Jubilee Line 'severe delays' after 'fire alert': Recap
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Source:The Times
January 06, 2026 06:16 UTC
Ruben Amorim sacked: timeline of his Manchester United tenure – video
Ruben Amorim has been sacked by Manchester United after 14 months as their head coach. He leaves Old Trafford after a power struggle with the hierarchy over transfer policy, with Amorim demanding his colleagues in the recruitment department 'do their job' after Sunday’s draw at Leeds. We take a look back at his turbulent reign, which featured a few fleeting highs but some miserable lows.
Source:The Guardian
January 06, 2026 04:23 UTC
AI Godfather Bengio Warns: Halt ASI Development to Prevent Out-of-Control AI Doomsday
In the solemn Vatican, in the meeting room of the Holy See, physicist Max Tegmark has just finished a long closed - door meeting. Among these cardinals in suits, entrepreneurs, and human - rights lawyers, Max Tegmark stands out like a sore thumb. The words on the note are short and chilling: Call for a halt to the development of human - level AI until safety is ensured. Max Tegmark is not alone, but his opponents are getting more and more powerful: the potentially uncontrollable ASI and the trillions of dollars of capital frenzy behind it. Normally, he and Max Tegmark, who is in the liberal academic circle at MIT, should be at odds with each other.
Source:The Guardian
January 06, 2026 04:22 UTC
Streaming: Baby (2024) by Marcelo Caetano: Survival love becomes a currency when institutions abandon youth
Queer survival is depicted outside institutional legitimacy, grounded in necessity rather than identity affirmation. Brand Insight: Cultural value here derives from proximity to structural truth, not uplift. Industry Insight: Baby benefits from a critical environment that increasingly rewards films diagnosing systemic stasis instead of offering reformist hope. Meta value → cultural value: The film operates as a cultural document as much as a narrative work, capturing how survival economies function at the margins of legitimacy. Format lifecycle → stabilization: Queer realism has moved beyond emergence into consolidation, no longer needing exceptional narratives to justify its existence.
Source:The Guardian
January 06, 2026 03:17 UTC
A survey result shows that YouTube is being eroded by low-quality AI-generated videos, with 63 billion views and over 221 million subscribers.
Jan 06, 2026 08:50:00A survey result shows that YouTube is being eroded by low-quality AI-generated videos, with 63 billion views and over 221 million subscribers. Meanwhile, South Korea had the highest total number of views for AI slop channels in the top 100 trending charts, reaching 8.45 billion views. This is about 1.6 times the number of views of second-place Pakistan (5.34 billion views) and about 2.5 times the number of views of third-place America (3.39 billion views). Pouty Frenchie (Estimated annual earnings: ¥645,800,000)4th place: Fikra-Ai (Estimated annual revenue: approximately 533.6 million yen)5. Fantastic Beasts (estimated annual revenue: approximately ¥487.74 million)7th place: Cuentos Facinantes [sic] (estimated annual revenue: approximately 416.94 million yen)8. insanespidey (estimated annual earnings: approximately ¥387.53 million)9th place: The Ai World (estimated annual revenue: approximately 376.64 million yen)10.
Source:The Guardian
January 06, 2026 01:07 UTC
Spectacular waterfalls flow south of Winton after deluge of rain in outback Queensland – video
Scrammy Gorge in Bladensburg national park is flowing after recent rainfall, with water spilling across the top of the jump-up and cascading over the edge of the gorge. Tourism operator Vicki Jones took vision of the waterfalls from a helicopter following the floods around the outback town of Winton in central west Queensland. The waterfalls appear only after significant rain, typically after a few days
Source:The Guardian
January 06, 2026 00:44 UTC
Ofcom demand answers from Elon Musk over X porn accusation
Many users on X prompted Grok to generate sexualized, nonconsensual AI-altered versions of images in recent days, in some cases removing people’s clothing without their consent. Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on X, saying it was urgently fixing them. Creating or sharing non-consensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material, including sexual deepfakes created by artificial intelligence, is illegal in Britain. Elon Musk has also reportedly posted laugh-cry emojis in response to some of the images generated. In August last year, a victim of child sexual abuse begged Elon Musk to stop links offering images of her abuse being posted on X.Newsquest has approached X for comment.
