President says it was ‘just a little fun’ to picture White, UFC boss and Trump’s friend, in briefing room with fighters<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a> said on Sunday that he “was only kidding” when <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/07/donald-trump-dana-white-press-secretary">he announced</a> a day earlier that he had offered the job of White House press secretary to Dana White, the chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/ufc">UFC</a>).Speaking to reporters on his way back to the White House from his beach club in Florida, Trump explained the premise of his joke, that if the UFC boss, who is a devoted fan of the president, took over the briefing room, flanked by six fighters, reporters “wouldn’t mess around with him so much”. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/08/trump-dana-white-press-secretary">Continue reading...</a>

President says it was ‘just a little fun’ to picture White, UFC boss and Trump’s friend, in briefing room with fighters

Trump says he was ‘only kidding’ about making UFC’s Dana White next press secretary

Culture secretary says there is still a problem with exploitation and abuse in the industry and public lifeThe culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said there is still a problem with exploitation and abuse in the media industry and a failure to properly deal with allegations after Russell Brand’s conviction for rape and sexual assault.She said women who came forward were too often not protected by institutions across public life, including in politics, and that huge power imbalances meant speaking up came at a very heavy cost. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/nov/08/women-abuse-media-industry-lisa-nandy-russell-brand">Continue reading...</a>

Culture secretary says there is still a problem with exploitation and abuse in the industry and public life

Russell Brand case must be wake-up call to protect women in media, Lisa Nandy says

A lifestyle podcast or brief TV clip is less taxing than a full press conference – but No 10 insists the PM is not ducking accountability In an interview this week Andy Burnham said he believed the traditional media was less relevant and the world was “not like that any more”. But some people are now asking: does this change in approach mean less scrutiny?The question was in part prompted by Burnham’s decision to travel to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting (Chogm) without the usual accompanying pack of reporters, instead bringing just one TV crew and a news agency journalist. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/nov/08/andy-burnham-social-media-traditional-media-scrutiny-at-risk">Continue reading...</a>

A lifestyle podcast or brief TV clip is less taxing than a full press conference – but No 10 insists the PM is not ducking accountability

Does Andy Burnham’s pivot from press to social media put scrutiny at risk?

Researchers say popular performers covertly market OnlyFans content and tell followers about wealthy lifestyleTikTok is helping to promote and normalise the sex industry, allowing “sexfluencers” to post videos aimed at marketing pornographic content they have uploaded elsewhere on sites such as OnlyFans, a report indicates.After studying non-explicit content posted on TikTok over the course of a year by some of OnlyFans’ most popular young female performers, researchers said the women buried coded references to pornography in “girly lifestyle content” that showed them shopping, playing with their pets, baking or offering skincare advice. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/07/tiktok-sex-industry-girls-onlyfans">Continue reading...</a>

Researchers say popular performers covertly market OnlyFans content and tell followers about wealthy lifestyle

TikTok accused of helping to promote sex industry to girls

Group including Doreen Lawrence and Elton John face £50m bill after losing claims over alleged unlawful information gatheringPrince Harry and five other prominent figures have launched a legal challenge against a judge’s verdict in their unsuccessful claims against the Daily Mail’s publisher, Associated Newspapers.Harry, Doreen Lawrence, the mother of the murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, the singer Elton John and his husband, David Furnish, and the actors Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost faced a legal bill of more than £50m after losing their case claiming that Mail journalists used unlawful methods to source stories. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/06/prince-harry-others-appeal-daily-mail-phone-hacking-claim">Continue reading...</a>

Group including Doreen Lawrence and Elton John face £50m bill after losing claims over alleged unlawful information gathering

Prince Harry and others seek to challenge ruling in Daily Mail privacy case

Dickens character is actor’s first big studio role after years overshadowed by legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard“It’s good to be back,” Johnny Depp declares in the trailer for Ebenezer, in which he stars as Charles Dickens’s miserly Scrooge – his first big Hollywood studio production in eight years.The message is clear: this is Depp’s comeback, after years in which his career was overshadowed by legal battles with his former wife Amber Heard. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/nov/07/johnny-depp-ebenezer-film-scrooge-hollywood">Continue reading...</a>

