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When the chief executive of the Financial Times suggested at a media conference this summer that rival publishers might consider a “Nato for news” alliance to strengthen negotiations with artificial intelligence companies there was a ripple of chuckles from attendees.Yet Jon Slade’s revelation that his website had seen a “pretty sudden and sustained” decline of 25% to 30% in traffic to its articles from readers arriving via internet search engines quickly made clear the serious nature of the threat the AI revolution poses.Queries typed into sites such as Google, which accounts for more than 90% of the search market, have…

There are simple Sunday afternoon pleasures to be had in the gentle comedy drama The Choral, the latest collaboration for Nicholas Hytner and Alan Bennett. Their last was 2015’s The Lady in the Van, a slight, mostly unmemorable film blessed by a spiky Maggie Smith performance but cursed with an uneven tone. Unlike that, and their previous two works together on screen, this wasn’t based on a play but it often feels like it and, at too many points, that it also maybe should have been one instead. There are moments of creaky comedy and some bluntly emotional dialogue that…

Foreign Minister Cho Hyun says he is ‘deeply concerned’ over detention of 300 South Koreans, while opposition calls it a ‘grave matter’.Published On 6 Sep 20256 Sep 2025South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has ordered all-out efforts to respond to the arrests of hundreds of the country’s citizens in an immigration raid on a Hyundai Motor-LG car battery factory in the United States.Thursday’s arrest of some 475 workers – more than 300 of them South Korean nationals – at the plant near Savannah in the southern US state of Georgia was the largest single-site enforcement operation carried out by the Immigration…

Liz LozaSep 4, 2025, 09:35 AM ETCloseLiz Loza is a writer for fantasy football, women’s basketball and betting at ESPN. Liz also appears on “Fantasy Football Now” and contributes to the Fantasy Focus Football podcast.”Time is a thief.”I learned this phrase in elementary school. It was regularly uttered by an administrator who, on the first day of school, would wistfully greet the student body, marveling at how much each child had grown over the summer. As a 10-year-old kid, I didn’t put much stock into the musings of a middle-aged vice principal. Decades later, however, I better understand and appreciate…

By Louis Jacobson | PolitifactPublished On 6 Sep 20256 Sep 2025President Donald Trump said US workers are already benefitting from his economic policies.“The average American worker has already seen a $500 wage increase this year,” Trump said during an August 26 Cabinet meeting.Trump’s White House cherry-picked data that favours a higher earnings gain. Experts prefer a different measure, based on a larger sample size, that shows a smaller increase.How the White House calculated a $500 pay bumpWhen we asked the White House press office for Trump’s data source, a spokesperson pointed us to Bureau of Labor Statistics figures for median usual weekly earnings…

Solly’s Corner, a fast food restaurant in downtown Johannesburg, was bustling. Slabs of hake and golden chips sizzled, green chillies were being chopped and homemade sauces distributed liberally into packed sandwiches.Food influencer and radio DJ Nick Hamman stepped behind the counter and was greeted as an old friend by Yoonas and Mohammed Akhalwaya, the father-son duo behind the family business in Fordsburg, a historical south Asian and Middle Eastern area.Mohammed and Yoonas Akhalwaya. Photograph: James Oatway/The GuardianHamman, who has more than 200,000 followers on both Instagram and TikTok, has made it his mission for the past two years to boost…

Get your questions in for Suzanne Wrack, please. RIGHT NOW (or before midday)Our women’s football writer Suzanne Wrack will be online at the Emirates Stadium at midday to answer your questions as the new WSL season kicks off. If you have something you would like to ask her, please email matchday.live@theguardian.com or post below the line hereShareUpdated at 05.33 EDTKey eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureRefreshingly grown-up comments here from Dan Burn. I thought so anyway; I guess it’s easy for a neutral to say that.ShareWSL Q&A with Suzanne WrackAny last questions for Suzanne? If os,…

The Biden administration considered spyware used to hack phones controversial enough that it was tightly restricted for US government use in an executive order signed in March 2024. In Trump’s no-holds-barred effort to empower his deportation force—already by far the most well-funded law enforcement agency in the US government—that’s about to change, and the result could be a powerful new form of domestic surveillance.Multiple tech and security companies—including Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, Spycloud, and Zscaler—have confirmed customer information was stolen in a hack that originally targeted a chatbot system belonging to sales and revenue generation company Salesloft. The sprawling data…

Keir Starmer’s government is not in chaos, the prime minister’s new chief secretary, Darren Jones, has said after an emergency reshuffle triggered by Angela Rayner’s resignation as deputy prime minister.The cabinet reshuffle, which had been planned for later in the autumn, was brought forward by Starmer in an attempt to assert control after Rayner was forced to step down from all three of her roles, having been found to have breached the ministerial code over her tax arrangements.Asked whether the public should see the flurry of ministerial changes as instability, just a week into the new parliamentary session and barely…

Heavy hang the themes permeating Nadia Latif’s adaptation of Walter Mosley’s 2004 novel. Unlike the crime fiction that has proven so popular for the author, The Man in the Basement, while possessing some thriller-ish aspects, is more a book of ideas. Too many ideas, probably, since the fairly simple storylines touch on such themes as power dynamics, race relations, colonialism, guilt, redemption and more. The film, co-written by Mosley and Latif, the latter making her feature directorial debut, faces the nearly impossible task of making all these ideas coherent — and only partially succeeds. But thanks to its powerful atmospherics…