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Exceptional teachers, support staff and education professionals from across the county have been honoured

The group stage has been navigated relatively smoothly, but the knockout stages are set to throw up a whole new challenge.

Brooklyn, 27, recently snubbed his parents' attempts at an olive branch, after they included him in social media posts in honour of his dad David on Father's Day.

Donald Trump shuttered the web site Climate.gov in 2025, cutting off public access to climate information from America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). But "former members of the site's team have brought much of it back at a new domain," reports The Register: "Trusted climate information should not disappear when politics change," Climate.us managing director Rebecca Lindsey said of the new platform in a press release. Lindsey, who previously served as the Climate.gov program manager and lead editor, told The Register in an email that she and one of the web developers responsible for the site were the first to be caught up in government purges when DOGE swept through the department in late February 2025... Created in cooperation with sustainability nonprofit accelerator Multiplier, Climate.us aims to be an independent alternative to its old .gov, and many of the former NOAA crew behind the previous website have teamed up for the new initiative to "keep climate information accurate, accessible, scientifically rigorous, and useful for the people who rely on it." Climate.gov, which now redirects to a NOAA page about climate but which hosts none of the data the shuttered site used to contain, was taken offline in July 2025 following a Trump executive order prioritizing "gold standard science...." arguing that prior climate science models relied on worst-case scenarios, which somehow meant the public availability of 15 years of climate data and reporting ought to change... All of the content that was purged from the .gov is now back, along with blogs from experts, climate status reports, maps and data pathways, and national assessments of climate change as well. Lindsey told us that rapidly changing political winds have led her to believe that the government isn't the right place for that mission to continue, and that she would have concerns about returning the site to federal management if a future administration changed its position on climate change... Lindsey said that the Climate.us team will continue with the same mission it had before the Trump administration attempted to quash it: Getting climate science in front of the public in a manner that's understandable so they can make their own decisions about how to respond.

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Wants to revive the lost art of the National Internet Registry, which APNIC has deprecated and isn’t keen to bring back

Taking a step is something most people take for granted. But as we age, the amount of time it takes to put one foot in front of the other could be a vital clue in measuring lifespan and risk of death.

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Following England at the World Cup has already proved pricey and logistically challenging - not least as uncertainty over their knockout venues lingered until Saturday night.

In a letter explaining his decision to quit, boss Steve Clarke said: 'The most emotional part of this goodbye is for my players.'

Neal Lawson said it was time for Labour to end its 'Trumpian obsession with economic growth' and focus on making people happier.

The IOPC will announce that its inquiry into Hampshire Police will consider whether officers mistakenly treated the murder victim as a suspect because of anti-immigration protests.

Andy Burnham will today set out his Left-wing plan for a decade in power, as he plots a tax raid on middle-class Southerners.

Fatboy Slim says his ex wife Zoe Ball saved him from alcoholism when she threatened to leave him unless he got sober.

The Government is deciding whether to change the law so that children under 14 would no longer face arrest, charges or prosecution for any crime.

The infernal heat has ended, thank goodness, but for insomniacs like me, that doesn't mean a better night's sleep.

Demonstrators gathered outside Crowborough Training Camp, an old army barracks that is currently being used to house small boat migrants.

Swaggering aboard a steam train in his black gaucho hat, waistcoat and watch-chain, Alexander Armstrong looked like an extra in a Spaghetti Western - The Good, The Bad And The Pointless.

DANIEL MATTHEWS IN LOS ANGELES: Canada and South Africa stunk the place out. That was until the ball broke to Canada midfielder Stephen Eustaquio in stoppage time.

The New York Times alleges Microsoft actively encouraged OpenAI to steal its copyrighted work, reports Ars Technica, citing a new (and heavily redacted) court filing Thursday: NYT's motion comes after the [U.S.] Supreme Court sided with Cox Communications in a case where Sony tried and failed to claim that Cox was contributing to music piracy as an Internet service provider, which set a new standard for contributory infringement. Moving forward, plaintiffs will have to prove that parties intentionally acted to induce illegal conduct. Recognizing that the legal precedent has changed, the NYT now wants to amend its complaint to align its contributory infringement claim against Microsoft with that new standard... A Microsoft spokesperson told Ars that the company views the amended complaint as "a last-ditch effort by the plaintiff to save its claim from unfavorable precedent set in other recent rulings..." The updated complaint seeks to specify that [Microsoft's] supercomputer was tailor-made to help OpenAI infringe and allege that it was built for the explicit purpose of training AI on copyrighted works without permission. And as the NYT alleged, its articles were more heavily weighted by this system, as both firms hoped to train models on the highest-quality journalism possible, so that level of writing could be confidently mimicked in outputs. By building this "unusually complex" machine, Microsoft not only helped select the works that were infringed but also provided a means to seize copyrighted works without permission, the NYT alleged. "Microsoft specifically designed it for the purpose of using essentially the whole Internet — curated to disproportionately feature Times Works — to train the most capable LLM in history," the NYT alleged... Similarly as problematic for the NYT are hallucinations where Microsoft and OpenAI models falsely cite the NYT for content that they never published... "Users who ask a search engine what The Times has written on a subject should be provided with neither an unauthorized copy nor an inaccurate forgery of a Times article, but a link to the article itself," the NYT alleged... In a statement provided to Ars, OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri reiterated the AI firm's often-repeated claims that AI training on copyrighted works is indisputably fair use... OpenAI has argued that "ChatGPT is not a substitute for a Times subscription," the NYT reported, partly because "they transformed the material for a different use." An OpenAI spokesperson told Ars Technica that OpenAI's models "empower innovation," while a New York Times spokesperson insisted that Microsoft "actively encouraged OpenAI to steal our copyrighted works... [O]ur core claims remain the same from the day we filed this lawsuit — that Microsoft and OpenAI stole millions of The Times's copyrighted works to compete with our products and illegally enrich themselves." The article speculates that the case's most extreme outcome "could require OpenAI and Microsoft to wipe models and start over. The NYT has also asked for permanent injunctive relief to prevent future infringement, as well as extensive damages..."

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Could a qualified doctor be appointed as Health Secretary for the first time in 100 years in Andy Burnham's future Cabinet?