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April 1, 2026
https://www.wabe.org/atlanta-based-cdc-pauses-dozens-of-types-of-lab-testing-during-evaluation-and-in-wake-of-downsizing/
The federal government’s disease-tracking agency has paused its diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox and a number of other infectious diseases. The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week posted a list of more than two dozen types of testing that have become unavailable. This is not the first time the CDC has paused some of its lab testing. But it is pausing more kinds of tests than ever before, and it is not totally clear why, said Scott Becker, chief executive officer of the Association of Public Health Laboratories.
A government spokesman called the pause temporary and attributed it to “a routine review to uphold our commitment to high quality laboratory testing.” “We anticipate some of these tests will be available through CDC labs again in the coming weeks. In the meantime, CDC stands ready to support our state and local partners to access the public health testing they need,” said Andrew Nixon of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC.
CDC’s laboratory operations were faulted during the COVID-19 pandemic, and they were the subject of a subsequent work group’s review. The agency has been evaluating its testing since 2024, Becker said. But there can be other reasons for taking tests offline, including staffing issues, he noted.
The pausing of lab testing comes in the wake of the dramatic downsizing of the CDC in the last year through layoffs, retirements, resignations and the nonrenewal of temporary appointments. Staffing fell by 20% to 25%, according to different estimates, and was felt across the agency — including in the laboratories. The poxvirus and rabies labs lost about half their prior staff, and the CDC’s malaria branch was gutted even more, according to the National Public Health Coalition, an organization of former and current CDC workers that formed in the wake of the downsizing.
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Atlanta-based CDC pauses dozens of types of lab testing during evaluation and in wake of downsizing
https://www.wabe.org/atlanta-based-cdc-pauses-dozens-of-types-of-lab-testing-during-evaluation-and-in-wake-of-downsizing/
The federal government’s disease-tracking agency has paused its diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox and a number of other infectious diseases. The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week posted a list of more than two dozen types of testing that have become unavailable. This is not the first time the CDC has paused some of its lab testing. But it is pausing more kinds of tests than ever before, and it is not totally clear why, said Scott Becker, chief executive officer of the Association of Public Health Laboratories.
A government spokesman called the pause temporary and attributed it to “a routine review to uphold our commitment to high quality laboratory testing.” “We anticipate some of these tests will be available through CDC labs again in the coming weeks. In the meantime, CDC stands ready to support our state and local partners to access the public health testing they need,” said Andrew Nixon of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC.
CDC’s laboratory operations were faulted during the COVID-19 pandemic, and they were the subject of a subsequent work group’s review. The agency has been evaluating its testing since 2024, Becker said. But there can be other reasons for taking tests offline, including staffing issues, he noted.
The pausing of lab testing comes in the wake of the dramatic downsizing of the CDC in the last year through layoffs, retirements, resignations and the nonrenewal of temporary appointments. Staffing fell by 20% to 25%, according to different estimates, and was felt across the agency — including in the laboratories. The poxvirus and rabies labs lost about half their prior staff, and the CDC’s malaria branch was gutted even more, according to the National Public Health Coalition, an organization of former and current CDC workers that formed in the wake of the downsizing.
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April 1, 2026
The president, a longtime critic of Nato, has stepped up criticism after allies refused to join the US-Israel war on Iran
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/01/trump-says-he-is-absolutely-considering-withdrawing-us-from-nato
Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump at the Opera House of the Kennedy Center. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images
Donald Trump has said he is “absolutely” considering withdrawing the US from Nato, warning that the matter was “beyond reconsideration” in the wake of the refusal of US allies to join the US-Israeli war against Iran. The president’s threats, his most determined to date, have left the alliance facing its worst crisis in its 77-year history, a former US ambassador has warned.
Trump has long been vocally sceptical about the benefit of Nato membership to the US, but since North Atlantic allies have refused to take part in the month-long, faltering, US-Israeli assault on Iran, the president has stepped up his rhetoric. He told Reuters news agency on Wednesday he was “absolutely without question” considering withdrawal after telling the Telegraph the matter was “beyond reconsideration”, insisting he had never been “swayed by Nato”. He signalled that he would express his disgust for Nato in an address to the nation scheduled for Wednesday evening.
