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Teachers, firefighters and military personnel among those who lost jobs after posting their opinion on social mediaCharlie Kirk shooting – latest news updatesReactions on social media to the murder of far-right activist Charlie Kirk have cost multiple people their jobs as authorities in numerous states clamp down on critical commentary.Among those to have been fired, suspended or censured in recent days for their opinions include teachers, firefighters, journalists, politicians, a Secret Service employee, a junior strategist at Nasdaq and a worker for a prominent NFL team. Continue reading...

Exclusive: A third of those polled do not tell bosses about use of tools and half think AI threatens the social structureIt is the work shortcut that dare not speak its name. A third of people do not tell their bosses about their use of AI tools amid fears their ability will be questioned if they do.Research for the Guardian has revealed that only 13% of UK adults openly discuss their use of AI with senior staff at work and close to half think of it as a tool to help people who are not very good at their jobs to get by. Continue reading...

Commission asked platforms to apply content warnings to protect children or others who do not want to see US shootingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s eSafety watchdog has asked social media companies to do more to guard children from seeing graphic footage of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk being shot dead.Kirk, an ally to US president Donald Trump, was killed while speaking on a university campus in Utah on Thursday. Continue reading...

The odd-couple presenters’ wits are perfectly matched in this treat of a travelogue. It’s a good-natured, sweet show that walks comfortably in contentious territoryIndian travelogue shows with British TV presenters are as predictable as they are popular. Here, let me sketch the formula on the back of this samosa. Take, I don’t know, Sue Barker and James Redmond. Whack them in front of the Taj Mahal, then in a tuk tuk. Let them eat pav bhaji. Earnest closeup, while regarding temple carvings. Shot of begging children, while they reflect on what a country of contrasts this is. Much saris and smiling. Close on moment of spiritual epiphany, which evaporates by the airport. It’s a hit!So I..

My novel explores the consequences of extreme longevity. Meanwhile, Putin and Xi are pondering immortality in real lifeI was in bed scrolling on my phone when I read the headline: Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality. It took me a long time to get to sleep after that. Not yet, I thought. I pride myself on my prescience, but I wasn’t ready for the future I had imagined to arrive so soon.Since 2017, I’ve been thinking about the implications of longevity research, sketching out possible futures – the shifts in society, the complications and subcultures. This year I published the result of my thought experiment, Who Wants to Live Forever, a speculative ..

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Nigel Farage’s party featured in considerably more News at Ten bulletins than Lib Dems over six months, study findsThe BBC has come under renewed pressure over the amount of coverage dedicated to Reform UK after an analysis showed Nigel Farage’s party featured in a quarter of all News At Ten bulletins over six months.Reform featured in 49 bulletins between January and July this year, whereas the Liberal Democrats – the third party in parliament with 72 MPs – featured in 17.9% of bulletins, with 35 references. Continue reading...

Fellow forecasters pay tribute to Wynne, described as a ‘great broadcaster’ with a ‘wicked sense of humour’The weather presenter Jay Wynne has died at the age of 56 after a long illness, his family have said.Wynne, who joined the BBC Weather team in 2000, died in June, his brother Matthew confirmed to BBC News on Friday. Continue reading...

Former British Vogue editor has mined his starry contacts book for first issue of 72, with Julia Roberts on the coverEighteen months after he wrapped up his tenure at British Vogue with a final issue featuring 40 famous women on the cover, Edward Enninful is back on newsstands.On Friday he released the debut issue of 72 magazine, a quarterly print title. It is the first project from Enninful’s new venture EE72, a media and entertainment company he set up in May with his sister, the talent agent Akua Enninful. On the magazine’s masthead Edward Enninful is credited as chief creative officer, cementing his pivot from editor to entrepreneur. Continue reading...

Oscar-winning production designer who helped recreate the fantastical world of Harry Potter in intricate detail on screenThe production designer Stuart Craig, who has died aged 83 after suffering from Parkinson’s disease, played a major role in bringing the fantastical, magical world of Harry Potter to the screen. Craig’s set design skills had won him three Oscars, for Gandhi, Dangerous Liaisons and The English Patient, but creating the look of the film versions of JK Rowling’s stories about the schoolboy wizard was the crowning glory of his career.He worked on all eight films in the series, from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 2001 to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows..

Undercover ops and newsroom sabotage at the Toledo Truth Teller. Plus: Robert Eggers’ remake of a 1922 horror classic. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Sky MaxThe Office spin-off finds its funny stride, as the staff of the Toledo Truth Teller get to work on finding local news. Exasperated new editor Ned (Domhnall Gleeson) and his only promising reporter Mare (Chelsea Frei) go undercover as a couple at a mattress store to expose a scandal. But it is scorned managing editor Esmeralda (Sabrina Impacciatore) and her bitter attempts to sabotage Ned that make for the most hilarious moments. Hollie Richardson Continue reading...

The hiring of Kenneth Weinstein as an ombudsman hands the US president a seat at the editors’ deskNews outlets, including CBS, are free to run their editorial operations as they see fit. If they independently decide to hire a bias ombudsman, that’s their prerogative. If they think the best person to monitor bias at this moment is a career partisan like Kenneth Weinstein, that’s cause to question their judgment, but not necessarily a first amendment concern.That all changes, however, when the monitoring is at the behest of the federal government. And that’s what’s going on at CBS. The creation of the ombudsman role was one of many capitulations CBS’s owners made to the Trump admin..

Film-makers pledged not to work with institutions linked to ‘genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people’Paramount said it does “not agree with recent efforts to boycott Israeli film-makers”, making it the first major studio to respond to a recent pledge not to work with institutions that supported or were otherwise involved in the “genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people”.The pledge circulated by an organization called Film Workers for Palestine has more than 4000 signatures including directors and actors like Jonathan Glazer, Ava DuVernay, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Olivia Colman and Mark Ruffalo. Continue reading...

Human rights report highlights crackdown on personal freedoms in most restrictive country in the worldNorth Korea has executed people for distributing foreign television shows, including popular South Korean dramas, as part of an intensifying crackdown on personal freedoms, according to a UN human rights report.Surveillance has grown more pervasive since 2014 with the help of new technologies, while punishments have become harsher – including the introduction of the death penalty for offences such as sharing foreign TV dramas, the report said. Continue reading...

Short videos recorded by the former shock jock get the star treatment. Plus: the ABC hires new investigative reportersFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesWant to get this in your inbox every Friday?Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter hereFor the last six months the Daily Telegraph has had a string of “exclusives” on tap and the Murdoch tabloid sends out regular emails to subscribers hyping up the stories, many of which are “taking aim”, “lashing” and “raging” over something the Labor government has done.The man responsible for all the hype is not a news reporter. He is one Ray Hadley, the 70-year-old former shock jock who retired from 2GB late last..

The video of Charlie Kirk’s murder went far and wide, and many people ended up seeing it when they would rather have avoided it.