X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014

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X, which was formerly known as Twitter until its recent rebranding, is having a problem displaying old posts that came with images attached or any hyperlinks converted through Twitter’s built-in URL shortener. It’s unclear when the problem started, but it was highlighted on Saturday afternoon in a post by Tom Coates, and a Brazilian vtuber, @DaniloTakagi, had pointed it out a couple of days earlier.

As it is, it appears to affect tweets published prior to December 2014, judging by posts visible on my own account. No videos are affected (Twitter only added native image support in 2011 and built-in videos in 2016), but links to YouTube, for example, are now just text with a t.co URL that doesn’t work.

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Getting Google to search the web for you is all well and good, but there’s a ton of functionality available through the simple-looking box on the world’s most-visited website. You could call these bonus features, or Easter eggs, or hidden tricks—but they’re all useful in your own way, and can be launched by heading to …

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LG Gram Style review: a beautiful mess

I’ve never seen a laptop that looks quite like this. I’ve also never seen a laptop with its particular set of problems.

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Installer: An AI search engine and the coolest speakers ever

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Hi, friends! Welcome back to issue No. 2 of Installer, your guide to all the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. Thanks so much to everyone who’s been emailing, commenting, sending feedback, and telling me what you want to see in this series going forward. I love chatting with you all about what you’re building, what you’re binge-watching, and everything else.

Two housekeeping things: first, a bunch of you told me you didn’t like the whole “(link)” thing, both for aesthetic and accessibility reasons. Fair and fair! So we’re just scrapping it. From now on, it’ll be simpler: I’ll bold the most important link – the direct link to the thing we’re talking about — and regular link everything else. Thanks to everyone who emailed and...

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Indian writer says Amazon Prime series character seems to be based on her

Yashica Dutt accuses makers of Made in Heaven of failing to acknowledge her contribution to story of bride from low caste

An Amazon Prime series on Indian wedding planners has been accused of failing to acknowledge the contribution of a Dalit journalist who says that the main character appears to be based on her own life, as recounted in a book she wrote.

Yashica Dutt, 37, has been based in New York for a few years but grew up in India amid the daily contempt to which people who belong to her caste are subjected.

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Prince William faces criticism for not attending Women’s World Cup final

Decision not to fly to Australia has been questioned by those who say Lionesses deserved top-level support

The Prince of Wales may have cheered on the Lionesses from afar, but has faced criticism from some quarters at home over his reluctance to get on a plane to support the England team in person.

William was absent from Stadium Australia despite being president of the Football Association, and is understood to have made the decision not to go because of the long flight involved for such a short period of time.

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Review of low-traffic neighbourhoods risks creating rat runs, say campaigners

Exclusive: Fears quiet-street measures that have been part of traffic planning since 1960s could be scrapped in culture war

Thousands of England’s quiet residential streets and housing estates risk being opened up as rat runs under the government’s review of so-called low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), prompting alarm from campaign groups.

Two weeks after Rishi Sunak announced he had ordered an inquiry into LTNs amid a pushback against what he termed wider “anti-motorist” policies, the Department for Transport (DfT) is still refusing to say who will run it, or when it will begin work.

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Grow an extra pot five plants ten years ago? That's a deportin' [Asinine]

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Fark's favorite state scores four spots on the top 100 places to live list. Florida Man nods approvingly [Florida]

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Russian Moon invasion fails [Followup]

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Thousands flee homes after rebel attack in southern Sudan city

Families said to have run away with nothing as three forces fight in South Kordofan state

Thousands of people have fled their homes in the capital of South Kordofan state in Sudan after an attack by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North rebel group, one of three forces now fighting in the area.

The SPLMN has been trying to capture the city from the regular army, known as the Sudanese Armed Forces, since June, when it entered the conflict that broke out in April between the SAF, led by Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.

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RFK Jr draws quite a crowd – what does it mean for 2024?

President Kennedy’s nephew has struck an anti-establishment nerve but his anti-vax views and far-right flirtation have prompted outrage

Wearing a Robert Kennedy Jr campaign T-shirt, Kevin O’Keeffe found there was standing room only as the candidate, introduced as “Bobby Kennedy”, walked on a sunbaked stage decked with hay bales to whoops and applause.

“He supports freedom of speech, and he’s questioned the efficacy of the vaccine, which is legitimate at this point,” said O’Keeffe, 52, who works for a telecommunications company in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. “I like his views on foreign policy and keeping us out of the war. He cares about his fellow Americans in a way that a lot of the politicians nowadays I don’t think really do.”

