Armed police descend on busy Essex railway station after teenage boy 'robbed' in popular park
Two men were arrested by armed officers after an incident at a popular park
Pilot with allergy to spiders is bitten by a TARANTULA mid-air, forcing emergency landing for passenger flight to Spain
The Iberia plane's onwards journey was delayed so it could be fumigated and the pilot, said to be allergic to spiders, treated with anti-inflammatory medicine.
Boy forced to hand over jewellery 'by two people with weapon' in park robbery
Essex Police officers were alerted to a teenage boy being threatened with a weapon by two people in Castle Park, after 6pm, on February 23.
Successful 1990s indie-rock band to kick-off UK tour in Essex next month
A full original line-up of a cult-favourite 90s indie rock band will be performing two headline shows in Colchester next month.
Tyson Fury's property company is struck off after heavyweight star failed to file any accounts in over two years
It serves as the latest setback for The Gypsy King, who announced his retirement last month on the heels of his second defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in December of last year.
Mystery as Brit is found dead in the water in Spanish marina
Firefighters spent around an hour recovering his body after it was spotted between boats at popular Duquesa Port near Estepona around 4.30am on Sunday.
The 10-second trick to find out if your husband is using OnlyFans (I tried it, and it works), how to expose your shady date's REAL name - and 10 other sneaky ways women are discovering the TRUTH about their partner
Over dinner, my friend revealed she'd just found out her husband was using OnlyFans. The way she'd discovered it was a super-sneaky 10-second hack. I couldn't believe more people hadn't heard of it.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Baldwins: What hideous people! Now I really have no sympathy for has-been Alec Baldwin
RATING: ONE STAR Childcare manuals don't often spell out the surest ways to ensure small children grow up neurotic. But now we've got Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria to show us how.
Psychiatrist reveals six reasons why female prison officers have sex with inmates
Forensic psychiatrist Dr Sohom Das, from London, has revealed six psychological reasons reasons female officers may have have sex with inmates in a video on YouTube.
Popular coffee chain faces backlash over charging customers a 'sickness tax' as it hikes prices at hospital branches
Research conducted by The Sun found that a small latte or cappuccino costs £3.60 in Newcastle's Northumberland Street but £3.80 at nearby hospital, Medivest's Royal Victoria Infirmary.
Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron will come together and show a 'united leadership in support of Ukraine' when they each meet Donald Trump in the coming days
Downing Street confirmed in a statement that the pair will show a joint front over their stance on Ukraine when meeting with the US President in the coming days.
Meet the Journalists Training AI Models for Meta and OpenAI
After completing a journalism graduate degree, Carla McCanna took a job "training AI models to optimize accuracy and efficiency," according an article by Nieman Journalism Lab:
Staff jobs are scarce... and the competition for them is daunting. (In 2024, the already beleaguered U.S. news industry cut nearly 5,000 jobs, up 59% from the previous year, according to an annual report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas....) For the past couple months, McCanna has been working close to full-time for [AI training data company] Outlier, picking up projects on its gig platform at about $35 per hour. Data work has quickly become her primary source of income and a hustle she's recommended [to her journalism program classmates]. "A lot of us are still looking for jobs. Three times I told someone what I do, and they're like, please send it to me," she said. "It's hard right now, and a lot of my colleagues are saying the same thing."
McCanna is just one of many journalists who has been courted by Outlier to take on part-time, remote data work over the past year... Several of them told me they have taken on Outlier projects to supplement their income or replace their work in journalism entirely, because of dwindling staff jobs or freelance assignments drying up. Some are early-career journalists like McCanna, but others are reporters with over a decade of experience. One thing they all had in common? Before last year they'd never heard of Outlier or even knew that this type of work existed.
Launched back in 2023, Outlier is a platform owned and managed by Scale AI, a San Francisco-based data annotation company valued at $13.8 billion. It counts among its customers the world's largest AI companies, including OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft. Outlier, and similar platforms like CrowdGen and Remotasks, use networks of remote human workers to improve the AI models of their clients. Workers are paid by the hour for tasks like labeling training data, drafting test prompts, and grading the factual accuracy and grammar of outputs. Often their work is fed back into an AI model to improve its performance, through a process called reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF). This human feedback loop has been core to building models like OpenAI's GPT and Meta's Llama.
Aside from direct recruitment messages, I also found dozens of recent public job postings that underscore this growing trend of hiring journalists for data work... Rather than training a replacement, McCanna sees her data work as an asset, growing her knowledge of AI tools as they continue to embed in the workplace. "Actually doing this work you realize AI models still need us ... I think it's going to be a really, really long time until they can truly write like humans."
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Missing hiker Hadi Nazar reveals the major mistakes he made that caused him to become lost in the Kosciuszko National Park
The hiker who was lost for 13 days in the Kosciuszko National Park has revealed the big mistakes he made while bushwalking.
Shocking moment mass brawl between men and women erupts at Atlanta airport departure gate
Viral video shows a dozen people throwing hands during chaotic scenes at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in the Georgia capital on Wednesday.
Untrained techie botched a big hardware sale by breaking client's ERP
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Neighbours cast and crew look downcast as they return to filming in Melbourne after finding out that the show has been axed
The shellshocked team behind Neighbours have returned to work after finding out on Friday that the long-running soap had been axed for a second time in less than two years.
You can't deport us to Belgium because their prisons aren't comfy enough, moan Albanian people smugglers trying to stay in the UK
Sabah Zeka, a 41-year-old Albanian who was granted UK citizenship after claiming asylum, is facing a 12-year prison sentence in Belgium after being convicted for his role in a people-smuggling ring.
Selena Gomez's dramatic weight loss shocks fans as she unveils much slimmer look at 2025 SAG Awards
Selena Gomez left fans absolutely mesmerized over her slimmed down physique as she attended the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night.
The 23 Essex schools which will run free breakfast clubs under new pilot
The first schools to offer free breakfast clubs for pupils as part of the Government’s flagship scheme have been named ahead of a trial of the programme.
King Charles' true feelings on love, Princess Diana's royal ancestry and the interview that left her TRAUMATISED
Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer announced their engagement five months before their wedding, on February 24, 1981, in an exclusive interview.