sexual conduct in 2023 had “poisoned the wells” of justice. He also said there had been “monstrous delays” in the women in the criminal trial coming forward to police. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/02/russell-brand-defence-barrister-court-trial">Continue reading...</a>

Defence barrister says earlier allegations about comedian’s sexual conduct ‘poisoned the wells’ of justice as trial continues

Russell Brand is not a ‘psychopath who rapes people and thinks it’s normal’, court told

<ul><li>Deal deepens company’s relationship with Fifa</li><li>Dazn paid $1bn for global rights for the 2025 tournament</li></ul>Dazn has secured an exclusive option for global streaming rights for the next men’s Club World Cup in 2029 in a development that deepens its partnership with Fifa.The Saudi Arabia-backed ­streaming company came to Fifa’s aid before the inaugural 32-team Club&nbsp;World Cup in the US last year by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jun/12/uncontested-dazns-1bn-story-reveals-why-the-club-world-cup-is-really-here">agreeing to pay $1bn (£745m)</a> for global rights for the tournament after many ­linear broadcasters and other streamers had&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/apr/04/bbc-and-itv-opt-against-bids-to-televise-fifa-club-world-cup-dazn">declined to bid</a>. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/nov/02/dazn-world-cup-2029-exclusive-deal-global-streaming-rights">Continue reading...</a>

Deal deepens company’s relationship with Fifa

Dazn secures exclusive deal on global streaming rights for 2029 Club World Cup

Journalists such as Jim Acosta and Scott MacFarlane are now competing against their former employers for eyeballsOn Tuesday, for the first time in more than 20 years, Jim Acosta, a former CNN stalwart, will not be working for a mainstream television network on election night.Acosta, who left CNN last year after nearly 18 years at the network, is putting on his own live broadcast at the University of Virginia that will air on YouTube and his Substack platform. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/02/content-creators-tv-network-midterm-coverage">Continue reading...</a>

Journalists such as Jim Acosta and Scott MacFarlane are now competing against their former employers for eyeballs

‘The content creator election’: digital streamers and TV networks face off for midterms coverage

A Derren Brown-style experiment? A Ghostwatch stunt? Wild rumours have swirled around Bradley Walsh’s Million Pound Shot all week. The hoax has finally been revealed – and its message is terrifyingIn late October, some canny viewers began to wonder whether there was something strange about Channel 4’s latest gameshow. Bradley Walsh’s Million Pound Shot had been billed as a new big-money contest with a twist, but information about its pilot episode was strangely minimal. Television and radio producer Chuck Thomas <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://x.com/chuckthomasuk/status/2115028230839153007">wondered on X</a> whether it could be a Derren Brown-style psychological experiment; a Ghostwatch-esque stunt; or even a dark TV comedy in the vein of the genre-bending series Inside No 9. Indeed, the timing – one day after Halloween – also seemed to point viewers towards some kind of parody or one-off drama.As more information was revealed about the show – including that its players would stake their own money, in a UK television first – Thomas <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://x.com/chuckthomasuk/status/2115564401428152435">considered</a> whether this was in fact “an elaborate anti-gambling stunt”. It was an opinion shared by journalist Alistair Ryder, who <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://x.com/YesitsAlistair/status/2115055648610324865">posted</a> that it was “more likely to be a stealth anti-gambling drama disguised as a gameshow than a modern Ghostwatch”, adding that the programme “could make for uncomfortable viewing in a completely different way”. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/nov/01/million-pound-shot-bradley-walsh-channel-4-the-gameshow-that-made-contestants-gamble-their-own-money">Continue reading...</a>

A Derren Brown-style experiment? A Ghostwatch stunt? Wild rumours have swirled around Bradley Walsh’s Million Pound Shot all week. The hoax has finally b...

‘I can’t afford to lose £3,000’: the ‘gameshow’ that made contestants gamble their own money

Actor, who appeared in Dad’s Army and Rainbow, remembered as ‘true gent’ by TV producer Russell T DaviesJohn Leeson, the actor best known as the voice of K9, the robot dog in Doctor Who, has died at 83.Leeson’s son, Guy Ducker, shared the news on Facebook. He wrote: “I regret to announce the death of my father … after a summer of illness. The end was peaceful.” <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/nov/02/john-leeson-doctor-who-k9-dies">Continue reading...</a>

Actor, who appeared in Dad’s Army and Rainbow, remembered as ‘true gent’ by TV producer Russell T Davies

John Leeson, voice behind Doctor Who’s K9, dies at 83

Social network and Digital Freedom Project, led by NSW state MP John Ruddick, seek to overturn ban on grounds of implied freedom of political communicationAustralia’s world-leading under-16s <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/12/greens-sarah-hanson-young-big-tech-digital-duty-of-care-labor">social media ban</a> will face its first major legal challenge on Tuesday, as Reddit and an advocacy group headed by a libertarian politician seek to overturn the law in the high court.Nearly 11 months ago, 10 platforms – Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Kick, X, Twitch and Threads – were required to deactivate or suspend the accounts of users they determined to be aged under 16 years. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/nov/03/australia-social-media-ban-high-court-challenge-reddit-digital-freedom-project">Continue reading...</a>

