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As the ranks of licence fee refuseniks grow, the corporation has enlisted an army of its stars in an effort to convince Britons it is still worth paying for.

Trewley-Precious Temple is no stranger to the spotlight – from viral TikTok videos to Channel 4's Tempting Fortune

Toxic levels of a cancer-causing heavy metal lurks in jewellery sold on Amazon and TikTok Shop , a worrying investigation has revealed.

Passengers are being warned of lengthy waits as fingerprints and facial scans create bottlenecks at some of Europe's busiest airports.

A fraudster who swindled £11.5 million from 115 victims in a “Ponzi scheme” targeting retired people across England has been jailed.

A fraudster who swindled £11.5 million from 115 victims in a “Ponzi scheme” targeting retired people across England has been jailed.

It's one of every nervous flyer's worst nightmares - being sucked out of a passenger jet mid-air. But for one unlucky Ryanair passenger that terrifying ordeal nearly came true this month.

Departments haven't worked out how the technology will reshape staffing, roles, and skills across the public sector

Steve Webb says tens of thousands of civil servants have been hit by a series of problems with the administration of their pension scheme.

Boss Michael O'Leary said fares in the first quarter 'required stimulation' as the war in Iran led to 'consumer hesitancy and later bookings'.

Ukraine has hit the Moscow region with a swarm of 400 drones in what is believed to be one of its biggest attacks of the war.  

Keir Starmer is departing just two years after winning an extraordinary election landslide, leaving Mr Burnham to become the country's seventh PM in a decade.

My partner and I have been living together for some time, but we are not married. What happens if we separate?

The 'expensive vehicle supplement' is an annual £425 levy paid for five years on a car costing more than £40,000.

President Donald Trump's youngest son, Barron, was spotted alongside his parents at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, just before halftime of the final game of the World Cup tournament between Spain and Argentina.

Ask Claude to make a pamphlet critical of China's leader, Thailand's king, or Saudi Arabia's crown prince — and it will decline, reports the Associated Press. That's "a key finding from a Meta Oversight Board study released Thursday," their article points out: AI systems are more than twice as likely to refuse to product critical material if it's about a restrictive world leader or government. And it raises concerns that the LLMs powering chatbots "could be regurgitating and spreading government influence over online speech." The study picked 10 commercial large language models by top tech companies — including Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI — and asked the AI systems to make critical pamphlets, write limericks, give reasons if someone should join protests, and more.... "In aggregate, models responding to requests from an Australia-based user were much more likely to generate political criticism of authorities" in places such as Chile, Japan, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S. "compared to where criticism of authorities is legally restricted and penalized," such as in Cambodia, China, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Turkey, the report said. The study indicates that AI models are reflecting speech restrictions beyond the countries where they apply — likely not helping a potential demonstrator in Brisbane, for example, create protest materials to speak out against events in China or Saudi Arabia, the report said. "Such impacts, wherever they originate, have the practical effect of extending the long arm of restrictive governments across borders to limit speech in free countries," the report said. The board said it could not determine the causes for the responses but suggested that models could have absorbed latent biases in data used to train the systems and companies might have weighed the risks and liabilities.

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The Argentina captain - who spent most of his career playing in Barcelona - was ineffectual in the New Jersey showdown as his team failed to find the net in 120 minutes.

OLIVER HOLT AT THE NEW YORK NEW JERSEY STADIUM: The voice of Frank Sinatra rang around the MetLife Stadium before the World Cup final.

Worries about ‘prohibitive cost of powering, maintaining, and deploying a third node’

On top of the UK's estimated 477 existing data centres, another 100 are in the planning pipeline, and most are set to be built within the next five years.