Published on: 2025-04-25 11:28:02
In Brief X has not been fairing well in the U.K., previously a major source of revenue for the social network prior to Elon Musk’s arrival. Still named Twitter UK Ltd, revenues and profits for X’s UK entity collapsed by over 60% in the year after Musk took it over and changed its moderation controls, according to accounts filed this week to the UK’s Companies House. The decline in revenues came after concerns about “brand safety and/or content moderation” were cited internally, reported The Gu
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Potential PS5 buyers in Europe, the UK, Australia and more will now need to fork over up to 100 more AUD, EUR and other local currencies for a console. Sony has announced a series of price hikes for the PS5, blaming "a backdrop of a challenging economic environment, including high inflation and fluctuating exchange rates." The company last raised PS5 prices across these markets in 2022. Only the PS5 Digital Edition's cost changes in Europe and the UK. It will increase to €500 ($570) from €450 (
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The Trump administration’s cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, have gutted vital health programs in recent months. And the public is slowly learning about the ramifications of these moves that will make Americans sicker and less able to respond to threats to public health. One of the latest casualties has been the CDC’s lead poisoning response team at the National Center for Environmental
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European tourists who toted home bottles of water from a holy well in Ethiopia were likely hoping for blessings and spiritual cleansing—but instead carried an infectious curse and got an intestinal power cleanse. Three people in Germany and four in the UK fell ill with cholera after directly drinking or splashing their faces with the holy water. Two required intensive care. Luckily, they all eventually recovered, according to a report in the journal Eurosurveillance. The infections occurred in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 15:23:26
Debate around how much taxes US-based streaming services should pay internationally, among other factors, could result in people paying more for subscriptions to services like Netflix and Disney+. On April 10, the United Kingdom's Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee reignited calls for a streaming tax on subscription revenue acquired through UK residents. The recommendation came alongside the committee's 120-page report [PDF] that makes numerous recommendations for how to support and grow
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is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. “Live from London, it’s Saturday Night” is a phrase you’re going to start hearing on a weekly basis next year. Variety reports that Sky Studios is working on a British adaptation of NBC’s long-running Saturday Night Live sketch series. Like its American counterpart and previous international riffs on the series, Saturday Night Live U
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 07:23:42
The United Kingdom is preparing to respond to the series of tariffs President Donald Trump has introduced since taking office. New taxes on everything from pure-bred horses to bourbon are on the table, but the Labour government seems more interested in a conciliatory approach, and it’s considering sacrificing a popular tax on American tech companies in order to sweeten the deal. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has confirmed that trade talks have included “questions about the appropriate way to tax
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What just happened? It has been confirmed that Apple is taking its battle with the UK government over demands that it weakens its encryption protocols to court. Cupertino secured an early win when the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal dismissed an attempt to have details of the case kept private. The UK government demanded that Apple create a backdoor in its iCloud services earlier this year following years of pressure. In January, Apple received a technical capability notice (TCN) under the In
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Formula 1 held the third round of its 2025 season at Suzuka in Japan yesterday. The race used to be held toward the end of the calendar, but F1 now visits while the cherry blossoms are blooming, which certainly makes for some good visuals. With a hefty timezone difference between Suzuka and fans in Europe and the US, a difficult decision must be made: Do I stay up all night to watch it live? Let's just say I was glad I did that for qualifying on Friday night—and I was equally glad I slept in the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 03:13:36
The United Kingdom has banned “outrageous fake reviews and sneaky hidden fees” to make life easier for online shoppers. New measures under the Digital Markets, Competition, and Consumer Act 2024 came into force on Sunday that require online platforms to transparently include all mandatory fees within a product’s advertised price, including booking or admin charges. The law targets so-called “dripped pricing,” in which additional fees — like platform service charges — are dripped in during a cus