It could be politically and constitutionally difficult for Trump to bring about formal withdrawal from the 1949 Washington treaty, Nato’s founding document, but Ivo Daalder, US permanent representative at Nato headquarters from 2009 to 2013, argued the serious damage to the alliance has already been done. “This is by far the worst crisis Nato has ever confronted. Military alliances are, at their core, based on trust: the confidence that if I am attacked, you will come help defend,” Daalder wrote in an online commentary. “It’s hard to see how any European country will now be able and willing to trust the United States to come to its defence.”
Trump launched the war on Iran on 28 February in partnership with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, but without consulting Nato allies. He did not invoke Article 5 of the treaty, which triggers collective defence from other members in the event of an “an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America”. Such an attack, which would activate a joint response, had not taken place. More than a month into the war, there is no sign of the regime change or collapse that Trump and Netanyahu had hoped for, and Tehran’s response – closing the economically-vital Strait of Hormuz – has caused an oil price spike and a worldwide shortage of fertiliser and other essential goods, threatening a global recession.
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Trump says he is 'absolutely' considering withdrawing US from Nato
The president, a longtime critic of Nato, has stepped up criticism after allies refused to join the US-Israel war on Iran
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/01/trump-says-he-is-absolutely-considering-withdrawing-us-from-nato
Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump at the Opera House of the Kennedy Center. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images
Donald Trump has said he is “absolutely” considering withdrawing the US from Nato, warning that the matter was “beyond reconsideration” in the wake of the refusal of US allies to join the US-Israeli war against Iran. The president’s threats, his most determined to date, have left the alliance facing its worst crisis in its 77-year history, a former US ambassador has warned.
Trump has long been vocally sceptical about the benefit of Nato membership to the US, but since North Atlantic allies have refused to take part in the month-long, faltering, US-Israeli assault on Iran, the president has stepped up his rhetoric. He told Reuters news agency on Wednesday he was “absolutely without question” considering withdrawal after telling the Telegraph the matter was “beyond reconsideration”, insisting he had never been “swayed by Nato”. He signalled that he would express his disgust for Nato in an address to the nation scheduled for Wednesday evening.
It could be politically and constitutionally difficult for Trump to bring about formal withdrawal from the 1949 Washington treaty, Nato’s founding document, but Ivo Daalder, US permanent representative at Nato headquarters from 2009 to 2013, argued the serious damage to the alliance has already been done. “This is by far the worst crisis Nato has ever confronted. Military alliances are, at their core, based on trust: the confidence that if I am attacked, you will come help defend,” Daalder wrote in an online commentary. “It’s hard to see how any European country will now be able and willing to trust the United States to come to its defence.”
Trump launched the war on Iran on 28 February in partnership with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, but without consulting Nato allies. He did not invoke Article 5 of the treaty, which triggers collective defence from other members in the event of an “an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America”. Such an attack, which would activate a joint response, had not taken place. More than a month into the war, there is no sign of the regime change or collapse that Trump and Netanyahu had hoped for, and Tehran’s response – closing the economically-vital Strait of Hormuz – has caused an oil price spike and a worldwide shortage of fertiliser and other essential goods, threatening a global recession.
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March 31, 2026
Label: Island Records – ILPS-9329, Island Records – ILPS 9329
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: 1975
Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul
Style: Funk, Soul
Betty Davis - Nasty Gal (1975) rippin' raw funk from Miles Davis' ex muse/wife
Label: Island Records – ILPS-9329, Island Records – ILPS 9329
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: 1975
Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul
Style: Funk, Soul
March 31, 2026
related:
Naomi Klein on the importance of Avi Lewis becoming NDP leader
Departmental plans fuel concern over federal job, program cuts
Initiatives aimed at addressing climate change on the chopping block, advocates warn
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/union-budget-carney-public-service-department-plans-9.7133612
Federal programs aimed at addressing climate change are facing significant cuts as the government shifts to artificial intelligence (AI) and slashes thousands of jobs, according to recently released departmental plans. In its latest budget, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government said it would partly rely on AI to eliminate 40,000 public service jobs, bringing the federal workforce's growth in line with that of the general population.
