Newspaper review: King's new portrait and US warnings to Georgia
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A new portrait of King Charles unveiled on Tuesday features on the front of many front page newspapers.
In other news, the Daily Telegraph leads with a call from Policing Minister Chris Philp for forces to increase their use of stop-and-search to tackle knife crime.
The Daily Mail is one of several papers to report government plans to ban all sex education for under-nines. It says the Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, will unveil the proposals tomorrow.
The Guardian's front page includes a report on Georgia being warned by the US not to become an adversary of the west by falling back in line with Moscow, as its parliament defied mass street protests to pass a “Kremlin-inspired” law.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and the Work and Pensions minister Mel Stride have written an article in the Times in which they argue unemployed people have "ample opportunity" to find a job, with no good reason to "languish on benefits".
Elsewhere, the Metro says a record three million food parcels have been handed to desperate UK families. Quoting figures from the Trussell Trust food bank it says the number has doubled in five years.
Avendus, the top investment bank for venture deals in India, confirmed on Wednesday it is looking to raise up to $350 million for its new private equity fund. The new fund, called Future Leaders Fund III, will enable the Mumbai-headquartered firm to write larger checks and maintain a meaningful position in the startups it backs, said its managing partner Ritesh Chandra in an interview with TechCrunch. TechCrunch reported in early April that Avendus was putting together a plan to raise a new fund.
Being an MLB umpire is a thankless job, both emotionally taxing and physically strenuous. But Hernández’s outwardly standoffish attitude and penchant for comically bad calls did him no favors.
With its list of Apple Design Awards finalists, Apple is celebrating indie apps and startups over bigger tech firms — including those offering AI chatbots. At a time when its App Store model has been called into question by legislators and regulators alike, Apple's annual list of what it considers the best and most technically innovative software available on its platform is turning its attention to the little guy. There's no ChatGPT to be found on Apple's list of finalists, for example.
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The founder of the spyware app pcTattletale said his company is "out of business and completely done" following a data breach over the weekend. The shutdown comes days after a hacker defaced the spyware maker's website and published links containing large amounts of data from pcTattletale's servers, including databases of customers' information and some victims’ stolen data. The now-defunct app had 138,000 customers who had signed up to use the service, per data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned.