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The school has been on a rapid journey of improvement, having been graded by Ofsted as Requires Improvement three years ago

The Trump administration has lifted export restrictions that forced Anthropic to shut off public access to its Mythos and Fable models. After weeks of talks, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said Anthropic "has agreed to proactively detect and address security risks associated with the models; to work diligently with the U.S. government on protocols and standards and releases for Mythos, Fable and future models; and to inform the US government of any malicious activity." Access is set to begin returning July 1. TechCrunch reports: Anthropic had already publicly pledged to do much of this voluntarily, months before the export rule existed. That's part of why cybersecurity experts were skeptical of the restrictions in the first place. To them, the ban looked less like a security fix and more like leverage, a way for the Trump administration to punish Anthropic for its executives' public criticism of how the government, and the president's political opponents, might use the technology. Mythos was originally made available to a select group of organizations beginning in April to allay concerns about its ability to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in software, while a version called Fable was released to the public in June with additional security guardrails. However, with Asian AI companies beginning to release their own AI models approaching Mythos-level capabilities -- among them Fugu and Tulonfeng -- the US government was under pressure to ease its restrictions on Anthropic to ensure that American AI could compete globally. Last week, Lutnick cleared Mythos to be released to select customers approved by the White House. OpenAI's latest models were also released to a group of organizations approved by the Trump team, instead of the public. The Trump administration's erratic approach to AI policymaking has left companies across the industry with little clarity about what will govern future model releases. An executive order issued in June that signaled a desire to review models ahead of release was criticized by influential analysts like Dean W. Ball, who recently started a policy position at OpenAI.

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Rabies primarily affects the central nervous system, leading to severe brain disease and death if medical care is not received before symptoms start, according to the CDC.

His arrival did not go unnoticed at the West Yorkshire jail, with fellow inmates hammering on cell bars and threatening retribution for the vile abuse he inflicted on the helpless child.

Campaigners say "the devastation of a beautiful and vital landscape for this is wholly unjustified.”

Australian Border Force stopped a vessel at Weipa on the Cape York Peninsula with the assistance of Queensland Police.

The mother was washing up her eighth-floor apartment in the northern region of La Guaira in Venezuela when the earthquakes hit and completely destroyed the building

A once-struggling Braintree secondary school has been praised by Ofsted for its “rapid and substantial improvement” following a remarkable turnaround.

Braintree district families are struggling to adapt to a new waste collection scheme which they say is leaving them with overflowing bins between collections.

There were several more streets across Essex that won in the People's Postcode Lottery last month.

There were several more streets across Essex that won in the People's Postcode Lottery last month.

Nadiem Makarim vows to appeal sentence given he was found not to have profited from $600 million laptops-for-schools program

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inside Climate News: A new state law limits Florida communities' aims to offset greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the global climate and intensifying disasters such as hurricanes. Specifically, HB 1217 prohibits local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals. At least 10 cities and counties have implemented such policies, including Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando and Leon County, where Tallahassee, the state capital, is located. But the new law will not necessarily upend these policies, said Bradley Marshall, senior attorney at Earthjustice, an advocacy group. "It's certainly meant to scare municipalities and local governments from trying to do things to further net-zero policies," he said. "Now, its exact impact and what it exactly prohibits is probably up for some debate. Things that are adjacent to it -- emissions reductions and even climate change reduction policies -- on their face will not run afoul at all of a ban on adopting a net zero policy." The measure requires local governments to submit an affidavit annually to the state Department of Revenue verifying compliance. Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed the measure on April 22, Earth Day, and the law will take effect July 1. It states that "net zero policies, carbon taxes and assessments, and emission trading programs are detrimental to this state's energy security and economic interests and inconsistent with the energy policy and the environmental policy of this state." [...] HB 1217 also prevents local governments from purchasing items such as vehicles or appliances based on the fuels they use or production of the items. Local governments may not participate in carbon-trading programs or use public funds to support other organizations with net-zero policies. Cities and counties also may not charge a tax or fee tied with carbon emissions. "This bill is definitely part of a larger coordinated push by the political enablers of the fossil fuel industry to obstruct any tools -- legal or legislative tools -- to hold the industry accountable for its contributions to climate change," said Laura Peterson, senior analyst at the Union for Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group. "Florida is really on the front lines. So I imagine the governor is taking this step because he sees what's coming down the pike. It's not getting better. So I can only assume that this is an effort to satisfy some of the pressures that he's getting from donors and from his party to protect the industry. And he's doing it at the expense of his constituents."

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A much-loved fox has died after 10 years at Hopefield Animal Sanctuary.

A much-loved fox has died after 10 years at Hopefield Animal Sanctuary.

OLIVER SALT IN NEW JERSEY: If Messi is the current king on the throne, then France's captain fantastic, the focal point of their frightening attack, is the heir apparent after climbing right behind him.

One is the queen of children's fiction and the other is - well, the Queen.

Part of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow was sealed off after the person presented at the Acute Receiving Unit at around 6am on Tuesday.

I hear that what's been going on backstage at Sir Cameron Mackintosh's hit revival is even more dramatic than this timeless tale...

In a move branded 'ideological nonsense', Whitehall's economics department scrapped its mathematical reasoning exam after finding it was having an 'adverse impact'.