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Retired decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5M(bbc.co.uk)

42 points by HelloUsername 3 days ago | 39 comments

BBC News article about a retired decorator from Woking whose attic-stored sealed Pokémon card collection sold for £1.56m at Ewbank's auction house.

ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers(bbc.co.uk)

58 points by helsinkiandrew 20 days ago | 39 comments

BBC News article reporting that users of the ASOS shopping app received push notifications apparently sent by hackers.

Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity(bbc.co.uk)

28 points by pluc 1 month ago | 32 comments

Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure(bbc.co.uk)

70 points by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 1 month ago | 69 comments

Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley(bbc.co.uk)

23 points by chrisjj 1 month ago | 36 comments

We've followed their lives for six decades; now the stars of 7 Up are bowing out(bbc.co.uk)

98 points by mellosouls 1 month ago | 27 comments

South Park creators rename show 'South America'(bbc.co.uk)

104 points by hermitcrab 1 month ago | 20 comments

Are women better than men at endurance running?(bbc.co.uk)

7 points by polar 1 month ago | 1 comments

Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'(bbc.co.uk)

25 points by ljf 1 month ago | 39 comments

Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?(bbc.co.uk)

52 points by m-i-l 2 months ago | 56 comments

Banksy works cost public almost £150k(bbc.co.uk)

18 points by alvis 2 months ago | 28 comments

Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses(bbc.co.uk)

23 points by CaRDiaK 2 months ago | 3 comments

Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack(bbc.co.uk)

22 points by zeristor 2 months ago | 1 comments

ChatGPT claims rogue AI attacked more companies(bbc.co.uk)

32 points by osrec 2 months ago | 37 comments

Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces(bbc.co.uk)

30 points by petepete 4 months ago | 21 comments

Why does paper fold so well?(bbc.co.uk)

92 points by zeristor 4 months ago | 45 comments

Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India(bbc.co.uk)

120 points by mellosouls 4 months ago | 86 comments

AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year(bbc.co.uk)

33 points by vylorn 4 months ago | 25 comments

EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products(bbc.co.uk)

306 points by jjp 5 months ago | 231 comments

'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'(bbc.co.uk)

189 points by bauc 5 months ago | 50 comments

Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline, BBC finds(bbc.co.uk)

25 points by dijksterhuis 5 months ago | 15 comments

GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay(bbc.co.uk)

668 points by n1b0m 5 months ago | 642 comments

BBC News article reporting that GameStop has made a $55.5bn takeover offer for eBay.

How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London?(bbc.co.uk)

66 points by monooso 5 months ago | 35 comments

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed(bbc.co.uk)

64 points by AndrewDucker 6 months ago | 154 comments

Golden eagles' return to English skies(bbc.co.uk)

41 points by techterrier 6 months ago | 21 comments

White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets(bbc.co.uk)

110 points by chrischapman 6 months ago | 61 comments

Afrika Bambaataa, hip-hop pioneer, has died(bbc.co.uk)

159 points by mellosouls 6 months ago | 44 comments

New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds(bbc.co.uk)

124 points by chrisjj 6 months ago | 56 comments

Meta and Google found liable in social media addiction trial(bbc.co.uk)

68 points by ColinWright 7 months ago | 13 comments

Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church(bbc.co.uk)

87 points by xenocratus 7 months ago | 29 comments

AI toys for children misread emotions and respond inappropriately(bbc.co.uk)

12 points by fredley 7 months ago | 1 comments

Lost Doctor Who episodes found(bbc.co.uk)

279 points by edent 7 months ago | 89 comments

Number of UK workers on zero-hours contracts hits record high ahead of crackdown(bbc.co.uk)

50 points by robtherobber 8 months ago | 50 comments

KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge(bbc.co.uk)

28 points by penguin_booze 8 months ago | 11 comments

Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds(bbc.co.uk)

25 points by fredley 8 months ago | 39 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged(bbc.co.uk)

64 points by vedantnair 8 months ago | 42 comments

The Science of Fermentation [audio](bbc.co.uk)

62 points by fallinditch 9 months ago | 18 comments

Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences(bbc.co.uk)

63 points by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 9 months ago | 58 comments

White House defends sharing AI image showing arrested woman crying(bbc.co.uk)

28 points by petepete 9 months ago | 8 comments

Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios(bbc.co.uk)

62 points by piqufoh 9 months ago | 45 comments

US believes its power matters more than international law, UN chief(bbc.co.uk)

24 points by treadump 9 months ago | 8 comments

Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis(bbc.co.uk)

41 points by treadump 9 months ago | 14 comments

UK secures record supply of offshore wind projects(bbc.co.uk)

30 points by ljf 9 months ago | 36 comments

I used Lego to design a farm for people who are blind – like me(bbc.co.uk)

119 points by ColinWright 9 months ago | 49 comments

UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space(bbc.co.uk)

131 points by vekerdyb 9 months ago | 71 comments

We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years(bbc.co.uk)

1081 points by rajeshrajappan 10 months ago | 252 comments

BBC Wales human-interest article about a family who invited a man into their home at Christmas, where he then lived with them for 45 years.

McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash(bbc.co.uk)

60 points by mindracer 10 months ago | 77 comments

US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry(bbc.co.uk)

18 points by neversaydie 10 months ago | 12 comments

Martin Parr has died(bbc.co.uk)

36 points by yzydserd 10 months ago | 2 comments

Frank Gehry has died(bbc.co.uk)

164 points by ksajadi 10 months ago | 57 comments

Porn company fined £1M over inadequate age checks (UK)(bbc.co.uk)

17 points by ndsipa_pomu 10 months ago | 33 comments

'Carspreading' is on the rise – and not everyone is happy about it(bbc.co.uk)

18 points by helsinkiandrew 10 months ago | 3 comments

Cats became our companions way later than you think(bbc.co.uk)

37 points by n1b0m 11 months ago | 38 comments

Our babies were taken after 'biased' parenting test(bbc.co.uk)

23 points by binning 11 months ago | 20 comments

Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe(bbc.co.uk)

40 points by fumblebee 11 months ago | 38 comments

'Complicated' watch from 1907 sets world record at auction(bbc.co.uk)

10 points by Lio 11 months ago | 0 comments

A new documentary about the history of forced psychiatric treatment in Spain(bbc.co.uk)

132 points by binning 11 months ago | 121 comments

BBC director general and News CEO resign in bias controversy(bbc.co.uk)

24 points by mellosouls 11 months ago | 22 comments

Solar-powered QR reading postboxes being rolled out across UK(bbc.co.uk)

45 points by thinkingemote 1 year ago | 30 comments

AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time(bbc.co.uk)

369 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 263 comments

BBC Media Centre press release on an EBU-coordinated, BBC-led international study finding AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time.

How one of the longest dinosaur trackways in the world was uncovered in the UK(bbc.co.uk)

43 points by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 1 year ago | 9 comments

Vodafone admits 'major outage' as more than 130,000 report problems(bbc.co.uk)

41 points by rstreefland 1 year ago | 12 comments

Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad(bbc.co.uk)

206 points by dijksterhuis 1 year ago | 145 comments

Dismissed as a joke, UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer(bbc.co.uk)

87 points by zeristor 1 year ago | 78 comments

Teens turned their rooms into tech-free zones. This was the result(bbc.co.uk)

26 points by xyzzy3000 1 year ago | 13 comments

Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time(bbc.co.uk)

269 points by aways 1 year ago | 154 comments

4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC(bbc.co.uk)

310 points by donpott 1 year ago | 328 comments

Ozzy Osbourne has died(bbc.co.uk)

376 points by fantunes 1 year ago | 97 comments

BBC News live coverage page reporting the death of rock musician Ozzy Osbourne, former Black Sabbath frontman.

Voting age to be lowered to 16 by next general election(bbc.co.uk)

14 points by johneth 1 year ago | 9 comments

Preliminary report into Air India crash released(bbc.co.uk)

385 points by cjr 1 year ago | 781 comments

BBC News live coverage of the preliminary investigation report into the Air India crash that killed 260, which says fuel switches were cut off before the crash.

Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru(bbc.co.uk)

171 points by neversaydie 1 year ago | 61 comments

Beneath the canopy: Pioneering satellite reveals rainforests' hidden worlds(bbc.co.uk)

7 points by ZeljkoS 1 year ago | 1 comments

Oldest boomerang doesn't come back(bbc.co.uk)

5 points by ljf 1 year ago | 4 comments

U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites(bbc.co.uk)

1100 points by mattcollins 1 year ago | 3239 comments

BBC News live coverage page on US airstrikes against Iranian nuclear sites, with Tehran warning of 'everlasting consequences'.

