61 h. ago Avengers: Doomsday – first official trailer for new Marvel film released online

Steve Rogers is back in the 90-second trailer that is now online for all to seeThe first official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday has been released online, in the run-up to the next outing from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.The brief 90-second trailer shows Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America riding along a rural road on a motorbike, entering a house and picking up his superhero uniform, then holding a sleeping baby. A title then announces: “Steve Rogers Will Return in Avengers: Doomsday.” Continue reading...

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62 h. ago Justice department issues rare defense of president, saying some Epstein files include ‘untrue and sensationalist’ claims against Trump – US politics live

DoJ issues statement online accompanying latest release of documents, saying claims included in material mentioning president are ‘unfounded and false’In another released email exchange from November 2001, Ghislaine Maxwell appears to be organizing an instructor for Epstein who “has to be female youngish and attractive otherwise he will lose interest rapidly”.Maxwell emails someone called “Gibby”, saying: “JE is looking for an exercise instructor to work out with. He is looking for someone who can tone, flex and stretch.” “I am counting on you,” she adds.He likes, well you know what he likes. Continue reading...

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67 h. ago Major piracy HEIST takes 86 million files from top streaming service as e

E-BANDITS have snatched a huge chunk of music from Spotify and are preparing to release it online for everyone. A piracy activist hacker group called Anna's Archives claims to have scraped 86million music files from the world's most popular streaming app. That represents about 99.6 per cent of Spotify "listens", the hacktivists said. The platform...

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67 h. ago First trailer for new Christopher Nolan Greek epic The Odyssey released

The first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey starring Matt Damon as Odysseus has been released online.

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3 d. ago Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify

Platform with 700m users worldwide says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have accessed tracks and metadataAn activist group has claimed to have scraped millions of tracks from Spotify and is preparing to release them online.Observers said the apparent leak could boost AI companies looking for material to develop their technology. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago First footage of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey released online

Trailer shows Matt Damon as the Greek hero, with Anne Hathaway as Penelope and Tom Holland as TelemachusThe first trailer has been released online for Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey.Starring Matt Damon as the classic Greek hero, the trailer offers a series of shots of a bearded Damon as he sets out to return from the fall of Troy as his gravelly voiceover announces: “After years of war no one could stand between my men and home not even me.” Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Avengers: Doomsday trailer – as the hype builds, has Marvel got lost in the multiverse?

Marvel has put the first official trailer for the new Avengers meetup before random screenings of Avatar: Fire and Ash. Recordings of it have leaked online – but many questions still remainIs anything real any more? For the last few weeks there have been rumours that Marvel is about to drop the first official footage for its forthcoming superhero epic Avengers: Doomsday, ahead of screenings of Avatar: Fire and Ash. And it makes a sort of sense: the latest instalment of James Cameron’s 3D mega-project about blue aliens and colonial shame is clearly a visual spectacle, so why not lure fans of Captain America and Thor into cinemas by dangling the promise of a Doomsday trailer in front of them? In a world in which everyone expects everything to be online instantly, could the most radical experiment be to put this thing in cinemas?If it once seemed like a good idea, it increasingly looks less so. There are rumoured to be multiple Doomsday trailers in circulation, to be ushered in ahead o...

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3 w. ago OBR says inadvertent budget leak is ‘worst failure’ in its 15

Investigation finds organisation’s leadership over many years was to blame for error, and similar breach happened earlier this yearPolitics live –latest updatesBritain’s budget watchdog has said the early leak of its budget documents before Rachel Reeves made her speech was the “worst failure” in its 15-year history as it emerged a similar breach had occurred earlier this year.The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said an investigation had found that the leadership of the organisation, over many years, was to blame for the early release of its Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) document online nearly an hour before Reeves’s address last Wednesday. Continue reading...

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