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Sir Keir Starmer was yesterday urged to play hardball with Brussels amid claims he has caved in over post-Brexit fishing rights in exchange for a security and defence deal.

On Monday, the rapper was joined by his mother Angela Andaloro and his 13-year-old daughter Casie as he went grocery shopping at Erewhon in Calabasas.

In a now-deleted TikTok that raked in millions of views, Esther Jeong, from California, explained that she was recently injected with a collagen stimulant.

An anonymous reader shares a report: In a shocking development, Google won't roll out a new standalone prompt for third-party cookies in Chrome. It's a move that amounts to a U-turn on the Chrome team's earlier updated approach to deprecating third-party cookies, announced in July last year, with the latest development bound to cause ructions across the ad tech ecosystem. "We've made the decision to maintain our current approach to offering users third-party cookie choice in Chrome, and will not be rolling out a new standalone prompt for third-party cookies," wrote Anthony Chavez, vp Privacy Sandbox at Google, in a blog post published earlier today (April 22). "Users can continue to choose the best option for themselves in Chrome's Privacy and Security Settings." However, it's not the end of Privacy Sandbox, according to Google, as certain initiatives incubated within the project are set to continue, such as its IP Protection for Chrome Incognito users, which will be rolled out in Q3.

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Plenty of tortillas onboard but not quite so much science this time

SpaceX's latest cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) – CRS-32 – just docked to the orbiting outpost, bringing extra crew supplies, which resulted in the deferral of several science payloads.…

The BBC has banned Evan Davis from hosting his new podcast on heat pumps over fears it is a controversial topic.

Former child star, Sophie Nyweide, best known for portraying Michelle Williams' on-screen daughter in the 2009 film Mammoth, has died at age 24.

Can't run Windows 11? Don't want to? There are surprisingly legal options

You will have to reinstall everything, but there is another way to escape the end of Windows 10 support in October – and it's cheaper than a new PC.…

Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed

When moving to the cloud, companies with significant investments in Microsoft infrastructure wares simply can't afford to rewrite everything for Linux, so they end up migrating to Azure to dodge the markups Redmond charges for running its server software in competitors' clouds.…

Security bods can earn up to $10K per report

Ransomware threat hunters can now collect rewards of $10,000 for each piece of intel they file under a new bug bounty that aims to squash extortionists.…

Campaigners are demanding new homes should not be built on green space

The incident is understood to have taken place in Southall, west London last Wednesday. In the video two men, who have both got out of their vehicles, begin to argue over an unknown topic.

Michelle Obama opened up about a major medical procedure husband Barack Obama underwent during his presidency.

Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos have invited several members of the Trump family to their June wedding in Venice, Italy. Ivanka Trump and other Trump family members will be there.

The Ferrari star launched 'Neat Burgers' - who boast '100 per cent plant based meals' - alongside film star Leonardo DiCaprio back in 2019.

James Lee Williams, better known as The Vivienne, died of a cardiac arrest linked to the party drug and powerful painkiller in January being found dead at their home.

Abstract of a paper on National Bureau of Economic Research: We estimate the effect of social media deactivation on users' emotional state in two large randomized experiments before the 2020 U.S. election. People who deactivated Facebook for the six weeks before the election reported a 0.060 standard deviation improvement in an index of happiness, depression, and anxiety, relative to controls who deactivated for just the first of those six weeks. People who deactivated Instagram for those six weeks reported a 0.041 standard deviation improvement relative to controls. Exploratory analysis suggests the Facebook effect is driven by people over 35, while the Instagram effect is driven by women under 25.

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The International Monetary Fund has slashed its forecast for growth in the UK economy for this year by 0.5 per cent to 1.1 per cent. Here, we look at how this could impact millions of ordinary Britons...

Jimmy's heartfelt condolences was quickly pulled apart by trolls who accused him of 'making it about himself.'

Despite her impressive career, the California-based singer's reputation is now so tarnished that a PR expert has warned her career is at risk of extinction.