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ZELENSKY'S NO1 MAN RESIGNS

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff and long-term friend - Andriy Yermak - has resigned after an anti-corruption raid on his home. Interesting - given the narrative on corruption in Ukraine.

BBC

UKRAINE

Truths

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THIS TEDDY'S NOT FOR CHILDREN

Parents looking for a novelty gift for their child need to know - the ChatGPT teddy bear talks about knives, drugs and sex. If there's a mass rejection of Ai soon, it won't be a surprise - and may be a good thing.

SKY NEWS AUS

TECHNOLOGY

UNwelcome

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FACIAL RECOGNITION AT STATIONS

Live Facial Recognition is going to be introduced at some London railway stations. It's called a "trial" - but it means even more images of innocent people are added to a database and shared - with whom?

VARIOUS OTHER SOURCES

GOVERNMENT

Surveillance

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£10BN TO FUND DATA CENTRES

These monoliths are the data centres of our future - in case you hadn't asked or been told. Massive consumers of energy - every bit of digital data is to be processed in these - on everyone. To help society; how?

PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC

FUTURE

Do We Want This

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BUDGET 2025: COMMENT

So, we all have to pay a little bit more. How fortunate are we - whilst the mega rich among us go unharmed - or so it seems. Some of the mega rich have been asking to pay more tax. Nice - what if they all did?

SKY NEWS

GOVERNMENT

Policy