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The mother-of-five, 47, has been open about wanting to grow her family and made an IVF documentary which aired earlier this year.

Data showed the boxer, 26, seemingly 'did not finish' the gruelling challenge in France last week, despite sharing snaps on social media of his celebrations with fiancée Molly-Mae Hague .

Michele Bourda, 59, suddenly disappeared from Ofrynio beach, in the Greek city of Kavala on August 1 and left all her belongings on a sun lounger while her husband slept.

Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Rose-Emmons released accused child abuser Yvette Thurston on a $44,000 bond on August 16, according to WCTV.

The acclaimed soprano Anna Netrebko will step onto the stage as Tosca. But for me and for millions of Ukrainians, every note, every tear will sound different, writes Valerii Zaluzhnyi.

AI Overviews have lowered click-through traffic to Daily Mail sites by as much as 89%, the publisher told a UK government body that regulates competition. So they've joined other top news organizations (including Guardian Media Group and the magazine trade body the Periodical Publishers Association) in asking the regulators "to make Google more transparent and provide traffic statistics from AI Overview and AI Mode to publishers," reports the Guardian: Publishers — already under financial pressure from soaring costs, falling advertising revenues, the decline of print and the wider trend of readers turning away from news — argue that they are effectively being forced by Google to either accept deals, including on how content is used in AI Overview and AI Mode, or "drop out of all search results", according to several sources... In recent years, Google Discover, which feeds users articles and videos tailored to them based on their past online activity, has replaced search as the main source of click-throughs to content. However, David Buttle, founder of the consultancy DJB Strategies, says the service, which is also tied to publishers' overall search deals, does not deliver the quality traffic that most publishers need to drive their long-term strategies. "Google Discover is of zero product importance to Google at all," he says. "It allows Google to funnel more traffic to publishers as traffic from search declines ... Publishers have no choice but to agree or lose their organic search. It also tends to reward clickbaity type content. It pulls in the opposite direction to the kind of relationship publishers want." Meanwhile, publishers are fighting a wider battle with AI companies seeking to plunder their content to train their large language models. The creative industry is intensively lobbying the government to ensure that proposed legislation does not allow AI firms to use copyright-protected work without permission, a move that would stop the "value being scraped" out of the £125bn sector. Some publishers have struck bilateral licensing deals with AI companies — such as the FT, the German media group Axel Springer, the Guardian and the Nordic publisher Schibsted with the ChatGPT maker OpenAI — while others such as the BBC have taken action against AI companies alleging copyright theft. "It is a two-pronged attack on publishers, a sort of pincer movement," says Chris Duncan, a former News UK and Bauer Media senior executive who now runs a media consultancy, Seedelta. "Content is disappearing into AI products without serious remuneration, while AI summaries are being integrated into products so there is no need to click through, effectively taking money from both ends. It is an existential crisis." "At the moment the AI and tech community are showing no signs of supporting publisher revenue," says the chief executive of the UK's Periodical Publishers Association...

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American health chiefs have vowed to identify the causes of autism before the end of the month in an announcement that stunned parents and doctors worldwide.

Fury ran his first triathlon along the French Riviera last weekend and took to social media to declare he had 'left it all' there, having had just 10 days of training.

We brace ourselves for news like this, we child-free women. For the third year in a row - it was revealed last week - the fertility rate for England and Wales has fallen and is now at a record low.

The two-bedroom terraced home in Stantonbury, Milton Keynes, is so dilapidated that thick black mould covers the walls of every room.

The British woman, 23, was one of three rushed to Ibiza's main state hospital Can Misses after the fatal crash, which took place at 11.15am on Sunday in San Jose, a municipality on the popular party island.

The Reform leader admitted his party's 'biggest weakness' is that it lacks 'experience at government level'.

Yvette Cooper might have believed her musings on Donald Trump might have stayed confined to the dustier corners of X, but they have re-emerged - and just ten days before his State visit to the UK.

