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UK travel company plunges into liquidation – all bookings suddenly cancelled | UK | News

UK travel company plunges into liquidation – all bookings suddenly cancelled | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

A British travel firm that sold package holidays to Europe and Southeast Asia has collapsed into liquidation and will not be issuing refunds for cancelled trips. Regen Central LTD lost its Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (ATOL) on January 13 and subsequently went into liquidation, according to the Companies House website. ATOL, a scheme administered by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), offers financial protection for package holidays, guaranteeing refunds or repatriation should a travel company go under. However, accommodation-only and non-flight packages are not covered by ATOL and therefore do not benefit from the same refund protection. The CAA clarified: “We understand the company had no outstanding ATOL-protected bookings. Bookings sold as accommodation only, non- flight packages, and flight only bookings for which tickets were issued are not protected by the ATOL scheme. “As there are no outstanding ATOL-protected bookings, no refunds will be issued. Founded in Hertfordshire in 2011, the British travel operator also conducted business under the trading names One Haji and Umrah, Regen Travels and Oneworld Travels. The firm operated packages to Italy, …

The White House Suddenly Seems Pretty Terrified of Anthropic

The White House Suddenly Seems Pretty Terrified of Anthropic

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Earlier this year, Anthropic unveiled a preview version of Mythos, its upcoming AI model that it claimed was simply too dangerous to make available to the wider public. As part of an early access program, the company allowed around 50 businesses and organizations to test it out, saying it was giving them a fighting chance to get ahead of a potential cybersecurity crisis in the making. According to Anthropic’s own researchers, Mythos is powerful enough to identify and exploit sweeping cybersecurity vulnerabilities, potentially giving hackers a major advantage. In fact, the company admitted last week that it was investigating a potential unauthorized access to its Mythos model. The alleged risks appear to have spooked even the White House. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Trump administration officials said they oppose Anthropic’s plan to expand access to Mythos to roughly 70 additional companies and organizations, citing security concerns. One source told the newspaper that Mythos would suck up too …

Beloved UK pub suddenly closes – ‘best live music in the country’ | UK | News

Beloved UK pub suddenly closes – ‘best live music in the country’ | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

An award-winning pub and live music venue has announced its shock closure. The Monarch Bar on James Street in Dunfermline, Scotland, had remained shut for at least a week, with speculation circling on social media that the pub could be about to announce its closure. On Friday (May 1), writing on the pub’s official Facebook page, they said: “Hi folks, I had a meeting with the proprietor this morning who has informed me the Monarch is officially closed. Sad news for myself personally, as it was great being back putting on cracking gigs. The proprietor will be in contact with all of those who have booked parties over the next few days. I wish Irene and her team the best for the future.” The Monarch Bar was an award-winning, independent live music venue and public bar. Last year, it was named Scotland’s Local Live Music Venue of the Year, according to The Herald. Despite the statement, it remains unclear why the pub has decided to cease operations. On Google Maps, The Monarch Bar is now …

OpenAI explains why ChatGPT suddenly loved goblins

OpenAI explains why ChatGPT suddenly loved goblins

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is currently embroiled in some courtroom drama, but the engineers back at the OpenAI lab just solved a minor drama (really a comedy) with ChatGPT. OpenAI published a lengthy, detailed report on its website about goblins. No, really. Since the release of GPT 5.1, ChatGPT models have developed a weird fixation on goblins and gremlins, regularly bringing up both in contexts where it doesn’t make sense. Users took note of this and OpenAI noticed it, too, prompting an investigation. You can read the full report if you want all the juicy details, but basically, it all goes back to an arguably poor understanding of what nerds are like. SEE ALSO: DeepSeek V4 is here: How it compares to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini If you don’t use ChatGPT, the AI chatbot offers a variety of “personalities” you can choose to tailor the tone of its responses. One of those personalities was (until recently being removed) “nerdy.” According to OpenAI’s research, while “nerdy” responses accounted for only 2.5 percent of all ChatGPT queries, a …