Social network and Digital Freedom Project, led by NSW state MP John Ruddick, seek to overturn ban on grounds of implied freedom of political communication

Reddit and libertarian group challenge Australia’s under-16s social media ban in high court

A great picture can have an immediate and visceral effect on a viewer, as if bypassing thought. But a huge amount of thinking goes into selecting and sourcing them, and researching their backstories Can photographs still exert power in an age when millions of pictures are taken and shared every minute, and when a viewer’s first response is to question whether an image is even real?Every few months, a team of editors on the Guardian’s Saturday magazine puts together a special photography package in print and digital formats. It features photographs that don’t just stop the scroll, they have also prompted the rewriting of history books. They are the kind of images that have changed the world in some way or radically shifted people’s perceptions. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2026/nov/01/special-features-about-world-changing-photographs">Continue reading...</a>

A great picture can have an immediate and visceral effect on a viewer, as if bypassing thought. But a huge amount of thinking goes into selecting and sou...

‘Some photos imprint upon us’: How our Saturday magazine puts together special issues about world-changing photographs

Judges hail Sofia Demetriades’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as full of insights, poetry and maturityA teenage violinist has won the BBC Young Musician competition 2026, in the first all-female final in the competition’s 48-year history.The judges, Joanna MacGregor, Ben Gernon and Errollyn Wallen, hailed Sofia Demetriades’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as full of insights, poetry and maturity. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/nov/01/bbc-young-musician-teenage-violinist-sofia-demetriades">Continue reading...</a>

Judges hail Sofia Demetriades’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as full of insights, poetry and maturity

Teenage violinist wins BBC Young Musician 2026, after first all-female final

After more than two decades of studied neutrality, the journalist delivers some home truths about modern politicsLaura Kuenssberg always swore she would never write a book. Amid all the vitriol hurled her way, the BBC’s political editor turned presenter has largely kept her counsel. She rarely complained even when she&nbsp;needed security to do her job unobstructed at Labour party conference under Jeremy Corbyn, or had to run the gauntlet of aggressive Brexit protesters outside parliament, or when a creepy unnamed minister tried to inveigle her into his hotel room&nbsp;for what an appalled Kuenssberg concluded was intended to be a threesome. Knowing everything she does is minutely parsed for bias, she keeps her cards close to her chest. Until, apparently, something snapped.Pay Attention is a muted but heartfelt howl of frustration with politicians “who have looked like an absolute shower for a long time” but also, sotto voce, with voters, who she evidently wishes would occasionally take things more seriously. Having covered Westminster since the late noughties, Kuenssberg brings all that weight of experience to bear in spelling out just how far the abnormal is now becoming normalised in British politics. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/nov/02/pay-attention-by-laura-kuenssberg-review-a-bbc-reporters-howl-of-frustration">Continue reading...</a>

After more than two decades of studied neutrality, the journalist delivers some home truths about modern politics

Pay Attention by Laura Kuenssberg review – a BBC reporter’s howl of frustration

It’s funny, tense, stunningly forceful – the excellence of this franchise’s return is a bright flash of hopeful defianceWe settle down in front of a fresh Blue Planet, trying to escape a weary sadness that stalks us from several angles. It is a new natural history show narrated by the 100-year-old David Attenborough, so there cannot be many more of those to enjoy. It is a Sunday-night showcase on BBC One, which is nothing like as significant a shared cultural event as it once was. The film-making can’t possibly be as revelatory as the original Blue Planet in 2001, and even the impact <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/oct/29/blue-planet-ii-review-extraordinary-brilliant-bird-eating-fish-dolphins-otters">Blue Planet II</a> had on conservation in 2017 feels unrepeatable: the attention it brought to plastic pollution in the ocean turned out to be a minor blow struck in a battle against environmental catastrophe that we have, since then, continued to lose.But if we stop requiring it to be another landmark and appreciate it as just another wildlife series, Blue Planet III is a corker. Its excellence is a bright flash of hopeful defiance, and if it often falls into familiar patterns, that familiarity is a comfort. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/nov/01/blue-planet-iii-review-david-attenborough-bbc-iplayer">Continue reading...</a>

It’s funny, tense, stunningly forceful – the excellence of this franchise’s return is a bright flash of hopeful defiance

Blue Planet III review – David Attenborough makes another absolute corker

After Guardian writers <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/30/scariest-non-horror-movies">picked their choices for Halloween</a>, readers have responded with films that send chills down their spines – from Never Let Me Go to The Truman ShowThe murder of the taxi driver is utterly excruciating and the hanging at the end equally so. Both are shown in full, in close up and in real time. The condemned man’s last cigarette is smoked in full. The unease (to put it mildly) of the audience was palpable. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/175927482">Wiscot</a> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/nov/02/scary-non-horror-movies">Continue reading...</a>

After Guardian writers picked their choices for Halloween, readers have responded with films that send chills down their spines – from Never Let Me Go to...

