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The Irish comedy writer, 57, accused the actor, who played Father Dougal McGuire in the Channel 4 comedy, of being 'the latest colleague to smear' him.

The 64-year-old has apologised and issued a warning to drivers after being caught speeding four times, three of which were going over a 20mph limit.

Rapper Maxon Margiela - born Mason Reyes - has died at just 21. The rising star passed away in Miami on Sunday, one week after a reported suicide attempt.

fjo3 shares a report from TheWrap: There are already at least 175,000 AI-generated podcast episodes on platforms like Spotify and Apple. That's thanks to Inception Point AI, a startup with just eight employees cranking out 3,000 episodes a week covering everything from localized weather reports and pollen trackers to a detailed account of Charlie Kirk's assassination and its cultural impact, to a biography series on Anna Wintour. Its podcasting network Quiet Please has generated 12 million lifetime episode downloads and amassed 400,000 subscribers -- so, yes, people are really listening to AI podcasts. Inception Point CEO Jeanine Wright believes the tool is proof that automation can make podcasting scalable, profitable and accessible without human writers, editors or hosts. "The price is now so inexpensive that you can take a lot of risks,â Wright told TheWrap. âoeYou can make a lot of content and a lot of different genres that were never commercially viable before and serve huge audiences that have really never had content made for them." At a cost of $1 an episode, Wright takes a quantity-over-quality approach. "I think very quickly we get to a place where AI is a default way that content is made, not just across audio, but across television and film and commercials and imagery, and everything. And then we will disclose when things are not made with AI instead of that they were made with AI," Wright said. "But for now, we are perfectly happy leading the way."

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Twice in my career as an MP, I tried to bring down the upper limit at which legal abortion can take place in the United Kingdom from 24 weeks to 20.

Geeth Sooriyapura claims to have made £230,000 running Facebook pages posting anti-migrant and Islamophobic disinformation about Britain.

The rapper, whose real name is Harrison James Armstrong, made his debut on I'm A Celebrity on Sunday evening's launch episode on ITV .

The singer paid homage to Audrey Hepburn's iconic Breakfast At Tiffany's look as she sauntered down the catwalk with a cigarette in hand

Lowering arsenic exposure is directly linked to lower risk of death from chronic diseases, including heart disease and cancer, according to a long-term study

In chaotic scenes the Internet personality, 24, accidentally spilled his beans onto the campfire causing it go out, while Kelly Brook exclaimed: 'Disaster! What the hell?'.

Not everyone seems to be on board with her festive frugality as users were rapid to fire criticism and contempt at her stripped down approach

Lee Hulse, 32, from Torry in Aberdeen, Scotland reportedly fell from a crane on the Valaris 121 jackup drilling rig in the early hours of Friday morning.

NetChoice is suing Virginia to block a new law that limits kids under 16 to one hour of daily social media use unless parents approve more time, arguing the rule violates the First Amendment and introduces serious privacy risks through mandatory age-verification. The Verge reports: In addition to restricting access to legal speech, NetChoice alleges that Virginia's incoming law (SB 854) will require platforms to verify user ages in ways that would pose privacy and security risks. The law requires platforms to use "commercially reasonable methods," which it says include a screen that prompts the user to enter a birth date. However, NetChoice argues that Virginia could go beyond this requirement, citing a post from Governor Youngkin on X, stating "platforms must verify age," potentially referring to stricter methods, like having users submit a government ID or other personal information. NetChoice, which is backed by tech giants like Meta, Google, Amazon, Reddit, and Discord, alleges that the law puts a burden on minors' ability to engage or consume speech online. "The First Amendment prohibits the government from placing these types of restrictions on accessing lawful and valuable speech, just in the same way that the government can't tell you how long you could spend reading a book, watching a television program, or consuming a documentary," Paul Taske, the co-director of the Netchoice Litigation Center, tells The Verge. "Virginia must leave the parenting decisions where they belong: with parents," Taske says. "By asserting that authority for itself, Virginia not only violates its citizens' rights to free speech but also exposes them to increased risk of privacy and security breaches."

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Amid the Trump administration's renewed push to prioritize ICE-led deportations, other missions are being sidelined.

A man and a woman, both in their 50s, have pleaded guilty to kidnapping a 10-month-old baby in Blackpool. (Pictured: Preston Crown Court)

The as-yet-unidentified man dug up the haul, which was wrapped in plastic, and reported it to his local authority, as was his legal obligation.

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: The female fin, which was 6.2m (20ft) in length, was reported stranded yesterday at 7am in the shallows at Pentewan Sands near Mevagissey.

A 19-year-old boy was hit by a car travelling southbound on the M66 near the M60 at Sinister Island at around 9.40pm on Sunday.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft's Azure, and Alphabet's Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope of the European Union's crackdown on Big Tech as antitrust watchdogs prepare to study the platforms' market power. The European Commission wants to decide if any of the trio should face a raft of new restrictions under the bloc's Digital Markets Act (source paywalled; alternative source), according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. The plan for a market probe follows several major outages in the cloud industry that wrought havoc across global services, highlighting the risks of relying on a mere handful of players. To date, the world's largest cloud providers have avoided the DMA because a large part of their business comes via enterprise contracts, making it difficult to count the number of individual users, one of the EU's main benchmarks for earmarking Silicon Valley services for extra oversight. Under the investigation's remit, regulators will asses whether the top cloud operators -- regardless of the challenge of counting user numbers -- should be forced to contend with a raft of fresh obligations including increased interoperability with rival software and better data portability for users, as well as restrictions on tying and bundling.

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Aisuru botnet strikes again, bigger and badder

Azure was hit by the "largest-ever" cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft.…