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TOM COLLOMOSSE IN SALZBURG: The UEFA Super Cup belongs to Paris Saint-Germain but Aston Villa left Salzburg with something far more precious than a piece of pre-season silverware.

RECAP: Eclipse mania has gripped Britain, with beaches, parks and beauty spots packed with sky-watchers as millions turned out to witness the most spectacular solar eclipse.

A passerby came across the bag under the Lower Hodder Bridge near Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, just after 3pm on Tuesday.

The actress, 90, has had a stellar career spanning over eight decades, during which she has been handed many accolades

Fei-Fei Li, aka The Godmother of AI, says the biggest AI risk in education may be students losing the motivation and agency to learn, rather than simply using the technology to cheat. She argues against banning AI outright, saying it can be valuable when used to support engaged students instead of replacing the thinking and struggle that learning requires. Techspot reports: Speaking on an episode of the science podcast Huberman Lab this week, Li talked about the fears around how students are using AI. "The absolute bad outcome is that our young generation, their agency and human-level motivation of learning and living is taken away by tools," the ImageNet inventor warned. "It should not be taken away by humans nor should it be taken away by machines." If we see a generation of graduates who have completely relied on AI without actively trying to learn anything for themselves, they risk leaving education without having "properly developed the brain," Li said. [...] Li certainly isn't advocating for a complete ban on students using AI. She believes it can genuinely help struggling students who are already engaged in their learning. Li herself noted how she struggled with organic chemistry as a premed student, when teaching assistants and professors didn't have enough time to answer every question. While there's no obvious solution, Li says we need to find a way to keep children and students' motivation and agency. "Let's find a way to give them the access and the right way of using these tools," she said. Li added that if AI is used properly in education, it could make the students of the future "way smarter than us because they are superpowered."

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Official analysis has revealed the full cost of workers being guaranteed shifts and receiving compensation if they are cancelled.

Luigi Mangione, the 28-year-old who allegedly gunned down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, has requested a surprise hearing on Friday morning.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm

Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset took six months of hunting and development of a new logging tool to identify

The drop suggested the Fed and its new chairman Kevin Warsh (pictured) will keep US interest rates in the range of 3.5% to 3.75% next month.

Mike Ashley's first swing at Britain's luxury market didn't go well in 2002 when he bought Britain's upmarket sports emporium Lillywhite's.

The CFTC has ordered Kalshi to keep operating in New York, claiming the state's lawsuit against the prediction market created a "market emergency." They said it acted "to ensure market stability" and "ordered the exchange to continue to operate in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Act's Core Principles." Ars Technica reports: The market emergency alleged by the CFTC is that New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Kalshi on July 31. James' lawsuit seeks a court order to permanently enjoin Kalshi "from operating an unlawful gambling business" in the state. The lawsuit also demands that Kalshi "make full restitution to customers who have engaged in betting" and pay financial penalties. "New York intends to make event contract derivatives waste away under its iron curtain of state gaming laws before the courts get the chance to issue final rulings," CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said yesterday. "Congress did not intend for derivatives exchanges to be regulated under a patchwork of state gaming laws... New York has no business regulating these interstate financial markets. The commission is required by law to ensure order in these markets, and that is what we have done today." [...] The CFTC says it alone has the power to regulate platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket under the Commodity Exchange Act, a US law that gives the CFTC exclusive jurisdiction over designated contract markets (DCMs). "These are financial exchanges that offer financial instruments and operate across state lines," Selig said yesterday. "They match the bid from a resident of one state with the offer of a resident from another state and submit the trade to a clearinghouse that backstops the transactions of customers throughout the country."

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Lionel Messi has thanked fans for their support following an 'incredibly painful time' for the footballer and his family after the death of his father.

Emergency services rushed to an address in Coventry on Tuesday night, where they found a girl with a serious stab wound as well as a 42-year-old woman who suffered minor injuries.

William Hill has closed more than a fifth of its betting shops in the past year with the loss of hundreds of jobs as it is battered by Labour's tax raid on the gambling industry.

A Los Angeles County grand jury indicted the 32-year-old on murder charges in relation to the deaths of his parents inside their LA home last December.

Adjoa Andoh, 63, fought for her driving licence, saying she needs her car to visit her frail 85-year-old mother, who lives alone in a town in Shropshire.

One year after buying a controlling interest in the Los Angeles Lakers from the Buss family, team owner Mark Walter is now selling the historic NBA franchise.

As hundreds of thousands of sixth formers pick up their A-level results tomorrow, almost one in three entries will get at least an A grade.

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