Kansas are taking on Arizona in the Union Jack Classic, with 60,000 young and noisy fans expected at Wembley By No Helmets Required Follow No Helmets Required on Facebook Continue reading...
The Guardian•Gavin Willacy16 Sept
Meta One bundles expanded access to the company’s AI tools with premium features across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
TechCrunch•Sarah Perez15 Sept
Meta One will add power features to Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp.
The Hollywood Reporter•Alex Weprin15 Sept
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply A police department in Texas that arrested a local resident for complaining on social media about their city’s contaminated water supply has been ordered closed after failing to prove it provided any benefit to the community. State officials stepped in to investigate after Jennifer Combs spent a night in jail in May after a post appeared on her Facebook page suggesting people were hospitalized by bacteria in the water pipes of Trinidad, a municipality in Henderson county about 75 miles south-east of Dallas. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Richard Luscombe15 Sept
The Jefferson County, Pa., Coroner’s Office on Sunday said a 40-year-old woman died from complications with measles, the state’s third measles-related death this year. Coroner Greg Furlong wrote on Facebook that the woman, a Jefferson County resident, died on Saturday. He added that his office was working with the Pennsylvania Department of Health on this…
The Hill•Ryan Mancini13 Sept
Craig Berg was hypothermic but alert when located on Isle Royale by Michigan police and officials during solo hike A 70-year-old hiker who had been missing for a week on a Michigan island was rescued on Saturday, according to the US Coast Guard. Craig Berg was located on Isle Royale with the help of backpackers, Michigan state police troopers and local officials. Even though Berg was found injured and hypothermic, he is “alive and alert”, according to a statement posted to the Isle Royale national park’s Facebook page . Continue reading...
The Guardian•Keely Aouga13 Sept
Exclusive: Supermarket joins line of firms and sports stars including Bellingham and Haaland to have their image hijacked via ads Tesco has alerted City of London police after it became the latest in a string of companies and sports stars, including Barclays bank and Lewis Hamilton, to have its image hijacked in a “scam” by unlicensed casinos advertising via Facebook and Instagram. The supermarket chain is among several household-name businesses to have been targeted in an apparent effort by casinos that cannot legally operate in Britain to capitalise on their brand recognition. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Rob Davies13 SeptExclusive: Supermarket joins line of firms and sports stars including Bellingham and Haaland to have their image hijacked via ads Tesco has alerted City of London police after it became the latest in a string of companies and sports stars, including Barclays bank and Lewis Hamilton, to have its image hijacked in a “scam” by unlicensed casinos advertising via Facebook and Instagram. The supermarket chain is among several household-name businesses to have been targeted in an apparent effort by casinos that cannot legally operate in Britain to capitalise on their brand recognition. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Rob Davies13 Sept
Maleah Pearce wanted to end her relationship with high school ‘bad boy’ Dylan before they grew too attached. Then one lunchtime, he brought her a surprise Find more stories from the moment I knew series Dylan and I first started dating in high school when we were 16. He was a “bad boy” who got drunk at parties and occasionally spoke to other people with his fists. One night, I was sitting at my computer, chatting with friends on MSN and Facebook and Dylan’s name popped up. I enjoyed playing online checkers with people from school, so I invited him to a game. During the game we chatted online, which led to flirting. The winner got to choose what they wanted. I lost and what did Dylan ask for? To date me. We agreed to one date at the movies and to declare to the school we were boyfriend and girlfriend. I thought this was hilarious, though I planned to break up with him after a few days. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...
The Guardian•Maleah Pearce12 Sept
Gary Myers, the former NASCAR driver, stock car legend and patriarch of a noted racing family, died Thursday, September 10, following an extended period of ill health. He was 76. His death was announced on Facebook by his son, racecar driver Burt Myers. “Last night I lost my hero,” Burt Myers wrote. “He fought so […]
Deadline•Greg Evans12 Sept
Washington Post report also reveals Jon Husted staffer Stephen Woytek created pro-Rhodesia playlist on Spotify The Republican senator for Ohio, Jon Husted, has fired an aide who was discovered to have used a photo of Nazi SS soldiers as his Facebook profile photo. Stephen Woytek was appointed as Husted’s political director last month in the senator’s knife-edge re-election contest against former Democrat senator Sherrod Brown. According to the Washington Post , Husted had decided to “part ways” with Woytek, 25, after learning that his Facebook profile showed he followed a military re-enactment group called LAH Living History Unit, which portrays the 1st SS Panzer division. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Robert Tait in Washington11 Sept
Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) fired his campaign’s political director, Stephen Woytek, on Friday after learning about social media posts linked to Woytek, including a Facebook profile photo of Nazi officers and a public playlist of songs celebrating Rhodesia, a now-defunct nation often venerated by white supremacists. A spokesperson for Husted’s campaign told The Hill that…
The Hill•Helen Huiskes11 Sept
The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature.
Militant feminist led campaigns to legalise abortion and divorce and went on to become foreign minister Emma Bonino, the radical Italian politician who led campaigns to legalise abortion and divorce against the objections of the Vatican, has died aged 78. “Today we lose not only our leader but also one of the most clear-sighted, courageous and free figures in the political history of our country,” the small party she founded, More Europe, said on Facebook on Friday. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Guardian staff and agencies in Rome11 Sept
AeroSHARK is coming to Airbus aircraft. An A330 from Discover Airlines will be the first Airbus aircraft worldwide to be equipped with the innovative technology. Follow Aeronews on Facebook, Twitter,...
The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.
Shallah, Fatimah and Maahi are among hundreds of thousands of Afghan women and girls deported from Iran and Pakistan in the past year to a life of severe restrictions It was a warm summer afternoon on 15 August 2021 when the Taliban entered Kabul and changed the lives of millions. Shallah*, then 16, watched the news at home on the Afghan TV channel Tolo news. She ran crying to the garden, to tell her mother that Afghanistan had fallen. Her younger sister, Fatimah*, then 11, was at her cousin’s house, where her aunt told her the news. At the time, she says, she did not understand what a takeover meant, or who the Taliban were. Her elder sister, Maahi*, then 22, was well aware of the consequences and remembers her hands shaking at work as she read the news on her phone, on Facebook pages of Afghan news. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Guardian reporters9 Sept
AIRCAIRO has signed a firm order for 15 Airbus A320neo aircraft at the El Alamein International Airshow 2026. Follow Aeronews on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and TikTok Having grown rapidly from...
A brand-new Airbus A320neo (OE-LXF) featuring the fastest in-flight Internet connection currently available to passengers took off on its first scheduled flight. Destination: Porto. Follow Aeronews on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn...
Muse, Meta’s new A.I. agent, acts as a personal digital assistant that connects to Facebook and Instagram, as well as third-party apps such as Spotify and OpenTable.
The New York Times•Eli Tan8 Sept