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As members of the public tour a fake ‘residential home’ for disabled people riddled with Nazi ideology, you desperately hope someone will speak up. Prepare for the most excruciating viewing of your life
I have never had to pause a programme halfway through before to catch my breath. That is until The Experiment – Channel 4’s highly controversial social exercise designed to find out “how susceptible the British public are” to Nazi ideology about disabled people. This is a show so disturbing, timely and surreal that within 90 seconds of viewing it alone, I am looking around for confirmation from an empty room that any of this is happening.
We start with a clip of Hitler. Against a backdrop of growing anti-benefits and ableist rhetoric, presenters Mat Fraser and Sophie Morgan fear the disabled community globally are once again being framed as a financial burden. Their question is: can the British public be persuaded that disabled people should live in “money saving” segregated institutions and be given low-skilled jobs to be productive?
Continue reading...Bernardo Silva opens scoring as Madrid win 4-1
Galatasaray sweep past Lille; 10-man Inter edge Shakhtar
Real Madrid claimed a third Champions League victory in as many games by thrashing RB Leipzig 4-1 on Wednesday, with Kylian Mbappé and Yan Diomande among the goals for José Mourinho’s side.
Bernardo Silva opened the scoring for Madrid from close range towards the end of a tight first half, with Arda Guler doubling the record 15-time European champions’ advantage soon after the interval.
Continue reading...House prices in Sydney are at a two-year low after falling 4.7% in the September quarter to $1.66m, according to Domain report
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House prices are falling across every capital city for the first time in 15 years and the second time on record, according to figures from Domain’s September Quarter 2026 House Price report.
House prices in Sydney are at a two-year low after falling 4.7% in the September quarter, to $1.66m.
Continue reading...The hilarious duo are back with deeply silly sketches about an evil trad-wife, Lime bike addicts and Dubai chocolate. There are only three episodes, but each one is gloriously unsettling – and packed with ridiculously good guest stars
In 2022, comics and actors Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou starred in six bite-size episodes of their self-titled sketch show. Among the highlights: a woman who makes wild swimming her whole personality before realising she hates freezing water; a pair of overbearing, overopinionated mums who vlog from a sterilely clean kitchen (“you’re not a real mum unless you’re redecorating or knocking through at least six times a year”) and, of course, Internet Nails, about two decidedly useless eastern European beauty entrepreneurs who were branching out into a variety of business ideas (“please let us scratch you with our ink today, and if you change your mind we can burn the tattoo off with professional match”). It was often hilarious, and was definitely weird, with many parallels to the offbeat Channel 4 series Stath Lets Flats (which White and Demetriou starred in alongside the latter’s brother, its creator Jamie).
Four long years later – reportedly due to scheduling clashes – the duo are back. Ellie & Natasia series two comprises just three episodes, although – gladly – these episodes are now half an hour long rather than a mere 15 minutes. Internet Nails, in particular, remains a crucible for unsettling comedy, with the salon having become a “premiere relax styling and elegance lounge for all makeup, hair straightening and spray tanning mother-baby needs”). The fact that both women were pregnant at the time of filming only makes it funnier, and the low-rent experience (“100% birthing penthouse with perfect lukewarm Jacuzzi”) is deeply silly and – for anyone who has gone to a slightly shonky beauty shop before – astutely observed. The judgy mums are back, too, complete with advice on how to make your wardrobe stretch from “conception to birth, birth to night, night to bed, bed to menopause, menopause to coffin, and coffin to hell …”
Continue reading...Manager apologises to fans after 4-1 defeat in Como
Captain criticises ‘decision from the staff’ not to press
Michael Carrick’s future as Manchester United manager is in the balance after a humiliating 4-1 Champions League defeat by Como on Wednesday night.
Before Bournemouth’s visit to Old Trafford on Sunday his future may be discussed by Jason Wilcox, the director of football, Omar Berrada, the chief executive, and Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the co-owner who controls sporting policy.
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A developer can build their own uptime monitoring service using Python, instead of paying for a third-party service, by following a tutorial that walks through designing, building, and testing a production-grade micro-SaaS. The service features asynchronous health checks, background scheduling, database persistence, and enterprise-grade JWT authentication, all wrapped up in a clean FastAPI backend.
A platform engineer built a Python MCP server (FastMCP) so Claude can inspect Docker containers without breaking them: three read-only tools (list, inspect with secrets redacted, log anomaly scan) plus one guarded restart. Key lessons: a :ro socket mount isn't access control — the Engine API accepts writes over it; denylists must check the name Docker resolves, not caller input (IDs bypass naive regexes); stdio servers must keep stdout clean for JSON-RPC. 47 tests, all green.
Lego fansite announces possible Daft Punk set. Lego fan site The Brickfan is reporting that a new Lego collaboration with Daft Punk will be announced tomorrow (October 22, 2026).
