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Virologist Wendy Barclay: ‘Wild avian viruses are mixing up their genetics all the time. It’s like viral sex on steroids’
Wendy Barclay is a leading British virologist and head of the department of infectious disease and the Action Medical Research chair in virology at Imperial College London. An expert on the pathogenesis and transmissibility of influenza viruses, she served on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) and the New …
A man stalked a professor for six years. Then he used AI chatbots to lure strangers to her home
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(AI) chatbots to impersonate a university professor and invite men online to her home address for sex.James Florence, 36, used platforms such as Crushon.ai and JanitorAI, …
DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Grok … which is the best AI assistant? We put them to the test
‘No one but Jews lost their apartments’: how homes taken by Nazis in wartime Paris were never given back
The 1935 photograph shows Israël and Hélène Malowanczyk standing on the balcony of their second-floor apartment at 118 Avenue Parmentier in Paris’s 11th arrondissement.
The couple – he a hatmaker from Poland, she a French dressmaker – are smiling. Like almost all Parisians at the time, they rented their home, …
‘Dark and dingy’ or ‘a real loss’? Shoppers react to possible loss of WH Smith
Just two shop floor staff are on duty and shoppers are mostly serving themselves at shouty automated tills in WH Smith’s Stevenage branch, where there are boxes of goods on the floor, some empty shelves and missing signage.
Set in a faded shopping centre that was cutting-edge when it heralded …
Russian spy ship fire exposes poor state of Mediterranean fleet, say experts
A fire onboard a Russian spy ship off the coast of Syria has underlined the poor state of the Russian navy as its toehold in the Mediterranean hangs in the balance, analysts and western security services say.
got into trouble off the Syrian coast …Return of Bridget Jones taps into 90s trend as gen Z looks to ‘simpler’ time
OpenAI to release new artificial intelligence model for free
‘We’d go absolutely nuts’: PM warned of Labour fight if he backs huge oilfield
Senior Labour figures are warning of a serious fight if Keir Starmer tries to give the go-ahead to a giant new oilfield off Shetland later this year.
MPs and ministers have told the Guardian they are prepared to oppose the UK prime minister should he try and give final consent …
Accept that tube seat graciously, Zoe | Letter
I have been a fan of Zoe Williams for years. She acts decisively, while I hover between alternatives. But sorry, Zoe, you got it wrong in refusing a seat offered to you on the tube (
A stranger offered me a seat on public transport – and it’s …