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The dating apps are a wasteland... But I’m still not joining a run club this Valentine’s Day | LBC
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (615+ words) With dating app usage down and Strava usage up, some might say it's time for me to stop swiping and start running if I want to find love. But, honestly - I'd rather be alone than rely on lycra-cladden smuggies for…...
ChatGPT to show adverts to users for the first time in trial | LBC
3+ day, 43+ min ago (14+ words) ChatGPT to show adverts to users for the first time in trial'lbc.co.uk...
TV licence fee set to rise for third year in a row, hitting £180 | LBC
1+ week, 1+ day ago (470+ words) Households across the UK will be put under further financial pressure after the government announced the TV licence fee would rise for a third straight year. The fee, which currently costs "174.50, will rise by "5.50 to "180 a year from April. Last…...
How old do you need to be to use each social media site? | LBC
3+ week, 4+ day ago (646+ words) Government considering bringing in social media ban for under-16s in UK The British government has launched a consultation into a proposed ban on children under 16 being able to use social media. The UK is looking to make schools more of…...
Plan to jam bomb phone signals met with resistance in Ireland in the early 2000s
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (733+ words) Irish phone companies were "unwilling" to take part in an early 2000s scheme to temporarily block networks in a bid to prevent bombs being set off in Northern Ireland, according to previously confidential documents. Authorities in Northern Ireland and the UK…...
From Charlie Kirk to Labubus, as Google reveales most searched terms in 2025 | LBC
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (571+ words) UK web users were keen to find out more about Charlie Kirk and Ozzy Osbourne this year Charlie Kirk was the most searched-for term in the UK in 2025, Google has revealed. As part of its annual data reveal, the search…...
CloudFlare down again as latest mass internet outage hits sites including Vinted, Zoom and Deliveroo | LBC
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (483+ words) The outage comes just three weeks after ChatGPT, Zoom and Elon Musk's X went down, with many sites unresponsive Website hosting service Cloudflare is facing yet another outage just weeks after the service brought many internet sites to a standstill....
Virgin Media fined £23.8m by Ofcom after thousands of vulnerable customers put at 'direct risk of harm' | LBC
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (553+ words) Virgin Media has been fined "23.8 million by regulator Ofcom after putting thousands of vulnerable customers at "direct risk of harm" when moving them to digital landlines. The media company received the penalty after reporting incidents that breached the regulator's consumer…...
Smartphones put children at risk and leave parents torn. So we built a better one | LBC
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (917+ words) Kids deserve a safer way to step into the digital world, and parents deserve to feel confident handing over that first phone, writes Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts. Back in 2010, when I handed my 11-year-old twins their first smartphones, I was…...
Denmark to ban social media for under-15s as phones are 'stealing childhoods' | LBC
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (596+ words) Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says the government has "unleashed a monster", as Denmark moves to outlaw social media use for children under 15s. Denmark plans to ban social media apps for under-15s as PM says phones have 'stolen childhood'. Denmark's prime…...