Why your favourite brands are suddenly failing | Private equity

Why your favourite brands are suddenly failing | Private equity

Published by Sam Flores

You’re not imagining it. Smaller portions. Higher prices. Worse service. It’s easy to blame inflation, but that’s not the full story. Over the last few decades, a financial model has quietly taken over huge parts of everyday life. From restaurants and retailers to vets and care homes, many of the brands we rely on are no longer being run as long-term businesses, but as investments designed to generate fast returns. In this video, Neelam Tailor breaks down how private equity actually works, why it’s grown so quickly, and how it can reshape the businesses you interact with every day. Source link

AI Spy Cameras Suddenly Blanketing America

AI Spy Cameras Suddenly Blanketing America

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech There’s a specter haunting the United States. Americans may not have noticed it, but it’s sure noticed them: the emergent panopticon of AI facial-recognition cameras, automatic license plate readers, AI smart glasses, police fusion centers, surveillance drones, and biomarker databases infesting the landscape. These might seem like separate systems, and therefore different from the kind of centralized panopticon imagined in the pulp sci-fi our parents might have read. Yet as The Nation notes, all levels of AI surveillance — from porch-bound Ring video cameras to Target’s AI loss prevention cameras — work to collect data, sending it in one direction. When it comes to AI surveillance, regulations or privacy laws are next to nonexistent. Courts in over a dozen US states have moved to allow police to check Flock Safety’s sprawling network of AI license plate readers without a warrant. Federal authorities have long been able to tap your digital devices to obtain information without your consent. Local …

Sitting in a jail cell, alone and hopeless, a man’s life is suddenly changed : NPR

Sitting in a jail cell, alone and hopeless, a man’s life is suddenly changed : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Jay (not pictured) found himself alone and hopeless in a jail cell when a fellow inmate’s unexpected words of comfort changed his life. Irkham Khalid/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Irkham Khalid/Getty Images When Jay was 22 years old, he was a self-described loner. In this story, he is being identified by his nickname to allow himself to speak candidly about the following experience and his mental health. He says the few people he did hang out with at the time had questionable morals.  ”I chose my friends poorly, and your friends have a tendency to rub off on you. And so I started making poor decisions,” Jay said. One evening, when he and his friends were out drinking, someone suggested they should try to break into the chemistry building on his college campus. Most of the group shrugged the suggestion off, deeming it impossible, but Jay was convinced he could pull it off. “The next night I made a plan of how to do it, and I did it,” Jay remembered. “And I didn’t …

Why Does It Suddenly Feel Like OpenAI Is Melting Down Into Disaster?

Why Does It Suddenly Feel Like OpenAI Is Melting Down Into Disaster?

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech OpenAI is gearing up for a potential IPO later this year at a staggering valuation of up to $1 trillion — a meteoric rise from a mere $29 billion in January 2023, months after launching ChatGPT. Just under three and a half years after its watershed moment, OpenAI seems almost unrecognizable. This year, in particular, has been a rude awakening for the Sam Altman-led company, with a string of bad news and controversies raising some hard-to-ignore questions about its long-term viability and ability to keep up with increasingly steep competition. Kicking off a bruising year was OpenAI diving in to snap up a lucrative Department of Defense contract in late February after Anthropic walked away from the table. The latter company’s CEO, Dario Amadei, made it clear that its AI models shouldn’t be used for mass surveillance of Americans and autonomous weapon systems — a principled stand that the Pentagon refused to agree to. It was a PR …

The ‘pirate boat’ left stranded as city centre canal suddenly drains for SECOND time in months

The ‘pirate boat’ left stranded as city centre canal suddenly drains for SECOND time in months

Published by Sam Flores

The owner of a ‘pirate boat’ has described how his barge has been left grounded after a stretch of canal in Manchester city centre suddenly drained for the second time in six months. Army veteran Dave Marshall, 53, woke up on board his canal boat – known locally as the Manchester Pirate Boat because of the way it has been decorated – and wondered why he found himself pushed up against the wall on Wednesday morning. When he looked outside he saw the reason: a stretch of the Rochdale Canal beside New Islington Marina had all but drained. It’s the second time the canal has drained in the last six months, causing concern among a small community of boat owners at New Islington Marina. Get MEN Premium now for just £1 HERE – or get involved in our WhatsApp group by clicking HERE. And don’t miss out on our brilliant selection of newsletters HERE. When the Manchester Evening News visited the canal earlier today (Monday April 6, 2026) our reporter found David, a self-confessed eccentric, …