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Apple's encryption row with UK should not be secret, court rules Just now Share Save Tom Singleton & Liv McMahon Technology reporters Share Save Getty Images A judge has sided with a coalition of civil liberties groups and news organisations - including the BBC - and ruled a legal row between the UK government and Apple over data privacy cannot be held in secret. The Home Office wants the right to be able access information secured by Apple's Advanced Data Protection (ADP) system, citing powe
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The UK won’t be able to keep its fight with Apple over end-to-end encryption secret after all. As reported by the BBC, tribunal judges on Monday rejected the government’s request to keep details of the battle private, saying: “It would have been a truly extraordinary step to conduct a hearing entirely in secret without any public revelation of the fact that a hearing was taking place.” The story started in February, when the UK government secretly ordered Apple to create a backdoor into iCloud
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In Brief The British Broadcasting Corporation has filed a complaint with a UK antitrust regulator complaining that aggregators like Apple News and Google News minimize credit for the stories they feature. Apple Insider reports that the BBC is asking the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority to require Apple and Google to more prominently credit news sources. And while the CMA’s decision would theoretically apply only to UK publications, any change made by the aggregators would presumably affe
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On March 27, 2022, on the heels of a weekend marked by dozens of gang-related murders, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and his legislature plunged the country into a régimen de excepción — a state of exception — and declared war against the gangs. The state of exception suspended fundamental rights like freedom of assembly and association, the right to legal representation, and the right to see a judge within 72 hours of detention. The age of criminal responsibility was lowered to 12. The
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is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. French satellite network company Eutelsat has been providing Ukraine with much-needed internet access for almost a year with the help of the German government, Reuters reports. Eutelsat’s OneWeb division operates low-orbiting satellites that communicate with terrestrial terminals for internet connectivity — similarly to rival SpaceX’s Starlink
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In the race to deploy enterprise AI, one obstacle consistently blocks the path: hallucinations. These fabricated responses from AI systems have caused everything from legal sanctions for attorneys to companies being forced to honor fictitious policies. Organizations have tried different approaches to solving the hallucination challenge, including fine-tuning with bette
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This is the untold story of America’s hidden role in Ukrainian military operations against Russia’s invading armies. At the U.S. military garrison in Wiesbaden, Germany, they sealed a partnership that would bring America into the war far more intimately than previously known. At the U.S. military garrison in Wiesbaden, Germany, they sealed a partnership that would bring America into the war far more intimately than previously known. In the early days after Russia’s armies crossed into Ukraine
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Creatives in the UK are once again speaking out against AI developers accessing copyrighted material. The Society of Authors have published an open letter calling for UK Secretary of State Lisa Nandy to hold Meta accountable for possible copyright infringement regarding its LLM, Llama 3. Signatories of the letter include successful British authors Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Val McDermid and Sarah Waters. A March 20 article in The Atlantic served as the letter's impetus. It reported that Met
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Miniature amphora, Mykolaiv, Ukraine MYKOLAIV, UKRAINE—According to a report by the Ukrainska Pravda, Ukrainian soldiers digging defensive fortifications stumbled upon an ancient Greek burial site in southern Ukraine. During excavation work, a machine operator from the 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade noticed a small amphora sticking out of a freshly dug trench, which he brought to the Mykolayiv Regional Museum of Local History. Museum experts determined that the vessel was of Ionian origin an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 03:30:00
Last week, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney declared that the “old relationship” his country had with the United States was “over,” and it’s “clear the US is no longer a reliable partner.” Carney’s comments came after the US announced sweeping new tariffs on Canada and President Donald Trump spent months making inflammatory comments that have alarmed Canada’s leaders, including suggestions that the country would be “better off” if it was annexed by the US. Tensions finally boiled over last We
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 01:14:43
