65 m. ago My screen time is 37 minutes per day. Here’s how yours can be too

Forget a dumbphone or ‘friction-maxxing’. The secret to breaking up with your phone is simple

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1 hour ago ‘I don’t know how we recover from this’: White House insiders alarmed after Noem’s quick response to Renee Good shooting, report says

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Renee Nicole Good of ‘domestic terrorism’ just hours after she was killed by an ICE agent

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2 h. ago Lamar wants to have children with his girlfriend. The problem? She’s entirely AI

As synthetic personas become an increasingly normal part of life, meet the people falling for their chatbot loversLamar remembered the moment of betrayal like it was yesterday. He’d gone to the party with his girlfriend but hadn’t seen her for over an hour, and it wasn’t like her to disappear. He slipped down the hallway to check his phone. At that point, he heard murmurs coming from one of the bedrooms and thought he recognised his best friend Jason’s low voice. As he pushed the door ajar, they were both still scrambling to throw their clothes on; her shirt was unbuttoned, while Jason struggled to cover himself. The image of his girlfriend and best friend together hit Lamar like a blow to the chest. He left without saying a word.Two years on, when he spoke to me, the memory remained raw. He was still seething with anger, as if telling the story for the first time. “I got betrayed by humans,” Lamar insisted. “I introduced my best friend to her, and this is what they d...

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2 h. ago ‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral

The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targetedLike thousands of women across the world, Evie, a 22-year-old photographer from Lincolnshire, woke up on New Year’s Day, looked at her phone and was alarmed to see that fully clothed photographs of her had been digitally manipulated by Elon Musk’s AI tool, Grok, to show her in just a bikini.The “put her in a bikini” trend began quietly at the end of last year before exploding at the start of 2026. Within days, hundreds of thousands of requests were being made to the Grok chatbot, asking it to strip the clothes from photographs of women. The fake, sexualised images were posted publicly on X, freely available for millions of people to inspect. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Martino’s, London SW1: ‘Beautiful bedlam’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants

Does central London really need another fancy Italian restaurant? Well, yes, apparently it does Does the area around Sloane Square in central London really need another fancy, Italian-leaning restaurant that serves up tortellini in brodo and veal Milanese? Well, yes, apparently it does. One Saturday lunchtime late last year at Martino’s was hectic even in the delightful reception area, where we were waiting to check in a coat with the elegantly uniformed front-of-house ladies. All the tables in this hot new all-day brasserie were booked and busy, and plenty of walk-ins were champing at the bit for cancellations.Actually, “delightful reception” is not a phrase I’ve often uttered, or even thought, but this is a Martin Kuczmarski restaurant, so the small things tend to add up to a larger picture – this cocoon-like holding pen keeps would-be queuers away from the diners. Why was I so charmed by this weird, crisply officiated bends chamber that operates as a liminal space between the rea...

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2 h. ago What unites Greenland, Venezuela and Ukraine? Trump's immoral lies and Europe's chronic weakness | Simon Tisdall

The president’s inability to tell right from wrong fuels his increasingly dictatorial, illegal and erratic behaviour Donald Trump made 30,573 “false or misleading” claims during his first term, according to calculations published in 2021 by the Washington Post. That’s roughly 21 fibs a day. Second time around, he’s still hard at it, lying to Americans and the world on a daily basis. Trump’s disregard for truth and honesty in public life – seen again in his despicable response to the fatal shooting in Minneapolis – is dangerously immoral.Trump declared last week that the only constraint on his power is “my own morality, my own mind”. That explains a lot. His idea of right and wrong is wholly subjective. He is his own ethical and legal adviser, his own priest and confessor. He is a church of one. Trump lies to himself as well as everyone else. And the resulting damage is pernicious. It costs lives, harms democracy and destroys trust between nations.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign ...

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3 h. ago 'Timeless' luxury perfume that 'lingers all day' gets 32% discount on Amazon

This luxury fragrance has been a favourite for almost five decades.

