89 m. ago ‘There were stoats in kitchen cupboards’: AI deployed to help save Orkney’s birds

Stoats have been an existential threat to Orkney’s rare birds but technology is helping to eradicate themAt first, the stoat looks like a faint smudge in the distance. But, as it jumps closer, its sleek body is identified by a heat-detecting camera and, with it, an alert goes out to Orkney’s stoat hunters.Aided by an artificial intelligence programme trained to detect a stoat’s sinuous shape and movement, trapping teams are dispatched with the explicit aim of finding and killing it. It is the most sophisticated technology deployed in one of the world’s largest mammal eradication projects, which has the aim of detecting the few stoats left on Orkney. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Can you actually fool AI to push your resume to the top of the pile?

Recruiters are locked in a technological ‘arms race’ with desperate jobseekers — and secret instructions targeted at hiring robots are the latest trick, Io Dodds reports

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2 h. ago 'I was sacked from my teaching job for being too sexy but now I grade men's members'

Sarah Juree lost her job as a teacher when her Only Fans side hustle was outed three years ago, but she still has a lot of grading to do after her subscribers request a saucy rating

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3 h. ago SeaWorld trainer butchered by killer whale who turned 'psychotic' in captivity

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Dawn Brancheau, 40, was a seasoned SeaWorld trainer who had worked with killer whales for 15 years - but during a petting session, Tilikum grabbed her by the ponytail and dragged her into the pool

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3 h. ago VPN fans rush for early NordVPN Black Friday deals for works out at 12p a day

NordVPN has started its Black Friday sales early - and the deals are much cheaper than usual

Economics

3 h. ago Duke Roufus: Renowned coach of multiple UFC champions dies aged 55

Duke Roufus, a former kickboxer and trainer of champions Anthony Pettis and Tyron Woodley, has died

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3 h. ago Met Office warns Brits in 3 areas to prep 'emergency' kit for 12 hours

Forecasters have warned of the risk of flooding, power cuts and delayed journeys on the road for 12 hours between midnight on Saturday and noon on Sunday and urged people to be prepared

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4 h. ago Alfie Boe on overcoming self doubt and why the theatre will always survive

EXCLUSIVE: He once questioned if he was right for Les Misérables, the role that became a defining moment in his career. Now, as he prepares a new album and UK tour, Alfie Boe talks resilience, reinvention and the power of performance

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4 h. ago Parents will be able to block Meta bots from talking to their children under new safeguards

Measures come amid concern generative AI characters are having inappropriate conversations with under-18sParents will be able to block their children’s interactions with Meta’s AI character chatbots, as the tech company addresses concerns over inappropriate conversations.The social media company is adding new safeguards to its “teen accounts”, which are a default setting for under-18 users, by letting parents turn off their children’s chats with AI characters. These chatbots, which are created by users, are available on Facebook, Instagram and the Meta AI app. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Best smartphones for reading: Top picks for book lovers in 2025

Stuart Pritchard reads between the lines on a selection of smartphones designed with the bibliophile firmly in mind

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5 h. ago ‘A glimpse of genius’: what do unpublished stories found in Harper Lee’s apartment tell us about the To Kill a Mockingbird author?

When she died, the writer left behind a cache of notebooks and manuscripts. Her biographer reveals what they tell us about her unlikely rise to literary stardomWhen To Kill a Mockingbird was published in the summer of 1960, it seemed to have sprung from nowhere, like an Alabamian Athena: a perfectly formed novel from an unknown southern writer without any evident precedent or antecedent. The book somehow managed to be both urgently of its time and instantly timeless, addressing the era’s most turbulent issues, from the civil rights movement to the sexual revolution, while also speaking in the register of the eternal, from the moral awakening of children and the abiding love of families to the frictions between the self and society.But no writer is without influences and aspirations: Harper Lee had, of course, come from somewhere and worked tremendously hard to become someone. It was only because she did not like talking about herself that her origins seemed so mysterious, and i...

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5 h. ago Skeletal woman 'locked in bedroom for 27 YEARS' utters three chilling words when found

No-one could have prepared the police for what they saw when they knocked on the door of a family apartment after a disturbance report. And now the woman they rescued has spoken for the first time

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5 h. ago Apple MacBook plummets £670 days after new M5 chip model unveiled

There are big savings available when buying refurbished tech - and it's better for the environment too.

Economics

6 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Balvinder Sopal's horror admission after training injury

Balvinder will be one of the celebrities battling for a place in next week's BBC Strictly Come Dancing

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6 h. ago Man City lineup vs Everton predicted as Matheus Nunes starts and injury calls made

Manchester City latest as the Blues prepare to welcome Everton to the Etihad Stadium in the Premier League

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6 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing’s Balvinder Sopal’s horror training injury as ‘body popped’

Balvinder Sopal is one of the 15 celebrities taking to the dancefloor for the Strictly Come Dancing episode tonight, but she has suffered a horror injury

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8 h. ago Man United news as Bryan Mbeumo 'makes' transfer play and Ruben Amorim responds

The latest news from Old Trafford as Manchester United prepare to face Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon

Politics

8 h. ago ‘You’re in spy territory’: how two UK nationals got tangled in a Chinese espionage row

The Met’s elite SO15 unit alleged a parliamentary researcher helped his friend create 34 reports for a shadowy frontFor Christopher Cash it was а job he adored. The young parliamentary researcher, then in his late 20s, was a China specialist working successively for two influential backbenchers, Tom Tugendhat and Alicia Kearns. He had a parliamentary pass and was plugged into Westminster’s gossip network during 2022, a year of Conservative turmoil in Westminster, three prime ministers and future policy uncertainty.At the same time, Cash was in close contact with a friend, Christopher Berry, a teacher based in Hangzhou, eastern China, where the Britons had first met five years earlier. They discussed politics constantly, using an encrypted app. At one point, on 18 July, Berry allegedly told him he had met a senior Chinese Communist party leader (though he now denies meeting anybody of that rank). In a reply the next day, Cash said: “You’re in spy territory now.” Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Alan Carr 'in talks for chat show comeback on the BBC' after his Celebrity Traitors success

BBC bosses are reportedly preparing to offer Celebrity Traitors star Alan Carr his own chat show, nearly a decade after his hit Channel 4 series Chatty Man ended.

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15 h. ago Teacher banned from profession after receiving lewd messages from pupil, 15

A teacher has been banned after failing to report indecent images sent to her by a 15-year-old boy who she had entered into an "inappropriate" relationship with

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