Author: Blake Anderson

A campaign has been launched to give Britain’s “cracking” traditional pie and mash protected status.The meal – a minced beef pie and mashed potatoes with a parsley liquor – has so far been “underappreciated” despite being the “original fast food”, according to conservative former minister Richard Holden. Mr Holden, who is MP for Basildon and Billericay, and producers have made representations to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) about an application for Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) status for the dish. Follow Sky News on WhatsApp Keep up with all the latest news from the UK and around…

On Sunday, 50.46% of Moldovans voted yes in a referendum on joining the EU, according to the eastern European country’s central electoral commission. “The referendum asked voters whether they would change the wording of the country’s constitution,” the Guardian’s Russian affairs reporter Pjotr Sauer tells Michael Safi. “The wording would be changed to make joining the EU a main strategic goal of the country.” The referendum campaign was beset by allegations of Russian interference. The Moldovan government has accused Moscow of trying to dissuade voters from supporting the move towards the EU. “Everything from spreading misinformation through Telegram and social…

The owner of TikTok has sacked an intern for allegedly sabotaging an internal artificial intelligence project.ByteDance said it had dismissed the person in August after they “maliciously interfered” with the training of artificial intelligence (AI) models used in a research project.Thanks to the video-sharing app TikTok and its Chinese counterpart, Douyin, which rank among the world’s most popular mobile apps, ByteDance has risen to become one of the world’s most important social media companies.Like other big players in the tech sector, ByteDance has raced to embrace generative AI. Its Doubao chatbot earlier this year took over from the competitor Baidu’s…