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More than 100 Manston asylum camp guards unable to start work

Recruits on full salary while waiting months for permission to work at Kent site due to lengthy security checks

More than 100 people recruited to work as guards at the Manston camp in Kent have spent months on full pay without being allowed to do any work, the Guardian has learned.

Manston, near Ramsgate, which processes asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on small boats, was hit by a series of crises last year. An outbreak of diphtheria led to one man dying after falling ill with the infection. There were also reports of filthy conditions, assaults by some contractors and groups of asylum seekers being taken from the camp and dumped in the streets of central London.

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Russia’s Luna-25 space craft crashes into the moon

Russia’s space corporation Roskosmos says craft spun into uncontrolled orbit before planned touchdown could take place

Russia’s Luna-25 space craft has crashed into the moon after it spun into uncontrolled orbit, Russia’s space corporation Roskosmos said.

Roskosmos earlier said an “abnormal situation” had occurred as mission control tried to move the craft into a pre-landing orbit at 11:10 GMT on Saturday, ahead of a planned touchdown slated for Monday.

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Suella Braverman refusing to roll out asylum-support scheme deemed ‘more humane’

The UN hailed a pilot project that cut the cost of helping refugees, but the Home Office remains set on hardline illegal migration bill

The UN has backed a Home Office-funded pilot that would dramatically reduce the spiralling costs of the crisis-hit asylum system – yet Suella Braverman is refusing to endorse the scheme, despite it being described as “more humane”.

This week, the UNHCR (the refugee agency that helps the UK government improve its asylum system) will praise a Home Office-funded scheme in Bedfordshire, which it found cut the cost of accommodating refugees and migrants by more than half when compared with placing them in detention. The savings came through housing people and giving legal and welfare support.

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Cheese and chips? No, chips in cheese [Strange]

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Brit school plan for northern England gets go-ahead

Specialist creative college on model of Croydon institution that nurtured Adele and Amy Winehouse to be sited in Bradford

The Department for Education has approved plans for a northern version of the Brit school, which has nurtured performers such as Adele and Amy Winehouse.

The BPI – the representative voice of record labels across the UK – plans to open a new specialist creative college in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in around 2026-27 to allow students aged 16-19 to study performance, production and digital subjects.

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Three skiers hurt in chairlift accident in Australia. There's your problem right there [Scary]

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Fancy going clubbing? How crazy golf has grown into a big night out

With courses in shopping centres offering cocktails and DJs, mini golf is booming in the UK like never before

There’s nothing mini about crazy golf these days. The number of miniature or adventure golf courses in the UK has jumped by about 25% since the pandemic, according to figures compiled by the curator of the Crazy Golf Museum.

The UK is now home to more than 1,200 courses, according to Richard Gottfried, with 320 opening or announced since May 2020. In 2006, there were only about 600.

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Interpol arrests 14 who allegedly scammed $40m from victims in 'cyber surge'

Cops credit security shops with an assist, tho it's a drop in the ocean

An Interpol-led operation arrested 14 suspects and identified 20,674 "suspicious" networks spanning 25 African countries that international cops have linked to more than $40 million in cybercrime losses.…

Last decade saw Australia’s lowest productivity growth in 60 years, intergenerational report says

Labor to lay out new economic growth plans in response including focus on digital technologies and aiming to become a ‘renewable energy super power’

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The last decade saw Australia experience its lowest productivity growth in 60 years, and the Albanese government is concerned it will continue if the country does not adjust to large structural changes in the economy, including the transition to net zero.

The latest intergenerational report – to be released in full by the treasurer on Thursday – shows productivity growth remaining a problem, with Australia no more immune to sluggish growth than other major economies around the world.

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‘Inhumane’ NHS fees left more than 900 migrants without treatment

Patients turned down care they needed after demands for advance payments amid complaints of government’s ‘hostile environment’

Hundreds of migrants have declined NHS treatment after being presented with upfront charges over the past two years, amid complaints the government’s “hostile environment” on immigration remains firmly in place.

Data compiled by the Observer under the Freedom of Information Act shows that, since January 2021, 3,545 patients across 68 hospital trusts in England have been told they must pay upfront charges totalling £7.1m. Of those, 905 patients across 58 trusts did not proceed with treatment.

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