https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckgel5xp2xv9t?post=asset%3Ac8185d02-3e14-4e83-9a99-6d3be2de04bd#post

More consumers are becoming worried about how their information is being used by manufacturers. “There are increasing privacy concerns around to what degree TVs are essentially scraping your data,” says Parsons. “TVs these days are full of sensors, including microphones, and that can make people nervous.”

But according to Parsons, despite interest in “dumber” models from some buyers, most shoppers want their TVs to be catch-all entertainment systems. The result is that the dumb TV market is almost nonexistent.

Sam Mabley, from Bristol, founded the sustainable fashion company Yes Friends in 2021 and was approaching the dragons to ask for £10,000 in exchange for a 2% share of the business.

Yes Friends, which says it seeks to "transform the fashion industry" by creating affordable, ethical and sustainable clothing, caught the eye of Deborah Meaden, who offered Mabley double what he was asking for in exchange for the same share.

https://yesfriends.co/

I have one of these, it's a Hario Skerton Plus Ceramic Coffee Grinder. What's a sensible step up from this? It's been a solid performer but my grinds are not always consistent, the adjustments seem like large steps and I have to count the rungs to know what setting I'm on (there's no gauge).

Very happy to hand grind, I only drink a cup a day and appreciate taking a couple of minutes out the day to make something by hand.

Recommendations for someone buying in UK or EU preferable! Thanks for your help.

Update: after going through all the suggestions and the two videos I've settled on the Timemore S3. There were some European (Etzinger, Mazzer, Comandante, Kinu) and UK options (Knock) however they were in a price bracket I'm not ready for (£200+) and unfortunately the Knock ones do not have notched adjustment which I'd prefer (though I'll keep an eye on them).

Of the others the 1ZPresso KP6 is a strong contender but I'm not big on the light/florals. The 1ZPresso K Ultra is great but not strong on pour over (according to the videos).

That leaves the Timemore S3 which stands out as a winner with the three strong personal reviews below. It also suits my flavour preferences according to the Coffee Chronicler's video and the price seems much more reasonable at <£150. Thanks all for your contributions!

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.astroloop.game

This seems to have come out of nowhere (dev has no other repos) but very polished and addictive. Anyone else enjoying this new game?

The father of a teenager who took her own life after viewing harmful content online has said he is "dismayed" by reports the government is to ban young people from using some social media platforms.

Ian Russell, the father of Molly Russell, told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, Sir Keir Starmer had "rushed" an announcement and that he could "not think of a reason other than a political reason".

The campaign, titled Reboot, begins by offering the general public the opportunity to add their names to an updated ethics complaint against the FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, for repeated and serious breaches of FIFA rules. 

The campaign is being launched one week before the start of the 2026 men’s World Cup. A tournament which has once again exposed FIFA’s dysfunction and the consequences of its deeply flawed governance model. FairSquare has long argued that FIFA’s structural problems cannot be fixed from within and that external reform is critical.

Author of this issue from April 2025 says:

Since the repository wasn't updated in about 5 years, I suppose that the extension is no longer open source, correct? But since I still see new releases on the Chrome/Firefox stores, can we just have this GitHub repository [archived] then?

The tracking protection list is regularly updated so it's possible new releases on stores are a result of building the code with the newer list I suppose. Does anyone know for sure? There have been no comments on that issue.

As facial recognition spreads across police forces and retail stores, UK biometrics commissioners are warning that national oversight is lagging far behind the technology’s rapid expansion.

Last year, the Home Office admitted facial recognition cameras were more likely to incorrectly identify black and Asian people than their white counterparts, and women more than men, and there have been conflicting studies on their overall accuracy.

Consumer tastes are out of sync with what can be grown seasonally and in a low-carbon way, and expectations need to readjusted. Across our national diet, we only grow 62% of what we consume. We import 83% of the dreadfully low amount of fruit we consume. Rebuilding a regional horticulture sector could be the real growth the Treasury wants. When Rachel Reeves promised “securonomics” in the Mais lecture hosted at Bayes Business School in 2024, I thought it might herald food growth. So far, not.

Blocking AI-Generated Content

The Widelands Development Team is drafting a resolution to reject AI-generated content contributions (code, graphics, music, and others) to the Widelands source code and repositories.

We hold that AI-generated content generally stands on dubious ethical and legal grounds, as it violates the copyright of creators whose work was scraped for the AI's training data set without their permission and without due attribution. Also, we find that it is frequently of low overall quality and/or is overly generic and fails to embrace requirements specific to Widelands.

Pull requests that have been generated by AI may in the future be closed without review.

Widelands is created by people, for people.

The change does not impact add-on uploads, which are each add-on author’s own responsibility, although such add-ons may be moderated more critically by the add-on server maintainers.
Translations are also not in the scope of this policy, and every language team can define its own policy with regard to machine translation.

The policy is still open to discussion here until Tuesday, February 24th, 2026.

Deezer (France 🇫🇷) Qobuz (France 🇫🇷) SoundCloud (Germany 🇩🇪) IDAGIO (Germany 🇩🇪)

A good summary of Bristol's transport history in this article, alongside the headline announcement:

The West of England Combined Authority (Weca) regional mayor Helen Godwin was joined by local council leaders to announce a new 'vision' for the future of transport across the West of England earlier.

In June 2025, Godwin said trams, light rail, guided buses or other alternative forms of mass transport could be an option in the Bristol area.

Does such an app exist?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37708444