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Software 23 AUG

DeepSeek's new 'harness' has 185,000 GitHub stars — but what is it actually for?

A TypeScript project from DeepSeek's GitHub org has racked up six-figure stars in under a fortnight, yet the page itself offers almost nothing to say what it does or why it's exploding.

Gaming

Modern Warfare 4 beta goes live, but Xbox Wire's own preview cuts off mid-sentence

22 AUG

Bathtub Rage Game Rolls Onto Xbox, But the Small Print Is Missing

21 AUG

RuneScape: Dragonwilds lands on Xbox Game Pass on 15 September - but Microsoft isn't saying much else

20 AUG

PlayStation's July charts: old favourites beat new releases across Asia and the US

18 AUG

AI

DeepSeek's new 'harness' has 169,000 GitHub stars — but nobody's checked if it's any good

20 AUG

OpenRouter, the AI model marketplace, is being folded into Stripe

20 AUG

Qwen 3.8 27B is genuinely impressive - if you can stop it thinking for 21 minutes

18 AUG

Gemini 3.7 Flash arrives with benchmarks Google graded itself — and a price that doubles in January

17 AUG

Hardware

Sony's Pulse Elevate speakers get a launch date - but only if you live in Southeast Asia

19 AUG

The Shared Rural Network hit its coverage target a year early. The 150 masts behind today's announcement cover 2 per cent of Britain

14 AUG

Samsung’s earbuds just became hearing aids — but not yet in Britain

12 AUG

Software

AWS quietly switches on a new 'Local Zone' in Las Vegas - but the announcement itself is oddly thin

21 AUG

DeepSeek's 'Harness' tool hits 162,000 GitHub stars - but nobody's saying what it actually does

19 AUG

Bluesky's screenshot watermark is a clever bit of iOS trickery, not magic

18 AUG

Publishers were the most attacked industry on the internet in the first half of 2026

12 AUG

Security

A 9.9-rated flaw in Red Hat's Kubernetes management tool isn't as apocalyptic as the score implies

22 AUG

Zimbra email servers under active attack via obscure SNMP flaw

22 AUG

SIA marks first 'National Day for Victims and Survivors of Terrorism' — but don't mistake it for new law

21 AUG

Firefox patches a critical use-after-free bug - but is it really a 9.8?

21 AUG

Science

Government promises to get 'everyone' off the streets by Christmas - here's what's actually confirmed

19 AUG

Semaglutide "cuts dementia risk", say the headlines. The number is modelled, and the real trial already failed

17 AUG

Google’s medical AI can now run a video consultation. The study was with actors.

12 AUG

Film & TV

Netflix’s number one was watched for a third as long as the show beneath it

12 AUG

Britain’s competition regulator has cleared the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery deal

12 AUG

Netflix Top 10: the week of 2026-08-09 in the UK, US and UAE

09 AUG

The Walking Dead – Isolation Review

29 OCT

Guides

New planning rules promise a 'default yes' for homes near stations - but nobody's said what 'near' means

18 AUG

How to find out whether the kit on your network is already being attacked

12 AUG