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Molendinar Community Centre in Blackhill received the funding from Thenue Housing Association and its contractor McConnell, who each contributed £500 toward the total. Run by St Paul’s Youth Forum, the centre offers a wide range of programmes and services for children, families and other residents in the area, including yoga, football, dance, sewing and knitting classes, fitness programmes, educational courses and a community food pantry. The donation will help the centre continue running its programmes and maintaining the facility for the benefit of the Blackhill community. Debbie Martin, centre manager, said: “This is great news. “Every penny helps, and we…

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It comes after nights of disorder in BelfastStock image of a Translink bus in Belfast city centre(Image: Justin Kernoghan/Belfast Live)Translink has issued an update on bus and train services after disorder in Belfast this week.On Thursday, Metro and Glider departures and Ulsterbus services operating out of Belfast stopped after 5.30pm, with the last rail services operating before 8.15pm from Grand Central Station.On Friday, a spokesperson confirmed that services are currently operating as normal.Translink had planned a number of additional services on Friday and Saturday to accommodate Belsonic music festival in South Belfast. These services are set to go ahead.A Translink…

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Ecommerce businesses and online retailers selling to EU customers will be required to add a digital withdrawal function to their customer buying journeys.From 19 June 2026, online merchants – including those in the UK and other non-EU countries – must allow customers to cancel orders directly through their business website or app.But while the change may seem relatively simple, retailers will need to ensure their systems, processes, and teams are prepared to handle cancellation requests efficiently and in line with the new rules. What is the EU’s mandatory withdrawal button?The EU’s mandatory withdrawal button is a new consumer protection requirement,…

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A team of researchers from the CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI), the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and the S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences has developed a new type of highly precise filtration membrane. The study, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, describes a technology that could help industries cut energy use and dramatically increase water reuse. Many industrial activities depend on separating different substances from one another. These separation processes are essential for tasks such as drug purification, textile dye treatment, and food production.…

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Key takeaways:While bearish ETH futures trends and spot ETF outflows signal weak institutional appetite, staking demand prevents further decline.Falling exchange deposits and accumulation by BitMine indicate holder confidence in ETH’s long-term value.Ether (ETH) price failed to reclaim the $1,700 level over the past week, tracking a broader weakness across cryptocurrency markets. This correction contrasts sharply with the bullish momentum seen in the US stock market. Traders worry that Ether’s appeal has faded due to sluggish on-chain activity and a distinct lack of demand for bullish leveraged positions.ETH futures annualized funding rate. Source: LaevitasThe ETH perpetual futures annualized funding rate flipped…

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Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has a theory about where the next wave of startup opportunity lies, and it starts with a question most founders aren’t asking: what if the business model was giving money back instead of extracting it? Yang was inspired by Mark Cuban. Not by his wealth, or his celebrity, but by Cost Plus Drugs — Cuban’s startup that sells pharmaceuticals at cost. Yang made a list. “Housing, education, food, fuel, transportation, media, and wireless,” Yang told TechCrunch on a recent episode of Equity. “The things we all spend money on.” He picked wireless and…

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The former children’s laureate from Sussex, who has written more than 200 books including The Snail And The Whale, Room On The Broom, Zog, Stick Man, Tiddler, The Scarecrows’ Wedding and The Highway Rat, is made a dame in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to literature. Dame Julia, 77, has sold more than 50 million books worldwide and last year supplanted Harry Potter writer JK Rowling as the UK’s all-time top author in terms of units sold. She said she owes much of her success to her childhood library and the librarian who fostered her love of reading. “Receiving…

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After looking at how businesses have been testing AI and slowly moving into the next phase after the “testing” era of the technology, a different issue has since come to mind. A typical AI stack now costs $1,236 per employee every year, according to Lorka AI. Writing tools, design software, research platforms and meeting assistants can build into a four figure annual bill very quickly.   How Much Are Businesses Spending?   Lorka AI found that many AI products moved from free or low cost access in 2023 to monthly subscriptions that often cost between $20 and $30. Premium tiers…

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The U.S. government on Friday ordered Anthropic to immediately shut off access to two of its most powerful AI models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — citing national security concerns. Anthropic announced on X that it has complied, but it made clear it thinks the government got this one wrong. The directive, which Anthropic said it received on Friday at 5:21 pm ET, forces the company to disable both models for all users worldwide — not just the foreign nationals the government’s export control order was nominally aimed at. Access to Anthropic’s other models isn’t affected. Why…

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