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Christal HayesBBC News, Los AngelesPeacock via Getty ImagesLove Island USA – a spinoff of the UK reality series – is having its most-watched season yet. But its newfound popularity has come with a dark side. Contestants have been relentlessly cyberbullied on social media, so much so that the show aired a statement during a recent episode with a plea for viewers to halt the harassment. Its host Ariana Madix echoed the sentiment, asking viewers to rethink their posts and how they could impact the cast. The show – which places everyday men and women in a villa in Fiji to…

Graham Fraser and Imran Rahman-JonesTechnology reportersGetty ImagesMeta says it is “fixing” a problem which has led to Facebook Groups being wrongly suspended – but denied there is a wider issue on its platforms.In online forums, Group administrators say they have received automated messages stating, incorrectly, that they had violated policies so their Groups had been deleted.Some Instagram users have complained of similar problems with their own accounts, with many blaming Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) systems.Meta has acknowledged a “technical error” with Facebook Groups, but says it has not seen evidence of a significant increase in incorrect enforcement of its rules…

Getty ImagesFood businesses must make it easier for customers to buy healthy food, under new government plans announced on Sunday. Supermarkets and food manufacturers in England will partner with the government to tackle obesity rates by encouraging people to make their weekly shop healthier.Ministers say it will be up to food retailers to decide how they do that, but it could involve offering promotions on healthy food, tweaking loyalty points to incentivise healthy options, or changing shop layouts.It may also involve changing products to make them healthier.It is hoped the plans will help to make healthy eating more accessible to…

Uber’s use of dynamic pricing has led to higher fares for passengers and lower earnings for drivers, whilst increasing the company’s share of revenue, a study has suggested.The University of Oxford study analysed data from 258 Uber drivers in the UK over more than 1.5 million trips between 2016 and 2024.It found there had been a “significant shift” when the company introduced a dynamic pricing algorithm in 2023, which it said meant “passengers now pay more per trip, but drivers’ earnings have declined”.Uber said some claims in the report were “totally false”, adding that all drivers were shown their potential…

Instagram/ReutersBillionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos tied the knot with TV presenter Lauren Sanchez in a lavish wedding in Venice on Friday. Reality stars, actors, royals and a whole host of A-listers were trailed by paparazzi in water taxis as they made their way to the three-day event. Oprah Winfrey, Orlando Bloom, Kylie Jenner and Ivanka Trump were just some of the celebrities seen in the city for the star-studded event. The festivities are expected to end on Saturday with a large party in a former medieval shipyard, where Lady Gaga and Elton John are expected to perform.Wearing a lace Dolce…

Days after the Trump Organization announced plans to launch a US-made smartphone, a reference to its American production has vanished from its website.A “Made in the USA” tagline featured in promotional material for the Trump T1 phone when it launched on 16 June, was no longer displayed on its site as of Wednesday, reporters found.But the Trump Mobile organisation says the phone will still be made in America.”Speculation to the contrary is simply inaccurate,” a spokesperson told the BBC.”We’re excited to launch the phones later this year, but in the meantime, anyone can switch to Trump Mobile now with their…

Roman Kemp & Tom Grennan dive into therapy on the You About? podcast.

Ian YoungsCulture reporterMark SavageMusic CorrespondentGetty ImagesCapaldi greeted the audience with a peace sign, before starting his setLewis Capaldi has made a surprise – albeit heavily rumoured – return at the Glastonbury festival, two years after taking a break to focus on his mental health.The star’s arrival was confirmed when his name flashed up on the video screens at the back of the Pyramid Stage, to a huge roar of support from thousands of fans who’d been tipped off about his performance.Capaldi strolled onto the stage, taking in the view and raising a peace sign to the sky. Then he hoisted…

Labour’s original plan to reform the welfare system was a hasty effort to try to make billions of pounds of cuts to a rapidly growing bill in order to help the chancellor meet her self-imposed rules on government borrowing.But this latest U-turn raises significant questions about just how stability and credibility-enhancing it really is to tweak financial plans every six months to hit budget targets that change frequently due to a variety of reasons, including things such as the cost of borrowing which the government cannot control.The latest deal appears to row back more than half of the annual £5bn…

MaryLou CostaTechnology ReporterReporting fromVilnius, LithuaniaEnergesmanFly larvae are excellent at converting food waste into proteinMost people are inclined to shoo flies away from food, and the thought of maggots in your bins is enough to make anyone’s stomach turn.But a handful of city councils have embraced maggots – more formally known as fly larvae – and their taste for rotting food.In Vilnius, capital of the Baltic state of Lithuania, fly larvae have officially been given the job of processing the 2,700 tonnes of food waste the city’s 607,000 residents put out for collection each year, alongside that of the six neighbouring…