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A man, named locally as Dre Brown, was stabbed on Raby Street, Moss Side, in Manchester on Friday evening. He sadly died later from his injuries after being taken to hospital.

Cisco has released an open-source tool "to trace the origins of AI models," reports SC World, "and compare model similarities for great visibility into the AI supply chain." [Cisco's Model Provenance Kit] is a Python toolkit and command-line interface (CLI) that looks at signals such as metadata and weights to create a "fingerprint" for AI models that can then be compared to other model fingerprints to determine potential shared origins. "Think of Model Provenance Kit as a DNA test for AI models," Cisco researchers wrote. "[...] Much like a DNA test reveals biological origins, the Model Provenance Kit examines both metadata and the actual learned parameters of a model (like a unique genome that comprises a model), to assess whether models share a common origin and identify signs of modification." The tool aims to address gaps in visibility into the AI model supply chain. For example, many organizations utilize open-source models from repositories like HuggingFace, where models could potentially be uploaded with incomplete or deceptive documentation. The Model Provenance Kit provides a way for organizations to verify claims about a model's origins, such as claims that a model is trained from scratch, when in reality it may be copied from another model, Cisco said. This may put organizations at risk of using models with unknown biases, vulnerabilities or manipulations and make it more difficult to resolve any incidents that arise from these risks. Thanks to Slashdot reader spatwei for sharing the news.

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Last Friday Andy Burnham left his office to take the 20-minute walk to The Badger, a new gastropub he'd agreed to open in Manchester's trendy Northern Quarter.

Cheryl Tweedy endured one of life's biggest tragedies 18 months ago after the death of her child's father, Liam Payne.

Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns

Cruises are sold as floating vacations, but they are also useful for understanding public health.

All 20 of America's state-run healthcare marketplace sites "include advertising trackers that share information with Big Tech companies," reports Gizmodo, citing a report from Bloomberg: Per the report, seven million Americans bought their health insurance through state exchanges in 2026, and many of them may have had personal information shared with companies, including Meta, TikTok, Snap, Google, Nextdoor, and LinkedIn, among others. Some of the data collected and shared with those companies included ZIP codes, a person's sex and citizenship status, and race. In addition to potentially sensitive biographical details about a person, the trackers also may reveal additional details about their life based on the sites they visit. For instance, Bloomberg found trackers on Medicaid-related web pages in Rhode Island, which could reveal information about a person's financial status and need for assistance. In Maryland, a Spanish-language page titled "Good News for Noncitizen Pregnant Marylanders" and a page designed to help DACA recipients navigate their healthcare options were found to be transmitting data to Big Tech firms... Per Bloomberg, several states have already removed some trackers from their exchange websites following the report. Thanks to Slashdot reader JoeyRox for sharing the news.

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A UK airport has officially ceased all flights from today as it closes for good after operating for 90 years.

Katie-Lou Berry - who has links to Bolton, Liverpool and Bootle - was last spotted at around 6.10pm on May 8 close to the Botanic Gardens in the town.

Reheating coffee multiple times does more than ruin the taste. It also alters the composition of your cup of Joe.

Little Rowan Antolovi, who has a rare genetic eye disorder, is struggling to manage in the classroom because of his failing eyesight.

Ms Garraway beamed with joy as she joined the former GB News economics and business editor at the Herne Hill velodrome to wave him off to take part in the Duchenne Dash.

Keir Starmer still knows how to surprise us. When faced with election results that presented an existential threat, he rose to the challenge and… appointed two relics of New Labour as advisers.

CNN reports on a "sudden surge of claimed sightings" of "unidentified figures averaging 8 feet tall in wooded areas" along Ohio's Mahoning River. "And it stopped just as quickly as it started," says Jeremiah Byron, host of the Bigfoot Society Podcast, which collected and mapped the reports .... Byron doesn't take every report at face value, making sure he talks to people directly before publicizing their claims. Once word got out about the reports in Ohio, so did the obvious fakes. "I started to get a lot of AI-generated reports in my email. It got up to the point where I was probably getting about 1,000 emails a day," he says. But when Byron spoke by phone with people who made the initial reports, they convinced him they weren't making anything up. "It was obvious they weren't just wanting to get their name out there," says Byron. "They were just freaked out by what they experienced, and they didn't want anything else to do with it." [...] Local law enforcement in Ohio also seem to be enjoying the publicity. Portage County Sheriff Bruce D. Zuchowski made a series of gag posts purporting to show the arrest of Bigfoot and his detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, only for the creature to escape from custody at the Canadian border... Despite the levity, the sheriff's office really did get some calls from concerned residents, Zuchowski says. "Ten individual people were like, 'Yeah I was walking my dog at 4 a.m. and I saw this hairy figure and I smelled this musty odor and there was this big thing and all of a sudden it ran,'" the sheriff told CNN affiliate WOIO in March.

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Alain Favey got to know (and love) John Lewis and its food arm, Waitrose, during stints working in Britain, and believes 'John Lewis stands for quality'.

Huntley was cremated in a service organised by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) after he was allegedly attacked at HMP Frankland in February.

Residents are very worried about infrastructure

Essex residents have mixed opinions about artificial intelligence, with some condemning its pollution of the creation industry, and others embracing its efficiency benefits in work.

Just over a third of this number have arrived since Labour took power in July 2024, according to analysis of Government data.

The majority of the listed 150,000 tickets have sold out before the show for the first time since the pandemic, as the countdown begins to the show's opening date.