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Piers Morgan says he has insider information about how the Royal Family is responding to a new book about Princess Diana described as a bombshell. Speaking on Good Morning Britain, he claimed the royals are unsettled by revelations touching on Diana's legacy, and viewers are debating both the book's claims and whether Morgan's palace sources can be trusted.

Morgan Stanley is dealing with an accidental leak after an internal list of investment-bank deals was sent out in an email misfire. The incident has drawn attention on finance and technology forums, with commenters discussing how such sensitive client information could be mishandled and what the compliance and reputational fallout might be for the bank.

Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the White House's decision to bar a news outlet from press access, telling reporters that covering the president is 'a privilege, not a right'. His remarks came as legal challenges over the ban move through the courts. Press freedom groups and other news organizations have criticized the policy, arguing it restricts the public's access to information about the administration.

A new study from Norwegian researchers reports that users aged 9 to 18 are increasingly turning to AI chatbots instead of Google for information and answers. The research warns that the consequences of this shift — for learning, fact-checking and how young people judge source reliability — remain largely unknown. Commenters are debating whether AI answers are worse for children than search results, or simply a new norm.

A Quanta Magazine article explaining the holographic principle in physics is being discussed on Hacker News. The idea is that gravity in a volume of space can be described by information encoded on that volume's boundary, as in the AdS/CFT correspondence, suggesting three-dimensional reality may emerge from lower-dimensional information. Commenters on the post are debating what this implies about the fundamental nature of space, time and whether reality is a projection.

A video clip of computing pioneer Alan Kay is circulating on Hacker News, in which he discusses Claude Shannon, the mathematician who founded information theory. The snippet shown references Shannon's work on handling noisy communication channels, a foundational idea behind modern digital communication and computing. Commenters appear drawn to Kay's reflections on computing history and theory, though the full context of the discussion is limited to a single post with around 140 points and no visible thread detail.

Renewable sources are now generating 61 percent of Turkey's electricity, according to a report by Informed Comment. The figure is being highlighted against the backdrop of an energy crisis tied to the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for global oil shipments. Turkey's growing reliance on wind, solar and hydro is being framed as insulation from disruptions in Persian Gulf energy supplies.