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Wetherspoon Restores Right to Be Drunk Unfilmed

Lotte Heidenreich

Smart Glasses Told to Stop Filming Strangers BRITAIN’S PUBS: Wetherspoon has reminded customers that filming people without permission is not acceptable, including through camera-equipped smart glasses. Wetherspoon Smart Glasses Policy: Turn Off the Cameras The policy attracted attention in August, as wearable technology began turning ordinary spectacles into discreet recording equipment. The chain told The Register that the general code in its pubs, and most pubs, is that you can’t…

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Smart Glasses Ban Urged After Reform MP Recites Statistics

Yasmina Khan

Parliament fears politicians might remember facts without government assistance. CARDIFF, 19 October 2026. Westminster has been thrown into an intellectual emergency following controversy over a Reform UK politician’s smart glasses, prompting demands for tighter parliamentary rules before British voters start expecting elected representatives to know what they are talking about. The Jason O’Connell Speech in the Welsh Senedd The controversy followed a statistics-heavy speech by Reform’s Jason O’Connell in the…

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Meghan Markle Returns to Britain as Private Citizen, Discovers Privacy Much More Enjoyable With Photographers, Royal Walkabouts and Hundreds of Adoring Fans

Camden Rose

Duchess establishes new definition of privacy that permits public appearances, professional photographs, enthusiastic crowds and the occasional ceremonial bouquet. NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND, October 17, 2026 | Meghan Markle has returned to Britain and introduced a significant philosophical development in the understanding of privacy, demonstrating that a person can remain a private citizen while being photographed by nearly every national newspaper simultaneously. The Duchess of Sussex accompanied Prince Harry to Nottingham on…

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Meta Tracks Workers’ Clicks to Build AI

Alan Nafzger

Meta Tracks Workers’ Clicks to Build AI That Can Also Ignore Human Feelings on a Schedule Five Mildly Catastrophic Observations At long last, a machine that understands middle management perfectly, right down to the dead-eyed nod over a lukewarm tea. The AI can process emotion by skipping it instantly, a skill previously held only by HR and certain headmasters. Workers said morale was low. The algorithm marked that as background…

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Meta Was AI Trained by Nigel

Alan Nafzger

Meta Reveals New AI Trained Entirely by Watching Nigel from Accounts Have a Nervous Breakdown in Excel Five Mildly Catastrophic Observations Nigel has not opened a spreadsheet without sighing since the Blair government, and the sighing has only deepened. Meta has officially classified panic-clicking as the most authentically British contribution to artificial intelligence since the queue. Every time Nigel mutters “where have the bloody numbers gone,” the AI gains sentience…

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Zuckerberg Declares Privacy Is Back

Alan Nafzger

Zuckerberg Declares Privacy Is Back at Meta, Then Promptly Counts Your Every Keystroke Five Mildly Catastrophic Observations Nothing announces a privacy revival quite like a billionaire counting your every keypress in real time and graphing the results before pudding. The announcement was made behind a curtain of dashboards, which is how you know it was about transparency. Staff applauded, then asked whether applause speed was being logged. It was. Sustained…

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Mouse Twitch Now Innovation Data

Alan Nafzger

Staff Stunned to Discover Every Mouse Twitch Now Counts as Innovation Data at Meta Five Mildly Catastrophic Observations Workers thought fidgeting was stress. It was, in fact, unpaid R&D with a quarterly earnings call attached. Every accidental cursor circle is now worth millions in venture capital theory and tuppence in actual wages. The “wiggle the mouse so Teams stays green” manoeuvre is now patented behaviour and a leading indicator of…