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Apple is adding vertical tabs and an Adaptive Dark Mode to Safari with iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3 and macOS Golden Gate 27.3. The December updates will also expand Siri's browser controls, including organizing tabs and clearing site-specific history, with a later feature allowing Siri to understand and answer questions about content across multiple open webpages. MacRumors reports: Vertical Tabs are located on the left side of the display and use icons by default to save space, but there is an option to make the tab bar wider to show website titles as well. Vertical Tabs work with both Topics and Tab Groups to keep things organized. Topics are created when automatic Apple Intelligence tab sorting is turned on in iOS 27. Pinning tabs by dragging, quickly swapping between Tab Groups, and other features also continue to work. [...] Apple is adding Adaptive Dark Mode for websites that don't have a dark mode design option by default. If you use Dark Mode and then browse to a website with a bright background color, Safari will offer an option to "Try" Adaptive Dark Mode. After tapping Try, Safari renders a Dark Mode version of the page that makes the background darker, changes text contrast, inverts logos and graphics, recolors vector artwork, lifts raised surfaces, and rebalances layered shadows. Each website will be adapted based on what's needed to make it readable, so not every tweak is applied to every site. You can opt to turn Adaptive Dark Mode on for all sites or on a site-by-site basis after using it. If a site has a native dark mode or has a dark design already, Adaptive Dark Mode won't activate. Developers can also add a tag that causes Safari to ignore Adaptive Dark Mode and show the website as the developer intended.

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The firm blamed 'changing weather conditions' for affecting the quality and availability of the ingredient.

The £18 million Gangsta Granny ride was among the star attractions at the theme park - but now the entire world dedicated to the comedian's work is being shut.

Vegan chocolate company Catherine's Originals has been accused by Mondelez International of trademark infringement and 'passing off' the iconic Toblerone pyramids with its O'bar range.

How will Donald Trump react to the loss of face that lies in wait for him when the polls for today's midterm elections finally close? How about Mad-As-Hell - and in a mood to lash out?

Researchers say the trend is largely being driven by young women who also have conditions like ADHD, anxiety and depression.

As a small boy Jonathan Guinness liked to greet his aunt Jessica Mitford with a Hitler salute.

Ceilidh The Musical, which is being performed at Shoreditch Town Hall in east London, follows a family trying to teach a traditional Scottish dance as they encourage audiences to join in.

Kemi Badenoch held a windblown, slightly mad rally on the foredeck of HMS Wellington, a retired Grimsby class sloop moored on London's Embankment.

The 30-year-old man boarded the shellfish trawler in the early hours of today while the crew were asleep in their bunks - and tried to take it out to sea.

An adviser to the EU's highest court says Google's Gemini may violate publishers' copyright when it reproduces recognizable portions of their articles or circumvents paywalls and other technical protections to generate answers. Reuters reports: The case before the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union pitted Hungarian website operator Like Company against US-based Google's artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini. A ruling against Google, which could force the tech giant to pay fees for the use of such content, could throw a lifeline to online media such as Like Company. They have seen traffic dwindle as news summaries written by AI chatbots like Gemini increasingly replace traditional search engines' results, which include hyperlinks to the media websites. "When an LLM (large language model)-driven chatbot retrieves a publication from a press publisher's website, reuses that publication to generate an answer, and provides that answer to the user, the press publisher's right may be infringed in certain circumstances," Advocate General Maciej Szpunar said. Gemini's answers fall under the publishers' right of reproduction when chatbots access publications by unlawfully "circumventing paywalls or other technical barriers, or when they reuse "the form of expression of that publication in a recognizable manner," he said. Copyright rules do not protect the "mere facts" reported by press publications, but "only the specific form of expression," he added. On the other hand, he said, the use of material protected by copyright to train LLMs -- AI systems that use vast amounts of text to generate human-like responses and summarize information -- is "freely permitted under the text and data mining exception." Szpunar said there was no evidence that Google had used the Hungarian publisher's articles to train Gemini. The court, which follows the majority of its advisers' non-binding opinions, will rule in the coming months. "Google's powerful gatekeeping role in search makes this particularly important. Publishers depend on Google to reach readers, while Google increasingly delivers AI-generated answers directly to users," said Angela Mills Wade, the council's executive director. "Publishers should not have to choose between search visibility and protecting their rights. Nor should Google's control over access to audiences become leverage to secure publishers' content for AI services," she said.

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Tuesday's episode saw the bakers return to the famous tent to tackle 'Free From' Party week.

The King pointedly avoided any suggestion of a British apology over slavery in his keynote Commonwealth speech today and insisted 'we cannot change the past'.

An inquest on Tuesday heard how Kenneth Law sent the lethal substance to Thomas Parfett, who was found dead in a Premier Inn in Sunbury-on-Thames in October 2021.

I have been trying to recover the credit I had with Rebel Energy for nearly 18 months, after the supplier closed. My balance of £1,264 was transferred to British Gas.

The Culture Club singer met survivors, former hostages and bereaved families on Tuesday at the site near the Kibbutz Re'im, where festivalgoers were murdered on October 7, 2023.

The chance of winning a Premium Bond prize has risen in recent months - but there may be even better to come as we hit a huge milestone for Premium Bonds.

The actor, 63, is known for his role as British Secret Intelligence Service head Gareth Mallory, but he has shared he was considered to play 007 years earlier.

Rather than relying on a traditional tearjerker, the British health and beauty retailer has opted for a festive advert that squarely shows the power of gift-giving.

Springfield Parish Council has announced it has cancelled the Christmas fayre due to a low amount of interest.