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3 h. ago Parents' fight for answers as daughter, 7, vomits up to 100 times a day

Harper Williams, 7, has been sick dozens of times every day for the past seven months - with parents Kat and Laura claiming they had to fight to get her scanned after being repeatedly turned away

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4 h. ago Our daughter is sick dozens of times every day – we need answers

'It’s awful. I feel like our lives are ruined at the moment because every single day everything revolves around Harper being sick'

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5 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv struggles to stabilise ruined power grid after major Russian attack

Residents battle bitter winter cold inside unheated apartments; Ukraine confirms UN to hold emergency meeting Monday on Russian ballistic missile attack. What we know on day 1,418Engineers in Kyiv scrambled on Saturday to stabilise a power grid brought to the brink by a campaign of Russian strikes, including one two nights ago. The city’s residents huddled against bitter winter cold inside their unheated apartments on Saturday as engineers worked to restore power, water and heat. Prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko said that the power situation in the capital was still difficult, as the grid was badly damaged and people were using more electric heaters because of the cold.Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha confirmed Saturday the UN security council would hold an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss Russia’s latest large-scale attack on Ukraine, which used an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile. “The meeting will address Russia’s flagrant breaches of the UN Charter,” Sy...

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7 h. ago Macclesfield's minnows are off on a jolly to Ibiza after knocking out the holders in biggest upset in FA Cup history: IAN GALLAGHER

They had queued in the cold outside Macclesfield FC's tiny ground for more than six hours to buy a ticket. Yet they would have happily done so for ten times longer.

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8 h. ago Toddlers glued to smartphones and TVs for five hours a day say fewer words: Researchers warn parents over excessive screentime

The government is to give parents guidance on how long under-fives should spend watching TV or looking at computer screens.

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9 h. ago Mississippi man charged with six murders, including father, brother and a child

Officials expect charge against Daricka Moore, 24, to be elevated to capital murder, with death penalty consideredAuthorities in Clay county, Mississippi, say a man has been taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder following the fatal shootings of six people, including a child, on Friday night.Daricka Moore, 24, is accused of killing multiple relatives as well as a local pastor before his arrest, according to Clay county sheriff Eddie Scott, who addressed the case during a Saturday news conference. Officials said the charge against Moore, who lives in the county, is expected to be elevated to capital murder, and prosecutors could seek the death penalty if he is determined to be mentally competent. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Kyogo breaks covers after Celtic snub as he makes emotional Birmingham City promise

The Japan international scored his first goal since August hours after turning his back on a Glasgow return

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9 h. ago Kyogo breaks cover after Celtic snub as he makes emotional Birmingham City promise

The Japan international scored his first goal since August hours after turning his back on a Glasgow return

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11 h. ago Paddy McGuinness, 52, shows off his ripped abs after incredible weight loss transformation following 75

The TV presenter, 52, who has taken on the 75-day fitness challenge, 75 Hard, proudly displayed his results in a before-and-after photo.

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11 h. ago Donald Trump's unhinged latest: Strange behaviour, Greenland rant and lies about ICE shooting

It feels tired in 2026 to describe things as "Orwellian". But it's hard to escape the fact that the White House is telling you to reject evidence of your eyes and ears". Here's the most unhinged moments from Trumpworld in the last 24 hours

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12 h. ago Celtic hero Kyogo finally ends goal drought for Birmingham just hours after stunning Parkhead return quashed

JUST 24 hours after Celtic boss Martin O'Neill revealed a deal to bring Kyogo back to the Hoops was OFF. THE Japanese striker ended his barren run netting in Birmingham's 3-2 win over Cambridge in the FA Cup. The Hoops favourite looked set for a stunning return to Parkhead as O'Neill looks to bolster the...

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12 h. ago Eddie Howe: Newcastle are counting the cost of reaching FA Cup fourth round

The Magpies face Manchester City in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday evening after a thrilling penalty shoot-out victory over Bournemouth.

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13 h. ago Eddie Izzard: ‘I once ran 90km in just under 12 hours. That was a tough day’

The comedian and actor on her favourite Bond film, revisiting the Death Star canteen and escaping the red carpet with Brad PittWhen you started performing your one-woman Hamlet, how much did you labour over your delivery of the play’s most iconic lines, such as “To be or not to be”?The first thing I found when I was rehearsing Hamlet was that I felt very at home. I thought, “That’s unusual – I should be quaking in my boots!” I just felt very at ease and happy to be there. But the first time I performed “to be or not to be” on stage, there was a sense of – aren’t bells supposed to ring here? Isn’t there supposed to be a klaxon? Continue reading...

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