European leaders meet in Brussels as Poland’s Donald Tusk issues warning to fellow EU states
Meanwhile, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that a failure to agree on the use of frozen Russian assets would pose a serious challenge for Ukraine.
“I will speak with all the leaders, present our arguments, and I very much hope we can obtain a positive decision. Without it, there will be a big problem for Ukraine,” Zelenskyy told reporters, quoted by AFP.
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The Scottish actor and presenter – who hosted the Bafta TV awards this year – will take over from David Tennant at the February ceremony
The Scottish actor and presenter Alan Cumming has been named as the new host of the Bafta film awards, taking over the reins from David Tennant.
Cumming, who hosted the Bafta TV awards earlier this year and captivated audiences worldwide as host of The Traitors US, will take the stage at the Royal Festival Hall for the ceremony on 22 February 2026.
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AI Security Institute report finds most common type of AI tech used was general purpose assistants such as ChatGPT and Amazon Alexa
A third of UK citizens have used artificial intelligence for emotional support, companionship or social interaction, according to the government’s AI security body.
The AI Security Institute (AISI) said nearly one in 10 people used systems like chatbots for emotional purposes on a weekly basis, and 4% daily.
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Remarkably, most of the men connected to the convicted sex offender have barely experienced any fallout. That says as much as the scandal itself
A couple of weeks ago, the annual DealBook Summit got under way in New York. It’s a series of public talks billed as conversations with “the world’s most consequential people”, and is part of that circuit of live events in which the worst people on Earth gather on stage to address the second-worst people on Earth, their paying audience. Hosted by Andrew Ross Sorkin, the conference was a characteristically starry affair, but in a lineup that included Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and “changemaker” Halle Berry, it was Ehud Barak, the former prime minister of Israel and a former associate of Jeffrey Epstein, who really caught the eye.
My first thought about Barak’s appearance was: Larry Summers must be spitting. Summers, the former president of Harvard and another Epstein associate, was very much not on stage at the DealBook Summit, nor is he anywhere else in polite society right now. One can only imagine how bitter he must be feeling about the variance in fortunes of the men – and occasional woman – with known connections to Epstein. Of this list, two are dead (Marvin Minsky and Jean-Luc Brunel), one is in jail (Ghislaine Maxwell) and one has lost his house, his title and his invitation to the family Christmas (Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor). But for the rest of the prominent associates, email correspondents, birthday-card signatories, grant recipients and dinner companions of the late convicted paedophile – all of whom insist that, while in Epstein’s orbit, they remained in total ignorance as to the man’s true nature – the cancellation fairy’s aim has been predictably inconsistent and wide.
Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist
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Teachers to be given extra training as Keir Starmer warns ‘toxic ideas are taking hold early and going unchallenged’
Children as young as 11 who demonstrate misogynistic behaviour will be taught the difference between pornography and real relationships, as part of a multimillion-pound investment to tackle misogyny in England’s schools, the Guardian understands.
On the eve of the government publishing its long-awaited strategy to halve violence against women and girls (VAWG) in a decade, David Lammy told the Guardian that the battle “begins with how we raise our boys”, adding that toxic masculinity and keeping girls and women safe were “bound together”.
Preventing young men being harmed by “manosphere” influencers such as Andrew Tate.
Stopping abusers in England and Wales through measures such as dedicated rape and sexual offences teams and enforceable domestic abuse protection orders.
£550m of funding to support victims.
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SoundCloud a officiellement confirmé une faille de sécurité impactant près de 20 % de sa base d'utilisateurs. Les pirates ont exfiltré des données de profil et des adresses e-mail, mais aucune information sensible comme les mots de passe. Cet incident est la cause directe des récents blocages de connexion VPN qui ont frustré de nombreux créateurs et auditeurs.
Todd Howard, producteur des jeux vidéo Fallout, a laissé sous-entendre que le cinquième opus de la saga, à paraître, sera très lié à la série en cours de diffusion sur Amazon Prime Video. De quoi créer des références à la pelle.
Au cœur des nouveaux smartphones Mate 80 de Huawei, la puce Kirin 9030 incarne à la fois le triomphe de l'ingéniosité chinoise face aux restrictions et l'ombre persistante d'un plafond technologique difficile à briser.
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