Here's the teaser trailer.
This "Daft Punk Concert" set might be the one. From the Lego Ideas site: "4 years ago, this set won the Grand Prize in the global LEGO competition Music To Our Ears!, though it wasn't selected to become an official set."
MÜNCHEN (ANP) - Het aantal Europese octrooiaanvragen door een universiteit, publieke onderzoeksorganisatie of onderzoeksziekenhuis is in de afgelopen twintig jaar meer dan verdubbeld. Dat meldt het Europees Octrooibureau (EOB) donderdag. Nederland is volgens het EOB een van de landen waar het aantal octrooiaanvragen van publieke onderzoeksinstellingen het sterkst is gegroeid.
In heel Europa groeide het aantal aanvragen van ongeveer 3200 in 2006 tot bijna 8000 in 2025, aldus het EOB. Duitsland, Frankrijk en het Verenigd Koninkrijk blijven de belangrijkste landen, maar hun gezamenlijke aandeel is de afgelopen decennia wel gedaald. Dat wijst volgens het bureau niet op een achteruitgang van de koplopers, maar op "een bredere Europese onderzoeksbasis". Het EOB spreekt daarbij van "een bijzonder sterke groei" in Nederland en Spanje.
Onderzoeksinstituut TNO voert de ranglijst in Nederland aan met 142 Europese octrooiaanvragen in 2025, blijkt uit gegevens van het EOB. Daarmee staat TNO op de achtste plaats van de Europese onderzoeksinstellingen. Op de tweede plek in Nederland staat de Technische Universiteit Delft met 22 aanvragen en de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven en de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen volgen met beide achttien aanvragen. De Universiteit Twente heeft met veertien aanvragen ook een plek in de top vijf gehaald.
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De belangrijkste gebieden waarin deze instellingen patenten hebben aangevraagd, zijn meettechnologie, digitale communicatie, computertechnologie, biotechnologie, medische technologie en halfgeleiders. Organisaties kunnen een patent aanvragen om technische uitvindingen te beschermen en anderen te verbieden de uitvinding zomaar na te maken.
Verder meldt het EOB dat Nederlandse spin-offbedrijven vorig jaar veel octrooien hebben aangevraagd bij het bureau. Nederland staat wat dit betreft op de zevende plek in Europa met 245 spin-offs. Een spin-off is een bedrijf dat is voortgekomen uit een andere organisatie.
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“A SpudCell can grow, copy its DNA, divide in two, and start its cell cycle all over again. But this cell is made by people, created from lifeless ingredients.” Um, what?
A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy during the Cambridge Analytica scandal. State Attorney General Raul Torrez called it "one of the largest, if not the single largest state verdict against a company in American history." While Meta plans to appeal the ruling, the funds that are to be collected will go toward state education spending. The Associated Press reports: Jurors in September found Meta liable for over 43 million violations of New Mexico consumer protection laws when a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, harvested Facebook user data to generate targeted political ads for the 2016 election. Forty-eight other states settled with Facebook in a nationwide case, but New Mexico chose to take the social media company to court on its own. [...] During the trial, jurors assessed whether Facebook misled users about privacy and content moderation 34 separate times. State prosecutors, though, argued Facebook's statements deceived the entire population of New Mexico and extended beyond social media users.
In the end, jurors agreed with this premise and found Facebook liable for 2.1 million violations on certain counts, bringing the total number of violations to over 43 million. Facebook's attorneys have argued in subsequent court filings that the state's consumer protection laws don't apply to people in New Mexico who weren't using the platform at the time. [...] In one of the few wins for the defense, jurors found the state didn't prove that Facebook made false claims about removing harmful content, including misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic.
The state said the company favored certain accounts and allowed for violent or inaccurate content to proliferate. Attorney Randi McGinn said in her closing argument for the state that Facebook profited off harmful content, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg denied during his video deposition. Zuckerberg said the company has to carefully balance freedom of speech with content moderation. Attorneys for Facebook said the company has adapted its policies since the state's lawsuit was filed in 2021 and that it removes 99% of content that violates standards.
In the end, jurors agreed with this premise and found Facebook liable for 2.1 million violations on certain counts, bringing the total number of violations to over 43 million. Facebook's attorneys have argued in subsequent court filings that the state's consumer protection laws don't apply to people in New Mexico who weren't using the platform at the time. [...] In one of the few wins for the defense, jurors found the state didn't prove that Facebook made false claims about removing harmful content, including misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic.
The state said the company favored certain accounts and allowed for violent or inaccurate content to proliferate. Attorney Randi McGinn said in her closing argument for the state that Facebook profited off harmful content, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg denied during his video deposition. Zuckerberg said the company has to carefully balance freedom of speech with content moderation. Attorneys for Facebook said the company has adapted its policies since the state's lawsuit was filed in 2021 and that it removes 99% of content that violates standards.
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