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Wes Streeting plans to increase high-skilled immigration if he becomes PM
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Wes Streeting plans to increase high-skilled immigration if he becomes PM

Leadership hopeful also wants tax revenues from new North Sea oil and gasfields used to cut energy billsWes Streeting’s pitch to be the next Labour leader will include a plan to increase high-skilled...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
London startup to trial drug to prevent cancer therapy side-effect ‘cytokine storm’
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London startup to trial drug to prevent cancer therapy side-effect ‘cytokine storm’

Poolbeg Pharma to test the treatment in NHS hospitals and says it is also developing a GLP-1 weight loss pillA London-based startup is about to trial a drug at six NHS hospitals that could stop people...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
Make platforms that promote violent content pay towards riot costs, Streeting says
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Make platforms that promote violent content pay towards riot costs, Streeting says

Exclusive: Former minister calls for urgent action against companies such as X that allow incitement to violenceWes Streeting has called for Keir Starmer to take urgent action against X and other onli...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
‘I should know better’: tech expert lost £70,000 in one simple phone call
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‘I should know better’: tech expert lost £70,000 in one simple phone call

After falling for a scam call, ‘The Tech Chap’ host Tom Honeyands realised he’d given away vital details in social media postsWhen Tom Honeyands realised he had been defrauded out of £70,000 he was fu...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
Nearly half of UK girls saw harmful social media content in a week, research shows
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Nearly half of UK girls saw harmful social media content in a week, research shows

New safety measures had little effect so far, study finds, with Starmer expected to announce under-16s banNearly half of girls and a third of all teenagers saw suicide, self-harm and eating disorder c...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases
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Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases

A Derbyshire police officer is being investigated over accusations they used AI to "create evidence". 

Sky News - UK3 months ago
UK sets out AI infrastructure push at London Tech Week – how does it stack up?
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UK sets out AI infrastructure push at London Tech Week – how does it stack up?

Government announces plans to invest billions, but questions linger over how its proposals on chips, social media and more will workOwnership of the commanding heights of the AI economy is a political...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
Derbyshire police officer investigated over AI-generated ‘evidential material’
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Derbyshire police officer investigated over AI-generated ‘evidential material’

Unidentified officer removed from frontline duties in the first known case of its kind in the UKA police officer is under criminal investigation over the alleged use of artificial intelligence and has...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
UK to ban under-16s from ‘high risk’ social media apps
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UK to ban under-16s from ‘high risk’ social media apps

Measures to include restrictions on ‘safe’ social media apps, with some fearing banning some platforms and not others will lead to legal challengesTeenagers under the age of 16 are to be banned from a...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
David Hockney, pioneering British artist famed for his pools and portraits, dies aged 88
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David Hockney, pioneering British artist famed for his pools and portraits, dies aged 88

The peroxide blond painter from Yorkshire made his name with sunkissed visions of California and never stopped breaking barriers, going on to become one of contemporary art’s most important figures• ‘...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
France accuses Israeli firm of interfering in Scottish elections and targeting SNP
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France accuses Israeli firm of interfering in Scottish elections and targeting SNP

Cyber agency says BlackCore targeted John Swinney, as well as interfering in New York and French electionsFrance’s cybersecurity agency has accused the Israeli tech company BlackCore of interfering in...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
Lupus patients in England in remission after pioneering NHS trial of GM therapy
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Lupus patients in England in remission after pioneering NHS trial of GM therapy

Doctors say therapy that genetically modifies person’s T-cells could offer cure for chronic autoimmune diseaseFive lupus patients in England are in remission after being treated with a revolutionary t...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
Wegovy weight-loss pills to be available for patients in UK to buy
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Wegovy weight-loss pills to be available for patients in UK to buy

Regulator approval means patients who meet criteria will be able to purchase tablets with private prescription Patients in the UK will soon be able to buy the Wegovy weight-loss pill, the medicines re...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
Met police chief calls for law to make stolen phones ‘unusable bricks’
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Met police chief calls for law to make stolen phones ‘unusable bricks’

Home secretary also urged to force tech firms to share data on stolen devices and if they are reactivatedThe Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has asked the home secretary, Shabana Ma...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
Millions of homes in London, Essex and Kent at risk of sinking as climate crisis worsens
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Millions of homes in London, Essex and Kent at risk of sinking as climate crisis worsens

Analysis pinpoints areas most vulnerable to hotter, drier weather causing ground to shrink and drag foundations downMillions of homes are at risk from climate-related subsidence, according to an analy...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
Weight-loss drug users save more than £400 a year on food as take-up triples
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Weight-loss drug users save more than £400 a year on food as take-up triples

Research suggests households that include a GLP-1 user collectively spent £780m less on grocery billsBusiness live – latest updatesWeight-loss drugs are saving users’ households more than £400 a year...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
UK’s stem cell transplant system may be putting lives at risk, report by MPs finds
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UK’s stem cell transplant system may be putting lives at risk, report by MPs finds

System not fit for purpose due to poor infrastructure and planning, with minority groups particularly at risk, MPs sayThe UK’s stem cell transplant system is potentially putting the lives of blood can...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
Humans prefer to walk anticlockwise, scientists find – but reason is unclear
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Humans prefer to walk anticlockwise, scientists find – but reason is unclear

From Spain to Japan, experiments have repeatedly shown a left-turn bias, but exact mechanic ‘is still an open question’“I’m not an ambi-turner,” laments Derek Zoolander in the eponymous noughties sati...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
Chinese activist in UK told by X that abusive deepfakes do not breach rules
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Chinese activist in UK told by X that abusive deepfakes do not breach rules

Apple Peiqing Ni targeted by account portraying her as promiscuous drug addict after posting about Tiananmen SquareA high-profile Chinese activist in the UK who was inundated with deepfake posts on X...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
World-leading UK science facilities at risk amid £162m funding crisis
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World-leading UK science facilities at risk amid £162m funding crisis

Diamond Light Source and ISIS Neutron and Muon Source face cuts of up to 20% as Science and Technology Facilities Council seeks savingsBritain’s scientific capabilities face “serious damage” with some...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago