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The X Factor's creator Simon Cowell is back to challenge Strictly - with a Netflix talent show that aims to steal its Saturday night popularity crown.

Long-time Slashdot reader BenFenner writes: For the third time in recent memory, CloudFlare has blocked large swaths of niche browsers and their users from accessing web sites that CloudFlare gate-keeps. In the past these issues have been resolved quickly (within a week) and apologies issued with promises to do better. (See 2024-03-11, 2024-07-08, and 2025-01-30.) This time around it has been over six weeks and CloudFlare has been unable or unwilling to fix the problem on their end, effectively stalling any progress on the matter with various tactics including asking browser developers to sign overarching NDAs. That last link is an update posted today by Pale Moon's main developer: Our current situation remains unchanged: CloudFlare is still blocking our access to websites through the challenges, and the captcha/turnstile continues to hang the browser until our watchdog terminates the hung script after which it reloads and hangs again after a short pause (but allowing users to close the tab in that pause, at least). To say that this upsets me is an understatement. Other than deliberate intent or absolute incompetence, I see no reason for this to endure. Neither of those options are very flattering for CloudFlare. I wish I had better news. In a comment, Slashdot reader BenFenner shares a list posted by Pale Moon's developer of reportedly affected browsers: Pale MoonBasiliskWaterfoxFalkonSeaMonkeyVarious Firefox ESR flavorsThorium (on some systems)Ungoogled ChromiumK-MeleonLibreWolfMyPal 68Otter browser Slashdot reader Z00L00K speculates that "this is some kind of anti-bot measure that fails. I suspect that the reason for them wanting a NDA to be signed is to prevent ways to circumvent the anti-bot measures..."

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Liza Ghorbani, 51, who shares 12-year-old daughter Gemma with the Oasis star, 52, is said to have 'filed a fresh child support claim' - which Liam hit back at in a series of posts to X.

Albanian national Alket Dauti, 36, was extradited to Belgium in 2019 where he was sentenced to ten years in jail for smuggling hundreds of migrants into Britain in the backs of lorries from Europe.

Rosie Duffield, who now sits as Canterbury's independent MP after quitting Labour last year, claims she was bullied out of the party after her protest over leadership accepting freebies.

Nearly half of all Britons have hay fever (pictured, file photo), which tends to worsen during spring, when airborne grass pollens are at their peak.

The cause of most concern are seed oils - a type of vegetable oil derived from plant seeds but the cause of most concern are seed oils - a type of vegetable oil derived from plant seeds.

Professor Becky Francis, who is chairing the Government's curriculum review panel, said children need to be better equipped for the 'challenges of the future'.

Parents opposed to the 20 per cent education tax are crowdfunding to enable them to launch next month's landmark case at the High Court, on behalf of their children with SEN.

The former Love Island star, 27, shared a series of before and after pictures after she started a journey to a more natural look.

The former England international has finally made the debut for his new side Como after joining them during the winter transfer window.

Stephen Graham's new drama shows the tragedy of modern childhood; of a generation whose parents have no comprehension of what they get up to in the privacy of their phones.

SIR RICHARD DEARLOVE: The scientific establishments in the US and the UK connived together to prevent discussion about the origin of the Covid pandemic...

This week, many parents up and down the country will have been watching the brilliant and disturbing Netflix series Adolescence and asking themselves: how real is this?

Dr Josiah Child, a former emergency care specialist who now runs Cloudberry Health in Santa Fe, New Mexico, says that Betsy called his private clinic 24 hours after police claim she died.

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: Our local high street is stuffed with estate agents again, just like it was in the 1980s. Like so many, I often check the properties in their windows (pictured, file photo).

An alleged love rat has been caught out by his heavily pregnant ex-girlfriend, who claims everything he told her during their year-long relationship was a complete lie.

Now 66, Sir Ben was knighted in 2023 for services to literature. He lives in west London with his partner and their eight-year-old daughter Mirabella.

AT&T engineer, and the Deep Throat of the network age, dies at 79

In 2006, a retired AT&T engineer knocked on the door of the EFF's office in a rundown part of San Francisco's Mission district and asked, "Do you folks care about privacy?" With him he carried schematics exposing the largest US government domestic spying operation since Watergate.…

Cities in Europe "are dramatically scaling back their relationship with the car," reports the Washington Post: They are removing parking spaces and creating dedicated bike lanes. They are installing cameras at the perimeter of urban centers and either charging the most-polluting vehicles or preventing them from entering. Some are going so far as to put entire neighborhoods off-limits to vehicles. In Norway, Oslo promotes "car-free livability." Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo touts the "end of car dependence." And while those ideas might sound radical to car-loving Americans, they are fast becoming the norm across the Atlantic, where 340 European cities and towns — home to more than 150 million people — have implemented some kind of restrictions on personal car usage... [V]irtually every major European city is imposing some kind of rule. Milan has a system similar to New York's, charging for access to the city core — while entirely banning older, highly polluting vehicles. London charges vehicles that don't meet emissions standards, in what it calls the "largest clean-air zone in the world." The programs are not just the purview of liberal Western Europe: Warsaw, Poland, and Sofia, Bulgaria, recently adopted similar schemes. Even little Italian villages have added vehicle restrictions to reinforce their historic feel. And the Netherlands just broke ground on a 12,000-person neighborhood that will be entirely car-free. The neighborhood, known as Merwede, will be connected by public transport to Utrecht, a medium-size city that — perhaps no surprise — has a low-emissions zone of its own... Perhaps the most elaborate and transformative effort has come in Paris, where Anne Hidalgo was elected mayor in 2014. Since then, Paris has banned the most-polluting vehicles from the city, eliminated 50,000 parking spaces and added hundreds of miles of bike lanes. It turned a bank of the Seine from a busy artery into a pedestrian zone, and closed off the famed Rue de Rivoli to traffic... Journeys by car in Paris have dropped by about 45 percent since 1990. The city has now become a source for striking before-and-after photos: of clogged streets that have transitioned into tree-lined areas where people can walk and play. In London government officials say inhalable particular matter has fallen, according to the article, while combustion-produced nitrogen dioxide "is 53% lower than it would have been without the restrictions."

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