31 m. ago JD Vance and wife Usha arrive in India for first official visit with trade talks on agenda

US vice president JD Vance arrives in India for four-day visit as New Delhi looks to avoid tariffs and negotiate a bilateral trade deal

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57 m. ago With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster | Nesrine Malik

A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazyThere are two parallel image channels that dominate our daily visual consumption. In one, there are real pictures and footage of the world as it is: politics, sport, news and entertainment. In the other is AI slop, low-quality content with minimal human input. Some of it is banal and pointless – cartoonish images of celebrities, fantasy landscapes, anthropomorphised animals. And some is a sort of pornified display of women just simply being, like a virtual girlfriend you cannot truly interact with. The range and scale of the content is staggering, and infiltrates everything from social media timelines to messages circulated on WhatsApp. The result is not just a blurring of reality, but a distortion of it.A new genre of AI slop is rightwing political fantasy. There are entire YouTube videos of made-up scenarios in which Trump officials prevail against liberal forces....

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57 m. ago Some British MPs spending equivalent of a day a week doing second jobs

Guardian analysis finds seven MPs have worked at least 300 hours since July in outside employmentA total of seven MPs have spent on average one working day a week on second jobs since the start of the 2024 parliament, with additional gigs as TV presenters, lawyers and consultants.A Guardian analysis of self-declared working hours found the seven had worked at least 300 hours since July – the equivalent of eight hours a week, in outside employment averaged across the parliament – totalling more than 3,000 hours between them. A further seven MPs had worked at least five hours a week on a second job. Continue reading...

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57 m. ago Ten assaults a day on asylum seekers in Home Office care, figures reveal

Exclusive: There were 380 safeguarding referrals of victims of hate crimes from January 2023 to August 2024The Home Office is recording an average of 10 assaults a day on asylum seekers in its care, according to internal government data, amid harsh government rhetoric on those crossing the Channel.Figures reveal that there were 5,960 referrals of assaults upon asylum seekers while in the care of the Home Office between January 2023 and August 2024. There were also 380 referrals of victims of hate crimes to their internal safeguarding hub during this period.In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...

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57 m. ago Navy submarine recruitment crisis forces sailors to spend record

Royal Navy submariners are being forced to spend longer than ever before at sea, experts have warned, after Trident vessel HMS Vanguard clocked in a record 204 days underwater

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1 hour ago What to Stream: 'Andor,' 'Babygirl' and new Wu Tang Clan music

The second season of the Star Wars series “Andor” and the streaming release of the Wu Tang Clan’s latest album are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you

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1 hour ago ‘My work is a scream for help’: Gaza’s artists document life under fire

Work illustrating the war’s brutality but also the resilience of four Palestinian artists, is being exhibited at the Darat al Funan in JordanBasel El Maqousi says he is amazed to be alive at the end of each day. Living in Gaza, where more than 64,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s assault, and with the tally rising still, his amazement returns, he says, with each morning light.“The war began and life stopped. There is no work or art, we just try to run from one place to another, searching for salvation from the bombing and killing that pursues us. We walk quickly to search for water and food, and running has become the master of all times,” he says. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Egyptian billionaire Sawiris says ‘Tory incompetence’ forced him to quit UK

Aston Villa co-owner blames past Conservative governments, not the Labour chancellor, as he redomiciles to Italy and Abu Dhabi

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2 h. ago Scottish Water staff to walk out on two day strike in dispute with bosses at publicly

Unison said the pay offer from Scottish Water failed to compensate workers for a decade of real-term pay cuts.

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3 h. ago Asian markets are mixed as US tech companies are due to release earnings

Asian shares are mixed following the Easter weekend holiday, with some markets still closed

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4 h. ago How The Last of Us season two’s major death differs from the video game

‘The Last of Us’ has just delivered one of the most shocking deaths in modern TV history, but how did they change it from the game?

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4 h. ago London boy eager to serve community joins volunteers for Spring Cleanup Day

London boy eager to serve community joins volunteers for Spring Cleanup Day  FOX 56 News

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5 h. ago TNA champ Joe Hendry answers Randy Orton's WWE WrestleMania 41 challenge

Kevin Owens was forced to pull out of his match with Randy Orton, leaving a spot for a mystery opponent that was answered by TNA World Champion Joe Hendry to the surprise of many

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5 h. ago 'Inexplicable': Just why do authorities refuse to release this mother imprisoned for her moment of madness 'racist' Southport tweet?

The jail term imposed on a childminder has been held up as an example of so-called 'two-tier policing'. So should Lucy Connolly be freed?

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5 h. ago Five million Brits' water supplies will not be checked for quality for two days as workers go on strike over pay

Workers will walk out on Tuesday and Wednesday following a one-day strike last month.

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6 h. ago The Last of Us s2 cast: who plays Abby and is she in the game? Full cast

The Last of Us has plenty of new faces for season two 🍄

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7 h. ago Chris Wakelin holds off Neil Robertson to reach second round for the first time

The former world champion bowed out on day two of the 2025 event.

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8 h. ago Easter weekend ‘ruined’ as shoppers rage over ‘mouldy’ roasts and melted eggs

After weeks of anticipation many people were left upset as their Easter Day was less perfect than they had imaged thanks to mouldy food and discoloured chocolate

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8 h. ago Ukrainians gather together to mark Easter as Zelensky accuses Russia of breaking Putin’s ‘truce’

Russia and Ukraine blamed each other on Sunday for breaking a one-day Easter ceasefire

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8 h. ago CBB's Chris Hughes called out by housemate in savage swipe for 'using' JoJo Siwa

During Monday night's instalment of Celebrity Big Brother, Daley Thompson's warning about game players in the house was revealed as Ella Rae Wise took aim at Chris Hughes.

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