Canada's two largest public service unions warn Canadians could see a decline in the quality of federal government services as a result. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) say they're alarmed by the staff reductions set out in departmental plans tabled late Friday.
"When you cut jobs, the workload doesn't go down. How are you going to continue maintaining a quality service to Canadians?" asked Alex Silas, PSAC's national executive vice-president. "That's the big piece that's missing out of this, and the big piece that the Carney government's not taking into consideration."
Silas also raised concerns about a "lack of transparency" by the government, saying the departmental plans are short on detail about how services will be delivered in the wake of significant job cuts. For example, Employment and Social Development Canada will have 15,629 fewer public servants in 2029 than it had last year. The department says it will be "leveraging artificial intelligence to automate internal processes and streamline operations," and plans to merge program delivery "to lower administrative costs."
Environmental programs winding down.......................
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related:
Carney’s Job Cuts Undermine Canada’s Position Against Trump
Austerity undermines the foundation for a fairer economy that is less dependent on the United States.
https://www.readthemaple.com/carneys-job-cuts-undermine-canadas-position-against-trump/
Prime Minister Mark Carney recently made international waves at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, following his frank diagnosis of our current economic “rupture.” The weaponization of trade by “great powers,” (i.e., the United States) calls for rethinking our economic relationships, according to Carney. Back at home, however, his government is engaged in a brutal program of public service job cuts, issuing thousands of “workforce adjustment” notices to workers in the span of a year as part of their plan to ultimately axe more than 40,000 positions.
The number of workforce adjustment letters issued to federal public servants since early last year alone has been dizzying, leaving unions and their members with little sense of the full scale and implications of the planned cuts. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), the largest union in the federal public service, has launched a “workforce adjustment tracker” just to keep track of all the impacted workers. As of January 30, more than 11,800 PSAC members had received notice that their positions could be terminated. Moreover, these cuts are in addition to the 5,500 term employees who were not renewed last year.
The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC), the second largest union of federal public servants, has characterized the planned job cuts as a “generational rollback of public services” that are producing “Hunger Games-style anxiety” among its members. Instead of building an economy of resilience to meet the challenges of the economic “rupture,” the Carney Liberals are supercharging austerity and slashing the capacity of the federal public service.
Since it became clear in the 2025 budget that the government planned this devastating and scattershot series of cuts to the federal workforce, unions have been sounding the alarm about the negative impacts likely to be experienced by their members, but also the threat these cuts posed to services across the country. Behind the language of “efficiency” and “modernization,” they warned, were drastic reductions in service capacity and quality. Not just jobs, but whole programs were under threat. Each week it seems a new group of workers receives workforce adjustment notifications, indicating that reductions are planned for their department and their job may be terminated. The government’s plan for mass downsizing has therefore appeared as death by a thousand cuts.
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Canada: Avi Lewis Wins NDP Leadership Race In Historic Victory + Carney/Liberals to use AI to slash 40,000+ federal jobs
related:
Naomi Klein on the importance of Avi Lewis becoming NDP leader
Departmental plans fuel concern over federal job, program cuts
Initiatives aimed at addressing climate change on the chopping block, advocates warn
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/union-budget-carney-public-service-department-plans-9.7133612
Federal programs aimed at addressing climate change are facing significant cuts as the government shifts to artificial intelligence (AI) and slashes thousands of jobs, according to recently released departmental plans. In its latest budget, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government said it would partly rely on AI to eliminate 40,000 public service jobs, bringing the federal workforce's growth in line with that of the general population.
Canada's two largest public service unions warn Canadians could see a decline in the quality of federal government services as a result. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) say they're alarmed by the staff reductions set out in departmental plans tabled late Friday.
"When you cut jobs, the workload doesn't go down. How are you going to continue maintaining a quality service to Canadians?" asked Alex Silas, PSAC's national executive vice-president. "That's the big piece that's missing out of this, and the big piece that the Carney government's not taking into consideration."
Silas also raised concerns about a "lack of transparency" by the government, saying the departmental plans are short on detail about how services will be delivered in the wake of significant job cuts. For example, Employment and Social Development Canada will have 15,629 fewer public servants in 2029 than it had last year. The department says it will be "leveraging artificial intelligence to automate internal processes and streamline operations," and plans to merge program delivery "to lower administrative costs."
