1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (343+ words) Officer Parks with the Burbank Police Department has arrested the hearts of thousands of Instagram users after the agency shared a picture of the cop holding a French bulldog while another pup appeared to be relieving itself in the background....

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (403+ words) Editorial: It is entirely right that Liz Kendall, the technology secretary, should put the safety of women and girls first and protect them from the "hyper-pornographied slop" pumped out by the Silicon Valley giants Despite some typically overwrought, misguided and,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1212+ words) Arpan Rai speaks to victims of Grok's sexualised AI images in India, where there are calls for Elon Musk's X to do much more to protect women already navigating a highly patriarchal society When Ruchi Kokcha posted her first selfie…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (84+ words) Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Bulletin culture briefing: Beloved author dies and an Oscar-winner on Gogglebox - Author Sophie Kinsella dies aged 55 after an aggressive brain…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (897+ words) What we consider "fringe" or "mainstream" changes over time. That applies to health and medicine too. For instance, massage was once considered a fringe therapy but in the 19th century it morphed into what we know today as physiotherapy. Likewise, Swiss…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (109+ words) The most haunted pub in London Pub quiz scandal as team caught "whispering into smartwatches" - Pub owner Mark Rackham exposed the cheating on social media but kept the culprits' identities anonymous, leading to a widespread local 'whodunnit' mystery. - The team's…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1129+ words) Dominique Debroux, James Keppel and Jenny Watson don't know each other, but all reached a point in their lives where they needed to make drastic changes to turn around potentially life-threatening conditions. And they wanted " badly " to make the necessary…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (188+ words) The European Union might be about to fix one of the most annoying things on the internet. Cookies are a central part of the internet: they allow websites to collect information from visitors and track them both on the specific…...

6+ mon, 13+ hour ago  (242+ words) Going by lexicon alone, we might have cause for concern, writes Helen Coffey " the zeitgeist language making waves among Gen Alpha paints a troubling picture of what young people are grappling with It would be tempting to hear the latest…...

6+ mon, 22+ hour ago  (1080+ words) A mass purge of sexually explicit games exposes the little-known yet all-encompassing system of "financial censorship" practiced by payment providers such as Visa and Mastercard, reports Io Dodds A critically lauded horror game about the consequences of rape was among…...