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ITV's plan to poach Graham Norton from the BBC is said to be in chaos after his new show The Neighbourhood suffered plunging ratings.

The airline released a statement just before 3am on Saturday, announcing that all flights had been canceled and customer service was no longer available.

Paying for parking by phone might have ended the scrounge beneath the seats for change, but it has been replaced with the agonising search for signal.

Omar Majed, 19, has been charged with false communications relating to a bomb hoax, West Midlands Police has confirmed.

Long-time Slashdot reader Anne Thwacks frequently uses YouTube's subtitles "not to disturb others in the room, or because my hearing is not very good." But they say there's a new problem. "The subtitling is terrible!" Almost every sentence has a huge error. Proper names are more often wrong than right. Non-English place names are almost always mangled to barely recognizable. And no effort whatsoever is made to use context to figure out whether a place name is Russian or Arabic, and often complete garbage is used in place of a common French, Spanish or Italian name! If AI actually works (I have my doubts about this), surely it would be possible to figure out language contexts. If it is about an event in Italy, then expect a lot of Italian names! If it is about the Russia-Ukraine war, then expect places in Russia or Ukraine to be more plausible than mindless gobbledygook! Does YouTube not know that there are places in the world that are not in America? (However, plenty of names of people and places famous in America are also regularly screwed up.) They argue the subtitles are "appallingly bad" — and that "the situation seems to be getting worse," wondering why the problem isn't addressed with some basic spell-checking. ("I'm sure that the vast majority of foul-ups could be fixed by the use of a dictionary.") Have any Slashdot readers seen similar problems? A friend of mine noticed that YouTube's subtitles even bungled this innocuous song from the 1966. ANNETTE FUNICELLO: "If your love is true love, you can tell by his touch." YOUTUBE SUBTITLE: "If your love is too lava, you can tell by his touch..." Share your own experiences and thoughts in the comments. And do you think YouTube's subtitles are "appallingly bad"?

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JONATHAN McEVOY IN MIAMI: Gentlemen, reach for your cagoules. Whether the Miami GP is drowned, dry or delayed, we know Kimi Antonelli earned the right to start it from pole position.

Ask.com, once the home of Ask Jeeves, is slipping quietly into history, its homepage carrying a farewell message that signals the end of one of the internet's most recognisable pioneers.

Thomas Brown, 29, was rushed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital after he was knocked off his bike on Heath Way, Hodge Hill, on April 26.

The charity's former director of fundraising Giles Pegram said he was 'absolutely horrified' when he thought about their association with the convicted sex offender.

"Nuclear AI startup" Fermi had hoped to build power plants generating 17 gigawatts of electricity, remembers Bloomberg, "three times the amount typically consumed by New York City." Hyperscalers could install their data centers on the site itself and tap directly into that power, which would come first from natural gas turbines and later from nuclear reactors. The pitch ticked so many boxes — artificial intelligence, nuclear energy, political connections — that some investors found it irresistible. Fermi went public in October worth more than $19 billion in market value, despite reporting no revenue or signed customers. Now, the startup's board has fired its top executive, Toby Neugebauer, after months of negotiations failed to secure a single client. Chief Financial Officer Miles Everson left as well... Fermi's stock, meanwhile, has tumbled 84% from its peak. The company's more than 5,000-acre site in the Texas panhandle — dubbed Project Matador, or the President Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus — remains mostly unfinished. And some analysts see a cautionary tale of the market's AI enthusiasm running ahead of reality, with investors betting on companies whose grand projects may never get built... The idea of giving data centers their own, dedicated power supply not dependent on the grid may sound tempting, but former US Department of Energy official Jigar Shah said banks don't want to finance it. The grid, drawing power from many sources, is more reliable than a handful of expensive, on-site plants, he said. He considers Fermi a failure "of monumental proportions" and says similar, off-grid data center projects elsewhere deserve more skepticism than they've received... "We're allowing these types of projects to continue to be viewed as viable when they most certainly are not," said Shah, who ran the department's Loan Programs Office during the Biden administration.... "It was a piece of dirt with a dream," an investor who visited the site in February told the short sellers, Fuzzy Panda Research.

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A 25-year-old man is in a life-threatening condition in hospital - three others aged 21, 47 and 70 were also admitted with gunshot wounds.

Officers said personal phones were routinely used to capture evidence, including pictures of people who had died, due to the poor photographic quality of standard-issue police equipment.

Between them, Labour and the Tories face losing council seats in unprecedented numbers as Reform and the Greens seize their former fiefdoms.

The racegoers showcased some truly eye-popping accessories and ensembles as they geared up to watch what has been dubbed 'the most exciting two minutes in sports.'

Boggett is driven by a belief that the companies exploring space can make us safer not only through their defence applications - but also by saving the Earth's scarce resources.

It is driven by optimism about the ways AI will transform the global economy and in doing so bring riches to its pioneers.

Hydrogen Utopia International has developed a technology that avoids the fuel supply chains thrown into chaos by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Andi Case's package, which includes an uncapped bonus, makes him one of the highest-earning chief executives of any company that is listed on the London stock market.

Monday a company called Rainmaker announced their rain-triggering technology had produced 143 million gallons of freshwater for Utah and Oregon residents — making them "the first private company in history to validate the results of cloud seeding operations." The Deseret News reports: Founded in 2023, Rainmaker uses drones to disperse silver iodide into clouds, then they track precipitation with advanced radar. However, Rainmaker — and every other rain-enhancement company — has been up against the notoriously difficult challenge of validation. Since there is no control set to test, and because the weather is chaotic and variable, the Government Accountability Office declares the benefits of the technology to be "unproven." To overcome this evaluation challenge, Rainmaker flies drones in unique patterns when seeding. Then operators compare distinct radar and satellite features with where their drones operated. As of April, Rainmaker found 82 unambiguous seeding signatures, which show their seeding operations directly caused precipitation. In Utah and Oregon alone, the company said its cloud-seeding efforts have added enough water to match the annual usage of about 1,750 households. However, "this figure likely represents only a small fraction of Rainmaker's total generation this season," the company said in their press release... Their drone precision, combined with their radar systems, have produced satellite images proving a direct correlation between the seeding and precipitation. Some images show cloud holes or regions of depressed cloud tops after seeding. Rainmaker's announcement promises they'll "go forward and continue our mission to refill the Great Salt Lake, end drought in the American West and deliver water abundance wherever it is needed most around the world." (Rainmaker currently operates in Utah, Idaho, Oregon, California and Colorado.) The director of Utah's Natural Resources Department told the Deseret News that with cloud seeding, "cost per unit of water is so low; it really is the smartest thing we can be doing with our money," Ferry said.

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Daniel Craig kept a low profile as he touched down at Athens International Airport in Greece on Saturday amid filming for his new prison drama in the country.