Is it OK for jobseekers or employers to use AI? 14. October 2026 (01:04) Graduates are increasingly using AI to misrepresent themselves in job applications, research suggests. But some say their peer group has no choice.(BBC News)
Royal Mail losing 400 postal workers a week, says union 14. October 2026 (01:03) The CWU says more posties are leaving since a new delivery system was brought in, that it claims is not working in hundreds of offices.(BBC News)
Fostering in crisis: can flexible care models fix England’s child placement shortfall? 14. October 2026 (01:01) New recruitment campaign to target adults in their 30s and 40s in bid to create 10,000 new foster care places Viennetta Basterfield, 67, spent two decades fostering more than 100 children in her west London home before she and her husband handed in the reins during Covid.Her own mother had died when she was nine and she was brought up by another woman who took her in. There was no doubt in her mind that she wanted to dedicate her life to passing that gift on to others. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Cryptocurrency exchange founded by Reform donor Ben Delo sued for £20m 14. October 2026 (01:01) Former investor alleges BitMEX sold products in UK despite not being regulated by Financial Conduct AuthorityA cryptocurrency exchange founded by the billionaire Reform UK donor Ben Delo is being sued for £20m over claims that the company mis-sold financial products in the UK.Lewis Barber, who is a software engineer, alleges that BitMEX offered crypto derivative products to investors in the UK, despite not being regulated or approved to do so by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Stop making sense: focus on sounds to help learn a language, study suggests 14. October 2026 (01:01) Research shows that the best linguists process unfamiliar foreign speech sounds more like non-speech soundsIf you want to get really good at French, Arabic or Hungarian, don’t start with rote learning vocabulary and grammar, focus on how they sound instead, research suggests.A new study of how humans learn modern languages has found that the brains of the most talented linguists hear foreign terms as random noise, not words. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Rules, London’s oldest restaurant, donated to National Trust 14. October 2026 (01:01) Historic eatery in capital’s theatreland given to heritage charity after changing hands only three times in 228 yearsWhen Thomas Rule served his first oyster to diners on Maiden Lane in London’s Covent Garden, “mad” George III was on the throne of England, John Adams was US president and William Pitt the Younger had just come up with a wheeze called income tax to pay for the Napoleonic wars.More than two centuries later, Rules, the restaurant Thomas founded in what became the capital’s theatreland, has outlasted nine British monarchs and 45 prime ministers – but has changed hands only three times. The interior of its four-storey home, stuffed with historic playbills and vintage caricatures and gilded antlers, is little changed from the 19th century, nor has the tone of its determinedly meaty menu – think rabbit rillettes, shin of veal and roast guinea fowl. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
