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Bluesky has surpassed 40 million users and is launching a "dislikes" beta to improve its personalization algorithms and reduce toxic content. TechCrunch reports: With the "dislikes" beta rolling out soon, Bluesky will take into account the new signal to improve user personalization. As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings. The company explained the changes are designed to make Bluesky a place for more "fun, genuine, and respectful exchanges" -- an edict that follows a month of unrest on the platform as some users again criticized the platform over its moderation decisions. While Bluesky is designed as a decentralized network where users run their own moderation, some subset of Bluesky users want the platform itself to ban bad actors and controversial figures instead of leaving it up to the users to block them. Bluesky, however, wants to focus more on the tools it provides users to control their own experience.

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The TV presenter passed away aged 67 at his home in Kent, in March 2023 after suffering form a cardiac arrhythmia.

Spooky season is upon us but revellers up and down the country aren't scared to flaunt their best fancy dress ahead of the most frightening night of the year.

During his career, Young, a centre back, spent two years with Spurs and four with Arsenal. His career started at Scottish side Aberdeen in 1969, before he moved to north London in 1975 with Tottenham.

The 52-year-old model uploaded a photo to Instagram on Friday to offer a subtle tease about what she will dress up as. The image showed a grotesque mouth with razor-sharp teeth.

A study found inbound tourist visits to Britain fell by nearly 15 per cent to 16.5million in the first six months of this year, down from 19.1million during the same period in 2024.

The links between the one-time Duke, the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell stretch back more than a quarter of a century.

Ramsey, 34, has not played for the club since September, and has made just three starts for the Liga MX club since joining in July. Pumas are 13th in the table, and there are two matches left this year.

Even in myth-making Hollywood, the Poltergeist curse stands apart - a chilling legend forged from real tragedy. But now a star has broken his silence about the nightmare hidden from him.

Alan, 49, has admitted the pregnant singer, 44, was furious at being the first victim on the BBC show as he revealed the pair are no longer friends earlier this week.

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Goalkeeper Mary Earps stepped away from the England set-up five weeks before this summer's Euros after losing her place to Hannah Hampton, eight years her junior.

The New York City native stepped out with partner Tiffany Chen , 46, and their daughter Gia Virginia Chen-De Niro, two.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Even before Azure had a global failure this week, Austria's Ministry of Economy had taken a decisive step toward digital sovereignty. The Ministry achieved this status by migrating 1,200 employees to a Nextcloud-based cloud and collaboration platform hosted on Austrian-based infrastructure. This shift away from proprietary, foreign-owned cloud services, such as Microsoft 365, to an open-source, European-based cloud service aligns with a growing trend among European governments and agencies. They want control over sensitive data and to declare their independence from US-based tech providers. European companies are encouraging this trend. Many of them have joined forces in the newly created non-profit foundation, the EuroStack Initiative. This foundation's goal is " to organize action, not just talk, around the pillars of the initiative: Buy European, Sell European, Fund European." What's the motive behind these moves away from proprietary tech? Well, in Austria's case, Florian Zinnagl, CISO of the Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Tourism (BMWET), explained, "We carry responsibility for a large amount of sensitive data -- from employees, companies, and citizens. As a public institution, we take this responsibility very seriously. That's why we view it critically to rely on cloud solutions from non-European corporations for processing this information." Austria's move and motivation echo similar efforts in Germany, Denmark, and other EU states and agencies. The organizations include the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which abandoned Exchange and Outlook for open-source programs. Other agencies that have taken the same path away from Microsoft include the Austrian military, Danish government organizations, and the French city of Lyon. All of these organizations aim to keep data storage and processing within national or European borders to enhance security, comply with privacy laws such as the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and mitigate risks from potential commercial and foreign government surveillance.

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Several Premier League stars have been getting into the spirit of Halloween by dressing up in spooky costumes - and the Red Devils are no exception. But can you guess who these United stars are?

Farida Khalifa and Zelah Glasson became the latest housemates to be evicted in a shocking double eviction on Friday night's Big Brother.

Disney's channels, including ESPN, ABC, FX, and NatGeo, have gone dark on YouTube TV after Google and Disney failed to renew their carriage agreement before the October 30 deadline, with each side blaming the other for using unfair negotiating tactics and price hikes. YouTube TV says it will issue a $20 credit to subscribers if the blackout continues while negotiations proceed. Engadget reports: "Last week Disney used the threat of a blackout on YouTube TV as a negotiating tactic to force deal terms that would raise prices on our customers," YouTube said in an announcement on its blog. "They're now following through on that threat, suspending their content on YouTube TV." YouTube added that Disney's decision harms its subscribers while benefiting its own live TV products, such as Hulu+Live TV and Fubo. In a statement sent to the Los Angeles Times, however, Disney accused Google's YouTube TV of choosing to deny "subscribers the content they value most by refusing to pay fair rates for [its] channels, including ESPN and ABC." Disney also accused Google of using its market dominance to "eliminate competition and undercut the industry-standard terms" that other pay-TV distributors have agreed to pay for its content.

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Sharmarke Ahmed (pictured), 34, from the Wandsworth area of London, pretended to be a cop when he phoned the victim, who is in her nineties, on her landline on March 5.

Paul Scholes has thanked fans for their messages of support after opening up about caring for his autistic son Aiden in a moving interview this week.

Montecito-based Meghan may have opted to scrap the image as it overlapped with the breaking news regarding Prince Harry's uncle, Prince Andrew.