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This week, Claire Douglas answers our questions, what's she reading now, what would she take to a desert island, what gave her the reading bug, and what book left her cold?

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Meta plans to test out X's algorithm for Community Notes to crowdsource fact-checks that will appear across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. In a blog, Meta said the testing in the U.S. would begin March 18, with about 200,000 potential contributors already signed up. Anyone over 18 with a Meta account more than six months old can also join a waitlist of users who will "gradually" and "randomly" be admitted to write and rate cross-platform notes during initial beta testing. Meta claimed that borrowing X's approach would result in "less biased" fact-checking than relying on experts alone. But the social media company will delay publicly posting any notes until it's confident that the system is working. For users of Meta platforms, notes could help flag misleading content overlooked by prior fact-checking efforts. However, Meta confirmed that users will not be allowed to add notes correcting misleading advertisements, which means notes won't help reduce scam ads that The Guardian reported last August have been spreading on Facebook for years. Meta confirmed that the company plans to tweak X's algorithm over time to develop its own version of community notes, which "may explore different or adjusted algorithms to support how Community Notes are ranked and rated."

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To find the most delectable of the bunch, Which? asked 65 consumers to blind taste eight variants, including ones from Aldi , Sainsbury's and Waitrose to crown the UK's favourite.

Anthony Cummins reviews the best Literary Fiction out now.

Sara Lawrence reviews the best contemporary books out now.

Geoffrey Wansell reviews the best Thrillers out now.

The decision to cut the winter fuel payment was made in the full knowledge that 150,000 pensioners would be plunged into poverty, a court was told yesterday.

The 45-year-old rapper-actor was found guilty of murder in the second degree and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree following a two-week jury trial

Pouring sensitive info into unapproved, unaccountable, unsafe models would be a 'severe' cybersecurity fail

House Democrats have sent letters to 24 federal agencies asking for assurances that Elon Musk's DOGE team is not feeding sensitive government data into "unapproved and unaccountable" AI systems.…

Police, who were staged inside and outside the Fifth Avenue building ahead of the demonstration, began arresting protesters after warning them to leave.

President Donald Trump on Thursday reiterated the United States 'needs' Greenland for national security purposes and indicated he's willing to send in American troops to take control of the island. 

The world famous TV judge has said she would be 'furious' if she was a judge who had to implement the guidelines, which Keir Starmer is under pressure to stop.

An insider opened up with the website about the beginning of their alleged romance, claiming neither of the duo were looking for anything serious when they first got together.

The golf legend, who has not been in a high-profile relationship for the last two years, is said to have struck up an unlikely romance with Vanessa Trump amid doubts over his future in the sport.

Mozilla is urging Firefox users to update their browsers to version 128 or later (or ESR 115.13 for extended support users) before March 14, 2025, to avoid security risks and add-on disruptions caused by the expiration of a key root certificate. "On 14 March a root certificate (the resource used to prove an add-on was approved by Mozilla) will expire, meaning Firefox users on versions older than 128 (or ESR 115) will not be able to use their add-ons," warns a Mozilla blog post. "We want developers to be aware of this in case some of your users are on older versions of Firefox that may be impacted." BleepingComputer reports: A Mozilla support document explains that failing to update Firefox could expose users to significant security risks and practical issues, which, according to Mozilla, include: - Malicious add-ons can compromise user data or privacy by bypassing security protections. - Untrusted certificates may allow users to visit fraudulent or insecure websites without warning. - Compromised password alerts may stop working, leaving users unaware of potential account breaches. It is noted that the problem impacts Firefox on all platforms, including Windows, Android, Linux, and macOS, except for iOS, where there's an independent root certificate management system. Mozilla says that users relying on older versions of Firefox may continue using their browsers after the expiration of the certificate if they accept the security risks, but the software's performance and functionality may be severely impacted.

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The fan who heckled Rory McIlroy at the Players Championship and had his phone stolen by the golf star is a University of Texas star, it has been revealed.

Sir Keir Starmer has defended billions of pounds of looming benefits cuts despite a growing backlash from his own MPs.

Dog owner Adam Withers admitted to exposing his pit bulls to cocaine before they viciously mauled their neighbor, Jo Ann Echelbarger while she was gardening.

Wembley primary school teacher Vivienne Williams posted a number of fake packages soaked in the Class B drug Spice, that were destined for prisons in Nottingham, Cardiff and Wandsworth.

The 52-year-old Goop CEO-founder first revealed on Netflix's The Goop Lab in 2020 that she used MDMA with her second husband Brad Falchuk, which she called 'a very, very emotional experience'