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After teatime, at an hour when most people at Broadcasting House were probably on their fifth jolt of neat gin, the Commons got round to discussing the BBC crisis.

The move has rattled traders already spooked by a growing chorus of warnings about the overheated stock market.

Victoria Sorocean, an illegal immigrant from Moldova, was arrested after officials learned she tortured and threw a victim off a balcony in September 2013.

Lobbying efforts gain ground as proposals carve myriad holes into regulations

Privacy advocates are condemning the European Commission's leaked plans to overhaul digital privacy legislation, accusing officials of bypassing proper legislative processes to favor Big Tech interests.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Big G is finally making good on its promise to add its market-leading Nano Banana image-editing model to the app. The model powers a couple of features, and it's not just for Google's Android platform. Nano Banana edits are also coming to the iOS version of the app. [...] The Photos app already had conversational editing in the "Help Me Edit" feature, but it was running an older non-fruit model that produced inferior results. Nano Banana editing will produce AI slop, yes, but it's better slop. Google says the updated Help Me Edit feature has access to your private face groups, so you can use names in your instructions. For example, you could type "Remove Riley's sunglasses," and Nano Banana will identify Riley in the photo (assuming you have a person of that name saved) and make the edit without further instructions. You can also ask for more fantastical edits in Help Me Edit, changing the style of the image from top to bottom. Google is very invested in getting people to use its AI tools, but less-savvy users might not be familiar enough with AI prompting to get the most out of Nano Banana. So Google Photos is also getting a collection of AI templates in a new "Create with AI" section. This menu will offer pre-formed prompts based on popular in-app edits. Some of the options you'll see include "put me in a high fashion photoshoot," "create a professional headshot," and "put me in a winter holiday card." The app is also getting a new "Ask" button, which is not to be confused with "Ask Photos." The former is a new contextual button that appears when viewing a photo, and the latter is Google's controversial natural language search feature. [...] When looking at a photo, you can tap the Ask button to get information about the content of the photo or find related images. You can also describe edits you'd like to see in this interface, and Nano Banana will make them for you.

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British influencer Brittany Miller, 29, of East Sussex, took to her social media page on Monday to share a groveling apology after her crime was exposed online.

Daily Mail's Sadie Whitelocks tried out a vinotherapy treatment at the Aire Ancient Baths in New York to test out the healing properties of red wine grapes.

LGBTQ representation is being drastically scaled back on television amid a nationwide rollback of woke DEI policies and initiatives.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden told the House of Commons that the Government will re-evaluate because further evidence had come to light.

The Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year will not adopt a blanket ban of transgender athletes - despite the Olympic Games looking likely to do so.

Public sector workers are enjoying bumper pay deals at taxpayers' expense even as their private sector counterparts face a tightening squeeze.

Official figures showed the jobless rate among men climbed to 5.4 per cent in the three months to September, up from 4.2 per cent when Labour came to power last summer.

Chinese researchers have claimed that music therapy may 'significantly' improve sleep quality among adults over 50, helping them to combat insomnia.

The Queen was full of compliments for Hollywood legend Sarah Jessica Parker as she welcomed her to Clarence House .

Scientists may have found a hidden cause of Alzheimer's that plagues millions of Americans, with one state found to be particularly at risk.

Looking increasingly 'unhinged', says Andrew Pierce, Nick Robinson went on and on about how the BBC is being subjected to this sinister right-wing campaign to destroy the corporation

FFmpeg, the open source multimedia framework that powers video processing in Google Chrome, Firefox, YouTube and other major platforms, has called on Google to either fund the project or stop burdening its volunteer maintainers with security vulnerabilities found by the company's AI tools. The maintainers patched a bug that Google's AI agent discovered in code for decoding a 1995 video game but described the finding as "CVE slop." The confrontation centered on a Google Project Zero policy announced in July that publicly discloses reported vulnerabilities within a week and starts a ninety-day countdown to full disclosure regardless of patch availability. FFmpeg, written primarily in assembly language, handles format conversion and streaming for VLC, Kodi and Plex but operates without adequate funding from the corporations that depend on it. Nick Wellnhofer resigned as maintainer of libxml2, a library used in all major web browsers, because of the unsustainable workload of addressing security reports without compensation and said he would stop maintaining the project in December.

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Many Brits dream of leaving the rat race and retiring to the countryside or the coast and the idea of a slower pace of life is enough to make almost anyone want to pack their bags.

Kai Trump is set to make her pro golf debut at just 18 this week. Fortunately for her, she has she has someone all too familiar with the pressures of the spotlight in her corner.

Apple has been widely mocked on social media after revealing a limited-edition accessory for the iPhone that many claim looks like a sock.