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An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch: Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial from Google asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? With the tagline "Group project, but make it 1776," the ad depicts a largely unseen Thomas Jefferson mid-draft when he gets a nagging text from Ben Franklin, leading to a very Google-centric collaboration process. Edits are suggested in Google Docs, a meeting gets scheduled in Google Calendar and conducted remotely via Google Meet (with every single attendee apparently turning their camera off?), then the whole thing is finalized with e-signatures; cue the fireworks. Of course, since this is an ad from a tech company in the year 2026, AI has a role to play. The fictionalized founders use Google's "help me visualize" AI tool to try out different animals on the national seal, Gemini takes notes on the meeting, and the founders also ask the chatbot for advice before declining King George III's document access request. TechCrunch call it "very tongue-in-cheek," noting that at one point Samuel Adams even asks, "Can we settle this over beers?" And they argue that "the AI evangelism is relatively discreet when compared to many other recent ads."

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Taking to Instagram on Saturday, Jackie turned with her back with the camera to show her scar two years on and wrote: 'Your scars are sexy.'

Video posted online showed a flume of smoke emerging from a ball of fire on the bridge as fireworks burst around it on Saturday night.

An extremely rare copy of the Declaration of Independence has been found hidden amongst Revolutionary War letters found outside of the US.

Jamie Oliver is a celebrity chef, restaurateur and cookbook author and enjoys a quiet life in the Essex countryside when not in the spotlight.

Braintree councillor Paul Thorogood has raised concerns over the environmental impact and changing scope of the Indaver Rivenhall incinerator facility.

Jamie Oliver is a celebrity chef, restaurateur and cookbook author and enjoys a quiet life in the Essex countryside when not in the spotlight.

An employee working the check-in area at Swift and Kelce's wedding at Madison Square Garden could barely seem to keep her cool at the sight of all the A-list stars.

The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback and his longtime partner were among an estimated 1,000 guests at Madison Square Garden as teammate and close friend Kelce tied the knot with Swift.

From strays to sweethearts, a group of cats under the care of Cats Protection in Essex are looking for their forever homes.

From strays to sweethearts, a group of cats under the care of Cats Protection in Essex are looking for their forever homes.

The woman stumbled across transcribed verbal accounts from Florida patriots who fought during the Revolution that dismantles a commonly understood narrative about the war.

The Canadian national team was sent packing from the 2026 tournament on Saturday afternoon after suffering a brutal 3-0 defeat at the hands of Morocco.

But the Three Lions head coach believes his players will be ready to write a 'new chapter' of history when they take on the co-hosts in the Azteca Stadium at 7,200ft above sea level on Sunday night.

Thunderstorms threaten chaos for England's World Cup showdown with Mexico on Monday morning.

Subsea cables. Ukrainian power stations. Russian oil refineries. Even airports, water-desalination plants and Amazon data centers. They've all become targets in wartime, notes the Wall Street Journal, and around the world now arguments "are already brewing between companies and governments over new regulations and potential costs." In Germany, powerful associations representing private companies and municipal utilities have pushed back against new standards for physical protection, warning they could spell financial ruin. New Zealand's government has faced resistance from industry groups over a proposal to fine critical-infrastructure companies and their directors for cybersecurity breaches... A sign of how lines are blurring: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's 32 countries last year agreed that as part of a pact to spend 5% of economic output on defense and security, 1.5% would go to military-adjacent needs including protecting critical infrastructure and networks. Spending targets range from cybersecurity and industrial capacity to railroads, bridges and ports needed for military logistics... "We need a wide concept of defense — defense is no longer just military," said Italian Adm. Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, NATO's top military adviser. Adding to the complexity, companies now need to protect the data networks that serve as gateways to critical infrastructure. Hackers increasingly target not just computer files to steal information but also systems managing vital functions like building access and factory control, remotely causing physical damage or enabling espionage. U.S. authorities in April warned that Iranian hackers were trying to disrupt American drinking-water systems by targeting computer equipment that connects hardware with software. A year earlier, suspected Russian hackers remotely manipulated valves on a Norwegian hydroelectric dam... Another challenge will be parsing jurisdictions and liability for assets that cross international waters or are damaged in combat — such as subsea data cables or energy pipelines. Turf battles between law enforcement and militaries are already complicating efforts... "The private owner can invest in redundancy, monitoring, and repair capacity, but only governments and militaries can really deter, patrol, attribute, or respond to hostile state activity," said Marc Glasser, who worked on cybersecurity and infrastructure security for three decades at the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Department of Homeland Security.... Companies say they need greater clarity from governments on what protections they will provide and subsidies to help them defend privately owned assets that provide a public good. Most governments don't provide incentives for companies to invest more than the minimum legal resilience requirements. The article notes that in May the chief executive of California's Port of Long Beach "launched a cyber-defense operations center to thwart tens of thousands of cyberattacks daily, which jeopardize computer systems and all equipment connected to them." The article also points out that the EU adopted new regulations requiring countries to reduce vulnerabilities, and new laws proposed in the U.K. now "seek to increase penalties for subsea sabotage, updating codes that date to when telegraph cables were first laid in the 19th century."

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Any delay will impact the millions of England fans who will be watching at home or in pubs across the country as it will push the game even further into the early hours of the morning.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce weren't about to let guests leave the wedding of the decade empty-handed.

It gripped the nation with its horrifying depiction of a troubled teenage boy - now I can reveal that Adolescence is set to return...

Temperatures in the South could reach 29C (84F) today, rising to the low-30s on Tuesday and Wednesday before the South East sees a peak of 34C (93F) on Thursday or Friday, the Met office says.