Environmental programs winding down.......................
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related:
Carney’s Job Cuts Undermine Canada’s Position Against Trump
Austerity undermines the foundation for a fairer economy that is less dependent on the United States.
https://www.readthemaple.com/carneys-job-cuts-undermine-canadas-position-against-trump/
Prime Minister Mark Carney recently made international waves at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, following his frank diagnosis of our current economic “rupture.” The weaponization of trade by “great powers,” (i.e., the United States) calls for rethinking our economic relationships, according to Carney. Back at home, however, his government is engaged in a brutal program of public service job cuts, issuing thousands of “workforce adjustment” notices to workers in the span of a year as part of their plan to ultimately axe more than 40,000 positions.
The number of workforce adjustment letters issued to federal public servants since early last year alone has been dizzying, leaving unions and their members with little sense of the full scale and implications of the planned cuts. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), the largest union in the federal public service, has launched a “workforce adjustment tracker” just to keep track of all the impacted workers. As of January 30, more than 11,800 PSAC members had received notice that their positions could be terminated. Moreover, these cuts are in addition to the 5,500 term employees who were not renewed last year.
The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC), the second largest union of federal public servants, has characterized the planned job cuts as a “generational rollback of public services” that are producing “Hunger Games-style anxiety” among its members. Instead of building an economy of resilience to meet the challenges of the economic “rupture,” the Carney Liberals are supercharging austerity and slashing the capacity of the federal public service.
Since it became clear in the 2025 budget that the government planned this devastating and scattershot series of cuts to the federal workforce, unions have been sounding the alarm about the negative impacts likely to be experienced by their members, but also the threat these cuts posed to services across the country. Behind the language of “efficiency” and “modernization,” they warned, were drastic reductions in service capacity and quality. Not just jobs, but whole programs were under threat. Each week it seems a new group of workers receives workforce adjustment notifications, indicating that reductions are planned for their department and their job may be terminated. The government’s plan for mass downsizing has therefore appeared as death by a thousand cuts.
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March 31, 2026
related:
Naomi Klein on the importance of Avi Lewis becoming NDP leader
Departmental plans fuel concern over federal job, program cuts
Initiatives aimed at addressing climate change on the chopping block, advocates warn
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/union-budget-carney-public-service-department-plans-9.7133612
Federal programs aimed at addressing climate change are facing significant cuts as the government shifts to artificial intelligence (AI) and slashes thousands of jobs, according to recently released departmental plans. In its latest budget, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government said it would partly rely on AI to eliminate 40,000 public service jobs, bringing the federal workforce's growth in line with that of the general population.
Canada's two largest public service unions warn Canadians could see a decline in the quality of federal government services as a result. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) say they're alarmed by the staff reductions set out in departmental plans tabled late Friday.
"When you cut jobs, the workload doesn't go down. How are you going to continue maintaining a quality service to Canadians?" asked Alex Silas, PSAC's national executive vice-president. "That's the big piece that's missing out of this, and the big piece that the Carney government's not taking into consideration."
Silas also raised concerns about a "lack of transparency" by the government, saying the departmental plans are short on detail about how services will be delivered in the wake of significant job cuts. For example, Employment and Social Development Canada will have 15,629 fewer public servants in 2029 than it had last year. The department says it will be "leveraging artificial intelligence to automate internal processes and streamline operations," and plans to merge program delivery "to lower administrative costs."
Environmental programs winding down.......................
snip
related:
Carney’s Job Cuts Undermine Canada’s Position Against Trump
Austerity undermines the foundation for a fairer economy that is less dependent on the United States.
https://www.readthemaple.com/carneys-job-cuts-undermine-canadas-position-against-trump/
Prime Minister Mark Carney recently made international waves at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, following his frank diagnosis of our current economic “rupture.” The weaponization of trade by “great powers,” (i.e., the United States) calls for rethinking our economic relationships, according to Carney. Back at home, however, his government is engaged in a brutal program of public service job cuts, issuing thousands of “workforce adjustment” notices to workers in the span of a year as part of their plan to ultimately axe more than 40,000 positions.
