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It's 50 years ago to the day since I started work and, apart from a compulsory week's break between jobs in 2006, I've been in continuous employment ever since.

This is despite Miatta Fahnbulleh championing Labour's decision to slap VAT on public school fees - a policy blamed for making private education unaffordable for thousands of other parents.

Robert Jenrick has told The Mail on Sunday town halls can 'wave goodbye to taxpayers' money' if they don't uphold the Supreme Court 's ruling that came into force last week.

Counter-terrorism police said they had 'identified a line of inquiry' about the attack which was 'not identified and pursued... at the time'.

Long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli is announcing that he's released a new iPhone app that creates a cryptographic witness for photos without uploading the original image. The app hashes the file, signs the hash using a dedicated identity stored in Apple Keychain, and publishes the witness to Nostr relays while keeping the photo inside the app unless the user chooses to export it. Rather than trying to determine whether a scene was genuine, the app — named Veridenz — answers a narrower question, by verifying whether a photo file matches the one that was originally witnessed. Users do not need a Nostr account because the app creates its own signing identity, keeping private documentation separate from a public Nostr profile. "The developer does not collect any data from this app," says its page in Apple's iPhone store. The app's tagline is "Capture. Prove. Verify."

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Long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli is announcing that he's released a new iPhone app that creates a cryptographic witness for photos without uploading the original image. The app hashes the file, signs the hash using a dedicated identity stored in Apple Keychain, and publishes the witness to Nostr relays while keeping the photo inside the app unless the user chooses to export it. Rather than trying to determine whether a scene was genuine, the app — named Veridenz — answers a narrower question, by verifying whether a photo file matches the one that was originally witnessed. Users do not need a Nostr account because the app creates its own signing identity, keeping private documentation separate from a public Nostr profile. "The developer does not collect any data from this app," says its page in Apple's iPhone store. The free app's tagline is "Capture. Prove. Verify."

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The latest AI breakthrough has all the makings of a terrifying disaster movie.

The man on the British Airways flight from Heathrow to Las Vegas had to be physically restrained by a brave female flight attendant who repeatedly asked him to 'stay seated'.

The 38-year-old actress took to Instagram to post a carousel featuring 49-year-old Reynolds, their kids and friends at a July 29 Liverpool Football Club vs Wrexham AFC soccer match.

The film star described the desecration at Basra War Cemetery in southern Iraq as 'utterly shameful'. Her grandfather is one of those whose headstone was removed and used to make a grave.

The influencer, 16, and herhusband Noah Price are set to put their marriage to their test after reportedly signing up for I'm A Celebrity's spin-off in Canada.

But there is one enterprise that BBC Dragons' Den star Steven Bartlett is less vocal about - upsetting the locals in South Africa by driving up property prices.

The Prime Minister faced claims that he would ditch Sir Keir Starmer's policy of putting the national flag at the heart of the party's image.

Ronaldo and his fiancée Georgina had been heavily tipped to be due to tie the knot in a ceremony at the Roman Catholic cathedral in Funchal, the capital of the island where he was born and grew up.

Gianni Infantino has launched a front-footed assault on UEFA as he battles to save his FIFA presidency. UEFA announced on Thursday that they will continue to boycott FIFA competitions.

Around 25 objects made of silver, brass and pewter were stolen from Baddesley Clinton, near Solihull, Warwickshire,  the former historic home of the Ferrers family.

"If you call 911 in New Orleans, you may hear the sound of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent answering your call instead of a human voice," reports the Shreveport Times: The Orleans Parish Communication District (OPCD) is currently testing out the new tool designed to reduce the volume of calls human dispatchers must handle, which is over a thousand emergency calls a day. New Orleans implemented AI in April to answer 311 calls for non-emergencies. The AI was trained and programmed to provide information to callers, as the OPCD says 50% of 311 calls are for information, according to GovTech. AI is now answering 911 emergency calls in Louisiana's largest city and one of the cities with the highest call rates in the U.S. The OPCD is using Carbyne's AI Emergency Call Triage, with triage being the process of analyzing and prioritizing emergency calls. The AI system assesses incoming calls and can provide immediate feedback to callers. This is intended to handle the increase of calls that are related to one incident, so callers get automatically routed to an AI agent who asks if they are calling regarding the incident. If the answer is yes, then callers can receive information or updates, and if it's no, then the callers are transferred to a human. This combats multitudes of calls piling up and taking longer time to potentially answer an emergency call. The OPCD said the AI will not be used to handle emergency calls, only to direct such calls to a human dispatcher.

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Sullivan remains the club's largest shareholder but resigned as co-chair in June amid allegations of sexual misconduct, which he strongly denies, and no longer controls the day-to-day running of the club.

The record number of arrests stood at 976 - up from 142 in 2023 - and in the six months to June this year the figure was already at 600, according to police figures.

The couple enjoyed some time off parenting duties to enjoy a brunch date in Cheshire on Saturday.