Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans Education minister Jacqui Smith said the move would create

'Widely recognised as the biggest piece of child safeguarding legislation in decades.'

Is it?

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The Onion launches new effort to turn Infowars into parody website The new proposal would involve the publication licensing Alex Jones's company, which faces liquidation.

The Onion launches new effort to turn Infowars into parody website

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That's carrot and caramelised onion puree by me.

I'm a domestic goddess.

No really.

CNN put together a montage of Trump saying as far back as March 9 that his war against Iran "is going to be finished pretty quickly," then him saying that same thing over and over for the past six weeks

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground

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Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators
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Loaded hot dogs and fries. By me. Did I caramelise onion with brown sugar and Worcestershire sauce? Yes indeedy. Also a bit of jalapeños and cheese for the giggles.

BBC Two - Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me Director Simon Draper sets out to make a podcast with actress Miriam Margolyes.

If you're looking for delight and have 58 minutes available

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Can I trust health advice from an AI chatbot? Abi has had very mixed results when asking a chatbot for guidance about her health issues.

Dr McCartney says there are important differences between chatbots which summarise information, and digging that information out yourself.

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Scams have grown more sophisticated, but people are fighting back Scams have exploded over the last few years. Can countries and companies come together to turn the tables on the scammers?

..'But after two weeks of chatting, he said he'd been mugged and his phone and computer had been stolen, and he asked her to buy him a phone and to pay some bills for him with her money. What happened next illustrates the international web that scammers weave.'

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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

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False claims about rioters recently storming migrant hotels in Rotherham and Tamworth circulate online – Full Fact Social media posts claiming 460 masked rioters recently stormed migrant hotels in Rotherham and Tamworth aren’t true.

We’ve spotted several almost identically-worded social media posts claiming 460 masked rioters recently stormed migrant hotels in Rotherham and Tamworth.

But this isn’t true. South Yorkshire and Staffordshire police forces confirmed this didn’t happen.

England women play 500th game: Landmark Lionesses moments BBC Sport takes a look at 11 defining moments in the history of England women before their milestone 500th official fixture on Saturday.

So much to celebrate

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The Criminal Past of the Far-Right Anti-Migrant ‘Auditors’ Going Viral on YouTube Streamers who generate millions of views on Youtube, while posing as 'citizen journalists', have a record of abusive behaviour towards women and sexual offences, a Byline Times investigation reveals

'Chesterman has a history of abusive behaviour towards women and is using his growing platform to continue this pattern.'

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Afternoon tea at simfinuk HQ.

No evidence Epsom rape took place as reported, say Surrey Police The reported attack had caused concern and prompted protests calling for more details from police.

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Did your teen see this?

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Map - Empty Chairs Find Empty Chairs events near you on an interactive map.

Empty Chairs is a simple community idea: book a small table in a pub, leave a few chairs empty, and make it easy for anyone to join for a chat.

emptychairs.org.uk/map/

Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it An NBC News review found dozens of AI-generated sexualized images of real women posted to X over the past month.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence software, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people without their consent, despite his company’s pledge months ago to halt abusive deepfakes after a public backlash and government investigations.

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Chinese carmaker Seres patents voice-controlled Seres' plans show how stiff competition in the EV space is putting pressure on carmakers to innovate.

Luxury car with lavish interior.

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Artemis: To the Moon and Back The inside story of the Artemis II mission - filmed over three and a half years at NASA. How did four astronauts travel to the moon, going deeper into space than ever before?

Wow.

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Police data for London doesn’t show knife crime is up 72% in a year – Full Fact A claim from Conservative MP Esther McVey isn’t supported by police statistics, which show knife-enabled crime fell by 11% in the year to September 2025.

Conservative MP Esther McVey claimed last week that knife crime in London “is up 72% in a year”.

That figure’s not correct, according to police statistics on knife-enabled crime, and we’ve not found any data to support it.

Friends: Ross Debuts His Music Skills (Season 4 Clip) | TBS YouTube video by TBS

Pete Hegseth is to politics what Ross is to music.

In his head it all makes sense, to the rest of us? Not so much.

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'I was the most trolled person in the world,' Meghan says Alongside her husband, the Duchess of Sussex was speaking to young people in Melbourne about the harms of social media.

Meghan says she was 'most trolled person in the world'
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DJ Auditor and other 'citizen journalists' are grifters. They make money by generating rage bait content. It's tedious and disappointing.

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I think we can agree that Jan 6 rioters were the worst of people.

#usa #trump #safeguarding

screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -

POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad

VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??

POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

no drawing - sketchnotes in gemini

You can now prompt Google Gemini to generate a sketch note visual in about five minutes. Works for most primary science topics. Worth a look.

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#PrimaryScience #EdTech #GoogleGemini #AIForTeachers

Express corrects claim about UK’s youth unemployment – Full Fact The UK’s youth unemployment rate is higher than the EU average, but not “the highest in Europe”.

A Daily Express column earlier this month claimed UK youth unemployment is “the highest in Europe”.

That isn’t quite right. While the UK’s rate is higher than the EU average, several individual European countries have higher rates.

We're into the last few weeks now with year 11. One thing you could do is point out that lots of the calculations required for GCSE Computer Science are the same as the "product rule for counting" required for GCSE maths. I made a presentation... #TeamCompSci
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