The number of workforce adjustment letters issued to federal public servants since early last year alone has been dizzying, leaving unions and their members with little sense of the full scale and implications of the planned cuts. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), the largest union in the federal public service, has launched a “workforce adjustment tracker” just to keep track of all the impacted workers. As of January 30, more than 11,800 PSAC members had received notice that their positions could be terminated. Moreover, these cuts are in addition to the 5,500 term employees who were not renewed last year.
The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC), the second largest union of federal public servants, has characterized the planned job cuts as a “generational rollback of public services” that are producing “Hunger Games-style anxiety” among its members. Instead of building an economy of resilience to meet the challenges of the economic “rupture,” the Carney Liberals are supercharging austerity and slashing the capacity of the federal public service.
Since it became clear in the 2025 budget that the government planned this devastating and scattershot series of cuts to the federal workforce, unions have been sounding the alarm about the negative impacts likely to be experienced by their members, but also the threat these cuts posed to services across the country. Behind the language of “efficiency” and “modernization,” they warned, were drastic reductions in service capacity and quality. Not just jobs, but whole programs were under threat. Each week it seems a new group of workers receives workforce adjustment notifications, indicating that reductions are planned for their department and their job may be terminated. The government’s plan for mass downsizing has therefore appeared as death by a thousand cuts.
snip
Canada: Avi Lewis Wins NDP Leadership Race In Historic Victory + Carney/Liberals to use AI to slash 40,000+ federal jobs
related:
Naomi Klein on the importance of Avi Lewis becoming NDP leader
Departmental plans fuel concern over federal job, program cuts
Initiatives aimed at addressing climate change on the chopping block, advocates warn
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/union-budget-carney-public-service-department-plans-9.7133612
Federal programs aimed at addressing climate change are facing significant cuts as the government shifts to artificial intelligence (AI) and slashes thousands of jobs, according to recently released departmental plans. In its latest budget, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government said it would partly rely on AI to eliminate 40,000 public service jobs, bringing the federal workforce's growth in line with that of the general population.
Canada's two largest public service unions warn Canadians could see a decline in the quality of federal government services as a result. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) say they're alarmed by the staff reductions set out in departmental plans tabled late Friday.
"When you cut jobs, the workload doesn't go down. How are you going to continue maintaining a quality service to Canadians?" asked Alex Silas, PSAC's national executive vice-president. "That's the big piece that's missing out of this, and the big piece that the Carney government's not taking into consideration."
Silas also raised concerns about a "lack of transparency" by the government, saying the departmental plans are short on detail about how services will be delivered in the wake of significant job cuts. For example, Employment and Social Development Canada will have 15,629 fewer public servants in 2029 than it had last year. The department says it will be "leveraging artificial intelligence to automate internal processes and streamline operations," and plans to merge program delivery "to lower administrative costs."
Environmental programs winding down.......................
snip
related:
Carney’s Job Cuts Undermine Canada’s Position Against Trump
Austerity undermines the foundation for a fairer economy that is less dependent on the United States.
https://www.readthemaple.com/carneys-job-cuts-undermine-canadas-position-against-trump/
Prime Minister Mark Carney recently made international waves at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, following his frank diagnosis of our current economic “rupture.” The weaponization of trade by “great powers,” (i.e., the United States) calls for rethinking our economic relationships, according to Carney. Back at home, however, his government is engaged in a brutal program of public service job cuts, issuing thousands of “workforce adjustment” notices to workers in the span of a year as part of their plan to ultimately axe more than 40,000 positions.
The number of workforce adjustment letters issued to federal public servants since early last year alone has been dizzying, leaving unions and their members with little sense of the full scale and implications of the planned cuts. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), the largest union in the federal public service, has launched a “workforce adjustment tracker” just to keep track of all the impacted workers. As of January 30, more than 11,800 PSAC members had received notice that their positions could be terminated. Moreover, these cuts are in addition to the 5,500 term employees who were not renewed last year.
The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC), the second largest union of federal public servants, has characterized the planned job cuts as a “generational rollback of public services” that are producing “Hunger Games-style anxiety” among its members. Instead of building an economy of resilience to meet the challenges of the economic “rupture,” the Carney Liberals are supercharging austerity and slashing the capacity of the federal public service.
