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HANDBAGS AT DAWN
A rare moment of open bitchery on Radio 4's Today as presenters Justin Webb and Nick Robinson bid farewell to outgoing deputy editor Louisa Lewis.

PAC MENTALITY
The Great British Political Action Committee fumed over the BBC's streaming of punk-rap duo Bob Vylan, but how does it police its own members' outbursts?

X MARKS THE BOT
A fake story about China covertly sending military cargo planes to Iran, spread on X (and in the Telegraph), shows the dangers of relying on AI for news.

GENERATION GAMES
The BBC is bravely ignoring recent experience of Apple's AI-generated false headlines to debut two schemes using AI to edit and summarise its journalism.

A-EYE
Microsoft's latest round of redundancies affected an estimated 9,000 staff worldwide, but thankfully executives were on hand with words of comfort.

SOCIALS AUDIT
Students pursuing an education in the US may find their social media accounts being investigated – unless, of course, they use the one owned by the president.

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