As soon as they’re on the wrong side of the free market they demand government intervention.

Riddick’s first name is ‘Richard’? Dick Riddick?

The one on the right is an “Emotional support vehicle”.

Yes, additive colour theory is based on red, green and blue (RGB). These are the colours you see if you look at your TV screen very closely.

Subtractive colour theory uses cyan, magenta and yellow. In printing black, abbreviated ‘K’, is added for contrast—CMYK. These are the inks used to print the dots you see if you look closely at a magazine photo.

I think people are confused by this because they’re taught a bastardised version of subtractive colour theory, using red, blue and yellow, at a very early age.

Good luck getting Optus, a communications company, to promptly and accurately communicate with its customers.

Tower Bridge has its own website which has a little information about what’s inside (though it’s mostly trying to get you to do a tour).

I hope this isn’t Microsoft becoming more Apple-like. That said, if this leads to a restriction on the use of cheat-capable controller accessories such as the Chronos Zen then it could be a significant positive for FPS console gamers.

It reminds me of Apple locking faster charging and data transfer on USB-C to their own proprietary USB cables.

Are you sure of that? It was certainly rumoured before the release of the iPhone 15 Pro that Apple would require MFi cables for high speed data transfer but I don’t think that turned out to be true. As far as I can tell any high speed USB-C cable will allow full speed transfer from an IPhone 15 Pro. It might need to be a Thunderbolt 3 cable, especially for recording to external SSD, not sure, I’m no expert, but I don’t think it needs to be an MFi cable.

I think Brink was game that killed my naive trust in the hype machine. So much anticipation, so much desperation to enjoy it, so much disappointment. From there on I only believed the hyperbole from proven developers but eventually Destiny killed even that. Now I’m a bitter shell of a gamer who lives by the creed, “never pre-order!”

And yet it often leads to more satisfying narratives.

How absurd. This kind of thing could happen to anyone.

I hope Adidas cops heaps of negative publicity over its pursuit of this hapless woman.

Have you read any Iain M Banks’ The Culture novels? Incredible writing. Most of his books have interesting twists in them, some of which will fuck you up. They are the type of books that you wish you could read again for the first time. The author died in 2013 so there are no more coming.

• Consider Phlebas
• The Player of Games
• Use of Weapons
• The State of the Art
• Excession
• Inversions
• Look to Windward
• Matter
• Surface Detail
• The Hydrogen Sonata

Other SF books by Banks:

• Against a Dark Background
• Feersum Endjinn
• The Algebraist

That's frightening.

Mr Lowe said there were some precautionary measures people could take, like taking their birthday off Facebook and limiting sharing of their personal mobile phone number.

"Don't put your physical address on things when you're buying things online, get a PO box," Mr Lowe recommended.

"When you're going to a website and entering your information, stop and think, 'What happens when this information gets leaked?'

One more thing you can do is, when given the option by a site or service, choose one-time passwords (OTP) for two-factor authentication instead of SMS.