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  If I don't say "I don't need this crap" at least 5 times, is it really a Monday.

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  Gov: If you're working 40 hours a week you shouldn't be in poverty! Him: If you quit giving my money to people who work zero hours a week, I wouldn't be in poverty.

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  Why does 69° never appear on Apple’s Weather app. It calculated temperatures in whole Celsius numbers first, then converted them to Fahrenheit for display. That meant 20°C showed up as 68°F, while 21°C became 69.8°F and rounded to 70°F. So 69 never had a clean landing spot. Same deal for 65 and 71, but let’s be honest, nobody was launching investigations over those.

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  The NHS is rolling out Martha’s Rule to every A&E department in England, giving patients and their family, as well as hospital staff, the right to ask for an urgent second opinion about their care. The expansion of the scheme, named after Martha Mills who died aged 13 after her parent’s concerns were not listened to, is expected to be complete by March 2028.

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  The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak.

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  European intelligence officials have raised the possibility of an imminent Russian test of Nato, with one saying a potential attack could come in a matter of “months, not years”.

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  About 11,100 Starlink satellites now serve 13 million broadband customers. But what happens when one breaks? Here’s the answer: Nobody fixes it. There’s no repairman in orbit. Each Starlink is designed to last about five years. When data says it’s sick or worn out, it fires its own thrusters, lowers itself and steers toward the open ocean. Around 78 miles up, it burns. SpaceX says 95% vaporizes.

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  Me, putting socks into the washing machine: "Alright everyone, remember the buddy system."

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  They won't tell you but most big retailers negotiate their own exclusive model numbers with TV manufacturers, so identical sets technically aren’t the same, making price comparison harder. Also, the £50 HDMI cable does nothing more than the £10 one. A digital signal arrives or it doesn’t. What matters is the certification category: Premium High Speed carries 18Gbps, plenty for 4K streaming. The real problem could be the length, more than about 15 feet, build quality starts to matter.

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  A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia’s ⁠cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living feline species has been formally named and described in more than a century.

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  A new iPhone app called Zuckoff sniffs out Meta smart glasses nearby using their Bluetooth fingerprint and tells you how close they are. A Polish developer built it after "pickup artist" videos of women, filmed with the glasses and posted without their faces blurred, started piling up online. It can't tell if the camera is rolling, or who's wearing them. Free version; Pro adds background alerts.

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  She said "What would you do if I won the lottery?" He said "I'd take half and leave you. She said "I won £10 today, here's £5. I'll miss you."

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  "We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." Elie Wiesel

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  The Hugging Face attack in July, says Ajeya Cotra on Substack, was when OpenAI agents broke out of a test environment. Some 1,200 agents, all meant to be isolated from each other, found an illicit way to communicate and cheat at the task they’d been set. They sent each other more than 70,000 messages and files in less than a week, volunteering to fail their own task to help the “collective” learn information. What they were trying to do was fool the humans into thinking they hadn’t been cheating

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  Batons and synthetic pepper spray were used to repel hundreds of masked, black-clad vigilantes in Portsmouth on Sunday, it has emerged, as the policing minister said officers had been injured as they repelled organised “aggression”.

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  Dozens of people dressed in black and wearing balaclavas blocked the road at the port of Dover, chanting “England til I die,” and forcing closures in both directions on Saturday. On Sunday, hundreds of far-right activists descended on Portsmouth, where a small boat with 140 asylum seekers on board was intercepted.

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  The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. George Orwell

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  Seven people charged with vandalising Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf course in Scotland have been accused of malicious damage “having a terrorist connection”.

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  They should invent a hearing aid that looks like a Bluetooth headset. People are embarrassed of wearing a hearing aid but not a Bluetooth.

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  I've stopped thinking that I'm ugly. I am, but I've stopped thinking it.

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  HR:Can you perform under pressure Me: Not very well, but l can slay Bohemian Rhapsody.

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  Flock Safety is arming US police departments with drones that launch themselves, hit 60 mph, chase fleeing cars and read plates before a patrol car even rolls. Sounds slick until you hear this: In Roseville, Calif., police found 71% of Flock’s stolen-car alerts had a misread plate. Picture that mistake at 400 feet, locked onto a car, your kid’s car or a neighbour who did nothing wrong. I want a human near that launch button. Did the drone tail the right vehicle? Not even remotely. 😱

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  Have you ever noticed, people with irritating coughs don't go to the doctors.....they go to the theatre, the cinema, the concert.....

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  Russia has continued to pummel Ukraine, using increasingly high-tech equipment, with “devastating consequences”. When Ukrainians started digging through the rubble after major attacks to analyse fragments of the Russian weaponry, they realised a lot of the most high-tech components were coming from Japan. Tokyo is a vocal supporter of Kyiv, but owing to its lack of a foreign intelligence service, it’s a “spy paradise”. Russia has a specialist spy unit dedicated to evading Western sanctions there

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  The US Senate voted to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general in a win for Donald Trump, who will now have his one-time personal attorney sitting atop the nation’s law enforcement apparatus.

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  The alleged leader of the Kinahan organised crime group was extradited from Dubai on Sunday and met by a huge security operation in Dublin, marking the end of a global game of cat and mouse with European, US and Gulf authorities.

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  I've discovered Blip. A free app where you can send photos, videos and more from your phone to your computer without annoying size limits. Install Blip on iPhone or Android and your PC, then use the same email address on both. Pick a file, tap Share, select your computer’s Blip icon and hit Send. As a bonus, you can send large files to friends, too.

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  Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. Isaac Asimov

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  Mobile phones don’t need the full 100% charge: Keeping it at 100% on the charger every night adds wear to the battery. Set a cap limit. On iPhone, go to Settings > Battery > Charging > Charge Limit and select 90%. On Android, open Settings > Battery > Battery protection. A little less juice today could mean more battery life next year.

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  As l watch kids today trying to rewrite history, one thing I'm sure of...it will be mis-spelled and have no punctuation.