49 m. ago Elon Musk backs down in Grok sex images war as Starmer threatens to ban X

The richest man in the world made the u-turn after Prime Minister Keir Starmer threatened to ban social media platform X altogether in the UK

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51 m. ago Sarah Ferguson's 'Fake Sheikh' scandal explored in 'gripping' new royal doc

Three new royal documentaries have been commissioned by Channel 5 - including one which delves into the details of Sarah Ferguson's encounter with the notorious 'Fake Sheikh'

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57 m. ago Prince William mucks in: Royal goes rural as he helps out on the farm to highlight importance of mental health support to nation's agricultural workers

The heir to the throne met with farmers John and Laura Bowler near Bromyard, Hertfordshire, where he spoke with them about the importance of mental health.

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84 m. ago RAC urges all motorists to rub windscreen with 1 item to stop condensation

The RAC (Royal Automobile Club) has highlighted advice to drivers who are struggling with condensation in their cars. Rubbing the windscreen with a key item could help

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98 m. ago Sir Keir Starmer returns to X with warning over AI chatbot Grok row

The Prime Minister has said X must act to comply with UK laws 'immediately'

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1 hour ago Ski jumping coaches banned weeks before Winter Olympics amid suit scandal

Three Norwegian coaches have been handed bans ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics

Sport

2 h. ago The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding | Seth Stern and Chip Gibbons

The trend of invading newsrooms, in violation of federal law, has now spread to the highest levels of the federal governmentThe raid of a journalist’s home, along with the jailing of their alleged source, are shocking acts of authoritarianism. And they are in line with Trump’s willingness to use the national security state as a weapon against the press, which is a serious threat to our democracy. But those weapons were not invented by Trump nor did he pioneer their use against free press.The raid of Hannah Natanson, is a shocking escalation, not a rupture. The United States has been backsliding to this point – at both the federal and local levels – for quite some time.Seth Stern is the Director of Advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation and a first amendment lawyerChip Gibbons is the policy director of Defending Rights & Dissent. A journalist and researcher focusing on the US national security state, Gibbons is currently working on The Imperial Bureau, forthcoming from Verso...

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2 h. ago This new Windows laptop might make me finally ditch the MacBook

Lenovo, Asus and HP will be rolling out Windows laptops boasting the new Snapdragon X2 chips later this year

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2 h. ago PM calls on X to comply with UK laws ‘immediately’ amid row over Grok deepfakes

Sir Keir Starmer said free speech ‘is not the freedom to violate consent’.

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2 h. ago The Game of Thrones prequel is out very soon – here’s where to watch

The co-creator has dropped some exciting teasers before the show’s launch next week

Politics

3 h. ago ‘A group of people decided to kill me’: Michel Platini on Fifa, Uefa and the fight to clear his name

Former Uefa president – caught between moving on and settling scores – talks candidly about his downfall, Infantino and the snakepit of the game’s governance“There are millions and millions of romantics in football,” Michel Platini says. He has been asked whether, after a decade frozen out of the game, its lustre has vanished for him. “Millions who share the ideas that I have. But in the end, it’s big business.”It is an industry whose peaks Platini scaled before, in one of football’s biggest falls from grace, it spat him out. He maintains he would have become Fifa president if he had not been banned from football over an alleged unlawful payment made to him in 2011, when he was running Uefa, by Sepp Blatter. The scandal led to a criminal case but both men were acquitted for a second time, definitively so, by a Swiss appeals court last year. Nothing hangs over Platini any more, bar a conviction that he was cheated. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Grok scandal highlights how AI industry is ‘too unconstrained’, tech pioneer says

‘Godfather of AI’ Yoshua Bengio says firms building powerful systems without appropriate guardrails • Musk’s X to block Grok AI from creating sexualised images of real people The scandal over the flood of intimate images on Elon Musk’s X created non-consensually by its Grok AI tool has underlined how the artificial intelligence industry is “too unconstrained”, according to a pioneer of the technology.Yoshua Bengio, a computer scientist described as one of the modern “godfathers of AI”, said tech companies were building systems without appropriate technical and societal guardrails. Continue reading...

Science

3 h. ago Ski jumping coaches banned weeks before Winter Olympics after manipulated suit scandal

Three Norwegian coaches have been handed bans ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics

Sport

3 h. ago 'Dodgy' Fire Stick crackdown hits 17 UK areas as 4 million use illegal streaming

New Sport Industry Report 2026 shows 58% of fans now believe using pirate streaming services is socially acceptable despite crackdown and threat of £50,000 fines

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4 h. ago Should you stop saying ‘please’ in your ChatGPT prompts? An expert explains

The idea does sound plausible because AI systems process text incrementally

Politics

4 h. ago Commodore 64 Ultimate review – it’s like 1982 all over again!

Showing the value of great design over visual impact, this faithfully resurrected home computer seamlessly integrates modern tech with some wonderful additional touchesThe emotional hit was something I didn’t expect, although perhaps I should have. The Commodore 64 Ultimate, a new version of the legendary 8-bit computer, comes in a box designed to resemble the original packaging – a photo of the machine itself on a background of deep blue fading into a series of white stripes. Then when you open it, you find an uncannily accurate replica of what fans lovingly referred to as the breadbox – the chunky, sloped Commodore 64, in hues of brown and beige, the red LED in one corner above the row of fawn-coloured function keys. It’s like 1982 all over again.My dad bought us a C64 in late 1983. It was our second computer after the ZX81 and it felt like an enormous leap into the future with its detailed colour graphics, advanced sound chip and proper grown-up keyboard. We unpacked it on our di...

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5 h. ago Liz Kendall welcomes new Grok restrictions after outcry over deepfakes

The Technology Secretary said all social media platforms must meet their legal duties and provide a safe and age-appropriate service.

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5 h. ago Musk’s X to block Grok AI tool from creating sexualised images of real people

UK government claims vindication after Keir Starmer criticised earlier decision to keep functionality as ‘horrific’The UK government has claimed “vindication” after Elon Musk’s X announced it had stopped its AI-powered Grok feature from editing pictures of real people to show them in revealing clothes such as bikinis, including for premium subscribers.After a fortnight of public outcry at the tool embedded into X being used to create sexualised images of women and children, the company said it would “geoblock” the ability of users “to generate images of real people in bikinis, underwear, and similar attire via the Grok account and in Grok in X”, in countries where it was illegal. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Stream Disney+ for just £3.99 if you act before this exact date

Disney+ is currently on offering customers the chance to stream for just £3.99 per month.

Economics

6 h. ago Everything we know about changes to Grok following backlash on sexualised images

Elon Musk has announced a U-turn on Grok's usage on social media platform X following pressure from the UK government

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