Source:The Times
January 06, 2026 00:36 UTC
Sad sign of the times as rough sleeper beds down in snow-hit Stoke-on-Trent
Sad sign of the times as rough sleeper beds down in snow-hit Stoke-on-TrentThis shocking image was captured at 9am today as temperatures to -6C overnightView Image A rough sleeper outside Sandon Road Supermarket this morningThe plight of Stoke-on-Trent's rough sleepers has been highlighted as a homeless man bedded down on a snow-covered pavement. The city council spent £1.06 million on hotel rooms for homeless people in one year. "Using hotel accommodation just isn't sustainable. Local authorities have a legal duty to assist people facing homelessness, and this can often mean placing them in emergency accommodation on a short-term basis. In addition to the use of hotel accommodation, the city council also has its own homeless units.
Source:The Times
January 05, 2026 21:43 UTC
Venezuela and the Warning to Britain
We have just issued this YouTube short, recorded in the snow this morning:The transcript is:If you want to understand Britain's future, look at how Trump is dealing with Venezuela. It's democracy, it's statehood, power, all of them are subject to US control as far as he's concerned. We gave up our influence in Europe, which was enormous, by leaving the European Union. We are capable of exploitation and control just as Venezuela is. The Trojan horse that they have to influence European policy in US favour.
Source:The Guardian
January 05, 2026 21:39 UTC
Keir Starmer: We definitely, maybe, stand with Denmark — sort of
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Source:The Times
January 05, 2026 21:29 UTC
The Times and Sunday Times addresses uncertainty in next iteration of brand platform
The Times and Sunday Times addresses uncertainty in next iteration of brand platform'Times change. The Times remains' was created by Mosaic, T&P’s and VML’s on-site agency for News UK. by Eszter Gurbicz
Source:The Times
January 05, 2026 18:10 UTC
Tech's Benchmark Crisis: Holistic Metrics Needed for AI in 2026
Industry reports suggest that as AI-native workflows become standard, traditional metrics overlook key factors like collaboration patterns in distributed teams. Similarly, The Guardian’s outlook on 2026 tech trends highlights data center expansions and AI integrations, warning that without updated metrics, inefficiencies could balloon. Teams using traditional benchmarks might score high on code output but low on innovative problem-solving in remote settings, leading to misguided investments. Their data shows that while cost metrics remain vital, optimizing for emerging technologies like big data systems requires a broader view. HardwareZone Singapore’s trends for 2026, including AI and smart glasses, call for predictions that factor in user-centric performance.
Source:The Guardian
January 05, 2026 17:18 UTC
The ignorance of Anti microbial resistance; A reality and call for concern in LMICs
We received a 28 years old patient in septic shock at the emergency ward during a night shift sometime last year. Unfortunately, the results of the urine culture and sensitivity test revealed bacterial resistance to all tested antibiotics. She passed away a week later and that is when it dawned unto me that anti microbial resistance is real and it is not a joke. Limiting over-the-counter access to antibiotics can also significantly reduce Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). Seattle (WA): IHME; 2023. : https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/2023-09/Cameroon.pdfAbout the authorMIENDJIEM KEMO Hilary Ségolène is a 6th-year medical student at Université des Montagnes, Bangangté.
Source:The Guardian
January 05, 2026 16:04 UTC
I Never Wanted Kids. So Why Does Not Having Them Still Hurt?
I don’t know why I can’t share them with you. I don’t know why I sometimes think of them on quiet morning walks with my dog or why they pop up in my mind unbidden on Sunday afternoons. As I head toward perimenopause, I’m feeling something I didn’t expect: occasional sadness about not having children. One, who we’ll call Sam, who is in her late 40s, married and never wanted kids. There were long stretches of time where I would not think of kids at all—not my hypothetical kids, not other people’s kids.
Source:The Times
January 05, 2026 16:00 UTC
Open letter: UK must not abstain on UN Venezuela vote
Open letter: UK must not abstain on UN Venezuela vote5 January 2026Signatures:To: Keir StarmerReports today say that the UK intends to abstain in any vote at the UN Security Council over the US’s illegal action in Venezuela. The Times reports that the UK does not want to “risk offending Trump”. But when international law has been violated so blatantly, the British government needs to stop cowering and stand up to this tyrant. The UK must support international law, in actions not just words, and vote to condemn Trump’s US. Add your signature
Source:The Times
January 05, 2026 15:18 UTC