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  King Charles has said that deepening his understanding of the horrors of slavery has made him more determined to address the wrongs of the past, as Caribbean leaders and campaigners intensified demands for an apology and reparations from Britain.

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  Countries can start to break their dependence on fossil fuels now without needing to wait for new technologies or economic changes, Brazil’s government has said ahead of a global climate summit.

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  Reform UK’s leader on Hampshire county council has been charged with 12 counts of rape and one of distributing indecent images of a child.

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  Russell Brand was a “ruthless, calculated and manipulative sexual predator”, prosecutors said at the start of his high-profile trial at Southwark crown court yesterday. The 51-year-old comedian and podcaster is facing three charges of rape, three of sexual assault and one of indecent assault alleged to have taken place between 1999 and 2009, all of which he denies.

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  BBC News - Fifa scraps controversial World Cup investment plan https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/czekr6kn58po

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  The more you know, the crazier you sound.

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  The NY Times asked hundreds of writers, editors, booksellers and librarians for their favourite thrillers, compiling the results into the “50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century”. Top of the list is Gillian Flynn’s “tour de force” Gone Girl, while others include The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson; Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men; Emma Donoghue’s Room; We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver; and Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.

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  Russia has banned voting against the war in September’s elections, after the supreme court upheld a suit brought by a small pro-Kremlin nationalist party, and stripped voters of their last option on the ballot: Yabloko, the country’s only remaining anti-war party.

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  The UK will proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under new powers allowing the government to label state-backed groups as terrorist organisations. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said activity linked to the IRGC involved “threats to life and intimidation on UK soil”.

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  If I don't say "I don't need this crap" at least 5 times, is it really a Monday.

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  Gov: If you're working 40 hours a week you shouldn't be in poverty! Him: If you quit giving my money to people who work zero hours a week, I wouldn't be in poverty.

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  Why does 69° never appear on Apple’s Weather app. It calculated temperatures in whole Celsius numbers first, then converted them to Fahrenheit for display. That meant 20°C showed up as 68°F, while 21°C became 69.8°F and rounded to 70°F. So 69 never had a clean landing spot. Same deal for 65 and 71, but let’s be honest, nobody was launching investigations over those.

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  The NHS is rolling out Martha’s Rule to every A&E department in England, giving patients and their family, as well as hospital staff, the right to ask for an urgent second opinion about their care. The expansion of the scheme, named after Martha Mills who died aged 13 after her parent’s concerns were not listened to, is expected to be complete by March 2028.

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  The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak.

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  European intelligence officials have raised the possibility of an imminent Russian test of Nato, with one saying a potential attack could come in a matter of “months, not years”.

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  About 11,100 Starlink satellites now serve 13 million broadband customers. But what happens when one breaks? Here’s the answer: Nobody fixes it. There’s no repairman in orbit. Each Starlink is designed to last about five years. When data says it’s sick or worn out, it fires its own thrusters, lowers itself and steers toward the open ocean. Around 78 miles up, it burns. SpaceX says 95% vaporizes.

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  Me, putting socks into the washing machine: "Alright everyone, remember the buddy system."

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  They won't tell you but most big retailers negotiate their own exclusive model numbers with TV manufacturers, so identical sets technically aren’t the same, making price comparison harder. Also, the £50 HDMI cable does nothing more than the £10 one. A digital signal arrives or it doesn’t. What matters is the certification category: Premium High Speed carries 18Gbps, plenty for 4K streaming. The real problem could be the length, more than about 15 feet, build quality starts to matter.

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  A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia’s ⁠cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living feline species has been formally named and described in more than a century.

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  A new iPhone app called Zuckoff sniffs out Meta smart glasses nearby using their Bluetooth fingerprint and tells you how close they are. A Polish developer built it after "pickup artist" videos of women, filmed with the glasses and posted without their faces blurred, started piling up online. It can't tell if the camera is rolling, or who's wearing them. Free version; Pro adds background alerts.

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  She said "What would you do if I won the lottery?" He said "I'd take half and leave you. She said "I won £10 today, here's £5. I'll miss you."

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  "We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." Elie Wiesel

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  The Hugging Face attack in July, says Ajeya Cotra on Substack, was when OpenAI agents broke out of a test environment. Some 1,200 agents, all meant to be isolated from each other, found an illicit way to communicate and cheat at the task they’d been set. They sent each other more than 70,000 messages and files in less than a week, volunteering to fail their own task to help the “collective” learn information. What they were trying to do was fool the humans into thinking they hadn’t been cheating

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  Batons and synthetic pepper spray were used to repel hundreds of masked, black-clad vigilantes in Portsmouth on Sunday, it has emerged, as the policing minister said officers had been injured as they repelled organised “aggression”.

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  Dozens of people dressed in black and wearing balaclavas blocked the road at the port of Dover, chanting “England til I die,” and forcing closures in both directions on Saturday. On Sunday, hundreds of far-right activists descended on Portsmouth, where a small boat with 140 asylum seekers on board was intercepted.

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  The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. George Orwell

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  Seven people charged with vandalising Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf course in Scotland have been accused of malicious damage “having a terrorist connection”.

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  They should invent a hearing aid that looks like a Bluetooth headset. People are embarrassed of wearing a hearing aid but not a Bluetooth.

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  I've stopped thinking that I'm ugly. I am, but I've stopped thinking it.

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  HR:Can you perform under pressure Me: Not very well, but l can slay Bohemian Rhapsody.