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On the day before peace in Europe was announced, my grandfather Winston Churchill sent an urgent communique where he warned, that London must not run out of beer.

Proposed cuts would mean: No Lunar Gateway, Artemis hardware to retire, ISS toast in 2030

The White House has proposed slashing NASA's budget by 24 percent, dropping it from $24.8 billion to $18.8 billion. If approved, it would mark one of the agency's deepest single-year cuts in federal support, and crash its inflation-adjusted funding to levels not seen in decades.…

Uber is partnering with Chinese autonomous driving startup Momenta to launch robotaxi services outside the U.S. and China, starting in Europe in early 2026 with safety operators onboard. CNBC reports: Uber said the goal is to combine its global ridesharing network with Momenta's technology to deliver safe and efficient robotaxi services. "This collaboration brings together Uber's global ridesharing expertise and Momenta's AI-first autonomous driving technology, paving the way for a future where more riders around the world experience the benefits of reliable and affordable autonomous mobility," Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in the press release. Momenta CEO Xudong Cao said the arrangement "completes the key ecosystem needed to scale autonomous driving globally." Momenta, based in Beijing, is a leading autonomous driving company known for its "two-leg" product strategy. It offers both Mpilot, a mass-production-ready assisted driving system, and MSD (Momenta Self-Driving), aimed at full autonomy. The company has years of experience operating autonomous vehicles in cities across China and has partnerships with large equipment manufacturers.

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Harry said that on the occasions he has ventured back to the UK since his armed Met Police bodyguards were removed, he felt that he was 'putting myself at risk'.

On Tuesday, the blood-soaked body of 65-year-old Karen Carter was discovered outside Les Chouettes after she returned home from a wine-tasting event with friends.

Capex could jump by $7B to $72B, Zuckercorp says

World War Fee  Meta's AI ambitions are going to cost more than expected thanks to increased competition and — who could have seen this coming? — the Trump administration's obsession with tariffs, which is driving up the price tag of key components.…

Lincolnshire was at the centre of Reform's political earthquake that has left Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour party trembling after Dame Andrea won in every area of the county bar one.

Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves are revving up to star in a romantic thriller from Amazon MGM Studios.

Yioda Panayiotou, who is the Wham ! star's only living sibling, was given ownership of the property following the singer's tragic death on Christmas Day 2016 at the age of 53.

Pinterest is facing widespread user backlash over abrupt account suspensions and pin removals, with many reporting no clear reason or warning before being locked out. The Verge reports: The r/Pinterest subreddit is also currently dominated by posts from confused users who claim their accounts have been suspended without evidence explaining how they violated the platform's guidelines. Users are also reporting they're experiencing an unusually high quantity of pins being deleted by Pinterest with absurd explanations, such as quilting magazines, cross-stitch art, and Minecraft bunk bed builds all being flagged for "adult content." "We hear your concerns about recent account deactivations on Pinterest," the company said on X. "To ensure Pinterest remains a safe and positive platform, we continuously monitor for content that violates our Community Guidelines and accounts with violative content may be deactivated as a result." "Pinterest has long-established, public Community Guidelines that clearly outline what is and isn't allowed on the platform," Pinterest spokesperson Ivy Choi said in a statement to The Verge. "We're committed to building a safer and more positive platform, and enforce these policies rigorously and continuously. Users who believe their account may have been deactivated mistakenly may submit an appeal."

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Live updates after Prince Harry unleashed a new series of devastating broadsides aimed at the Royal Family.

About two months ago, I experienced a clear and troubling vision of a maritime disaster. As I told my audience on YouTube, I had seen a ship in great trouble.

The Conservative Party has lost every council it was defending in the elections after it found itself squeezed between Reform UK and the Liberal Democrats.

The Duke of Sussex claimed his father would not speak to him because of his battle over taxpayer-funded police bodyguards.

The Duke of Sussex says he wants 'reconciliation' with the rest of the Royal Family and has forgiven them after losing a legal challenge over his security.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: A European Union privacy watchdog fined TikTok 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday after a four-year investigation found that the video sharing app's data transfers to China put users at risk of spying, in breach of strict EU data privacy rules. Ireland's Data Protection Commission also sanctioned TikTok for not being transparent with users about where their personal data was being sent and ordered the company to comply with the rules within six months. The Irish national watchdog serves as TikTok's lead data privacy regulator in the 27-nation EU because the company's European headquarters is based in Dublin. "TikTok failed to verify, guarantee and demonstrate that the personal data of (European) users, remotely accessed by staff in China, was afforded a level of protection essentially equivalent to that guaranteed within the EU," Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle said in a statement. The Irish watchdog said its investigation found that TikTok failed to address "potential access by Chinese authorities" to European users' personal data under Chinese laws on anti-terrorism, counterespionage, cybersecurity and national intelligence that were identified as "materially diverging" from EU standards. Grahn said TikTok has "has never received a request for European user data from the Chinese authorities, and has never provided European user data to them." [...] The investigation, which opened in September 2021, also found that TikTok's privacy policy at the time did not name third countries, including China, where user data was transferred. The watchdog said the policy, which has since been updated, failed to explain that data processing involved "remote access to personal data stored in Singapore and the United States by personnel based in China." TikTok faces further scrutiny from the Irish regulator, which said that the company had provided inaccurate information throughout the inquiry by saying that it didn't store European user data on Chinese servers. It wasn't until April that it informed the regulator that it discovered in February that some data had in fact been stored on Chinese servers. TikTok disagrees with the decision and plans to appeal. The company said the decision focuses on a "select period" ending in May 2023, before it embarked on a data localization project called Project Clover that involved building three data centers in Europe. "The facts are that Project Clover has some of the most stringent data protections anywhere in the industry, including unprecedented independent oversight by NCC Group, a leading European cybersecurity firm," said Christine Grahn, TikTok's European head of public policy and government relations. "The decision fails to fully consider these considerable data security measures."

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The group, called DragonForce,claimed to have stolen millions of customers' data and said they are trying to force their victims to pay a ransom.

'The @WSJ dishonest article about @elonmusk and @Tesla was written by three women,' Maye Musk wrote on X Thursday, taking the time to tag the reporters responsible.

Richard Osman, who grew up in Carmarthen, Wales, died alongside 65 others nearly a decade ago, when EgyptAir flight MS804 vanished over the Mediterranean in May 2016.

RICHARD EDEN: He parted from his second wife Marina, mother of five of his six children, two years ago in what, as I disclosed at the time, were 'highly acrimonious circumstances'.