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Before the Conservatives win any election they will need to chime with 21st-century Britain and its voters. To use a German word, they will need to find the zeitgeist, writes Quentin Letts.

In a major boost for the Daily Mail's Stop the SAS Betrayal campaign, the Conservatives will pledge to restore full legal protections for veterans of the Troubles.

Kemi Badenoch has accused the SNP and Labour of 'running Scotland down' and warned that 'Europe's oil capital' is 'dying' because of their policies on oil and gas.

The gloves were off, and so was the wedding ring, as Nicole Kidman came out fighting on Monday evening after confirming her once rock-solid marriage to Keith Urban is over.

You can't find anything bad if you don't look, right?

Medusa ransomware affiliates are among those exploiting a maximum-severity bug in Fortra's GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) product, according to Microsoft Threat Intelligence.…

Sir Keir Starmer's security chief is to face questions in Parliament about the Chinese spying case - but behind closed doors.

Alzheimer's disease could soon be treated with a jab that injects nanoparticles, invisible to the naked eye, report scientists in Barcelona, Spain.

Scotland Yard's commissioner hailed the series of raids as the 'biggest counter-phone theft operation in the world.'

Police arrested 33-year-old Joseph Mayuyo after a series of online threats forced TikTok to evacuate its Culver City headquarters. TechCrunch reports: A press release from the Culver City Police Department says that TikTok employees reported receiving multiple threats, across various social media platforms, from 33-year-old Hawthorne resident Joseph Mayuyo. After an additional message threatened TikTok's Culver City headquarters, police say company security evacuated the office "out of an abundance of caution." Police then investigated Mayuyo's home, according to the press release. During the investigation, he allegedly posted additional threatening statements, including one declaring that he would not be taken alive. Detectives obtained search and arrest warrants, and they negotiated with Mayuyo for 90 minutes before he voluntarily exited his home and was taken into custody, the police department says. Business Insider reports that one TikTok employee described the threats as "really scary," while another was concerned that they seemed to specifically target the e-commerce department. Mayuyo's X account has reportedly been suspended for violating the platform's hateful content policy. A Medium account under his name published a post in July criticizing TikTokShop USA as a "scam."

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'You can't pull something like that when you're expecting a surge in tourism dollars,' one White House source said.

Bernie Sanders calls for a robot tax and a 32-hour work week in response

ai-pocalypse  A US Senate committee led by Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has produced a report claiming that about 97 million US jobs could be lost to AI and automation over the next decade. There's just one problem: it got those figures from ChatGPT.…

Ivor Rosenberg, 78, was volunteering as a security guard at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation when Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, launched the attack which killed two worshippers.

Chinese researchers have discovered just 250ml of fizzy drinks per day - less than one can - was enough to raise the risk of MASLD by up to 60 per cent.

Experts today, who labelled the findings 'significant', said it was the first human study showing microplastics could alter the human gut microbiome.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: OpenAI is introducing a way to work with apps right inside ChatGPT. The idea is that, from within a conversation with the chatbot, you can essentially tag in apps to help you complete a task while ChatGPT offers context and advice. [...] Apps available inside ChatGPT starting today will include Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Expedia, Figma, Spotify, and Zillow. In the "weeks ahead," OpenAI will add more apps, such as DoorDash, OpenTable, Target, and Uber. [...] Developers can access the SDK for making apps in preview starting today. Later this year, developers will be able to submit apps for review and publication, and OpenAI also plans to offer a directory for users to browse apps, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The company will share guidance about monetization "soon," Altman says. Last week, ChatGPT unveiled a new feature called "Instant Checkout" that lets users buy stuff directly through its chatbot -- "part of its overall push to integrate it with the rest of the web," reports The Verge.

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Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell

If you had to guess how many Starlink satellites burn up in Earth's atmosphere on an average day, how many would you pick? This isn't a trick question - SpaceX is deorbiting about one or two satellites daily, and that number is only going to grow. …

Porsche's wireless charging system will not be available on the Macan Electric and Taycan because the inductive charging plate cannot physically fit between the front suspension on those models. Dr. Maximilian Muller, Porsche's high voltage engineering lead, told The Drive during a visit to the company's Leipzig facility that the Cayenne Electric's larger dimensions create the necessary space for the charging hardware beneath the front motor. The Cayenne Electric is wider than both the Taycan and Macan Electric. The larger vehicle forced Porsche to design different suspension geometry even though it shares the PPE platform with the Macan Electric. The changes create additional packaging constraints that prevent retrofitting the wireless charging system into existing electric models.

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Reiss Boyce is one of the singletons looking for love on the new series of Married at First Sight UK - but the Essex native is no stranger to reality TV fans

The Australian actress, 35, looked sensational as she arrived for the Chanel Spring-Summer 2026 show in the French capital as part of Paris Fashion Week.

A gym in Nova Scotia sparked outrage after openly charging white customers double the rate offered to BIPOC clients, prompting legal complaints and widespread backlash online.