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The government proposals have been welcomed by organisations and charities calling for tougher measures and technical solutions to stop children from not just seeing, but also capturing and sharing nudity on smartphones.Ofcom data suggests that a growing proportion of younger children in the UK own a smartphone – and that the number of those do increases with age.According to children’s charity the NSPCC, content filmed on a child’s device can be the starting point for grooming, sexual extortion and other forms of online child sexual abuse.UK police chiefs have previously said restricting the ability of children’s devices to take or…

Conservative Party defector and political commentator Tim Montgomerie has told the BBC he has resigned from Reform UK, urging Nigel Farage to “get a grip” of the party.Montgomerie defected from the Tories 18 months ago but was suspended from Reform UK last month after he criticised senior figures.His decision to resign came after a conversation with Reform’s party chair Lee Anderson on Tuesday. “I think they wanted me back in the party but meekly,” he told the BBC. “And I wasn’t prepared to do that.”Montgomerie said he still plans to support Reform and has no intention of re-joining the Conservatives.”I…

A truck crosses into the United States on the Gordie Howe International Bridge, connecting Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, on September 6, 2025.Jeff Kowalsky | Afp | Getty ImagesCanada’s retaliatory tariffs on a wide array of U.S. goods took effect Tuesday, further escalating a feud between Washington and Ottawa that had already boiled over after trade talks collapsed last month.The duties range from 15% to 50% across hundreds of U.S. products worth a total CA$27.6 billion, including dairy, agricultural equipment, paper, household appliances and electronics. Canadian tariffs on U.S. steel, aluminum and iron products doubled to 50%, while furniture, motorbikes, clothing…

The sanctions were launched alongside France and Canada, which in a joint statement with the UK said the action “marks a further turning point in our approach to protecting the two-state solution”.Settlements are illegal under international law, and there has been a rise in violence towards Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers in recent months. In a statement to MPs, Miliband said: “The British government agrees that there is ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in areas of the West Bank, perpetrated by settler terrorists.”And all too often the Israeli government has turned a blind eye to this and worse, members…

File: A boat of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard at undisclosed location off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran August 2019.Nazanin Tabatabaee | WANA | ReutersThe U.S. military on Tuesday said an unmanned submersible that Iran reportedly seized in the Strait of Hormuz was “defective” and carried no sensitive data or classified equipment.”An underwater drone operated by U.S. forces malfunctioned more than a day ago,” U.S. Navy Captain Tim Hawkins told CNBC in a statement shared by U.S. Central Command.The drone “was surveying regional waters in support of ongoing operations,” Hawkins said, adding, “U.S. operations in area waters continue.”Iran’s Revolutionary Guard…

Inside one of Equinix’s internal operations at Equinix Data Center in Ashburn, Virginia, on May 9, 2024.Amanda Andrade-Rhoades | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesThe backlash against artificial intelligence data centers could prove a tailwind for real estate investment trusts in the sector. Protests have sprung up nationally as hyperscalers look to build data centers to train and run their AI models. Not only do the data centers take up large amounts of land, they consume enormous amounts of electricity and water and are noisy.The debate is only expected to heat up heading into the midterm elections. A recent NBC…

Singapore’s government says it will raise the annual salaries of its ministers and other office holders, including its prime minister who is the highest paid political leader in the world. Source link

Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate and Dr. Karishma Manzur, Democratic US Senate candidate for New Hampshire.Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Mel Musto | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNew Hampshire voters head to the polls Tuesday to nominate candidates for a key U.S. Senate race to replace the retiring Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. Both Democrats and Republicans are aiming to win the seat in their quest to control the Senate in the next Congress.Rep. Chris Pappas, who leads the fundraising race and has represented the state’s 1st Congressional District since 2019, is the favorite to secure…

While wider welfare spending has, proportionately, remained stable, payments for disability benefits have taken up an increasing share of the total.The latest figures show four million people in England and Wales are currently in receipt of Personal Independence Payment (PIP), the main disability benefit.Annual spending has increased sharply from £16.3bn in 2019/20 to £27.3bn in 2024/25, and is forecast to rise to more than £41bn by 2030.But around half of those polled for the survey supported higher spending on disability benefits overall, while a majority also strongly backed extra payments for the costs of having a disability.Around 83% of respondents…

TikTok will get 150 megawatts of capacity from a new data center site in Finland, according to an economic analysis, amid a wave of digital infrastructure deals in the country led by AI hyperscalers and neoclouds.The detail about capacity was in an economic impact report about the new development in Kouvola, Finland, commissioned by TikTok and Hyperco, which is building the facility, and published last week.The move is part of Project Clover, TikTok’s 12 billion euro project to strengthen data security in the European Union for its users. TikTok is owned by Beijing-headquartered tech giant ByteDance.Construction began for the first…