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Daily Mirror
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Rolling Stones have 'recorded huge new album' after scrapping upcoming tour
The Rolling Stones, which consists of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, are said to have been working on a new album after deciding to scrap plans for a European tour The Rolling Stones are said to be working on a new album after reportedly deciding to scrap plans for a comeback tour in Europe. It's claimed that the group have more than a dozen songs ready to go after spending time in the studio. Bandmates Mick Jagger, 81, Keith Richards, 81, and Ronnie Wood, 78, are said to have been working in Metropolis Studios in London since April. It's reported that they are now in discussions over the release of their 25th studio album. It's been suggested that the trio have collaborated again with producer Andrew Watt. He worked with the Rolling Stones on their last album Hackney Diamonds, which topped the UK Albums Chart following its release back in 2023. According to the Sun, Mick, Keith, and Ronnie are working on the new album after scrapping plans for a summer tour in the UK and other countries. The band's potential European tour had been rumoured earlier this year. A source told the outlet: "Mick, Keith and Ronnie have been secretly recording their new record with their drummer Steve Jordan." It's claimed that the band are "happy" with 13 songs and are discussing when to release it. The source went on to discuss the rumoured tour, saying that it didn't work out. They said: "Originally, the plan was for them to bring their huge US tour to the UK and Europe this summer, but promoters couldn't get the dates to work." They continued: "Instead the Stones decided to get back into the studio and put down their next album." The source suggested that it's "massive" news for fans who didn't get a chance to see the acclaimed band perform live this year. There was speculation over a possible tour in January. It was suggested at the time that the band could return to the UK with their Hackney Diamonds tour to play four dates at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the capital city. A source told the Daily Mail that Mick, Keith and Ronnie couldn't wait to bring the tour to the UK. They said: "They've been planning it for months and are itching to get back out on the road and do what they do best, which is perform." Prior to subsequent reports that the tour plans had been shelved, it was initially suggested that they would also visit other locations in Europe. There was speculation that the other shows would be in Barcelona, Rome, Amsterdam and Paris. The speculation came following the Rolling Stones' Hackney Diamonds in the US and Canada last year. The trio performed at a host of venues, including SoFi Stadium in Inglewood and BC Place in Vancouver, whilst on the tour. The tour was in support of their album Hackney Diamonds, which was released the previous year. It was their eighth studio album to top the charts in the UK, following in the footsteps of albums like Aftermath and Emotional Rescue. The Mirror has approached the Stones spokesperson for comment.
The Verge
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
Discord might use AI to help you catch up on conversations
Discord has become the place for gaming communities on the internet. The company just celebrated its 10th anniversary, and its impact is now big enough that it's available directly on PlayStation and Xbox and was ripped off by Nintendo for the Switch 2's GameChat. But as it tries to grow, one of the big challenges Discord faces is that, for big or longer-running communities, it can be hard to know where to start, hard to catch up to the speed of real-time conversations, and hard to sift through the potentially huge amounts of conversations and channels. A lot of communities used to form around forums, but Discord just isn't a good replacement for that kind of structured messaging, as covered by Aftermath 's Luke Plunkett. 'This is something we want to solve,' Peter Sellis, Discord's SVP of product, tells The Verge. 'It is not our intention to lock a bunch of this knowledge into Discord.' One way Discord wants to tackle the problem is add features that are 'more amicable to structured knowledge sharing, like forums, that we could probably do a better job of investing in and is something we want to do for game developers,' Sellis says. Another involves LLMs. 'There's an incredible opportunity now with large language models and their ability to summarize conversations,' he says. That could help Discord take a long conversation between multiple people — 'what is essentially a really poorly structured shareable object,' he says — and boil it down to 'something that could be more shareable and then potentially syndicated to the web.' Sellis couldn't share many other details, and couldn't give a timeline for when any of this might be ready: 'I haven't seen a solution that we feel great about yet.' Discord wants to do it right, he says — especially because a solution that makes information more easily accessible outside of Discord could involve a lot of work for server moderators and admins. 'We have a very sensitive radar for stuff that causes them a bunch of work that doesn't give them the return they need,' he says. (It's wise not to piss off your moderators.) None of this was imminent, if it even happens at all. That said, 'I assure you that this is something that people within Discord feel the pain of themselves,' Sellis says. 'And when our engineers and product designers and product managers feel it personally, they generally want to solve it.' Another big challenge Discord faces is how to build the product to serve both the needs of giant community servers and the tiny servers where groups hang out — especially when, according to Discord, 90 percent of 'all activity on Discord' happens in 'small, intimate servers.' Sellis calls it 'one of the biggest challenges for the team' — but also says that it's 'honestly the biggest opportunity.' He says that Discord thinks about how it can make people 'feel comfortable in both these spaces, understand that there are different types of spaces, and the technology is familiar, but still different in both of these places.' Sellis says that the biggest Discord server is Midjourney, a key company in text-to-AI image generation that lets you generate visuals right inside Discord. Midjourney became popular because it turned the 'single-player game' of generating AI images into a multiplayer community. 'You can just watch people try things, experiment, fail, succeed, embarrass themselves, etc. And that made it kind of like a collective action.' He says Discord is seeing something similar with the recently launched Wordle app on the platform, too, which lets you compete with your friends. That all speaks to some of Discord's larger vision. Sellis is seeing a trend that 'everything is starting to kind of look like a game' and 'Discord can be used as a social layer on any game to essentially improve its engagement, its socialness, and its multiplayer capacity. That's something we like and are going to lean into.' And as for Nintendo's GameChat? 'I would say imitation is a very sincere form of flattery,' Sellis says. 'Hard to imagine being more flattered than being copied by Nintendo.'
