Starmer wants to force platforms like YouTube and Facebook to boost BBC content – in spite of the fact that trust in the BBC is collapsing.

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Com 327.906 peças, mais de 9,400 horas de montagem e 111 km/h de velocidade máxima. Conheça o carro de Lego mais rápido de sempre, o Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear, que foi construído à escala real, para celebrar o lançamento do novo conjunto 1/8 com 4.104 peças.

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The media response to the Belfast beheading has once again focused on the 'racism' of the working class rather than on the horror of the crime itself and the dysfunctional immigration system behind it, says Andrew Devine.

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Entre as soluções apresentadas durante a VivaTech 2026 e os bastidores dos laboratórios em Paris, a ciência e a tecnologia estão na base da inovação em beleza da L’Oréal, num ecossistema que liga a investigação ao desenvolvimento de novos produtos de cuidados da pele e do cabelo.

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After accidentally revealing his cancer diagnosis, Sir Kenny Dalglish is a role model in insisting such matters "should ideally be private", says Steven Tucker. It's a lesson many seem to need to learn.

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UK attorney general Richard Hermer told his staff his office was quitting X, according to The Guardian and The Observer.

Several countries have restricted the messaging app, a valuable platform for dissidents, criminals and extremists. Here’s an overview.

A US filing says Grok was used in military operations tied to Iran, surfacing through an environmental lawsuit over xAI gas turbines.

Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.

According to Keir Starmer, a teenager doesn’t have the judgement to scroll through Instagram without state supervision, but does have the judgement to pick the next government. We are governed by idiots, says Clive Pinder.

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Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explain why they try to include “a little chaos” when they record their New York Times tech podcast in front of a crowd in San Francisco.

“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention... They’re down for whatever helps them do that.”

O telescópio espacial Nancy Grace Roman está prestes a partir para investigar os maiores mistérios do Universo profundo. Vai à procura do “invisível”, entre os mil milhões de galáxias que promete observar.

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The evidence from Australia is clear, says Dr Reuben Kirkham, Director of the Free Speech Union of Australia: Sir Keir Starmer's social media 'ban' is doomed to fail. And it targets the wrong things anyway.

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Almost three years in, Meta's X competitor is still growing.

Elon Musk’s trillionaire milestone raises a bigger AI question: Will the future belong to the best models or the companies that own the infrastructure behind them?

Your public Facebook posts could help inform AI-generated results in Meta's new AI Mode. When you search on Facebook, the "AI Mode" option will appear alongside the usual search modes like "People" and "Marketplace." It's one of several new AI features Meta is rolling out starting today, including photo presets that swap sports jerseys onto fans and suggestions for collage templates.

Instead of "just links," it gives users AI-generated results that pull from publicly-posted content across Meta's platforms, like the AI search feature in its new Reddit-like Forum app. Users can also ask Meta's AI follow-up questions in response to the search …

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For months, Big Tech's Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. This would be a comprehensive federal law, passed in Congress and signed by the president, applying one set of AI rules across the entire country and overriding the legally messy state-by-state approach to regulation. For months, lobbyists have run into roadblocks and incurred nationwide political blowback, and they now face the possibility that after the midterms, Congress will flip to hostile Democrats unwilling to work with them.

But their final, most desperate attempt at preemption is coming with new baggage, related to an ent …

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The ban is set to begin early 2027.

A Airbus apresentou em Berlim a nova frota de aeronaves não tripuladas. O destaque coube ao U145, uma versão autónoma e sem tripulação do popular helicóptero H145, concebido para missões civis e militares de transporte de carga. O primeiro voo está previsto ainda para 2026.

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