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July saw the news that Meta had launched a powerful open-source AI model, Llama 3.1. But the Free Software Foundation evaluated Llama 3.1's license agreement, and announced this week that "this is not a free software license and you should not use it, nor any software released under it." Not only does it deny users their freedom, but it also purports to hand over powers to the licensors that should only be exercised through lawmaking by democratically-elected governments. Moreover, it has been applied by Meta to a machine-learning (ML) application, even though the license completely fails to address software freedom challenges inherent in such applications.... We decided to review the Llama license because it is being applied to an ML application and model, while at the same time being presented by Meta as if it grants users a degree of software freedom. This is certainly not the case, and we want the free software community to have clarity on this. In other news, the FSF also announced the winner of the logo contest for their big upcoming 40th anniversary celebration.

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Tom Parker's widow Kelsey Parker has revealed she's expecting a baby with her new boyfriend Will Lindsay.

Travel experts have revealed some Thai-riffic etiquette tips to MailOnline Travel so you can have a holiday in Thailand without causing any upset.

Meet Mario Salcedo, who recently clocked up his 1,000th voyage with Royal Caribbean, taking customer loyalty to the next level and beyond.

Justin's lawyer Bryan Freedman has responded to her request, telling DailyMail.com that their only goal is to 'defend their clients with pure, unedited facts.'

Thousands of lives are lost each year due to road collisions

President Donald Trump has revealed what could be the fate of nearly 90,000 newly hired Internal Revenue Service (IRS) staff as he halts federal hiring.

Hannibal 'Mike' Ware, (right) has said the sudden firing of IGS is 'not legally sufficient' in a strongly-worded letter hours after President Trump ordered many to be immediately let go.

Some say that it is 'hardly even a village'

Two young Pennsylvania snowmobilers have admitted to brutally chasing and running over a red fox multiple times over a frozen lake

Kanye West 's new Bianca Censori inspired fashion line has sparked ridicule from fans, as Daily Mail revisits everything his ex Julia Fox revealed about how he controlled what she wore.

Friday Bill Gates shared an excerpt from his upcoming memoir Source Code: My Beginnings. Published in the Wall Street Journal, the excerpt includes pictures of young Bill Gates when he was 12 (dressed for a hike) and 14 (studying a teletype machine). Gates remembers forming "a sort of splinter group" from the Boy Scouts when he was 13 with a group of boys who "wanted more freedom and more risk" and took long hikes around Seattle, travelling hundreds of miles together on hikes as long as "seven days or more." (His favorite breakfast dish was Oscar Mayer Smokie Links.) But he also remembers another group of friends — Kent, Rick, and... Paul — who connected to a mainframe computer from a phone line at their private school. Both hiking and programming "felt like an adventure... exploring new worlds, traveling to places even most adults couldn't reach." Like hiking, programming fit me because it allowed me to define my own measure of success, and it seemed limitless, not determined by how fast I could run or how far I could throw. The logic, focus and stamina needed to write long, complicated programs came naturally to me. Unlike in hiking, among that group of friends, I was the leader. When Gates' school got a (DEC) PDP-8 — which cost $8,500 — "For a challenge, I decided I would try to write a version of the Basic programming language for the new computer..." And Gates remembers a long hike where "I silently honed my code" for its formula evaluator: I slimmed it down more, like whittling little pieces off a stick to sharpen the point. What I made seemed efficient and pleasingly simple. It was by far the best code I had ever written... By the time school started again in the fall, whoever had lent us the PDP-8 had reclaimed it. I never finished my Basic project. But the code I wrote on that hike, my formula evaluator — and its beauty — stayed with me. Three and a half years later, I was a sophomore in college not sure of my path in life when Paul Allen, one of my Lakeside friends, burst into my dorm room with news of a groundbreaking computer. I knew we could write a Basic language for it; we had a head start. Gates typed his code from that hike, "and with that planted the seed of what would become one of the world's largest companies and the beginning of a new industry." Gates cites Richard Feynman's description of the excitement and pleasure of "finding the thing out" — the reward for "all of the disciplined thinking and hard work." And he remembers his teenaged years as "intensely driven by the love of what I was learning, accruing expertise just when it was needed: at the dawn of the personal computer."

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They say the taxis are 'costing them trade'

There were also concerns raised over the environmental impact

The snub to the royal grandchildren, who include Princes William and Harry, is in documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday via freedom of information laws.

Ebou Jasseh, 41, has mounted at least six challenges to Home Office attempts to deport him and was awarded compensation after being held in an immigration removal centre

Katya Adler has been widely seen as a shoo-in to replace Mishal Husain on Radio 4's Today programme, but two new contenders have emerged.

A wise man once said: 'Humans are the only species smart enough to engineer their own food - and dumb enough to eat it.' For the truth of this, just look at yourself in the mirror.