Our thoughts are with those who have lost a loved one

Olly Murs brought pop legend Anastacia on stage to perform at BBC Radio 2 In The Park. His set also included a shout-out to his partner Amelia, watching from home with their days-old baby Albert

"I have not pulled this, I'm annoyed by having to even look at this, and if you actually expect me to pull this I want a real explanation and not a useless link," Linus Torvalds posted Friday on the Linux kernel mailing list. Phoronix explains: It's become a common occurrence seeing "Link: " tags within Git commits for the Linux kernel that point to the latest Linux kernel mailing list patches of the same patch... Linus Torvalds has had enough and will be more strict against accepting pull requests that have link tags of no value. He commented yesterday on a block pull request that he pulled and then backed out of: "And dammit, this commit has that promising 'Link:' argument that I hoped would explain why this pointless commit exists, but AS ALWAYS that link only wasted my time by pointing to the same damn information that was already there. I was hoping that it would point to some oops report or something that would explain why my initial reaction was wrong. "Stop this garbage already. Stop adding pointless Link arguments that waste people's time. Add the link if it has *ADDITIONAL* information.... "Yes, I'm grumpy. I feel like my main job — really my only job — is to try to make sense of pull requests, and that's why I absolutely detest these things that are automatically added and only make my job harder." A longer discussion ensued... Torvalds: [A] "perfect" model might be to actually have some kind of automation of "unless there was actual discussion about it". But I feel such a model might be much too complicated, unless somebody *wants* to explore using AI because their job description says "Look for actual useful AI uses". In today's tech world, I assume such job descriptions do exist. Sigh... Torvalds: I do think it makes sense for patch series that (a) are more than a small handful of patches and (b) have some real "story" to them (ie a cover letter that actually explains some higher-level issues)... Torvalds also had two responses to a poster who'd said "IMHO it's better to have a Link and it _potentially_ being useful than not to have it and then need to search around for it." Torvalds: No. Really. The issue is "potentially — but very likely not — useful" vs "I HIT THIS TEN+ TIMES EVERY SINGLE F%^& RELEASE". There is just no comparison. I have literally *never* found the original submission email to be useful, and I'm tired of the "potentially useful" argument that has nothing to back it up with. It's literally magical thinking of "in some alternate universe, pigs can fly, and that link might be useful" Torvalds: And just to clarify: the hurt is real. It's not just the disappointment. It's the wasted effort of following a link and having to then realize that there's nothing useful there. Those links *literally* double the effort for me when I try to be careful about patches... The cost is real. The cost is something I've complained about before... Yes, it's literally free to you to add this cost. No, *YOU* don't see the cost, and you think it is helpful. It's not. It's the opposite of helpful. So I want commit messages to be relevant and explain what is going on, and I want them to NOT WASTE MY TIME. And I also don't want to ignore links that are actually *useful* and give background information. Is that really too much to ask for? Torvalds points out he's brought this up four times before — once in 2022. Torvalds: I'm a bit frustrated, exactly because this _has_ been going on for years. It's not a new peeve. And I don't think we have a good central place for that kind of "don't do this". Yes, there's the maintainer summit, but that's a pretty limited set of people. I guess I could mention it in my release notes, but I don't know who actually reads those either.. So I end up just complaining when I see it.

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MATTHEW LAMBWELL IN NEW YORK: As she has with each of her Grand Slam titles, two here and two in Australia, Sabalenka dedicated the win to her late father, Sergey.

Footage of a career criminal stabbing Iryna Zarutska, 23, on a North Carolina train has prompted a national uproar - but you won't find it on any liberal media websites.

The emergency call was made in the early hours of Easter Sunday 2016, by a young woman called Emma-Jayne Magson from her home in Leicester.

The British hitmaker, 33, put on a leggy display in a racy green satin negligee dress, while Anya, 29, put on a striking display in a voluminous baby blue dress.