‘It still preys on my mind’: readers on their scariest non-horror movies

It was so refreshing to hear Aaron Sorkin admit he was bad at parts of directing after his movie flop. If only others could be as frankBy most accounts, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/07/the-social-reckoning-review-aaron-sorkin-jeremy-strong-mikey-madison">Aaron Sorkin’s new film The Social Reckoning</a>, a follow-up to his 2010 smash-hit The Social Network, is a flop. The film critic <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://consent.youtube.com/m?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fshorts%2FB4E0YDVVXPY%3Fcbrd%3D1&amp;gl=GB&amp;m=0&amp;pc=yt&amp;cm=2&amp;hl=en-GB&amp;src=1">Mark Kermode’s response to seeing it</a> was that Sorkin, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest living screenwriters, is “not a great director”.It seems that Sorkin agrees. Because Sorkin is very famous, he has had to do the rounds talking about the film in the media, which led to his appearance on the Hollywood Reporter’s <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/aaron-sorkin-social-reckoning-directing-doubts-few-good-men-1236740233/">Awards Chatter podcast earlier this week</a>, in which he addressed these kinds of criticisms head on. “I’m very worried that the parts of directing that I’m not good at are those parts that you can’t learn,” he said. “In addition to having absorbed none of the science of filmmaking, I have – and this is a problem in a visual medium – I have no visual sensibility at all, it turns out.”Imogen West-Knights is a writer and journalist <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/01/smug-celebrities-podcast-circuit-aaron-sorkin">Continue reading...</a>

It was so refreshing to hear Aaron Sorkin admit he was bad at parts of directing after his movie flop. If only others could be as frank

I’m sick of smug celebrities on the podcast circuit. No wonder there’s a fuss when someone speaks the truth | Imogen West-Knights

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Marvell's planned purchase of Lumentum is one of the biggest acquisitions in tech history. And they both have the same strategic investor: Nvidia.

In one of the largest deals in tech history, Marvell buys Lumentum for $115B

Readwise Books combines an ebook store, reading tracker, detailed reading stats, and AI features in a bid to challenge Amazon's ecosystem.

Readwise takes on Amazon’s Kindle and Goodreads with its new app for book lovers

SpaceX has been looking for new ways to use its Starlink network, and a tie-up with cellular operator Boost Mobile could give it the terrestrial access it needs.

SpaceX has been looking for new ways to use its Starlink network, and a tie-up with cellular operator Boost Mobile could give it the terrestrial access i...

SpaceX reportedly wants to buy Boost Mobile to compete with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

Here's a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation?

42AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can ‘predict human behavior’

Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having "the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life."

Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to ‘unsustainably high’ costs

Two startups tackling the data center water problem are joining forces in a $16 million deal. 

Omen AI adds liquid know-how in $16 million Aquatic Labs acquisition

The Ninja Crispi Microwave stands out for its FusionCrisp technology, which combines the speed of a microwave with the crispy results you'd expect from an air fryer.

The Ninja Crispi Microwave stands out for its FusionCrisp technology, which combines the speed of a microwave with the crispy results you'd expect from a...

Ninja’s first-ever microwave just replaced two of my kitchen appliances at once

Space infrastructure company Northwood Space on Monday said it had raised $375 million in a Series C round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and DFJ Growth, valuing the company at $2 billion. 

Space infrastructure company Northwood Space on Monday said it had raised $375 million in a Series C round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and DFJ Growth, ...

Northwood Space raises $375M Series C at a $2B valuation from a16z and DFJ Growth

This is the second wave of cyberattacks to hit supermarket refrigerators in a month, spoiling food and disrupting supplies.

A fresh wave of cyberattacks has hit Europe’s supermarket refrigerators, destroying food across countries

TechCrunch Founder Summit happens on November 4 in Boston for a founder-focused agenda and impactful connections. Save up to $100 or get discounts with group passes.

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2 days till TechCrunch Founder Summit: Boston founders don’t need a Silicon Valley address to build something big

OpenAI said that ChatGPT and Codex will draw usage from the same allocation pool after this change.

OpenAI is finally merging ChatGPT’s Chat and Work tabs

Ford said it's making an "explicit commitment" to its customers that "their vehicle data is safe" with the company.

Ford launches a ‘privacy promise’ and explains how and why it uses customer data

Five stories worth your time from our extended colleagues at CIO, Computerworld, Macworld, and PCWorld.

Borrowed reading: stories from our extended colleagues

Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else?

OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’

On Equity, we discuss why tech CEO statements can seem so tone deaf.

AI can make tech CEOs’ lives easier. What about everyone else?

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

TechCrunch Mobility: A new, bigger AV boom is here

The cryptocurrency exchange said it's now covered 95% of the stolen assets.

Binance resumes withdrawals following $6.3 billion breach

Google made a sturdy phone, but there is increasing competition in the foldable world.

Pixel 11 Pro Fold: Sturdy rectangle in a wide, wide world

Startup Everbloom's new material, renoa, is the first new fiber in 25 years, and it feels very familiar.

Here’s what ‘renoa’ — the first new fiber in 25 years — feels like

At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member’s fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Party, kept circling back to AI and data centers.


At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member’s fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Par...

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