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
As Trump Eyes Energy Relief, Jim Rickards Says the Key Could Be a $150 Trillion U.S. Resource Hidden in Plain Sight
A Supreme Court Ruling Has Changed the Rules—and the Energy Equation Could Shift Fast WASHINGTON, May 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- With inflation lingering and gas prices still straining household budgets, a bold energy shift may be underway. And according to former CIA advisor Jim Rickards, it's not coming from OPEC, pipelines, or subsidies. 'We could see gas prices fall to $2 a gallon—maybe even less,' Rickards says. 'And the power to make that happen isn't in the hands of oil companies anymore.' Instead, he points to a $150 trillion domestic resource buried under U.S. soil—an energy-rich 'inheritance' the federal government has held for over a century, but never fully used. THE COURT CASE THAT CHANGED THE GAME The breakthrough came with the 2024 Supreme Court decision to overturn the Chevron Doctrine—a decades-old legal precedent that had allowed federal agencies to broadly interpret and enforce regulations. 'Now, courts—not unelected bureaucrats—are driving the conversation,' Rickards says. 'That opens the door for a resource strategy that puts America first.' THE REAL POWER: ENERGY SECURITY, NOT DEPENDENCY What lies under U.S. federal lands could include trillions in raw materials: copper, lithium, silver, and rare earth elements. These are the same resources that power our grids, feed our AI, and make energy independence possible. 'We've fought to secure foreign oil,' Rickards says. 'Meanwhile, we've ignored what's already ours. That's finally starting to change.' OIL COMPANIES MAY NOT LIKE IT — BUT VOTERS MIGHT With executive orders from Trump already in motion, Rickards believes this legal shift could be used to fast-track access to lower-cost energy—without relying on global suppliers or Big Oil. 'It's not about breaking the system,' he says. 'It's about remembering we don't need to be held hostage by it.' A full interview revealing how this shift could work—and what comes next—is now available to the public at no cost. About Jim Rickards Jim Rickards is a lawyer, economist, and former advisor to the CIA, Pentagon, and U.S. Treasury. He's widely recognized as an expert in financial warfare, energy economics, and national security strategy. His bestselling books include The Death of Money, Aftermath, and Currency Wars. Media Contact:Derek WarrenPublic Relations ManagerParadigm Press GroupEmail: dwarren@ in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
The Independent
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Inside Mick Jagger's former party pad on the market for £5.5million
Mick Jagger 's former London party house, a sub-penthouse valued at £5.5 million, is on the market for the first time in 30 years. Jagger and then-girlfriend Marianne Faithfull rented the Marylebone property from 1966 to 1968, a period coinciding with the Rolling Stones' rise to fame. The four-bedroom, 2,495-square-foot Edwardian mansion served as a backdrop for parties and band activities, including a photoshoot with Colin Jones. Keith Richards and Princess Margaret were among the notable guests who frequented the flat. Jagger's time at the property witnessed the release of iconic Rolling Stones tracks like "Paint it Black," "Aftermath," and "Ruby Tuesday."
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Game Developers Launch North America's First Industry-Wide Union Anyone Can Join
Game industry unionization efforts that exploded across Sega of America, Bethesda, and others have recently been on pause. A new initiative by the Communications Workers of America could jumpstart things again. At the Game Developers Conference 2025 happening this week, the group announced the founding of the United Videogame Workers, a new sister organization that hopes to enlist developers from all different disciplines and studios in broader labor battles across the industry. The UVW-CWA's mission, per a press release reported by IGN, is 'to not only build community and solidarity amongst video game workers, but also to build large-scale education campaigns about labor organizing in the video game industry.' Unlike individual union shops which bargain contracts with employers, the direct-join model functions more like a voluntary trade group where paid dues and resources are pooled to help with various labor fights across the broader market. The announcement comes as SAG-AFTRA game actors enter their ninth month of striking for AI protections while publishers experiment with digital replicas. 'For two-thirds of modern industrial history, there were no legal forms of unions,' Emma Kinema, a game dev behind the 2018 Game Workers Unite campaign turned organizing operative for CODE-CWA, told Aftermath. 'They were just humans coming together to organize as best as they could in leverage against their employers for better conditions.' She pointed to statutory protections enshrined in the 1935 National Labor Relations Act as a 'peace treaty' that can cut both ways if rolled back by conservative forces in the second Trump administration. Despite developer unions forming across some of the biggest gaming companies in the U.S. in recent years, none have yet successfully bargained their first contract. Quality assurance staff at Raven Software, which works on Call of Duty for Activision, now owned by Microsoft, are nearing the three-year anniversary of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement with the company. The group filed an unfair labor charge against Activision and Microsoft for 'bad faith bargaining' last fall. 'We are committed to negotiating in good faith,' a Microsoft spokesperson said at the time. . For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
