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In the spring of 2024, when Rachael Sawyer, a technical writer from Texas, received a LinkedIn message from a recruiter hiring for a vague title of writing analyst, she assumed it would be similar to her previous gigs of content creation. On her first day a week later, however, her expectations went bust. Instead of writing words herself, Sawyer’s job was to rate and moderate the content created by artificial intelligence.The job initially involved a mix of parsing through meeting notes and chats summarized by Google’s Gemini, and, in some cases, reviewing short films made by the AI.On occasion, she…

Every NHS hospital in England has been told to improve patient waiting times for planned treatment as the government has made hitting the 18-week target one of its key priorities for this parliament.By March 2026, the government wants to see at least 65% of patients waiting no longer than 18 weeks.To get there, every NHS trust has to either get to 60% or improve on its November 2024 figures by five percentage points – whichever is greater.That is just a stepping stone towards the ultimate goal of achieving 92% by July 2029.Use your postcode to find out whether waiting lists…

Bridget Jones’s Diary star Sally Phillips is set to lead a new BBC crime drama, The Hairdresser Mysteries. Created and written by Jim Cartwright (The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Afternoon Play), the six-episode show is described as “a nostalgic nod to the ’70s” where high-end hairdresser Lily Petal (Phillips) opts out of the competitive city scene to buy a small village salon at the top of a cobbled street. “Everyone tells their hairdresser everything and soon she becomes the hub of her new village’s secrets and revelations,” a plot synopsis reads. “Using her own brand of uncannily…

Double Olympic and world Jakob Ingebrigtsen will also be competing over the 1500m distance with Arizona-based Giffnock North athlete Gourley and his fellow Scots.”Off the top of my head, I think I’m ranked outside the top 30 in terms of season’s bests this year so that probably tells you a lot about the depth of the event just now,” said Gourley”I’m pretty confident in saying I’ll finish higher than that. I’d love to outperform that ranking and I think I will, but it gives you a sense of how deep the event has got. “Not just the people at the…

Sir John Bell, a prominent scientist who brought business and government together during the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, has warned that other big pharmaceutical companies will stop investing in the UK, after Merck’s decision to scrap its planned £1bn London research centre.Bell, a former regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford, told Today on BBC Radio 4 that he had spoken to several chief executives of large companies in the past six months “and they’re all in the same space, and that is, they’re not going to do any more investing in the UK”.He made the comments a day…

South Africa’s highest court has ruled that husbands can take the surname of their wives, overturning a law that barred them from doing so. In a victory for two couples who brought the case, the Constitutional Court ruled that the law amounted to gender-based discrimination.Henry van der Merwe was denied the right to take the surname of his wife Jana Jordaan, while Andreas Nicolas Bornman could not hyphenate his surname to include Donnelly, the surname of his wife, Jess Donnelly-Bornman, reports the public broadcaster, SABC.Parliament will now have to amend the Births and Deaths Registration Act, along with its regulations,…

John Lewis has announced losses nearly tripled in the first half of the year, fuelled by the new cost of dealing with waste packaging and increased National Insurance Contributions (NICs). The employee-owned company, whose shops include the John Lewis department stores and Waitrose, said losses before tax and exceptional costs swelled to £88m from £30m last time.John Lewis Partnership chair Jason Tarry, said there was “no doubt that consumer confidence is subdued” ahead of the Budget in November.But the firm expects to return to profit in the second six months of its financial year which includes the key Christmas season.John…

More than half of school and college cyber attacks and data breaches are being carried out by their own pupils, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has revealed.School children and college students are carrying out hacks and accessing private data for fun or as part of dares, the ICO says, calling it a “worrying trend”.It is warning teachers that they are failing to understand and recognise what it calls the “insider threat” pupils pose. “What starts out as a dare, a challenge, a bit of fun in a school setting can ultimately lead to children taking part in damaging attacks on…

Leading Italian sales agent and production company The Open Reel has seized international sales rights to San Sebastián-bound “Dolores” by Marcelo Gomes (“Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures”) and Maria Clara Escobar (“Desterro”), sharing its trailer in exclusivity with Variety.Based on a screenplay by the late Chico Teixeira, “Dolores” focuses on three generations of women, led by the titular Dolores, a 65-year old widow and recovering gambling addict (played by Carla Ribas, “Alice’s House”), who has had a dream about starting up her own casino. While she’s close to her granddaughter Duda (Ariane Aparecida), who works at a gun shop and aspires…

The international break is over, and the Premier League is back with a bang this weekend. All eyes will be on big new signings, an old face returning to management and one of the most pressurized Manchester derbies in years.Alexander Isak, Alejandro Garnacho, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Nick Woltemade and many more could all make their debuts this weekend after late transfer window moves to their new teams. Ange Postecoglou, fired by Tottenham Hotspur after guiding them to their first trophy since 2008 by winning this past season’s Europa League, will take charge of Nottingham Forest for the first time after replacing…