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BBC News is the British Broadcasting Corporation's public-service news division, producing television, radio and online journalism worldwide.
Australia's government introduced laws this week that would force social media platforms to let users turn off recommended content, BBC News reported. The package also adds a legal duty of care for online services. Feed teams get a design task and a liability question to size.
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Jersey's government proposes to hold fuel duty flat in 2027, with diesel recently above £2 a litre in the island and the UK, BBC News reported. Firms that run vans and machinery on diesel describe tighter margins, and the Treasury Minister says the budget's support goes to consumers.
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Sgiath, a six-year-old labrador, has found hundreds of invasive carpet sea squirt colonies at low tide, the BBC reported. Her handler calls it a proof of concept. The open question is how many colonies the dog walked past.
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Asos says hackers took detailed profiles of potentially millions of customers, after first telling investors only basic contact details may have been accessed. The revision followed the attackers' approach to the BBC, so the people holding the records set the timing of the fuller disclosure.
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Pentagon says it has stopped using Anthropic's Claude after a phaseout that, per the BBC, overran Pete Hegseth's six-month deadline. Because Claude was built into Palantir's Maven, taking it out was harder than cutting off access to a chatbot.
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ShinyHunters has shown journalists FBI medical exams that name agents and their addresses, from a set it says covers about 60,000 current and former staff. The FBI has so far confirmed only an incident in FBIJobs-related systems, and the group is threatening to publish within five days.
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Jack Clark told the BBC that most labs including Anthropic can already pull the plug on a model, and he asked whether rules should require one and let a third party verify it. It is buyers who have to work out how much of the service that switch turns off.
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University of Waterloo anthropologists matched skeletal DNA to living relatives and named Harry Peglar, William Orren, David Young and John Bridgens. Six of the 105 men who walked away from Erebus and Terror now have names.
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Meta does not check who holds the rights before a strike lands, so a bogus claim costs nothing to file and weeks to reverse. One creator with 1.5 million followers paid $50 in crypto and was struck again immediately.
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EarthGrid melted its way three metres into a California quarry in January and now talks about commercial work next year. The undergrounding demand is real; the delivery evidence is thin.
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