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Clyde Strachan, 37, decided to help refuse collectors by placing his rubbish outside his West Kensington home shortly before midday in May.

At just 21 years old, Bellingham has now completed his second domestic season with Real Madrid, playing alongside the likes of Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Jr.

Meta's Facebook and Instagram apps "were siphoning people's data through a digital back door for months," writes a Washington Post tech columnist, citing researchers who found no privacy setting could've stopped what Meta and Yandex were doing, since those two companies "circumvented privacy and security protections that Google set up for Android devices. "But their tactics underscored some privacy vulnerabilities in web browsers or apps. These steps can reduce your risks." Stop using the Chrome browser. Mozilla's Firefox, the Brave browser and DuckDuckGo's browser block many common methods of tracking you from site to site. Chrome, the most popular web browser, does not... For iPhone and Mac folks, Safari also has strong privacy protections. It's not perfect, though. No browser protections are foolproof. The researchers said Firefox on Android devices was partly susceptible to the data harvesting tactics they identified, in addition to Chrome. (DuckDuckGo and Brave largely did block the tactics, the researchers said....) Delete Meta and Yandex apps on your phone, if you have them. The tactics described by the European researchers showed that Meta and Yandex are unworthy of your trust. (Yandex is not popular in the United States.) It might be wise to delete their apps, which give the companies more latitude to collect information that websites generally cannot easily obtain, including your approximate location, your phone's battery level and what other devices, like an Xbox, are connected to your home WiFi. Know, too, that even if you don't have Meta apps on your phone, and even if you don't use Facebook or Instagram at all, Meta might still harvest information on your activity across the web.

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Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb, saw more than 100 FPV kamikaze drones smuggled into Russia in wooden containers disguised as modular homes.

SHOPPING: Take the hassle out of festival outfit planning with our top picks from Mint Velvet (that you'll want to wear long beyond festival season).

Taking the crown for one of the categories was Crunch - a viral foodie spot with locations in London 's Soho and Spitalfields Market.

Britain already has a deal with France to try and prevent refugees and and migrants from crossing the Channel, but until now, authorities have resisted entering the water themselves.

Balaclava-clad gangs tear through the roads on scooters, pulling reckless wheelies and shouting abuse at terrified passers-by.

Some of the most disturbing cases of animal abuse in recent memory have unfolded at marine parks.

A British tourist has been found dead on the Algarve, just days after another Brit's body was discovered following his mystery disappearance during a stag do.

Stockton Rush, the mastermind behind the Titan submersible disaster of 2023, didn't just want to explore the wreck of the Titanic - he intended to die there, according to a friend of the OceanGate CEO.

"Everyone has a blog these days, even Claude," Anthropic wrote this week on a page titled "Claude Explains." "Welcome to the small corner of the Anthropic universe where Claude is writing on every topic under the sun". Not any more. After blog posts titled "Improve code maintainability with Claude" and "Rapidly develop web applications with Claude" — Anthropic suddenly removed the whole page sometime after Wednesday. But TechCrunch explains the whole thing was always less than it seemed, and "One might be easily misled into thinking that Claude is responsible for the blog's copy end-to-end." According to a spokesperson, the blog is overseen by Anthropic's "subject matter experts and editorial teams," who "enhance" Claude's drafts with "insights, practical examples, and [...] contextual knowledge." "This isn't just vanilla Claude output — the editorial process requires human expertise and goes through iterations," the spokesperson said. "From a technical perspective, Claude Explains shows a collaborative approach where Claude [creates] educational content, and our team reviews, refines, and enhances it...." Anthropic says it sees Claude Explains as a "demonstration of how human expertise and AI capabilities can work together," starting with educational resources. "Claude Explains is an early example of how teams can use AI to augment their work and provide greater value to their users," the spokesperson said. "Rather than replacing human expertise, we're showing how AI can amplify what subject matter experts can accomplish [...] We plan to cover topics ranging from creative writing to data analysis to business strategy...." The Anthropic spokesperson noted that the company is still hiring across marketing, content, and editorial, and "many other fields that involve writing," despite the company's dip into AI-powered blog drafting. Take that for what you will.

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Videos spread on X (formally Twitter) of the power couple enjoying the reception together as they moved and grooved while sitting in their chairs and watching the bride and groom do their first dance.

One person was taken into police custody

As Musk and Trump battled it out in a war of the words on social media, the Tesla boss had said 'it was time to drop a really big bomb' about the president.

On Thursday night, Beyoncé was belting out her 2008 hit Why Don't You Love Me at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

'I found the legs to be roomy enough to be thigh-skimming and not tight at all'

The former Little Mix star, 31, sent pulses racing as she flaunted her assets in the skimpy two-piece.

Danielle Stafford, 31, from Hallgate, Cottingham, was jailed for seven-and-a-half years in April 2023 after pleading guilty to three offences.

Othniel Adoma, aged 11, died on Thursday more than three weeks after the single-vehicle crash on the M4 which also took the life of a six-year-old boy, who has not been named.