Two senior European political figures were the latest to fall over links to the disgraced US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s influential chief of staff resigned in the wake of revelations about a former British ambassador to Washington’s ties to Epstein, followed closely by Starmer’s director of communications, who resigned on Monday, adding to pressure on the British leader.

In Paris, the veteran politician Jack Lang quit as the head of the prestigious Arab World Institute. Lang was under investigation for financial crimes, focused on an offshore fund held by Epstein and Lang’s daughter.

It’s previously been suggested that the upcoming M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Promodels will allow you to make a more flexible choice of CPU and GPU cores. A recent change to Apple’s website seems to support this theory.

A new report suggests that the change could be even more radical, and that the M5 Pro and M5 Max might be not two distinct chips but rather variants of the same one …

HBO Max’s highly anticipated Harry Potter series, coming to the streamer in 2027, will be “the streaming event of the decade,” JB Perrette, CEO and president of global streaming & games at Warner Bros. Discovery said in London on Monday. At least that!

After all, he went on to describe the show as “the biggest streaming event in the history of HBO Max and arguably in streaming, period. It’s number one, two and three in many ways.”

Yesterday’s Bad Bunny’s Apple Music Super Bowl halftime show – which also featured Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin – set new records, according to the iPhone maker.

Apple also highlighted the ability to watch a replay of the show and listen to the full set list on Apple Music …

Apple said that the performance generated record engagement from fans around the world according to listening data on Apple Music, and that the halftime show press conference with Bad Bunny was the most watched in Super Bowl history.

Quentin Tarantino‘s Los Angeles cinema is set to celebrate its past by showing a season of pornographic films.

The Once Upon A Time In Hollywood director has owned the New Beverly Cinema in the California city since 2007, though it had a past life in the 1970s as an adult cinema – when it was then known as the Eros.

The establishment is paying tribute to that this month with programmingfocused on porno films, including the Nurse series, Wes Craven’s The Fireworks Woman, The Opening of Misty Beethoven, Emmanuelle, Black Emannuelle and Caligula, to name a few.

The EU could take ”interim measures” against WhatsApp as it investigates AI providers’ access to the app. On Monday, the EU’s regulatory arm announced its ”preliminary view” that Meta, WhatsApp’s parent company, violated antitrust laws by blocking third-party AI assistants from operating on WhatsApp.

The European Commission’s is concerned that Meta’s actions will limit competitors from entering the AI assistant market. ”We must protect effective competition in this vibrant field, which means we cannot allow dominant tech companies to illegally leverage their dominance to give themselves an unfair advantage,” Teresa Ribera, executive vice-president for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition said in a statement.