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A group of aid workers who were put on trial in Greece for rescuing migrants on the island of Lesbos have been acquitted of all charges.The 24 former volunteers were arrested seven years ago – accused of human trafficking and other offences – and could have faced up to 20 years in jail.They had worked for an NGO that rescued asylum-seekers at risk of drowning between 2015 to 2018, when hundreds of thousands of migrants crossed the narrow straits from Turkey to Greece.Their case was widely criticised by aid agencies and human rights campaigners as an attempt to criminalise humanitarian…
Joe PikePolitics correspondentEPAOn Wednesday afternoon in a large wood-panelled room in parliament, Robert Jenrick was sitting alongside Kemi Badenoch and the rest of the Conservative shadow cabinet talking about foreign policy.”He was honestly very positive and chipper”, says one who was in the room.Within twenty-four hours a sensational leak from inside Jenrick’s own Commons office would lead to him being thrown out of the party he joined as a teenager. And him deciding to back Reform, its biggest rival.For months Jenrick had been on defection watch, and behind the scenes Badenoch’s team were picking up worrying signals.”We’d been in a…
The new hypercar with which Ford will bid for its first outright Le Mans 24 Hours victory in 58 years will use the 5.4-litre ‘Coyote’ V8 from its Mustang GT3 racer. Ford announced last year that it would enter the full FIA World Endurance Championship with an LMDh hypercar in 2027, and it has now revealed the powertrain that it will use. It has also issued a teaser of the car, which is currently undergoing wind tunnel development ahead of an on-track debut in the second half of this year. This gives Ford the chance to win at Le Mans for the…
Image: GoldenDayz/Envato At this week’s J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Nvidia made a series of announcements focused on leveraging its AI capabilities by partnering with healthcare leaders to tackle key medical challenges. AI has tremendous potential to change the way we live, with some of the biggest applications in healthcare, helping people live longer and healthier lives. The Santa Clara AI powerhouse’s announcements included: Partnering with pharma giant Lilly to build a $1 billion joint research lab (including compute, talent, and infrastructure over five years) in the San Francisco area that will use AI to accelerate development and…
YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed is reporting that ASUS has stopped producing the RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB due to the ongoing memory crunch. In its most recent video, the channel states ASUS “explicitly” told it the RTX 5070 Ti is “currently facing a supply shortage.” As a result, the company has “placed the model into end of life status,” and no longer plans to produce it.Hardware Unboxed also spoke to retailers in Australia, who told the channel the 5070 Ti is “no longer available to purchase from partners and distributors,” adding they expect that to be the case…
Resident Evil Requiem comes out next month, and fans have been frothing at the mouth for more news about it, especially since seeing the Game Awards trailer that confirmed Leon’s playability. Today’s Resident Evil Showcase gave us exactly that, with director Koshi Nakanishi breaking down the gameplay styles of both protagonists, Leon and Grace, amidst other tidbits of information about the game. Capcom wanted to bring Leon back into the main series, especially after the success of the Resident Evil 4 Remake, but Leon’s inherent combat skills and action hero vibe make him ill-suited for a full-on horror game. Grace Ashcroft…
Watch: Machado says she “presented” her Nobel Peace Prize medal to TrumpVenezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has told reporters that she presented the medal for her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting on Thursday, but did not say if he accepted it.”I think today is a historic day for us Venezuelans,” she said after meeting Trump, the first time the two have met in-person. In the weeks after US forces seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, Trump has declined to endorse Machado, whose movement claimed victory in 2024’s widely contested elections,…
Former Conservative minister Lord Offord has been named as Reform UK’s Scottish leader.
Image: Oberon Copeland/Unsplash Wikipedia just turned 25, and for its silver jubilee, it’s getting a very expensive gift from Silicon Valley: a paycheck. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, has signed new partnerships with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon, formalizing paid access to its vast content for artificial intelligence training, the nonprofit said on Thursday. The deals bring the companies into Wikimedia Enterprise, a commercial platform that provides structured access to Wikipedia content tailored for large-scale AI and commercial use. AI firms Perplexity and France-based Mistral AI have also joined over the past year, while Google has had a similar arrangement…
Image: Generated with Google Gemini A routine click could now come with a payout. Kaiser Permanente is settling a $46 million lawsuit over alleged online patient data sharing, and millions of users may qualify. The deal seeks to end claims that personal health information was improperly disclosed online, pending final court approval. The dispute over patient data handling Data generated when patients interacted with certain Kaiser websites was allegedly shared or transmitted in ways that exposed personal health information. Plaintiffs argued the disclosures occurred during routine use of patient-facing services. Rather than involving Kaiser’s internal medical record systems, the allegations…