Dickens character is actor’s first big studio role after years overshadowed by legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard

Hollywood banks on Ebenezer to bring Johnny Depp in from the cold

Organisers hope extravagant attempt to transplant song contest will be a successThailand is about to get a glitz-infused injection of pop culture, with crews starting construction of a large stage in Bangkok as part of an extravagant attempt to transplant Eurovision to Asia.Organisers have <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knYLQZvsE3U">promised</a> the world’s longest-running music competition will launch “a new chapter in Asia” next weekend, when 11 contestants from across the region will sing and dance for votes. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/nov/07/eurovision-asia-bangkok-song-contest">Continue reading...</a>

Organisers hope extravagant attempt to transplant song contest will be a success

Eurovision’s Asia experiment gets under way in flamboyant Bangkok

Ballet dancer, action hero, Bond girl ... The actor won an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once but she’s been through some challenges on the wayBefore agreeing to appear in Blade Runner 2099, Michelle Yeoh received a letter – “an amazing letter, a love letter” – from Silka Luisa, the project’s creator, imploring her to be involved. Yeoh, who is 64, has played grandes dames, action heroes and a low-income Chinese-American battling the tax authorities in an infinite multiverse, but Blade Runner was different. The sci-fi series, a follow-up of sorts to Ridley Scott’s 1982 movie classic and its <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/29/blade-runner-2049-review-ryan-gosling-harrison-ford-denis-villeneuve">2017 sequel</a>, features both humans and replicants, their bioengineered antagonists, and Yeoh was adamant: “I don’t want to be human.” After working on ideas of what a synthetic human might look like, the result is Olwen, a terrifying individual with “a very cold, steely look in her eyes. And the way she moves – it’s not robotic. She’s sort of fluid. Like a dragon. Like a serpent.”Yeoh is an actor who likes to figure things out for herself and, in the prep stages for Blade Runner 2099, the key question she thought about while building her character was, “What is it to be human? Are you born with humanity or does it come from the things you go through?” <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/nov/07/michelle-yeoh-interview-blade-runner-2099-everything-everywhere-oscar">Continue reading...</a>

Ballet dancer, action hero, Bond girl ... The actor won an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once but she’s been through some challenges on the way

‘Life is like a heartbeat. It’s up and down, up and down’: Michelle Yeoh on casting cliches, marriage at 60 and playing a replicant in Blade Runner 2099

James Norton and Lucy Punch star as a youthful Mr and Mrs Claus in lively ad about shared moments as well as shoppingFor years the “Christmas advert moment” has belonged to one brand. John Lewis’s syrupy commercials featuring piano ballads and tearjerker storylines have given the 160-year-old department store a cultural head start in the dash for festive profits.This year, however, there’s one high-street rival with a sackful of tricks to make up the ground. Marks &amp; Spencer has brought out the big guns – in the form of a topless Santa, played by the small-screen heart-throb <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jun/29/james-norton-to-play-hamlet-in-the-west-end-in-2027-thomas-ostermeier">James Norton</a>. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/nov/06/marks-and-spencer-john-lewis-christmas-ad-battle-james-norton-lucy-punch-topless-santa">Continue reading...</a>

James Norton and Lucy Punch star as a youthful Mr and Mrs Claus in lively ad about shared moments as well as shopping

M&S takes on John Lewis in Christmas ad battle with topless ‘shredded Santa’

I have reported on cricket for two decades. The abuse I have been subjected to in recent years is shocking and demoralisingBy <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.wisden.com/wisden-cricket-monthly">Wisden Cricket Monthly</a>Twenty-four years ago I walked into the Wankhede press box for the first time, to cover an India v England one-day international. That sultry Mumbai evening, Andrew Flintoff sprinted across the outfield twirling his shirt round his head as England won by five runs – a sight that so annoyed captain Sourav Ganguly that he would take his revenge on the Lord’s balcony later that summer.I wrote my report for a local tabloid, the Afternoon Despatch &amp; Courier, with trepidation and an overwhelming sense of impostor syndrome. I was one of only two women among the contingent, and was terrified about what my male peers and senior colleagues would make of my presence and work. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/nov/08/female-sports-journalists-sexism-social-media-vicious-relentless-cricket">Continue reading...</a>

I have reported on cricket for two decades. The abuse I have been subjected to in recent years is shocking and demoralising

Female sports journalists have always faced sexism. Social media has made it vicious and relentless | Anjali Doshi

Russia’s best-known independent newspaper was my home for 17 years. It’s being shut down, but the spirit of its journalism will live onNovaya Gazeta – Russia’s most prominent independent newspaper – is <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/30/novaya-gazeta-russia-independent-newspaper-to-close">being shut down</a>. On 29 October, two things became known: Novaya was being evicted from its newsroom, and banks would stop processing readers’ donations to Novaya (its only legal income). Insiders spoke of the risk of Novaya being declared an extremist organisation – then any employee could be jailed: a journalist, an editor, an accountant, a cleaner. Closing was safer.Novaya Gazeta is a second family to me and to many journalists now scattered around the Earth. For me it is my first family, too – my adopted sister also worked at Novaya, and it’s funny how alike we turned out. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/07/moscow-novaya-gazeta-journalism-russia-newspaper">Continue reading...</a>

Russia’s best-known independent newspaper was my home for 17 years. It’s being shut down, but the spirit of its journalism will live on

Moscow has shuttered Novaya Gazeta – we told the truth and we paid the price | Elena Kostyuchenko

This slightly preposterous psychological drama – featuring Byrne and Meghann Fahy as sisters – is a show about trauma where everyone somehow looks astonishingly beautiful at all timesAt first glance, The Good Daughter (Thursday 12 November,&nbsp;9pm, Sky Atlantic) should make you a little worried about Rose Byrne. Here is an actor not only at the top of her game, but quite frankly at the top of anybody’s. Her Apple TV show Platonic all but depends on her combination of emotional nuance and flawless slapstick to exist, and earlier this year she won a Golden Globe (and was nominated for an Oscar) for her wired, frayed lead performance in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. In other words, Byrne should be able to make anything she wants.So it’s bizarre that, of all things, she has chosen this. The Good Daughter is a paperback thriller show. It’s one of those slightly preposterous programmes about trauma where everyone somehow manages to look astonishingly beautiful all the time. It’s David E Kelley territory. It’s Harlan Coben territory. It’s Nicole Kidman in a silly wig territory. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/nov/07/the-good-daughter-rose-byrne-legal-thriller-peacock-sky-atlantic">Continue reading...</a>

This slightly preposterous psychological drama – featuring Byrne and Meghann Fahy as sisters – is a show about trauma where everyone somehow looks astoni...

The Good Daughter: Rose Byrne’s legal thriller is so full of calamity it borders on Mr Bean-like farce

The clear-out at the newspaper seems driven less by politics than by a shift towards AI – and journalism will pay the priceNigel Farage has been writing columns for <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2016/06/29/nigel-farage-the-next-leader-of-the-conservative-party-must-have/">the Daily Telegraph since 2016</a>, most of which have promoted the previously Brexit and now Reform UK party he leads, or <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/04/19/tory-brexiteers-forget-millions-voted-leave-action-not-cuddly/">accused his rivals of going soft on immigration</a>. For this privilege the paper’s cash-strapped bosses paid him around <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://members.parliament.uk/members/commons/interests/publications">£4,000 a month</a>, adding up to nearly half a million pounds over the past decade.News broke this week that Farage’s services are <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/nov/02/nigel-farage-telegraph-column-ends">no longer required</a> by the Telegraph’s new German owners, Axel Springer, though sources close to Farage say that he resigned. The paper is also reported to be negotiating the exit of Allison Pearson, who has been complimentary of far-right activist Tommy Robinson’s “<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/28/allison-pearson-daily-telegraph-job-cull-newsroom-cuts">rough-diamond charisma</a>”, which together have prompted rumours that Springer has called a halt to the paper’s rightwards shift, calling it back to the basics of its Conservative party bible past.Jane Martinson is an academic and Guardian columnist. She is a board member of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian Media Group, and writes in a personal capacity <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/06/nigel-farage-telegraph-story-newspaper-ai">Continue reading...</a>

