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According to reports, Liverpool target Micky van de Ven is ‘pushing to leave’ Tottenham Hotspur, but a ‘huge’ demand for this transfer has been made. Liverpool targeted Netherlands international Van de Ven before he joined Spurs, but the north London outfit beat their rivals to the punch during the 2023 summer transfer window and signed him for around £43m. Van de Ven has been impacted by injuries in recent years, but he has established himself as a great asset for Spurs as one of the best young centre-backs in Europe. The 24-year-old has been one of Tottenham’s standout performers this…
Image: StackCommerce TL;DR: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 delivers a modern, AI-assisted, cross-platform IDE — and it’s currently available for $49.99 (MSRP $499.99). Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 is designed for developers who work across platforms, languages, and increasingly complex codebases. As a fully featured 64-bit IDE, it handles large solutions more efficiently while delivering performance improvements that matter in real-world development environments. Work faster and smarter with Visual Studio 2026 Visual Studio 2026 supports a wide range of workloads. Developers can build cross-platform desktop and mobile apps using .NET MAUI, create modern web applications with Blazor and ASP.NET Core,…
Customers of US-based sportswear giant Under Armour have been warned to be on high alert after details of approximately 72.7 million shoppers appeared online this week. Collated by breach information website HaveIBeenPwned, the data was likely exfiltrated by the Everest ransomware crew, which claimed to have carried out a ransomware attack against the Baltimore, Maryland-based company in November 2025. The Everest gang said at the time that it was in possession of 343GB of Under Armour’s data, including personally identifiable information relating to both employees and customers. HaveIBeenPwned said the customer data included names, birth dates, gender information, contact details,…
Scarlett Johannsson, R.E.M., Vince Gilligan and over 700 other artists are demanding that tech companies stop “stealing” their work in order to train AI models. A new campaign called “Stealing isn’t Innovation” demands that AI companies take “the responsible, ethical route” through licensing and partnerships, according to the website.“America’s creative community is the envy of the world and creates jobs, economic growth and exports,” a statement on the website reads. “But rather than respect and protect this valuable asset, some of the biggest tech companies, many backed by private equity and other funders, are using American creators’ work to build…
Hugo BachegaMiddle East correspondent, BeirutAFPSyrian government forces advanced rapidly into north-eastern Syria in recent daysPresident Ahmed al-Sharaa has made significant advances in his efforts to unify a deeply fractured Syria, reclaiming large swathes of territory in the north-east that had been under the control of a Kurdish-led militia alliance for more than a decade. What happens next will be a test for a government that has tried to assert its authority over the whole country.The gains by government forces in a lightning offensive against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) marked the biggest change of control in Syria since Islamist-led rebels…
Ugandan police have detained a lawmaker, and close ally of opposition leader Bobi Wine, for his alleged role in election-related violence last week.Muwanga Kivumbi, a deputy leader of Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP), is accused of organising attacks on a police station and a vote-tallying centre after their electoral loss, which the party denies.The police have said that seven people were killed in the incident, but the politician has given a different account, saying that 10 people were killed at his home as they waited for parliamentary election results.The Uganda Police Force said in a post on X on Thursday…
Jurgen Klopp has reportedly informed Real Madrid of his five ‘very clear conditions’ to replace Alvaro Arbeloa, including two Liverpool transfers. Klopp has been out of management since leaving Liverpool at the end of the 2023/24 campaign. Upon leaving Liverpool, Klopp cited burnout as a key factor behind his decision to leave the Premier League giants after nine years in charge at Anfield. The respected German had a break from football for a few months, but he made a return at the start of 2025 as he became Red Bull’s Global Head of Soccer. This seems to be a far…
Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana Remember asking Siri for help and getting a frustratingly literal response or a web link? Those days are numbered. Apple is planning its biggest shake-up of the digital assistant since its debut, transforming Siri from a simple voice helper into a full-blown, built-in AI chatbot. According to a Bloomberg report, the tech giant plans to unveil the new version, code-named “Campos,” at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, with a public release slated for September alongside the new iPhone series. The change is monumental. Today’s Siri operates on a set of pre-programmed commands. The…
Ahead of its upcoming price hike, Spotify is rolling out a more advanced AI playlist feature in the US and Canada. Prompted Playlist, which the company trialed in New Zealand late last year, lets subscribers “control the Spotify algorithm,” as the company describes it. “You’re not just asking for music, you’re shaping how Spotify goes about discovering it for you.”For example, you can guide it to make a playlist of songs you’ve saved to your Library but haven’t listened to yet. (It can tap into your entire Spotify history.) Or, you can tell it to round up songs from a…
Former Labour minister Andrew Gwynne is on the brink of standing down as an MP, ministers and party officials believe.The move could potentially pave a way for Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham to return to the Commons and make a leadership challenge against Sir Keir Starmer.Gwynne was elected as a Labour MP, but was suspended in 2025 after a newspaper reported offensive messages he sent in a WhatsApp Group. His departure from the House of Commons would trigger a by-election in his Greater Manchester constituency of Gorton and Denton, which Labour won at the last election with a majority of…