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When the AI bubble bursts, executives who enthusiastically replaced their staff with AI tools will learn that it takes a “really long time” to replace those lost skills, says Cory Doctorow, a science fiction author and journalist.But those in creative fields should also be warned not to put all their faith in copyright as the best way to safeguard their work, Doctorow warns, just one week after the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, promised to ramp up protection against AI companies who refuse to pay.In his new book, the Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, the man who coined…

The Ondo State House of Assembly is not exactly known for tranquillity these days, but even by its own standards, this latest storm has been dramatic. Speaker Olamide Oladiji now faces allegations of diverting funds belonging to Ondo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (OSOPADEC), the commission tasked with developing the state’s oil-producing communities. For residents of areas like Ilaje and Ese-Odo, OSOPADEC represents decades of promises for roads, hospitals and clean water in communities that have carried the environmental cost of oil production without always seeing the benefits. The numbers involved have grown steadily uncomfortable. Earlier in 2026, the…

The top stories and transfer rumours from Monday’s newspapers…PREMIER LEAGUEParis Saint-Germain are willing to sell the France winger Bradley Barcola, but the French and European champions want a fee of £145m – The Times & Daily Telegraph PSG have put a £140m price tag on the Liverpool and Arsenal target – The Sun Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Sky Sports News’ Dharmesh Sheth explains how Arsenal could now look to get PSG’s Bradley Barcola after failing in their pursuit of Morgan Rogers. Liverpool are working to reach an agreement with PSG over Barcola amid escalating…

More than three years after sparking conservative backlash with her Bud Light social media partnership, Dylan Mulvaney was as surprised as anyone to hear her name in Donald Trump‘s mouth at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Counting “four times” the POTUS mentioned her name in his speech on Friday, the Broadway actress, TikTok personality and transgender advocate reacted to being “the one that got away” for MAGA men after Trump attempted to roast her in his hour-long “diss track” at the WHCA’s annual event. “Firstly, I would like to congratulate CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on her award and tell her…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have directed members of its affiliated health sector unions at the Federal University of Technology Akure Teaching Hospital (FUTATH) to commence an indefinite strike beginning at midnight on Sunday (today). The strike follows the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum issued to the hospital’s management by the unions over the implementation of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) relating to the enrolment of workers on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) through an authenticated nominal roll. In a notice jointly signed by the Ondo State Chairman of the NLC,…

“Economic policies should be assessed based on their impact on the welfare of citizens. Any economic policy that does not improve on the welfare of the people is inherently ineffective.” Emir of Kano,  Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, July 16, 2026.  Tinubunomics, based on HRH Sanusi’s measure of economic policy effectiveness, has, so far, been a resounding failure – despite the attempt by the Federal Government’s propaganda machine to portray the dubious RENEWED HOPE agenda as a success. I agree with the Emir absolutely. Granted, the FG has made some progress since 2023; but, overall, the impact on the lives of majority of…

Virtually every phone in the country will blare an emergency siren at 2pm AEST on Monday 27 July as part of the first Australia-wide test of a new national warning system called AusAlert.Most phones, and some smartwatches and tablets, will receive a pop-up notification and an alert sound that cannot be silenced – even if your device is on “do not disturb” or silent mode.What is AusAlert?AusAlert is Australia’s new national warning system, which will send emergency messages to mobile devices during local and widespread disasters.Authorities currently use SMS texts to alert people about safety information. The new system will…

The frontier of physical AI is a Jenga game in a warehouse in San Leandro, California. That warehouse is occupied by Encord, a company that builds data tooling used to train AI models. Andrew Ceja is a pilot—the company’s term for its robotic trainers—and he’s carefully pulling wooden blocks from a tottering tower while wearing a headset with a camera that tracks what he sees. That alone is fairly common for collecting robot training data, but this headset includes sensors that measure his brain waves as he carefully disassembles the block tower. Encord is one of a small but growing…

…as NWC knocks out gov’s men By Dayo Johnson, Akure The attempt by the Ondo State All Progressive Congress , APC, leadership, led by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, to impose a consensus arrangement for legislative tickets ran into stiff opposition from the start. Trouble began after reports emerged that the party’s national secretariat rejected the governor’s preferred list for both State and National Assembly seats. Despite the signal from Abuja, the governor’s camp pressed ahead. At the end of the primaries, none of Aiyedatiwa’s preferred aspirants survived. The governor, who had vowed to replace most incumbent federal lawmakers, lost the power…

For Jennifer, obesity was the obvious culprit for most of her problems.The litigation attorney told herself it was the reason why she wasn’t being invited to parties, and why she and her husband struggled with physical intimacy in their otherwise “solid” marriage.“If people excluded me, or if things weren’t going as I wanted them to, I often defaulted to, ‘Well, they don’t like fat people, they don’t want fat people at their event … they don’t want a fat person representing their brand,’” she says.Jennifer, who is 57 and asked to keep her surname private, had struggled with obesity since…