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X is still struggling with an outage that has intermittently taken the service offline and made it slow to load for much of the morning. According to X’s developer platform page, there is an ongoing incident related to streaming endpoints that’s caused increased errors. The incident started at 7:39AM PT, according to the page.That roughly coincides with a spike in reports at Down Detector. The issues seems to be somewhat intermittent. At some points, X’s website has loaded partially and only shown older posts. At other times, the app and website have failed to load at all.As of 9:30AM PT,…
A man has gone on trial in Germany charged with driving his car into a crowd of people in the city of Munich last year, killing two people.The 25-year-old man, named only as Farhad N, in line with German privacy laws, is an Afghan national.Prosecutors say that on the morning of 13 February 2025, he deliberately drove his BMW Mini into a trade union demonstration in the centre of Munich. About 1,400 people were taking part in the street rally.A 37-year-old woman called Amel and her two-year-old daughter Hafsa died in hospital of their injuries shortly afterwards.They were the hit…
Hundreds of children in care in England are being placed at risk in unregistered homes for months at a time by councils, MPs have warned.A report by the cross-party government spending watchdog said the “dysfunctional” care system was “not working”, with 800 vulnerable children placed in illegal settings for an average of six months each last year.The report said the lack of oversight for unregistered homes meant there was “no assurance over the quality of care or that children are safe”.Last month, an Ofsted report found councils could often not find places in registered homes to cater for children’s needs,…
Canada has agreed to drastically reduce its tariffs on imported Chinese EVs from 100 percent to 6.1 percent as part of a between the two countries. In return, China will be reducing tariffs on Canadian canola seeds from 84 percent to about 15 percent.The move is a break from the United States, which maintains a 100 percent tariff on EVs from China, effectively banning them in the country. Mexico currently tariffs the vehicles at 50 percent after last year.Under the agreement, which Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney “preliminary,” Canada will allow up to 49,000 Chinese EVs into the country, with…
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has vowed she will lead the country “when the right time comes”.”There’s a mission, and we are going to turn Venezuela into that land of grace, and I believe I will be elected when the right time comes as president of Venezuela, the first woman president,” she told Fox News.Her comments come a day after she gave President Donald Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal, calling it a recognition of his commitment to Venezuela’s freedom.The US seized Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas on 3 January and removed him to New York to face…
A man who stalked former Conservative leadership candidate Dame Penny Mordaunt has been sentenced to 20 weeks in jail.Edward Brandt, 61, sent multiple emails and phone messages to Dame Penny and also turned up at her Portsmouth office out-of-hours in a bid to meet her.In November, a jury at Southampton Crown Court found him guilty of stalking, but cleared him of a more serious charge of stalking involving serious alarm or distress.In a victim impact statement, Dame Penny, who was an MP from 2010 to 2024, said she had suffered “huge anxiety and distress” and was living in constant fear…
Image: Unsplash Hear ye! Hear ye! Spotify has notified subscribers that Premium monthly subscriptions will jump from $12 to $13 per month starting with February billing cycles. This marks the streaming giant’s third price increase in just 2.5 years—a transformation from the $9.99 service that launched in the US back in 2011. As Bob Dylan once sang: ‘Things Have Changed.’ The pace of these increases tells a story that goes far beyond simple inflation adjustments. Premium plans climbed from $11 to $12 just six months ago in July 2024, while Duo subscriptions jumped from $15 to $17 and Family plans…
You know things are messed up when a Big Tech company fights accusations of union-busting by insisting it was only AI layoffs. That’s where things stand after a group of fired TikTok moderators in the UK filed a legal claim with an employment tribunal. The Guardian reported on Friday that around 400 TikTok content moderators who were unionizing were laid off before Christmas.The workers were sacked a week before a vote was scheduled to establish a collective bargaining unit. The moderators said they wanted better protection against the personal toll of processing traumatic content at a high speed. They accused…
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The exiled son of the last Iranian shah (king) has called on the world to help protesters topple Iran’s government, saying he is confident “the Islamic Republic will fall – not if, but when”.Reza Pahlavi, an opposition leader based in the US, called for “surgical” strikes on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards which he said “will facilitate our task and prevent more loss of life”.More than 2,000 protesters have been killed, according to human rights groups, in demonstrations that started over the economy on 28 December and turned into calls for the end of the rule of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini…