Thursday, August 13
Author: Caitlin Rooney
Caitlin Rooney
Caitlin Rooney has been covering Greater Manchester for the best part of a decade. She started at a local paper in Salford, moved to digital, and spent three years on the housing and planning beat before going independent. She has sat through more council cabinet meetings than she cares to count and still reads the planning portal on her phone. She writes about transport, housing, devolution, policing, and the daily grind of how a city actually runs. She has a particular interest in who benefits from regeneration and who gets moved along by it. Caitlin lives in Chorlton. She thinks the Metrolink is both Manchester's best and worst infrastructure, and does not trust anyone who calls the city centre "town".
The 2026 World Cup free streaming question is one millions of people are now trying to answer, with the tournament having kicked off on 11 June and running all the way to the final on 19 July. A record 48 teams are competing across 104 matches, played over 39 days at 16 venues spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, according to Road Trips. That is a lot of football. And a lot of potential subscription fees.The good news is you have more options than you might think. Some of them are genuinely free. Most of the others involve…
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The Lifehacker Apple 2026 guessing game contest is already under way, and with Round 1 now closed, the competition moves into its second phase on 7 July. If you have opinions about what Apple is going to do next and you happen to be in the US, there is an Apple Watch on the line for the person who gets the most right.The format is straightforward. The contest runs across three rounds, each tied to a different slice of Apple’s annual release calendar. Entrants head to any of the participating CNET Group sites, according to PCMag’s official contest rules, complete…
The Android June security patch is out, and it is not one to sit on. Google’s monthly update for June addresses 124 security vulnerabilities, one of which is already being actively exploited in the wild, making a prompt install more than routine housekeeping.The vulnerability in question, tracked as CVE-2025-48595, is an escalation of privilege flaw in Android Framework. According to Google, attackers can exploit it to force their way into an administrative position on a target device and execute their own code, and users do not need to interact with anything to be at risk. It affects devices running Android…
