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The Princess, who became the first member of the Royal family to compete in the Olympics in 1976, suffered a serious fall during the cross-country event.

The layoffs come after CEO Marc Benioff boasted of record revenue and 'incredible cashflow' two weeks ago

The European Commission has ordered Meta to temporarily restore free WhatsApp Business API access for rival AI chatbots while it investigates whether Meta's ban on third-party assistants abuses its dominant position. Meta says it will appeal, calling the move "regulatory overreach" that would let major AI companies use a paid WhatsApp product for free. The BBC reports: The EU said it began its investigation, in December 2025, after Meta banned third-party general-purpose AI assistants from the WhatsApp for Business API. It said that appeared to be an abuse of Meta's dominant position in European markets. So, as an interim measure as its investigation continues, it has given Meta five working days to re-instate access for third-party general-purpose AI assistants to the WhatsApp for Business API under the same terms and conditions that were in place previously. "In rapidly evolving markets, competition can be lost long before a final decision is adopted," said Teresa Ribera, the Commission's executive vice-president for clean, just and competitive transition. "This is why these interim measures will remain in place for the duration of the investigation." She added the decision "preserved choice for citizens across Europe on the AI assistants they want to use with WhatsApp, without that decision being made for them." The Commission said if Meta failed to comply with its interim decision it could be fined up to 10% up of its total turnover. "The European Commission has decided that OpenAI and some of the largest companies in the world can use the paid-for WhatsApp Business product for free," it said in a statement. "This is regulatory overreach subsidized by the many European companies that pay. We will appeal."

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Why does Sir Paul, whose success and longevity owe to nothing if not the maintenance of superlative standards, persist in these sub-par performances? He doesn't need the money.

Sharam Muhamadi, 21, absconded after being granted bail during a trial at Sheffield Crown Court in which he and another man were convicted of abusing girls as young as 12.

CHRIS WHEELER: BBC's presenters and pundits will work out of a state-of-the-art studio until the quarter-final stage of the tournament.

CRAIG HOPE IN WEST PALM BEACH: Thomas Tuchel says England have already shown they can win without Jude Bellingham - if he picks Morgan Rogers at No.10.

Paramount, whose films include The Godfather (starring Marlon Brando, pictured), beat off competition from Netflix to win the race for Warner Bros.

A statement from Woodford's comeback venture W4.0 said it was 'regrettable' that the City watchdog had announced it was seeking an injunction.

Rising oil and gas prices since the outbreak of the Iran war have pushed up mortgage rates - making house purchases more expensive for buyers.

Boots' owner Sycamore Partners is in discussions with potential buyers including the family behind Primark as well as Australian pharmacists Sigma Healthcare.

Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class AI model for enterprise customers and paid subscribers. The company says broader access is possible thanks to new safeguards that block high-risk requests in areas like cybersecurity and biology. "For us, it's really around what we call 'race to the top,' being able to provide this technology in a valuable fashion, and at the same time providing the right safety guardrails so that it can do asymmetrically more benefits than harm," Dianne Penn, Anthropic's head of product management for research, told CNBC in an interview. CNBC reports: [W]ith the launch of Claude Fable 5, Anthropic is honoring its stated "eventual goal" to deploy Mythos-class models at scale. It's also capitalizing on growing momentum and investor interest in its technology ahead of a potentially massive IPO, which is expected to take place as soon as this year. Anthropic said Claude Fable 5 shows "exceptional performance" across software engineering and knowledge work tasks. On some benchmarks, it scored more than 10% higher than Claude Opus 4.8, another model the company announced late last month, according to a blog post. Claude Fable 5 represents a "significant jump" in capability, which is why Anthropic had to implement additional guardrails to prevent misuse, Penn said. If a user asks a high-risk question, like how to make ricin, a toxin, for instance, the model will block its response and fall back to Claude Opus 4.8 to deliver a safe answer. "What we wanted to do was to be very intentional about building new types of classifiers and new types of safety guardrails in place for this launch," Penn said. Anthropic also released an updated Mythos model called Claude Mythos 5. "It's the same underlying model as Claude Fable 5, but with the safeguards lifted in some areas," reports CNBC.

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Economists find signs of a ‘large and causal relationship between iPhones and fertility' in AT&T exclusivity-era data

In a major new policy drive, the party has pledged to introduce tougher fines for people found guilty of large-scale illegal dumping of waste in the countryside as well as seizing their vans.

Right-wing party Vox have proposed a total ban and fines of up to £25,000 for those who repeatedly use them or impose their use on minors or women under guardianship.

LAWRENCE BOOTH: Ben Stokes is understood to be considering his future as an England cricketer after he and fast bowler Gus Atkinson broke the team's midnight curfew on Monday morning.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that's able to escalate untrusted users to root by exploiting a bug you don't often see: a single errant character inside the kernel. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-23111, is located in nf_tables, a subsystem of the Linux kernel that provides packet filtering capabilities. It's used to manage firewall rules and replaces older subsystems such as iptables, ip6tables, arptables, and ebtables. The presence of a single mis-issued exclamation point in code implementing nf_tables introduced a use-after-free, a class of vulnerability that corrupts memory by placing malicious code at memory addresses that haven't been properly freed of their previous contents. CVE-2026-23111 can be exploited by an unprivileged user or process to elevate system rights to root. The exploit works by disrupting the deletion of verdicts -- a determination within the nf_tables framework that determines if a packet matches a rule calling for a certain action to be performed. This process can use what are known as catchall elements, which act as a wildcard in the event a lookup doesn't match any other element in the set. When a verdict map is deleted from memory, catchall elements are deactivated and a chain's reference counter is decremented. When errors occur the deletion can be reversed and the counter incremented. CVE-2026-53111 allows for that process to be altered. As a result, the exploit can decrement the variable an arbitrary number of times and then delete and free the chain when some objects still point to it. Although the kernel vulnerability was fixed in February, multiple proof-of-concept exploits have since emerged, including one from FuzzingLabs in April and another from Exodus Intelligence that works on Debian and Ubuntu.

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Kai Rooney showed off his fitness transformation as he shared snaps from his gym session on Tuesday afternoon. 

There's a subtle movement that's gripped the midriffs of men up and down the country. Elasticated waist bands have taken over!

The video-sharing service has put up posters in Westminster ahead of the Government's highly anticipated decision on whether or not to ban under-16s from social media.