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2026-10-22

Orangutans prefer food associated with sounds of laughter, study suggests: ‘Orangutans base their food choices on whether others appear to be having a good time’

2026-10-21

Flaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world

The Media ‘Manufactured’ Millionaire Exodus From UK, Campaigners Tell IPSO in Open Letter

2026-10-19

turfgrass brain: ‘Throw off your chains, my American brethren, and consign the turfgrass lawn to Revolutionary oblivion’

2026-10-16

Commercial kitchen staff exposed to high levels of air pollution, study finds

UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows

2026-10-15

how i clean my house

OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

2026-10-13

Women ‘more likely to be told autoimmune conditions are psychological’: A ‘stark gender divide in misdiagnosis, with women also waiting longer for treatment’.

2026-10-11

Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report: ‘…what I think’s interesting about the nationalists is that they want to take up the cross at marches, and display it, but there’s less of an interest in denying themselves and following Jesus.’

2026-10-05

Money stolen by scammers hijacking UK social media accounts rises 400%

Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

Thousands of child-on-child sexual offences reported at schools in England and Wales | Schools

2026-10-04

Meet the ‘burglars’ paid to break into businesses: ‘As cyber-defences improve, physical entry to premises is emerging as one of the best ways to hack into systems.’

2026-09-29

Stop shaming people for using AI. Start organizing to prevent our obsolescence

To the people voting for Nigel Farage: is this really the finger you want on the red button?: ‘Anyone who judges that this intemperate psychological liability should have access to the nuclear codes and other top-level information must have a subconscious wish for their answer to the question “where do you see yourself in five years’ time?” to be “living in Britain’s catacombs and distilling drinking water from my own urine”.’

What If We Just Stopped?: ‘…there has to be a better way of connecting and sharing and existing together, a way that isn’t locked into the exploitative doom loops and psychic death of what we currently have.’

2026-09-26

Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit: ‘Pope Leo has warned against losing humanity in a “paradise of machines”’

2026-09-23

New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UN

2026-09-22

How remigration became a buzzword for global far right: ‘The move to the mainstream of terms such as remigration would probably not be possible were it not for centrists and mainstream politicians willing to legitimise this discourse’

Google fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data: A well-deserved outcome for a company that ‘used “various tricks” to ensure location history and web and app activity were enabled’.

‘Incredibly encouraging’: healing the scars of traditional anchors in Dorset’s seagrass meadows: Eco-anchors work, it seems.

2026-09-20

ReÎąd carefully: how to spot – and avoid – a homoglyph attack: URLs that contain characters that look like letters that they’re not.

Thousands of pregnant women in England are reporting domestic abuse. Midwives are struggling to cope: An estimated 20,000 report per year.

2026-09-19

UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge: Bad for democracy, terrible for those of us who are not billionaires.