World Health Organization and Great British Menu among accounts that posted ‘this is a hacked account’ British politicians and international organisations have had their accounts on X hacked on Wednesday night. MPs including Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, and the Labour MPs Chris Elmore and Carolyn Harris all shared the same message on the social …
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In this week’s newsletter: The Oscar-winning actress goes back to her roots in Mind Your Own. Plus: five of the best comic book podcasts • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Mind Your Own Widely available, episodes weekly Lupita Nyong’o came up with the idea for this podcast when she …
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With no intensive care available in remote areas, many patients died on their way to city hospitals. Now rural medics are using tele-ICU systems to save lives • Photographs by Elke Scholiers for the Guardian Whenever an ambulance arrived with a critically ill patient, Dr R Mubarak’s heart would sink. His small country hospital in …
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In 2004, Fable was as famous for what it didn’t deliver as for what it did. But this Python-esque fantasy game deserves to be remembered for more than that In 1985, brothers Dene and Simon Carter vowed to each other that they would one day start their own development studio together. The game they imagined …
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In this week’s newsletter: From platformers to side-scrolling space adventures and top-down racers, every experience from your gaming youth is recreated with passion and skill • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I filed this issue of Pushing Buttons late, because I have become obsessed with a 1985 strategy game …
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Android cuts telephoto camera and high-end AI features for lower price, but ends up a little lost in the mix Google’s cheapest Pixel 9 offers almost everything that makes its top-flight sibling one of the best smaller phones available, cutting a few key ingredients to price match Apple and Samsung. The Pixel 9 costs £799 …
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Officials say there is no indication Biden campaign responded to the emails, which offered information stolen from Trump campaign Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden’s campaign in information stolen from rival Donald Trump’s campaign, sending unsolicited emails to people associated with the then-Democratic candidate in an effort to interfere in the 2024 election, …
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Social media platform routes internet traffic outside of Brazil using a communications network update Social media platform Twitter/X became accessible to many users in Brazil on Wednesday as an update to its communications network circumvented a block order by the country’s supreme court. The X update used cloud services offered by third parties, allowing some …
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The board has rejected both of Anne Wojcicki’s buyout proposals to save the struggling genetics company Seven of eight members of 23andMe’s board have resigned in yet another blow to the struggling genetics company. The CEO is now the only remaining member. The independent directors of the genetic testing firm said in a letter posted …
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Major entertainment company gives Runway access to vast portfolio to help film-makers ‘augment their work’ Lionsgate has signed a deal with the artificial intelligence research firm Runway, allowing it access to the company’s large film and TV library to train a new generative model. According to the Wall Street Journal, the model will be “customized …
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