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‘A losing battle’: will UK public service broadcasters survive amid US onslaught?
The BBC, Channel 4 and ITV are facing severe financial pressure as YouTube, Netflix, Disney and Amazon capture audiences and advertising revenue. Large-scale redundancies and possible ownership changes have raised concerns that Britain’s public service broadcasters may no longer be able to sustain their current role, range of programming or universal services. Channel 4 plans…
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World famous ‘Sad Oompa Loompa’ is finally all smiles after winning a Golden Ticket
Kirsty Paterson, a Scottish actress, became an internet sensation in 2024 when photographs of her looking glum in an Oompa Loompa costume went viral following the catastrophic Willy Wonka Chocolate Experience in Glasgow. Netflix tracked her down and cast her in a starring role for their new reality show “Wonka’s The Golden Ticket,” transforming her…
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Revealed: Shower row behind mystery ‘incident’ at women’s-only swimming event that went viral around the world and ended in the cops being called
A women’s-only swimming event at Sunshine Leisure Centre in Melbourne sparked global social media speculation after the centre announced a “serious incident” involving “poor behaviour” without providing details. The vague announcement led to thousands of internet users worldwide theorising wildly about what had occurred—from anti-trans protests to men gatecrashing to a hippo being released into…
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Minnesota woman’s mugshot for stealing power tools goes viral as her looks are likened to VERY famous celebrity
A mugshot of a Minnesota woman arrested for theft has gone viral after social media users noted her striking resemblance to actress and singer Jennifer Lopez. Cyrena Anne Quast, 35, was arrested on a gross misdemeanor theft charge after allegedly stealing two double packs of power tool batteries worth $578 from a shop in Monticello,…
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Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad’s corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel
A nine-year-old YouTuber known as “Mighty Mike Plays” ran up a $118,000 (roughly £93,000) bill on his father’s company credit card after repeatedly launching Google ad campaigns to promote his Roblox and Minecraft videos. The father, Dave, who works in marketing at an unnamed large company, discovered the spending only after being called into a…
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Cringeworthy moment Minneapolis lawmaker struggles to speak ENGLISH in city council meeting… before getting word completely wrong
Minneapolis City Council Vice President Jamal Osman, who was born in Somalia, stumbled repeatedly over the word “autonomous” while introducing an ordinance to regulate self-driving vehicles, at one point substituting the word “anonymous” instead. Footage of the gaffe was shared by the conservative account Libs of TikTok and mocked online, thrusting Osman into an unwelcome…
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Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race
Fears that artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat to humanity have circulated across the tech industry for more than a decade, yet they have consistently failed to slow the race to develop ever more powerful systems. The warnings stretch back to physicist Stephen Hawking’s 2014 caution that AI “could spell the end of the…
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California high school suspends ENTIRE football team after viral footage shows them making crude gesture at opposing fans
The entire varsity football team at Victor Valley High School in California has been suspended for a week after players and their mascot were filmed making obscene gestures and using offensive language towards fans of Apple Valley High School following a match. The incident, which was captured on video and spread widely on social media,…
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Hurstpierpoint fights 5,900-home development over urban sprawl concerns
Residents of Hurstpierpoint, a Sussex village near the South Downs, are protesting against draft council plans that could see nearly 5,900 new homes built nearby, which they fear will merge the village with the neighbouring village of Hassocks and the town of Burgess Hill into a single urban sprawl. The proposals, part of the draft…
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YouTube’s gatekeeping model harsher than traditional media networks
In a Decoder podcast episode, comedian and YouTuber Adam Conover speaks with host Nilay Patel about how streaming and online video have reshaped the entertainment industry. Conover argues that Hollywood studios, in their rush to compete with Netflix and HBO, effectively abandoned entire categories of television programming, ceding that ground to YouTube. This matters because…