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YouTube's parent company, Alphabet, said it will reinstate creators previously banned for spreading COVID-19 misinformation and false election claims, citing free expression and shifting policy guidelines. The Hill reports: "Reflecting the Company's commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the Company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect," the company said in a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chair of the House Judiciary Committee. "YouTube values conservative voices on its platform and recognizes that these creators have extensive reach and play an important role in civic discourse. The Company recognizes these creators are among those shaping today's online consumption, landing 'must-watch' interviews, giving viewers the chance to hear directly from politicians, celebrities, business leaders, and more," it added in the five-page correspondence. Alphabet blamed the Biden administration for limiting political speech on the platform. "Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies," the letter read. "While the Company continued to develop and enforce its policies independently, Biden Administration officials continued to press the Company to remove non-violative user-generated content," it continued. Guidelines were changed after former President Biden took office and urged platforms to remove content that encouraged citizens to drink bleach to cure COVID-19, as President Trump suggested in 2020, or join insurrection efforts launched on Jan. 6, 2021, to overthrow his 2020 presidential win. But the company said the Biden administration's decisions were "unacceptable" and "wrong," while noting it would forgo future fact-checking mechanisms and instead allow users to add context notes to content.

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President Donald Trump has made a major reversal on the Russia war, claiming on Tuesday that Ukraine is positioned to retake all of its lost territory and more.

Trump is on a revenge tour. Anyone in any doubt must not have heard the president's eulogy for Charlie Kirk on Sunday, when he said: 'I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them.'

Dani Dyer has withdrawn from Strictly Come Dancing days before the first live show, with the news sparking reaction from fans, co-stars and her dad Danny Dyer

Kanye West's wife Bianca Censori has sensationally announced the launch of her own fashion brand after shocking the world with her naked looks.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: While many vibe-coding startups have become unicorns, with valuations in the billions, one area where AI-assisted coding has not yet taken off is on mobile devices. Despite the numerous apps now available that offer vibe-coding tools on mobile platforms, none are gaining noticeable downloads, and few are generating any revenue at all. According to an analysis of global app store trends by the app intelligence provider Appfigures, only a small handful of mobile apps offering vibe-coding tools have seen any downloads, let alone generated revenue. The largest of these is Instance: AI App Builder, which has seen only 16,000 downloads and $1,000 in consumer spending. The next largest app, Vibe Studio, has pulled in just 4,000 downloads but has made no money. This situation could still change, of course. The market is young, and vibe-coding apps continue to improve and work out the bugs. New apps in this space are arriving all the time, too. This year, a startup called Vibecode launched with $9.4 million in seed funding from Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six. The company's service allows users to create mobile apps using AI within its own iOS app. Vibecode is so new, Appfigures doesn't yet have data on it. For now, most people who want to toy around with vibe-coding technology are doing so on the desktop.

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Just 12 hours after a surgery to try and stop the infection from spreading, it had made it to his chest, hands and head. He was dead about a week later.

After the Big Society and Levelling-Up, we are now to be lectured about another opaque political idea, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

Margot G. Lewis, 33, was found guilty of second-degree murder on Monday in connection with the stabbing death of Liara Tsai, 35, in Minneapolis.

Two women, named recently as Elizabeth and Jasmin Ramos, who were dumped in a park as toddlers, discovered their mother had been murdered in a decades-old cold case.

The explosive allegations against Errol Musk, 79, are allegedly why the tech billionaire and Tesla founder has kept his distance from his estranged father over the years.

The higher the wage level, the more entries they'll get in the draw

The H-1B lottery in the US is being tipped heavily in favor of high-wage earners under a long-awaited rule proposal unveiled on Tuesday.…

While Donald Trump was making a serious speech about 'the death of western Europe', writes QUENTIN LETTS, Sir Ed Davey was musing about sunshine and rollercoasters.

An insider told the Daily Mail there was 'chaos' backstage before Kimmel's highly anticipated return to late-night TV.

The Nouvelair plane mistakenly tried to land at the wrong runway at Nice Cote d'Azur Airport on Sunday night, which has two parallel runways situated close together.

Michelle and Spielberg took their friendship to the next level as they twinned in matching denim outfits while aboard his $250million superyacht on Tuesday.

Jimmy Kimmel returned to social media for the first time since his late-night show was abruptly pulled from ABC's lineup.

Donald Trump insisted that NATO nations should feel emboldened to shoot down Russian planes if they enter their countries' airspace.

AI attacks on the rise

A survey of cybersecurity bosses has shown that 62 percent reported attacks on their staff using AI over the last year, either by the use of prompt injection attacks or faking out their systems using phony audio or video generated by AI.…

The Independent Pharmacies Association industry body told the Daily Mail that pregnant women have been asking their local chemists for advice about paracetamol Donald Trump's claims.