In Australia, dating apps have been hit with lawsuits and new regulation, while their profits are declining worldwide

Yesterday, Marvel uploaded footage of some chairs to publicise Avengers: Doomsday. We have some grumpy thoughts on the matter.

Elon Musk’s role in the White House allows him to cancel contracts and influence policy, potentially benefiting his companies. Supporters say he has the best technology.

The heavyweight champion, who has died at the age of 76, says "he went with two titles belts and came home with none."

Russian spy who was the highest ranking KGB officer to defect to Britain For more than a decade the senior KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky, who has died aged 86, spied for MI6 before escaping execution by being dramatically smuggled out of the Soviet Union in the boot of a car. He was the highest ranking KGB officer to defect to Britain, and his most important contribution as a spy was to warn Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan of the Soviet leadership’s paranoia at a time when the world was moving dangerously close to nuclear war. Gordievsky first came to the notice of MI6 after a tip-off from a Czechoslovakian spy, Standa Kaplan, who had defected to Canada. Kaplan mentioned Gordievsky as an old friend from the KGB academy, where they would together question the direction the Kremlin was taking. By then Gordievsky was a KGB officer attached to the Soviet embassy in Copenhagen; in 1972 he responded favourably to delicate approaches made by MI6 officers in the Danish capital, after phone taps revealed that in calls to his wife in Moscow he had expressed growing concern about the Kremlin’s actions, specifically mentioning the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. He began spying for Britain when he returned to Moscow in 1974. Continue reading...

Fears over weakening US support for Nato and reports a senior Trump official proposed axeing Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance have caused disquiet in security circles

Authorities say there were no signs of foul play, but the circumstances are “suspicious enough” to warrant a full investigation into the cause of death.

USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.

A federal judge sided with labor unions and stopped DOGE from accessing sensitive data for millions of Americans without their consent for at least 14 days.

Leaders at defense and intelligence offices were particularly wary of Musk’s demand over the weekend asking workers to outline what they did last week.