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Report to National Crime Agency of £5m Farage gift is ‘deeply serious’
Labour has condemned as “astonishing and deeply serious” the disclosure that a £5m gift to Nigel Farage from a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency (NCA) by bankers who feared it might involve laundered money. The revelation intensifies pressure on the Reform UK leader over his financial affairs, coming just a day…
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British Airways Cancels Barbados-London Flight After Crew’s Heavy Alcohol Consumption at Resort
A scheduled British Airways service from Barbados to London was cancelled following an incident in which flight crew members consumed significant quantities of alcohol at a luxury resort accommodation the night before th
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A Grand Day Out/The Wrong Trousers review – rereleased Nick Park classics are a complete treat
Nick Park’s first two Wallace and Gromit films, A Grand Day Out (1989) and The Wrong Trousers (1993), have been rereleased in cinemas, and this Guardian review hails both as excellent family entertainment, awarding each a full five stars. The critic celebrates the stop-motion classics as “jewels” of animated comedy, each introduced by Julian Nott’s…
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Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
French AI startup ZML has released ZML/LLMD, an inference-server product that lets a range of open-source large language models run across chips from multiple vendors — including Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, Apple Metal and Intel Arc. The launch matters because inference — the processing of prompts, as opposed to model training — has become a…
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BA flight to UK is cancelled after crew members got so drunk the night before one of them collapsed in hotel bar
A British Airways flight from Barbados to London was cancelled after crew members reportedly drank so heavily the night before that one of them collapsed in their hotel bar. The incident matters because it left up to 336 passengers stranded in Bridgetown when the entire operating crew of Flight BA254 had to be stood down,…
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British Airways flight from Barbados ‘is cancelled after aircrew enjoyed vodka and beer drinking session at £500-a-night honeymooners’ resort’
A British Airways flight from Barbados to the UK was reportedly cancelled after members of its cabin crew were said to have taken part in a heavy drinking session at a £500-a-night honeymoon resort the night before they were due to fly. The incident left up to 336 passengers stranded in the Barbadian capital, Bridgetown,…
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AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round
AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11B valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
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Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets
“HalluSquatting” weaponizes LLMs’ inability to say “I don’t know.”
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Dallas Cowboys player who died by suicide diagnosed with brain disease
Marshawn Kneeland, a Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman who died by suicide in November 2025 aged 24, has been posthumously diagnosed with stage 1 chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), researchers at Boston University’s CTE Center have said. The finding matters because it adds to mounting evidence that the degenerative brain disease, caused by repeated blows to the…