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No 10: Full Confidence is not the only game based around Westminster’s wheeling and dealing.Fantasy Parliament, external is a browser-based game designed by another UK-based developer, Evan Roberts, which lets players draft their own fantasy league of real-world MPs, scoring points based on their real-life media coverage.With the strategy game’s Policy Tester, players can even type in proposals to a ChatGPT-style AI model, which then replies in the style of how it believes different groups of voters – such as Coastal Keith or Graduate Gemma – would react.Meanwhile, UK Politics Simulator, “built on real UK data down to ward level”,…

Iqra Wasim from Fishponds in Bristol has struggled with PMOS symptoms such as painful acne since the age of 11.PMOS affects about one in eight women. It is a major cause of female infertility and symptoms can include irregular periods, excessive hair growth and weight gain.Wasim, who learned more about it through asking doctors questions and social media, said she now educates her mum, who also has PMOS, on ways to manage symptoms.”My mum was going through heavy bleeding with her PMOS and didn’t know what birth control was,” she said. “I told her about it and she thought I…

This past week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word open letter, external entitled “The Future is for Everyone”.To some, it’s an expression of hope in AI’s promise. To others, it’s little more than a verbose public relations exercise.Zuckerberg’s manifesto is the latest example of a tech boss opining on why AI is the next big thing.His vision echoes what AI leaders have expressed in various forms: the product they are building is among the “most important technologies in history.”Marc Andreessen, co-founder of early web titan Netscape, perhaps started this trend in 2023 with a 5,000-word essay he called…

BBC journalist Ana Guerra-Moore looks at why investors who backed Wondermind Global are claiming the pop star failed to fulfil promises.

Reddit’s popular r/Bumble community – where half a million people share dating stories and discuss app features – has largely questioned the platform’s rule changes.In particular, users have asked how Bumble was now different from any other dating app.”If you women want men to message first, use a different app,” one person wrote, while another said they “really valued” women making the first move. “Women get swamped with messages, so any woman who messaged me showed real interest,” they said.Others argued the feature had already been diluted when Bumble introduced “Opening Moves” – a feature allowing women to set a…

NHS Blood and Transplant apologises after sensitive data sent over unencrypted pager network.

The streaming platform’s users criticised the move to allow the use of channel content for AI training.

While NHS Blood and Transplant manages organ donations and supports transplant centres, services are commissioned and paid for by NHS England.But in a letter to NHS England and a small group of patient advocates, Manas said the central body had created a “fragmented” system “with poor accountability”.There is a “mismatch”, he said, between each hospital’s waiting lists, organ availability, capacity to carry out surgeries and the availability of operating theatres.This is “leading to last-minute cancellations [and] unpredictable utilisation of donated organs,” he warned.The BBC reported in March that the UK, once a world leader, had fallen behind major Western nations…

Available for over a yearFor many schools, it’s normal to post pictures of their own pupils online, either celebrating events or for marketing. But these photos could also be taken by criminals and used to make distressing deepfake AI images. We speak to the founder of a company which says it has a solution. Also on the programme, the incredible ways graphene can augment our senses – including to smell for diseases. And the student with dyslexia who invented his own tech to help him through his course. Presenter: Chris Vallance Producer: Imran Rahman-Jones (Image: A child places a metal…

Most of the incidents in Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield involved private e-scooters, often on public roads, pavements or footpaths, despite that being illegal. Private e-scooters are meant only for use on private land, with the owner’s permission.Half of the children injured were aged between 10 and 13. Nearly two-thirds were boys.Most injuries were sustained by the rider – only 5% were pedestrians that had been hit by an e-scooter – and the most common cause was falling off the e-scooter. Around 11% were collisions with a vehicle, which was often linked to more serious injuries.Injuries to the arms and legs…