BBC threatens AI firm with legal action over unauthorised content use(bbc.co.uk)

42 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 6 comments

Drone shows: Will they overtake firework displays?(bbc.co.uk)

12 points by neversaydie 1 year ago | 11 comments

World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says(bbc.co.uk)

25 points by mmarian 1 year ago | 29 comments

Cows get GPS collars to stop them falling in river(bbc.co.uk)

65 points by zeristor 1 year ago | 63 comments

'Significant amount' of private data stolen in UK Legal Aid hack(bbc.co.uk)

37 points by neversaydie 1 year ago | 22 comments

José Mujica has died(bbc.co.uk)

36 points by scrambled 1 year ago | 4 comments

How can traditional British TV survive the US streaming giants(bbc.co.uk)

69 points by asplake 1 year ago | 197 comments

Metagenomics test saves woman's sight after mystery infection(bbc.co.uk)

188 points by neversaydie 1 year ago | 62 comments

There are reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal(bbc.co.uk)

7 points by n1b0m 1 year ago | 0 comments

'Tech entrepreneur took our money but failed to deliver our startup dreams'(bbc.co.uk)

64 points by Brandrsn 1 year ago | 49 comments

Pope Francis has died(bbc.co.uk)

199 points by rowanajmarshall 1 year ago | 70 comments

Gazans tell BBC of torture in Israeli detention(bbc.co.uk)

54 points by jamesfisher 1 year ago | 4 comments

'Exploding' Tunnock's teacakes cleared by tests to fly again(bbc.co.uk)

64 points by zeristor 1 year ago | 26 comments

BBC – Organizing music for organic discovery(bbc.co.uk)

20 points by PaulDavisThe1st 1 year ago | 3 comments

Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight(bbc.co.uk)

110 points by dijksterhuis 1 year ago | 79 comments

Tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'(bbc.co.uk)

89 points by pera 1 year ago | 48 comments

300-year-old Polish beech voted Tree of the Year(bbc.co.uk)

190 points by n1b0m 1 year ago | 54 comments

Jet fuel spills into North Sea after tanker collision(bbc.co.uk)

27 points by ljf 1 year ago | 8 comments

' largest' fusion fuel facility to be built(bbc.co.uk)

26 points by neversaydie 1 year ago | 10 comments

Tesco trials giant trolley scales in Gateshead(bbc.co.uk)

17 points by asimpleusecase 1 year ago | 38 comments

UK homes install subsidised heat pumps at record level(bbc.co.uk)

12 points by RobinL 1 year ago | 0 comments

Gardener wins £1M payout caused by software bug(bbc.co.uk)

35 points by lifeisstillgood 1 year ago | 13 comments

Electronic devices used for car thefts set to be banned(bbc.co.uk)

38 points by zeristor 1 year ago | 43 comments

AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years(bbc.co.uk)

233 points by monkeydust 1 year ago | 99 comments

Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people's hearing problems?(bbc.co.uk)

4 points by audiovideo 1 year ago | 1 comments

Law firm restricts AI after 'significant' staff use(bbc.co.uk)

11 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 2 comments

Representation of BBC News Content in AI Assistants [pdf](bbc.co.uk)

4 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 0 comments

Earth's inner core may have changed shape, say scientists(bbc.co.uk)

44 points by neversaydie 1 year ago | 31 comments

UK demands access to Apple users' encrypted data(bbc.co.uk)

57 points by tooba 1 year ago | 18 comments

Shwe Kokko is accused of being a city built on scams(bbc.co.uk)

194 points by inm 1 year ago | 80 comments

First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2k years(bbc.co.uk)

125 points by goodcanadian 1 year ago | 55 comments

Apple iPhone sales dip despite AI rollout(bbc.co.uk)

23 points by colinprince 1 year ago | 32 comments

AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k(bbc.co.uk)

46 points by monkeydust 1 year ago | 72 comments

A murder that shook British India and toppled a king(bbc.co.uk)

8 points by zeristor 1 year ago | 2 comments

Man trapped inside driverless Waymo car as it spins in circles(bbc.co.uk)

37 points by whyleyc 1 year ago | 24 comments

Bog Standard (2005)(bbc.co.uk)

18 points by susam 1 year ago | 2 comments

The rock houses of England's last cave people(bbc.co.uk)

4 points by gnufx 1 year ago | 1 comments

The fair dreamed up by art legends – unsealed after 44 years(bbc.co.uk)

24 points by ljf 1 year ago | 6 comments

Nightclub stickers over smartphone rule divides the dancefloor(bbc.co.uk)

63 points by mellosouls 1 year ago | 64 comments

Oldest known wild bird lays egg at 74(bbc.co.uk)

209 points by GeoAtreides 1 year ago | 104 comments

London's 850-year-old food markets to close(bbc.co.uk)

292 points by kepler471 1 year ago | 251 comments

Undersea cable between Germany and Finland severed(bbc.co.uk)

40 points by BillFranklin 1 year ago | 3 comments

Nordic neighbours release new advice on surviving war(bbc.co.uk)

45 points by concerto 1 year ago | 39 comments

Somebody moved the UK's oldest satellite in the mid 1970s, but no one knows who(bbc.co.uk)

153 points by mindracer 1 year ago | 83 comments

Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe(bbc.co.uk)

307 points by user20180120 2 years ago | 272 comments

A day and night running round a track(bbc.co.uk)

18 points by HansardExpert 2 years ago | 6 comments