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Getty ImagesLuigi Mangione, who faces a first-degree murder charge, was the subject of a false headline attributed to BBC News last weekA major journalism body has urged Apple to scrap its new generative AI feature after it created a misleading headline about a high-profile killing in the United States.The BBC made a complaint to the US tech giant after Apple Intelligence, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to summarise and group together notifications, falsely created a headline about murder suspect Luigi Mangione.The AI-powered summary falsely made it appear that BBC News had published an article claiming Mangione, the man accused of…

Actress Olivia Hussey, who shot to international prominence as a teenager for her role in the acclaimed 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet, has died aged 73. The Argentine-born actress, who grew up in London, died on Friday surrounded by her loved ones, a statement posted on her Instagram said. Hussey won the best new actress Golden Globe for her part as Juliet, but decades later she sued Paramount Pictures for sexual abuse as she was aged just 15 when she filmed the movie’s nude scene. Her other most notable screen role was as Mary, mother of Jesus, in…

Getty ImagesTwo NHS hospital trusts in London are using AI technology to see if they can spot type 2 diabetes in patients up to a decade in advance of the condition occuring. Imperial College and Chelsea and Westminster hospital NHS foundation trusts have started training the AI system – called Aire-DM – that checks patients’ ECG heart traces for subtle early warning signs that are tricky for doctors to otherwise detect. Clinical trials are planned for 2025 to see if it works as well as is hoped. Early work suggests the system can spot risk about 70% of the time.…

BBCThis has been a miserable year for Boeing. Not only has it struggled to cope with a safety and quality control crisis, it has lost billions of dollars following a strike by workers that paralysed production at two of its biggest factories.Even its space programme has been in trouble. Two astronauts were left stranded on the International Space Station in June after their Boeing Starliner capsule developed a potential fault, which would have made returning to Earth in it too dangerous.On top of all this, the company faces a crisis of confidence from within its own ranks, says Bjorn Fehrm,…

Getty ImagesMorrisons has apologised after tech problems affected discounts and online deliveries across the UK.Customers were unable to redeem discounts on their loyalty cards and had Christmas deliveries postponed at short notice on Monday morning.Morrisons said it was investigating the issues in store and online but did not give any information on the causes of the outage. All stores were back to normal by Monday evening, the BBC understands.In response to the problems at the tills, the supermarket chain has applied some loyalty discounts to all customers.It is making its top 100 More Card prices the regular price for all…

No Ju-han/NetflixPlayer 456 returns for season 2Season two of Squid Game has received reviews as mixed as a Christmas selection box, with TV critics calling it everything from “sensational” to “a letdown”.The Guardian said that after a pretty slow start, the returning series eventually turned into “TV that will make you uncomfortably bloodthirsty indeed”.While the Telegraph described it as a “layered and nuanced story of revenge and redemption”.Netflix’s most popular original show returned to our screens on Boxing Day with protagonist Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) – aka Player 456 – back for more, three years after his victory in the…

Sofia BrizioSofia Brizio says small things like arranging travel, that might take a non-disabled person less than a minute, could take half an hour for her to sortSofia Brizo spends four hours a day on what she calls “disability admin”.The 27-year-old PhD student, who has cerebral palsy, said she needed to spend that time on making accommodations and planning alternatives, because “the world is not accessible”.Disability Wales said disabled people endured an “immense and often daunting” amount of administration.A Welsh government spokesperson said it was committed to supporting the rights of all disabled people and creating an inclusive society.’It’s the…

BBCAlex Barry says he sometimes has to run a rural pub and hotel single-handedly Closing entire floors of hotel rooms and offering a £500 reward for new staff are just some of the ways hospitality owners in rural areas say they have had to cope with a “recruitment crisis”.Hotel and restaurant owners said despite things easing in recent months, they still regularly struggled to find enough staff, resulting in reduced opening hours or even the temporary closure of some services.Alex Barry, 21, who manages the Red Lion pub and hotel in Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, said he sometimes faced working an entire…

BBCBillionaire Elon Musk has hailed Twitter as a bastion for freedom of expression ever since he acquired the social media site two years ago. But over the course of 2024, X, as it is now called, has evolved from what felt like a communal town square into a polarised hub where views and posts seem even more controversial. ​​Certain profiles that have shared misleading takes on politics and the news, some of which have been accused of triggering hate, have recently shot to prominence.All of this matters because X might not have as many users as some other major social…

BBC/ G&S TV Productions Ltd./Tom JacksonNessa got down on one knee and asked Smithy to marry her in the 2019 Christmas specialWarning: Contains spoilers.The final episode of Gavin and Stacey is finally here, with millions of fans tuning in to find out whether Smithy said yes.The hit BBC sitcom ended on an incredible cliffhanger in 2019 when Nessa, played by Ruth Jones, got down on one knee in front of Smithy, played by James Corden, and asked him to marry her.But what happened next? Did he say yes?After months of waiting, Gavin and Stacey fans can finally find out, and…