The clear-out at the newspaper seems driven less by politics than by a shift towards AI – and journalism will pay the price

Nigel Farage's exit from the Telegraph may be cause for cheer. But there’s a sobering side to this story | Jane Martinson

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The new music discovery app lets users scroll through 10-to-30-second snippets of songs, comment, and share with friends. 

Meet Drops, the new music app bringing back the fun of sharing songs with friends

Automattic aims to compete with likes of Lovable with Spacefast

Automattic debuts a platform to deploy vibe coding apps amid a changing internet

Elon Musk defended the company's decision to stop making the Cybertruck, which will go out of production in around 8 months. 

Musk says Tesla will refund some Cybertruck deposits, defends decision to end production

This will be the fourth Texas city in which Tesla will launch robotaxis.

Tesla expands robotaxi service to San Antonio

Nvidia’s board is investigating Jensen Huang over his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld thinks it’s roughly a coin flip whether Huang stays on as CEO.


Nvidia’s board is investigating Jensen Huang over his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld thinks it’s roughly a coin...

Is Jensen Huang’s job on the line? Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld estimates it’s “about a 50-50”

It's hard to break the cycle of doomscrolling, but there are plenty of apps that can help you spend more time on content that’s engaging and productive.

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In a memo to the company, Huang admitted that he had an affair.

Nvidia will investigate CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with possible Chinese spy

Snap's Specs, which have been in development for many years now, are going to market this fall. Will they be a hit with users?  

If Snap’s Specs are still ridiculously expensive, they’re also a lot more comfortable than they used to be

Mystery solved: Coordinated power drops have been haunting power grid worldwide, but a team of researchers in Germany found the culprit.


Coordinated disturbances haunt grids worldwide. Here’s how researchers solved the mystery.

A new report claims Sequoia's recent changes undo the legacy of the firm's former steward.

Sequoia partners reportedly blindsided when Roelof Botha joined SpaceX board

SNL seems to have its knives out for tech executives.

SNL has a new impression of Elon Musk, ‘the worst thing South Africa has ever done’

Stephen Ward, a former Secret Service agent and Home Depot CISO, is preparing a second fund of roughly $250 million for Brightmind Partners.

He arrested a hacker, then spent 18 months clearing his own name. Now he’s a cybersecurity VC.

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

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A memo circulated earlier this year reportedly claimed that China’s Ministry of State Security recruited a female technology executive to spy on Nvidia's CEO.

A memo circulated earlier this year reportedly claimed that China’s Ministry of State Security recruited a female technology executive to spy on Nvidia's...

Megaspeed exec was recruited to spy on Nvidia CEO, according to US intelligence memo

As parents look for alternatives to unrestricted smartphones, a growing number of companies are building phones designed specifically for kids, from feature-limited mobile devices to minimalist home phones.

As parents look for alternatives to unrestricted smartphones, a growing number of companies are building phones designed specifically for kids, from feat...

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The announcement comes barely more than a week after hackers stole $6.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency from Binance users.

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Sequoia pioneered the scouts model and many VC firms followed suit, but a consensus now seems to be forming that the model has reached limits in its current form.

Sequoia pioneered the scouts model and many VC firms followed suit, but a consensus now seems to be forming that the model has reached limits in its curr...

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