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Campaigners said that they were dismayed but not surprised that the proportion of children viewing harmful content has stayed the same despite a raft of measures in the Online Safety Act designed to protect them.…
Read more“Canada is taking a major step forward in artificial intelligence.” In a pre-summit speech earlier Thursday in Montreal, von der Leyen cited April’s multi-billion dollar merger between Cohere and German counterpart Aleph…
Read moreThe company was handed £1.25bn from public coffers to part-fund the development of a next-generation engine for single-aisle commercial planes. The chancellor buried this giveaway in two short sentences in the stodgy…
Read moreVoaden told the Guardian: "He was trying to get out of the chamber and instead of just asking if he could go past, he said: 'Let me past'. I turned round and said: 'No, you can wait your turn like everyone else'. He…
Read moreThe row was triggered when Farage, explaining why he had not attended Wednesday's Budget, said he had been involved in a "physical altercation" with another MP at the State Opening of Parliament in May and had wanted to…
Read moreAs mentioned earlier (see 12.14pm ), Burnham wrote to ministers yesterday saying he does not want them to "advocate for specific options or opine on the likely outcome of the process" as he opens a debate on forming a…
Read moreSoftly spoken de Cos An economist with a Ph.D. from the University of Madrid, de Cos joined the Bank of Spain in 1997, moved to Frankfurt in 2004 to be an adviser to the ECB’s executive board, before returning to the…
Read moreThe video was actually filmed on Gran Vía, a street in Madrid, Spain. The video has been shared hundreds of times on X , Facebook and Instagram , wrongly connecting the scene to the looting which took place earlier this…
Read moreBut this video isn’t real. It was made with artificial intelligence (AI) and has been circulating online for more than a year. Using reverse image search we traced the video to a 2025 AFP fact check about the clip being…
Read moreThat could include intercepted communications such as emails, texts and telephone calls, as well as information extracted from people’s computers or phones. The report added that GCHQ currently estimates the number of…
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