'UK crowds are the best': Does home advantage make a difference in esports? 21 hours ago Share Save Andrew Rogers BBC Newsbeat Share Save RLCS Fans at last year's RLCS competition in London Conventional wisdom tells us professional athletes perform best in front of a home crowd. Great Britain's Olympic team won a record medal haul at London 2012 and England's Lionesses won the Euros at Wembley in 2022, 56 years after the men's national football team won the World Cup at home. Does that same h
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Hundreds of millions of years ago, mysterious life forms called Prototaxites towered toward the sky. Believed to be the first giant organisms to thrive on dry land, some species of Prototaxites grew up to 26 feet (8 meters) in height and resembled tree trunks composed of tiny interconnected tubes. Their position in the greater tree of life has been hotly debated for over a century and a half. New research suggests this is because Prototaxites don’t have a place in the tree of life as we know it—
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Introduction The UK’s national AI institute is in crisis. Despite receiving a fresh £100 million funding settlement in 2024, the Alan Turing Institute (ATI) is gearing up for mass redundancies and to cut a quarter of its research projects. Staff are in open revolt. In 2023, when generative AI fever swept the world, far from taking centre stage, the ATI found itself playing defence. A report from the Tony Blair Institute argued that: While industry figures have predicted some advances and priv
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Last summer, mining startup KoBold made a splash when it said it had discovered in Zambia one of the world’s largest copper deposits in more than a decade. Now, another startup, Earth AI, exclusively told TechCrunch about its own discovery: promising deposits of critical minerals in parts of Australia that other mining outfits had ignored for decades. While it’s still not known whether they are as large as KoBold’s, the news suggests that future supplies of critical minerals are likely to emerg
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If you live in a rural area of the UK, you may soon be able to use your phone for satellite calls, messages and other standard data use. On Tuesday, the nation's telecom regulator, Ofcom, proposed using direct-to-device satellite tech to connect people in the UK's "most rural and hard-to-reach places," like mountains and remote villages. Ofcom sees the tech complementing traditional networks, aiming to provide 100 percent mobile coverage in the UK. The regulator said the tech could also provide
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-01 06:32:11
In the UK, officials said further testing of the rest of the sheep's flock has found no other infections. The one infected ewe has been humanely culled to mitigate further risk and to "enable extensive testing." "Strict biosecurity measures have been implemented to prevent the further spread of disease," UK Chief Veterinary Officer Christine Middlemiss said in a statement. "While the risk to livestock remains low, I urge all animal owners to ensure scrupulous cleanliness is in place and to repo
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Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine’s national railway operator, has been hit by a massive cyberattack that disrupted online services for buying tickets both through mobile apps and the website. The incident forced people to booths to buy physical tickets, causing overcrowding, delays, long waiting times, and frustration. With trains being the only reliable and relatively safe means for people to travel within Ukraine and internationally, the cyberattack is having a significant impact, Daryna Antoniuk rep
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Meta considers charging for ad-free Facebook and Instagram in the UK 16 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is considering a paid subscription in the UK which would remove adverts from its platforms. Under the plans, people using the social media sites could be asked to pay for an ad-free experience if they do not want their data to be tracked. It comes as the company agreed to stop targeting ads at a British woman l
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In Brief Ukraine’s state-owned railway operator Ukrzaliznytsia said Monday that it was hit by a large-scale cyberattack. The cyberattack affected online ticket sales, including via the mobile app, while trains continue to operate, according to the railway operator’s statement on its official Telegram channel. Daryna Antoniuk, a journalist based in Ukraine, reported the disruption for The Record from Kyiv’s central station, writing that the capital’s main railway station was “unusually crowded
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ZDNET's key takeaways The Cuktech 30 is a compact yet powerful power bank that can output a maximum of 300W. It can recharge in under 2.5 hours thanks to 140W USB-C charging At 40,000mAh/144Wh, it's too big to take on an airplane. $149.99 at Amazon Power banks come in all shapes and sizes. Some are small enough to attach to your phone, while others are so big and bulky they come with a handle. Occasionally, you'll find one that sits somewhere in the middle, where things get interesting. Also
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