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RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Plans to drastically expand Wimbledon have hit a fresh setback after a local campaign group won the right to appeal against a summer court verdict.

The all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on Commercial Sexual Exploitation has called the National Police Chiefs' Council's (NPCC) guidance 'harmful and inappropriate'.

Action is needed now to reduce ultra-processed food (UPF) in diets worldwide because of their threat to health, say international experts in a global review of research. From a report: They say the way we eat is changing - with a move away from fresh, whole foods to cheap, highly-processed meals - which is increasing our risk of a range of chronic diseases, including obesity and depression. Writing in The Lancet, the researchers say governments need "to step up" and introduce warnings and higher taxes on UPF products, to help fund access to more nutritious foods. [...] This review of evidence on the impact of UPFs on health, carried out by 43 global experts and based on 104 long-term studies, suggests these foods are linked to a greater risk of 12 health conditions. These include type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, depression and dying prematurely from any cause.

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The average sold house price is no longer over £1m

The massive display, which has appeared above the Côte Brasserie restaurant and several others, appears to have been hastily created using AI.

BORK is borked

Microsoft has added a new Windows mode that blanks out the Blue Screen of Death on public displays after 15 seconds.…

After Trump welcomed Ronaldo during his speech at the glitzy event, the White House shared video of the two men walking side by side next to The Presidential Walk of Fame.

Charlene and Albert were joined by their twins, Crown Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella, both 10, as the family waved to well-wishers from the palace balcony.

The EU's cookie consent policies have been an annoying and unavoidable part of browsing the web in Europe since their introduction in 2018. But the cookie nightmare is about to crumble thanks to some big proposed changes announced by the European Commission today. From a report: Instead of having to click accept or reject on a cookie pop-up for every website you visit in Europe, the EU is preparing to enforce rules that will allow users to set their preferences for cookies at the browser level. "People can set their privacy preferences centrally -- for example via the browser -- and websites must respect them," says the EU. "This will drastically simplify users' online experience." This key change is part of a new Digital Package of proposals to simplify the EU's digital rules, and will initially see cookie prompts change to be a simplified yes or no single-click prompt ahead of the "technological solutions" eventually coming to browsers. Websites will be required to respect cookie choices for at least six months, and the EU also wants website owners to not use cookie banners for "harmless uses" like counting website visits, to lessen the amount of pop-ups.

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The King arrived at the store to mark the second anniversary of his 'Coronation Food Project', which has helped to rescue wasted food to be redistributed for communities in need.

Coronation Street star Georgia May Foote appears to have given a heartbreaking insight into her failed marriage by posting a song about a love cheat.

The message, posted last night, was headed 'apology statement' with the official Government logo, but then went on to list 'wins' by ministers.

The RSPCA is hunting for those responsible

Air-launched antique picked for tricky low-inclination orbit job

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, facing the risk of an uncontrolled dive back to Earth, is set for a rescue ride on a Pegasus XL, the air-dropped rocket that hasn't flown since 2021.…

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Building The Future Of Software In The AI-Native Era was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Researchers say that a simple weakness allowed them to access 3.5 billion profiles on the Meta-owned messaging app.

Cornwall-based PR worker Victoria Bond, 40, had posted a video taken by another British member of their group of their progress before the tragedy.

And companies are getting caught in the crossfire

interview  Warfare has become a joint cyber-kinetic endeavor, with nations using cyber operations to scope out targets before launching missiles. And private companies, including shipping, transportation, and electronics manufacturers, are getting caught in the crossfire, according to Amazon.…

You might think twice about putting a vape to your mouth thanks to a new study.

Linus Torvalds is "fairly positive" about vibe coding as a way for people to get computers to do things they otherwise could not. The Linux kernel maintainer made the comments during an interview at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit in Seoul earlier this month. But he cautioned that vibe coding would be a "horrible, horrible idea from a maintenance standpoint" for production code. Torvalds told Dirk Hohndel, head of open source at Verizon, that computers have become more complicated than when he learned to code by typing in programs from computer magazines. He said vibe coding offers a path into computing for newcomers. The kernel maintainer is not using AI-assisted coding himself. He said his role has shifted from rejecting new ideas to sometimes pushing for them against opposition from longstanding maintainers who "kind of get stuck in a rut." Rust is "actually becoming a real part of the kernel instead of being this experimental thing," he said. Torvalds said AI crawlers have been "very disruptive to a lot of our infrastructure" because they gather data from kernel.org source code. Kernel maintainers receive bugs and security notices that are "made up by people who misuse AI," though the problem is smaller than for other projects such as curl.

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