Since it became clear in the 2025 budget that the government planned this devastating and scattershot series of cuts to the federal workforce, unions have been sounding the alarm about the negative impacts likely to be experienced by their members, but also the threat these cuts posed to services across the country. Behind the language of “efficiency” and “modernization,” they warned, were drastic reductions in service capacity and quality. Not just jobs, but whole programs were under threat. Each week it seems a new group of workers receives workforce adjustment notifications, indicating that reductions are planned for their department and their job may be terminated. The government’s plan for mass downsizing has therefore appeared as death by a thousand cuts.
snip
March 31, 2026
The Metropolitan Police has told BBC News that the teenage boy at the centre of the Scott Mills sexual offences investigation was under 16.
Mills was questioned in 2018 over the historical allegations of serious sexual offences, but the investigation - which began in 2016 - was closed in 2019 after the CPS deemed there was insufficient evidence to bring charges.
The allegations, first published in the Mirror, are reported to have happened between 1997 and 2000, police said.
On Monday, it was announced Mills had been sacked by the BBC over allegations related to his personal conduct. The BBC has not given any further details over the allegations and it is not clear what, if any, role the police investigation played in his sacking.
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Teenage boy at centre of BBC DJ Scott Mills sexual offences investigation was under 16, police say
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwykq2lqjw7oThe Metropolitan Police has told BBC News that the teenage boy at the centre of the Scott Mills sexual offences investigation was under 16.
Mills was questioned in 2018 over the historical allegations of serious sexual offences, but the investigation - which began in 2016 - was closed in 2019 after the CPS deemed there was insufficient evidence to bring charges.
The allegations, first published in the Mirror, are reported to have happened between 1997 and 2000, police said.
On Monday, it was announced Mills had been sacked by the BBC over allegations related to his personal conduct. The BBC has not given any further details over the allegations and it is not clear what, if any, role the police investigation played in his sacking.
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March 30, 2026
Label: Zonophone – Z 7
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single
Country: UK
Released: 18 Jul 1980
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk
Angelic Upstarts - Last Night Another Soldier (1980)
Label: Zonophone – Z 7
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single
Country: UK
Released: 18 Jul 1980
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk
March 30, 2026
Label: Elevator Music (4) – FLOOR19, Hut Recordings – 72435478073
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Stereo
Country: UK & Europe
Released: 15 Sept 2003
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock
Placebo - Special Needs (2003)
Label: Elevator Music (4) – FLOOR19, Hut Recordings – 72435478073
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Stereo
Country: UK & Europe
Released: 15 Sept 2003
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock
March 30, 2026
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260330-life-with-ai-causing-human-brain-fry
Too many lines of code to analyze, armies of AI assistants to wrangle, and lengthy prompts to draft are among the laments by hard-core AI adopters.
Consultants at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have dubbed the phenomenon "AI brain fry," a state of mental exhaustion stemming "from the excessive use or supervision of artificial intelligence tools, pushed beyond our cognitive limits."
The rise of AI agents that tend to computer tasks on demand has put users in the position of managing smart, fast digital workers rather than having to grind through jobs themselves.
"It's a brand-new kind of cognitive load," said Ben Wigler, co-founder of the start-up LoveMind AI. "You have to really babysit these models."
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Life with AI causing human brain 'fry'
Heavy users of artificial intelligence report being overwhelmed by trying to keep up with and on top of the technology designed to make their lives easier.https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260330-life-with-ai-causing-human-brain-fry
Too many lines of code to analyze, armies of AI assistants to wrangle, and lengthy prompts to draft are among the laments by hard-core AI adopters.
Consultants at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have dubbed the phenomenon "AI brain fry," a state of mental exhaustion stemming "from the excessive use or supervision of artificial intelligence tools, pushed beyond our cognitive limits."
The rise of AI agents that tend to computer tasks on demand has put users in the position of managing smart, fast digital workers rather than having to grind through jobs themselves.
"It's a brand-new kind of cognitive load," said Ben Wigler, co-founder of the start-up LoveMind AI. "You have to really babysit these models."
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