6 hours ago Luke MintzBBC News Listen to an audio version of this article One morning in May 2024, Doris Suchet noticed something was amiss outside her flat in north Oxford. A chunk of pavement had been repainted into a parking bay for electric scooters. The box was labelled "E-scooter …

'The second home ban has breathed new life into my village' 5 hours ago Jo LonsdaleBBC North East and Cumbria Investigations Nearly eight years ago, Beadnell on the Northumberland coast became one of the first villages in the country to ban any homes built on new sites being used as …

Warning: This video contains graphic imagery of the victims of stabbings and shootings, as well as images of those killed in street violence One of the most powerful and feared criminal organisations in Mexico has unleashed a wave of violence across 20 Mexican states, following the death of drug lord …

'Fear is everywhere': BBC reports from Mexican city turned into war zone by drug cartel feud 13 hours ago Quentin SommervilleInternational correspondent, in Culiacán, Mexico Mexico's president has praised the special forces for "bringing down" the country's most wanted man, drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes. Oseguera, better known as "El …

Racism and 'poor' staff relationships factors in maternity care failings, report finds 6 hours ago Michael Buchanan ,Social affairs correspondentand Adam Eley ,BBC News Maternity services in England are failing "too many" families, with problems "at every stage" of the maternity journey, an interim report has found. Racism, staffing and …

Earlier this month, OpenAI launched a new platform called OpenAI Frontier for enterprises to build and manage agents, but OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said that businesses haven’t yet seen AI adoption at scale. “One of the interesting things and some of the inspiration for the work we’ve been doing lately …

Twitch announced on Tuesday that it’s revamping its suspensions policy to shift away from its previous all-or-nothing penalty system. Until now, a temporary suspension on Twitch meant losing access to the platform altogether, including the ability to chat, watch streams while logged in, and access basic information. Now, the company …

Spotify and Liquid Death have teamed up to launch what might be the wildest product collaboration of the year: the Eternal Playlist Urn, a wireless Bluetooth speaker shaped like a cremation urn. Yes, you read that right. The Eternal Playlist Urn is not really meant to hold ashes, but is …

Google on Tuesday announced it’s adding a new way to create automated workflows to its vibe-coding app Opal. The company said that a new agent being introduced in Opal will allow users to create mini-apps that can let them plan and execute tasks using text prompts. The feature uses the …

government announced on Tuesday sanctions against two companies that acquire and resell zero-day exploits, as well as sanctioning their founders and their associates. Treasury told TechCrunch that the government was imposing sanctions against the brokers of zero-days — security vulnerabilities in software that are unknown to its developer but can …